| 25-322 |
Dimitry Kuperschmidt v. Jeff Angradi, Chief Probation Officer, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-09-18 |
Denied |
|
appellate-court custody district-court habeas-corpus procedural-default waiver |
Was the Pennsylvania appellate court rule on which the District Court relied to find procedural default a 'firmly established' and 'consistently follo… |
| 24-5025 |
Delbert W. Hargis, Jr. v. Victoria A. Pritty-Pitcher |
New York |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights custody custody-determination due-process due-process-clause-14th-amendment family-law non-parent-custody parental-rights standing |
Whether the decision of the lower courts, which awarded full custody of a child to a nonparent due to the existence of a strong bond, violates the fun… |
| 23-1310 |
Dean Gross v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-06-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
criminal-custody criminal-law criminal-procedure custody federal-courts federal-escape-statute federal-statutes halfway-house statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit |
Whether a criminal defendant released to a halfway house is in 'custody' and can commit the crime of escape |
| 23-7698 |
Garcia Coleman v. Dan Cromwell, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-06-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights custody custody-transfer department-of-corrections due-process free-speech guardianship legal-procedure liberty |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7498 |
Lawrence Byron Watson v. Pamerson Ifill, Commissioner of Probation, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-05-17 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-prevention-order civil-rights constitutional-deficiency custody due-process in-custody legal-standing matthews-v-eldridge parental-rights |
Whether an individual who is a defendant of an abuse prevention order and whose parental rights are restricted or terminated is 'in custody' |
| 23-7290 |
Theodore Macon Carrington, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 4th-circuit-review attorney-general attorney-general-custody civil-commitment criminal-commitment custody due-process mental-health procedural-objection statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court properly committed Appellant to the custody and care of the Attorney General pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 4246 |
| 23-1108 |
Daril Foose, et al. v. Sherelle Thomas, Administrator of the Estate of Terelle Thomas, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-04-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights constitutional-violation custody drug-toxicity due-process fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement law-enforcement-custody medical-care qualified-immunity |
Whether the police officers' decision to transport a detainee who they suspected had ingested drugs to a nearby prison where he was evaluated by the p… |
| 23-7195 |
In Re Dechaun Toliver |
|
2024-04-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-custody constitutional-rights custody district-court district-court-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus successive-petition successive-petitions writ-of-habeas-corpus |
Is it mandatory for a District Court to entertain a Writ of Habeas Corpus when a petitioner is claiming to be in custody in violation of the Constitut… |
| 23-7064 |
Omar Sierre Folk v. Warden, Allenwood FCI |
Third Circuit |
2024-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2241-petition 2255-escape-hatch actual-innocence custodial-petition custody direct-cert-denial escape-hatch habeas-corpus procedural-shot procedural-standard section-2255 |
Whether Lower Court Misapplied Inadequate or Ineffective |
| 23-6976 |
Juan Cabrera v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure custody eighth-circuit howes-test miranda-custody miranda-rights ninth-circuit supreme-court tenth-circuit terry-stop |
Whether courts must apply the second step of Howes to determine if a person is 'in custody' for Miranda purposes |
| 23-6742 |
Alexander D. Pennington v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 5th-amendment-rights 5th-circuit criminal-investigation criminal-procedure custody fifth-amendment interrogation miranda-rights search-warrant |
Is a suspect in a criminal investigation 'in custody' when he is ordered out of his residence by armed agents who broke down his door to execute a sea… |
| 23-705 |
Stephen Robert Deck v. California |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-sanction custody custody-definition due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus in-custody liberty-interests liberty-restraint sex-offender-registration |
Whether California's sex offender registration mandates place sufficiently significant burdens on a registrant's liberty to allow a federal habeas cor… |
| 23-6206 |
Ken Ejimofor Ezeah v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 custody habeas-corpus immigration-law judicial-review noncitizen-rights removal-order savings-clause statutory-interpretation successive-petitions |
Does the savings clause provided in Section 2255(e) allow the court to hear a prisoner's custody petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 following the d… |
| 23-573 |
Tina Bastian Veneskey v. Michael Keith Sulier |
North Carolina |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
|
custody custody-determination due-process error-of-law fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction jurisdictional-determination legal-error state-jurisdiction |
