pretrial-detention

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25-952 Brij Mohan, et al. v. Jordan Watkins Seventh Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending bivens-claim constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment inmate-rights pretrial-detention In Carlson v. Green, 446 U.S. 14 (1980), this Court recognized a cause of action under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcoti…
25A798 Gavin Blake Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-01-09 Application bail-reform-act constitutional-rights due-process presumption-of-innocence pretrial-detention sixth-amendment Is the timely and proper movement before the trial court for production and inspection of grand jury proceedings available for interlocutory appellate…
25-6430 Jesse Michael Holliday v. California California 2025-12-23 Pending IFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct pretrial-detention state-court-review 1) Whether the due process rights of the petitioner were violated when he was subjected to multiple pretrial assaults/batteries/maiming by deputies a…
25A578 Edgal Iribhogbe v. C. Lepe, Warden Fifth Circuit 2025-11-17 Application case-or-controversy habeas-corpus jurisdictional-dismissal mootness pretrial-detention section-2241 Whether a federal prisoner's appeal of a § 2241 petition challenging pretrial detention becomes moot upon conviction and sentencing
25-5107 Markos Pappas v. United States Second Circuit 2025-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail-reform-act constitutional-challenge detention-conditions due-process federal-courts pretrial-detention Whether the Bail Reform Act of 1984 is facially unconstitutional due to its lack of maximum detention duration, minimum conditions standards, and peri…
24A1286 Dion Horton, et al. v. Jill Rangos, Administrative Judge, et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-26 Presumed Complete bail-hearing constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fundamental-liberty pretrial-detention Whether prolonged pretrial detention without individualized bail hearings violates the constitutional right to due process and equal protection
24-7315 Kenyon Lamonte Watson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail-reform-act criminal-procedure fifth-amendment grand-jury pretrial-detention res-judicata Whether the government can seek pretrial detention in a second related prosecution after a magistrate judge has previously denied detention and ordere…
24-6261 Thaddeus J. Culpepper v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waiver constitutional-rights guilty-plea plea-agreement pretrial-detention voluntariness Does an appellate waiver in a plea agreement, that specifically excepts challenges to the voluntariness of a guilty plea, bar the appellate argument t…
24A229 Nadege Auguste v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-03 Presumed Complete bail-hearing constitutional-rights criminal-defendant due-process liberty-interest pretrial-detention Whether pretrial detention without a bail hearing violates a criminal defendant's constitutional right to due process and liberty interest
24-5125 Corvin J. Young v. Spartanburg County Detention Facility, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-07-23 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment federal-custody habeas-corpus medical-treatment pretrial-detention prison-conditions prisoner-rights Question not identified
23A986 Dwight Russell, et al. v. Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-03 Presumed Complete fundamental-rights judicial-review legislative-intervention liberty-interest mootness pretrial-detention Whether legislation enacted during ongoing litigation can moot the underlying claims when the legislation does not provide the complete relief origina…
23-7365 Cory Jermaine White v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3142 bail-reform-act flight-risk judicial-finding judicial-hearing pretrial-detention release-conditions serious-flight-risk statutory-interpretation Under the Bail Reform Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3142, must a judicial finding of serious flight risk, §3142(f)(2)(A), precede imposition of release conditions …
23-1097 J. D. Hartman, Individually and in his Official Capacity as Sheriff of Davie County, North Carolina, et al. v. Charles Willis Short, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Victoria Christine Short Fourth Circuit 2024-04-09 Denied Amici (1) 8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment objective-knowledge pretrial-detainee pretrial-detention prison-officials Whether a pretrial detainee alleging deliberate-indifference must prove the defendant actually-knew of a significant-risk-of-harm or instead must prov…
23-6496 Irvin Harris Johnson v. United States District of Columbia 2024-01-17 Denied IFP attorney-client-privilege criminal-procedure evidence-seizure prejudice pretrial-detention right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-evidence work-product-doctrine work-product-privilege Whether the government's seizure and use at trial of a pretrial detainee's notes reflecting his defense strategy for discussion with counsel violates …
