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25-952 Brij Mohan, et al. v. Jordan Watkins Seventh Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending bivens-claim constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment inmate-rights pretrial-detention Whether a Bivens claim can be brought for deliberate indifference to an inmate's chronic pain at a pretrial detention center under the Fifth and Eight…
25-921 Malcolm Wilson v. Angelita Castaneda Seventh Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending due-process inmate-rights prison-disciplinary-board procedural-fairness restitution-sanction trust-account Whether due process requires a prison disciplinary board to provide 'some evidence' of the amount of actual or estimated loss caused by an inmate's ac…
25-6447 Torrence Belcher v. Joshua Wallen, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-12-30 Pending Response WaivedIFP cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment inmate-rights physical-injury prison-safety Whether a prison official's deliberate indifference to an inmate's safety constitutes a violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel …
25-6005 Sean D. Jones v. Kelly Strong, Warden, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-10-31 Denied IFP inmate-rights medical-indifference negligence prison-healthcare standard-of-care treatment-delay Whether the failure to provide timely specialist treatment and deviation from prescribed medical orders constitutes deliberate medical indifference in…
25-5586 David Priest v. Bentley, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP discovery-ruling district-court inmate-rights judicial-discretion legal-standard pro-se-litigation Whether pro se inmate litigants are held to the same legal standard as lawyers in court proceedings, whether proper notice was given for raising issue…
24-7350 Rusty James Driscoll v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights discovery-material fifth-amendment inmate-rights local-rules sixth-amendment Whether District Court of South Dakota's Local Rules 16.1 and 57.10 violate an inmate's constitutional rights under the 5th and 6th Amendments to rece…
24-182 Roy Sargeant v. Aracelie Barfield Seventh Circuit 2024-08-20 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment federal-inmates inmate-rights prison-violence Whether federal inmates may bring a cause of action against prison officials for deliberate indifference to inmate-on-inmate violence under the Eighth…
23-7224 Quentin Freeman v. Daniel Deas Fourth Circuit 2024-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment inmate-rights prison-conditions prisoner-rights summary-judgment whitley-standard Whether the decision below should be summarily reversed because the Fourth Circuit misapplied the Whitley factors by viewing the evidence in the light…
23-6996 Brian Anderson v. Jeff Long, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation court-order due-process inmate-rights prison-warden qualified-immunity standing state-prisons If a State Prison Warden refuses to obey a Court Order & refuses to obey the Governor & refuses to obey the Executive Director Of Colorado Prisons, do…
23A801 Richard Arlee Champion v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-02-29 Presumed Complete certiorari court-review en-banc fourth-circuit inmate-rights petition-for-rehearing Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying en banc review of a significant legal issue involving an inmate's rights or constitutiona…
23-6374 Vonell Davis, Jr. v. Wayne Hill, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion cause-of-action civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process health-risks inmate-rights motion-to-amend standing Did the district court err when it denied the original complaint without a hearing, and concluding appellant had no cause of action?
23-5841 James Franklin Snyder v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction inmate-rights judicial-review legal-materials prison-conditions retaliation statutory-interpretation Can the State Department of Corrections terminate an inmate's access to legal materials and services in retaliation for the inmate's filing of a civil…
23-5740 Jedidiah Isaac Murphy v. Texas Texas 2023-10-10 Denied IFP catastrophic-event catastrophic-fire civil-rights death-penalty discovery drug-administration due-process execution execution-protocol inmate-rights procedural-due-process Is an inmate who is to be executed entitled to procedural due process to discover the effects of a catastrophic fire on the drugs to be used in his ex…
22-1166 D. K. Williams, Warden, et al. v. Rafiq Sabir, et al. Second Circuit 2023-06-01 Dismissed civil-rights constitutional-precedent due-process group-prayer inmate-rights prison-policy qualified-immunity religious-freedom-restoration-act Whether RFRA claims are exempt from the requirement not to define clearly established law at a high level of generality
22-7427 Travis Blank v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-costs civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit inmate-rights medical-care special-housing-unit standing Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying plaintiff's appeal for compelling him to pay the bill of costs
22-7064 Ryan Rydell Bonner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-22 Denied IFP constitutional-provisions double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus inmate-rights judicial-review legal-controversy petition-clause pretrial-writ reindictment statutory-provisions Whether the state court's denial of a pretrial writ of habeas corpus on double jeopardy grounds, where the defendant was reindicted for the same offen…
22-6705 Charles Wesley Clearwater v. K. Bennett, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process inmate-rights rdap rdap-program residual-clause time-credit vagueness Is it a violation of an inmate's Constitutional Rights to due process to use the Residual Clause criteria to deny him from receiving the one-year time…
22-6322 Jaame Amun Re El v. FNU Melanson, et al. First Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech inmate-rights prison-regulations special-mail standing statutory-law Is the constitution the law of the land?
