| 25-255 |
Dion Horton, et al. v. Bruce R. Beemer, Administrative Judge, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-09-04 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
due-process government-interest judicial-finding liberty-deprivation morrissey-v-brewer procedural-safeguards |
Whether the Due Process Clause requires a judicial finding that depriving a person of physical liberty pending a hearing is necessary to serve a gover… |
| 25-5222 |
Dahryl Lamont Reynolds v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-rehabilitation felony-association liberty-deprivation probation-restrictions sentencing-conditions supervised-release |
Whether the standard condition banning association with all past felons is 'reasonably related' to the goals of deterrence, incapacitation, and rehabi… |
| 25-31 |
Benjamin Adams v. Lloyd Arnold, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Correction, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-07-09 |
Denied |
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disciplinary-segregation due-process incarceration liberty-deprivation wilkinson-v-austin wolff-v-mcdonnell |
Whether incarcerated individuals facing disciplinary segregation are entitled to adversarial or non-adversarial due process protections |
| 22-7771 |
Jaden Rene Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-sentencing due-process federal-procedure incarceration liberty liberty-deprivation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court unreasonably sentenced Petitioner to a higher than necessary sentence by denying Petitioner's points for acceptance of resp… |
| 22-7069 |
Sandy Scott v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split conditions-of-release due-process federal-supervised-release liberty-deprivation sex-offenders |
Whether an absolute lifetime ban on communication with minors, with no exception for supervised contact or preapproval, involves a greater than necess… |
| 22-6002 |
Charles Morgan, Jr. v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2022-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ambiguity-standard criminal-statute criminal-statutes grievous-ambiguity gundy-v-united-states liberty-deprivation nondelegation nondelegation-doctrine rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the rule of lenity should apply to all ambiguous criminal statutes or only to those that are 'grievously' ambiguous |
| 22-5914 |
Dominique Lamar Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 administrative-violations criminal-procedure criminal-supervision district-court-discretion due-process liberty liberty-deprivation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court acted excessively by sentencing Petitioner to a sentence two and half times above the supervision guideline range for admin… |
| 22-5312 |
Carl A. Nelson, Sr. v. Ohio Parole Board, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-agency administrative-jurisdiction aedpa due-process habeas-corpus liberty liberty-deprivation sentencing sentencing-judgment void-commitment |
When a sentencing judgment entry of commitment is legally invalid, is habeas corpus still the remedy to correct the judgment entry of commitment when … |
| 22-5132 |
Joe Octavio Granado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences district-court incarceration liberty-deprivation liberty-interest revocation sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether the District Court, in revoking supervised release, excessively sentenced Petitioner with consecutive incarceration from an original concurren… |
| 21-7784 |
Idania Renteria Madrid v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 consecutive-incarceration consecutive-sentences criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines immigration-detention liberty-deprivation sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court excessively sentenced Petitioner to consecutive incarceration and deprived the Petitioner of liberty within the terms of 18… |
| 21-75 |
Ojin Kim v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review criminal-procedure deprivation-of-liberty due-process liberty-deprivation methodology-challenge restitution restitution-order sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a sentence should be reviewable on appeal if the restitution order is not barred from appellate review due to factually insufficient evidence |
| 20-7799 |
Susan W. Vaughan v. Shannon Foltz, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process familial-association family-law fourth-amendment liberty-deprivation qualified-immunity standing state-statute |
Is Troxel v Granville correctly applied to a case that has nothing to do with grandparents' visitation requests, but is used, nevertheless, as grounds… |
| 20-6058 |
Lacey Renee Baxter Moore, aka Lacey Kittrell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process liberty-deprivation probation probation-condition sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-purposes supervised-release |
Whether a standard condition of supervised release requiring a person to permit a probation officer to visit at any time at home or elsewhere is too b… |
| 20-6001 |
Antranette Canady v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3583(d)(2) civil-rights criminal-procedure liberty-deprivation probation probation-condition sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-purposes supervised-release |
Is a standard condition of supervised release which requires a person to 'permit a probation officer to visit [her] at any time at home or elsewhere' … |
| 20-5958 |
Jimmy Kit Fields v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alcohol-abuse criminal-sentencing due-process liberty-deprivation plain-error statutory-reasonableness supervised-release |
Whether a court can impose a condition of supervised release to abstain from alcohol without explanation |
| 20-5490 |
William James Payton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3583(d)(2) criminal-procedure home-visit home-visits liberty-deprivation probation-officer statutory-interpretation statutory-purposes supervised-release |
Is a standard condition of supervised release too broad to comply with the directive under § 3583(d)(2) that a condition involve no greater deprivatio… |
| 19-1283 |
James Tolle v. Ralph Northam, Governor of Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emergency-powers executive-order executive-powers liberty-deprivation liberty-rights property-rights public-health quarantine quarantine-restrictions standing |
Can the Governor legally deprive citizens of liberty and property rights and circumvent the statutory protections for quarantined individuals? |
| 19-6356 |
Gary E. Larock, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment,due-process,civil-rights,liberty, home-search liberty-deprivation liberty-interest overbreadth probation probation-supervision statutory-reasonableness vagueness warrantless-search |
Whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to visit at any time is unreasonable under the Fourth Amendm… |
| 19-6059 |
Serrah Arnold, aka Kristen v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-search liberty-deprivation liberty-interest overbreadth probation probation-supervision reasonableness reasonableness-standard supervised-release vagueness |
Whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to visit her at any time at home or elsewhere is unreasonabl… |
| 19-5790 |
Ronald Frank Lee v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedIFP |
constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-search liberty-deprivation liberty-interest overbreadth probation-supervision statutory-reasonableness supervised-release vagueness warrantless-search |
Whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to visit him at any time at home or elsewhere is unreasonabl… |
| 19-5785 |
Raul Zapata-Dominguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment home-search indictment jury-trial liberty-deprivation liberty-interest overbreadth probation probation-supervision statutory-maximum statutory-reasonableness supervised-release supervision vagueness |
Whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to visit him at any time at home or elsewhere is unreasonabl… |
| 18-8185 |
Anthony Alexander Ferrari v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-overbreadth fourth-amendment liberty-deprivation overbreadth overbroad plain-error probation-officer statutory-reasonableness supervised-release vague vagueness |
Whether it is plain error to require as a condition of supervised release that a defendant permit a probation officer to visit the probation officer a… |
| 18-6514 |
In Re Melvin T. Bell |
|
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus imprisonment jurisdiction liberty-deprivation standing territorial-jurisdiction |
Whether the petitioner is illegally deprived of his liberty |
| 18-6291 |
Steven H. Cook v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-12 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights collateral-review deprivation-of-liberty due-process federal-law federal-mail-box-rule habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel liberty-deprivation mail-box-rule mailbox-rule standing timeliness |
Is the issue of great import to potentially thousands of prisoners similarly situated and does it have significant impact on the public? |
| 18-5319 |
Timothy Galen Tolbert v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 bureau-of-prisons drug-treatment due-process liberty liberty-deprivation post-release-conditions revocation sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether the District Court deprived the Petitioner of liberty within the terms of 18 U.S.C. 3583 (c) and (d) by re-sentencing Petitioner to incarcerat… |
| 18-62 |
Brian Colbry, et ux. v. Lisa Von Pier, Director, New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2254 child-custody child-protective-services custody deprivation-of-liberty habeas-corpus jurisdiction liberty-deprivation state-institution state-restraint unlawful-restraint |
Is a minor child in custody for purposes of jurisdiction on a Petition for Habeas Corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §2254 where the child is suffering a se… |