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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-717 | Carlos Jackson v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2025-12-18 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus incarceration judicial-order state-action | Whether the State of Mississippi can effectively suspend habeas corpus and incarcerate Carlos Jackson using an invalid order |
| 25-6238 | Gregory Webb v. Tennessee | Sixth Circuit | 2025-11-25 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights incarceration ineffective-assistance legal-procedure post-conviction pro-se | Whether an attorney proceeding pro se, having been sentenced, can be prejudiced by ineffective assistance of counsel after sentence has ended and whil… |
| 25-6073 | Brett Alan James Talmadge v. Superintendent, Goose Creek Correctional Center | Ninth Circuit | 2025-11-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abstention-doctrine court-appointed-counsel habeas-corpus incarceration pro-se-pleading speedy-trial | Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the District Court's dismissal of a habeas petition on abstention grounds where the petitioner was incarc… |
| 25-5489 | Peter Fowler v. Correctional Officer Lucas Bohnert, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2025-08-27 | Rehearing | Relisted (2)IFP | 14th-amendment 8th-amendment equal-protection incarceration plra sexual-abuse | Whether equal protection applies to elder inmates under sexual abuse while incarcerated and whether the U.S. Court of Appeals erred in denying a motio… |
| 25-131 | David C. L. Walton v. Ashley Nehls | Seventh Circuit | 2025-08-04 | Denied | consent constitutional-rights eighth-amendment incarceration prison-official sexual-misconduct | Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a rule treating an incarcerated person as capable of giving legally effective consent to sexual conduct with a pr… | |
| 25-31 | Benjamin Adams v. Lloyd Arnold, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Correction, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2025-07-09 | Denied | disciplinary-segregation due-process incarceration liberty-deprivation wilkinson-v-austin wolff-v-mcdonnell | Whether incarcerated individuals facing disciplinary segregation are entitled to adversarial or non-adversarial due process protections | |
| 24A1289 | Kriston Price v. Ohio | Ohio | 2025-06-26 | Presumed Complete | extension-of-time incarceration legal-representation pro-se supreme-court-procedure writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a pro se incarcerated petitioner to seek an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari based on … | |
| 24-7241 | Michael Rech v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-05-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | body-worn-camera incarceration restitution right-to-counsel speedy-trial suppression | Was petitioner deprived of his right to counsel of choice due to lack of timely notice and out-of-state incarceration, and should suppression have bee… |
| 24A667 | Shariff Butler, et al. v. Laurel R. Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-01-08 | Presumed Complete | incarceration page-limit pro-se procedural-obstacles supreme-court-rules writ-of-certiorari | Whether procedural rules governing Supreme Court filings should be interpreted flexibly for pro se incarcerated litigants facing extraordinary circums… | |
| 24A643 | Erick Alfredo Peralta v. Texas | Texas | 2024-12-30 | Presumed Complete | criminal-appeal incarceration legal-resources pro-se time-extension writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se prisoner is entitled to an extension of time to file a writ of certiorari due to constraints of incarceration and lack of legal resou… | |
| 24A644 | Shedrick Thornton v. Tina Y. Clinton, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-12-30 | Presumed Complete | due-process incarceration judicial-representation plea-proceedings sentencing time-served-credit | Whether a state court's denial of full time-served credit violates a criminal defendant's due process rights when the denial contradicts a prior judic… | |
| 24A561 | Lola Shalewa Barbara Kasali v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-12-09 | Presumed Complete | criminal-defendant discretionary-appeal extension-of-time in-forma-pauperis incarceration pro-se | Whether a pro se criminal defendant's motion for extension of time to file a discretionary appeal should be granted when the defendant lacks counsel a… | |
| 24A442 | Dale Scott Heineman v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-11-04 | Presumed Complete | criminal-procedure due-process incarceration peonage restitution sentencing | Whether a criminal defendant's due process rights are violated when a sentencing hearing proceeds despite allegations of procedural defects and claims… | |
| 24A376 | Robert Dorgay v. Paul Reif, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2024-10-21 | Presumed Complete | certiorari incarceration law-library legal-research pro-se time-extension | Whether a pro se incarcerated prisoner with limited law library access should be granted an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorar… | |
| 24-5448 | Karl D. Drew v. Stephen Smith, Acting Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | citizen-protections constitutional-rights due-process forensic-system incarceration maximum-state | Does a forensic system that prevents an American citizen from challenging their maximum state without attenuator violate constitutional protections |
| 24A137 | Shariff Butler, et al. v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-08-06 | Presumed Complete | appellate-process extension-of-time incarceration pro-se supreme-court-rule writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se prisoner's request for an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari should be granted due to unique incarceration c… | |
