| 25-6610 |
Robert Franklin Brown v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2026-01-16 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law due-process legal-access legal-assistance prison-system prisoner-rights |
Whether a prisoner's constitutional right to legal access is violated when prison officials restrict inmates' ability to obtain legal assistance |
| 25A823 |
Brij Mohan, et al. v. Jordan Watkins |
Seventh Circuit |
2026-01-16 |
Application |
|
bivens-remedy due-process eighth-amendment federal-tort-claims-act medical-negligence prisoner-rights |
Whether the Supreme Court should extend the Bivens remedy to a claim of deliberate indifference to medical needs by federal prison medical staff for a… |
| 25-6448 |
Torrence Belcher v. Terri Hale, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-12-30 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
10th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection prisoner-rights state-law |
Whether intervening circumstances affect the continuing validity of a legal rule or policy in the context of prisoner rights and constitutional protec… |
| 25A712 |
Donald Wayne Read v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-12-17 |
Application |
|
constitutional-claim deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-treatment prisoner-rights pro-se |
Whether a pro se prisoner's application for emergency relief challenging medical treatment and record-keeping practices constitutes a viable constitut… |
| 25A699 |
Larry E. Harrison v. Sharon A. Oliver, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-16 |
Application |
|
eighth-amendment hirschsprung-disease incontinence medical-indifference medical-treatment prisoner-rights |
Whether a prison medical staff's deliberate indifference to a prisoner's serious medical condition constitutes a violation of the Eighth Amendment's p… |
| 25-6304 |
John Henry Clemons, III v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-05 |
Pending |
IFP |
constitutional-deprivation due-process first-amendment policy-implementation prisoner-rights property-interest |
Whether prison policies restricting a prisoner's First Amendment rights and property interests can be challenged without fully defining the scope of t… |
| 25A563 |
Rodney Vance Frith v. Kyle Smith |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-14 |
Application |
|
cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment medical-indifference prisoner-rights section-1983 serious-medical-needs |
Whether a prison's alleged deliberate indifference to a prisoner's serious medical needs constitutes a violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition… |
| 25A471 |
Hasib Bin Golamrabbi v. California |
California |
2025-10-24 |
Application |
|
indigent-defendant law-library-access legal-research prisoner-rights pro-se-litigation supreme-court-procedure |
Whether a prison's restrictive law library access policy unconstitutionally impedes an indigent prisoner's ability to prepare and timely file a writ o… |
| 25A292 |
Larce Spikes v. Lesley Wheat, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-minimum deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-care prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires a substantive inquiry into the adequacy of medical treatment provided to prisoners, or if the mere provision of … |
| 25A208 |
Francis Nielsen v. Kekai Watanabe |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
alternative-remedies bivens-action eighth-amendment federal-detention medical-treatment prisoner-rights |
Whether the Supreme Court should recognize a Bivens cause of action for a prisoner's medical treatment claim involving non-life-threatening injuries i… |
| 25A66 |
Gregory Montgomery v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-claims equitable-tolling federal-review habeas-corpus prisoner-rights statute-of-limitations |
Whether a state prisoner may obtain equitable tolling of the one-year statute of limitations for filing a federal habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.… |
| 25-5084 |
Douglas Manning v. Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-07-11 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force prisoner-rights |
Whether a plaintiff's factual allegation of an unprovoked beating by prison staff constitutes a material issue under the Eighth Amendment |
| 25-5061 |
Ronald Johnson v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2025-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law due-process judicial-discretion mitigating-evidence prisoner-rights sentencing |
Whether a state prisoner's due process rights were violated when the sentencing court failed to consider mitigating evidence related to his individual… |
| 25-5033 |
Wade Greely Lay v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2025-07-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-statutes habeas-corpus prisoner-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 24-7491 |
Richard Jordan v. Mississippi State Executioner, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
chemical-paralytic constitutional-challenge eighth-amendment lethal-injection method-of-execution prisoner-rights |
Whether a method-of-execution challenge requires comparing the proposed lethal injection protocol to known alternative methods under the Eighth Amendm… |
| 24-1207 |
Angela Schuncey Richardson v. Krystle Reed Duncan, Corporal |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-05-27 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split coercion eighth-amendment prison-official-liability prisoner-rights sexual-misconduct |
Whether a prisoner challenging a prison official's sexual misconduct must plead that the prisoner's participation was coerced in order to state a clai… |
| 24A1137 |
Braun Thompson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-05-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
due-process first-amendment legal-mail mailbox-rule prisoner-rights supreme-court |
Whether the First Amendment protects a prisoner's right to timely and unimpeded legal mail communication with courts and legal counsel |
| 24-7259 |
In Re Kenja Omari Deangelo Carmichael |
|
2025-05-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-commitment constitutional-violation cruel-unusual-punishment due-process mental-health-examination prisoner-rights |
Whether a prisoner can be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment through continuous harassment and torture by prison staff, and whether civil commi… |
| 24-6925 |
Arthur J. Burton v. Melody Johnson, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-04-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
district-court judicial-discretion motion-procedure prisoner-rights pro-se reconsideration |
Whether a District Judge must rule on a pro se prisoner's motion for reconsideration when filed timely after receipt of judgment |
| 24-6893 |
Jonathan Taum v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment hudson-v-mcmillian prison-guard prisoner-rights |
Did the Ninth Circuit err when it disregarded Petitioner Taum's argument that Hudson v. McMillian was wrongly decided and should be overruled based on… |
| 24-6709 |
Brad Keith Sigmon v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2025-03-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty due-process execution-method lethal-injection prisoner-rights statutory-right |
Does South Carolina's compressed timeline and arbitrary denial of information necessary for a condemned prisoner to exercise his statutory right 'neve… |
| 24-6685 |
Rodney Douglas Eaves v. Ms. Kory, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-03-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
covid-19 eighth-amendment injunctive-relief mootness prisoner-rights pro-se-complaint |
Whether COVID-19 exposure in prison constitutes an Eighth Amendment violation and whether transfer between state institutions moots injunctive relief |
| 24-6486 |
Lucious Boyd v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus prisoner-rights second-petition statutory-interpretation |
Whether § 2244(b)(2) applies to habeas filings after appellate review, to all second-in-time habeas filings, or to some second-in-time filings based o… |
| 24A698 |
Randy W. Duck v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-01-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment method-of-execution prisoner-rights |
Whether a state corrections director's denial of a prisoner's request for a specific method of execution violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition o… |
| 24-6169 |
Deandre Johnson v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-claim first-amendment free-exercise prisoner-rights religious-accommodation |
Whether a Virginia prisoner's First Amendment free exercise claim was improperly dismissed by lower courts when he was denied religious accommodations |
| 24A598 |
Robert E. Carter v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-12-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
emergency-relief habeas-corpus prisoner-rights pro-se stay-of-proceedings supreme-court |
Whether a pro se prisoner's emergency application for a stay of proceedings satisfies the legal standard for extraordinary relief pending potential Su… |
| 24-6122 |
Frank E. Reid v. Corizon Health Services, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-12-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
bodily-harm civil-rights damages-claim incarceration-conditions medical-negligence prisoner-rights |
Whether a prisoner can seek damages for alleged medical negligence that resulted in partial paralysis during incarceration |
| 24A451 |
Emilio Santiago v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-11-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
federal-appeal habeas-corpus prisoner-rights section-2255 supreme-court-procedure time-extension |
Whether a federal prisoner may obtain an extension of time to file a certiorari petition challenging a district court's denial of a Section 2255 motio… |
| 24-5884 |
Sheng-Wen Cheng v. P. Grenier, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bivens-claim constitutional-violation judicial-remedy prison-counselor prisoner-rights right-to-petition |
Whether a Bivens claim against a prison counselor for denying a prisoner's right to petition can be dismissed despite the District Court finding a con… |
| 24A413 |
Edvin Santiagomazariegos v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
court-access institutional-constraints law-library-access legal-research prisoner-rights pro-se-litigant |
Whether a prisoner's limited law library access and restricted legal research time due to institutional constraints constitutes a substantial burden o… |
| 24A394 |
Brian Estrada v. Jacob Smart |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-10-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-exhaustion jury-trial merits-of-claim prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner-rights procedural-exhaustion |
Whether prisoners have a right to a jury trial concerning administrative exhaustion under the Prison Litigation Reform Act where disputed facts regard… |
| 24A354 |
Jessie J. Barnes v. Donald Uhler, Superintendent, Upstate Correctional Facility, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-10-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
conditions-of-confinement cruel-and-unusual deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-care prisoner-rights |
Whether a prison's conditions of confinement and alleged deliberate indifference to a prisoner's medical needs constitute a violation of the Eighth Am… |
| 24-5596 |
Oren Snowden v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release district-court-discretion kidney-disease medical-conditions prisoner-rights sentencing |
Did the district court abuse its discretion in denying Oren Snowden's motion for compassionate release due to serious medical conditions? |
| 24-5551 |
Samuel Arnold v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2024-09-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights habeas-corpus legal-representation prisoner-rights pro-se procedural-error |
Whether a pro se prisoner's petition was improperly denied due to procedural errors and lack of proper legal representation |
| 24A225 |
Alicia Marie Richards v. Richard A. Marshack, Chapter 7 Trustee |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari civil-contempt court-procedure filing-deadline prisoner-rights pro-se |
Whether a pro se prisoner's motion to extend a filing deadline for a certiorari petition constitutes a valid legal request when the underlying civil c… |
| 24A198 |
In Re Gavin B. Davis |
|
2024-08-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
bail-pending-appeal extraordinary-circumstances federal-appellate-review prisoner-rights pro-se supreme-court-jurisdiction |
Whether a pro se prisoner's Rule 22 application for bail pending appeal satisfies the extraordinary circumstances standard for emergency relief from t… |
| 24A158 |
James A. Allen v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2024-08-09 |
Presumed Complete |
|
habeas-corpus legal-access prisoner-rights pro-se procedural-bar time-extension |
Whether a pro se prisoner's limited access to legal resources and mental health challenges constitute good cause for an extension of time to file a wr… |
| 24-5280 |
Willie Charles Rose v. Joseph Damron, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts first-amendment legal-documents prisoner-rights retaliation sixth-circuit |
Whether the Sixth Circuit erroneously denied relief for a prisoner's claim of retaliation and denial of access to courts through unlawful stripping of… |
| 24A140 |
Christopher Harry West v. Mark Emig, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-08-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment mattress-removal mental-health prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Whether the Eighth Amendment permits the removal of a prisoner's mattress as a mental health intervention without violating constitutional protections… |
| 24A131 |
Rodney L. Lass v. Jason Wells, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-08-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
habeas-corpus legal-representation prisoner-rights pro-se time-extension writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a pro se prisoner may obtain an extension of time to file a writ of certiorari when experiencing procedural barriers to timely filing due to i… |
| 24A119 |
Adam Owen Grady v. Brent Fluke, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-08-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-justice-act eighth-circuit in-forma-pauperis prisoner-rights pro-se writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the pro se prisoner's motion for in forma pauperis status and extension of time to file a petition for certiorari should be granted given the … |