22-5808 Zachary Spada v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Pennsylvania 2022-10-12 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-restrictions damages-claim due-process exercise-opportunities inmate-rights institutional-liability mootness mootness-doctrine standing Whether an inmate has a right to sue for denial of exercise and recreation opportunities during COVID-19 restrictions
21-8046 Joseph Martin Danks v. California California 2022-06-03 Denied IFP capital-punishment criminal-culpability cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment inmate-rights mental-health state-liability state-responsibility Does the Eighth Amendment preclude the execution of a seriously mentally ill inmate whose homicidal behavior was the reasonably known, foreseeable, an…
21-7849 Mark Stinson v. John P. Yates, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-05-12 Denied IFP 5th-amendment administrative-segregation confinement-standards constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment inmate-rights prison-administration What limits the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment places on the authority of prison administrators to remove inmates from the general prison p…
21-7801 Richard E. Shreves v. United States District Court for the District of Montana Ninth Circuit 2022-05-09 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-authority document-access due-process e-filing e-filing-program inmate-rights prison-litigation pro-se-litigant standing statutory-interpretation Did the District Court exceed its authority in determining pro-se inmate litigants were not entitled to one free copy of filed documents under 28 U.S.…
21-6918 Robert Rodriguez Trevino v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-circuit inmate-rights liberty-interest medical-condition medical-supervision parole parole-review tex-gov-code-508.146 texas-criminal-procedure texas-department-of-criminal-justice Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has departed from the accepted course of judicial proceedings
21-6517 Mark Stinson v. K. Cauley, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-12-07 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP 5th-amendment 8th-amendment administrative-segregation civil-rights constitutional-limits due-process fifth-amendment inmate-rights prison-administration What limits the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment places on the authority of prison administrators to remove inmates from the general prison p…
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 …
21-6093 Jeffrey D. Leiser v. Karl Hoffmann, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment inmate-rights medical-treatment summary-judgment wanton-suffering Did the District Court and Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied the legal presidents that 46 days of severe 'unnecessary inflict of wanton pain…
21-5637 Vinicio Jesus Garcia v. Darryl Glenn, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-09-09 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-resources due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus inmate-rights legal-access standing Does the denial of the right to file a § 2254 habeas corpus claim with a court violate due-process, access-to-courts, civil-rights
21-5168 Darrell Demetrius Cross v. Kecia Davidson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied IFP administrative-procedure attorney-general civil-procedure civil-rights detainer-warrant due-process federal-district-court inmate-rights prisoner-rights standing voluntary-protective-custody Whether a U.S. federal district court judge and the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals can allow a voluntary protective custody inmate to be placed on cond…
20-7639 Joseph A. Harris v. Michael Pacheco, Warden Tenth Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation corrections department-of-corrections due-process inmate-rights judicial-authority judicial-review sentencing sentencing-authority separation-of-powers Is the Department of Corrections above the Judicial Branch in such a way that it may increase a judicially given Maximum sentence without judicial ord…
20-6849 Casey Rafael Tyler v. Katy Poole, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-01-12 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts civil-rights covid-19 cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process health-safety inmate-rights institutional-policy prison-conditions Does lawful imprisonment impose a legal duty on the prisoner to try surviving in the general population, so that he can be lawfully ordered to go into…
20-839 Kenneth Greenway v. Southern Health Partners, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-22 Denied credibility-of-statements deliberate-indifference fourteenth-amendment inmate-rights jail-officials medical-needs serious-medical-needs summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton Should the Eleventh Circuit's reinvention of the Fourteenth Amendment standard for deliberate indifference to serious medical needs be permitted?
20-6534 Deverick Scott v. Rory Griffin, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment grievances inmate-rights medical-malpractice medical-treatment policy Is A.D.C.'s Correct Care Solutions Medical policy unconstitutional when it denies Scott's tooth restoration?
