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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 Whether a Bivens claim can be brought for deliberate indifference to an inmate's chronic pain at a pretrial detention center under the Fifth and Eight…
25-943 Antonio M. Smith v. John Kind, et al. Seventh Circuit 2026-02-09 Pending 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, or is a viola…
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 Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a deliberate indifference claim against supervisory officials or medical service providers in state prisons under…
25-6447 Torrence Belcher v. Joshua Wallen, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-12-30 Pending Response WaivedIFP cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment inmate-rights physical-injury prison-safety Whether a prison official's deliberate indifference to an inmate's safety constitutes a violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel …
25-6419 Tonnie Nealy v. Donald Sawyer, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-23 Pending Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference institutional-liability prisoner-safety professional-judgment QP: Whether the 11th Circuit failed to comply with Farmer v. Brennan in assessing deliberate indifference when defendants knew of a serious risk of ha…
25A712 Donald Wayne Read v. Texas Texas 2025-12-17 Application constitutional-claim deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-treatment prisoner-rights pro-se Whether a pro se prisoner's application for emergency relief challenging medical treatment and record-keeping practices constitutes a viable constitut…
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 Whether Lieutenant More's signature on housing and segregation log books constitutes evidence of deliberate indifference or procedural misconduct in p…
25A661 Oregon, et al. v. Paul Maney, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-04 Application communicable-disease covid-19 deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment prison-conditions qualified-immunity Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits state prison officials from exposing inmates to heightened risks of serious communicable diseases during a pand…
25A618 Antonio M. Smith v. John Kind, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-11-25 Application constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment excessive-force prison-conditions qualified-immunity Whether the Eighth Amendment precludes qualified immunity for corrections officers who deliberately subject a prisoner to extreme cold conditions with…
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 Pending constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference medical-care prison-liability qualified-immunity subjective-awareness Did the Sixth Circuit depart from this Court's decision in Farmer v. Brennan by improperly denying qualified immunity to Petitioners based on insuffic…
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 Whether the Eighth Amendment requires a substantive inquiry into the adequacy of medical treatment provided to prisoners, or if the mere provision of …
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 Whether a law enforcement agency's policies and practices can constitute deliberate indifference in a civil rights claim alleging inadequate mental he…
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 Whether a public school district acts with deliberate indifference by installing bus cameras but not live monitoring them after a prior sexual assault…
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 Whether evidence of violations of suicide intervention procedures constitutes deliberate indifference under the Eighth Amendment for denying prompt me…
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 Eleventh Circuit improperly dismissed an appeal when the petitioner had exhausted administrative remedies under Florida administrative reg…
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 Whether a prison's conditions of confinement and alleged deliberate indifference to a prisoner's medical needs constitute a violation of the Eighth Am…
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 Whether Leatherman v. Tarrant County precedent applies to deliberate indifference claims under § 1983 and whether pattern of constitutional violations…
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 Whether law enforcement officers can be held liable for deliberate indifference to a plaintiff's medical needs after using excessive force during an a…
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 Does fraudulent tailoring of sexual assault case outcomes and failure to protect student privacy constitute deliberate indifference under Title IX?
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 Whether the Court of Appeals correctly applied the Bivens doctrine in evaluating an Eighth Amendment deliberate indifference claim against a federal c…
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 against prison officials for deliberate indifference to inmate-on-inmate violence under the Eighth…
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 Whether a jail intake officer had a clearly-established constitutional duty to inform others about an inmate's alleged racial animus in underlying cha…
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?
