iq-testing
8 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-872 | John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Joseph Clifton Smith | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-02-14 | Granted | Amici (11)Relisted (3) | atkins-v-virginia criminal-procedure habeas-corpus intellectual-disability iq-testing preponderance-of-evidence | Whether a State can require a claimant to prove an IQ of 70 or less by a preponderance of the evidence and whether courts evaluating multiple IQ score… |
| 24-6058 | Blaine Keith Milam v. Texas | Texas | 2024-12-04 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | adaptive-behavior atkins-standard clinical-assessment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-testing | Did the state court violate Atkins v. Virginia by improperly assessing intellectual disability through a single IQ score and incomplete adaptive behav… |
| 24A124 | Arthur Lee Burton v. Texas | Texas | 2024-08-04 | Denied | atkins-claim death-penalty eighth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-testing moore-v-texas | Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death-row inmate with intellectual disability when new clinical evidence demonstrates he mee… | |
| 23A856 | Willie James Pye v. Shawn Emmons, Warden | Georgia | 2024-03-20 | Denied | adaptive-deficits death-penalty eighth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-testing woodard-precedent | Whether the Eighth Amendment categorically bars the execution of an intellectually disabled defendant whose IQ scores and adaptive deficits demonstrat… | |
| 23-639 | Thomas Dale Ferguson v. John Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-12-13 | Denied | adaptive-functioning capital-punishment circuit-split eighth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-test iq-testing moore-v-texas | Whether a court may disregard a valid IQ test with a range under 70 simply because not all tests show such a range, or must proceed to evaluate adapti… | |
| 23-167 | John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Joseph Clifton Smith | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-08-21 | GVR | Amici (1)Relisted (30) | atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability iq-test iq-testing standard-error-of-measurement | Whether courts must deem the Atkins prong satisfied when an offender's lowest IQ score, decreased by one standard error of measurement, is 70 or below |
| 22-5906 | William Lee Thompson v. Florida | Florida | 2022-10-25 | Rehearing | Relisted (2)IFP | death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-test iq-testing retroactivity standard-error teague-rule | Whether Hall v. Florida announced a new rule of constitutional law or was simply an application of Atkins v. Virginia |
| 21-8144 | Tavares J. Wright v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-06-15 | Denied | IFP | atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment flynn-effect fourteenth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability iq-testing moore-v-texas | Whether failing to apply the Flynn effect to a capital defendant's intelligence quotient scores violates the Eighth Amendment |