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25A1107 Aaron Murray v. Jeanette Miranda, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-04-08 Application administrative-grievance-system bivens-action deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-needs prisoner-rights 1. This case presents two important questions on the application of this Court's Bivens case law to federal officials' unconstitutional deliberate ind…
25A1076 StandWithUs Center for Legal Justice, et al. v. Massachusetts Institute of Technology First Circuit 2026-03-31 Application antisemitism civil-rights-act deliberate-indifference first-amendment hostile-environment title-vi Question not identified.
25A1021 R. S., a Minor Child, By His Next of Friend and Legal Guardian, V. H., et al. v. Susan Hickey, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-03-17 Application child-abuse child-protective-services civil-rights deliberate-indifference qualified-immunity section-1983 Question not identified.
25A996 City of Bossier, Louisiana v. Richard Hershey Fifth Circuit 2026-03-11 Application deliberate-indifference failure-to-train first-amendment monell-liability municipal-immunity section-1983 Question not identified.
25-6832 Stanley Donald v. Carol Mici, Individually and as former Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Correction, et al. Massachusetts 2026-02-17 Pending Response WaivedIFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment habeas-corpus prison-conditions procedural-due-process Did the inmate state an actionable claim under the Federal Constitution's 8th Amendment when prison officials deliberately exposed him to COVID-19 and…
25-952 Brij Mohan, et al. v. Jordan Watkins Seventh Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending bivens-claim constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment inmate-rights pretrial-detention In Carlson v. Green, 446 U.S. 14 (1980), this Court recognized a cause of action under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcoti…
25-943 Antonio M. Smith v. John Kind, et al. Seventh Circuit 2026-02-09 Pending Amici (2) clearly-established-law constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment government-official qualified-immunity When a government official acts in an obviously unconstitutional manner, is that sufficient for the violation to be clearly established, as this Court…
25A856 James Daryl West v. Sabrina Schultz, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-30 Application constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment monell-claim prison-medical-services supervisory-liability Question not identified.
25-6447 Torrence Belcher v. Joshua Wallen, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment inmate-rights physical-injury prison-safety 1. How isn't an official being responsible for an inmate 's death not a basis for suing them?? 2. If it is possible to hypothesize a set of facts cons…
25-6419 Tonnie Nealy v. Donald Sawyer, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference institutional-liability prisoner-safety professional-judgment (1) Whether the 11th circuit failed to comply with this court's binding ruling in FARMER V. BRENNAN, 511 U.S. 825 (1994) in its finial opinion, since …
25A712 Donald Wayne Read v. Texas Texas 2025-12-17 Application constitutional-claim deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-treatment prisoner-rights pro-se Question not identified.
25-6374 Darin Lee Jones v. Moore, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP deliberate-indifference lieutenant-more log-book prisoner-housing procedural-misconduct signature-verification 1. Was LT. More the officer who housed Mr. Jones in segregation? 2. Did LT. More sign the standard log book at 1630? 3. Is the signature on the hous…
25A661 Oregon, et al. v. Paul Maney, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-04 Presumed Complete communicable-disease covid-19 deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment prison-conditions qualified-immunity Question not identified.
25A618 Antonio M. Smith v. John Kind, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-11-25 Presumed Complete constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment excessive-force prison-conditions qualified-immunity 1. This case presents a significant question of law—namely, what circumstances must exist for the "obvious violation" doctrine to preclude application…
25-532 Diana Snow, et al. v. Dennis Wiertella, as Father and Administrator of the Estate of Randy Wiertella, Deceased Sixth Circuit 2025-10-31 Denied constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference medical-care prison-liability qualified-immunity subjective-awareness 1. Did the Sixth Circuit depart from this Court's decision in Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825 (1994) in denying qualified immunity to Petitioners, des…
25A292 Larce Spikes v. Lesley Wheat, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-09-12 Presumed Complete constitutional-minimum deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-care prisoner-rights qualified-immunity 1. This case presents an important question of federal law to resolve: in order to overcome qualified immunity and proceed on a claim of deliberate in…
25-211 Anthony Bernard Wingfield v. Unknown Garner, CO, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-08-21 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split deliberate-indifference discrimination federal-rights title-ii Whether plaintiffs seeking damages under Title II of the ADA must demonstrate something more than the defendant's deliberate indifference to the plain…
25A127 Bill Elder, Sheriff, El Paso County, Colorado, et al. v. Darlene Griffith Tenth Circuit 2025-07-30 Presumed Complete civil-rights deliberate-indifference detainee-care law-enforcement mental-health tenth-circuit Question not identified.
24-1201 Crystal Ayon, Mother of M. R. A., a Minor Child v. Austin Independent School District Fifth Circuit 2025-05-27 Denied Response Waived bus-transportation deliberate-indifference institutional-liability school-safety sexual-assault video-surveillance 1. Whether a public school district acts with deliberate indifference to its students being assaulted inside its school buses after it installed video…
24-837 Anne Francisco, et al. v. Jason England, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-02-05 Denied Response Waived corrections-staff deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment mental-health qualified-immunity suicide-watch The Eighth Amendment prohibits prison guards from intentionally denying or delaying access to medical care. Respondents failed to immediately start su…
24-6017 Hanoi Hormachea v. Haridas Bhadja, in His Official Capacity as Chief Medical Officer at Okeechobee Correctional Institution Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-exhaustion civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment section-1983 WHETHER THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ERRED BY DISMISSING THE APPEAL WHEN PETITIONER HAD IN FACT PROPERLY EXHAUS…
24A354 Jessie J. Barnes v. Donald Uhler, Superintendent, Upstate Correctional Facility, et al. Second Circuit 2024-10-15 Presumed Complete conditions-of-confinement cruel-and-unusual deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-care prisoner-rights Question not identified.
24-398 Jantzen Verastique, et al. v. City of Dallas, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-09 Denied Response Waived constitutional-violations deliberate-indifference governmental-entity legal-precedent pattern-requirement section-1983 I. Whether this Court's holding in Leatherman v. Tarrant Cnty. Narcotics Intel. and Coordination Unit, 507 U.S. 163 (1993) is applicable to a § 1983 p…
24-5636 Robert Moco v. J. M. Janik, et al. Second Circuit 2024-09-25 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference excessive-force law-enforcement medical-care Question not identified.