| 24-5161 |
Genuine Truth Banner v. Michael Stephan, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exhaustion-doctrine judicial-review prisoner-rights standing |
Should prisoner's claims be dismissed for failure to exhaust administrative remedies where prison officials prevented him from exhausting? |
| 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 |
| 24A75 |
Vernell White v. California |
California |
2024-07-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
court-access legal-resources prisoner-rights pro-se supreme-court time-extension |
Whether a pro se prisoner can obtain an extension of time to file a Supreme Court petition due to limited access to legal research resources |
| 24A15 |
Bobby Tatum v. Correctional Officer Hunter, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-protection cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment injunctive-relief prisoner-rights sexual-assault |
Whether the district court's failure to issue an injunction protecting a prisoner from alleged sexual assault violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibit… |
| 24A3 |
Darnell Anderson v. Aaron Fuson, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-07-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
Bivens eighth-amendment excessive-force federal-tort prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Whether the Supreme Court should extend the Bivens remedy to allow a federal prisoner to bring a monetary damages claim for alleged Eighth Amendment e… |
| 23-7837 |
Fidel Alcantar Soto v. Rual Morales, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
asset-declaration civil-procedure court-fees financial-disclosure in-forma-pauperis income-sources indigent-status legal-proceeding monthly-expenses poverty-affidavit prisoner-rights |
Question not identified |
| 23-7829 |
Brandon Roberts v. Wexford Health Sources, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment prisoner-rights statute-of-limitations strip-searches wrongful-death |
Can a prisoner state a claim for denial of access to the courts if prison officials impeded their ability to litigate a pending wrongful death suit? |
| 23A1161 |
Ryan Galal VanDyck v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-26 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari legal-resources prisoner-rights pro-se supreme-court time-extension |
Whether a pro se prisoner's inability to access legal resources due to prison facility restrictions constitutes an extraordinary circumstance justifyi… |
| 23-1324 |
Thomas Perttu v. Kyle Brandon Richards |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-06-20 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (7) |
administrative-exhaustion administrative-law civil-procedure exhaustion-of-remedies jury-trial merits-of-claim prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner-rights procedural-merits |
prisoner-rights |
| 23-7753 |
William Lee Boyer v. Amy Robey, Warden, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts court-access due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus legal-assistance legal-notice notice one-year-deadline prisoner-rights |
Equitable-tolling-doctrine-for-federal-habeas-corpus |
| 23A1093 |
Donald Ray Malena v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari extension-of-time federal-procedure habeas-corpus prisoner-rights pro-se |
Whether a pro se prisoner's request for an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari should be granted when the petitioner lacks acc… |
| 23A1098 |
Douglas Fauconier v. Virginia |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
access-to-courts civil-rights legal-research prisoner-rights pro-se section-1983 |
Whether a pro se prisoner's inability to access legal research resources due to technical failures constitutes a violation of his constitutional right… |
| 23A1072 |
Anthony Tyrone Brown v. James Corrigan, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-31 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process eighth-amendment personal-liberty prisoner-rights |
Whether a state prisoner's civil rights have been violated such that emergency relief or release is warranted based on alleged constitutional deprivat… |
| 23-7601 |
Khari Devon Coley v. Correctional Officer Wayne L. Garland, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-remedies civil-rights custody-challenge due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus judicial-process prison-litigation-reform-act prison-transfer prisoner-rights procedural-review standing |
Whether the petitioner's prison grievance procedures were rendered unavailable to the prisoner upon his transfer to the custody of the New York Office… |
| 23-7591 |
Jamie Mills v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-counsel access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process eighth-amendment execution-procedure prisoner-rights |
Whether Alabama's execution process violates the Eighth Amendment |
| 23A1027 |
Jose Martinez, Jr. v. Montana |
Montana |
2024-05-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
correctional-facility legal-research prisoner-rights pro-se time-extension writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a pro se prisoner's request for a 90-day extension to file a writ of certiorari should be granted due to documented challenges in legal resear… |
| 23A1017 |
James LeBlanc v. Brian McNeal |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
federal-remedies habeas-corpus judicial-precedent prisoner-rights section-1983 wrongful-detention |
Whether a prisoner who could have sought habeas relief but did not can subsequently sue for damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for alleged wrongful detent… |
| 23-7429 |
Todd Giffen v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus prisoner-rights standing |
Whether the District Court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 23A967 |
Christopher Dominguez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-04-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari institutional-transfer legal-access prisoner-rights pro-se time-extension |
Whether a pro se prisoner is entitled to an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari when facing institutional transfer and limited… |
| 23A946 |
Jose Rojas-Meliton v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-procedure ineffective-assistance prisoner-rights pro-se procedural-default rule-60b |
Whether a pro se prisoner's motion for relief under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b) can overcome procedural default when the prisoner claims lac… |
| 23-7224 |
Quentin Freeman v. Daniel Deas |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment inmate-rights prison-conditions prisoner-rights summary-judgment whitley-standard |
Whether the decision below should be summarily reversed because the Fourth Circuit misapplied the Whitley factors by viewing the evidence in the light… |
| 23A914 |
William Ted Holliday v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-court federal-appellate habeas-corpus mandate-recall post-conviction prisoner-rights |
Whether a state prisoner's motion to recall a mandate constitutes a cognizable legal claim for federal habeas corpus relief |
| 23-7079 |
Santiago Mason Gomez v. Odunay O. Kuku, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process first-amendment free-speech prisoner-rights retaliation standing supreme-court-review |
Whether the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District violated the petitioner's constitutional rights, including the First Amendment right to free … |
| 23A861 |
Larry Elwood Steptoe v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-03-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appeal-dismissal fourth-circuit habeas-corpus legal-access prisoner-rights sentencing |
Whether the district court's sentencing calculation or the Fourth Circuit's dismissal of an appeal warrants extraordinary review due to limitations on… |
| 23-6847 |
Tyrone Anthony Bell v. Heidi E. Washington, Director, Michigan Department of Corrections, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-remedies civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech grievance-process prisoner-rights sixth-circuit-interpretation standing threat true-threat |
Whether the state of mind of the author should be considered when the receiver understood the threat or intimidation to be true |
| 23A785 |
Jeryme Morgan v. DeAnna Brookhart |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-02-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-rights medical-access medical-treatment prison-healthcare prisoner-rights spinal-condition |
Whether a prisoner's constitutional rights are violated when denied timely access to medical treatment and surgical consultation for a serious spinal … |
| 23-6610 |
Wendell C. Helfrick v. Russell L. Rabb, III, Deputy Commonwealth's Attorney of Culpeper County |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
cases-and-controversies civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process forensic-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus prisoner-rights standing state-court-review |
Does the state's deprivation of an individual's right to due process violate the established guarantees protected by the Fourteenth Amendment? |
| 23-688 |
Travis Scott King, By and Through His Guardian ad Litem, Breanna Raymundo, et al. v. DeMichael Dews, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bodily-harm civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment excessive-force hudson-v-mcmillian prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Can the doctrine of qualified immunity ever apply when force is used maliciously and sadistically for the very purpose of causing harm in violation of… |
| 23A574 |
Wayne Resper v. Yescare Corp., fka Corizon Health, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-care prisoner-rights pro-se |
Whether a pro se prisoner's civil rights complaint alleging inadequate medical care by prison healthcare providers states a cognizable claim under the… |
| 23-664 |
Ralph Harrison Benning v. Tyrone Oliver, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-20 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-U.S.C.-§-1983 civil-rights constitutional-safeguards correspondence correspondence-interception due-process email prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Whether the Due Process Clause requires notice and opportunity to be heard when a prisoner's outgoing emails are intercepted |
| 23-6302 |
Robert Lee Crawford v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 2nd-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-claim due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus legal-procedure preliminary-review prisoner-rights |
Is the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment violated when a prisoner's 28 USC §2255 habeas corpus raising Second and Sixth Amendment claims … |
| 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 |
| 23-6229 |
Arnold A. Cary v. Dean Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-materials medical-care prisoner-rights toxic-exposure toxic-water |
Did CDOC violate Cary's due-process, equal-protection, 8th-amendment, toxic-water, medical-care, legal-materials |
| 23-6198 |
William Plummer v. Wellpath, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech incarceration medical-parole patent prisoner-rights standing state-law |
Whether the lower court erred in construing the patent claims at issue |
| 23-6094 |
Dena Inez Minton v. Miranda Richardson, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa civil-rights court-filing due-process federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus legal-documents prisoner-rights procedural-due-process standing |
Why is the petitioner being denied relief, when there has been a significant infringement of petitioner's Constitutional Rights |
| 23-516 |
Michael D. Smith v. Derek Gordon, et al. |
Kentucky |
2023-11-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment immunity legal-immunity legal-malpractice prisoner-rights standing |
Will this court let stand as Kentucky courts have ruled that lawyers in a criminal case have the same immunity as judges and prosecutors and cannot be… |
| 23-6033 |
Darryl Smith v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights clifford-pinkney darryl-smith due-process james-gwin james-kennar prisoner-rights retaliation sixth-circuit standing us-district-court |
Whether the total bar of all court access rights violates the First Amendment right to petition the government for redress of grievances |
| 23A437 |
William Plummer v. Wellpath, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
extension-request federal-court habeas-corpus prisoner-rights pro-se procedural-rules |
Whether a federal district court properly denied a pro se prisoner's request for a 30-day extension to file a habeas corpus petition under federal pro… |
| 23A438 |
Lynn Richard Norton v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
extension-of-time federal-court interest-of-justice petition-for-certiorari prisoner-rights pro-se |
Whether a pro se prisoner's request for a brief extension to file a petition for certiorari should be granted in the interest of justice |
| 23-488 |
Bruce R. Sands, Jr. v. Patricia V. Bradley, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-08 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-2241 constitutional-conditions federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus incarceration incarceration-claims jurisdiction prisoner-rights release unconstitutional-conditions |
Whether federal courts have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 over a petition for habeas corpus alleging that a prisoner's unconstitutional conditio… |
| 23A400 |
Taquarius Kaream Ford v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari legal-filing prisoner-rights pro-se supreme-court-rule time-extension |
Whether a pro se prisoner's transportation between correctional facilities and resulting delay in accessing legal materials constitutes good cause for… |
| 23-442 |
Anthony Prescott v. K. Johnson, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-27 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment conspiracy cruel-and-unusual-punishment food-contamination food-service fourth-amendment intentional-tort official-capacity-claim prisoner-rights public-entity use-of-force |
Does involuntary exposure to non-medical substances constitute unreasonable force? |
| 23A376 |
Ralph Harrison Benning v. Tyrone Oliver, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
due-process email-censorship first-amendment prisoner-rights procedural-safeguards qualified-immunity |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires prison officials to provide notice and an opportunity to challenge the censorship … |
