covid-pandemic

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6350 Samuel J. Barrett v. Walter Tripp, Warden, Wyoming Department of Corrections State Penitentiary, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights court-procedure covid-pandemic effective-counsel public-trial sixth-amendment I. If a state denies a defendant a public trial by implementing a defective trial structure mech anism to limit the spread of a pandemic at the expens…
23-6144 Susanne Aspley v. Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights color-of-law covid-pandemic due-process emergency-orders fourteenth-amendment nursing-home-deaths right-to-life section-1983 Whether the 14th Amendment right to life was violated by the Minnesota Governor and Health Department Commissioner's actions that resulted in the deat…
21-1336 Jeffrey Olsen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-04-07 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived covid-pandemic criminal-procedure district-court district-court-authority due-process judicial-discretion jury-trial-suspension jury-trials pandemic prosecutorial-delay speedy-trial-act Whether a District Court may dismiss an indictment under the Speedy-Trial-Act where the District Court finds that it is possible to hold a jury trial …