24-5511 Jane Doe v. The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York Second Circuit 2024-09-11 Denied IFP contract-law deliberate-indifference federal-funding pro-se-representation sexual-harassment title-ix Q1: Does it amount to deliberate indifference under Title IX when a recipient (a) fraudulently tailor sexual assault case outcome to secure federal fu…
24-5407 Darnell Anderson v. Aaron Fuson, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP bivens-doctrine constitutional-claim deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment federal-corrections summary-judgment 1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred when it determined that petitioner's Eighth Amendment claim of deliberate indifference against a federal correct…
24-182 Roy Sargeant v. Aracelie Barfield Seventh Circuit 2024-08-20 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment federal-inmates inmate-rights prison-violence Whether federal inmates may bring a cause of action in federal court against rank-and-file federal prison officials that violate their Eighth Amendmen…
23-1374 Keyvon Sellers v. Jerry Nelson, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Eddie Lee Nelson, Jr., Deceased, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-02 Denied Amici (2) civil-rights constitutional-duty deliberate-indifference due-process equal-protection jail-intake procedural-guideposts procedure qualified-immunity racial-segregation (1) Whether a jail intake officer with no responsibility for classification or cell assignments nevertheless had a clearly established constitutiona…
23-7574 Marcus Donte Middlebrook v. Kelly M. Wellman, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process free-exercise judicial-discretion medical-needs rluipa summary-judgment DID THE US DISTRICT COURT JUDGE ABUSE ITS DISCRETION IN ADOPTING THE MAGISTRATE'S REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION, GRANTING THE DEFENDANT'S MOTION FOR SUMMA…
23-7538 Jose Luis Garcia v. Kyeong Park Ninth Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process judicial-discretion medical-care medical-malpractice qualified-immunity standard-of-care summary-judgment Did the Court of Appeals Erred in Affirming Summary Judgment When There Is Evidence of Deliberate Indifference of Dr* Park?
23A1024 Roy Sargeant v. Aracelie Barfield Seventh Circuit 2024-05-17 Presumed Complete bivens-remedy constitutional-claim deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment federal-prison inmate-violence Whether this Court's precedents recognize a cause of action for damages under the Eighth Amendment against prison officials who exhibit deliberate ind…
23-7500 Jonathan Pendleton v. Jason S. Miyares, Attorney General of Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-05-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ngri-statute Whether and to what extent Virginia's "not guilty by reason of insanity" (NGRI) statutes, I. Va. Code § 19.2-182.2, et seq., are facially unconstituti…
23-7495 In Re Grace Woodham 2024-05-16 Denied IFP administrative-law certiorari civil-rights court-procedure deliberate-indifference due-process judicial-review legal-petition standing summary-judgment supreme-court Question not identified.
23A1005 Eric Cruz v. Officer Cervantez Fifth Circuit 2024-05-10 Presumed Complete cellmate-violence constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference pretrial-detainee qualified-immunity section-1983 Question not identified.
23-1204 Daniel Kinsinger v. Sherelle Thomas, Administrator of the Estate of Terelle Thomas, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arrestee-rights civil-rights constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference due-process law-enforcement medical-care qualified-immunity summary-reversal 1. Whether the Third Circuit erred in holding that law enforcement officers' decision to transport an arrestee they believed had ingested drugs, but d…
23A951 Keyvon Sellers v. Jerry Nelson, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Eddie Lee Nelson, Jr., Deceased, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-23 Presumed Complete deliberate-indifference fourteenth-amendment inmate-safety jail-intake qualified-immunity racial-animus Question not identified.
23-1097 J. D. Hartman, Individually and in his Official Capacity as Sheriff of Davie County, North Carolina, et al. v. Charles Willis Short, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Victoria Christine Short Fourth Circuit 2024-04-09 Denied Amici (1) 8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment objective-knowledge pretrial-detainee pretrial-detention prison-officials Whether a pretrial detainee alleging deliberate indifference must prove the defendant actually knew of a significant risk of harm, as five circuits ha…
23A882 Daniel Kinsinger v. Sherelle Thomas, as Administrator of the Estate of Terelle Thomas, et al. Third Circuit 2024-04-04 Presumed Complete deliberate-indifference drug-toxicity fourteenth-amendment medical-care qualified-immunity section-1983 Whether officers violate the Fourteenth Amendment by transporting an arrestee who denies ingesting drugs, declines medical care, and shows no obvious …
23A873 Jose Luis Garcia v. Kyeong Park Ninth Circuit 2024-04-01 Presumed Complete deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-needs prison-conditions section-1983 summary-judgment Question not identified.
23-812 Arizona, et al. v. Mackenzie Brown Ninth Circuit 2024-01-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process educational-institution off-campus-conduct party-presentation-principle student-discipline student-harassment substantial-control title-ix 1. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 provides that "[n]o person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participa…
23A574 Wayne Resper v. Yescare Corp., fka Corizon Health, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-12-21 Presumed Complete civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-care prisoner-rights pro-se Question not identified.
23-332 Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District v. Jane Roe Fifth Circuit 2023-09-29 Denied article-iii-standing civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process peer-harassment school-liability standing summary-judgment title-ix Since its landmark decision in Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education, 526 U.S. 629 (1999), the Court has not provided school districts with any gu…
23A255 Denise Fisher v. Jodi M. Moore, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-20 Presumed Complete clearly-established-law deliberate-indifference fourteenth-amendment qualified-immunity section-1983 state-created-danger-doctrine Whether the state-created danger doctrine was "clearly established" when ten circuits unanimously recognized the doctrine, and whether the doctrine sh…
23-270 County of Tulare, California, et al. v. Jose Murguia, Individually and on Behalf of the Estates of Mason and Maddox Murguia, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied Amici (3) deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment private-violence shocks-the-conscience state-action state-created-danger substantive-due-process Whether, and under what circumstances, a State's failure to protect an individual who is not in state custody from violence by a private person consti…
23-260 Daniel Erwin v. Karla Howell, as Administratrix of the Estate of Cornelius Pierre Howell Sixth Circuit 2023-09-18 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-standard deliberate-indifference due-process farmer-v-brennan fourteenth-amendment kingsley-v-hendrickson medical-need pretrial-detainee section-1983 Whether Kingsley v. Hendrickson, 576 U.S. 389, 135 S.Ct. 2466 (2015), applies to claims for deliberate indifference to a serious medical need brought …
23-259 Lewis County, Kentucky, et al. v. Julie Helphenstine, Administratrix of the Estate of Christopher Dale Helphenstine and Guardian of B. D. H., the Minor Son of Christopher Dale Helphenstine Sixth Circuit 2023-09-18 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment objective-knowledge pretrial-detainee prison-officials qualified-immunity separation-of-powers Whether a pretrial detainee alleging deliberate indifference must prove the defendant actually knew of a significant risk of harm, as six circuits hav…
23A247 Clark D. Thomas v. McKendley Newton, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-15 Presumed Complete adequate-staffing deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment farmer-v-brennan habeas-corpus-filing-deadline prison-conditions Question not identified.