| 23-5792 |
Kevin Chandler v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
administrative-hearing delayed-appeal due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment impartial-decision-maker prisoner-rights retaliation |
Whether the defendant violated the plaintiff's rights under the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses |
| 23-5723 |
James Daryl West v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-opinion civil-procedure civil-rights claim-dismissal due-process factual-assertion habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-error ninth-circuit prisoner-rights standing |
whether-the-eleventh-circuit-court-of-appeals-erred-in-dismissing-the-petitioner's-complaint |
| 23-5576 |
Robert William Pann v. Sherry L. Burt, Warden, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts ex-parte-proceeding extrinsic-fraud first-amendment lewis-v-casey prison-conditions prisoner-rights probate-court prosecutorial-misconduct |
Is Petitioner's First Amendment right of access to the courts violated by the rule announced in Lewis v. Casey being too narrow by strictly limiting i… |
| 23-5376 |
Enrique J. Diaz, et ux. v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, dba Mr. Cooper |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law circuit-court civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-impression fundamental-fairness legal-review prisoner-rights standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions |
| 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… |
| 23-5279 |
Robert Annabel, II v. Joseph Novak, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process free-speech in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure lawsuit-dismissal prisoner-rights retaliation standing |
Should truthful prisoner complaints be protected conduct? |
| 23-5255 |
Robert L. Swinton, Jr. v. Livingston County, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment access-to-courts actual-injury civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process medical-neglect monell-claim monell-policy prisoner-rights |
Is this the correct evaluation of the evidence for deliberate indifference and would the Monell policy standard be eroded by the evaluation of this ca… |
| 23-5082 |
William Richter v. Charles Truitt, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas judicial-access post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights pro-se-petition standing |
Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals' denial of habeas relief had post-judgment procedural defects that denied adequate access to the courts a… |
| 23A5 |
Darryl Smith v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-07-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
access-to-courts criminal-conviction filing-restrictions habeas-corpus mandamus prisoner-rights |
Whether a district court violates a prisoner's constitutional right of access to courts by enforcing filing restrictions that prevent him from appeali… |
| 22-7861 |
Darryl C. Daniels v. Z. Culpepper, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights due-process prisoner-rights retaliation |
Whether a prisoner can be punished for requesting protection from a prison administration |
| 22-7752 |
Arthur Taylor v. Landon Bird, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights compassionate-release constitutional-damages cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process medical-care medical-neglect prison-conditions prisoner-rights toxic-exposure |
Whether the petitioner's medical condition and denial of compassionate release violates their constitutional rights |
| 22-1171 |
James LeBlanc, et al. v. Jessie Crittindon, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment overdetention prisoner-rights qualified-immunity section-1983 state-officials supervisory-liability |
Do high-ranking state prison officials violate a prisoner's constitutional rights by failing to promulgate policies cajoling independent, locally-elec… |
| 22-7535 |
Delroy Booth v. Lieutenant R. Allen, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-05-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies civil-rights damages discretionary-review district-court-jurisdiction due-process judicial-procedure prisoner-rights procedural-standards remedy-exhaustion retaliation |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's dismissal of the petitioner's complaint alleging retaliation, de… |
| 22-7507 |
Robert Stanley Woods, aka Saladin Rushdan v. Haar, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment civil-rights correctional-goals due-process first-amendment medical-treatment out-of-court-settlement prisoner-rights retaliation settlement-agreement |
Does an out-of-court settlement agreement set the parameters for future legitimate correctional goals? |
| 22-1067 |
Brian E. Johnson v. Mike Dobbins, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
|
ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process intentional-discrimination prisoner-rights reasonable-accommodation sixth-circuit-court solitary-confinement |
Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals err by holding that Title II of the American Disabilities Act (ADA) requires a prisoner with a known disability… |
| 22-7463 |
Lexter Kennon Kossie v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment good-conduct-time liberty-interest overdetention prisoner-rights systemic-overdetention |
Whether Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCI) violates the Fourteenth Amendment by confining its prisoners past the dates when they are legally … |
| 22-1045 |
Robert R. Snyder v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
12(b)(6) civil-procedure dismissal due-process pleading-standards pleadings prisoner-rights rule-12 section-1983 standing |
Does Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 12 permit a defendant to file successive, pre-answer Rule 12(b)(6) motion(s) to dismiss—each towards a sepa… |
| 22-7305 |
Stacey Johnson, et al. v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-04-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-challenge method-of-execution prisoner-rights scientific-consensus severe-pain standing |
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires a prisoner challenging the method of his execution to show a scientific consensus that the method is sure or ver… |
| 22-7279 |
Robert J. Thomas v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-04-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure compassionate-release compassionate-relief concepcion-v-united-states due-process first-step-act in-forma-pauperis judicial-review prisoner-rights statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court erred in denying petitioner's request for in forma pauperis status and compassionate relief under the First Step Act |
| 22-911 |
Robert R. Snyder v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
California |
2023-03-17 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law administrative-regulation agency-discretion chevron-deference civil-rights due-process judicial-review ministerial-duty prisoner-rights property-rights statutory-authority |
Did the California corrections agency exceed the bounds of its statutory authority? |
| 22-6948 |
Robert E. Spiker v. Robert E. Erskines, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-03-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
cell-phone-data constitutional-claims deliberate-indifference digital-privacy federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence habeas-corpus medical-care prisoner-rights privacy search-and-seizure |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable … |
| 22-6922 |
Samuel Ross v. Clerk of Courts of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-03-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights civil-rights-action extraordinary-circumstance fed-r-civ-p-60(b)(6) lewis-v-casey prisoner-rights rule-60(b)(6) |
Whether the majority Circuit Court of Appeal decisions clarifying that Lewis v. Casey does not foreclose a prisoner's right to access to courts to lit… |
| 22-6788 |
In Re Kent Williams |
|
2023-02-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit prisoner-rights standing |
Should this court order the ninth circuit court of appeals to discontinue its practice of sending orders and answers to prisoner litigants to a third … |
| 22-6630 |
John Butler v. Howard Sissem, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure correctional-facility federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure jurisdiction legal-standing prisoner-rights standing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals, for the Third Circuit, did in fact have jurisdiction concerning Petitioners' appeal under the Federal Rule… |
| 22-693 |
Michael Johnson v. Susan Prentice, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-01-25 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) |
circuit-split civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment exercise-deprivation prisoner-rights solitary-confinement |
Whether punitively depriving a prisoner in solitary confinement of virtually all exercise for three years notwithstanding the absence of a security ju… |
| 22-6577 |
Marcus Brent Fields v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process housing-policy medical-ethics prison-conditions prisoner-rights segregation |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when he was injected with the harmful Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine against his will |
| 22-614 |
Troy Chrisman, et al. v. Estate of Seth Michael Zakora, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-01-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
civil-rights constitutional-protection corrections corrections-liability criminal-law drug-contraband due-process eighth-amendment institutional-supervision prisoner-rights |
Whether a prisoner's criminal act of voluntarily ingesting an illegal drug banned within the prison can give rise to that prisoner's federal constitut… |
| 22-6384 |
Peter Gakuba v. Larry Henderson, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment administrative-remedies civil-rights constitutional-violations deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment kosher-meal-requirements prisoner-rights |
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires prison officials to accommodate a prisoner's serious medical needs, including a life-threatening food allergy, a… |
| 22-6334 |
Joey Faught v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law detainer due-process federal-custody interstate-agreement interstate-agreement-on-detainers notice prisoner-rights sixth-circuit |
Was Petitioner's letter to the U.S. District Court Clerk sufficient to invoke the Interstate Agreement on Detainers |
| 22-6102 |
Samuel Turner v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons civil-procedure court-deadline covid-19-lockdown due-process equity excusable-neglect judicial-discretion pandemic prisoner-rights |
whether-certiorari-should-be-granted |
| 22-6104 |
Esteban Parra-Reyes v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion circuit-court-review compassionate-release criminal-justice federal-sentencing judicial-discretion ninth-circuit prisoner-rights sentencing summary-affirmance |
Whether the Denial of Esteban Para Reyes's Motion for Compassionate Release Was an Abuse of Discretion? |
| 22-6074 |
Terry Eugene Sears v. Vernia Roberts, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion prisoner-litigation prisoner-rights security-measures |
Whether the procedures required to institute unusual security measures apply in civil cases brought by prisoner plaintiffs? |
| 22-6045 |
Douglas Cornell Jackson v. Kristopher Taskila, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-14 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus prisoner-rights |
Whether 28 U.S.C. 2241 provides federal courts of appeals substitute jurisdiction over the issues presented under the Due Process Clause |
| 22-6034 |
Francis Stock v. Chanelle Braswell, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-11-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-filing notice notice-of-appeal prisoner-rights service-of-process standing |
Whether a prisoner's notice of appeal was timely filed when he did not receive notice of the district court's dismissal order within 21 days |
| 22-5971 |
Joseph Michael Ladeairous v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-11-02 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
access-to-court access-to-courts civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-restrictions due-process judicial-precedent prison-law-library prison-litigation prisoner-rights standing |
Denial of meaningful access to prison law library due to COVID-19 restrictions |
| 22-5710 |
Lisa A. Biron v. Colette S. Peters, Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accardi-doctrine administrative-procedure-act bureau-of-prisons discretionary-actions judicial-review prisoner-rights regulatory-compliance |
Are the discretionary actions of the federal Bureau of Prisons exempt from judicial scrutiny when sued for regulatory noncompliance under the Administ… |
| 22-5685 |
Tyrice Hill v. Neil Turner, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-09-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-access deadlines due-process inmate-legal-assistance legal-research meaningful-access prisoner-rights sixth-circuit |
Does the Sixth Circuit's narrow interpretation of Bounds v. Smith deny the petitioner meaningful access to the courts? |
| 22-5613 |
Kennrith L. Foster v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-interpretation notice plea-bargaining prisoner-rights state-court waiver |
Did the trial court violate the petitioner's constitutional rights to a jury trial when it accepted a plea without providing adequate notice of the na… |
| 22-5544 |
Jason L. Sanders v. Matt Macauley, Warden, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights covid-19 due-process medical-care prisoner-rights |
Question not identified |
| 22-5379 |
Thomas Powers v. Krista Wilcoxen, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-08-18 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus prisoner-rights standing |
Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 22-108 |
Richard R. Watkinson v. Alaska Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) |
free-exercise free-exercise-clause government-neutrality prisoner-rights religious-accommodation religious-accommodations rluipa strict-scrutiny substantial-burden |
Does the Free Exercise Clause permit a prison to deny accommodations to the Petitioner for his religious exercise that it already allows for secular a… |
| 21-8266 |
