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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 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 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…