Whether the Full Faith and Credit Clause precludes the enforcement of a State's jurisdictional determination when that very determination is based upo… |
| 23-6055 |
Debora D. v. John D., et al. |
California |
2023-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
custody due-process ex-parte ex-parte-orders idea-law jurisdiction parental-rights special-education state-encroachment |
Did the court make a mistake rendering orders on an ex-parte basis? |
| 23-5761 |
Timothy Morse v. Clerk, Clinton District Court |
First Circuit |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split civil-rights custody custody-requirement due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review sex-offender sex-offender-registration |
Whether the Supreme Court should decide that registration by a sex offender satisfies the requirement of custody for habeas corpus purposes to settle … |
| 23-186 |
Nevada Department of Corrections, et al. v. Philip Roy Galanti |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-claim custody ex-prisoner-plaintiff favorable-termination-rule habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey section-1983 |
Is there an exception to the Heck v. Humphrey rule for plaintiffs who are no longer in custody? |
| 23-153 |
Richard Rynn, Next Friend and Parent of M. R., a Minor v. David Lujan, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Director of the Arizona Department of Child Safety, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-custody civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights contract custody due-process judicial-authorization parental-rights |
Does court err omitting facts, dismissing Defendants that kidnapped child, interfered in legal custody, interfered in parental-rights, with actions-un… |
| 23-107 |
Louis Matthew Clements v. Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
criminal-procedure criminal-sanction custody due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus liberty liberty-restraint sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation |
Whether a person is 'in custody' within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. § 2254 if that person remains subject for the rest of his life to a state-law sex-off… |
| 23-5217 |
Kinley MacDonald v. Maine |
Maine |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
bail-bond-conditions child-protective-custody constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody due-process family-reunification hearsay judicial-review legal-standards state-statute |
Can a judge in a child protective custody case base a decision solely on hearsay accusations prohibited by state statute, then set bail/bond condition… |
| 22-7848 |
Danielle Lawson v. Matthew Lawson |
Georgia |
2023-06-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment constitutional-rights custody due-process joint-legal-custody non-custodial-parent parental-interference violence-against-women-act visitation visitation-rights |
Does the imposition of unending supervised visitation violate the Violence Against Women's Act and the non-custodial parent's Constitutional Rights? |
| 22-7543 |
Dwayne Mitchell Littlejohn v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
all-writs-act coram-nobis criminal-procedure custody due-process ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel novelty-of-legal-interpretation sixth-amendment |
Whether a defendant's reliance on erroneous advice from counsel, the Court of Appeals and novelty of a legal interpretation constitutes 'valid reasons… |
| 22-1051 |
Ronald Simon, et ux. v. Wayne Janke, et al. |
Washington |
2023-04-28 |
Denied |
|
child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights custody due-process equal-protection fraud jurisdiction racial-discrimination standing |
Whether the State Courts have the inherent power or jurisdiction to allow a white couple, or any person, to proceed in court to gain custody of a chil… |
| 22-7378 |
Patrick Ellis Cochran v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody due-process ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining plea-negotiations sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
Was Petitioner's right to a speedy trial under the 6th Amendment denied? |
| 22-7197 |
Bernard A. Brandon v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2023-04-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
coercion criminal-procedure custody juvenile-justice miranda-rights probation |
Whether an interrogation in a secured facility between a probationer and armed law enforcement is custodial for Miranda purposes |
| 22-6944 |
Paige C. Sullivan, nka Paige C. Auer v. Jacob James Culwell |
Florida |
2023-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-protection custody custody-dispute de-facto-parenthood due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest parental-rights standing |
Whether a natural parent has a fundamental liberty interest in the care, custody, and management of her child |
| 22-6920 |
Ogerta Helena Hartwein v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2023-03-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure custody domestic-violence due-process forfeiture forfeiture-by-wrongdoing intent witness-testimony |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the conviction of the defendant for violating a court order when the defendant had not seen and was no… |
| 22-6499 |
DeJuan B. Thornton-Bey v. Warden, Allenwood USP |
Third Circuit |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights custody due-process parental-rights standing |