23-210 Christina Jordan v. Karla Howell, as Administratrix of the Estate of Cornelius Pierre Howell Sixth Circuit 2023-09-06 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-claim deliberate-indifference due-process excessive-force kingsley-v-hendrickson medical-care objective-standard pretrial-detainee To successfully state a constitutional claim for inadequate medical care, a pretrial detainee must show that a correctional healthcare provider was de…
23A182 Bruce R. Sands, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-08-28 Presumed Complete circuit-split conditions-of-confinement deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment habeas-corpus section-2241 Question not identified.
23A176 Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District v. Jane Roe Fifth Circuit 2023-08-25 Presumed Complete article-iii-standing davis-standard deliberate-indifference school-district-liability student-sexual-harassment title-ix Question not identified.
23-5441 Mika 'ya Ali Shakur v. Sergeant Thompson Fourth Circuit 2023-08-25 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment federal-rules-of-civil-procedure prison-healthcare serious-medical-need 1. On February 1, 2021, PLAINTIFF an inmate in the custody of VADOC, was denied his eigth amendment right to a "serious medical need" in of recieving …
23-165 Bob Johnson, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of Santa Rosa County, Florida v. Jessica N. Rogers, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Jose F. Escano-Reyes and as Parent and Natural Guardian of Y. C., a Minor Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-21 Denied Amici (1) 42-usc-1983 city-of-los-angeles-v-heller civil-rights constitutional-harm deliberate-indifference jury-finding monell-liability monell-v-new-york-city municipal-liability section-1983 1. Where a jury exonerates jail deputies of all 42 U.S.C. §1983 claims for deliberate indifference to risk of an inmate's suicide, does the jury's fin…
23-110 Anisha Ituah, by Her Guardian Angela McKay v. Austin State Hospital, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act deliberate-indifference disparate-treatment due-process intellectual-disability intervention-rights involuntary-commitment notice-requirements prop-207 property-taking rehabilitation-act sexual-assault sexual-assault 23-1109" summary-judgment Whether the State's taking of common HOA lands vio May an intellectually disabled woman who complained of rape and sexual assault while involuntarily committed to a State Hospital, but was disbelieved …
23-5255 Robert L. Swinton, Jr. v. Livingston County, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2023-08-01 Denied IFP 8th-amendment access-to-courts actual-injury civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process medical-neglect monell-claim monell-policy prisoner-rights Is this the correct evaluation of the evidence for deliberate indifference and would the Monell policy standard be eroded by the evaluation of this ca…
23A64 D'Andre M. Johnson v. United States Armed Forces 2023-07-24 Presumed Complete cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment military-confinement sentence-appropriateness uniform-code-of-military-justice Question not identified.
22-1211 Uvaldo Guzman v. Skinner C. Sturgis, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-06-14 Denied Response Waived causation causation-element civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process government-officials retaliation retaliation-claim subjective-intent taunts 1. When government officials state their intent to continue to violate an individual's constitutional rights while actually violating them, can those …
22-7366 Donald Joshua Smith v. Omoniyi Akintola Ninth Circuit 2023-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process inadequate-care medical-malpractice medical-negligence toxic-exposure 1. Being the primary care provier, why was not Akintola held medical responsible for examining, diagnose, and treating plaintiff's Smith for the sickn…
22-7153 Tamar Devell Harvey v. Frederick Russell, Assistant Warden Fourth Circuit 2023-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP bodily-harm civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment inmate-safety prison-official prison-officials risk-of-serious-harm substantial-risk How can the district court say I failed to state a Claim against Conner when suit never said that suit personally handed my grievance to Conner said t…
22-6948 Robert E. Spiker v. Robert E. Erskines, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied IFP cell-phone-data constitutional-claims deliberate-indifference digital-privacy federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence habeas-corpus medical-care prisoner-rights privacy search-and-seizure Neither the Overruled court nor the State Supreme Court of Appeals lacks a Post of Docket to the court by not Providing a Full Litigation Without Judi…
22-6384 Peter Gakuba v. Larry Henderson, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment administrative-remedies civil-rights constitutional-violations deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment kosher-meal-requirements prisoner-rights Gakuba exhausted all his available administrative remedies when grieving Vienna prison staffers' deliberate ignorance to Gakuba's seafood allergy, and…
22-6320 Mausean Carter v. Corizon Health, Inc. Maryland 2022-12-16 Denied IFP actual-innocence burden-of-proof civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment evidence gross-negligence habeas-corpus medical-evidence medical-treatment successive-petition ko (c^V '+U*L lo<*J £v' Courts & rr& r >/o dfc/ oo^- noe.ei'-t* ie burcJe, 7 oy: e£-fc,bhsh '"^ -ffae nesponcU^)-$ cLt-uh£r*\L£ fnd((^-C&ren {&- /-? …
22-423 Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee, dba Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools v. John Doe, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-11-07 Denied Response Waived actionable-harassment actual-knowledge civil-rights deliberate-indifference peer-harassment peer-on-peer-harassment school-district-liability school-liability title-ix 1. In a peer-on-peer harassment Title IX claim, under what circumstances can a school district be liable when a plaintiff relies on the harassment of …