Timothy Wayne Calhoun v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affidavit civil-procedure court-filing declaration financial-disclosure in-forma-pauperis indigent-status legal-proceeding poverty prisoner-rights |
Whether the petitioner's affidavit or declaration in support of a motion to proceed in forma pauperis satisfies the legal requirements |
| 21-8223 |
Fox Joseph Salerno v. United States District Court for the District of Colorado |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 circuit-split custodian federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus interstate-compact prisoner-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Should a 28 USC 2241 HC be filed in State of incarceration or State of conviction for a State prisoner serving sentence in another State under Inter-s… |
| 21-8156 |
Demetrius Antwon Wilson v. Jeffrey Alvarez, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-treatment prisoner-rights |
Whether prison officials are deliberately indifferent when they delay or intentionally interfere with medical treatment |
| 21-8065 |
Arthur Glenn Jones, Sr. v. Sam Wong, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
9th-circuit atrophy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process informed-consent judicial-discretion medical-care medical-negligence prisoner-rights psychotropic-medication standing |
Did the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals abuse its discretion? |
| 21-8043 |
William Sims v. Alexis Figueroa |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit factual-disputes medical-care nonmovant-rights prison-conditions prisoner-rights summary-judgment |
Does the decision below, which misstates a summary judgment record and resolves factual disputes against a nonmovant, warrant summary reversal? |
| 21-1425 |
Darvin Castro Santos v. Craig White, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights correctional-officers due-process excessive-force heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey prison-disciplinary-proceedings prisoner-rights section-1983 |
Whether Heck v. Humphrey bars a prisoner's excessive-force claim against correctional officers for damages under § 1983 where the claim does not direc… |
| 21-7695 |
Allen Wayne Hatcher v. Anna Valentine, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 extraordinary-circumstances federal-statute habeas-corpus limitations-period prisoner-diligence prisoner-rights procedural-sufficiency |
Can extraordinary circumstances be established by the same facts that establish a prisoner's diligence? |
| 21-7689 |
Deverick Scott v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-04-25 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights discovery due-process eighth-amendment failure-to-protect prisoner-rights retaliation screening-process section-1983 |
Did Defendants violate Scott's right to be protected from assault by another inmate? |
| 21-1362 |
Timothy Gray v. Craig White, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-22 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
civil-rights correctional-officers due-process excessive-force heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey prison-disciplinary-proceedings prisoner-rights section-1983 |
Whether Heck v. Humphrey bars a prisoner's excessive-force claim against correctional officers for damages under § 1983 where the claim does not direc… |
| 21-7497 |
In Re Willie T. Murphy |
|
2022-03-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-proceeding collateral-review constitutional-right due-process ineffective-assistance legal-counsel martinez-v-ryan prisoner-rights right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Does a prisoner have a right to effective assistance of counsel in a collateral proceeding which provides the first occasion to raise a claim of ineff… |
| 21-7498 |
Eric Lloyd Hermansen v. Anna Valentine, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
atypical-hardship civil-rights constitutional-protection covid-19 cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus health-complications prisoner-rights |
Are state prisoners protected from COVID-19 exposure? |
| 21-7250 |
Michael Ray Fortuna v. Robert Hudgins, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment disability-accommodations due-process eighth-amendment inmate-safety isolation-conditions medical-neglect prison-conditions prisoner-rights |
Whether an inmate's placement on a top bunk after suffering injuries from a previous fall constitutes a constitutional violation |
| 21-7232 |
Lance Reberger v. Michael Koehn, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protections cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-treatment prison prison-medical-care prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Whether the Nevada Department of Corrections officials violated the Eighth Amendment by failing to provide adequate medical care to a prisoner during … |
| 21-1141 |
Charles Wade v. Gordon Lewis |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-violation due-process fair-warning medical-treatment prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Whether qualified-immunity-doctrine-demands-identical-fact-pattern |
| 21-1065 |
Dennis Wayne Hope v. Todd Harris, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
constitutional-protections cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-review mental-health physical-health prison-conditions prisoner-rights review-procedures solitary-confinement |
Whether decades of solitary confinement can violate the Eighth Amendment |
| 21-6997 |
Luke Waine Caines, Jr. v. M. Interian |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-of-appeals deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-needs prisoner-rights substantial-injury substantial-risk substantial-risk-of-harm wood-v-housewright |
Whether deliberate indifference should be analyzed under the balancing framework of the substantial risk of harm test announced by this Court rather t… |
| 21-6958 |
Vorarut Vorasiangsuk v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit formatting-deficiency motion-to-exceed-page-limit motion-to-supplement prisoner-rights pro-se |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals abused its discretion and violated due-process, civil-procedure, pro-se |
| 21-6862 |
In Re Daniel Jones |
|
2022-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process extraordinary-circumstances extraordinary-relief federal-courts filing-requirements judicial-procedure mandamus prisoner-rights standing |
is-petitioner-entitled-to-immediate-relief |
| 21-6829 |
Ibrahim Donmez v. New York City Department of Consumer Affairs, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure due-process litigation-reform neitzke-v-williams non-prisoner-complaints prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner-rights screening-standard section-1915 standing statutory-interpretation |
Does 28-USC-1915 allow dismissal of non-frivolous non-prisoner complaints for failure to state a claim or seeking relief against immune defendants bef… |
| 21-6698 |
In Re Carlton West II |
|
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process equitable-rule equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule prisoner-rights procedural-default standing trevino-precedent |
When and where can prisoners use the equitable rule announced in Martinez v. Ryan and Trevino v. Thaler? |
| 21-6562 |
Francis Timothy Plaza v. Barry Smith, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-12-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-progress civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing judicial-precedent precedent prisoner-rights procedural-fairness state-court |
Was it an unreasonable application of this court's precedent to rule that equitable tolling should not apply to the petitioner's case where the state … |
| 21-6504 |
Edward JoRodge Gladney v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-review civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment precedent-interpretation prison-conditions prison-safety prisoner-rights sexual-assault |
Did the Circuit Court err by contradicting this Court's precedent in Farmer v. Brennan by ruling Petitioner was obliged to show an individualized risk… |
| 21-6480 |
Francisco C. Martinez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit judicial-interpretation ninth-circuit prisoner-rights sandin-v-conner |
Whether the district court and the court of appeals for the Fifth Circuit misapplied the Supreme Court's decision of Sandin v. Conner, 515 U.S. 472 (1… |
| 21-6422 |
Jake Rader v. Darrell Miller, Warden |
Virginia |
2021-11-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus prisoner-rights standing |
Whether the petitioner's writ of habeas corpus was properly denied |
| 21-6337 |
Kendall K. Magee v. Gloria Perry, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-remedies civil-rights due-process exhaustion-requirement federal-courts prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner-litigation prisoner-rights |
Whether a prisoner must proceed to the final step of the administrative grievance process to meet the exhaustion requirement of the Prison Litigation … |
| 21-727 |
Robert R. Snyder v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
|
access-to-courts active-interference civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process law-library-access plausibility-standard prisoner-rights procedural-due-process prospective-relief standing |
Did the lower court incorrectly apply Christopher-v-Harbury |
| 21-6221 |
David Jackson v. Massachusetts Department of Correction |
Massachusetts |
2021-11-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech prisoner-rights protected-speech racial-discrimination solitary-confinement true-threat |
Whether petitioner's letter constitutes protected speech or a true threat |
| 21-6198 |
Billy Dean Smith v. Lynnie Einerson, Acting Superintendent, Spring Creek Correctional Center |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-protections death-penalty disadvantaged-groups due-process federal-habeas-corpus federal-review prisoner-rights standing state-prisoners state-procedure |
Can the US Supreme Court find that when litigating a state by way of a federal habeas corpus, the matter of what race, color or creed a state prisoner… |
| 21-6167 |
Harry Sharod James v. Roy Cooper, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure law-library legal-access prisoner-rights |
Whether the petitioner was deprived of his fundamental constitutional right of access to the courts by not having access to a meaningful, effective, a… |
| 21-5935 |
Alex Adams v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights unnecessary-litigation |
Whether the lower court abused its discretion by denying the petitioner's procedural claims, including the denial of access to the courts, failure to … |
| 21-5838 |
Michael Andrew Johnson v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-negligence civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violation due-process failure-to-protect inmate-violence prison-safety prisoner-rights prisoner-vulnerability protective-custody standing |
Why did A.D.C. officials 'Wendy Kelly' and Byron Brown' fail to protect me from a stabbing? |
| 21-5810 |
Mandell Rhodes, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law constitutional-law criminal-justice double-jeopardy fifth-amendment good-conduct-time legislative-intent parole prisoner-rights sentencing |
Whether the administrator of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice violated the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitut… |
| 21-5744 |
Joseph George v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-violation criminal-conspiracy due-process federal-law law-enforcement prisoner-rights public-officials standing |
Does Alowg AUN NING, Goeanmesst ruc/ Onegai eed Crimirirel Couspiieaey AAegedtissg Anil faanatng Ppetrtinier Aor. bahay cnses Meet the PLRA 3-sfhakés … |
| 21-399 |
Chester Lee Reneau v. Mary Cardinas, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-09-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-negligence prisoner-rights serious-medical-needs seventh-amendment summary-judgment |
Can prison doctors violate the Eighth Amendment by exposing prisoner's to the 'unnecessary and wanton' infliction of pain? |
| 21-5508 |
Marc Norfleet v. John R. Baldwin, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-08-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-U.S.C.-3582 access-to-courts civil-rights compassionate-release due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing indigent-status prisoner-rights sanctions sentence-modification statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court's imposition of a 2-year ban on Petitioner from filing any civil actions in the district court, and the denial of Petitione… |
| 21-5437 |
Jean Crump v. Social Security Administration, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-prisons medication-access prisoner-retirement prisoner-rights retirement-funds retirement-plan room-and-board social-security |
Is the Social Security Administration employee funded retirement a retirement plan? |
| 21-5168 |
Darrell Demetrius Cross v. Kecia Davidson, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-procedure attorney-general civil-procedure civil-rights detainer-warrant due-process federal-district-court inmate-rights prisoner-rights standing voluntary-protective-custody |
Whether a U.S. federal district court judge and the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals can allow a voluntary protective custody inmate to be placed on cond… |
| 21-5024 |
Gary E. McKinley v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, Clark County, et al. |
Nevada |
2021-07-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence exhibits pleadings prisoner-rights pro-se standing state-court-system |
Whether the court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for relief |
| 20-8260 |
Earton Smith v. John Schuyler Marvin |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review prisoner-rights state-court-procedure supreme-court |
Whether Louisiana's post-conviction procedure violates due process |
| 20-8163 |
David Patkins v. Rebecca Piantini |
California |
2021-05-27 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights discretionary-review due-process indigent-litigants judicial-access meaningful-access non-article-iii-proceedings prisoner-rights |
Whether the right of meaningful access to the courts authorizes certain courts to disregard indigent party requests for available court resources wher… |
| 20-8115 |
Christopher Scott Merrill v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 42-usc-1983 civil-rights covid-19 due-process habeas-corpus prison-conditions prisoner-rights standing |