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 are unconstitutional
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 the Eighth Amendment permits a Bivens damages remedy for deliberate indifference to the risk of inmate-on-inmate violence in federal prisons
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 Whether the New Hampshire Supreme Court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims on summary judgment despite findings of fact indicating the state …
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 Whether a law enforcement officer's deliberate indifference to an inmate's safety risks constitutes a violation of the inmate's constitutional rights …
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 Whether law enforcement officers' decision to transport an arrestee they believed had ingested drugs to a nearby prison with medical staff constituted…
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 Whether a jail intake officer can be held liable under the Fourteenth Amendment for deliberate indifference when aware of potential racial animus that…
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 or instead must prov…
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 a law enforcement officer's decision to transport a potentially drug-intoxicated arrestee to a jail medical facility instead of a hospital con…
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 Whether a prison official's medical treatment of an inmate's foot condition constitutes deliberate indifference to serious medical needs under the Eig…
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 Whether a university's authority to discipline students for misconduct taking place off of the university campus constitutes 'substantial control' ove…
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 Whether a pro se prisoner's civil rights complaint alleging inadequate medical care by prison healthcare providers states a cognizable claim under the…
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 Whether and to what extent a Title IX plaintiff must prove that a school's deliberate indifference to known peer harassment caused them to undergo fur…
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 a State's failure to protect an individual who is not in state custody from violence by a private person constitutes a violation of the Due Pr…
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, unanimously recognized by ten federal circuits, constitutes a clearly established right under the Fourteent…
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, or instead must pro…
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 applies to deliberate-indifference claims by pretrial-detainees
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 Whether prison officials' deliberate indifference to systemic staffing deficiencies that substantially increase the risk of serious harm to inmates vi…
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 Whether the courts should employ the historically accepted two-prong deliberate indifference framework or the 'objective unreasonableness' analysis fo…
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 Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2241 habeas corpus jurisdiction extends to allow federal courts to adjudicate an inmate's claims challenging the constitutionality…
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 Whether the plaintiff's allegation of denial of Eighth Amendment right to serious medical need for COVID-19 vaccine fails to satisfy Fed. R. Civ. P. 8…
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 Whether a school district may be held liable under Title IX for student-on-student sexual harassment based solely on a school official's alleged indif…
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 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 findin…
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 Whether an intellectually disabled woman who complained of rape and sexual assault while involuntarily committed to a State Hospital, but was disbelie…
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 Whether military officials may constitutionally subject a service member to confinement conditions that constitute cruel and unusual punishment in vio…
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 Whether government officials' statements of intent to continue violating an individual's constitutional rights can establish subjective intent for del…
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 Why was Akintola not held medically responsible for examining, diagnosing, and treating plaintiff's medical conditions?
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 Whether the district court erred in dismissing the plaintiff's claim for failure to state a claim
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 Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
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 Whether the Eighth Amendment requires prison officials to accommodate a prisoner's serious medical needs, including a life-threatening food allergy, a…
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 Whether the lower courts erred in holding that the petitioner did not meet the burden of establishing the respondents' deliberate indifference in viol…
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 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 oth…
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 delibera…
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 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 ad…
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 Whether Estrada's due process rights were violated by being placed in disciplinary isolation prior to any hearing
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 Whether the respondent violated the petitioner's 8th Amendment constitutional rights, as applied to the State of California via the 14th Amendment
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 Petitioner, Ms. Franz, has stated a claim for Respondents' deprived deliberate indifference to her serious medical needs
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 Whether prison officials are deliberately indifferent when they delay or intentionally interfere with medical treatment
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 Did the court commit error when it dismissed my complaint as frivolous?
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 the lower court err or abuse its discretion when granting summary judgment or dismissal before discovery was implemented, and based upon medical r…
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 Whether deliberate indifference should be analyzed under the balancing framework of the substantial risk of harm test announced by this Court rather t…
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 Did the District Court err in dismissing Mr. Rodd's complaint without the benefit of discovery to further support his deliberate indifference claim
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 be followed to protect the vulnerability of the transgender Petitioner in determining wheth…
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 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 harassment…
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 Did the Circuit Court err by contradicting this Court's precedent in Farmer v. Brennan by ruling Petitioner was obliged to show an individualized risk…
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 Whether the defendants' deliberate indifference to the plaintiff's serious medical needs violated the plaintiff's rights and constituted cruel and unu…
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 Whether jail officials who are subjectively aware of a substantial risk that a pretrial detainee will attempt suicide and respond to the harm unreason…
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 Whether the Respondents, Nurse J.M. Chunnu and Nurse M.M. Kelly, exhibited deliberate indifference to Petitioner's life-threatening medical condition …
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 Dismissed 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)?
