prison-access

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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…