22-363 Candice Hinton, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Rodrin Hinton and as Parent and Natural Guardian of Her Minor Children R. H. and C. H. and Next Friend of I. H. and K. H., et al. v. Harris County, Texas Fifth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference farmer-v-brennan governmental-liability medical-policy policymaker section-1983 Whether the Court's analysis in a 42 U.S. Code § 1983 - Civil action for deprivation of rights policy case should be restricted to a finding of delibe…
22-232 Shane Place and Misty Blackwell, as Personal Representatives of the Estate of Angel Place v. Joyce Anderson, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction deliberate-indifference due-process foster-care substantive-due-process summary-judgment 1. Did the court of appeals in its de novo review of summary judgment abuse its appellate jurisdiction and deny petitioners due process by refusing to…
22-5559 Patricio Estrada v. Troy Nehls, Sheriff, Fort Bend County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference disciplinary-isolation due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection medical-treatment prison-conditions 2) Can ya ackless Ho cbflerences in Duc Mecess. tights 40.adlhn. Segegahion, veties discyplinaty iSolatoty:asas Esttadhs £eual Astechon dad Lue lace a…
22-5297 Jean Max Darbouze v. California California 2022-08-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment helling-v-mckinney state-application Amendment Constitutional ^The^R^spondent violated the Petitioner 8th Rights.ALso applied tothe State California Via 14th Amendment to the U.S.Constit…
22-5121 Barbara Marie Frantz v. Kansas, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process medical-care qualified-immunity Whether the United States Supreme Court should decide, or further investigate, a case of Respondent's death, dependent on deliberate indifference to A…
21-8156 Demetrius Antwon Wilson v. Jeffrey Alvarez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-treatment prisoner-rights NV X v&Jer Deviated Fco/ntte^Wk* N infly£\rcu^ CaSc la to [jaoi<2>n \J, AlcJdvM-^ %^3 d;3& (T^c^. 11%)^ ^pso« oFPr'c^ls are. del;l^+&(y deny, delay, …
21-7839 Sloan Patrick Stanley v. Jeffrey Uttecht, Superintendent, Coyote Ridge Corrections Center, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-05-11 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference deliberative-evidence due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review petition-reconsideration standing untimely-filing 1. f /Q did Hit /IAvt/A ChrtiA[H (4,$. C?tAr 'f~ of HfptHf C0WMI wkIn fkty CU lid (ny la<hf/tpftal Wcu ffiW (0 (/O' whtn Ht Hck Oi/\d (a W pflftvffzd …
21-7505 Eugene Dyson v. Wexford Health Sources, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-03-31 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference due-process medical-records medical-treatment prison-conditions serious-medical-needs summary-judgment DID ALL THE COURTS ERR when FAILING TO CONSIDER THE DEFENDANT'S RESPONSIBILITIES OF PROVIDING ADEQUATE MEDICAL TREATMENT, WHICH APPELLANT ENDURED and …
21-1210 Scott County, Tennessee v. Tammy Brawner Sixth Circuit 2022-03-04 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process medical-care objective-standard pretrial-detainee pretrial-detention subjective-test Whether this Court should apply the subjective test for deliberate indifference set forth in Farmer v. Brennan to claims by pretrial detainees of inad…
21-6997 Luke Waine Caines, Jr. v. M. Interian Ninth Circuit 2022-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-needs prisoner-rights substantial-injury substantial-risk substantial-risk-of-harm wood-v-housewright 1). WHETHER DELIBERATE INDIFFERENCE SHOULD BE ANALYZED UNDER THE BALANCING FRAME WORK 3F THE SUBSTANTIAL RISK OF HARM TEST ANNOUNCED BY THIS COURT RA…
21-6922 Jeffrey Charles Rodd v. Leann LaRiva, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights deliberate-indifference discovery district-court due-process eighth-circuit procedural-error standing summary-judgment (1) Did the District Court error in dismissing Mr. Rodd's complaint without the benefit of discovery to further support his deliberate indifference cl…
21-6878 Ronald Cox v. Benjie Nobles, Deputy Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment prea-regulations prison-rape-elimination-act qualified-immunity transgender transgender-vulnerability Should the requirements of the Prison Rape Elimination Act, 34 U.S.C. §§ 30301 et seq. and PREA regulations be followed to protect the vulnerability o…
21-968 Fairfax County School Board v. Jane Doe Fourth Circuit 2022-01-06 Denied CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (4) actual-knowledge civil-rights damages deliberate-indifference due-process funding-recipient spending-clause student-harassment title-ix 1. Whether a funding recipient may be liable in damages in a private action under Davis when the recipient's response did not itself cause any harassm…
21-6504 Edward JoRodge Gladney v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-review civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment precedent-interpretation prison-conditions prison-safety prisoner-rights sexual-assault (1) Did the Circuit Court err by contradicting this Court's precedent in Farmer v. Brennan by ruling Petitioner was obliged to show an individualized …
21-6430 Michael Cardora Roberson v. Joe Morgan, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-11-29 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process section-1983 serious-medical-needs under-color-of-state-law Section 1983 Lawsuits requlation, custom or usage, of any state or Territory, or the District of Columbia subjects, or causes to be subjeeted. any cit…
21-783 Patsy K. Cope, et al. v. Leslie W. Cogdill, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (13) civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process inadequate-medical-care jail-official pretrial-detainee pretrial-detainees qualified-immunity suicide-prevention suicide-risk Upon arriving in jail, pretrial detainee Derrek Monroe informed jail officials that he was suicidal and attempted to hang himself twice in his cell. J…
21-6206 Joel Barcelona v. Sergeant Parish, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-threatening life-without-parole medical-treatment refusal-of-care Question not identified.
