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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5767 Robert Draft v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2025-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court district-court habeas-corpus legal-merit procedural-error 1) Did the United States District Court error in ruling that Mr. Draft 's petition for writ of Habeas Corpus was untimely? 2) Did the United States …
22-6698 Robert Hadley Gross v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law first-impression frivolity ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-merit non-frivolous-appeal rational-defendant roe-v-flores-ortega totality-of-circumstances Is the Roe v. Flores-Ortega test for a non-frivolous appeal issue a case of first impression?
20-6235 Mario Montano v. Court of Appeals of Michigan Michigan 2020-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts court-sanctions due-process indigent-litigants indigent-rights judicial-abuse judicial-authority legal-merit procedural-fairness sanctions Did the Michigan Supreme Court abuse its authority by sanctioning the indigent Petitioner $1000 payable to the Clerk of the Court that it knew he coul…