Whether the due process clause requires the government to provide counsel to indigent parents in civil child custody proceedings |
| 22-6441 |
James D. Dayvault v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2023-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights consensual-encounter custody detention due-process family-law fourth-amendment law-enforcement photography reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard seizure |
Did the Kansas Court of Appeals err when it affirmed the trial court's denying custody for the purposes of Ananda, and did the court err by applying t… |
| 22-6304 |
Lanny Marvin Bush v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation constitutional-rights custody custody-interrogation due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation law-enforcement-procedure right-to-counsel |
Was petitioner in custody when interrogated? |
| 22-516 |
R. M. C., III v. J. D. L. |
Colorado |
2022-12-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
adoption adoption-law child-welfare civil-rights custody custody-order due-process family-law parental-rights state-jurisdiction state-power |
Whether a state may require an adoptive parent to comply with a custody order issued prior to his adoption of the child without due process |
| 22-5963 |
Russell Spain v. Shenese Jones |
New York |
2022-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-authority custody custody-dispute federal-law federal-law-violation judicial-jurisdiction national-security procedural-compliance rule-10 |
Did the lower courts preside within the scope of the United States Constitution? |
| 22-5642 |
Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 collateral-consequences custody custody-status direct-consequence habeas-corpus sex-offender-registration suppression-clause suspension-clause writ-of-certiorari |
Is a person in custody for the purpose of 28 U.S.C. § 2241 or 28 U.S.C. § 2254 if the individual is still under a direct consequence from the criminal… |
| 22-86 |
Charles Chavez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-07-29 |
Denied |
|
atm bank-robbery criminal-law custody customer federal-statute force-and-coercion property property-theft statutory-interpretation |
Whether a person violates the federal bank-robbery statute by forcing a bank customer to withdraw the customer's money from an ATM in order to take th… |
| 21-8094 |
In Re Marcus O'Neal Jenkins |
|
2022-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
arrest booked-on-charges civil-rights criminal-procedure custody due-process sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
Evidentiary Hearings on Jenkins' Ground Four Claim |
| 21-7595 |
O. C. v. V. C. |
Ohio |
2022-04-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
14th-amendment custody custody-order due-process equal-protection evidence evidence-exclusion judicial-procedure parental-rights |
Did the appellate court deny O.C. due process-and-equal-protection |
| 21-7137 |
Lonnel Porter v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law custody custody-escape eighth-circuit escape homelessness residential-reentry-center sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit misconstrued 18 U.S.C. § 751(a) to find that an escape from custody imposed 'by virtue of ... conviction' includes placemen… |
| 21-6982 |
Robert Stanley Gordon v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
benefits-denial conflict-of-interest custody erisa evidence evidence-retention long-term-disability plan-concealment |
Whether ERISA long-term disability benefits can be denied after years of plan concealment |
| 21-873 |
Damon Goodloe v. Christine Brannon, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure custody due-process show-up show-up-identification sixth-amendment witness-testimony |
Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment permits the prosecution to introduce statements elicited at a show-up conducted after the lone… |
| 21-6350 |
Michael J. Greene v. Shelby Searls, Superintendent, Huttonsville Correctional Center |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure custody due-process plea-agreement sentencing |
Whether the petitioner's plea agreement was unfulfilled, and whether the petitioner should have been granted custody or release due to the unfulfilled… |
| 21-743 |
Donald Lempar v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2254 custody custody-definition federal-district-court federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus sex-offender-registration state-court state-court-judgment |
Whether a habeas corpus petitioner who is subject only to sex offender registration requirements when he or she filed his or her petition is 'in custo… |
| 21-5639 |
Siliaivaoese Fuimaona v. D. Hudson, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-sentences criminal-appeal custody federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review ninth-circuit parole sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas erred in holding that the petitioner wa… |
| 21-308 |
Tim Sundy v. Friendship Pavilion Acquisition Company, LLC, et al. |
Georgia |
2021-08-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights court-record custody due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment |
Whether the willful refusal and/or failure of a court of record to maintain a complete record is a form of custody, depriving a litigant of due proces… |
| 20-1677 |
Angel Lee Rankin v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
|
5th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure custody custody-determination due-process evidence-suppression miranda-warnings motion-to-suppress sudden-passion |