21-6093 Jeffrey D. Leiser v. Karl Hoffmann, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment inmate-rights medical-treatment summary-judgment wanton-suffering Did the District Court and Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied the legal presidents that 46 days of severe "unnecessary inflict of wanton pain…
21-6022 In Re Robert L. Hedrick 2021-10-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts bureau-of-prisons civil-procedure deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment frivolous plausible-claim rule-8 standing Did the Court Error in ruling that "the complaint failed to comply with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8(a)? 2. Did the Court Error in ruling that t…
21-5759 Kevin Hall v. Kul Sood, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-treatment prison-healthcare supervisory-power wexford-health-sources Did prison medical professionals, and the prison's healthcare contractor, Wexford Health Sources Inc., through a course of easier and less "effecaciou…
21-399 Chester Lee Reneau v. Mary Cardinas, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-09-14 Denied Response Waived cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-negligence prisoner-rights serious-medical-needs seventh-amendment summary-judgment Can prison doctors violate the Eighth Amendment by exposing prisoner's to the "unnecessary and wanton" infliction of pain? And, does the Constitution …
21-5594 Daniel J. Heffley v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada-compliance deliberate-indifference disability-accommodation discriminatory-intent due-process federal-court-obligation rehabilitation-act 1. Does the Federal Court have ah obligation to follow the spirit and letter of the ADA and 504 of the Rehabilitation Act? 2. Does the lower courts fa…
21-264 San Diego County, California, et al. v. Ana Sandoval, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Amici (1) circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established-rights deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-care medical-needs pretrial-detainee qualified-immunity Under the Fourteenth Amendment, must a pretrial detainee alleging deliberate indifference to medical needs prove that the defendant was subjectively a…
21-5269 Toy Terrell Smith v. J. Torres, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process prison-conditions transfer-policy A. Whether a prised tlase)trcetror! Conn ites actions of frads Ferc ing aw inatate back to He same pri sew where he was previously housed, Lpent comp…
21-71 Washington County, Utah v. Martin Crowson Tenth Circuit 2021-07-20 Denied Response Waived deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment inmate-medical-care municipal-liability section-1983 supreme-court-precedents Whether a municipal government can be liable under the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution for a denial of inmate medical care under § …
21-10 Lori Braun v. Brian Burke, Arkansas State Trooper, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-07-07 Denied circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process emergency-response high-speed-driving intent-to-harm objective-test police-liability 1. Whether a court should apply the intent-to-harm standard of liability to all police high-speed driving, as have the Eighth and Ninth Circuits, or i…
20-8301 Daniel J. Heffley v. Kimberly Steele, et al. Third Circuit 2021-06-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada ada-compliance deliberate-indifference disability disability-accommodation discrimination discrimination-intent due-process federal-court federal-court-obligations rehabilitation-act 1. Does the Federal court have an obligation to follow the spirit and letter of the ADA and § 504 of the Rehabilitation Act? 2. Does the failure of t…
20-8276 Joel Barcelona v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment administrative-refusal civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference disability-accommodation due-process healthcare-access medical-needs medical-rights statutory-rights CRUEL and UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT, amend. VIII. WHETHER THE RESPONDENTS, JULIE L. JONES, et al., as medical officials violated a statutory or constitutiona…
20-8162 Bralen Lamar Jordan v. C. Rivers, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied IFP admissibility circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process evidentiary-standard judicial-review legal-interpretation medical-malpractice medical-records pharmacy-records procedural-challenge WHAT IS MEDICAL MALPRACTICE WITH EVIL INTENT DF CEOEL AND PONISH MENT AS TO DELIbELATE INDI FFERENCE? ALSO WHAT IS IMMINENT DANGER?
20-7830 Firas M. Ayoubi v. Wexford Health Sources, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof canton-analysis civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process likelihood-on-the-merits monell-claim preliminary-injunction seventh-circuit supreme-court-precedent 1: Did the Seventh Circuit s decision put an unreasonable require ment and hieghtened burden of proof in establishing likelihood the merits at the p…
20-1402 Stephen Hammonds v. Robert Theakston, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-07 Denied 11th-circuit 8th-amendment appellate-precedent civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process medical-care qualified-immunity section-1983 1. When the unconstitutionality of an officials' conduct is reasonably obvious, does that suffice to render the violation of those constitutional righ…
20-1276 Stephen B. McKinney v. Felicia Harkness Dean, Guardian and Conservator for and on Behalf of Janel Harkness, an Incapacitated Adult Fourth Circuit 2021-03-15 Denied circuit-court-of-appeals clearly-established-law deliberate-indifference due-process intent-to-harm parratt-hudson parratt-hudson-doctrine qualified-immunity substantive-due-process 1. Did the Circuit Court of Appeals err in failing to apply the Parratt-Hudson doctrine to the Respondent's substantive due process claim? 2. Did the…
20-7368 Antonio Dewayne Hooks v. Kayodi Atoki, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process excessive-force failure-to-protect fourteenth-amendment medical-needs objective-reasonableness pretrial-detainee In Kingsley v. Hendrickson, 576 U.S. 389 (2015), this Court held that "pretrial detainees (unlike convicted prisoners) cannot be punished at all, much…
20-7157 David Smith-Garcia v. Paula Burke Ninth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment bivens civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-need prison-healthcare probation U Indies cw\ QjnoJaV'K AfAendmtnV clWiwi (b Vq a ^enoo^ vv\€d\Ca\ need Ck<^o,\ a'SV (X deO "vS'Nen^ ConVe*V-'\r\ vde\'i bf<~afe indiW-erencc. Ov 0-…
20-7011 Hemmingway Mukora Saisi v. Carolyn Murray, et al. Third Circuit 2021-02-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process equal-protection protection-claim self-defense stare-decisis state-criminal-procedure state-officials A. Were my conshene} wighks do the & pr ok echion clayse Vielahed, r " aval Rs Were ny Due Process sjahks VialakeSu wh ~ Bet enblonk by Het en A) OMI…
20-951 Mary Stewart, as Administrator of the Estate of Luke O. Stewart, Sr., Deceased v. City of Euclid, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-01-15 Denied Amici (6) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference fourth-amendment municipal-liability qualified-immunity section-1983 Where a municipal employee has violated the Constitution, must a plaintiff point to "clearly established law" (such as would overcome a defense of qua…
20-6872 Scott Hildreth v. Kim Butler, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment grievance-process medical-neglect medical-treatment medication-refill policy prisoner-rights Is it right that the defendant Wexford health service,(Menard C C ) have returned to their same old song and dance and have been not properly or tim…
