law-library
8 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A358 | Donovan G. Davis, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-29 | Presumed Complete | certiorari-extension federal-prisoner ineffective-assistance law-library prison-conditions section-2255 | Whether a federal prisoner can obtain relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 based on ineffective assistance of counsel when facing procedural barriers in acce… | |
| 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… | |
| 24A114 | Edward Greeman v. Edward Burnett, Superintendent, Fishkill Correctional Facility | Second Circuit | 2024-07-31 | Presumed Complete | access-to-courts constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance law-library post-conviction pro-se-litigant | Whether a state prisoner's inability to access a law library constitutes a violation of his constitutional right to meaningful post-conviction review | |
| 23A743 | Darryl Puderer v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2024-02-09 | Presumed Complete | access-to-courts covid-19 habeas-corpus law-library prison-conditions pro-se | Whether a pro se prisoner's limited access to a law library during a COVID-19 lockdown constitutes a violation of his constitutional right to meaningf… | |
| 23A721 | William H. Baker v. Angela Hunsinger-Stuff, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-02-05 | Presumed Complete | due-process habeas-corpus law-library prison-access pro-se writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se prisoner's limited access to prison law library services constitutes a due process violation that warrants an extension of time to fi… | |
| 21-6167 | Harry Sharod James v. Roy Cooper, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-11-03 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure law-library legal-access prisoner-rights | Whether the petitioner was deprived of his fundamental constitutional right of access to the courts by not having access to a meaningful, effective, a… |
| 18A1283 | Kurtis Keith Lowe v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-07 | Presumed Complete | administrative-remedy constitutional-rights federal-corrections law-library legal-access pro-se | Whether a pro se prisoner's constitutional rights are violated by systematic denial of law library access and interference with legal preparation time… | |
| 18-8000 | Allister Freeman v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-courts aedpa-limitations aedpa-time-limitations circuit-court-precedent civil-rights diligence due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus holland-test indigent-prisoner law-library law-library-access prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant standing | Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals precedent in Dodds v. United States and Atkins v. United States, denying equitable tolling to a pro-se i… |