| 23-7586 | Christopher Eugean Brown v. Sergeant Ashley Kern | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-05-30 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure free-speech incarceration judicial-discretion standing takings | Did the Session Tudor PEA Ca ce JoAv ORS, fe Sesiohe Tee, tans, OEE Ge eb |
| 23A1051 | Joseph Roach v. Amy Robey, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-05-24 | Presumed Complete | incarceration legal-access pro-se supreme-court time-extension writ-filing | Whether a pro se incarcerated litigant's limited access to legal resources constitutes good cause for an extension of time to file a Supreme Court wri… | |
| 23-7151 | Carolyn Sioux Green v. Washington Department of Social and Health Services, et al. | Washington | 2024-04-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | chemical-lobotomy civil-commitment constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling federal-jurisdiction incarceration legal-representation statute-of-limitations | Should the doctrine of equitable tolling be applied to a violation of the constitutional right to due process? |
| 23-7094 | Tyshawn Shepard v. Ohio | Ohio | 2024-03-28 | Denied | IFP | administrative-agency administrative-extension criminal-sentencing due-process incarceration incarceration-findings jury-trial post-conviction sentencing sixth-amendment | Does the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of a right to trial by jury allow prison administrators to use their own post-conviction factual findings as the … |
| 23-7071 | Joseph Kelvin Aberant v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion advanced-age age-consideration criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit-review incarceration medical-conditions sentencing sentencing-variance variance | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by affirming the District Court's abuse of discretion by its failure to give Mr. Aberant a variance sentence and a sh… |
| 23-6638 | Trent Drexel Howard v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process extradition government-delay governmental-delay incarceration sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-protections speedy-trial speedy-trial-clause | Did the Ninth Circuit err by failing to treat 'undue and oppressive incarceration' and 'anxiety and concern accompanying public accusation' as the maj… |
| 23A706 | Juan Luis Leonor v. Diana Sabatka-Rine, Assistant Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services | Nebraska | 2024-01-31 | Presumed Complete | certiorari incarceration legal-resources pro-se procedural-barriers supreme-court-rules | Whether a pro se, incarcerated petitioner who lacks legal resources and English proficiency should be granted an extension of time to file a Supreme C… | |
| 23A680 | Robert J. Rice v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-01-23 | Presumed Complete | criminal-procedure federal-appeal incarceration legal-review third-circuit writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Third Circuit's decision in United States v. Rice warrants Supreme Court review based on potential legal errors in the underlying criminal… | |
| 23A620 | Christopher J. Pratt v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-01-04 | Presumed Complete | access-to-courts covid-19 first-amendment incarceration legal-mail prison-law-library | Whether restrictions on prison law library access during the COVID-19 pandemic violated an incarcerated individual's constitutional right of access to… | |
| 23-6365 | Rodney Adam Hurdsman v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-27 | Denied | IFP | critical-stage incarceration plea-bargain presumption-of-prejudice pretrial-period right-to-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial | whether-the-pretrial-period-is-a-critical-stage |
| 23-6300 | Richard Paiva v. Rhode Island | Rhode Island | 2023-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment constitutional-protection due-process incarcerated-rights incarceration parole parole-eligibility sentence sentencing-procedure statutory-rights | Are the protections of the 14th-Amendment-Due-Process-Clause triggered, when an incarcerated-person has a statutory-right-to-be-parole-eligible during… |
| 23-6198 | William Plummer v. Wellpath, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech incarceration medical-parole patent prisoner-rights standing state-law | Whether the lower court erred in construing the patent claims at issue |
| 23-488 | Bruce R. Sands, Jr. v. Patricia V. Bradley, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2023-11-08 | Denied | 28-usc-2241 constitutional-conditions federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus incarceration incarceration-claims jurisdiction prisoner-rights release unconstitutional-conditions | Whether federal courts have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 over a petition for habeas corpus alleging that a prisoner's unconstitutional conditio… | |
| 23-5676 | Terry Wayne King, II v. Texas | Texas | 2023-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure employer-property employment fourth-amendment incarceration privacy privacy-expectation search-and-seizure transportation trucking-industry | Does a person have a legitimate expectation of privacy in a tractor trailer truck cab that serves as his home while he is on the road working for an e… |
| 23-5132 | Alfredo Gonzalez v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compassionate-release covid-19-risk district-court extraordinary-and-compelling-circumstances extraordinary-circumstances incarceration medical-vulnerability SARS-CoV-2 scientific-assumptions | Whether a district court may rely on its own medical or scientific assumptions about the risks associated with a SARS-CoV-2 to deny compassionate rele… |
