exhaustion-doctrine

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25A458 Martin Robinson v. George A. Fredrick, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-10-22 Application exhaustion-doctrine federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-default statute-of-limitations Whether a federal habeas petition filed under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 is timely when the petitioner has pursued multiple state post-conviction remedies and f…
25-5930 William Maxwell v. Albert Thomas, III, Warden Fifth Circuit 2025-10-22 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP administrative-remedies exhaustion-doctrine first-step-act habeas-corpus judicial-review sentencing-credits I. The question for this Court is whether disputes regarding the calculation of an inmate's earned First Step Act time credits, enabling the inmate to…
24-6741 Sasha Nicole Pringle v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa constitutional-claim exhaustion-doctrine federal-claim habeas-corpus state-court Whether a state habeas petitioner 'fairly presents' her federal claim when the petitioner raises the substance of a federal constitutional claim in st…
24-644 Darrell E. Williams v. Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2024-12-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-remedies appeals-council exhaustion-doctrine judicial-review Medicare-Act procedural-interpretation Whether the Supreme Court should directly consider the issue of 'exhaustion of administrative remedies' under the Medicare Act when the Medicare Appea…
24-5979 Robert Seth Denton v. Chris Brun, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-11-15 Denied IFP exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus petition-review procedural-error sixth-circuit state-remedies Did the Sixth Circuit err in denying permission to appeal a § 2254 petition when no state remedies were available to exhaust?
24-5881 Deshon Aaron Atkins v. David Holbrook, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-three dispositive-order exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus judicial-review magistrate-jurisdiction Whether the Central District of California's practice of allowing magistrate judges to issue orders with dispositive effects on habeas petitioners' ri…
24-5851 Elizabeth Johnson, on Behalf of Aaron Johnson, Jr. v. Deshawn Hector Maryland 2024-10-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP corrections-staff exhaustion-doctrine inmate-grievance power-of-attorney pretrial-detainee protective-order Is the inmate grievance process the exclusive remedy for pretrial detainees and convicted persons seeking protection from abuse, and must they exhaust…
24-5850 Elizabeth Johnson, on Behalf of Aaron Johnson, Jr. v. Shannon Blackwell Maryland 2024-10-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP corrections-staff exhaustion-doctrine inmate-grievance pretrial-detainee protective-order state-custody Is the inmate grievance process the exclusive remedy available to pretrial detainees and convicted persons for protection from abuse?
24-5849 Elizabeth Johnson, on Behalf of Aaron Johnson, Jr. v. Jeremiah Kinney Maryland 2024-10-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP exhaustion-doctrine inmate-grievance power-of-attorney pretrial-detainee protective-order state-custody Whether the inmate grievance process constitutes the exclusive remedy for pretrial detainees seeking protection from abuse in state custody
24-5848 Elizabeth Johnson, on Behalf of Aaron Johnson, Jr. v. Tiara Thomas Maryland 2024-10-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP corrections-personnel exhaustion-doctrine inmate-grievance pretrial-detainee protective-order state-custody Is the inmate grievance process the exclusive remedy for pretrial detainees seeking protection from abuse in state custody?
24-5799 Maria Navarro Martin v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-23 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-law habeas-corpus state-statute Whether the exhaustion of inadequate remedies in federal habeas corpus actions requires dismissal of a petition under an unconstitutional state statut…
24-5331 Douglas Cornell Jackson v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan Sixth Circuit 2024-08-16 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP exhaustion-doctrine federal-claims habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief state-courts Whether principles of comity require federal courts to excuse exhaustion of state court remedies even if the state court decides not to adjudicate a p…
24-5161 Genuine Truth Banner v. Michael Stephan, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-07-29 Denied IFP administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exhaustion-doctrine judicial-review prisoner-rights standing Should prisoner's claims be dismissed for failure to exhaust administrative remedies where prison officials prevented him from exhausting?
23-6924 Leonard Farrell Willis v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-03-07 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability exhaustion-doctrine habeas habeas-corpus limitation-period mcquiggin-v-perkins procedural-bars procedural-default sentencing-error Does a federal habeas petitioner's claim of actual innocence of a non-capital sentence exception operate, in the wake of McQuiggin v. Perkins, 133 S.C…
23-6703 Christopher Collings v. David Vandergriff, Warden Eighth Circuit 2024-02-08 Denied IFP appeals capital-case capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process eighth-circuit exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus rhines-stay Is a COA required to appeal a district court's denial of a motion for stay of the habeas proceedings
23-6564 Jerome M. Teats v. Brandon Watwood, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied IFP collateral-proceeding collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-rule habeas-corpus martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan state-procedural-framework tennessee Did the decision in Martinez v Ryan require claims to be raised beyond the initial collateral proceeding for exhaustion purposes in Tennessee and othe…
23A508 Robert Ybarra, Jr. v. William Gittere, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-12-05 Presumed Complete atkins-claim death-penalty exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus intellectual-disability rule-60b Whether a death row inmate with an intellectual disability claim under Atkins v. Virginia can seek federal habeas relief through a Rule 60(b) motion a…
23-5410 Sedrick D. Russell v. J. Denmark Fifth Circuit 2023-08-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice pro-se-petition sixth-amendment standing Must a pro se petitioner alleging a complete denial of counsel specifically cite Cronic to exhaust his claim in the state court?
