federal-detention
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5661 | In Re Ronald Freeman | 2025-09-17 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights due-process federal-detention habeas-corpus liberty-interest strict-scrutiny | Tens of millions of persons have been deprived of their liberty for violating marijuana criminal and civil laws that proscribed marijuana. All detaine… | |
| 25A208 | Francis Nielsen v. Kekai Watanabe | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-21 | Presumed Complete | alternative-remedies bivens-action eighth-amendment federal-detention medical-treatment prisoner-rights | Whether the Supreme Court should recognize a Bivens cause of action for a prisoner's medical treatment claim involving non-life-threatening injuries i… | |
| 23-6709 | Martin Akerman v. United States | District of Columbia | 2024-02-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence detention-challenge due-process escape-hatch-provision federal-detention habeas-corpus posse-comitatus standing statutory-interpretation | Does the Chief Data Officer of the National Guard have the right to challenge the legality of his detention and seek relief through a 28 U.S.C. § 2255… |
| 23-6541 | In Re Ronald Freeman | 2024-01-23 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-policy due-process federal-detention habeas-corpus marijuana-offense | Whether being in federal detention, custody is a substantial denial of Ronald Freeman's constitutional right of liberty, without sufficient cause, wit… | |
| 20-6253 | Sealed Appellant v. Sealed Appellee | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-09 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-4142 civil-rights criminal-procedure custody due-process federal-detention judicial-order mental-competency statutory-custody | Whether continued custody under 18 U.S.C. § 4142 for almost four months beyond the expiration of an order to determine mental competency violates the … |
| 24A430 | Martin Akerman v. National Guard Bureau | District of Columbia | Presumed Complete | due-process federal-detention judicial-review military-authority national-security posse-comitatus | Whether federal and state military authorities can detain a federal agency official under federalized powers without judicial review, in potential vio… |