Whether prisoners can challenge unsafe prison conditions causing death and other life-threatening conditions due to the COVID-19 pandemic outbreaks us… |
| 20-8008 |
Eric Christopher Conn v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bail-reform-act conspiracy-to-escape criminal-conspiracy custody escape-statute federal-corrections federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus home-confinement jurisdictional-review parole-violation prisoner-rights |
Whether an individual released on bond under the Bail Reform Act is in 'custody' and as to a 'conspiracy to escape' or a 'walk away' parole violation |
| 20-7625 |
James Arthur Ross v. John Myrick, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-discretion due-process judicial-error prisoner-rights pro-se-litigation property-exemption standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment |
Did the District Court error by ignoring Oregon's Wildcard Exemption Rule |
| 20-7563 |
Emem Ufot Udoh v. Becky Dooley, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-1651 actual-innocence cares-act certificate-of-appealability covid-19 federal-court-authority prison-conditions prisoner-rights sentence-execution |
whether-federal-court-has-authority-to-order-release-of-state-prisoner |
| 20-7420 |
Tobi Kilman v. Dean Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law administrative-review civil-rights due-process good-time-credits liberty-interest prisoner-rights statutory-interpretation statutory-mandate |
Whether a prisoner has a liberty interest in receiving good-time credits toward the service of his sentence, when such credits are mandated by statute… |
| 20-7366 |
In Re John Peyton Alexander |
|
2021-03-08 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process earned-time-credits ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause habeas-corpus prisoner-rights standing successive-petition |
Whether the AEDPA excludes an entire category of prisoners from seeking successive habeas corpus writs to raise due process claims |
| 20-7303 |
John Joseph Barrera v. Jessica Newsome, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure haines-v-kerner judicial-review pleading-standard prisoner-rights pro-se standing |
Whether the courts below held the pro se prisoner plaintiff to a higher pleading standard |
| 20-7094 |
Kenneth Ray Sheffey v. Iowa |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus illiterate indigent-status legal-representation prisoner-assistance prisoner-rights pro-se |
Did the lower court violate the protections under the Iowa and United States Constitutions by denying Petitioner, an illiterate prisoner, both legal a… |
| 20-7103 |
Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. North Carolina, et al. |
North Carolina |
2021-02-10 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech grievance-mechanism petition-clause prisoner-rights standing |
Whether the petitioner retains the right to petition the government for redress of grievances and whether this is denied in violation of the Equal Pro… |
| 20-6940 |
Ellery Dennis Thomas v. Raymond Madden, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus prisoner-rights remittitur sentencing standing |
Whether the 5th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution provides an opportunity for a full and fair litigation of an unconstitutional state law that is nev… |
| 20-6872 |
Scott Hildreth v. Kim Butler, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment grievance-process medical-neglect medical-treatment medication-refill policy prisoner-rights |
Is it right that the defendant Wexford health service, (Menard CC ) have returned to their same old song and dance and have been not properly or timel… |
| 20-6723 |
Akando Ducksworth v. Hal MacMurdo, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-review civil-procedure civil-rights correctional-institute due-process medical-care prisoner-rights standing |
Whether this Petitioner's case should have proceeded past the dismissal phase based on the merits of his claim |
| 20-6658 |
Michael Brent Brown v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-petition fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prisoner-rights procedural-grounds statute-of-limitations |
Whether the courts erred in denying relief and review on procedural grounds |
| 20-6560 |
Lorenzo Gerald Ferebee v. Karen Stapleton, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection prisoner-rights procedural-due-process |
Whether the U.S. Department of Corrections' disciplinary procedures violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 20-6398 |
Richard Wesley Allen v. Marcus A. Pollard, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection First-Amendment Fourteenth-Amendment free-speech parole prisoner-rights religious-freedom |
Does it violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments when a state requires a prisoner to change his or her religion, or to commit acts that are against… |
| 20-6177 |
John Leo Davis v. Goodyear Police Department, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process law-enforcement prisoner-rights qualified-immunity retaliation sexual-abuse standing |
Whether it is proper for a district court to dismiss a case before first allowing discovery and an evidentiary hearing on the contention that the case… |
| 20-459 |
Robert Ryan Snyder v. California |
California |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law cell-assignment constitutional-rights due-process emergency-regulations equal-protection prison-overcrowding prisoner-conditions prisoner-rights sentencing-reform |
Should the extra living space created by California's prison population reduction measures be prioritized for long-serving or long-incarcerated prison… |
| 20-5946 |
Roberto Antoine Darden v. Barbara Von Blanckensee, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights disciplinary-notice district-court due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus liberty-interest prisoner-rights procedural-grounds qualified-immunity |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision that due process was satisfied because the officer's act was 'above the norm' conflicts with other appellate cour… |
| 20-5845 |
Deverick Scott v. Danny Burl, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-09-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
1st-amendment administrative-grievance civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process false-disciplinary first-amendment prisoner-rights property-rights retaliation |
Confiscation-and-destruction-of-prisoner-property |
| 20-5835 |
Joseph Belarde Garcia v. California |
California |
2020-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus parole parole-board prisoner-rights victim-impact-statement |
Can a state parole board commit a fatal error by the refusal to entertain favorable evidence of the state prisoner for his suitability to be released … |
| 20-5662 |
Hazhar A. Sayed v. Dean Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections |
Colorado |
2020-09-11 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies civil-procedure civil-rights colorado-corrections due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion prisoner-civil-rights prisoner-rights sex-offender-treatment standing |
Whether the Colorado Court of Appeals abused its discretion in dismissing Mr. Sayed's 42-U.S.C.-§1983-complaint |
| 20-5671 |
Michael Ward v. Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission |
Michigan |
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection fees-and-costs indigent-litigant prisoner-litigation prisoner-rights |
Is Michigan's statute, MCL 600.2963(8) unconstitutional on its face and/or as applied to this petitioner, as violating the right of access to courts a… |
| 20-281 |
Waseem Daker v. Clinton Perry, Jr., Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
|
8th-amendment circuit-split conditions-of-confinement due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus prisoner-rights solitary-confinement |
Whether a prisoner may file a habeas corpus petition to challenge his placement on segregated/solitary confinement |
| 20-5330 |
Layne Aucoin v. Andrew Cupil, Lieutenant, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights eighth-amendment excessive-force muhammad-v-close prison-discipline prisoner-rights sixth-amendment |
Do the Sixth Amendment and this Court's decision in Muhammad v. Close, 540 U.S. 749 (2004), foreclose a federal court from dismissing an inmate 8th Am… |
| 20-5200 |
Gerald A. Sanford, Sr. v. Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. |
Tennessee |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appellate-review civil-rights due-process judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings prisoner-rights state-court-discretion state-court-of-appeals statutory-interpretation supervisory-power |
Whether a state court of appeals erred in dismissing a prisoner's case |
| 20-31 |
Prince McCoy, Sr. v. Tajudeen Alamu |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-16 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights eighth-amendment excessive-force hudson-factors prison-conditions prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Whether a prison official is entitled to qualified immunity for an unprovoked assault on a prisoner even when not every Hudson factor favors the plain… |
| 20-23 |
Dale Hartkemeyer, et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-07-15 |
Denied |
|
free-exercise last-rites ministerial-duty pandemic pandemic-execution prisoner prisoner-rights religious-exercise religious-freedom RFRA |
Where a priest has a sacred religious duty to minister last rites to a prisoner under his pastoral care, does scheduling the prisoner's execution duri… |
| 19-8897 |
David Lee Smith v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2020-07-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge covid-prison-conditions due-process emergency-relief fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-petition sentencing sentencing-review |
Whether a pro se petitioner is entitled to a liberal construction of their court papers or fair amendment, when the prosecutor presented no evidence t… |
| 19-8721 |
Vincent A. Argentino v. Ruanne Stamps, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-standard deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment estelle-v-gamble legal-precedent medical-evidence prisoner-rights summary-record |
Whether the Precedent of Placing Nesifyire, medical evidence in the Summary Record 5 Showing Oo * aeke' mental ef Peck' Places an Unrealis-hic exfecta… |
| 19-1350 |
Darius Ishun Green v. Bradley Hooks, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment inmate personal-characteristics prison prisoner-rights risk-of-harm summary-judgment |
Under Farmer v. Brennan, is a court precluded from granting summary judgment to defendants where there is evidence of an obvious, substantial risk of … |
| 19-8505 |
George Tolbert v. Stephanie Waggoner, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-05-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis judicial-review prisoner-rights prisoners-rights statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court erred in denying Appellant George Tolbert's motion to proceed in forma pauperis |
| 19-8471 |
Eddie Gene Vaughn v. Timothy Hawkins, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-05-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-obligations due-process equal-protection excessive-force poverty prisoner-rights standing |
Whether correctional staff are free to physically beat prisoners due to their appearance and demeanor of illiteracy and/or being too poor to employ ci… |
| 19-8384 |
In Re Levon Spaulding |
|
2020-05-01 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-action due-process federal-action free-speech institutional-conditions legal-assistance prisoner-rights standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 19-1261 |
Trent Michael Taylor v. Robert Riojas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-04-30 |
GVR |
Amici (2)Relisted (4) |
42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment government-officials obvious-violation prisoner-rights qualified-immunity section-1983 standing |
Whether the unconstitutionality of government officials' conduct is clearly established even absent binding precedent directly on point |
| 19-8348 |
Roland I. Kehano, Sr. v. Scott Harrington, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process medical-care prisoner-rights |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment and the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of due process prohibit prison off… |
| 19-1237 |
LeRoy K. Wheeler v. North Dakota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-04-21 |
Denied |
|
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-access court-access due-process judicial-bias judicial-review legal-prejudice meritorious-claims prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-prisoner |
Do poor pro-se prisoners have a constitutional right to access the courts and to justice that will compel courts to rule on the merits of valid consti… |
| 19-8320 |
Quintez Talley v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-04-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines federal-claims pleading-standards prisoner-rights pro-se-plaintiff state-law-claims supplemental-jurisdiction |
Whether the party seeking to raise the possessory evidence privilege has an absolute evidentiary privilege |
| 19-8223 |
Timothy W. Connors v. Jerry Howell, Warden, et al. |
Nevada |
2020-04-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus prisoner-rights standing |
Question not identified |
| 19-8152 |
Menes Ankh-El, aka Wendell Brown v. Robert Carter, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
atypical-and-significant-hardship civil-rights due-process hardship-standard law-library-access prison-transfer prisoner-rights procedural-due-process retaliation |
Does Ankh-El's permanent transfer to higher level prison to use the law library impose atypical and significant hardship, deny procedural due process … |
| 19-8153 |
Keith Clayton Brooks, Jr. v. Celia Schwartz, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-04-01 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights conditions-of-confinement due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment post-traumatic-stress-disorder prisoner-rights section-1915g suicidal-impulses |
Will conditions of confinement that demonstrate a pattern of misconduct under the First and Fourteenth Amendments leading to suicidal impulses or urge… |
| 19-8060 |
John Doe v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights court-disclosure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment harassment medical-history medical-privacy prisoner-rights privacy |
