prison-access
7 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A320 | Phillip Michael Giles v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-19 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights effective-assistance legal-research prison-access sixth-amendment speedy-trial | Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel and speedy trial was violated when the petitioner was denied adequate access to l… | |
| 23A721 | William H. Baker v. Angela Hunsinger-Stuff, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-02-05 | Presumed Complete | due-process habeas-corpus law-library prison-access pro-se writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se prisoner's limited access to prison law library services constitutes a due process violation that warrants an extension of time to fi… | |
| 23-5286 | Frederick Dwight Green v. Aimee Smith, Warden, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-08-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-procedure cell-phones civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process gang-violence legal-materials prison-access prison-conditions prisoner-rights standing | Does this Court consider widespread staff shortages in Georgia prisons that have led to prisoners being severely attacked by 'affiliated gang offender… |
| 22-694 | Jermaine Andra Whitaker v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-restrictions due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prison-access prison-law-library statute-of-limitations | Whether the 11th circuit Court erred in determining that the covid-19 pandemic, which led to the quarantine of the Wheeler Correctional Facility for m… |
| 21-5536 | Eddie Dewayne Lee v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections | Tenth Circuit | 2021-08-31 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure constitutional-rights equitable-tolling filing-deadline habeas-corpus legal-library prison-access procedural-barriers | Should a criminal defendant be afforded Equitable Tolling of the One Year Filing Deadline for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 USC 2254 when the priso… |
| 20-8250 | Nathaniel Howard Thomas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-courts appeal appellate-rights civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 due-process federal-prisons legal-resources prison-access prisoner-litigation | Was the petitioner denied due process of law during the COVID-19 pandemic due to federal prison closures? |
| 18-9207 | Leon Markel Winston v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections | Tenth Circuit | 2019-05-09 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2254 constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling filing-deadline habeas-corpus legal-assistance one-year-filing-deadline prison-access prison-law-library | Should a criminal defendant that can demonstrate that he has been diligently pursuing a writ of habeas corpus be afforded Equitable Tolling of the One… |