| 25-6069 |
Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-11-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appeal-dismissal due-process florida-supreme-court judicial-procedure legal-defense |
1. Did the Florida Supreme Court wrongly dismiss that the Petitioner's appeal because it effectively prevented the Petitioner from defending himself i… |
| 25A372 |
Derrel L. Thomas v. JP Morgan Chase Bank N.A., et al. |
Florida |
2025-09-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-jurisdiction discretionary-review district-court-appeal florida-supreme-court judicial-review summary-dismissal |
Whether a district court of appeal's summary dismissal without an elaborated opinion precludes discretionary review by the Florida Supreme Court |
| 25-218 |
Brian Smith v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure case-law florida-supreme-court jury-trial post-conviction-relief precedent |
Does case law from the Florida Supreme Court in 1999 take Precedence over Case law from the Florida 1st DCA in 1988? When a circuit court judge does n… |
| 25A47 |
Sandra A. Zikry, Individually, and as Parent and Natural Guardian of N. D., a Minor, et vir v. Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Association, et al. |
Florida |
2025-07-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review district-court due-process florida-supreme-court jurisdiction-dismissal mandatory-jurisdiction |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court improperly dismissed a mandatory jurisdiction review petition without providing substantive explanation, potentially… |
| 25-5085 |
Donald Perry v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2025-07-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence death-penalty florida-supreme-court habeas-corpus procedural-bar trial-court-jurisdiction |
1. Questia (9) /ReseuTeD - wien, on Nor THE SUPREME CounT OF RD Can Procedyfa lly Barked By ICTUAL TANCE Clzagse, ON TNR Z D625, 0) Spal PezeTEosser's… |
| 24-7202 |
Iris L. Anderson v. City of Jasper, Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2025-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anti-murder-act constitutional-rights due-process florida-supreme-court state-action statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's interpretation of the Anti-Murder Act of 1815 violates constitutional protections against unlawful state action an… |
| 24-6750 |
Troy Rambaransingh v. Bank of America National Association, Individually and as Successor by Merger to LaSalle Bank, et al. |
Florida |
2025-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-jurisdiction due-process florida-supreme-court judicial-transparency separation-of-powers |
Whether district appellate courts in Florida can constitutionally restrict the Florida Supreme Court's jurisdiction through per curiam affirmances (PC… |
| 24-6445 |
Neelam Uppal v. Florida Department of Administrative Hearings, et al. |
Florida |
2025-02-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-violations due-process florida-supreme-court judicial-review |
Did the Florida Supreme Court err in dismissing the appeal and consequently failed to address the constitutional violations raised |
| 24-5816 |
Terrance A. Burlison v. Jerry W. Benefield, dba Green Oaks Manor Mobile Home Park |
Florida |
2024-10-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure dismissal due-process florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment procedural-rules |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court violated the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause by entering an order of dismissal before the time prescribed … |
| 23-7727 |
Everett G. Miller v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-06-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factor constitutional-challenge constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process first-degree-murder florida-supreme-court sentencing-statute |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's expansion of the applicability of the CCP aggravating factor has rendered Florida's death penalty scheme unconstit… |
| 23-7262 |
Eric D. Sweet v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeal conviction-review criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process florida-supreme-court fundamental-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-timeliness post-conviction-relief standard-of-review statutory-time-limit |
whether-the-tolling-statute-for-filing-a-timely-post-conviction-review-was-properly-applied |
| 23A913 |
Richard Shean, et al. v. ZRS Management, as Manager for Arbors at Orange Park |
Florida |
2024-04-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review due-process florida-supreme-court judicial-interpretation supreme-court-rule writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's ruling on [specific legal issue] violates constitutional principles of due process or judicial interpretation |
| 23-6303 |
In Re Walter Drummond |
|
2023-12-19 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
case-consolidation civil-rights collateral-review due-process florida-supreme-court judicial-process legal-nomenclature miranda-rights procedural-posture retroactivity review-denial state-vs-federal |
Whether the state's admission of inadequate Miranda warnings under Roberts v. State constitutes a retroactive application of the law |
| 23-6053 |
Nathan Nixon v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process first-district-court florida-supreme-court free-speech jurisdiction public-records standing |
Whether the First District Court of Appeals of the State of Florida erred in denying Petitioner's federal constitutional claims |
| 22-6015 |
Jeffrey G. Hutchinson v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process florida-jurisprudence florida-supreme-court giglio-precedent giglio-v-united-states pleading-requirements pleading-standards procedural-specificity supreme-court-review |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court contravened Giglio v. United States and procedural due process by requiring heightened specificity in pleading? |
| 21-1227 |
MRI Associates of Tampa, Inc. v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company |
Florida |
2022-03-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-standard florida-supreme-court stipulation-of-facts summary-judgment unpreserved-issue waived-issue waiver-doctrine |
Did the Florida Supreme Court violate the Petitioner's constitutionally guaranteed due process rights? |
| 21-7123 |
John J. Wilson, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-02-15 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-violation due-process florida-constitution florida-supreme-court judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction record-keeping records standing |
Can the Supreme Court of Florida rule on whether to accept jurisdiction on a case which has no records? |
| 20-8048 |
James Terry Colley, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment aggravating-factor constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process first-degree-murder florida-supreme-court sentencing-scheme |
Whether Florida's death penalty scheme is unconstitutional as applied because the Florida Supreme Court's expansion of the 'especially heinous, atroci… |
| 20-7615 |
