medical-standards
8 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A118 | Byron Lewis Black v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2025-07-28 | Denied | atkins-claim death-penalty eighth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-scores medical-standards | Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of an individual with intellectual disability when their IQ scores and diagnostic evidence demons… | |
| 24-5646 | Lisa Hofschulz, et vir v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-09-26 | Denied | IFP | administrative-law controlled-substances-act criminal-statute medical-standards mens-rea prescription-authorization | Whether Congress delegated authority to the Attorney General to define 'effective prescription' under the Controlled Substances Act and whether a pres… |
| 24-5578 | Randy Lamartiniere v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-09-19 | Denied | IFP | administrative-delegation controlled-substances-act criminal-statute medical-standards mens-rea prescription-authorization | Whether Congress delegated authority to the Attorney General to define 'effective prescription' under the Controlled Substances Act and what mens rea … |
| 23-6383 | Guillermo Octavio Arbelaez v. Florida, et al. | Florida | 2023-12-28 | Denied | IFP | atkins-v-virginia constitutional-law death-penalty eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability medical-standards retroactivity teague-rule teague-v-lane | Whether Hall's holding that the 3-pronged test for assessing intellectual disability must be informed by prevailing medical practice and standards ann… |
| 21-466 | Eric DeWayne Cathey v. Texas | Texas | 2021-09-28 | Denied | Amici (1) | capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability medical-criteria medical-standards precedent supreme-court-precedent | Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals contravened the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments and this Court's precedents in rejecting a trial court's … |
| 19-7456 | Taurus Carroll v. Alabama | Alabama | 2020-01-28 | Denied | IFP | atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia brumfield-v-cain capital-punishment current-medical-standards eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability medical-standards moore-v-texas supreme-court-review | Does the Alabama Supreme Court's continued reliance upon evidence that fails to adhere to current medical standards in rejecting Mr. Carroll's claim o… |
| 18-443 | Bobby James Moore v. Texas | Texas | 2018-10-09 | Denied | Amici (3)Relisted (5) | capital-punishment clinical-criteria clinical-standards criminal-procedure eighth-amendment intellectual-disability lay-stereotypes medical-standards moore-v-texas | Whether the Eighth Amendment and this Court's decision in Moore v. Texas, 137 S. Ct. 1039 (2017) prohibit relying on non-clinical criteria and lay ste… |
| 18-5018 | Kenneth Darcell Quince v. Florida | Florida | 2018-06-28 | Denied | IFP | atkins-v-virginia death-penalty diagnostic-criteria eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability medical-standards moore-v-texas | Whether Florida violated Atkins v. Virginia, Hall v. Florida, Moore v. Texas, and the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments by disregarding medical evidenc… |