| 25-6422 |
Kenneth J. O'Brien v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-23 |
Pending |
IFP |
constitutional-validity due-process equal-protection florida-law judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
Were Florida Statutes, Chapters 794 and 800 constitutionally valid and enacted in accordance with Florida Constitutional mandates? |
| 25-502 |
Christina Paylan v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-10-23 |
Denied |
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constitutional-rights criminal-procedure florida-law nolle-prosequi sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
Does the State of Florida violate Petitioner's Sixth Amendment Right to speedy trial by commencing a prosecution following a nolle prosequi and refili… |
| 25-5194 |
Edward J. Zakrzewski, II v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing death-penalty florida-law judicial-override jury-recommendation |
QP: Is it unconstitutional to execute Petitioner when his death sentences stem from jury votes of 7-5 and 6-6 and a judicial override of a life senten… |
| 24-1185 |
National Rifle Association, Incorporated v. Mark Glass, Commissioner, Florida Department of Law Enforcement |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-05-20 |
Pending |
Amici (6)Relisted (2) |
age-restriction constitutional-rights firearm-purchase florida-law gun-control second-amendment |
Whether Florida's law banning 18-to-20-year-olds from purchasing firearms violates the Second Amendment |
| 24-6659 |
Ronnie Lee Seward v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review career-criminal criminal-procedure drug-trafficking florida-law sentencing |
Did the District Court erroneously sentence Petitioner as a career criminal based on prior convictions for Florida trafficking in amphetamine? |
| 24-6450 |
Jason Orlando Rios v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment florida-law post-conviction-relief sexual-battery |
Whether a Florida court's denial of post-conviction relief for a sexual battery conviction violates the petitioner's constitutional rights under the E… |
| 24A700 |
Caed Brawner v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-01-16 |
Presumed Complete |
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appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process florida-law post-conviction summary-affirmance |
Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional rights are violated when a state appellate court summarily affirms the denial of a post-conviction relie… |
| 24A695 |
Earl Casperson Meggison v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-01-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-defendant due-process florida-law post-conviction |
Whether a state appellate court's denial of post-conviction relief violates a criminal defendant's constitutional right to due process |
| 24A184 |
Richard Allen Harris, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
armed-career-criminal-act florida-law mens-rea retroactive-interpretation sentencing-enhancement violent-felony |
Whether a state court's retroactive interpretation of a criminal statute's mens rea element can alter the classification of a prior conviction as a 'v… |
| 23-7023 |
Johnny Mack Sketo Calhoun v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law federal-constitution florida-law state-criminal-law third-party-confession third-party-confessions |
Does the manner in which Florida deals with third party confessions violate defendant's rights under the Due Process Clause of the Federal Constitutio… |
| 22-6943 |
Travis Thurston v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-03-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing florida-law legal-representation post-conviction postconviction-relief |
Whether the state court's decision to deprive petitioner of post-conviction evidentiary hearing counsel violated his constitutional right to due proce… |
| 21-7456 |
Robert Earl Rowles v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing florida-law ineffective-assistance outcome-of-proceeding post-conviction reasonable-probability right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strategic-decision |
Whether a Petitioner who is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole is denied his constitutional rights to counsel where counsel's r… |
| 21-7365 |
Louis Matthew Clements v. Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-consent child-marriage civil-rights criminal-registration due-process equal-protection florida-law sexual-offense statutory-interpretation statutory-rape |
Whether the State of Florida's laws that criminalize consensual sex between adults and minors while shielding certain adults from the same or worse ac… |
| 21-5430 |
Percy Allen Stucks v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process florida-law judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal pre-trial-motion right-to-trial withdrawal-of-plea |
Does a Florida defendant have the right to withdraw plea before trial? |
| 20-8329 |
Ines Colleen Robinson v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-of-appeal criminal-sentencing disqualification due-process florida-court-of-appeal florida-law judicial-bias resentencing writ-of-prohibition |
ROBINSON WAS DENIED DUE PROCESS WHEN THE FLORIDA COURT OF APPEAL REFUSED TO GRANT HER A RESENTENCING AFTER THE SAME FLORIDA COURT HAD GRANTED A WRIT O… |
| 20-7942 |
Darryl C. Daniels v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-05-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-commitment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights detention due-process florida-law free-speech habeas-corpus standing takings |
