judicial-delay
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6559 | Charles Kafeiti v. United States | Second Circuit | 2026-01-13 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus judicial-delay procedural-rules | Whether a district court's 13-month unexplained silence on liberty-related motions constitutes court-induced prejudice warranting equitable tolling un… |
| 25-726 | Alan Lane Hicks v. Jonathan Frame, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex | Fourth Circuit | 2025-12-19 | Pending | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived | aedpa federal-petition habeas-corpus ineffective-process judicial-delay state-court-exhaustion | Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2254(b)(1)(B)(ii)'s exception to the exhaustion requirement for 'circumstances' that render state proceedings 'ineffective' can ap… |
| 25-5209 | Andrea Nicole Weetly v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. | California | 2025-07-28 | Denied | IFP | child-support due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-delay modification-motions procedural-compliance | Whether a state court's prolonged failure to rule on timely filed child support modification and enforcement motions violates due process under the Fo… |
| 24-984 | Ross Horsey v. American Finance, LLC | Delaware | 2025-03-13 | Denied | constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fraud-upon-court judicial-delay judicial-procedure | Whether a 105-day delay by a judge in responding to a court letter constitutes a failure of due process | |
| 24-6736 | David C. Lettieri v. Federal Bureau of Investigation | Second Circuit | 2025-03-11 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-court constitutional-procedure in-forma-pauperis judicial-delay notification-requirement procedural-rights | Whether an appeal court's delay constitutes a violation of procedural rights and whether a plaintiff must be notified of an in forma pauperis terminat… |
| 24-915 | In Re Bart Wade Reagor | 2025-02-25 | Dismissed | Response Waived | appellate-procedure court-of-appeals fifth-circuit judicial-delay mandamus writ-of-mandamus | Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to issue a decision without delay | |
| 24-6493 | Washington Windsor v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia | District of Columbia | 2025-02-06 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts due-process fifth-amendment judicial-delay mootness-doctrine pro-se-litigant | Whether a lower court's unexplained and unjustified delay in docketing a pro se litigant's motion violates the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause an… |
| 24-5442 | Philander Philippeaux v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | district-court due-process fifth-amendment judicial-delay mandamus motion-pending | Whether a federal district court judge's prolonged delay in ruling on pending motions constitutes a violation of procedural due process |
| 23-7658 | In Re Robert Gene Rega | 2024-06-07 | Denied | IFP | appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-delay standing third-circuit writ-of-certiorari | due-process | |
| 23-1006 | In Re Christopher Gary Baylor | 2024-03-13 | Denied | Response Waived | appeal civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech judicial-delay mandamus-jurisdiction right-to-appeal section-1657 standing | Does relief become impliedly denied upon the expiration of time to grant or deny, and if no, when does absence of any judgment, ruling, decision, decr… | |
| 23-5415 | Derrick Jackson-Stith, Sr. v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2023-08-23 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights due-process judicial-delay jurisdiction-challenge mandamus mandamus-relief oath-of-office standing state-constitution statutory-law statutory-mandate | Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals erred in denying Mr. Jackson-Stith's request for mandamus relief to compel dismissal under a state stat… |
| 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 |
| 22-5316 | Antwan Criswell v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3161 18-usc-3262 court-congestion dismissal-with-prejudice due-process judicial-delay speedy-trial speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation | Whether the presumption of prejudice in a Speedy Trial Violation under 18 U.S.C. §3262 requires dismissal with prejudice, despite the court's claim of… |
| 21-1547 | Chris C. Streeter v. John D. Casey, Chief Justice, Massachusetts Probate and Family Court | Massachusetts | 2022-06-09 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-delay probate-court standing | If the Petitioner's 14th Amendment right to due process and equal protection under the law are violated by the delays in issuing rulings as justice de… |
| 21-6247 | Andrew Cox v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-11-10 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-delay motion-to-vacate statutory-interpretation suspension-clause | Does an inordinate delay of almost six years render a motion to vacate under 28 USC 2255 inadequate or ineffective to the point that Petitioner may in… |
| 20-7603 | In Re Bruce Allen Rutherford | 2021-03-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights discovery due-process grand-jury habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-delay prosecutorial-misconduct section-2255-motion | Unreasonable delay in ruling on 28 U.S.C. §2255 motion | |
| 20-7597 | In Re Gary Peel | 2021-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-delay mandamus seventh-circuit subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-of-mandamus | Whether a Writ of Mandamus should issue | |
| 19-5579 | Sebastian Eccleston v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-08-13 | Dismissed | Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts federal-prisoner habeas-corpus judicial-delay post-conviction-relief post-conviction-statute statutory-interpretation supervisory-power | Whether § 2244(b)(3)(D)'s 30-day deadline for deciding motions for authorization is binding or merely advisory |
| 18-1225 | Vladimir Matsiborchuk v. Fougere Holcombe | Second Circuit | 2019-03-20 | Denied | attorney-client attorney-compensation attorney-fees civil-rights discharge-hearing due-process judicial-bias judicial-delay judicial-misconduct legal-fees quantum-meruit retaliation settlement-agreement | Whether deprivation of legal fees earned by an attorney during 7 years of work for former client violates due-process, whether attorney was deprived o… | |
| 18-7749 | Ada A. Gonzalez v. Grant Maloy | Florida | 2019-02-05 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure certiorari-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-delay mandamus pro-se pro-se-litigant supreme-court-procedure | Whether the Supreme Court of Florida unjust delay denied Petitioner access for certiorari review |
| 18-5342 | Roger Wilson v. Delta Airlines, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-07-25 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech judicial-delay judicial-misconduct jurisdiction standing | whether-the-year-long-delay-in-the-court-issuing-a-decision-on-petitioner's-case-violated-due-process |
| 18-5262 | In Re Edward McLaughlin | 2018-07-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court independent-action judicial-delay judicial-procedure mandamus third-circuit writ-of-certiorari | Whether a writ of mandamus is the proper remedy to compel the Third Circuit Court of Appeals to rule on petitioner's independent action alleging 'frau… |