Whether the Court of Appeals Erred in Affirming the Trial Court's Denial of Ms. Rankin's Motion to Suppress Because She was in Law Enforcement's Custo… |
| 20-8008 |
Eric Christopher Conn v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bail-reform-act conspiracy-to-escape criminal-conspiracy custody escape-statute federal-corrections federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus home-confinement jurisdictional-review parole-violation prisoner-rights |
Whether an individual released on bond under the Bail Reform Act is in 'custody' and as to a 'conspiracy to escape' or a 'walk away' parole violation |
| 20-7299 |
Michael Dean Adkisson v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2021-03-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
consecutive-sentence criminal-sentencing custody due-process jury-trial jury-trial-rights prison-custody separate-offense separate-statute statutory-interpretation |
Whether state prison officials violate an inmate's due process and jury trial rights when they hold an inmate in custody pursuant to an additional con… |
| 20-940 |
Alaska v. Sean Wright |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-13 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
custody custody-status federal-conviction federal-jurisdiction habeas habeas-corpus maleng-v-cook registration sex-offender sex-offender-registration speedy-trial state-conviction |
When an offender has fully served the sentence imposed pursuant to a state conviction, does a federal habeas court have jurisdiction to consider a § 2… |
| 20-6253 |
Sealed Appellant v. Sealed Appellee |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-4142 civil-rights criminal-procedure custody due-process federal-detention judicial-order mental-competency statutory-custody |
Whether continued custody under 18 U.S.C. § 4142 for almost four months beyond the expiration of an order to determine mental competency violates the … |
| 20-236 |
Jerry W. Wells v. Robbin Nelson, et al. |
Kentucky |
2020-08-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adoption civil-rights constitutional-rights custody due-process family-law federal-law jurisdiction uccjea |
Can an original decree state, using the UCCJEA, deny the jurisdiction of a sister state during an adoption proceeding |
| 19-8906 |
Nathan Matthew Kinard v. Michael Hoffman, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse civil-rights commitment-procedures constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody due-process habeas-corpus individual-liberty mental-health |
Whether Dera's testimony and emails should be considered, and whether others were tortured into pleading while in Escombra County jail's protective cu… |
| 19-1420 |
Jared D. Herrmann v. Ryan McCarthy, Secretary of the Army |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certificate-of-appealability collateral-consequences constitutional-challenge custody custody-interpretation federal-appeal federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus military-tribunals subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the district court misinterpreted its subject matter jurisdiction |
| 19-1360 |
William Cannon, Sr., as Special Representative for Charles Cannon, et al. v. Johnnie Lee Savory |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights custody favorable-termination habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey preclusion-doctrines section-1983 statute-of-limitations statutes-of-limitations |
Does the limitations period for a §1983 claim that necessarily implicates a criminal conviction accrue when a prisoner is released from custody, as fo… |
| 19-8334 |
James Butler v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure custody due-process fifth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-warning police-interrogation totality-of-circumstances |
If a statement by the presiding officer that the defendant is not 'under arrest' precludes a finding of custody despite the totality of the circumstan… |
| 19-1216 |
Loredana Elizabeth Botofan-Miller v. Brett Robert Miller |
Oregon |
2020-04-15 |
Denied |
|
birth-mother child-custody civil-rights custody due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-custody parental-rights state-courts state-intervention |
Did the State of Oregon courts violate the fourteenth amendment rights of the full legal custodial parent, who was the birth mother, to make decisions… |
| 19-7815 |
Robert Grimsley v. Oregon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights contractual-leniency custody due-process fraud fraud-in-the-facts habeas-corpus prison prison-contracts prisoner-rights sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-court state-court-judgment statutory-interpretation takings |
Can a state commit the crimes of fraud in the facts of its own sentencing guidelines to renege on prison contracts on behalf of a person in custody pu… |
| 19-1076 |
John L. Corrigan, Jr. v. City of Savage, Minnesota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
1983-claim 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights custody due-process favorable-termination habeas habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey incarceration judicial-precedent section-1983 spencer-v-kemna standing |
Whether the court below erroneously held that the favorable termination rule applies even if an individual is no longer incarcerated, and therefore in… |
| 19-7752 |
Daniel Ochoa v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation custody due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona pre-miranda-questioning public-safety-exception self-incrimination |
