| 25-6336 |
Joshua J. Lewandowski v. Jefferey Perkins, Superintendent, Coyote Ridge Corrections Center |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-11 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights effective-assistance-counsel fetal-alcohol-syndrome guilty-plea mental-disability sixth-amendment |
A. Does the Sixth Amendment to the United State Constitution require Defense Counsel to ensure A mentally disabled defendants guilty plea tod of Congr… |
| 25A273 |
Thomas Bryon Cattell v. Victoria Deeks, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-09 |
Presumed Complete |
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abuse-of-discretion autism continuance due-process mental-disability pro-se |
Whether a court abuses its discretion in denying a continuance or mistrial for a mentally disabled civil litigant without showing actual prejudice at … |
| 25-5523 |
Mohamed A. Ibrahim v. Allison L. Lynn |
Maryland |
2025-09-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-settlement mental-disability procedural-safeguards |
1- Whether a Maryland state courts' failure to recognize and accommodate a documented mental disability who is suffering from:
A- Dementia and Alzhei… |
| 24-6679 |
Chance Blackman v. Theresa Cisneros, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
agency-principles circuit-split equitable-tolling habeas-corpus legal-assistance mental-disability |
Whether agency principles apply when a severely mentally and physically disabled inmate relies on an incarcerated, non-lawyer advocate for legal assis… |
| 24-6106 |
In Re Freeman William Stanton |
|
2024-12-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
concurrent-sentences guilty-plea ineffective-counsel mental-disability plea-agreement resentencing |
Whether the petitioner is entitled to resentencing based on ineffective counsel, plea agreement terms, and mental disability claims |
| 24-5985 |
Tara Dawn Chapman v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services |
Tennessee |
2024-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
americans-with-disabilities-act fundamental-rights guardianship mental-disability parental-rights state-court |
Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) applies to termination of parental rights cases and protects parents with mental disabilities from l… |
| 22-7799 |
Gregory Smith v. Patricia Thompson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-06-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-disability mental-illness pro-se pro-se-defendant |
Should a certificate of appealability issue to debate the matter of counsel being appointed to aid a pro se defendant suffering from retardation and m… |
| 22-7265 |
Allen Franks v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3.850-motion civil-procedure due-process government-fraud ineffective-counsel mental-capacity mental-disability plea-bargaining plea-process post-conviction-relief standing |
Whether petitioner was denied due process when trial court failed to allow the petitioner an opportunity to file a reply to state's response on petiti… |
| 22-143 |
Jada Ku v. Great Falls Public Library |
Montana |
2022-08-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
accommodation civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process legal-representation mental-disability public-library supreme-court |
Can the Great Falls Public Library discriminate against me because of my mental disability? |
| 22-141 |
Michelle McDonald-Witherspoon, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Kenyada Jones v. Amber Browne, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-08-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights disability due-process equal-protection mental-disability mental-health probation-officer section-1983 |
Whether a probation officer's actions violate the disabled person's rights under the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment, giving rise to a c… |
| 22-45 |
Jada Ku v. Great Falls Public Schools |
Montana |
2022-07-18 |
Denied |
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civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-accommodation legal-representation mental-disability public-education school-discrimination standing supreme-court-procedure |
Can the Great Falls Public Schools discriminate against me because of my mental disability? |
| 21-6765 |
Hitoshi Ombe v. George Cook, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-01-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-liberty due-process equitable-tolling fifth-amendment mental-disability pro-se pro-se-litigant |
How the Court should respond to pro se litigant with mild mental disability, e.g., highly functional autism disability (i.e., least severe autism spec… |
| 21-6333 |
Eddy Jean Philippeaux v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2021-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment disability-process due-process mental-disability military-discharge traumatic-brain-injury |
Is the Secretary of the Department of Defense or the respective Secretary of the Military Branch of Service of the U.S. Armed Forces or the Servicemem… |
| 20-1527 |
Michelle Stopyra Yaney v. State Bar of California |
California |
2021-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process effective-communication government-agency mental-disability reasonable-accommodation reasonable-modification |
Is communication to facilitate understanding regarding procedure by one who suffers from a mental disability, such as anxiety disorder, a statutory re… |
| 20-1504 |
J. L., a Child v. Kate Halamay, et al. |
Washington |
2021-04-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
americans-with-disabilities-act attorney-representation civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment informed-consent legal-representation mental-disability |
Did the courts violate the ADA by refusing to allow an attorney to represent a mentally disabled person? |
| 20-7364 |
James Baldwin v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel equal-protection ineffective-assistance mental-disability sixth-amendment |
Whether Appellant was denied rights under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 20-6106 |
Rafael Cruz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights coerced-confession criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance mental-disability plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment voluntariness |
Whether the district court erred in denying the defendant's request for a certificate of innocence, when the defendant had pled guilty to 'hostage tak… |
| 19-7543 |
Earl Osborn v. Christopher Williams, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law administrative-remedies civil-rights corrections-department disability-accommodation disability-rights due-process inmate-rights medical-treatment mental-disability mental-health prisoner-rights standing summary-judgment |
Whether the Supreme Court should eliminate the requirement for an individualized, fact-specific determination regarding the availability of administra… |
| 19-5191 |
Kenneth Byron Davenport v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-determination criminal-procedure individualized-sentencing juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing mental-disability mental-health mental-health-and-mental-retardation-act mental-illness miller-v-alabama post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act schizophrenia |
Does the legal 'right' recognized in Miller v. Alabama include all substantive components necessary to its creation, including the well-established ra… |
| 18-9644 |
Jeffrey Castleberry v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion mental-disabilities mental-disability reasonable-accommodations retroactive-application sentencing state-courts |
Does the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) require State trial courts to make reasonable accommodations for persons with mental disabilities? |
| 18-7850 |
Larry Howard v. Daniel Lesatz, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process exhaustion exhaustion-of-remedies judicial-review mental-disability pro-se standing |
Whether the exhaustion of legal assistance measures, especially in the case of a mentally disabled defendant, can conclusively overcome the respondent… |
| 18-6391 |
Matthew Vaughn Hawks v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure mental-disability plain-error sentencing sentencing-disparity sentencing-reasonableness substantial-rights united-states-v-olano |
whether-the-eleventh-circuit-misapplied-fed-r-crim-p-52(b)-and-united-states-v-olano |
| 18-5616 |
Robert Earl Clayborne, Jr. v. Nebraska |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights competency competency-hearing criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel mental-disability mental-health prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the petitioner was denied due process and effective assistance of counsel when the state court refused to hold a competency hearing despite ev… |
| 18-5328 |
Muffin Anderson v. Susan A. Larsen |
Washington |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fair-hearing jury-trial mental-capacity mental-disability physical-capacity procedural-fairness stare-decisis summary-judgment |
Did the trial court violate the Americans with Disabilities Act and the plaintiff's constitutional rights when it denied the plaintiff's request for a… |