| 25-726 |
Alan Lane Hicks v. Jonathan Frame, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-19 |
Pending |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
aedpa federal-petition habeas-corpus ineffective-process judicial-delay state-court-exhaustion |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2254(b)(1)(B)(ii)'s exception to the exhaustion requirement for "circumstances" that render state proceedings "ineffective" can ap… |
| 25A497 |
Arthur Torlucci v. California |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-30 |
Application |
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certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim federal-petition habeas-corpus procedural-grounds section-2254 |
Whether a state court's denial of a habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 can be appealed when the underlying petition fails to state a debatable fed… |
| 24-7080 |
Rolondo Stewart v. Keith Cooley, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-violations due-process federal-petition habeas-corpus state-custody supreme-court |
Whether a federal habeas petition filed by a state prisoner raises constitutional violations under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 |
| 24-1023 |
Violet Love Ray v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-03-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right federal-petition habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief state-court |
Whether a certificate of appealability should issue under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) where one or more judges in the state-court habeas proceedings has deter… |
| 24A768 |
Reginald Lee Clark v. Bryan Collier, Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-07 |
Presumed Complete |
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constitutional-claim due-process equitable-tolling federal-petition habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations |
Whether the statute of limitations for federal habeas corpus petitions under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 can be equitably tolled when a prisoner discovers new fa… |
| 22-7897 |
In Re Frank Walls |
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2023-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 eighth-amendment federal-petition habeas-corpus intellectual-disability retroactivity substantive-rule teague-v-lane |
Was Hall v. Florida necessarily 'made retroactive' for purposes of authorizing a successive federal habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2)(A)? |
| 22-7230 |
James Jonathan Mitchell v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-04-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence due-process evidentiary-hearing exculpatory-evidence federal-petition habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence procedural-due-process successive-petition summary-dismissal |
Whether a state prisoner is entitled to a hearing on a successive habeas corpus petition that raises a claim of actual innocence based on newly discov… |
| 21-6823 |
Richard M. Arnold v. Reed A. Richardson, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-01-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence credibility federal-petition habeas-corpus reasonable-juror recantation reliability schlup-standard standard-of-review |
Whether the district court must determine the credibility and reliability of new evidence of actual innocence before assessing its legal effect |
| 20-8140 |
Jamaal Diggs v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure diligence due-process equitable-tolling federal-habeas federal-petition habeas-corpus judicial-notice state-court state-habeas |
Whether Diggs exhibited sufficient diligence to entitle him to equitable tolling |
| 20-7406 |
Lionel Robinson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-court-conflict civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling federal-petition gross-negligence habeas-corpus postconviction-counsel |
Does gross negligence of postconviction counsel warrant equitable tolling for federal habeas filing? |
| 20-6898 |
Lewis Anderson v. California |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-petition fourth-amendment habeas-corpus search-and-seizure standing suppress-writ-of-habeas-corpus |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's federal petition for writ of habeas corpus based on a time bar procedure that commands the… |
| 20-6658 |
Michael Brent Brown v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-petition fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prisoner-rights procedural-grounds statute-of-limitations |
Whether the courts erred in denying relief and review on procedural grounds |
| 20-5460 |
Keith L. Calvin v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa antiterrorism-act civil-rights due-process federal-petition habeas-corpus post-conviction state-prisoner statute-of-limitations time-limitation |
Whether the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) requires a state prisoner seeking federal habeas corpus relief to file his federal p… |
| 19-8219 |
Juan Gilberto Medrano v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstance extraordinary-circumstances federal-habeas federal-petition habeas-corpus legal-question ninth-circuit timeliness |
Was Petitioner's 2016 Petition filed in a timely manner? |
| 19-7606 |
Robert McKinnon, III v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2244 28-usc-2254 civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling extrinsic-fraud federal-court federal-courts federal-petition habeas-corpus jurisdictional-default standing statutory-tolling subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Does statutory tolling as described in 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(B) and (D) permit a petitioner's direct filing of second 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus … |
| 18-7411 |
David H. Jacob v. Rosalyn Cotton, Chairperson, Nebraska Board of Parole, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 allen-v-mccurry civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-claims due-process failure-to-state-a-claim federal-petition haines-v-kerner parole-board section-1983 |
Can the U.S. District Court, after first finding the Federal Petition does in fact allege federal constitutional claims, summarily dismiss the Federal… |