| 22-7771 | Jaden Rene Johnson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3583 acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-sentencing due-process federal-procedure incarceration liberty liberty-deprivation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the District Court unreasonably sentenced Petitioner to a higher than necessary sentence by denying Petitioner's points for acceptance of resp… |
| 22-7643 | Nathaniel R. Webb v. Director Butler, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-05-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights communication-monitoring constitutional-rights due-process family-law fourth-amendment incarceration marriage privacy-violation spousal-communication unauthorized-access | Did the defendants violate the U.S. Constitutional protections related to marital relationships by imposing a blanket ban on spousal communication for… |
| 22-7523 | Samuel Caison v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-05-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment incarceration mental-health nature-of-crime personal-characteristics sentencing-court sentencing-guidelines | Whether imposing a period of incarceration that is within the Sentencing Guidelines range can be considered cruel and unusual punishment when the offe… |
| 22-7513 | Jordan Nathaniel Mitchell v. John Stone, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-05-10 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection false-imprisonment government-misconduct incarceration involuntary-treatment medical-consent medical-treatment state-law | Whether the petitioner was deprived of due process and equal protection rights when confined for 4 months without conviction and denied medical treatm… |
| 22-7002 | J. T. v. Maryland | Maryland | 2023-03-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abandonment-neglect-abuse child-welfare due-process fourteenth-amendment incarceration parental-rights statutory-interpretation termination-of-parental-rights vagueness | Does Maryland's 'best interest of the child' standard conflict with the 'clear and convincing evidence' standard that protects liberty interests throu… |
| 22-6918 | Ralph Hall v. Darwin LeClaire, et al. | Second Circuit | 2023-03-03 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment administrative-law agency-decision appellate-review civil-rights contempt counsel due-process incarceration judicial-review procedural-due-process statutory-interpretation | Whether the Sixth Amendment right to counsel and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment require the appointment of counsel for indigent de… |
| 22-6686 | Jerad M. Ross v. Virginia, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability disability-rights due-process federal-statutes incarceration rehabilitation-act standing | Whether incarceration of felons is considered a disability under the Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act |
| 22-6474 | Cody Jay Riley v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2023-01-06 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence aedpa americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process hiv incarceration penological-interests scientific-evidence | Does a state violate the Americans with Disabilities Act when incarcerating a person living with HIV outside of any penological interests? |
| 22-6451 | Dwayne Edmond Wilson v. Randee Rewerts, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2023-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process incarceration judicial-delay liberty speedy-trial | Whether the Sixth Amendment's Speedy Trial Right is violated when a defendant is incarcerated for 56 months without a trial |
| 22-6390 | Kristopher M. Voyles v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights conditions due-process incarceration mental-health sex-offender | Is the application of onerous sex offender conditions justified when the government agrees it has no circumstantial evidence of any inappropriate sexu… |
| 22-5483 | In Re Frank Michael Monte | 2022-09-01 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus incarceration sentencing | Constitutionality of Petitioner's incarceration | |
| 22-5374 | In Re Darris Newsome | 2022-08-19 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-admission incarceration incarceration-evidence judicial-discretion transfer-history | Whether the refusal to allow Baggi's testimony and the denial of an authenticated copy of a transfer history document severely impeded his ability to … | |
| 22-5335 | Julius Wayne Baker v. Bryan K. Dobbs, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2022-08-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-investigation federal-jurisdiction free-speech incarceration legal-jurisdiction miranda-rights standing | Did the 4th Circuit err in denying the petitioner's grounds for relief when the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by agents of the Fede… |
| 22-5130 | Timothy J. Mazique v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2022-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arrears child-support civil-procedure due-process equal-protection incarceration judicial-review obligor-rights statutory-interpretation | Whether the district court, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and Louisiana Supreme Court erred in finding the petitioner responsible for paying arrears… |
| 22-5132 | Joe Octavio Granado v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3583 concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences district-court incarceration liberty-deprivation liberty-interest revocation sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release | Whether the District Court, in revoking supervised release, excessively sentenced Petitioner with consecutive incarceration from an original concurren… |
