liberty-interests

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6123 Osvaldo Gonzalez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP barker-review criminal-procedure liberty-interests pretrial-delay sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether Barker v. Wingo's rejection of fixed time periods in defining the scope of the Sixth Amendment's Speedy Trial Clause has been abrogated and re…
25-59 Joseph Very Sherman, Individually, and as Biological Father, Next Friend, and Natural Guardian of H. M. S., J. C. S., and M. R. S., Minor Children, et al. v. Louis R. Lerner, former Judge, Circuit Court of Virginia, City of Norfolk Virginia 2025-07-16 Denied child-custody due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment liberty-interests parental-rights The trial judge entered an Order (App. 10a-21a) that deprived each of the three child Petitioners of their right to associate with their fit and lovin…
23-7056 Allen Brooks, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law legislative-power liberty-interests non-delegation non-delegation-doctrine retroactive-application retroactivity sex-offender-registration Did Congress's delegation to Attorneys General the retroactive reach of SORNA to offenders convicted of sex crimes before its enactment violate U.S. C…
23-7013 Jason Steven Kokinda v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP boumediene-precedent boumediene-v-bush civil-rights detention-challenge due-process habeas-corpus liberty-interests probable-cause writ-of-certiorari Is the panel decision in conflict with Boumediene v. Bush, in suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus when a misinterpretation of law is being used to de…
23-705 Stephen Robert Deck v. California Ninth Circuit 2023-12-29 Denied Response Waived criminal-sanction custody custody-definition due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus in-custody liberty-interests liberty-restraint sex-offender-registration Whether California's sex offender registration mandates place sufficiently significant burdens on a registrant's liberty to allow a federal habeas cor…
23A488 Dana Albrecht v. Katherine Albrecht New Hampshire 2023-11-29 Presumed Complete domestic-violence fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct liberty-interests parental-rights restraining-order Whether a civil domestic violence restraining order issued without objective standards violates a parent's fundamental liberty interests under the Fou…
23-437 Anthony A. Anderson v. United States Armed Forces 2023-10-26 Denied constitutional-law court-martial criminal-prosecution due-process equal-protection liberty-interests property-interests sixth-amendment Does the United States Constitution require that a general court-martial guilty verdict be unanimous?
23-5129 Earl Lionell Ward v. Ramsey County, Minnesota Minnesota 2023-07-18 Denied IFP civil-commitment civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights liberty-interest liberty-interests sex-offender statutory-criteria Whether Minnesota's indefinite sex offender civil commitment scheme violates Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment's due process rights
22-7338 Robert Lemke v. United States Second Circuit 2023-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP autonomy criminal-autonomy criminal-defendant defendant-rights due-process legal-representation liberty liberty-interests mental-health mental-health-considerations sentencing sentencing-procedure Whether a criminal defendant's right to autonomy applies to his sentencing?
22-5757 Alvin Dalton v. Craig Koenig, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-10-05 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process law-of-the-case liberty-interests mandatory-language Whether prisoners are entitled to have their permanent records free from falsified legal documents, legal enhancement errors, and phrases substituting…
21-7576 Edward Wright v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography constitutional-scrutiny liberty-interests non-delegation-doctrine overbreadth plea-agreement supervised-release third-party-notification vagueness Whether the standard federal supervision condition requiring third-party risk notification is unconstitutional for its vagueness, overbreadth, and vio…
19-8536 In Re Robert P. Russell 2020-05-26 Dismissed IFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-constitutional-right federal-crime federal-habeas habeas-corpus liberty-interest liberty-interests murder-conviction retroactive-application statutory-interpretation successive-motions Whether Petitioner Robert Peter Russell retains a federal constitutional right to be released from federal prison upon existing record of uncontrovert…
19-8310 Michael R. Haynes v. Colette S. Peters, Director, Oregon Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-rule civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts legal-fiction liberty-interests Whether a U.S. citizen can be denied U.S. constitutional rights through fraud or unlawful extension of authority
19-7082 Mark J. Lipski v. Maine Maine 2019-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-protection conviction-consequences criminal-procedure due-process economic-disadvantage indigent-defense ineffective-assistance judicial-oath legal-ethics legal-representation liberty-interests right-to-counsel state-prosecution Was the right to counsel waived?
19-5468 Tara Glass v. United States Third Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications fair-trial judicial-complaint judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct liberty-interest liberty-interests right-to-marry supervised-release Whether a Chief Circuit Judge should be required to notify a criminal Defendant once a non-party submits a pre-trial judicial misconduct complaint as …
18-9113 Glen Moore v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied IFP access-to-courts double-jeopardy due-process liberty-interests parole parole-revocation retroactive-law retroactive-punishment standing Do Texas Board of Parole have the constitutional authority to change laws or to take away a prisoner's liberty interests without due process of law?
18-869 Shawn Hall Lecuona v. Mark R. Lecuona Texas 2019-01-08 Denied Relisted (2) conscience constitutional-protection due-process fourteenth-amendment liberty-interests marriage marriage-rights no-fault-divorce personal-identity religion texas-family-code Does section 6.001 of the Texas Family Code violate Petitioner's fundamental liberty interests protected by the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process cla…
18-527 Frank Straub v. City of Spokane, Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-22 Denied Response Waived at-will-employment at-will-termination constitutional-rights due-process employment free-speech government-employee government-employment internet-publication liberty-interest liberty-interests reputation stigma stigma-damage Whether a government must provide notice and an opportunity to respond before publishing professionally crippling charges against an employee during a…
18-5370 Thomas Juresic v. Illinois Illinois 2018-07-26 Denied IFP civil-commitment custody due-process equal-protection liberty-interests null-and-void personal-jurisdiction sentencing-court statutory-provisions Does a civil commitment court have the constitutional authority to usurp custody and personal jurisdiction over a person prior to the expiration of th…
18-5136 Francisco Illarramendi v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. Second Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii-standing civil-procedure civil-proceeding constitutional-liberty constitutional-property constitutional-property-rights constitutional-rights district-court inextricably-intertwined liberty-interests parallel-criminal-proceeding property-rights Can Article III standing be denied to a defendant in a civil proceeding who objects to district court rulings that directly affect the defendant's con…