prison-mailbox-rule

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A912 Joshua Howard v. Anthony Meli, et al. Seventh Circuit 2026-02-13 Application 28-u.s.c.-§1746 extension-request filing-deadline prison-mailbox-rule pro-se supreme-court Question not identified.
24-5238 Robert Castle v. Daniel Akers, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 aedpa federal-courts habeas-corpus houston-v-lack post-conviction-relief prison-mailbox-rule statute-of-limitations Should Federal Courts apply the prison mailbox rule announced in Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266 (1988) to state post conviction pleadings to commence t…
23-7315 In Re Craig Michael Ralston 2024-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure clerical-error federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure houston-v-lack judicial-review mail-receipt postal-service prison-mailbox-rule timely-filing Is a certified mail receipt and date-stamp from the United States Postal Service along with the Prison Mailroom time-stamp enough to meet the requirem…
23-6273 Eugene Lucas v. J. N. Ottinger, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-15 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure diligence due-process judicial-discretion legal-filing mailbox-rule prison-mailbox-rule prisoner-filing prisoner-rights procedural-diligence Can a district Court negate the Prison mailbox rule by finding A prisoner did not show diligence
23A337 Caesar Mark Capistrano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-13 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure federal-rule-appellate-procedure-4 incarcerated-litigant petition-for-rehearing prison-mailbox-rule timely-filing Whether the prison mailbox rule under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 4(c)(1)(A)(i) and 28 U.S.C. § 1746 requires a federal appellate court to dee…
18-9137 Michael D. Hickingbottom v. Indiana Indiana 2019-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-material civil-procedure civil-procedure-filing-deadlines due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal post-conviction-relief prison-mailbox-rule prosecutorial-misconduct standing Does the prison mailbox rule announced in Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266 (1988) excuse the late filing of the notice of appeals which were filed in the…
18-5758 Annamalai Annamalai v. Parvathi Sivanadiyan Fifth Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-procedure-68 dismissal dismissal-with-prejudice federal-rule-68 federal-rule-civil-procedure federal-rules frivolous frivolous-complaint judgment-offer mailbox-rule offer-and-acceptance offer-of-judgment prejudice prison-mailbox-rule prisoner-filing Whether a district court can dismiss a complaint filed under 9 U.S.C.4 as frivolous and can dismiss with prejudice, after the mailing of an unconditio…
18-5450 Amilcar Rivas-Rivera v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-08-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pcra plea-agreement post-conviction-relief prison-mailbox-rule standing state-law timeliness Whether the Pennsylvania lower court and appellate court's decision dismissing petitioner's second pro se PCRA petition as untimely is contrary to Pen…