23-5283 Clarence Leonard Hearns, Jr. v. Cal Trahune, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa appellate-review exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus nunc-pro-tunc procedural-review rule-60(b) rule-60b standard-of-review whether-dismissal-without-prejudice-of-federal-habeas-corpus-prematurely-filed-counts-as-first-filing-under-aedpa
23-20 Reza Ahmadi v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-07-06 Denied constitutional-claims exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance johnson-v-williams judicial-proceedings procedural-default rule-60b supreme-court-precedent trevino-v-thaler Does a court contravene Johnson v. Williams and Trevino v. Thaler when it holds an ineffective assistance claim was unexhausted and procedurally defau…
22-7859 Timothy Sumpter v. Kansas Tenth Circuit 2023-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis state-post-conviction strickland strickland-standard sufficiency-of-evidence Is it contrary to the clearly established Strickland standard to assess the prejudice from trial counsel's ineffective assistance of counsel for her f…
22-6296 Martin A. Lewis v. Gary Miniard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP castro-claim civil-procedure due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-rule-civil-procedure-60 habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rose-v-lundy rule-60 strickland-v-washington united-states-v-castro Whether Petitioner Lewis' habaas petition should be re-opened
22-6204 Ronnie L. Famous v. Larry Fuchs, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-claims discretionary-review district-court due-process exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default stay-and-abeyance Whether the district court violated the rule announced in Caines v. Dewac by denying petitioner's motion to stay and abeyance, thereby depriving him o…
22-5802 Michael Fetherolf v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief procedural-default sixth-circuit-conflict trevino-v-thaler Whether a petitioner is precluded from relying on Martinez/Ryan to overcome a procedurally defaulted IATC claim if he filed an 'initial' petition for …
21-1451 Elile Adams v. Raymond G. Dodge, Jr., Chief Judge, Tribal Court of the Nooksack, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-05-17 Denied Response Waived bad-faith-prosecution civil-procedure civil-rights court-remedies due-process exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine federal-plaintiffs habeas habeas-petition pleading-standard standing Whether federal plaintiffs seeking to challenge their non-federal prosecution on the basis of bad faith face a heightened pleading standard
21-7166 Mustafa Ozsusamlar v. P. Adams, Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-remedies civil-rights discrimination due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-prison free-speech habeas-corpus postal-service prisoner-litigation standing Whether the prison's practice of opening, reading, and forwarding legal mail to the warden or unit manager, which delays or destroys the mail, violate…
21-6815 Noe Flores-Perez v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-01-11 Denied IFP administrative-remedies administrative-remedy exhaustion-doctrine immigration-law in-absentia in-absentia-proceeding judicial-review notice-requirements removal-order removal-proceedings Whether a motion to reopen is an administrative remedy that must be pursued before challenging the validity of an in absentia removal order under 8 U.…
21-6576 Nicholas G. Peacock v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-conviction due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-review free-speech habeas-corpus marriage state-court statutory-law underage Do minors have a right to entice an individual for the purposes of marriage if similarly aged individuals are allowed to and being married in their re…
20-8357 Andrew Hendricks v. Vincent Schiraldi, Commissioner, New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, et al. New York 2021-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-remedies civil-procedure due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-case-law judicial-intervention new-york-regulations prisoners-litigation-reform-act pro-se-litigation standing Did I first exhaust all available administrative remedies before seeking judicial intervention?
20-985 Kathryn A. Flynn v. Department of the Army Ninth Circuit 2021-01-25 Denied Response Waived administrative-remedies circuit-split exhaustion-doctrine federal-employee federal-employee-rights ninth-circuit protected-activities res-judicata retaliation whistleblower-protection whistleblower-protection-act Where a federal employee failed to exhaust administrative remedies for all protected activities
20-6620 Michael R. Spengler v. Los Angeles County District Attorney Ninth Circuit 2020-12-14 Denied IFP civil-procedure collateral-estoppel criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-review habeas-corpus jurisdiction state-remedies Whether federal habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 is available to criminal defendants challenging the legality of their confinement before exhausti…
20-6263 Haider Salah Abdulrazzak v. Brent Fluke, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-claims direct-appeal due-process evidentiary-hearing exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standing state-court trial-attorney Whether petitioner is entitled to a copy of the state habeas evidentiary hearing record under the Due Process Clause
20-6065 Delmar Reinheimer v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act collateral-consequences collateral-consequences-of-conviction exhaustion-doctrine failure-to-advise federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Under the Sixth Amendment and the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA), is a claim of ineffective-assistance-of-counsel regarding col…
20-105 John J. Davis, et al. v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security Eighth Circuit 2020-07-31 Judgment Issued Relisted (3) administrative-law administrative-law-judge appointments-clause disability-benefits exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-remedies judicial-review social-security Whether a claimant seeking disability benefits or supplemental security income under the Social Security Act must exhaust an Appointments Clause chall…
19-8375 Lamarr Robinson v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-04-28 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-claim exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine fair-presentation federal-review habeas-corpus incorporation-by-reference procedural-default state-court-remedies Does a prisoner 'fairly present' the substance of his federal habeas corpus claim to the state's highest court when he utilizes a commonly used, unoff…
