exhaustion-requirement

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25A756 Juan L. Calderon Nonbera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-12-31 Application administrative-remedies appeal-waiver due-process exhaustion-requirement immigration-removal section-1326d Whether an invalid waiver of the right to appeal an immigration judge's decision renders administrative remedies unavailable for purposes of 8 U.S.C. …
25A106 Nelson Mickens, Jr. v. William Danforth Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-25 Presumed Complete administrative-remedies civil-rights exhaustion-requirement prison-litigation-reform-act pro-se-complaint section-1983 Whether the Prison Litigation Reform Act requires a prisoner to exhaust all available administrative remedies before filing a civil rights lawsuit und…
25-52 Terence Clark, Director, Prince George's County Department of Corrections, et al. v. Jeremiah Antoine Sweeney Fourth Circuit 2025-07-15 Judgment Issued Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) AEDPA exhaustion-requirement fourth-circuit habeas-corpus merits-standard party-presentation The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) prohibits federal courts from granting habeas relief on any claim alleged by a habeas petiti…
24A761 Chad Cutler v. Anthony Wills, Warden Seventh Circuit 2025-02-05 Presumed Complete administrative-remedies civil-rights exhaustion-requirement prison-conditions prison-litigation-reform-act pro-se-litigant Whether the Prison Litigation Reform Act's exhaustion requirement bars a pro se prisoner's civil rights claim when administrative remedies were allege…
24-743 Neil Dupree v. Kevin Younger Fourth Circuit 2025-01-14 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived administrative-remedies exhaustion-requirement inmate-grievance-office internal-investigative-unit prison-litigation-reform-act ross-v-blake Whether a grievance procedure that prisoners regularly have been able to use to have their claims adjudicated on the merits is 'available' for that re…
24A240 George L. Fields v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-05 Presumed Complete constitutional-right exhaustion-requirement ineffective-assistance jury-instructions procedural-default strickland-standard Whether a state court's denial of a prisoner's ineffective assistance of counsel claims constitutes a violation of due process when the claims involve…
24A220 Neil Dupree v. Kevin Younger Fourth Circuit 2024-08-29 Presumed Complete administrative-remedies exhaustion-requirement federalism judicial-deference prison-litigation-reform-act state-law Whether federal courts must defer to a state's longstanding interpretation of its own administrative grievance procedures when determining 'availabili…
23-6743 Loren J. Larson, Jr. v. Alaska Alaska 2024-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims effective-assistance effective-representation exhaustion-requirement exhaustion-requirements habeas-corpus procedural-default sixth-amendment Does the Sixth Amendment right to 'effective representation' require that an attorney provide meaningful, conflict free consultation prior to the atto…
23-6511 Thomas Albert Sosnowski v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-protective-services constitutional-rights due-process exhaustion-requirement exigent-circumstances federal-court fourth-amendment habeas-corpus social-worker state-court warrantless-search Whether a wrongfully convicted Section 2254 petitioner's U.S. constitutional rights violation claims that were not previously exhausted in the state c…
23-6142 Fathiree Ali v. Steven Simmons, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-remedies civil-rights due-process exhaustion exhaustion-requirement grievance-procedure judicial-review plra prison-litigation-reform-act ross-v-blake When assessing whether prison administrators made the grievance procedure unavailable based on the three circumstances in Ross v. Blake, (1) will all …
23-5297 Tidiane Kone v. James Milburn, Superintendent, Spring Creek Correctional Center Ninth Circuit 2023-08-08 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process exhaustion-requirement habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-remedies Question not identified
22-815 Victor B. Skaar v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Amici (4) administrative-law all-writs-act class-action exhaustion exhaustion-requirement federal-circuit injunctive-relief judicial-jurisdiction statutory-authority veterans-affairs veterans-court Does the Veterans Court have statutory or inherent authority to include veterans whose individual claims are not yet exhausted in a class seeking inju…
22-6361 Michael Jason Fetherolf v. Ohio Ohio 2022-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure assignment-of-error certificate-of-appealability due-process exhaustion exhaustion-requirement habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default state-court-proceedings state-court-review Question for review #One
22-6325 Travis Ray Thompson v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied IFP administrative-grievance civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-prison due-process due-process-protections exhaustion exhaustion-requirement imminent-danger-exception plra prison prison-litigation-reform-act Whether the Eastern District abused its discretion finding Petitioner was not entitled to an 'imminent danger' exception to the PLRA, 42 USC § 1997e(a…
21-1373 D. D., A Minor, By and Through His Guardian ad Litem, Michaela Ingram, v. Los Angeles Unified School District Ninth Circuit 2022-04-22 GVR Relisted (4) americans-with-disabilities-act exhaustion exhaustion-requirement fry-v-napoleon-community-schools futility-doctrine idea-administrative-procedures individuals-with-disabilities-education-act money-damages section-1415 special-education-claims Whether Section 1415(/) requires exhaustion of anon-IDEA claim seeking money damages that are not available under the IDEA?