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 violate the Eighth Amendment?
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?
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 Does the Federal Court have an obligation to follow the spirit and letter of the ADA and 504 of the Rehabilitation Act?
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 Whether a pretrial detainee must show subjective awareness of medical needs or only objective unreasonableness
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 Whether a prisoner's transfer to a facility where he previously caused a riot constitutes cruel and unusual punishment
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 for denial of inmate medical care under § 1983
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 Whether a court should apply the intent-to-harm standard of liability to all police high-speed driving
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 Does the Federal court have an obligation to follow the spirit and letter of the ADA and § 504 of the Rehabilitation Act?
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 Whether the respondents acted with deliberate indifference when they refused to authorize payments for a hearing aid, a medically necessary device to …
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 the legal issue being raised?
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 Did the Seventh Circuit's decision put an unreasonable requirement and heightened burden of proof in establishing likelihood on the merits at the prel…
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 When the unconstitutionality of an officials' conduct is reasonably obvious, does that suffice to render the violation of those constitutional rights …
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 Did the Circuit Court of Appeals err in failing to apply the Parratt-Hudson doctrine to the Respondent's substantive due process claim?
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 Whether Kingsley v. Hendrickson's objective-reasonableness standard applies to pretrial detainees' deliberate-indifference claims
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 Does an Eighth Amendment claim for deliberate indifference to a serious medical need against a U.S. Probation officer present a valid Bivens claim in …
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 Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights to due process and equal protection were violated by the heightened pleading standard applied to his se…
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 CC ) have returned to their same old song and dance and have been not properly or timel…
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 Does the unavailability of funds or other resources negate the subjective component of a deliberate indifference claim under the Eighth Amendment?
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 Should the Eleventh Circuit's reinvention of the Fourteenth Amendment standard for deliberate indifference to serious medical needs be permitted?
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 Whether the law was clearly established
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 How many hours of delayed mental health care is reasonable before a state actor can be held liable for deliberately indifferent or objectively unreaso…
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 Is A.D.C.'s Correct Care Solutions Medical policy unconstitutional when it denies Scott's tooth restoration?
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 Whether the district court improperly decided factual issues in granting summary judgment
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 Whether the county government was deliberately indifferent towards the detainee class by providing inadequate sleeping conditions, limited recreation …
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 Whether the petitioner should be subjected to deliberate indifference to serious medical needs under the Eighth Amendment, even though the petitioner …
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 Whether there is a temporal proximity between Petitioner's protected conduct and the Sixth Amendment retaliation act of placement in medical segregati…
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 Whether the Fifth Circuit should apply the Chapman beyond a reasonable doubt standard rather than the substantial evidence standard to consider the ha…
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 Whether DeShaney v. Winnebago Cty. Dep't of Soc. Servs. created the exception of the State Created Danger Test?
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 Whether expert medical testimony is necessary to survive summary judgment in an Eighth Amendment deliberate indifference claim
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 Davis's 'vulnerability' prong requires plaintiffs to prove additional, post-notice sexual harassment to state a claim for damages under Title …
19-8721 Vincent A. Argentino v. Ruanne Stamps, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-standard deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment estelle-v-gamble legal-precedent medical-evidence prisoner-rights summary-record Whether the Precedent of Placing Nesifyire, medical evidence in the Summary Record 5 Showing Oo * aeke' mental ef Peck' Places an Unrealis-hic exfecta…
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 Under Farmer v. Brennan, is a court precluded from granting summary judgment to defendants where there is evidence of an obvious, substantial risk of …
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…
19-1280 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 Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in concluding that the guidelines set by an advocacy organization constitute the constitutional minima for inmate medi…
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 Were us cha 1.Defendant Officer Renee Thomas inflicted crule an unusal punishment
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 Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment and the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of due process prohibit prison off…
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 Did the court of appeals decision conflict with decisions made by the U.S. district court regarding imminent danger and does hepatitis-C create immine…
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 whether-continuous-ineffective-treatment-violates-8th-amendment
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 prisoner-patient'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
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 Whether the contention that an Eighth Amendment deliberate indifference to serious medical need claim fails simply because the Plaintiff received some…
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 Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and the District Court erred in finding the municipality not liable under 42 USC §1983
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 When an inmate notifies medical of his prior head injury/medical history & asks them to retrieve his medical records, is that adequate to his medical …
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 Whether the 5th Circuit and the United States District Court violated plaintiff's constitutional rights by denying plaintiff's 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 Whether the underlying activity of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit is ethical or not
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 Whether a prison's 'control policy' that allows inmates to attack other inmates violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punis…
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 erred in affirming the district court's entry of summary judgment on petitioner's pro…
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 Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment was violated by the defendants' alleged deliberate indifference to the plai…
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 Whether injecting a prisoner with insulin without knowing his immediate blood sugar level constitutes deliberate indifference to serious medical needs
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 Whether the 'professional judgment standard' articulated in Youngberg can be reduced to 'whether the worst doctor in America would say ok'
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 Is a constitutional right to be free of the wanton infliction of sei pain rendered void upon incarceration?
