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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6133 Richard Barry Randolph v. Florida, et al. Florida 2025-11-17 Denied IFP clemency constitutional-law due-process federal-rights post-conviction supremacy-clause 1. Whether Florida violated the Supremacy Clause by constructing a system of post-conviction litigation that provides no avenue for the assertion of a…
25-420 Joseph Daryll Rued, et al. v. Jaykumar Jayswal, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-10-08 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (3) case-law constitutional-interpretation federal-rights fifth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-doctrine Do Fifth Amendment requirements apply to actions determining facts or applying judicial doctrines and caselaw affecting protected rights? Does a peti…
25-211 Anthony Bernard Wingfield v. Unknown Garner, CO, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-08-21 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split deliberate-indifference discrimination federal-rights title-ii Whether plaintiffs seeking damages under Title II of the ADA must demonstrate something more than the defendant's deliberate indifference to the plain…
24-5038 Larry D. Ford v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-07-10 Denied IFP assisted-suicide emtala emtala-rights-1983 federal-rights fnhra medical-rights nursing-home-care nursing-home-reform-act section-1983 social-security-act spending-clause Whether the The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) gives rise to federal rights under § 1983?
23-6102 Rolandis Chatmon v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Arkansas 2023-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-order civil-rights constitutional-deprivation court-procedure due-process federal-rights federalism judicial-power standing state-government takings Can Constitutional depravations be justified by some remote administrative benefit to the State such as an Administrative Plan?
22-7787 Noel K. Bango v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights discovery-violation dna-evidence due-process evidence-admissibility federal-rights police-misconduct police-reports sexual-battery speedy-trial tainted-evidence trial-procedure DNA-collection-timeline
22-7080 James A. v. Connecticut Connecticut 2023-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-habeas federal-rights malicious-prosecution state-misconduct wrongful-conviction Whether an innocent petitioner should be granted relief when the state convicted against exonerating evidence with malice and indifference
22-305 Kevin O'Rourke, et al. v. Dominion Voting Systems, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-09-29 Denied 1983 article-iii civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-rights free-speech section-1983 standing state-action voting Whether citizens have standing to sue private persons engaged in state action for relief under § 1983 for deprivations of their right to vote for pres…
21-7617 Stevie Wyre v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-04-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence federal-rights habeas-corpus innocence newly-discovered-evidence perjury-testimony Whether Wype is entitled to relief on an evidentiary hearing
21-7320 Devin Marques Carter v. Iowa Iowa 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process evidence-standard federal-rights irrational jury-verdict privileges-and-immunities reasonable-doubt Did the state of Iowa violate petitioner's federal privileges and immunities and due process rights when it upheld an irrational jury verdict?
21-1132 Scott Asner, et al. v. George Hengle, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-02-16 Dismissed arbitration-agreement choice-of-law circuit-split delegation-clause federal-arbitration-act federal-rights Can a federal court refuse to enforce the delegation clause of an arbitration agreement on the ground that a choice-of-law provision applicable to the…
21-6470 Michael George Kogianes v. Edward Jensen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-rights state-court Did the state violate the federal due process rights of my petitioner by sanctioning the proper format accepted by the court to deny a sub-trial based…
21-774 Michelle Munger, et al. v. Brenda Davis, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights federal-rights inmate-rights inmate-services prison private-contractor qualified-immunity Can an employee of a private contractor providing services to inmates in a county jail or state prison facility assert qualified immunity in response …
21-240 KWS Inc., a Member of the Thiele Group v. Eric Scalla Pennsylvania 2021-08-18 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure default-judgment federal-removal federal-rights federal-statutory-right federal-supremacy procedural-prerequisites state-court-procedure state-procedure supremacy-clause Whether a state court may require a federal-court litigant that has exercised its federal statutory right of removal following the state court's entry…
21-5020 Michael Bernard Potere v. State Bar of California California 2021-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP bar-admission constitutional-rights disbarment due-process equal-protection federal-rights legal-procedure professional-conduct professional-discipline state-bar Whether the State Bar Court of California violated petitioner's constitutional and federal legal rights and erred in recommending disbarment
19-6873 Anthony Dale Carter v. Florida Florida 2019-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights due-process federal-rights individual-rights judicial-review standing state-court supreme-court-precedent Is it a departure from the essential elements of law to deny a notion based in part or whole on the Court's failure to rule within a reasonable time?
19-477 Arletta J. Kurowski v. Estate of Kenneth H. Kurowski, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied collateral-estoppel court-of-competent-jurisdiction due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-rights full-and-fair-opportunity-to-litigate judicial-competency native-american-rights tribal-court-exhaustion tribal-court-jurisdiction Upon tribal court exhaustion must District Courts perform a threshold inquiry to protect the Indian Petitioners' federal 25 U.S.C. § 1302 rights?
18-1547 Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. v. Shawn Jensen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied 28-usc-636 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-litigation constitutional-violation federal-court-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-rights magistrate-judge magistrate-judge-selection magistrate-jurisdiction prison-litigation-reform-act prospective-relief statutory-interpretation Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in allowing parties to choose their own magistrate judge and in permitting prospective relief in a prisoner case witho…
18A1275 Scott Maione, et al. v. Medical Answering Services, LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2019-06-06 Presumed Complete administrative-hearing disability-rights due-process federal-rights medical-transportation state-policy Whether the Disability Rights Act of 2005 creates a federal right to medical transportation services for children with disabilities
18-8982 Daniel Warren v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-04-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge custody due-process federal-constitutional-rights federal-habeas federal-rights habeas-corpus judicial-procedure procedural-due-process state-court state-court-review state-statute Whether a state court of last resort which dismisses without argument or opinion a challenge to the constitutionality of a statute from a judgment dis…
18-8511 Victoria Carlson, et vir v. Emily Johnson Piper, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. Minnesota 2019-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP abstention administrative-appeal breast-cancer breast-cancer-treatment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection federal-rights medicaid medicaid-benefits Whether the Minnesota Supreme Court erred
18-6978 Ronald Fermin Mascarena v. Montana Montana 2018-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rights right-to-speedy-trial speedy-trial state-rights Whether the Montana State Supreme Court violated the petitioner's federal right to a speedy trial
18-5377 Jeffrey Glenn Hutchinson v. Florida Florida 2018-07-27 Denied IFP capital-sentencing capital-sentencing,federal-constitutional-rights,w constitutional-waiver federal-constitutional-rights federal-rights hurst-v-florida jury-fact-finding penalty-jury prospective-waiver voluntary-waiver Can a defendant waive a federal constitutional right that was unknown and unrecognized at the time of the purported waiver?