Should a Convicted Felon be Subject to Additional Harassment Above and Beyond Their Prison Sentence Due to a Court's Disclosure of Their Medical Histo… |
| 19-1138 |
DeWayne D. Knight v. Thomas Grossman, Jr. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
|
balancing-test circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment informed-consent medical-treatment prisoner-rights |
Whether a claim for violation of a prisoner-patient's Fourteenth Amendment right to informed consent requires a showing of deliberate indifference and… |
| 19-7995 |
Elijah Jackson, Jr. v. Magoon Estates Limited, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts article-3-court civil-procedure district-court due-process filing-fee in-forma-pauperis prisoner-rights related-cases standing |
Did the federal article 3 court or United States District Court for the District of Hawaii, in Honolulu err/error or breach its own order failing to a… |
| 19-8008 |
Jeremy Fontanez v. J. Coakley, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights due-process federal-prisoner first-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus legal-materials prison-policy prisoner-rights |
Does the policy in 6.0.8 violate a federal prisoner's First Amendment right to reasonable access to the courts, where the policy allows only one hour … |
| 19-7922 |
Scott L. Rendelman v. William True, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals docketing-fee due-process legal-fees non-frivolous-appeal prison prison-discipline prisoner-rights standard-of-review standing |
Whether 'some evidence' is required to support a finding on every element of a prison disciplinary offense, or if 'some evidence' supporting any singl… |
| 19-7899 |
Paul Nigl v. Jon Litscher, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-03-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment marriage marriage-rights prison-administration prison-regulations prisoner-rights summary-judgment turner-v-safley |
Whether prison officials may prohibit a former prison employee and a prisoner from marrying |
| 19-7815 |
Robert Grimsley v. Oregon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights contractual-leniency custody due-process fraud fraud-in-the-facts habeas-corpus prison prison-contracts prisoner-rights sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-court state-court-judgment statutory-interpretation takings |
Can a state commit the crimes of fraud in the facts of its own sentencing guidelines to renege on prison contracts on behalf of a person in custody pu… |
| 19-7807 |
Christopher Young v. Jose Boggio, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-claim deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment ineffective-treatment intentional-mistreatment medical-care medical-need prisoner-rights serious-medical-need treatment |
Whether the contention that an Eighth Amendment deliberate indifference to serious medical need claim fails simply because the Plaintiff received some… |
| 19-1018 |
Dana Gallop v. Adult Correctional Institutions, et al. |
Rhode Island |
2020-02-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-death-statute civil-rights constitutional-law political-disenfranchisement prisoner-rights racial-discrimination supremacy-clause unconstitutional |
Does Rhode Island's Civil Death Statute violate the Supremacy Clause and 42 U.S.C. 1983 by denying a prisoner the right to file a civil claim, where t… |
| 19-7582 |
Raul Arellano v. Daniel Paramo, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure mailbox-rule ninth-circuit petition-reconsideration prisoner-rights standing |
Question not identified |
| 19-7543 |
Earl Osborn v. Christopher Williams, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law administrative-remedies civil-rights corrections-department disability-accommodation disability-rights due-process inmate-rights medical-treatment mental-disability mental-health prisoner-rights standing summary-judgment |
Whether the Supreme Court should eliminate the requirement for an individualized, fact-specific determination regarding the availability of administra… |
| 19-7276 |
Ketut Pujayasa v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules due-process judicial-discretion prejudice prisoner prisoner-litigation prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant rule-4a6 time-limitation timeliness |
Did the district court and appellate court err in concluding that the petitioner's Rule 4(a)(6) motion, which was sent on February 20, 2019, and recei… |
| 19-867 |
Wexford Health, et al. v. Kareem Garrett |
Third Circuit |
2020-01-10 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (4) |
administrative-remedies amended-complaint circuit-split exhaustion-requirement judicial-exception prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner-rights prisoner-status procedural-dismissal |
Whether Section 1997e(a) of the Prison Litigation Reform Act mandates dismissal of unexhausted claims or allows a prisoner to cure failure to exhaust … |
| 19-861 |
Mark Shumski v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-09 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion prisoner-rights standard-of-review |
Is a prisoner entitled to a certificate of appealability (COA) on a claim for which other jurists have reached different conclusions from the district… |
| 19-7203 |
Arthur Luther McKinney v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights custody custody-challenge due-process habeas-corpus prison prisoner-rights property-rights reentry supervision |
Does the Texas Department of Criminal Justice have to provide due process before taking away property given for work? |
| 19-7212 |
Ronald Lee Alexander v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence habeas-corpus prison-litigation prisoner-rights standing |
Whether a Thomas prisoner has a right to an evidentiary hearing on a chain of custody claim |
| 19-7162 |
Carlos Juan Negron v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure document-submission due-process filing habeas-corpus houston-v-lack judicial-procedure legal-filing prison prison-filing prisoner-rights statute-of-limitations timeliness |
Whether a document when placed in the hands of prison officials hands for mailing pursuant to Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266, 108 S.Ct. 2379, 101 L.Ed.… |
| 19-7060 |
Kent Glen Williams v. Brooks, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process first-amendment free-speech rlulpa standing 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-claim court-order due-process health-screening judicial-relief prisoner-rights religious-freedom standing |
Was prisoners constitutional and statutory right to petition and religious freedoms violated when the district court dismissed his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 ci… |
| 19-7036 |
Jeremy L. Dale v. Anthony Agresta, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-damages cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process excessive-force federal-tort-claims habeas-corpus medical-care prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment was violated by the defendants' alleged deliberate indifference to the plai… |
| 19-742 |
James Bailey-Snyder v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-11 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
arrest-definition civil-rights criminal-investigation criminal-procedure due-process liberty-restriction prisoner-rights prosecutorial-discretion solitary-confinement speedy-trial wilkinson-v-austin |
Does imposing solitary confinement on a prisoner while police and prosecutors investigate and consider new criminal charges amount to an 'arrest' givi… |
| 19-6854 |
In Re Alexander Palomarez |
|
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights coercive-interrogation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus miranda-rights prisoner-rights standing state-court-review suppression-of-evidence |
Whether the 'prison mailbox rule' announced in Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266, 101 L. Ed. 2d 245, 108 S. Ct. 2379 (1988) should be applied to this case… |
| 19-6812 |
Steven Kurt Baughman v. Michael Seale, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment brain-damage burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-claims deliberate-indifference due-process hyperglycemia insulin medical-treatment prisoner-rights retaliation serious-medical-needs |
Whether injecting a prisoner with insulin without knowing his immediate blood sugar level constitutes deliberate indifference to serious medical needs |
| 19-6777 |
Iris Lamar Anderson v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights standing state-court-procedure |
Was Jae Trois SuPR EMME Loves \\WPLEMENTED Penenites Tor Fiowak's Supiual Sygrem THAT LowTRADICTS He U.S. ConsTtTuT/ONS 1% LE ann \\N™ AMENDMENT RENTS… |
| 19-6516 |
Ronald D. Veteto v. Gregory O. Griffin, Judge, Circuit Court of Alabama, Montgomery County, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights retaliation standing state-court-procedure |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's complaint for failure to comply with heightened pleading standards |
| 19-6449 |
Antwoine Marquise Bealer v. Kern Valley State Prison |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment administrative-decision administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-screening PLRA prison prisoner-rights standing |
Does the PLRA require the court to look beyond a prima facie showing when screening prisoner in forma pauperis complaints? |
| 19-6416 |
Jurijus Kadamovas v. John F. Caraway, Warden, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment administrative-discretion administrative-law bureau-of-prisons civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process medical-care medical-conditions prison-conditions prisoner-rights standing torture-prevention |
Whether the Federal Bureau of Prisons can torture an inmate diagnosed with asthma by exposing them to oleoresin capsicum spray, toxic smoke, and tear … |
| 19-6342 |
Michael Shavers v. Lavern Sharp, Deputy Warden, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process excessive-force excessive-use-of-force prisoner-rights standing summary-judgment |
Whether plaintiff is entitled to relief from dismissal of lawsuit - Shavers v. Bergh (excessive use of force claims dismissed on the nature of the sus… |
| 19-6130 |
George W. Fisher v. John Gregory Mermelstein, et al |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
1st-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment disability due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection free-speech media-access medical-treatment prison prisoner-rights state-liability |
Whether the denial of media treatment at a state prison violates the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of the press |
| 19-6148 |
Cornelius Lorenzo Wilson v. Dennis Grimes, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment medical-care monell-doctrine monell-liability municipal-jail municipal-liability prison-conditions prisoner-rights serious-medical-need systemic-underfunding |
Does systemic underfunding and understaffing of a municipal jail that knowingly causes significant delays for prisoners receiving access to outside me… |
| 19-6102 |
Roosevelt Brian Moore v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-review due-process graham-v-florida habeas-corpus juvenile-offenders legal-standards prisoner-rights resentencing sentencing sentencing-procedure standing state-court-decision |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit should grant petitioner's certificate of appealability pursuant to Miller v. Cockrell, 537 U.S… |
| 19-5960 |
Ben W. Bane v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affidavits breach-of-duty civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prisoner federal-tort-claims-act judicial-enforcement medical-negligence prisoner-rights procedural-requirements standing state-law state-law-preemption |
Whether a Federal District Court and the Appellant Court can enforce a Local State Law requiring affidavits for a federal prisoner's Federal Tort Clai… |
| 19-5966 |
Delbert Heard v. Andrew Tilden, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process electronic-evidence medical-care medical-malpractice medical-negligence negligence ostrich-defense prison-conditions prisoner-rights qualified-immunity surgical-delay |
Whether prison doctor can evade culpability for 8th Amendment violation for delay of prisoner's hernia surgery |
| 19-5798 |
Lonnie Bernard Davis v. John Hancock Mutual Funds Accounts |
First Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights confinement-conditions constitutional-violation due-process federal-review habeas-corpus prisoner-rights standing |
Did the federal court render a proper decision or abuse its discretion in the prisoner's case? |
| 19-5768 |
Steven Villalona v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
barker-v-wingo constitutional-law criminal-procedure detainer due-process prisoner-rights rehabilitative-programs sixth-amendment smith-v-hooey speedy-trial |
What effect, if any, does the filing of a detainer have on a prisoner's right to a speedy trial under the Sixth Amendment? |
| 19-5584 |
Christopher Isaac Simmons v. Grissom, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-waiver due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure prisoner-rights standing vexatious-litigant |
Did the Ninth Circuit impermissibly revoke Appellant's In Forma Pauperis (IFP) status under 28 U.S.C. 1915(g) where a 'high risk' prisoner clearly mad… |
| 19-5495 |
David Gray v. Phil Bryant, Governor of Mississippi, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts assault civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-dismissal due-process excessive-force federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus legal-procedure prisoner-rights retaliation standing |
Whether petitioner's civil rights were violated when his in forma pauperis application was denied, resulting in the dismissal of his civil rights laws… |
| 19-5467 |
Tyrone Murray v. Wanda Collins, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process factual-allegations grievances motion-to-dismiss prison prisoner-rights pro-se retaliation standing |
Whether a Pro Se inmate Complaint in a Conspiracy to Commit Murder lawsuit must Contain Specific facts and/or is Subject to a Heightened Pleading Stan… |
| 19-5485 |
Justin James Thrasher v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
arizona-supreme-court brown-v-plata brown-vs-board civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-oversight prison-reform prisoner-rights standing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Arizona Supreme Court's decision violates the Supreme Court's holding in Brown v. Plata, 131 S. Ct. 1910 (2011) |
| 19-5365 |