Whether Mr. Ochoa's Fifth Amendment rights were violated |
| 19-891 |
John Lehmann v. Nicole Haims |
New York |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
|
child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights custody due-process family-law fundamental-rights parental-rights standing state-intervention |
Did the New York courts' decisions violate the parent and his child's constitutionally protected fundamental-rights,natural-rights |
| 19-7203 |
Arthur Luther McKinney v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights custody custody-challenge due-process habeas-corpus prison prisoner-rights property-rights reentry supervision |
Does the Texas Department of Criminal Justice have to provide due process before taking away property given for work? |
| 19-7008 |
Abraham Hernandez-Zavala v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
coram-nobis Criminal-Conviction criminal-procedure custody custody-status deportation deportation-supervised-release due-process Habeas-Corpus immigration immigration-law supervised-release writ-of-error-coram-nobis |
Whether deportation automatically ends an immigrant's imposed supervised release? |
| 19-6310 |
Marilis Yaneth Velasquez Perez v. Jose Candido Diaz Palencia |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abbott-v-abbott appellate-review child-abduction civil-code custody eleventh-circuit guatemalan-civil-code guatemalan-law hague-convention hague-convention-child-abduction international-child-abduction international-custody ne-exeat-rights |
Did the lower courts err in determining that retention of the child was wrongful under the Hague Convention despite Guatemalan law giving custody to t… |
| 19-516 |
Nolan Espinda, Director, Hawaii Department of Public Safety, et al. v. Royce C. Gouveia |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Denied |
|
appellate-deference appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review custody federal-district-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus Hawai'i-sovereign-right manifest-necessity mistrial-declaration rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgments |
Did the Ninth Circuit err in concluding that the Rooker-Feldman doctrine is categorically not applicable to § 2241 petitions? |
| 19-6305 |
Ilma Alexandra Soriano Nunez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bail-bond bail-release civil-rights criminal-procedure custody due-process immigration immigration-detention immigration-orders non-citizen release statutory-period unsecured-bail |
Whether a non-citizen defendant should be released notwithstanding any immigration orders of detention |
| 19-5696 |
Adrian Francis Williams v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment constitutional-rights custody discovery due-process fourth-amendment jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment speedy-trial state-law |
Whether the petitioner's speedy trial rights were violated by the delay in bringing him to trial |
| 19-5554 |
Andres Soto v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights custody due-process fifth-amendment miranda-custody miranda-v-arizona police-encounter reasonable-person-test sixth-amendment |
Whether courts must give significant weight to whether an accused person reasonably feels free to leave a police encounter when determining if they ar… |
| 19-130 |
In Re Randolph George |
|
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
coram-nobis costs-of-imprisonment custody due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2255 ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel restitution section-2255 sentencing writ-of-error-coram-nobis writ-of-mandamus |
Whether a petitioner can challenge a restitution order or order imposing costs of imprisonment based on an ineffective assistance of counsel claim in … |
| 19-39 |
Quintin Antonio Bell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment categorical-match criminal-procedure custody due-process fifth-amendment interrogation miranda-interrogation miranda-v-arizona officer-subjective-test police-conduct sentencing-enhancement state-court-prosecution |
Whether the court of appeals correctly applied a subjective, officer-focused test to determine whether a suspect was interrogated for purposes of Mira… |
| 19-5048 |
Mark Anthony Dolph v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody custody-determination due-process evidentiary-standard interrogation legal-procedure miranda-warnings officer-testimony video-evidence |
Why does Geasoned Opinions of _jprist Thou out the federal system demonstrate that freminded ytist can disagree AS +o Whether the use of handtudfs jtu… |
| 18-1568 |
Cheryl Lynn Hager-Reilly v. Thomas Reilly |
New York |
2019-06-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights custody custody-proceeding due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment natural-parents parental-rights standard-of-proof supervised-visitation visitation-rights |
Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment require a certain quantum of proof before a state court, in a custody proceeding between the t… |
| 18-9730 |
Gerald S. Lepre, Jr. v. Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split custody domestic-order federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus incarceration incarceration-threat personal-liberty suspended-sentence |
Does a suspended sentence coupled with an active domestic order constitute custody for purposes of federal habeas corpus relief? |
| 18-9557 |