23-5931 Donald Lee Kissner v. Joseph Michael Orr, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-01 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony judicial-error medical-care ninth-circuit pretrial-detention qualified-immunity Did the Sixth Circuit United States Court of Appeals commit clear error when it stated that Mr. Kissner did not show deliberate indifference to seriou…
23-5764 Kevin Lynn Tucker v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process nolle-prosequi nolle-prossed plea-agreement pretrial-detention sentencing sentencing-credit substantive-reasonableness waiver Whether the District Court's failure to give credit in sentencing for state pretrial detention on subsequently nolle prossed 'related' charges created…
23-291 Edward Little, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Andre' Doguet, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts presumptively-innocent pretrial-detention standing younger-abstention Whether Younger v. Harris requires federal courts to abstain from adjudicating constitutional challenges to pretrial detention
23-5404 Grace Woodham v. New Hampshire New Hampshire 2023-08-21 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights competency-to-stand-trial constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-jurisdiction mental-health-treatment pretrial-detention Whether the appellate and trial counsel provided ineffective assistance in violation of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel
23-5322 Tommie Doward Weathers, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fault-determination pretrial-confinement pretrial-detention release-from-confinement speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation Meaning of 'fault' in 18 U.S.C. § 3164(c)
23-97 Shannon Daves, et al., on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated v. Dallas County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-02 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review mootness pretrial-detention standing younger-abstention Whether Younger v. Harvis and its progeny require federal courts to abstain from adjudicating petitioners' constitutional challenges
23-5116 Jeremy David Adams v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP bond-motion continuance continuance-exclusion party-presentation-principle plain-error-review pretrial-detention pretrial-release sixth-circuit-rule speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation Question not identified
22-7785 Christopher Lewis Tucker v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process forcible-medication involuntary-medication judicial-discretion mental-competency mental-health pretrial-custody pretrial-detention sell-standard Whether a district court may order forcible medication under Sell v. United States when (1) record evidence shows that the government has already trie…
21-8249 Sammy L. Page v. Audrey King, Acting Executive Director, California Department of Mental Health Ninth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 circuit-court due-process habeas-corpus party-presentation pretrial-detention statutory-interpretation Does a circuit court abuse its discretion and violate the party-presentation principle by adjudicating a habeas-corpus-petition under 28-usc-2254 when…
21-7664 Luis Alonso Sam-Pena v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-04-20 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP bail-reform-act danger defendant-rights due-process flight-risk judicial-discretion pretrial-detention pretrial-services release-conditions Whether a judicial officer may order pretrial detention without finding that the defendant falls into one of the 'serious' cases in which Congress has…
21-7555 Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Nevada Nevada 2022-04-05 Denied IFP double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel liberty-interest pretrial-detainee pretrial-detention reversed-conviction state-statute unlawful-restraint Whether the liberty interest created by state statute extends to prisoners whose convictions are reversed and remanded back to the class as pretrial d…
21-1210 Scott County, Tennessee v. Tammy Brawner Sixth Circuit 2022-03-04 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process medical-care objective-standard pretrial-detainee pretrial-detention subjective-test Whether this Court should apply the subjective test for deliberate indifference set forth in Farmer v. Brennan to claims by pretrial detainees of inad…
21-700 Keith Smith v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-11-12 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 42-usc-1983 accrual-rule bail bail-conditions circuit-split civil-rights fourth-amendment legal-procedure pretrial-detention seizure seizure-definition Does a claim for wrongful pre-trial detention accrue upon favorable termination or release on bail?