| 21-7936 | Jeffrey E. Akard v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs | Federal Circuit | 2022-05-23 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | benefits civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus incarceration retroactive-rule section-2255 special-appointment standing substantive-law | Whether a disabled veteran has personal stake, interest, or standing to seek that his withheld 2021 benefit, due to his incarceration, receive a 'spec… |
| 21-7817 | Jordan Nathaniel Mitchell v. Dentist, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2022-05-10 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts civil-rights due-process incarceration medical-care pro-se | Whether the petitioner has the right to receive copies of court filings |
| 21-7467 | Patrick Muraca v. Securities and Exchange Commission | First Circuit | 2022-03-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-courts attorney-representation civil-rights court-deadlines due-process incarcerated-rights incarceration legal-access procedural-rules right-to-counsel speedy-trial | Does an incarcerated individual have the timely and speedy right to an attorney before important court decisions are made, such as missing a deadline … |
| 21-7361 | Terry G. Watson v. Karey L. Witty, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2022-03-14 | Dismissed | Relisted (2)IFP | ada administrative-procedure disability-accommodation federal-preemption health-care incarceration supremacy-clause title-38 title-38-benefits veterans-rights | Whether a veteran's statutory rights under Title 38 are upheld by a state corrections department under the Supremacy Clause |
| 21-7322 | James Earl Harper v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-03-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | breach-of-agreement breach-of-contract criminal-procedure due-process government-contract government-motion incarceration plea-agreement sentencing | Whether the Government should have been bound by the provisions of the Plea Agreement as the Petitioner did not breach the provisions contained therei… |
| 21-6975 | David James Lola v. Rick Ramsay, Sheriff, Monroe County, Florida | Florida | 2022-01-27 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech incarceration legal-resources prisoner-access | Does an innocent citizen representing themselves against criminal allegations, also known as pro se, and incarcerated prior to trial have a due proces… |
| 21-6741 | Jamor J. Demby v. County of Camden, New Jersey, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-12-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights class-action constitutional-tolling due-process incarceration legal-procedure standing statute-of-limitation statute-of-limitations tolling | Is the petitioner constitutionally entitled to the tolling of the statute-of-limitation due to being a class-member in a previous-class-action |
| 21-6438 | David Lee Smith v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2021-11-30 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emergency-powers executive-order habitual-offenders incarceration pandemic-response public-health sentencing | Is a class of convicted habitual felons that have completed their lawful maximum sentences entitled to immediate and unconditional release in order to… |
| 21-6378 | Severo Garcia-Meza v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-11-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law board-of-immigration-appeals civil-rights compassionate-release cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process immigration-law incarceration ineffective-assistance judicial-review sentencing | Whether a district court has authority to reduce a sentence under 18 U.S.C. 3582(c)(1)(A) when determining a compassionate release motion |
| 21-5956 | Nolan Nathaniel Edwards v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-10-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act incarceration notice resentencing sentencing-modification supervised-release | Whether § 404 of the First Step Act allows a district court to impose a term of supervised release not previously imposed, as it was not a component o… |
| 21-5626 | Carnell Fitzpatrick v. Illinois | Illinois | 2021-09-09 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process equal-protection incarceration prison-library-access | Whether Fitzpatrick was deprived of due process and equal protection under the 14th and 5th Amendments |
| 21-5624 | Ryan Scott Kibble v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion chronic-health-conditions chronic-health-issues compassionate-release district-court-discretion global-pandemic incarceration pandemic-incarceration sentencing-modification | Whether a district court abuses its discretion by refusing to grant compassionate relief |
| 21-284 | In Re Mathew Ryan Byrd | 2021-08-27 | Denied | Response Waived | appeal appellate-review covid-19 criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit incarceration mandamus medical-conditions medical-risk | whether-the-fourth-circuit-abused-its-discretion-in-failing-to-render-a-timely-decision | |
| 21-5204 | Walter Patrick v. Jimmy Thomas, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process equal-protection incarceration standing statute-of-limitations | Did the Eleventh Circuit err in holding that a petitioner cannot challenge an expired statute of limitations? |
| 20-7902 | John Laponte v. California | California | 2021-04-30 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights contract-law criminal-procedure due-process excessive-punishment incarceration plea-agreement plea-bargaining punishment sentencing | Is petitioner entitled to enforce the terms of his plea agreement |