20-941 Gregory Atkins, et al. v. Kenneth Williams, Medical Director, Tennessee Department of Correction Sixth Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied 8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment injunctive-relief lack-of-funds official-capacity prison-conditions subjective-component The Eighth Amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishments, including deliberate indifference to a convicted prisoner's serious medical needs and ot…
20-839 Kenneth Greenway v. Southern Health Partners, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-22 Denied credibility-of-statements deliberate-indifference fourteenth-amendment inmate-rights jail-officials medical-needs serious-medical-needs summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton 1. Should the Eleventh Circuit be permitted to reinvent the Fourteenth Amendment standard for deliberate indifference to serious medical needs by ruli…
20-811 Kathy Contreras, on Behalf of Her Minor Child A. L. v. Dona Ana County Board of County Commissioners, dba Dona Ana County Detention Center, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process monell-claim monell-claims qualified-immunity section-1983 1. Whether this Court should resolve the confusion in the circuit courts about what constitutes "clearly established" law with a clear rule and guidan…
20-785 Eboni Nicole Baldwin v. Latoisha Dorsey Fifth Circuit 2020-12-10 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment medical-care medical-care-delay pre-gerstein-arrestee state-actor-liability 1. How many hours of delayed mental health care is reasonable before a state actor can be held liable for deliberately indifferent or objectively unre…
20-6534 Deverick Scott v. Rory Griffin, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment grievances inmate-rights medical-malpractice medical-treatment policy 1. Is "A.D.C. ", Correct Care Solutions Medical policy unconstitutional to Scott, and all other inmates in A.D.C. when Dr. Dove refuse to refill and r…
20-6528 Ecclesiastical Denzel Washington v. Benjamin Brooke, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-12-03 Denied IFP civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment failure-to-protect prison-conditions prison-safety summary-judgment 1. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT IN GRANTING SUMMARY JUDGMENT IMPROPERLY DECIDED FACTUAL ISSIES WHETHER THE PLAINTIFF FACTUAL ALLATIONS ON AN UNPROVOKED …
20-6499 Robert T. Sigler v. Jimmy Thornton, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied IFP civil-rights class-action constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference detainee-rights detention-conditions due-process equal-protection medical-care prison-conditions iMAS £_QLiMTV ^.a\/ERaEMT DE-LlfiH^T^LV Xt\(hUPPH b^r/UMBS dLfl£s.iMHEM cy) b&rmiAlB&s SLEPT iM % yC ID. (LEiLL- hEZSJ£>Kldb FOR- CX)jIaI3LTI4 3RD b…
20-6026 Kenneth H. Newkirk v. Jeffery Kiser, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-matter civil-rights court-of-appeals deliberate-indifference due-process judicial-review legal-proceeding medical-care pattern-of-misconduct physical-injury standing 1. SHOULD I HAVE BEEN RELEASED FROM THIS PRISON AND THE CUSTODY OF THE VA. DEPT.OF CORRECTIONS ON 14/20 WHEN THE 4TH CIRCUIT COURT ALLEGED THAT I ADEQ…
20-6014 Jasper Lee Vick v. Clement F. Bernard, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-10-14 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-violation deliberate-indifference due-process first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation medical-segregation prisoner-grievance retaliation summary-judgment I. Did the Sixth Circuit err in denying Petitioner review of the district court's judgment in favor of Respondents on Whether there is a temporal prox…
20-5783 Chia Jean Lee v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review chapman-v-california circuit-split constitutional-standard criminal-procedure deliberate-indifference harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions standard-of-review The government requested and received a deliberate indifference instruction in the criminal jury charge, over Lee's objection. The Fifth Circuit Court…
20-320 Jane Doe, et vir, Individually and as the Natural Parents and Next of Kin of Minor Doe v. Jackson Local School District Board of Education, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-duty deliberate-indifference deshaney-exception due-process state-created-danger supreme-court-review 1) Whether DeShaney v. Winnebago Cty. Dep't of Soc. Servs. created the exception of the State Created Danger Test? 2) What are the elements and facto…
20-5572 Michael Aaron Witkin v. Mariana Lotersztain, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment expert-testimony medical-care prison-conditions summary-judgment The Eighth Amendment prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain. Prison officials violate the…
20-10 Emily Kollaritsch, et al. v. Michigan State University Board of Trustees, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-07-10 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process federal-funding sexual-harassment student-harassment student-liability title-ix Whether, as the Sixth and Eighth Circuits hold, in disagreement with the First, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits, Davis's "vulnerability" prong requires p…
19-8721 Vincent A. Argentino v. Ruanne Stamps, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-06-16 Granted Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-standard deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment estelle-v-gamble legal-precedent medical-evidence prisoner-rights summary-record 1. Whether the Precedent of Placing Nesiifying, medical evidence in the Summary Record Showing O * aeke' mental ef Peck" Places an Unrealis-hic exfect…
19-1350 Darius Ishun Green v. Bradley Hooks, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-09 Denied Response Waived civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment inmate personal-characteristics prison prisoner-rights risk-of-harm summary-judgment 1. Under Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825 (1994), is a court precluded from granting summary judgment to defendants where there is evidence of an obvio…
19-8460 Nexis Rene Gomez v. D. Braun, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied IFP civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-needs prison-conditions prisoner-treatment summary-judgment Did the Court of Appeals Erred In Affirming Summary Judgment In Respondents' Favor When There is Evidence in Petitioner's Medical Record Demonstrating…
19-8447 Jeanette D. Davis v. Renee Thomas, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process equal-protection excessive-force grievance-interference grievance-process 1. Defendant Officer Renee Thomas inflicted crule an unusal punishnent when she excessively sprayed me with Chemical Agent directly in t^e eyes while …
19-1280 Idaho Department of Correction, et al. v. Adree Edmo, aka Mason Edmo Ninth Circuit 2020-05-12 Denied Relisted (2) advocacy-organization-guidelines circuit-split constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment estelle-v-gamble gender-dysphoria inmate-medical-care medical-care prison-healthcare The Ninth Circuit became the first circuit in the nation to conclude that the Eighth Amendment mandates the provision of sex reassignment surgery when…
19-8348 Roland I. Kehano, Sr. v. Scott Harrington, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-04-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process medical-care prisoner-rights Question not identified.
