mailbox-rule

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-187 Serafim Georgios Katergaris v. City of New York, New York Second Circuit 2025-08-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) burden-of-proof circuit-split evidentiary-presumption federal-rule-of-evidence mailbox-rule state-law-preemption In 2021, Petitioner discovered that New York City had issued him a notice of violation in 2015. When he filed this lawsuit to challenge the constituti…
24A1137 Braun Thompson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-05-22 Presumed Complete due-process first-amendment legal-mail mailbox-rule prisoner-rights supreme-court Whether the First Amendment protects a prisoner's right to timely and unimpeded legal mail communication with courts and legal counsel
23-7077 Wayne M. English v. Lowell T. Cage, as Trustee Fifth Circuit 2024-03-26 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court-clerk judicial-jurisdiction mail-delivery mailbox-rule postal-service pro-se-litigation timely-filing Whether the Fifth Circuit's dismissal of the petitioner's appeal as untimely conflicts with the 'mailbox rule' established by this Court and other cir…
23-6429 Jan M. Gawlik v. Scott Semple, et al. Second Circuit 2024-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-remedies due-process free-exercise free-exercise-clause mailbox-rule property-rights religious-exercise rluipa summary-judgment Whether the Connecticut district court improperly applied the 'mailbox rule' in dismissing the plaintiff's timely administrative remedies/exhaustion c…
23-6273 Eugene Lucas v. J. N. Ottinger, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-15 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure diligence due-process judicial-discretion legal-filing mailbox-rule prison-mailbox-rule prisoner-filing prisoner-rights procedural-diligence Can a district Court negate the Prison mailbox rule by finding A prisoner did not show diligence
23A537 Armin Wand, III v. Becky Kramer, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-12-12 Presumed Complete extension-of-time incarcerated-litigant mailbox-rule pro-se supreme-court-rules writ-of-certiorari Whether a pro se incarcerated litigant's application for an extension of time to file a writ of certiorari should be granted under extraordinary circu…
22-6939 Francisco Flores v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied IFP appellate-procedure circuit-court constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-appeals federal-review habeas-corpus mailbox-rule procedural-default Whether a state habeas petitioner's pleading was timely filed under the mailbox rule
22-5240 Robert C. Del Cid v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-01 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-taint counsel-of-choice due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mailbox-rule standing voir-dire Whether the mailbox rule entitles petitioner for equitable tolling
21-221 Blake Cretacci v. Joe Call, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-08-16 Denied civil-rights counsel-communication court-of-appeals-split due-process federal-law legal-representation mailbox-rule prisoner-filing prisoner-representation pro-se-filing standing Whether a prisoner who submits a filing through the prison mail system loses the benefit of the mailbox rule if he has counsel?
20-7657 David Erike MacLloyd v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-appellate-procedure mailbox-rule notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-standard standing Should a Writ of Certiorari Issue because the Sixth Circuit failed to apply the Pro-Se-Litigant-Standard to a Pro-Se-Defendant's-Pleadings
20-6229 Jerry Earl Johnson v. Erin McReynolds Nevada 2020-11-05 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process mailbox-rule pro-se-litigant statute-of-limitations Does the mailbox rule apply to filing of the complaint when a pro se litigant submits the civil complaint to the prison law library to be mailed via U…
19-7582 Raul Arellano v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied IFP circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure mailbox-rule ninth-circuit petition-reconsideration prisoner-rights standing Question not identified
19-488 Steven T. Waltner, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2019-10-15 Denied Relisted (2) administrative-law administrative-regulation certified-mail circuit-split common-law-mailbox-rule due-process-challenge irc-section-7502 mailbox-rule postmark statutory-interpretation tax-court tax-filing Whether the Ninth Circuit incorrectly held that under 26 CFR §301.7502-1(e) the common-law mailbox rule no longer is available to establish timely fil…
19-5210 Therian Wimbush v. Christopher M. Carr, Attorney General of Georgia, et al. Georgia 2019-07-17 Denied IFP access-to-courts appeal appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights discretionary-appeal due-process georgia-court-of-appeals georgia-courts incarceration jurisdiction mailbox-rule parental-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant time-limitation Should the 'Mailbox Rule' be extended to all notices of appeal that must be filed in the trial court, filed by pro se incarcerated litigants?
19-5068 Willie J. Trimble, Jr. v. Mathew Hansen, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 due-process federal-holidays fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus implicit-conclusion mailbox-rule party-presentation time-limitation Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeal(s) decision was in contrary with U.S. Supreme Court precedent
18-8929 In Re Lavont Flanders, Jr. 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process habeas-corpus indictment-amendment mailbox-rule postal-service-error pro-se-filing pro-se-prisoner procedural-due-process right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to counsel was violated when the indictment was amended during a critical stage of the proceedings with…
18-1260 Jessica Cooke v. United States Second Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied administrative-claims administrative-law circuit-split civil-procedure claim-filing common-law federal-tort-claims-act legal-procedure mailbox-rule standing statutory-interpretation Whether the common-law 'mailbox rule' applies to claims brought under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2675(a)
18-8595 Charles Kenneth Wallace, Sr. v. Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections Louisiana 2019-03-27 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights court-rules due-process filing-deadline free-speech legal-procedure mailbox-rule petition-timing standing takings Did the 5th Circuit deny certiorari as untimely, when under mailbox rule is timely filed?
18-8545 Debra Ann Lohri v. Specialized Loan Servicing, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-procedure bankruptcy civil-procedure due-process filing-deadline government-agencies mailbox-rule notice-timeliness procedural-technicality statutory-interpretation Whether the mailbox rule should apply to bankruptcy filings
18-8096 Antonio R. Hall v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure district-court houston-v-lack mailbox-rule notice-of-appeal pro-se timeliness timely-filing Does the presumption of timeliness under Houston v. Lack apply when the petitioner proves timely mailing but the district court did not receive the no…
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?
18-5758 Annamalai Annamalai v. Parvathi Sivanadiyan Fifth Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-procedure-68 dismissal dismissal-with-prejudice federal-rule-68 federal-rule-civil-procedure federal-rules frivolous frivolous-complaint judgment-offer mailbox-rule offer-and-acceptance offer-of-judgment prejudice prison-mailbox-rule prisoner-filing Whether a district court can dismiss a complaint filed under 9 U.S.C.4 as frivolous and can dismiss with prejudice, after the mailing of an unconditio…