19-8117 Vincent D. White, Jr. v. Donnie Morgan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-issue due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-constitutional-issue federal-habeas procedural-default state-courts state-prisoner statutory-interpretation Whether federal courts should exclusively apply 28 U.S.C. § 2254(b) when evaluating State assertions that a State prisoner has failed to properly rais…
19-7955 Philip Berryman v. Randall Haas, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-03-11 Denied IFP circuit-conflict circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-remedies grievance-process precedent prison-litigation sixth-circuit stare-decisis Is the Sixth Circuit required to adhere to precedent under stare decisis when ruling on the same issue that has been ruled upon by the Sixth Circuit, …
19-7357 Chris Fordham v. Corrections Officer Manzola, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-remedies fourth-circuit judicial-procedure procedural-dismissal section-1983 standing Whether the USDC-EDAO erred in deciding that Plaintiff-Petitioner failed to exhaust and dismissing without prejudice Petitioner's § 1982 Complaint aft…
19-6999 Charles Alan Dyer v. Jim Farris, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-state-remedies federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review-2254-d-2-e-1 ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presumption-of-correctness prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review state-court-fact-finding state-court-factual-findings state-court-findings unreasonable-determination Whether a federal court is required to review the state court's finding of facts to determine if it is 'unreasonable' or can the court simply presume …
19-6966 Kyle A. Keys v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split due-process exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-requirement fair-presentation federal-courts federal-habeas-corpus federal-review habeas-corpus standard-of-review state-court-remedies statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals correctly interpreted the 'fair presentation'/exhaustion requirement of 28 U.S.C. § 2254
19-6565 Steven Talbert Williams v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Second Circuit 2019-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-exhaustion civil-procedure clerical-error constitutional-rights due-process estoppel exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine judicial-review sanctions work-product work-product-protection Whether the judicial officials and clerical employees of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in intentionally laching upon…
19-5265 Benjamin E. Schreiber v. Nick Ludwick, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law administrative-remedies appeals bivens-action civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation dismissal due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-courts parties section-1983 standing Did the Court of Appeals violate Petitioner's Due Process Rights when it 'ADDED' extra Defendants not in the original lawsuit and in which the U.S. Di…
19-5057 William Fletcher v. Corizon Health Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied IFP administrative-law administrative-remedies civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-remedies federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure grievance-procedures judicial-review prison-grievance standing Did the Plaintiff Exhaust All Administrative Remedies of Idaho Department of Corrections Prison Policy of Grievance and Informal Resolution?
18-1430 ReDigi Inc., et al. v. Capitol Records, LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived copyright copyright-law copyright-reproduction digital-distribution electronic-transfer exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine fair-use first-sale-doctrine reproduction-right statutory-interpretation Whether lawful purchasers of iTunes music files are entitled to freely alienate those digital phonorecords under the first sale doctrine
18-8354 Anthony K. Anderson v. Jerry Howell, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied IFP civil-rights district-court due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-district-court federal-habeas habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-review pro-se pro-se-litigant protective-petition standing Whether a Federal District Court Unfairly Precluded pro se Prisoner Litigant Anthony Anderson's Future Ability to a Federal Habeas Review of his Nevad…
18-8005 Jason Brooks v. Angel Medina, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied IFP appellate-review exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-remedies federal-appellate-court federal-appellate-review federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus merits-determination res-judicata rule-60-motion rule-60(b)(6) state-court-appeal state-court-appeals state-remedies Whether a federal appellate court can deny making a merits determination for a petitioner's failure to exhaust state remedies, when the petitioner's a…
18-7650 Robert Mitchell Jennings v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied IFP appellate-review claim-exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine federal-habeas federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-v-williams judicial-legitimacy judicial-procedure merits-review procedural-default trevino-v-thaler Does a court contravene Johnson v. Williams, 569 U.S. 289 (2013), evade application of Trevino v. Thaler, 569 U.S. 413 (2013), and depart from the acc…
18-6944 Jose Luis Vizcaino-Ramos v. Cherry Lindamood, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-state-remedies habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan procedural-default tennessee tennessee-post-conviction-procedures trial-counsel Whether under Martinez v. Ryan, a prisoner confined pursuant to a Tennessee Judgment may assert ineffective assistance of initial-collateral-review co…
18-513 Lee Mulcahy v. Aspen Pitkin County Housing Authority Colorado 2018-10-22 Denied administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act class-of-one due-process equal-protection exhaustion-doctrine material-facts property-rights Can a governmental agency initiating litigation be relieved of its obligation to prove the elements of its claim against a 'class of one', even when t…
18-5832 William Dixon v. William Lee, Superintendent, Eastern New York Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine federal-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion open-file-discovery procedural-stay state-court-claims stay-and-abeyance Whether a Federal Court Can Stay and hold in Abeyance a 28 USC § 2254 Petition for Habeas Corpus to Permit Petitioner to Exhaust Claims in State Court…