Charles C. Brewington v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2019-06-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure custody due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct legal-standard sixth-amendment standing wrongful-conviction |
Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated by the state court proceedings |
| 18-1505 |
C. S. v. L. S. |
New Jersey |
2019-06-03 |
Denied |
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14th-amendment child-custody constitutional-rights custody due-process family-court family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights state-court-hearing state-court-procedure visitation |
Where a state family court finds that the father has violated the mother's constitutional right to the care, custody, and management of her children, … |
| 18-9454 |
Daniel Brown v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa constitutional-challenge constitutional-law constitutional-questions coram-nobis custody error-coram-nobis habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-limitation pcra post-conviction-relief writ-of-error-coram-nobis |
Whether 42 Pa. C.S. § 9542 of the Pennsylvania Post Conviction Relief Act (PCRA) operate under the Antiterroism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA… |
| 18-1490 |
Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Bucks County, et al. v. Jason Piasecki |
Third Circuit |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split custody federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus in-custody probation sex-offender-registration state-court state-court-conviction state-criminal-convictions third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously concluded that the respondent, who was no longer serving his state sentence of probation at the… |
| 18-1431 |
Frank G. v. Renee P.-F., et al. |
New York |
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
Amici (8)Response Waived |
best-interests-of-child best-interests-of-the-child custody custody-determination due-process due-process-clause fourteenth-amendment obergefell-v-hodges parental-rights same-sex-marriage same-sex-partner |
Whether a state violates a biological parent's rights under the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause when it strips the parent of custody in favo… |
| 18-1420 |
Timothy Burns v. Alabama |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment citizenship civil-rights constitution constitutional-protection court-procedure court-reporting custody damages discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-conduct legal-damages standing |
Are Plaintiff and minor child A.B. citizens of the United States? |
| 18-1354 |
C. P., et al. v. C. A. |
California |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
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child-custody custody custody-rights due-process extramarital-affair family-code family-law family-rights fourteenth-amendment fundamental-parental-rights parental-rights third-parent-law third-party-custody |
Does California's Family Code section 7612(c), granting third parties legal and physical custody rights to a minor child as a 'third parent,' regardle… |
| 18-8982 |
Daniel Warren v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge custody due-process federal-constitutional-rights federal-habeas federal-rights habeas-corpus judicial-procedure procedural-due-process state-court state-court-review state-statute |
Whether a state court of last resort which dismisses without argument or opinion a challenge to the constitutionality of a statute from a judgment dis… |
| 18-8832 |
Annamalai Annamalai v. Darrin Harmon, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights custody district-court due-process habeas-corpus habeas-relief illegal-custody jurisdiction legal-procedure standing warden-authority |
Whether the district court illegally suspended Habeas Relief(s) for Annamalai Annamalai |
| 18-8640 |
Safron Huot v. Montana State Department of Child and Family Services, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights custody custody-dispute due-process family-law judicial-review ninth-circuit-court parental-rights reunification standing |
How long must one take to be Given the Chance to be an Active Parent in the lives of Their Children? |
| 18-1107 |
Charles Chandler v. Vermont, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split constitutional-challenge custody due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance lackawanna ninth-circuit strickland-standard tenth-circuit |
Is the Exception for Habeas Corpus Custody under Lackawanna valid law as affirmed by the Ninth, Tenth, and Fifth Circuits? |
| 18-7600 |
Johnathan Holt v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-procedure custody custody-analysis interrogation law-enforcement-interrogation miranda-custody miranda-v-arizona objective-analysis personal-mobility sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-interpretation totality-of-circumstances |
Whether a court must evaluate all of the circumstances surrounding the interrogation, including a lack of personal mobility, when deciding whether a p… |
| 18-958 |
Peter P. Mitrano v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeals civil-procedure court-of-appeals custody custody-order due-process family-court family-law federal-courts jurisdiction legal-dismissal new-hampshire ninth-circuit standing |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit err in affirming the dismissal of this action? |
| 18-7475 |
Aldona B. v. Nicholas S. |
West Virginia |
2019-01-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