| 20-7854 | David Olson v. Stephanie Olson | New York | 2021-04-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-division child-support civil-contempt conflicting-rulings downward-modification due-process incarceration legal-procedure | Did the New York Appellate Division, First Department err in upholding the Trial Court for adjudging Petitioner in civil contempt and ordering incarce… |
| 20-7846 | Angel Ortiz v. Dennis Breslin, Superintendent, Queensboro Correctional Facility, et al. | New York | 2021-04-26 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (14)IFP | due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment homelessness housing-restrictions incarceration indigence liberty parole | Does the Fourteenth Amendment prohibit prison authorities from indefinitely detaining supervisees based on an assumption that a municipality will not … |
| 20-582 | Shadreck Kifayatuthelezi v. South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-03 | Denied | civil-rights compensation eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment incarceration qualified-immunity release-date seventh-amendment state-law | Whether the Eighth Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment, and/or state law provide a source of compensation when an inmate is incarcerated past his lawf… | |
| 19-8723 | Shane P. Irish v. Ohio | Ohio | 2020-06-17 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process incarceration indictment sixth-amendment speedy-trial waiver | Whether the speedy trial guarantee of the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution applies to an accused serving a prison sentence on a prior offense? |
| 19-1380 | Terry Lynn Olson v. Janis Amatuzio, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2020-06-16 | Denied | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey incarceration incarceration-challenge section-1983 | Whether a petitioner who has no available remedy in habeas, through no lack of diligence on his part, is barred by Heck from pursuing a Section 1983 c… | |
| 19-1321 | In Re Cheryl A. Wolf, et al. | 2020-05-29 | Denied | Relisted (2) | bill-of-rights civil-procedure civil-rights common-law constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction due-process false-claims incarcerated-prisoner incarceration ninth-amendment standing tucker-act | Does the respondent's creation of a court technicality that reiterated a false claim, incarcerated the prisoner, and originated from a U.S. Court of F… | |
| 19-8377 | Bobby Ray Knight v. Monterey County, California | Ninth Circuit | 2020-04-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | antiterrorism-act circuit-court civil-procedure due-process extensions federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus health-issues incarceration statutory-interpretation time-limitations | Whether the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 6(a) and 6(b) are too restrictive or inflexible when resolving impediments to timely litigation, and whet… |
| 19-1076 | John L. Corrigan, Jr. v. City of Savage, Minnesota, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2020-03-02 | Denied | Response Waived | 1983-claim 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights custody due-process favorable-termination habeas habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey incarceration judicial-precedent section-1983 spencer-v-kemna standing | Whether the court below erroneously held that the favorable termination rule applies even if an individual is no longer incarcerated, and therefore in… |
| 19-7628 | Glen Gary Guyn v. Jason Kent, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment cause-and-prejudice comity due-process finality fourth-amendment fundamental-injustice incarceration search-and-seizure unreasonable-search unreasonable-search-and-seizure | Whether Mr. Guyn's Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable searches and seizures was violated |
| 19-7615 | William E. Vukich v. Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania | Third Circuit | 2020-02-10 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection incarceration judicial-interpretation mistrial probation sentencing | Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits multiple punishments for the same offense |
| 19-7528 | David Lee Smith v. Rick Jackson | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus incarceration innocence-claim legal-release parole recidivism rehabilitation sentencing | Whether TS Appellant is entitled to release on his own recognizance after demonstrating all conditions for release |
| 19-7304 | Anthony Michael Salazar v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-01-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-law certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure-appeal due-process habeas-corpus illegal-sentence incarceration judicial-review sentencing sentencing-error united-states-v-haymond | Whether the Court of Appeals erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability when the Petitioner is incarcerated on an illegally-imposed sentence in l… |
| 19-7196 | Mark D. Zimmerman v. Texas | Texas | 2020-01-07 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts asset-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-rights due-process incarceration judicial-discretion legal-resources pro-se standing state-courts supervisory-power | Whether the lower state court erred in sanctioning the petitioner's departure from the accepted judicial proceedings regarding the decision governing … |
| 19-768 | Sherard Martin v. Davis Marinez, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2019-12-16 | Denied | Response Waived | attorneys-fees civil-damages civil-rights constitutional-rights damages due-process economic-loss exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment illegal-search illegal-stop incarceration police-misconduct standing | Whether a plaintiff whose fourth amendment rights have been violated may be automatically denied damages for subsequent incarceration, attorneys fees,… |