20-5143 Glen Jones Ward v. Idaho, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-22 Denied IFP 1st-amendment 8th-amendment civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-violation correctional-facility due-process equal-protection inmate-rights personal-safety retaliation staff-misconduct Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the prison authorities' failure to protect the petitioner's safety and security
19-7860 Robert Rowles v. GEO Group, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied IFP 8th-amendment circuit-court civil-rights cost-cutting deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment inmate inmate-rights judicial-discretion medical-treatment prison standing Did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal abuse its discretion in denying relief on the lack of medical diagnosis and treatment
19-7801 James Benjamin Barstad v. Washington Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitrary-and-capricious civil-rights constitutional-violation contract contract-breach due-process equal-protection inmate-rights punishment sandin-v-conner state-sanctions When does the repeated imposition of 'temporary' restrictions become unconstitutional?
19-7565 Tyree Wright v. S. Alvarez, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference diagnostic-imaging due-process eighth-amendment inmate-rights medical-care medical-records prison-healthcare qualified-immunity When an inmate notifies medical of his prior head injury/medical history & asks them to retrieve his medical records, is that adequate to his medical …
19-7543 Earl Osborn v. Christopher Williams, et al. Second Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-remedies civil-rights corrections-department disability-accommodation disability-rights due-process inmate-rights medical-treatment mental-disability mental-health prisoner-rights standing summary-judgment Whether the Supreme Court should eliminate the requirement for an individualized, fact-specific determination regarding the availability of administra…
19-7508 Jeffrey D. Leiser v. Karen Kloth, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP by triggering PTSD symptoms rise to a level that is cognizable under the Eigh that caused psychological harm civil-rights correctional-officer correctional-officer-duties due-process eighth-amendment emotional-distress inmate-rights intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress psychological-harm ptsd qualified-immunity Does the intentional infliction of severe emotional distress, by triggering PTSD symptoms, that caused psychological harm, rise to a level that is cog…
19-7186 James R. Young v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-06 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP bivens bivens-claim civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-review fifth-amendment in-forma-pauperis inmate-rights property property-theft standing Did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals abuse Petitioner's 5th Amendment due-process right to be heard on his Bivens claim on appeal by summarily di…
19-7143 In Re Steven Darby McDonald 2020-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process inmate-deaths inmate-rights judicial-misconduct medical-care medical-malpractice ninth-circuit-court prison-conditions pro-se-brief standing Why is the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Western District of Washington allowed to act as the right arm of the DOC?
19-6985 Boaz Pleasant-Bey v. Shelby County, Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appropriate-relief circuit-court-conflict first-amendment-free-exercise inmate-led-religious-services inmate-rights qualified-immunity rluipa rluipa-appropriate-relief-clause sixth-circuit trial-on-merits trial-on-the-merits Whether RLUIPA's 'appropriate relief' clause encompasses the requested relief of a trial on the merits
19-5502 David Anderson v. Jackie T. Strode, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force inmate-rights law-enforcement prison-conditions prisoner-treatment qualified-immunity restraint-chair tasing-in-restraints Why was I tased in a restraint chair with only one arm loose out of the restraints?
18-9191 Jerome Allen Bargo v. Raymond Naylor, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP contradictory-evidence cruel-punishment cvsa cvsa-test disciplinary-action due-process eighth-amendment inmate-rights prison-conditions prison-discipline unsupported-evidence Did the Eighth Circuit err in holding that Bargo's CVSA tests results constituted 'some evidence' to support disciplinary action, even though the resu…
18-8255 David E. Ponder v. Avalon Correctional Services, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied IFP circuit-court-split civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violations constitutional-protections due-process foia-exemption freedom-of-information inmate-rights prison prison-transparency private-prisons standing takings Private for-profit prisons-are-allowed-to-deny-FOIA-and-State-Open-Records laws
18-8088 Steve Lee Menius v. Michael Stephan, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts administrative-law administrative-response civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights corrections-system due-process free-speech grievance-procedure grievance-process inmate-rights prison-litigation-reform-act retaliation standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's civil rights claims due to failure to exhaust administrative remedies under the Prison…
18-761 D. Dahne v. Thomas W. S. Richey Ninth Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (4) civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech grievance inmate-rights ninth-circuit prison prison-grievance qualified-immunity Do prison inmates have a First Amendment right to include threatening, abusive, and irrelevant language in grievances?
18-6638 Israel C. Isbell v. Steven Merlak, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure comity custody-transfer due-process inmate-rights inmate-transfer jurisdictional-comity presumption-of-intent primary-custody primary-jurisdiction sentencing-rights sovereign-intent sovereign-jurisdiction transfer-of-custody waiver-intent At what point is a sovereign's intent to waive primary jurisdiction assessed, and how is that intent assessed?