Michael Joseph DeMarco, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
color-of-state-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection government-misconduct prisoner-rights property-rights property-seizure retaliation witness-defense |
Whether a prisoner has due process and equal protection under the Constitution |
| 19-5360 |
Curtis Nairn v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights counsel counsel-assistance due-process exhaustion-of-remedies florida-corrections florida-department-of-corrections futility-doctrine habeas-corpus prisoner-rights spencer-sanction spencer-sanctions standing state-court-exhaustion state-courts |
Whether it would be futile for a prisoner to return to State Courts to have unexhausted claims exhausted with the assistance of counsel Under Florida … |
| 19-5324 |
Roscoe Chambers v. Kris Schmidts, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bond civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fees prison-conditions prisoner-rights standing |
Whether the PLRA reform litigation track, Brace strike, rule regulates and judicial declaration of speculation/ |
| 19-5205 |
Zachary A. Smith v. John A. Matthews, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-07-18 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
circuit-split civil-rights due-process evidence evidentiary-motion medical-evidence prisoner-rights pro-se rule-706 summary-judgment |
Should a pro se prisoner be permitted to admit medical information from a reputable website as 'verifying medical evidence' to overcome a motion for s… |
| 19-5160 |
Jamie D. Geer v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appeal appeal-procedure due-process equal-protection post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings prison-officials prisoner-rights |
Whether petitioner was denied due process, equal protection of the law, and right to access to the courts |
| 19-5152 |
Daryll Keith Shumake v. Virginia |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights court-filing due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence hearsay ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-access legal-materials prison-litigation prisoner-rights prosecutorial-misconduct |
How did the law waive the petitioner's right to confrontation? |
| 19-5066 |
Jordon Louis Dongarra v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3161 constitutional-claims double-jeopardy due-process federal-court habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel jurisdiction plea-agreement prisoner-rights pro-se speedy-trial statutory-interpretation |
Whether the dismissal of the first indictment under 18 USC 3161(b) and the subsequent untimely indictment without an alignment violates due process an… |
| 18-1586 |
Scott Lynn Gibson, aka Vanessa Lynn v. Brian Collier, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment individualized-medical-evaluation life-threatening-medical-need life-threatening-need medical-treatment new-treatment prison-healthcare prisoner-rights transgender-rights universal-medical-acceptance |
Whether an Eighth Amendment claim for deliberate indifference to a prisoner's life-threatening medical need can be disposed of without any individuali… |
| 18A1348 |
Daniel Brian Masson v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-06-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari extension-of-time institutional-limitations legal-assistance prisoner-rights pro-se |
Whether a pro se prisoner is entitled to an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari due to institutional limitations and need for … |
| 18-9733 |
Bobby F. McReynolds v. Preston Glenn, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus medical-treatment prisoner-rights procedural-default scheduling standing state-court-review surgery |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's case |
| 18A1334 |
Robert E. Carter, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Correction, Robert E v. Roman Lee Jones |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
diet-restriction first-amendment prisoner-rights religious-accommodation rluipa substantial-burden |
Whether the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act requires a prisoner to demonstrate severe financial hardship to establish a substanti… |
| 18A1309 |
Marcel Malachowski v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certificate-of-appealability federal-civil-procedure legal-resources prisoner-rights pro-se section-2255 |
Whether a pro se prisoner's limited access to legal resources at a private correctional facility constitutes a due process violation warranting an ext… |
| 18A1295 |
Jesse Mendivil v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
federal-procedure legal-research prisoner-rights pro-se time-extension writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a pro se prisoner's inability to access legal research resources constitutes good cause for an extension of time to file a writ of certiorari |
| 18A1282 |
Ronny Williams v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
access-to-courts extension-of-time prisoner-rights pro-se supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a pro se prisoner's motion for an extension of time to file a writ of certiorari should be granted due to institutional lockdown and limited a… |
| 18-9421 |
In Re Ronald D. Veteto |
|
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts administrative-penalty civil-procedure civil-rights clerk-misconduct due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus mandamus-petition notice-pleading prisoner-litigation prisoner-rights sanctions |
Whether the district court and Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing Veteto's civil rights claims and petitions for mandamus relief |
| 18-9334 |
In Re Phillip S. Grigalanz |
|
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts access-to-process appellate-process civil-rights due-process prisoner-rights state-action state-actors unlawful-interference writ-of-certiorari |
Do State actors possess an inherent responsibility to protect a prisoner's right of access to process against unlawful interference? |
| 18-9313 |
Warren D. Watson v. Matthew Killough, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-exhaustion administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process exhaustion-of-remedies grievance-procedures handbook-interpretation prisoner-rights procedural-confusion |
What is considered proper exhaustion and was there enough confusion in the policy handbook and other procedures to warrant non-exhaustion? |
| 18-9144 |
Delbert Heard v. John R. Baldwin, Director, Illinois Department of Corrections, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protection cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force failure-to-protect inmate-safety prisoner-rights standing substantial-risk |
Whether the risk of inmate-on-inmate assault became sufficiently substantial to trigger 8th Amendment protections under Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 82… |
| 18-9145 |
John Patrick Fletcher v. Inmate Bank, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process prisoner-complaint prisoner-rights pro-se rule-8 standard-of-review standing supervisory-power |
Whether the lower courts' failure/refusal to follow this Court's standard of review for pro se prisoner complaints under Fed. R. Civ. P. 8(a)(2) as he… |
| 18-9068 |
Dennis Rydbom v. Lisa Boggs, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-information catalog-ban censorship civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech mail-censorship penological-objectives prisoner-rights |
Is the ban against West Virginia prisoners' receipt of catalogs and of internet documents excessive and overly broad under the First Amendment's free … |
| 18-9128 |
Shawn R. Erpelding v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services |
Nebraska |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment arbitrary-denial civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus prisoner-rights privileges-and-immunities standing state-action |
Does the State of Nebraska violate the 14th Amendment's privileges and immunities clause by arbitrarily denying committed offenders the privilege of a… |
| 18-9111 |
El-Sayyid Nosair v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection hurst-v-florida judicial-review muslim-arab-prisoners prisoner-rights pro-se-litigation sentencing terrorism united-states-v-o'brien wrongful-conviction yick-wo-v-hopkins |
Whether the denial of equal justice by lower courts is still within the prohibition of the Constitution |
| 18-9052 |
Neil Grenning v. James Key, Superintendent, Airway Heights Corrections Center, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment institutional-lighting prison-conditions prisoner-rights sleep-deprivation writ-of-certiorari |
Should this Court grant writ of certiorari where lower courts have no guidance on what level of 24-hour lighting is appropriate in prisons so as not t… |
| 18-9023 |
Keith Clayton Brooks Jr. v. David Gabriel, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-26 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-procedure-collateral-order-doctrine collateral-order-doctrine constitutional-violations due-process enlargement-of-time federal-relief habeas-corpus magistrate-judge prison-litigation prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-prisoner standing |
Whether the collateral order doctrine can be invoked when a party is deprived of an opportunity to preserve issues for appellate review |
| 18-8883 |
James E. Jessup v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment prisoner-rights racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in dismissing Petitioner's civil rights claims alleging violations of his First Amendment rights and due process righ… |
| 18-8771 |
Timothy Barr v. Rebecca Pearson, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-circuit-review burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights due-process due-process-rights judicial-authority jury-trial prisoner-civil-rights prisoner-rights pro-se-litigation standing supreme-court-precedent |
Does the 8th circuit federal court of appeals have the authority to supersede the standards and precedent set by the United States Supreme Court in pr… |
| 18-8722 |
In Re Curtis Lee Sheppard |
|
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-review due-process federal-courts federal-law habeas-corpus jurisdictional-ruling mandamus prisoner-rights standing |
Whether the Eighth Circuit's refusal to allow the petitioner to file a successive habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. 2244(b) was proper |
| 18-8555 |
Randal Floyd v. Michael Johnson, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights court-fees deliberate-indifference due-process fraud indigent indigent-appeal prisoner-rights standing standing-civil-procedure-due-process-access-to-cou |
Whether a prisoner as plaintiff still has standing on a deliberate indifference claim when the defendant by fraud defaults their obligation to forward… |
| 18-8365 |
Derrick Scott v. Allen Stark, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-filing due-process imminent-danger in-forma-pauperis prisoner-rights standing three-strikes |
Whether the middle district Court and Fifth Circuit court of appeals erred in refusing to allow the petitioner to proceed IFP as an indigent prose pri… |
| 18-8376 |
Dee Deidre Farmer v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bivens-claims civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-district-court jurisdiction jurisdictional-transfer prisoner-civil-action prisoner-rights residence-determination standing venue-requirements |
When a prisoner initiates a civil action in a federal district court should that court deem the prisoner a resident of the state in which she/he resid… |
| 18-8341 |
Louie M. Schexnayder, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9)IFP |
aedpa-deference judicial-federalism judicial-proceedings judicial-review pecuniary-interest prisoner-rights pro-se-petition pro-se-prisoners state-court-decision statutory-interpretation supervisory-power writ-application writ-applications |
Could jurists of reason debate whether to apply AEDPA deference to a state court decision arising out of a secret, thirteen-year-long policy to deny a… |
| 18-8326 |
Dana Gray v. V. Romero, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
7th-amendment access-to-court civil-rights constitutional-access due-process expert-testimony medical-care medical-care-claims medical-expert neutral-expert prisoner-rights pro-se-litigation summary-judgment |
Whether United States district courts need to reliably appoint neutral medical experts in individual prisoner pro se §42 USC 1983 medical care cases w… |
| 18-8310 |
Azhar Lal v. B. G. Flores, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment damages deliberate-indifference due-process medical-treatment prisoner-rights standing |
Whether the prison doctor's deliberate failure to provide insulin treatment for a diabetic inmate's serious medical need amounts to cruel and unusual … |
| 18-8250 |
Joel Marvin Munt v. Minnesota Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment 8th-circuit appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process encourage-prisons-to-utilize-transfers-to-moot-sui judicial-discretion mootness mootness-doctrine prisoner-rights rluipa rluipa-standard standing |
Did the 8th Circuit incorrectly apply the mootness standard and encourage prisons to utilize transfers to moot suits? |
| 18-8209 |
Raymond Alford Bradford v. M. Marchak, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights due-process healthcare judicial-precedent legal-interpretation mental-health ninth-circuit prisoner-rights prisoners-rights statutory-interpretation |
Whether state prisoners have a statutory right to refuse long-term treatment with psychotropic drugs absent a judicial determination of incompetence |
| 18-8000 |
Allister Freeman v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts aedpa-limitations aedpa-time-limitations circuit-court-precedent civil-rights diligence due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus holland-test indigent-prisoner law-library law-library-access prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant standing |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals precedent in Dodds v. United States and Atkins v. United States, denying equitable tolling to a pro-se i… |
| 18-7959 |
Paul David Maze v. Renea Terrell, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
12(b)(6) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion plra prisoner-rights pro-se-litigant section-1983 standing |
Does a prisoner's §1983 civil matter require a remand if a District Court wrongly equate the standard for frivolousness of a complaint under §1915(d) … |
| 18-7963 |