| 19-6599 | Walter D. Fairley v. Jason Kent, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-13 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability civil-rights comity comity-and-finality due-process finality fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus incarceration standing statute-of-limitations time-barred | Whether the Magistrate for the U.S. Eastern District Court of Louisiana erred when they issued a Report and Recommendation recommending that the petit… |
| 19-6423 | Halisi Uhuru v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-investigation federal-jurisdiction incarceration legal-proceeding mens-rea obstruction-of-justice rico rico-organization | Whether the appellant was improperly convicted of RICO participation and obstruction of justice |
| 19-6329 | Jackie Lee Boyd v. Carol Monroe, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-22 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-treatment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment incarceration medical-care prison-conditions | Is a constitutional right to be free of the wanton infliction of sei pain rendered void upon incarceration? |
| 19-6250 | Father v. Maternal Grandparents | Ohio | 2019-10-10 | Denied | IFP | adoption adoption-consent civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment incarceration parental-rights statutory-interpretation statutory-law | Whether incarcerated parents have a due-process right to consent to adoption of their children under the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 19-5710 | Chidi Ezeobi v. Jamal Jamison, Warden | Third Circuit | 2019-08-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | credit criminal-procedure due-process extradition foreign-incarceration incarceration international-law sentence-credit sentencing sentencing-court sentencing-credit statutory-interpretation | Is Mr. Ezeobi entitled to seven months of credit toward his sentence for the time he was incarcerated in England awaiting extradition to the United St… |
| 19-5504 | In Re Joel Diaz-Hinirio | 2019-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | adversarial-testing conviction-integrity criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus incarceration ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review right-to-counsel | Whether denial of appointment of counsel to petitioner would be tantamount to petitioner facing incarceration on a conviction that has never been subj… | |
| 19-5511 | Robert Hill v. Dave Jassen, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-courts appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus incarceration judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation | Whether the dismissal of a civil case by a district court for lack of jurisdiction over an incarcerated petitioner violates the Eighth Amendment's pro… |
| 19-5210 | Therian Wimbush v. Christopher M. Carr, Attorney General of Georgia, et al. | Georgia | 2019-07-17 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts appeal appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights discretionary-appeal due-process georgia-court-of-appeals georgia-courts incarceration jurisdiction mailbox-rule parental-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant time-limitation | Should the 'Mailbox Rule' be extended to all notices of appeal that must be filed in the trial court, filed by pro se incarcerated litigants? |
| 19-5060 | Derrick Washington v. Carol A. Mici, Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Correction | First Circuit | 2019-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 8th-amendment anti-terrorism anti-terrorism-act anti-terrorism-effective-death-penalty-act constitutional-review cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus incarceration life-without-parole sentencing | Is Congress' 1996 Anti-Terrorism Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) unconstitutional, as it unnecessarily snuffs out convicted persons' abilities to … |
| 18-9730 | Gerald S. Lepre, Jr. v. Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-06-19 | Dismissed | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split custody domestic-order federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus incarceration incarceration-threat personal-liberty suspended-sentence | Does a suspended sentence coupled with an active domestic order constitute custody for purposes of federal habeas corpus relief? |
| 18A1210 | Marshall Martinez v. Todd Thomas, Warden | Arizona | 2019-05-22 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights constitutional-interpretation incarceration jurisdiction legal-status thirteenth-amendment | Whether the Thirteenth Amendment prohibits the continued incarceration of an individual who claims to be improperly classified as a 'slave' rather tha… | |
| 18-9061 | Joseph B. v. Nebraska, on Behalf of Brooklyn H. | Nebraska | 2019-05-01 | Denied | IFP | due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment incarceration parental-rights visitation visitation-rights | Whether the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a State from forbidding visitation between a noncustodial p… |
| 18-8864 | Joseph B. v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2019-04-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment incarceration parental-rights visitation visitation-rights | Whether the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a State from forbidding visitation between a noncustodial p… |
