| 25-5537 |
Benito M. Valdez v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2025-09-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights courtroom-access judicial-discretion public-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
Is the Sixth Amendment right to a 'public trial' violated when a trial court conducts an entire trial phase at the bench with a white-noise machine to… |
| 22-1115 |
Chris Noel Tagunicar v. California |
California |
2023-05-15 |
Denied |
|
bill-of-rights courtroom-access covid-19 covid-19-restrictions criminal-defendant first-amendment media public-trial sixth-amendment |
Does the Sixth Amendment public trial right mean that members of the public have a right to be physically present in the courtroom during the trial, i… |
| 22-6612 |
Teri Bernard Johnson v. Randee Rewerts, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-murder civil-rights courtroom-access criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence public-trial right-to-counsel sentencing-phase |
Whether the trial court violated the defendant's right to a public trial by removing spectators from the courtroom? |
| 22-5829 |
Montana Barronette, Brandon Wilson, John Harrison, Linton Broughton, Terrell Sivells, Taurus Tillman, Timothy Floyd, and Dennis Pulley v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment courtroom-access criminal-procedure due-process family-attendance family-friends public-trial public-trial-clause sixth-amendment |
Does the Public Trial Clause require heightened protection for courtroom access for defendants' family and friends? |
| 20-7336 |
Donovan Jonathan Tillman v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights courtroom-access criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing pretrial-hearing public-trial-clause sixth-amendment state-court-decision witness-exclusion |
Did the state court, contrary to rulings of this Court and of the supreme and intermediate appellate courts of other states, violate the Public Trial … |
| 19-7487 |
Jonathan Blades v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
Amici (3)IFP |
courtroom-access courtroom-proceedings due-process fair-trial public-trial right-to-public-trial sixth-amendment standing trial-transparency voir-dire white-noise |
Does barring members of the public from hearing trial proceedings, without any special justification or findings, violate the right to a public trial … |
| 19-5890 |
Fernando Cabral-Varela v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights courtroom-access courtroom-closure criminal-procedure due-process public-trial sixth-amendment structural-error witness-intimidation |
Did the judge deprive the Petitioner of his right to a public trial under the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution? |
| 18-1387 |
Susan Lloyd v. Becky Doherty, Judge, Court of Common Pleas, Portage County, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access-to-courts ada ada-violations civil-rights courtroom-access disability-rights discrimination judicial-bias judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation rehab-act service-dogs sunshine-law transcript-alteration |
Is a magistrate and judge allowed to refuse well behaved service dogs in a courtroom? |
| 18-9038 |
Scott Peters v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
ada appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights courtroom-access disability-accommodation disability-discrimination disability-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion reasonable-accommodation standing trial-procedure |
Whether the trial court erred in denying petitioner's rights as a disabled individual, including his right to reasonable accommodations and equal acce… |
| 18-6510 |
Frank Pruitt v. New York |
New York |
2018-11-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
1st-amendment 6th-amendment courtroom-access criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-inquiry public-trial removal-from-trial right-to-attend-trial right-to-observe sixth-amendment |
Was the right to a Public trial, and the right of the Public to attend trial, abrogated when the trial judge failed to conduct careful inquiry 'before… |