Duane Eugene Owen v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-03-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case constitutional-claims criminal-procedure death-penalty equal-protection florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus penalty-phase procedural-history retroactivity supreme-court-review |
Whether Petitioner was denied equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution when the Florida Supreme Court decline… |
| 20-6533 |
Grover B. Reed v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-12-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state retroactive-law retroactivity statutory-construction |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law, and if so, whether under the Due Process Cla… |
| 20-6094 |
Sean Alonzo Bush v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-10-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency florida-supreme-court legal-precedent precedent standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court denied the petitioner due process |
| 20-496 |
Lynn Weinberg v. Deborah Bort |
Florida |
2020-10-15 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process florida-constitution florida-supreme-court fourth-district-court full-faith-and-credit probate probate-law |
Whether the 4th District Court of Appeal of Florida violated due-process protections |
| 19-1446 |
Bing Charles W. Kearney, Jr., et al. v. Travelers Casualty and Surety Company of America |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment appellate-courts appellate-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-violations due-process federal-appellate-courts federal-courts fifth-amendment florida-supreme-court judicial-review legal-doctrine right-for-the-wrong-reason statutory-interpretation |
Does the 'right for the wrong reason' doctrine allow federal appellate courts to violate due process? |
| 19-5617 |
Gary Ray Bowles v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
Amici (2)IFP |
death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-prohibition execution-risk florida-supreme-court intellectual-disability procedural-bar standing state-procedural-bar state-procedure unacceptable-risk |
Can a state procedural bar override the Eighth Amendment prohibition against executing the intellectually disabled? |
| 19-5372 |
Mary Katherine Day-Petrano v. Charles D. Hall, et al. |
Florida |
2019-07-29 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
ada-violation americans-with-disabilities-act attorney-fees bankruptcy-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process florida-supreme-court judicial-amendment retroactive-application standing statutory-construction takings |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's order requiring the petitioner to write a longer brief and award attorney's fees to the respondent violates the pe… |
| 19-5099 |
James Thompson v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-07-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appellate-review constitutional-rights district-court-of-appeal due-process equal-protection florida-supreme-court fraud per-curiam-affirmance supreme-court-jurisdiction unelaborated-affirmance |
Whether the Florida practice and rule that do not permit litigants to seek review in the Florida Supreme Court when the district courts of appeal issu… |
| 18-9270 |
Manuel Antonio Rodriguez v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-murder capital-murder-elements-as-sentencing-factors due-process eighth-amendment florida-supreme-court foster-v-state fourteenth-amendment precedent sentencing-factors |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's rationale in Foster v. State mirrors the overruled rationale of Hildwin v. Florida and reveals that Florida contin… |
| 18-1306 |
Fred Anderson, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
advisory-jury capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty florida-supreme-court harmless-error hurst-v-florida judge-sentencing jury-trial jury-verdict sixth-amendment structural-error |
Whether a judge-imposed death sentence that violates Hurst is a structural error requiring reversal of the sentence |
| 18-8286 |
Marco M. Torres v. Michael S. Williams, Judge, Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, Hillsborough County |
Florida |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts florida-supreme-court judicial-power judicial-review separation-of-powers sister-circuit statutory-interpretation |
Whether Article 3, section 2, and 2, of the United States Constitution, on doctrine central to the federal courts structural independence consists of … |
| 18-8090 |
Edward J. Zakrzewski, II v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state jury-unanimity retroactive-application retroactivity savings-clause substantive-law |
Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments require retroactive application of the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Hurst v. State to capital defe… |
| 18-898 |
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company v. Barbara Jean Johnston, Personal Representative of Franklin James Johnston |
Florida |
2019-01-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure collateral-estoppel constitutional-law due-process eleventh-circuit engle-litigation florida-supreme-court issue-preclusion jury-findings legal-preclusion preclusion prior-proceeding res-judicata |
Is the Due Process Clause violated by a rule that permits plaintiffs to invoke a prior jury's findings to establish elements of their claims without s… |
| 18-6199 |
Marco M. Torres v. Frances M. Perrone, Judge, Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, Hillsborough County |
Florida |
2018-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-review due-process federal-courts florida-supreme-court judicial-power judicial-review separation-of-powers sister-circuit |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in its interpretation of Article 3, Section 1 and 2 of the U.S. Constitution regarding the judicial power to d… |
| 18-6000 |
Angel Barreiro v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights de-facto-life-sentence due-process equal-protection florida-supreme-court life-sentence parole parole-eligibility parole-process sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-scheme |
Whether all 4,626 pre-1994 parole eligible Inmates in the State of Florida should also benefit from the Florida Supreme Court's ruling in Atwell v. St… |
| 18-5434 |
Troy Victorino v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-08-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment capital-punishment criminal-punishment death-penalty double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment jury-sentencing resentencing statutory-interpretation |
Does the automatic-resentencing-to-life provision of Florida Statutes Section 775.082(2) violate due-process, double-jeopardy, ex-post-facto |
| 18-41 |
Micheline Baptiste v. Shrusan Gray |
Florida |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
|
access-to-courts bodily-injuries civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process florida-supreme-court free-speech government-redress judicial-review jurisdiction petition-clause petition-for-redress pro-se-petition standing state-court-jurisdiction |
Whether Florida Supreme Court has authority to dismiss petition by unrepresented party to review orders and impede sought relief for bodily injuries, … |