federal-inmate
5 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23A963 | Jovan Marquis Harris v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-04-26 | Presumed Complete | bureau-of-prisons criminal-procedure eighth-circuit federal-inmate petition-for-certiorari pro-se | Whether the Eighth Circuit's judgment in a criminal case involving a pro se federal inmate improperly applied legal standards in reviewing the petitio… | |
| 22-7614 | Lisa A. Biron v. Jody Upton, Warden, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | christian-faith constitutional-rights federal-inmate first-amendment legitimate-penological-interests prison-regulations qualified-immunity religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act substantial-burden | Does the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) apply to protect a federal inmate's religious liberties when she has adequately pleaded a substantia… |
| 22-1021 | John Jose Watford v. J. Ray Ormond, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2023-04-20 | Denied | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-court-precedent circuit-decision collateral-review convicting-circuit-law federal-inmate habeas-corpus savings-clause statutory-interpretation | Whose law governs the scope of habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) and § 2241 | |
| 21-857 | Marcus Deangelo Jones v. Dewayne Hendrix, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2021-12-09 | Judgment Issued | Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent collateral-review federal-inmate habeas-corpus legal-innocence retroactivity statutory-interpretation | Whether federal inmates who did not challenge their convictions on the ground that the statute of conviction did not criminalize their activity due to… |
| 19-5776 | Benjamin R. Schwarz v. Erwin Meinberg, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affidavit assets bivens-claim civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment federal-inmate financial-disclosure free-speech in-forma-pauperis liabilities prison-conditions standing takings ziglar-precedent | Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in dismissing petitioner's civil rights claims for lack of standing |