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 Whether a recipient of federal funding may be held liable where it takes any action in response to complaints of sexual harassment
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
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 What degree of interpretation of a constitution, statute, or authority of law is a question of law where there is a crisis case?
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 Whether the defendants' deliberate indifference to the petitioner's serious medical needs violated the Eighth Amendment
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 Whether the District Court in denying the Petitioner's medical claim under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Fed. Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 38…
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 Did the Medical Department of Cuyahoga County Correctional Center et al. violate Carlin U. Powell's 8th and 14th Amendment rights by acting with delib…
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 Whether an Eighth Amendment claim for deliberate indifference to a prisoner's life-threatening medical need can be disposed of without any individuali…
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 Whether the district court erred in determining that the delay in treatment was not caused by deliberate indifference
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 Deliberate-indifference-to-medical-needs
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 Does discrimination making a student vulnerable to harassment after a sexual assault create a cause of action for deliberate indifference by the insti…
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 Whether the petitioner's claims of deliberate indifference to serious medical needs should proceed without summary judgment
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?
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 Whether, in a criminal case where a statute requires proof of knowledge, the government may establish the requisite knowledge with evidence of a failu…
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 Whether a prisoner as plaintiff still has standing on a deliberate indifference claim when the defendant by fraud defaults their obligation to forward…
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 Denial of qualified immunity to correctional officers for alleged deliberate indifference to prisoners' medical needs
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 Whether the prison doctor's deliberate failure to provide insulin treatment for a diabetic inmate's serious medical need amounts to cruel and unusual …
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 Did the lower court err in granting the defendant's summary judgment?
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 Court improperly decided disputed factual issues
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 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) requir…
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 Whether there is a constitutional standard of medical care for persons with rare massive polycystic liver disease and are the state's (Missouri) priso…
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 Did the lower court err in granting summary judgment in favor of Respondents on Petitioner's Eighth Amendment deliberate indifference claim, by issuin…
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 Whether a pretrial detainee alleging Fourteenth Amendment claims of deliberate indifference to serious medical needs must show subjective intent or ob…
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 Whether the petitioners allege serious medical conditions
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 Whether the Sixth Circuit's interpretation of the PLRA's dismissal procedures denies a fair and adequate opportunity to object or amend the complaint
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 Did Phish Suffer An Eighth Amendment Violation?
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 Whether the Sixth Circuit defined the constitutional rights in question at too high a level of generality contrary to this Court's teachings on qualif…
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 Whether the Eighth Amendment allows a court to create a constitutional defense to an admitted Eighth Amendment violation requiring a prisoner plaintif…
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 Whether the Fourth Circuit's conflicting rulings overlooked key evidence and were in conflict with Supreme Court precedent in Farmer v. Brennan
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?
24A711 In Re Daniel Felix Presumed Complete animal-cruelty deliberate-indifference highway-safety non-property-animals speed-limit wildlife-crossing Whether state and federal authorities have a legal duty to prevent animal deaths on highways through reduced speed limits and wildlife crossing design…