21-5777 Vance Keith Wilson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-09-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment bail civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-challenge judicial-discretion pretrial-detention Whether a district court can, sua sponte and without any question of suspicion, order a pretrial defendant to urinate in front of a bailiff as a condi…
21-5252 Jason Robert Twardzik v. North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2021-07-29 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process grand-jury habeas-corpus mental-competency pretrial-detention state-harassment Is it state harassment and is there potential for state harassment when a pretrial detainee cannot seek relief for insufficient grand jury minutes bec…
21-116 Missouri, ex rel. Michalene Hagan v. Milan Berry, Judge, 45th Judicial Circuit, Pike County, Missouri, et al. Missouri 2021-07-28 Denied criminal-procedure due-process excessive-bail federal-constitution missouri-constitution pretrial-detention Whether the Excessive Bail Clauses are preempted or stayed due to Missouri Supreme Court Rule 33
21-5109 Everett Jerome Tripodis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal appellate-review bail-reform-act dangerousness due-process non-dangerous-offense pretrial-detention prolonged-detention statutory-interpretation whether-court-must-resolve-legal-questions
20-1788 City of New York, New York, et al. v. Jarrett Frost Second Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-fabrication fourth-amendment pretrial-detention probable-cause section-1983 Whether a § 1983 plaintiff may pursue a due process-based claim challenging a pretrial detention supported by probable cause, independent of the dispu…
20-7385 William F. Kaetz v. United States Third Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail-conditions community-safety constitutional-rights covid-19 covid-19-considerations due-process pre-trial-detention pretrial-detention public-safety sentencing Whether Petitioner is entitled to release pending trial
20-689 Michael Lee Foster v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-11-18 Denied Response Waived bail-reform-act covid-19 covid-19-pandemic due-process excessive-bail internet-offenses internet-related-offenses presumption-of-detention pretrial-detention Whether a categorical presumption of pretrial detention for internet-related offenses violates the Bail Reform Act and the Due Process and Excessive B…
20-6360 Robert Hughes Wilkins v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-review civil-rights detainee-rights due-process health-conditions interlocutory-appeal pandemic-considerations pretrial-detention pretrial-release public-health Whether the Circuit Court Erred Failing To Reverse District Court's Denial of Pretrial Release Conditions to Health Compromised Pretrial Detainee on I…
20-5913 Bradley M. Cox v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail-reform-act constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standards factors-for-detention presumption-of-innocence pretrial-detention release-conditions witness-testimony Whether the lower courts used the provisions of the Bail Reform Act in a manner contrary to the constitutional right to bail?
20-5752 Christopher Aundre Faulkner, aka Christopher A. Faulkner v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discovery discovery-obligations due-process fifth-amendment government-diligence government-misconduct pretrial-detention Whether a prolonged length of pretrial detention violates the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment because the government has failed to exercise …
19-8275 Robert L. Swinton v. United States Second Circuit 2020-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP automatic-exclusion complex-motion due-process pretrial-detention prior-conviction selective-prosecution sixth-amendment speedy-trial structural-error Was there error in the U.S. Sixth Amendment Speedy Trial and Speedy Trial Act assessment of this case?
19-1196 William Johnson v. Paulding County, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-03 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process eleventh-amendment manuel-v-city-of-joliet pre-trial-detention pretrial-detention statute-of-limitations Whether a State's statute of limitations bridling the pursuit of regress for UnConstitutional and illegal pre-trial imprisonment commences 48 hours af…
19-7717 Tarvis M. Wilson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2020-02-20 Denied IFP bail certiorari-petition civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process excessive-bail federal-statute fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge lower-court-conflict pretrial-detention standing supreme-court supreme-court-review Whether the constitutional prohibition on excessive bail, as incorporated through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause, requires a state cour…
19-6035 Luis R. Espinal-Rivera v. United States First Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review bail bail-hearing criminal-procedure detention-review due-process federal-jurisdiction presumption-of-innocence pretrial-detention rebuttal statutory-presumption statutory-presumptions Whether bail should have been granted in this case as the petitioner rebutted the statutory presumptions
19-5786 Joshua George Nowland v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction barker-v-wingo civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction prejudice pretrial-detention speedy-trial Is oppressive pretrial incarceration still an important aspect of the Barker balancing test?
18-9714 John Stephen Routt v. Latanya Howard, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights conditions-of-confinement constitutional-rights disciplinary-segregation due-process eighth-amendment elder-v-holloway pretrial-detention qualified-immunity standing Is a Defendant entitled to qualified immunity when a Petitioner cites the 'squarely governing' case through a quote of a case with similar facts?