21-6819 Christopher Varner v. Stan Shepard, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-remedy booth-v-churner civil-rights civil-rights-action due-process exhaustion-of-remedies exhaustion-requirement internal-investigation prison-conditions prison-grievance ross-v-blake section-1997e Whether a prison grievance procedure is an available administrative remedy when it automatically refers a grievance for an internal investigation and …
21-887 Miguel Luna Perez v. Sturgis Public Schools, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-12-15 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (12)Response RequestedRelisted (4) administrative-proceedings americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-rights exhaustion-requirement futility-exception individuals-with-disabilities-education-act money-damages statutory-interpretation Whether the IDEA's exhaustion requirement applies when the plaintiff's non-IDEA claim has been dismissed from IDEA proceedings and the plaintiff has s…
21-6337 Kendall K. Magee v. Gloria Perry, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-remedies civil-rights due-process exhaustion-requirement federal-courts prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner-litigation prisoner-rights Whether a prisoner must proceed to the final step of the administrative grievance process to meet the exhaustion requirement of the Prison Litigation …
21-692 Sergeant Haystings, et al. v. Albert B. Korb Third Circuit 2021-11-10 Denied administrative-remedies civil-procedure civil-rights exhaustion-requirement federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-procedure prison-litigation-reform-act standing supplemental-pleading Whether a prisoner can cure a violation of the Prison Litigation Reform Act's mandatory pre-suit exhaustion requirement by filing a supplemental plead…
20-7766 Lyndon Davis v. Dennis Reagle, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-analysis civil-rights constitutional-law due-process exhaustion-requirement federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-due-process standing state-court-proceedings Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit exceed its scope of the COA (Certificate of Appealability) analysis when the court deni…
20-6681 Robert Wright v. Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exhaustion-requirement prison-grievance prisoner-litigation pro-se-litigation procedural-default standing Was Wright required to exhaust state remedies under the PLRA?
19-8268 Ade Brown v. Reid Desrochers, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-remedies civil-rights due-process exhaustion exhaustion-requirement grievance-procedures grievance-process prison-litigation-reform-act summary-judgment Does the petitioner properly satisfy exhaustion of all available administrative remedies?
19-1043 Paul G., a Conserved Adult, By and Through His Conservator Steve G. v. Monterey Peninsula Unified School District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied administrative-exhaustion administrative-procedures due-process-complaint exhaustion-requirement free-appropriate-public-education futility-exception individuals-with-disabilities-education-act local-educational-agency non-IDEA-claims relief-not-available-under-IDEA settlement-agreement Whether exhaustion of the administrative procedures provided by the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act is required when Plaintiffs seek re…
19-867 Wexford Health, et al. v. Kareem Garrett Third Circuit 2020-01-10 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (4) administrative-remedies amended-complaint circuit-split exhaustion-requirement judicial-exception prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner-rights prisoner-status procedural-dismissal Whether Section 1997e(a) of the Prison Litigation Reform Act mandates dismissal of unexhausted claims or allows a prisoner to cure failure to exhaust …
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
19-6477 Charles Russell Rhines v. Darin Young, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-11-01 Denied IFP 18-usc-3599 ayestas-v-davis clemency-request death-penalty exhaustion-requirement expert-services federal-court federal-courts federal-jurisdiction indigent-defendant state-remedies Must indigent death-sentenced state prisoners exhaust state remedies before a federal court may authorize access to expert services under 18 U.S.C. § …
18-8976 Wilfred Warren Sheppard v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-04-24 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process exhaustion-requirement ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-code legal-review standing writ-of-certiorari Whether this Court has the power to issue a Writ of Certiorari to review the action of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
18-6440 Danny R. Meeks v. Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP evasion exhaustion-requirement Prison-Litigation-Reform-Act statute-of-limitations unlawful-practice ada-compliance americans-with-disabilities-act exhaustion-requirement harassment prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner-rights statute-of-limitations threats Whether a covered entity can maintain an unlawful practice of evading ADA responsibilities
18-6426 Jonathan Eugene Brunson v. North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-access exhaustion-requirement heck-v-humphrey muhammad-v-close pennsylvania-v-ritchie section-1983 state-prisoners Whether the Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477, 486-87 (1994) requirement for state prisoners to exhaust the state court remedy when applying to a section…