law-library-access

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A471 Hasib Bin Golamrabbi v. California California 2025-10-24 Application indigent-defendant law-library-access legal-research prisoner-rights pro-se-litigation supreme-court-procedure Whether a prison's restrictive law library access policy unconstitutionally impedes an indigent prisoner's ability to prepare and timely file a writ o…
25A318 William Loggins, Jr. v. Kansas Kansas 2025-09-18 Presumed Complete access-to-courts in-forma-pauperis law-library-access legal-communication prison-mail-policy pro-se-litigant Whether prison mail policies and limited law library access unconstitutionally impede an indigent prisoner's ability to timely file a petition for wri…
24A413 Edvin Santiagomazariegos v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-28 Presumed Complete court-access institutional-constraints law-library-access legal-research prisoner-rights pro-se-litigant Whether a prisoner's limited law library access and restricted legal research time due to institutional constraints constitutes a substantial burden o…
23A50 Raul Gardea, Jr. v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-07-20 Presumed Complete in-forma-pauperis institutional-search law-library-access prison-lockdown procedural-barriers writ-of-certiorari Whether an indigent prisoner can obtain an extension of time to file a writ of certiorari due to institutional library access restrictions and lockdow…
21-727 Robert R. Snyder v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied access-to-courts active-interference civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process law-library-access plausibility-standard prisoner-rights procedural-due-process prospective-relief standing Did the lower court incorrectly apply Christopher-v-Harbury
19-8152 Menes Ankh-El, aka Wendell Brown v. Robert Carter, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP atypical-and-significant-hardship civil-rights due-process hardship-standard law-library-access prison-transfer prisoner-rights procedural-due-process retaliation Does Ankh-El's permanent transfer to higher level prison to use the law library impose atypical and significant hardship, deny procedural due process …
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…
18-171 Robert R. Snyder v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights color-of-state-law constitutional-rights Cruel-and-unusual-punishment Due-process Eighth-amendment First-amendment immunity law-library-access Preliminary-injunction prisoner-rights retaliation section-1983 Does a person or entity have immunity from prosecution under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when rights secured by the U.S. Constitution have been violated by said …