How can FLORIDA STATUTE 394.910 The Involuntary Civil Commitment of Sexually Violent Predators Act be constitutional when legislative acts are require… |
| 20-1016 |
Michael Kosterlitz v. The S/V Knotta Klu, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
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civil-procedure contract-formation contract-law false-arrest federal-rules-of-civil-procedure florida-law title-transfer uniform-commercial-code |
Under Florida law, false arrest occurs when a person provides false information to the arresting officer, did the District Court properly rule that th… |
| 20-664 |
Artem M. Joukov v. Office of the State Attorney for the Second Judicial Circuit of Florida |
Florida |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-action civil-rights due-process equal-protection florida-law small-business small-business-rights state-agency statutory-interpretation |
Does the Equal Protection Clause permit the State of Florida to discriminate against unincorporated small business owners that are unsuccessfully sued… |
| 20-6277 |
Percy Allen Stucks v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
castle-doctrine civil-rights criminal-law domestic-violence due-process florida-law imminent-danger residential-defense self-defense stand-your-ground |
Does a resident have the right to stand their ground in their residential property in Florida? |
| 19-6360 |
George C. Pugh v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process felony florida-law habitual-felony-offender habitual-offender precedent release-date sentencing statutory-interpretation time-calculation |
Is it lawful for the Petitioner to be deemed an Habitual felony offender whereas the Petitioner was one day outside of the time period of conviction o… |
| 19-6183 |
Reginald Chatman v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights contract-law criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process equal-protection florida-law plea-bargain plea-bargaining sentencing state-prosecution |
Whether the State of Florida violated the Defendant Reginald Chatman's 14th Amendment Constitutional right to due process? |
| 18-9479 |
In Re Percy Allen Stucks |
|
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
castle-doctrine civil-rights due-process florida-law imminent-danger property-rights residential-defense self-defense stand-your-ground |
Does a resident have the right to stand their ground in their residential property in Florida? |
| 18-8594 |
Jason Allen Tiszai v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conflict constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction fex-v-michigan florida-law interstate-agreement-on-detainers-act interstate-detainers judicial-procedure jurisdiction speedy-trial |
Whether the state of Florida violated petitioner's constitutional right to a speedy trial |
| 18-1200 |
Fluid Dynamics, LLC v. JEA, fka Jacksonville Electric Authority |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
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certification certification-to-state-court civil-procedure discovery erie-doctrine erie-v-tomkins erie-v-tompkins fact-specific florida-law sovereign-immunity summary-judgment tenth-amendment |
Whether the District Court and the Circuit Court erred in applying a case dating from 1981 from a lower Florida Court to hold that JEA was entitled to… |
| 18-8384 |
Bruce L. Small v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-03-13 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights denial-of-review due-process extraordinary-writ florida-law precedent standing state-court state-court-denial written-reason |
Whether the state appellate court's denial of petitioner's extraordinary writ without providing a written reason or citing any precedent supporting it… |
| 18-8347 |
Jason Allen Tiszai v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conflict constitutional-rights federal-courts federal-courts-conflict federal-jurisdiction fex-v-michigan florida-law interstate-agreement-on-detainers-act interstate-detainers judicial-review jurisdiction speedy-trial state-court-determination |
Whether the state of Florida violated petitioner's constitutional right to a speedy trial |
| 18-8294 |
Demetrius Fitzgerald v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca armed-career-criminal-act crime-of-violence criminal-law deadly-weapon federal-sentencing-guidelines florida-law florida-statute sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-crime violent-felony |
Whether the Florida offense of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon is a violent felony under the ACCA and a crime of violence under the Federal Se… |
| 18-7865 |
Svitlana Drozdovska v. Seminole County, Florida |
Florida |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
ada ada-compliance civil-rights county-responsibility due-process federal-funding florida-law florida-state-law legal-remedy local-government-liability sidewalk-maintenance work-order |
Whether the district court erred in finding that Seminole County was not responsible for maintaining the sidewalk under the ADA and Florida law |
| 18-6860 |
Johnny Ray McCloud v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-interpretation due-process dwelling-definition dwelling-vs-storage-building equal-protection florida-law florida-statutes habeas-corpus perkins-vs-state young-vs-state |
Was Perkins v. State, 682 So. 2d 1083 (Fla. 1996) correctly applied? |
| 18-5501 |
Donald Jones v. Bank of America, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection florida-law foreclosure jury-trial property-rights state-law viamendment |
Whether the petitioner received the same equality decision from Florida state law 702.1 as he would have from a jury trial under the 7th Amendment |