19-8166 Anthony Williams v. Muhammad Naji, et al. Third Circuit 2020-04-02 Denied IFP civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process health-care hepatitis-c imminent-danger medical-neglect prison prison-healthcare standing 1. DID THE COURT OF APPEALS DECISION CONFLICT WITH DECISIONS- MADE BY THE U.S. DISTRICT COURT REGARDING IMMINENT DANGER. AND DOES HEPATITIS-C CREATE I…
19-8084 Christopher Young v. Rehka Halligan Third Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-care medical-treatment standing 1. Whether continuous persistence in a course of treatment known to be ineffective through a petitioner's complaints, while knowing or should've kno…
19-1138 DeWayne D. Knight v. Thomas Grossman, Jr. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied balancing-test circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment informed-consent medical-treatment prisoner-rights Whether a claim for violation of a prisonerpatient's Fourteenth Amendment right to informed consent requires a showing of deliberate indifference and …
19-7860 Robert Rowles v. GEO Group, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied IFP 8th-amendment circuit-court civil-rights cost-cutting deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment inmate inmate-rights judicial-discretion medical-treatment prison standing DID THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEAL ABUSE ITS DISCRETION IN DENYING RELIEF ON THE LACK OF MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT IS FAILING TO TREAT A …
19-7807 Christopher Young v. Jose Boggio, et al. Third Circuit 2020-02-27 Denied IFP constitutional-claim deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment ineffective-treatment intentional-mistreatment medical-care medical-need prisoner-rights serious-medical-need treatment 1.) Whether the contention that an Eighth Amendment deliberate indifference to serious medical need claim fails simply because the Plaintiff received…
19-1014 Teresa Berry v. Delaware County Sheriff's Office Sixth Circuit 2020-02-14 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights deliberate-indifference detainee-rights due-process jail-conditions medical-care medical-policy medical-training municipal-liability policy training withdrawal The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment from the United States District Court Southern District of Ohio Eastern Division finding that…
19-7565 Tyree Wright v. S. Alvarez, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference diagnostic-imaging due-process eighth-amendment inmate-rights medical-care medical-records prison-healthcare qualified-immunity 1. While you are incarcerated in the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC), how are you supposed to notify Medical of your prior medical history/he…
19-7464 Derrick Dewayne Davis v. Raymond Laborde Correctional Center, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights compensation constitutional-rights correctional-facility deliberate-indifference due-process medical-neglect medical-treatment standing writ-of-habeas-corpus 1. Whether the 5th Circuit and the United States District Court violated plaintiffs constitutional rights by denying plaintiffs writ without reviewing…
19-7401 Dumisai H. Hockaday v. Helene Christner, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied IFP administrative-regulations civil-procedure confrontation-clause constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference double-jeopardy due-process exhaustion-of-remedies grievance-process medical-care prison-conditions standing summary-judgment 1. Whether the underlying activity of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit is ethical or not under Thomas v. Am, 474 U.S. 140, at …
19-7252 Clarence Joseph Jason v. Robert Tanner, Warden, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-01-10 Denied IFP civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process excessive-force inmate-safety prison-conditions qualified-immunity 1). Whether a Prison "Too ontyo\ Poli [te ot O woon Oviso of fi ta 9 ya t\n Ve oi \i 2). What evidence must be adduced showing a prison officials "kn…
19-7214 Gregory Brown v. Ellen Mace-Liebson, et al. Third Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment bivens bivens-action civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment intra-circuit-conflict medical-care medical-treatment pro-se summary-judgment WHETHER THE SITTING PANEL FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS, PER-. CURIAM OPINION, AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S ENTRY OF SUMMARY JUDGMENT. ON P…
19-7036 Jeremy L. Dale v. Anthony Agresta, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied IFP 8th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-damages cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process excessive-force federal-tort-claims habeas-corpus medical-care prisoner-rights qualified-immunity Y MR. depriveration of Rigt's ? (SecONd TSSUE $1983, persons liable ndto $ 1983 dAmAgES WAs itUuncnstitio oeni f mdcal d M D tmutoA C A DENiaM2.DAlE…
19-701 Lloyd N. Johnson v. Karen Rimmer, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process immunity institutional-care medical-care medical-negligence mental-health professional-judgment qualified-immunity standing youngberg This petition poses two questions: first, whether the "professional judgment standard" this court articulated in Youngberg can be reduced to "whethe…
19-6812 Steven Kurt Baughman v. Michael Seale, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment brain-damage burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-claims deliberate-indifference due-process hyperglycemia insulin medical-treatment prisoner-rights retaliation serious-medical-needs 1. Whetehr injecting a prisoner with insulin without knowing bis immediate bllod sqgar level constitutes deliberate indifference to serious medical ne…
19-6329 Jackie Lee Boyd v. Carol Monroe, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-treatment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment incarceration medical-care prison-conditions (1) Is a constitutional right to be free of the wanton infliction of sei pain rendered void upon incarceration? (2) Is the denial of life sustaining …
19-509 Jane Doe v. Dardanelle School District Eighth Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights damages-liability deliberate-indifference due-process educational-discrimination educational-opportunities federal-funding sexual-harassment student-harassment student-on-student-harassment title-ix 1. Whether a recipient of federal funding may be held liable where it takes any action in response to complaints of sexual harassment. 2. Whether a v…
19-5966 Delbert Heard v. Andrew Tilden, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process electronic-evidence medical-care medical-malpractice medical-negligence negligence ostrich-defense prison-conditions prisoner-rights qualified-immunity surgical-delay Whether prison doctor can evade culpability for 8th Amendment violation for delay of prisoner's hernia surgery, by invoking ostrich defense and claimi…
19-5649 Terry Lee O'Brien v. Carla Hacker-Agnew, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-negligence national-uniformity obstruction-of-justice prison-conditions standing statutory-interpretation To what degree for interpretation of a constitution, statute, rule and regulation is a question of law for consideration by the Supreme Court is neces…
19-5560 Cecil McDonald Davis v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment bivens bivens-action bivens-claim certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-claim 1.) Whether the District Court in denying the Petitioner medical claim under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Fed. Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. …
19-5558 Frank Stephon Johnson v. Correct Care Solutions, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-conditions punishment was the defendonts conduct de\ therately ,Pucposely Knowing nd cbjecluely yu intera' in Respect to Vv ialating Johnson rcHottonal Vio S Fourteen 1 Ame…
19-5508 Carlin U. Powell v. Medical Department Cuyahoga County Correctional Center, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment ableism ambleism cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment interstate-agreement-on-detainers medical-neglect (I) Did the Medical Department of Cuyahoga County Correctional Center et al., violate Plaintiff-Appellant Carlin U. Powell 's VIII, XIV Amendments to …
18-1586 Scott Lynn Gibson, aka Vanessa Lynn v. Brian Collier, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment individualized-medical-evaluation life-threatening-medical-need life-threatening-need medical-treatment new-treatment prison-healthcare prisoner-rights transgender-rights universal-medical-acceptance 1. Whether an Eighth Amendment claim for deliberate indifference to a prisoner's lifethreatening medical need can be disposed of without any individua…
18-9647 George Edward Tustin, Jr. v. Brad Livingston, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process judicial-review medical-treatment prison prison-conditions One: Whether the district court erred in determining that the delay in treatment was not caused by deliberate indifference. Two: Whether the four (4)…
18-9508 Floyd Dewaine Scott v. I. Jimenez Ninth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment appeals civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process internal-bleeding medical-care medical-indifference ninth-circuit qualified-immunity summary-judgment triable-issues Reason number one is that the Petitioner did present a Medical Deliberate Indifference cause against the Respondent. Is it contrary to clearly establi…
18-1463 Melissa Maher v. Iowa State University Eighth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process harassment post-traumatic-stress retaliation sexual-assault student-housing title-ix 1. Does discrimination making a student vulnerable to harassment after a sexual assault create a cause of action for deliberate indifference by the in…
18-9286 Prentis Rupert v. Keith Bowers, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights class-action deliberate-indifference due-process hepatitis-c medical-care prison-conditions settlement-agreement standing summary-judgment Question not identified.