Fredmun Wayne Reynolds v. Noah Nagy, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus prisoner-rights procedural-rules rules-of-civil-procedure state-prisoner statute statute-interpretation timeliness |
Does a district court's dismissal of a state prisoner's habeas petition under Habeas Rule 4 for lack of timeliness violate statute, the Rules of Civil… |
| 18-7919 |
Susan Grund v. Julie Murphy, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal civil-procedure civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-need prisoner-rights summary-judgment |
Whether the District Court improperly decided disputed factual issues |
| 18-7762 |
Douglas Fauconier v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process legitimate-penological-interests penological-interests prison-regulation prison-regulations prisoner-rights |
What minimum showing of proof must prison officials establish on the record, to meet their initial burden of proof, in demonstrating that a prison reg… |
| 18-7674 |
Michael S. Gorbey v. Michael McCall, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process extradition federal-jurisdiction federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights standing state-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Can a state habeas corpus be removed from state court to federal court? |
| 18-7604 |
Jacques Paul Villafana v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights confidentiality confidentiality-statute due-process mailroom-search medical-records medical-records-privacy prisoner-rights privacy privacy-rights veterans-affairs veterans-benefits |
Whether privacy rights extend to a prisoner's military medical records |
| 18-7517 |
Donelle L. Johnson v. Jennifer McDermott, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard prisoner-rights procedural-rights |
Did the United States Court of Appeals err in denying Mr. Johnson a certificate of appealability? |
| 18-7476 |
Scott Ash James Zirus v. Sharon Faye Keller, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 42-usc-section-1983 civil-action civil-procedure civil-rights fee-payment prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner-rights standing writ-of-mandamus |
When a prisoner's 42 U.S.C. §1983 action is construed as a Petition for Writ of Mandamus, is it a 'civil action' within the scope of the Prison Litiga… |
| 18-794 |
Ronald R. Shea v. Winnebago County Sheriff's Office, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment bail civil-rights constitutional-amendments counsel due-process fundamental-rights petition-clause prisoner-rights telephone-access |
Whether a prisoner's right to a telephone call is a necessary inference of the fundamental rights of bail and counsel under the Sixth, Eighth and Four… |
| 18-7049 |
Joel Marvin Munt v. Nanette Larson, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights dismissal due-process eighth-amendment expert-evaluation jury-trial medical-care mootness prisoner-rights standing summary-judgment |
Was Petitioner unconstitutionally denied his right to have a jury determine the facts of his case? |
| 18-6973 |
Andy Edward Minor v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus prisoner-rights racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing state-court-appeals |
Whether the Mississippi Supreme Court erred in denying the petitioner's request for a writ of certiorari to review the lower court's ruling |
| 18-6634 |
Leandro Leonel Gonzalez v. F. Armenta, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights correctional-officers due-process evidence first-amendment free-speech Is there a right to have-a-witness in the Due-Proc mail-communication prisoner-rights witness-testimony |
Is there a right to outgoing mail in the First Amendment? |
| 18-6595 |
John Smith v. Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal-dismissal due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis mental-incompetence prisoner-rights |
Does treating a dismissed appeal of a mentally incompetent prisoner's case, who in good faith, untimely filed a motion to proceed in forma pauperis, c… |
| 18-594 |
Robert R. Snyder v. California |
California |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
|
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-deprivation constitutional-deprivations due-process grievance-system prison prisoner-rights standing state-court state-court-procedure state-prison unsupervised-determinations |
Should this court grant review to remedy the conspicuous violations of due process |
| 18-6571 |
Mark Jervis v. Richard Brown, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process e-filing-system habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion prisoner-rights standing |
Does the District Court have the inherent power to rectify its own mistakes after creating a system that makes it nearly impossible for prisoners to c… |
| 18-6440 |
Danny R. Meeks v. Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
evasion exhaustion-requirement Prison-Litigation-Reform-Act statute-of-limitations unlawful-practice ada-compliance americans-with-disabilities-act exhaustion-requirement harassment prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner-rights statute-of-limitations threats |
Whether a covered entity can maintain an unlawful practice of evading ADA responsibilities |
| 18-6433 |
Robert Norman Smithback v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,standing,civil-procedure, constitutional-guarantees cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection farmer-v-brennan prison-conditions prisoner-rights supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Texas jurisprudence enforces constitutional guarantees, especially the Supreme Court's Farmer v. Brennan decision |
| 18-6427 |
Jesus Valle v. Rusty Rogers, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-segregation circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process prisoner-assault prisoner-rights standing state-created-danger |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision denying relief represents a split in the Circuit Courts |
| 18-6367 |
Joel Carter v. Jamie Ayala, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-services medical-treatment precedent prisoner-rights summary-judgment |
Did the lower court err in granting summary judgment in favor of Respondents on Petitioner's Eighth Amendment deliberate indifference claim, by issuin… |
| 18-6239 |
Sean P. Reilly v. Guelsy M. Herrera, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey limitations-period prisoner-rights section-1983 |
Whether a Section 1983 Plaintiff can proceed with an action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when Heck v. Humphrey requirements are met but § 2254 Federal Habea… |
| 18-6264 |
Adrian M. Requena v. Ray Roberts, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-accountability judicial-oversight judicial-review prison-officials prisoner-rights |
Can Prison Officials violate a prisoner's Constitutional Rights and the Court System turn a blind eye? |
| 18-6043 |
Patrick Wayne Manning, II v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-court civil-rights claim-construction court-access discrimination due-process equal-protection prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-claims pro-se-litigants recharacterization-of-claims |
Should there be a precedent from the Court that protects pro-se-prisoners' right to contest misconstrued-of-pro-se-claims? |
| 18-5862 |
Samuel Ross v. Clerk of Courts of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-claims civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure prisoner-rights pro-se-litigation standing |
Whether a prisoner has a constitutional right of access to the courts to litigate civil claims unrelated to his/her sentence or conviction? |
| 18-5801 |
Harvey Eugene Larson v. Doug Moore, Parole Officer, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
cause-of-action civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus legal-standing pleading prisoner-rights standing statutory-interpretation |
Did claims state a cause of action? |
| 18-5721 |
Carlos Levy v. Mike Parris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access diligence due-process habeas-corpus language-barrier language-barriers prisoner-rights spanish-speaking tolling |
Whether a Spanish-speaking U.S. citizen prisoner must prove he sought legal advice from fellow inmates lacking legal training to establish diligence f… |
| 18-5728 |
Wesley Brian Earnest v. Keith W. Davis, Warden, et al. |
Virginia |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 1st-amendment civil-procedure due-process equal-protection standing civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus prisoner-rights standing |
Whether the Virginia Supreme Court erred in denying the petitioner's appeal for a writ of habeas corpus |
| 18-5695 |
Robert Wayne Annabel, II v. Michigan Department of Corrections, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ada amendment-opportunity civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy deliberate-indifference due-process plra plra-dismissal prisoner-litigation prisoner-rights rehabilitation-act res-judicata retaliation sua-sponte |
Whether the Sixth Circuit's interpretation of the PLRA's dismissal procedures denies a fair and adequate opportunity to object or amend the complaint |
| 18-5626 |
Bruce Wishnefsky v. Jawad Salameh, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights district-court-dismissal due-process federal-statute in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure prisoner-appeal prisoner-rights standing statutory-interpretation three-strikes-provision |
Whether the 'three strikes' provision of the federal in forma pauperis statute bars a prisoner from appealing in forma pauperis a district court dismi… |
| 18-5595 |
Keith L. Williams v. Kul Sood, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion prisoner-rights procedural-error standing summary-judgment |
Whether court of appeals or district court abused its discretion in (8th) amendment violation claim by failing to acknowledge evidence |
| 18-5573 |
Tajuan Williams v. Sherman Campbell, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law contraband due-process evidence-gathering fourth-amendment prison prison-regulations prisoner-rights regulations |
Should the Court review the case, de novo, to address the importance to the public of the issue in keeping contraband items out of prisons and out of … |
| 18-171 |
Robert R. Snyder v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 civil-rights color-of-state-law constitutional-rights Cruel-and-unusual-punishment Due-process Eighth-amendment First-amendment immunity law-library-access Preliminary-injunction prisoner-rights retaliation section-1983 |
Does a person or entity have immunity from prosecution under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when rights secured by the U.S. Constitution have been violated by said … |
| 18-5451 |
Charles M. Steele v. Charlotte Jenkins, Warden, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights court-access due-process filing-fees in-forma-pauperis indigent-plaintiff judicial-discretion prisoner-rights sua-sponte-dismissal |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in sua sponte dismissing the plaintiff's appeal for non-payment of filing fees when the plaintiff lac… |
| 18-5430 |
James Davis Bennett, et ux. v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-defense deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment estelle-vs-gamble federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure medical-care prisoner-rights serious-medical-needs summary-judgment |
Whether the Eighth Amendment allows a court to create a constitutional defense to an admitted Eighth Amendment violation requiring a prisoner plaintif… |
| 18-5334 |
Marlon Crawford v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus illiteracy judicial-procedure non-english-prisoners prisoner-rights statutory-interpretation |
Whether equitable tolling may be extended to non-English or illiterate prisoners that lose access to courts as a result |
| 18-5257 |
Frederick E. Melvin v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Florida |
2018-07-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto parole prisoner-rights retroactive-application sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Florida Commission on Offender Review (formerly the Florida Parole Commission) unconstitutionally operates under Florida Senate and House … |
| 18-5240 |
Roy Lee Ward v. Robert E. Carter, Jr., Commissioner, Indiana Department of Correction, et al. |
Indiana |
2018-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-punishment due-process fourteenth-amendment lethal-injection lethal-substances notice prisoner-rights state-execution state-prisoners |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment entitles condemned state prisoners to notice of the lethal substances a state will use to e… |
| 18-5067 |
Clark L. Stuhr v. Daniel White, Superintendent, Washington Corrections Center |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights documentary-evidence due-process good-time-credits habeas-corpus prison-discipline prisoner-rights right-to-evidence |
Whether a criminal defendant is entitled to a certificate of appealability when it is demonstrated that a substantial showing of the denial of a const… |
| 18-5096 |
Raymond Tibbetts v. John Kasich, Governor of Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
baze-v-rees baze-vs-rees eighth-amendment execution-protocol glossip-v-gross glossip-vs-gross lethal-injection midazolam prisoner-rights scientific-evidence substantial-risk substantial-risk-of-harm substantial-risk-of-serious-harm |
Whether a prisoner challenging a midazolam three-drug lethal-injection protocol must prove with scientific evidence that the first drug is sure or ver… |
| 18A10 |
Quonshay Douglas-Ricardo Mason v. DeWayne Burton |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari legal-research prisoner-rights pro-se sixth-circuit time-extension |
Whether a pro se prisoner's inability to access legal research materials and challenges with counsel constitute sufficient grounds for an extension of… |
| 23A397 |
Mark A. Jones v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
|
Presumed Complete |
|
filing-requirements in-forma-pauperis lockdown-conditions prisoner-rights pro-se supreme-court-procedure |
Whether an indigent pro se prisoner can obtain an extension of time to comply with Supreme Court filing requirements when incarcerated under lockdown … |
| 24A307 |
Garcia Glenn White v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
|
Denied |
|
constitutional-review habeas-corpus identity-claim prisoner-rights procedural-default time-bar |
Whether a prisoner may bring an identity-related claim outside of standard procedural time limitations |