merits-adjudication
11 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-430 | Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. v. Yassir Fazaga, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-08 | GVR | Relisted (9) | district-court judicial-review merits-adjudication ninth-circuit privileged-information state-secrets-privilege | Whether dismissal of a claim after assertion of the state-secrets privilege requires a district court to adjudicate the merits of the claim using the … |
| 24-6433 | Jesus C. Gonzalez v. Dan Cromwell, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2025-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process federal-claim ineffective-assistance merits-adjudication procedural-default state-court | Where the defendant raises a federal due process claim, and only a federal due process claim, in the State circuit court, the State appellate court, a… |
| 23-1004 | Moises Sandoval Mendoza v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-13 | Denied | capital-punishment capital-sentencing due-process federal-court fifth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance merits-adjudication section-2254 state-court | 1. Whether a federal claim is "adjudicated on the merits" in state court under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) so long as the state court resolves the claim on su… | |
| 20-5802 | Timothy W. Saunders v. Terry Raybon, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-25 | Denied | IFP | due-process exhausted-claim exhaustion federal-habeas federal-habeas-review martinez-v-ryan merits-adjudication post-conviction post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court-deference state-court-proceedings | What deference, if any, is due to a state court decision on an exhausted post-conviction claim when the decision arises from a system that does not gi… |
| 19-8179 | In Re Harold Wayne Nichols | 2020-04-03 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2244 capital-defendant court-of-appeals habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits merits-adjudication retroactive-law statutory-interpretation successive-petitions | 1. When a capital defendant requests from a court of appeals authorization to file in a district court a second or successive habeas petition presenti… | |
| 19-5292 | Franky Joseph v. Florida | Florida | 2019-07-23 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-review due-process eighth-amendment federal-constitutional-claim judicial-integrity leblanc leblanc-v-virginia merits-adjudication state-v-michel state-vs-michel supreme-court-interpretation | Does the Florida Supreme Court's contrary and broad reading of LeBlanc infringe upon Petitioner's Constitutional right to have a meaningful review of … |
| 18-9059 | Geary Gilmore v. Shirlee Harry, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-05-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure merits-adjudication sixth-circuit standard-of-review supervisory-power | I. Whether The United States Court Of Appeals For The Sixth Circuit Violated The Procedure Prescribed By 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2) And Imposed An Imprope… |
| 18-8816 | Charles Ray Hooper v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2253 brady-violation certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus merits-adjudication miller-el voluntariness | Where an appellate court, in connection with an application for a Certificate of Appealability ("COA"), decides that circuit precedent precludes the u… |
| 18-7741 | Robert Sills v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion merits-adjudication merits-review | 1. Whether the Court of Appeals' denial of the petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability ("COA") wasimproper where it sidestepped the CO… |
| 18-7333 | DeShawn Maurice Moffett v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appealability appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction merits-adjudication standing writ-of-certiorari | Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals apply an incorrect standard when denying Petitioner's Request For a Certificate of Appealability (COA), and fur… |
| 18-6258 | Steven Lazar v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-10-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aedpa aedpa-standard confession confession-voluntariness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-adjudication reliability standard-of-review third-circuit-review voluntariness | Did not the Pennsylvania state courts and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals convolute the difference between a confession's voluntariness and its rel… |