18-9140 Michael Ray Ingram v. Frank Clements, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment injunctive-relief qualified-immunity standing supervisory-liability Whether dismissal of claims for injunctive relief requiring state officials to obey the Eighth Amendment pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1983 was error? Wheth…
18-8965 Olusola Olla v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-knowledge criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberate-indifference federal-courts investigative-standard jury-instructions mens-rea prosecutorial-evidence statutory-interpretation willful-blindness 1. Whether, in a criminal case where a statute requires proof of knowledge, the government may establish the requisite knowledge with evidence of a fa…
18-8555 Randal Floyd v. Michael Johnson, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-fees deliberate-indifference due-process fraud indigent indigent-appeal prisoner-rights standing standing-civil-procedure-due-process-access-to-cou WETER A PRISONER AS PLAINTIFF STILL HAS STANDING ON A DELI8EATE INDIF?E1ENCE CLAIM WHEN THE DEPENDANT DY FRAUD DEFAULTS THEIR OBLIGAT[0N3 TO FORHRRD P…
18-1162 P. Swaney, et al. v. Hector Lopez Ninth Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights correctional-officers deliberate-indifference due-process medical-care prisoners-rights qualified-immunity Did the Ninth Circuit err when a divided panel of that court denied qualified immunity to correctional officers notwithstanding Third and Seventh Circ…
18-8310 Azhar Lal v. B. G. Flores, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment damages deliberate-indifference due-process medical-treatment prisoner-rights standing IF PETITiONER WAS AN INSULIN DEPENDANT DIABETIC AND THE PRISON DOCTOR HAD ORDERED PETITIONERS EVENING DIABETES TREATMENT AS: THAT HE MONITOR HIS BLOOD…
18-8092 Azaniah Blankumsee v. Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment 1) Did the defendant's lower court err in granting Summary Judgment? 2) DID hE FOURTh CIBCUIT ERR In AFFIRMING IOWER COuRTS Dacision? 3 Did The Four…
18-7919 Susan Grund v. Julie Murphy, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied IFP appeal civil-procedure civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-need prisoner-rights summary-judgment Whether The District Courtin granting summary judgment improperly decided disputed factual issues which the appeal court affirmed. Whether the Peti…
18-7648 William R. Stevenson v. R. Cordova, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied IFP civil-rights civil-rights-violation-obvious-standard constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference directed-verdict-standard due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-deliberate-indifference judicial-bias perjured-testimony prison-conditions qualified-immunity summary-judgment summary-judgment-qualified-immunity Whether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding the law was not clearly established as to the conduct of Defendants Espinoza and Williams and in conc…
18-645 Marcella Winn v. Susan Mellen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-19 Dismissed Response Waived 42-U.S.C-1983 42-usc-1983 bad-faith brady-v-maryland brady-violation circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process police-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 1. Do claims against a police officer under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for failure to disclose material evidence under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) req…
18-6488 Alonzo Dwayne Coleman v. Michael Hakala, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-medical-care deliberate-deception deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment incarceration medical-evidence medical-treatment prison prison-medical-treatment rare-disease WEATHER THERE is A CONSTITUTIONAL STANDARD OF MEDICAL CARE FOR PERSONS WITH RARE MASSIVE POLYCYSTIC LIVER DISEASE AND ARE THE STATE'S (MISSOURI PRISIO…
18-6367 Joel Carter v. Jamie Ayala, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-services medical-treatment precedent prisoner-rights summary-judgment I. Did the lower court err in granting summary judgment in favor of Respondents on Petitioner's Eighth Amendment deliberate indifference claim, by iss…
18-476 Cowlitz County, Washington, et al. v. Jule Crowell, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-care monell monell-doctrine municipal-liability objective-reasonableness section-1983 serious-medical-needs subjective-intent 1. Whether a pretrial de tainee alleging Fourteenth Amendment claims of deliberate indifference to serious medical needs under 42 U.S. C. § 1983 must …
18-6294 Steven Anthony Walcott, Jr. v. Terrebonne Parish Jail Medical Department, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process exhaustion-of-remedies frivolous-claims medical-conditions medical-treatment prison-conditions standing M. Did thE pEtitioNEr hANE A SEriDUs MEdicHl CouditiON? 2. Did thE pEtitioNEr's CESIONS MEDICAL AllEgEA in jtil CDRETitION FOM CUNHACTING A dENAy diB…
18-5695 Robert Wayne Annabel, II v. Michigan Department of Corrections, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada amendment-opportunity civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy deliberate-indifference due-process plra plra-dismissal prisoner-litigation prisoner-rights rehabilitation-act res-judicata retaliation sua-sponte I. "The Sixth Circuit is alone in its PLRA interpretation that a sua sponte dismissal for failure to state a claim at screening no longer affords a "f…
18-5652 Glen Springer v. Benjamin Dale Caple, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-needs prison-conditions 1. Did Plaintif SufferA EighthAmendment Violation? Medical Needs? ex is Administative Remedies by the grlevance process USiNg When he only thing that…
18-150 Phil Plummer, et al. v. David M. Hopper, Special Administrator of the Estate of Robert Andrew Richardson, Sr. Sixth Circuit 2018-08-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment civil-rights clearly-established-right deliberate-indifference detainee-rights due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement medical-intervention qualified-immunity 1. Whether the Sixth Circuit defined the constitutional rights in question at too high a level of generality contrary to this Court's teachings on qua…
18-5430 James Davis Bennett, et ux. v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment constitutional-defense deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment estelle-vs-gamble federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure medical-care prisoner-rights serious-medical-needs summary-judgment 1. The Question before the Court is Whether the Eight Amendment under Estelle vs Gamble allows a Court to create a Constitutional Defense to an admitt…
18-5327 Adib Eddie Ramez Makdessi v. Lieutenant Fields, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference deliberate-misconduct due-process evidence-suppression excessive-force federal-courts fourth-circuit judicial-conflict retaliation standing takings witness-tampering -The FourthCircuit First opinion Appendx Findingin Maessis Favor s r Confct ith th econonAppend overlooKing so much of the evidence that was held in t…
18-5237 Sharon K. Bland v. Gellman, Brydges & Schroff, et al. New York 2018-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process equal-protection standing takings workers-compensation Is New York State Workers' Compensation Law Constitutional? Does the government have the right to take away my cause of action and substitute it with …
24A711 In Re Daniel Felix Denied animal-cruelty deliberate-indifference highway-safety non-property-animals speed-limit wildlife-crossing Question not identified.