detainee-rights
10 cases — ← All topics
| 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 … |