| 18-8663 | Donald E. Mallory v. William P. Barr, Attorney General | Sixth Circuit | 2019-04-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cestui-que-trust civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-immunity incarceration judicial-review standing takings vested-property vested-property-rights | Is a pre-1933 private U.S. citizen and cestui que trust who is not an enemy, ally of an enemy, or foreign national precluded from suing the U.S. gover… |
| 18-8197 | Tommy Earl Boone, Jr. v. Texas | Texas | 2019-02-28 | Dismissed | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-code criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ex-parte-review habeas-corpus incarceration incarceration-period parole sentencing sentencing-statute texas-criminal-procedure texas-law | Whether Texas Penal Code, Art. 42.082 is unconstitutional as interpreted by the Texas Court in Ex Parte Kuester, 24 SW3d 247 (2000)? |
| 18-7796 | Domineque Ray v. Alabama | Alabama | 2019-02-06 | Denied | IFP | brady-disclosure brady-evidence brady-v-maryland due-process fair-trial incarceration incarceration-records institutional-files mental-health-records postconviction-relief star-witness statute-of-limitations | Does Brady v. Maryland require the State to obtain and produce to the defense all available prison or other incarceration or institutional files compr… |
| 18-1008 | In Re Veronica Hollowell and Vivian Epps | 2019-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | child-custody civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery-rule due-process family-law federal-jurisdiction incarceration jurisdiction jury-trial mental-fitness single-parent standing statute-of-limitations | Whether the State Court lacked jurisdiction of the child since the unwed, single-parent mother's case was not jury adjudicated (the ex-boyfriend/fathe… | |
| 18-7729 | Earnest S. Harris v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-01 | Denied | IFP | attorney-discipline civil-rights court-rules disbarment due-process election-law equal-protection habeas-corpus incarceration professional-conduct suspension voting voting-rights | Is the State of California's and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's involation of the U.S. Constitution's Amendment 3 by pr… |
| 18-7298 | Nicole M. Moore v. Florida | Florida | 2019-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-v-maryland civil-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony incarceration prison-sentence prosecutorial-misconduct state-action wrongful-conviction | Whether the Due Process Clause excuses the State of Florida's use of false testimony in the procurement of a conviction and 13-year prison sentence wh… |
| 18-7199 | Adelmo A. Fauntleroy v. Virginia | Virginia | 2018-12-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel incarceration ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-doubt right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | Did the Court have sufficient evidence beyond a reasonable doubt to convict the petitioner under the Sixth Amendment |
| 18-7173 | Karen Lofgren v. Todd Hardin | Washington | 2018-12-26 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-amendment due-process family-law incarceration incarceration-impact parental-rights troxel-v-granville visitation-rights | Whether it is First and Fourteenth Constitutional Amendment violations for a Family Court in State to deny a parent visitation with her children becau… |
| 18-7136 | Mark Hanna v. James M. LeBlanc, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2018-12-20 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process incarceration incarceration-rights insurance-requirement motor-vehicle-law retaliation standing vehicle-registration | Whether La. RS32:863 of the Louisiana Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Law is unconstitutional for due process of law |
| 18-7064 | Thomas W. Mackenzie v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-courts affidavit civil-procedure civil-rights costs court-fees declaration due-process financial-disclosure in-forma-pauperis incarceration indigent-status legal-materials legal-proceeding poverty prison-law-library redress | Whether the Florida Department of Corrections violated the petitioner's constitutional rights by denying him access to the courts and legal materials |
| 18-6488 | Alonzo Dwayne Coleman v. Michael Hakala, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2018-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-medical-care deliberate-deception deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment incarceration medical-evidence medical-treatment prison prison-medical-treatment rare-disease | Whether there is a constitutional standard of medical care for persons with rare massive polycystic liver disease and are the state's (Missouri) priso… |
| 18-6289 | Bruce L. Small v. Florida | Florida | 2018-10-12 | Dismissed | IFP | and justice from incarceration civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto incarceration justice liberty civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-law incarceration justice-system legal-application sentencing | Whether the retroactive application of an ex post facto law that enhances a criminal sentence violates the constitutional rights to freedom, liberty, … |
| 18-5816 | Keith L. Nash v. Richard J. Bishop, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process incarceration jurisdiction medical-care prison standing statutory-interpretation takings | Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment requires the government to provide adequate medical care to incarcerated in… |
| 23A1084 | Glenn Albright v. Will Roberts, Volusia County Tax Collector, et al. | Florida | Presumed Complete | court-accommodation document-preparation filing-fee incarceration pauper-petition pro-se | Whether a pro se prisoner can seek reconsideration of a pauper's petition and request alternative document preparation accommodations due to incarcera… |