18-9359 Emmanuel Diaz v. New York New York 2019-05-20 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process fourth-amendment pretrial-detainee pretrial-detention prison prison-security recordings search-and-seizure telephone telephone-recording telephone-recordings warrant-requirement Whether absent a warrant, notice, or suspicion the Fourth Amendment permits the government to obtain recordings of telephone conversations from pretri…
18-8196 Larry R. Tart v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied IFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection forensic-evaluation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medication medication-consent mental-health pretrial-detention solitary-confinement Where the petitioner was unknowingly administered multiple mental health medications while in pre-trial confinement, resulting in incompetence to unde…
18-1093 City of Joliet, Illinois, et al. v. Elijah Manuel Seventh Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 accrual accrual-rule civil-rights fourth-amendment judicial-procedure manuel-v-city-of-joliet pretrial-detention section-1983 Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in holding that a Fourth Amendment claim for unlawful post-process, pretrial detention brought pursuant to §1983 is …
18-7280 Michael Wappler v. Wayne Ivey, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied IFP civil-rights confinement-conditions constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pre-trial-detention pretrial-detention standing three-strikes-rule Was petitioner, an indigent pretrial detainee, prevented from challenging pretrial conditions of confinement by the improper assessment of a 'strike' …
18-814 Maurice Walker, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. City of Calhoun, Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Amici (4) bail bail-policy civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment indigent-rights misdemeanor poverty pretrial-detention Whether heightened scrutiny under the Fourteenth Amendment applies to a government policy that keeps misdemeanor and traffic-offense arrestees in jail…
18-7058 Jose Joaquin Ramirez v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment bail-denial civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony flight-risk mental-health pretrial-detention Whether the denial of bail for over 15 months on an individual who has no documented history of felony, prior acts of violence, and no history of flig…
18-760 Oberist Lee Saunders v. Wayne Ivey, Sheriff, Brevard County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied civil-rights conditions-of-confinement constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment hutto-v-finney kingsley-v-hendrickson pretrial-detention qualified-immunity rhodes-v-chapman sanitation-standards Whether the Fourteenth Amendment conditions-of-confinement claim should be evaluated under an objective or subjective standard
18-396 Brittan Holland, et al. v. Kelly Rosen, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived bail bail-reform-act criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fourth-amendment monetary-bail new-jersey pretrial-detention pretrial-liberty restrictive-conditions Whether New Jersey's law prohibiting courts from considering monetary bail unless no combination of non-monetary conditions will reasonably assure the…
18-391 Arizona v. Guy James Goodman Arizona 2018-09-27 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) adversarial-hearing bail-denial bail-restrictions clear-proof criminal-procedure due-process facial-unconstitutionality pretrial-detention salerno sexual-assault united-states-v-salerno Did the Arizona Supreme Court err in holding that United States v. Salerno, 481 U.S. 739 (1987), prohibits a State from denying bail to an arrestee wh…
18-6091 In Re Steven A. Walcott, Jr. 2018-09-25 Denied IFP bail civil-rights criminal-procedure detention due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pretrial-detention release speedy-trial Whether the State of Louisiana violated the petitioner's constitutional rights
18-5995 Nathaniel R. Webb v. Donnie Harrison, Sheriff, Wake County, North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied IFP abstention-doctrine circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-bail fourth-circuit habeas-corpus pretrial-detention speedy-trial younger-abstention Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision in Arevalo v. Hennessy, 882 F.3d 763 (9th Cir. 2018), which held that the Younger abstention doctrine does not ap…
18-5617 Gregory Bartunek v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3142 18-usc-3156 bail bail-denial constitutional-violations crimes-of-violence detention detention-order due-process presumption-of-innocence pretrial-detention speedy-trial Is it unconstitutional for the legislature to define all Chapter 110 crimes of 18 United States Code (18 U.S.C.), in particular § 2252, and 2252A, as …
18-5346 Roger Wilson v. United States Third Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-bail free-speech pretrial-detention speedy-trial standing Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive bail and cruel and unusual punishment was violated when the petitioner was detained for 10 mon…
18-5155 Omar Qazi v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail-reform bail-reform-act constitutional-rights dangerousness due-process pre-trial-detention pretrial-detention sentencing-guidelines speedy-trial speedy-trial-act Whether the excessive prolonged detention of the petitioner has become punitive in violation of the Due Process Clause
18-7 Choctaw County, Mississippi, et al. v. Jessica Jauch Fifth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (4) 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 capias county-liability due-process fourteenth-amendment pretrial-detention procedural-due-process qualified-immunity section-1983 Whether a pretrial detainee's procedural due process rights were violated