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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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 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 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 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…