detainee-rights

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6423 Ammar al Baluchi, aka Ali Abdul Aziz Ali v. Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense District of Columbia 2025-12-23 Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-review detainee-rights geneva-convention jurisdiction military-law mixed-medical-commission Whether the Court of Appeals erred by denying jurisdiction over Petitioner's appeal. In particular, did the Court of Appeals err by interpreting provi…
24A473 Victor Hill v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-12 Presumed Complete constitutional-violation detainee-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement-misconduct restraint-chairs Whether the use of passive restraint chairs on nonresistant detainees for extended periods constitutes excessive force in violation of the Fourth Amen…
23-972 Angela Germaine Spencer, By and Through Next Friend and Mother of A. S., a Minor v. Harrison County, Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) children-in-court civil-procedure civil-rights detainee-rights detainees due-process fifth-circuit nonjury-proceedings shackling Whether the indiscriminate shackling of detainees, particularly children, in nonjury proceedings violates the Due Process Clause
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 …
20-6360 Robert Hughes Wilkins v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-review civil-rights detainee-rights due-process health-conditions interlocutory-appeal pandemic-considerations pretrial-detention pretrial-release public-health Whether the Circuit Court Erred Failing To Reverse District Court's Denial of Pretrial Release Conditions to Health Compromised Pretrial Detainee on I…
19-8244 Frank Morgan v. Illinois Department of Corrections Illinois 2020-04-14 Denied IFP chaplain-duties civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protections detainee-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment religious-services standing takings Whether the petitioners' due process rights were violated by the state's use of summary procedures that did not comport with the requirements of due p…
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
18-1172 Tynisa Williams v. City of Cleveland, Ohio Sixth Circuit 2019-03-11 Denied civil-rights delousing detainee-rights due-process fourth-amendment penological-interests prison-policy privacy-rights reasonable-alternatives reasonable-search strip-search Whether the physical delousing and group strip searches of detainees entering the Cleveland Workhouse were constitutional under the Fourth Amendment, …
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…
18-46 City of Middletown, Connecticut, et al. v. William McKinney Second Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 4th-amendment active-resistance civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights detainee-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity reasonable-officer use-of-force Did the Second Circuit Court of Appeals improperly find a constitutional violation in failing to consider the reasonableness of the use of force from …