biological-father child-custody civil-rights custodial-rights custody due-process equal-protection family-law parental-rights standing statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements unwed-parent |
Whether an unwed biological father who meets none of the statutory requirements preserves the same custodial rights as a parent who fulfills parental … |
| 18-7392 |
In Re James Rudnick |
|
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
13th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure custody due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus incarceration-authority mittimus thirteenth-amendment |
Whether the Respondent has valid authority to punish the Applicant and keep him incarcerated without a valid conviction |
| 18-7300 |
Michael L. Millis v. Stephen Kallis, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-USC-2241 28-usc-2255 custodian custody due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue prisoner-petition savings-clause section-2241 section-2255 transfer-of-venue |
What is the correct interpretation of the savings clause in 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e)? |
| 18-7148 |
Austin Ray v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrest custody custody-rights detainer habeas-corpus implied-consent interstate-agreement interstate-agreement-on-detainers jurisdiction prisoner-transfer speedy-trial |
Is the Interstate Agreement on Detainers (IAD) triggered when a prisoner in custody is arrested by another jurisdiction? |
| 18-6868 |
In Re Peter T. Roukis |
|
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Article-12 bureau-of-prisons civil-rights custody discharged-prisoners due-process legal-custody military-prisoners uniform-code-of-military-justice |
Are discharged military prisoners confined within the Bureau Of Prisons subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ)? |
| 18-6811 |
Damaso Rivera Fonseca v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure custody due-process interrogation interrogation-limits miranda-rights rhode-island-v-innis right-to-counsel spontaneous-statement voluntariness |
Whether a spontaneous statement made by a suspect after invoking his right to counsel and seeing his girlfriend being transported to jail is voluntary… |
| 18-6491 |
Michael Reeves v. Jacqueline Lashbrook, Warden |
Illinois |
2018-10-29 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure custody due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interstate-agreement-on-detainers speedy-trial |
Question not identified |
| 18-5761 |
Kourtney Herman v. Crystal Young, et al. |
Illinois |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
best-interests best-interests-standard custody custody-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-responsibilities parental-rights standing |
Whether a state court's application of a 'best interests' standard in custody/parental responsibilities filed by a person other than a parent, violate… |
| 18-5613 |
Ladina Sykes v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2018-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law custody fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct private-individual search-and-seizure state-action state-actors |
Whether on-duty police officers are state actors for Fourth Amendment purposes when they assist a private individual in searching a suspect in police … |
| 18-5370 |
Thomas Juresic v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2018-07-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-commitment custody due-process equal-protection liberty-interests null-and-void personal-jurisdiction sentencing-court statutory-provisions |
Does a civil commitment court have the constitutional authority to usurp custody and personal jurisdiction over a person prior to the expiration of th… |
| 18-5224 |
Frank Costelon v. New Mexico |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-07-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constructive-denial-of-counsel cronic-violation custody due-process equitable-tolling federal-custody gideon-violation habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction standing state-court-conviction |
Whether the District Court erred in concluding that it did not have jurisdiction because the petitioner was no longer in custody of the state court ju… |
| 18-5199 |
Keith Warren Lewis v. Rachelle Hadari |
New Jersey |
2018-07-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights court-procedure custody custody-evaluation due-process fair-trial family-law medical-expert mental-health partisan-expert trial-fairness |
Whether a court can force one party to be evaluated by the opposing party's private medical expert in a custody case, which may violate the 14th Amend… |
| 18-62 |
Brian Colbry, et ux. v. Lisa Von Pier, Director, New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2254 child-custody child-protective-services custody deprivation-of-liberty habeas-corpus jurisdiction liberty-deprivation state-institution state-restraint unlawful-restraint |
Is a minor child in custody for purposes of jurisdiction on a Petition for Habeas Corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §2254 where the child is suffering a se… |
| 18-5086 |
Brian Keith Uzzle v. Lesley Fleming, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure custody custody-status double-jeopardy due-process nolle-prosequi nolle-prosequy prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct re-indictment reindictment speedy-trial |
Whether a state court may indefinitely postpone prosecution over the accused's objection by nolle-prosequi and re-indictment of the same charges, know… |