| 25-6351 |
Anthony James Merrick v. Kenneth Herman, Former Administrator of Religious and Volunteer Services, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-12 |
Pending |
IFP |
constitutional-law due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-decisions prisoners-rights |
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| 25A688 |
Pennsylvania, et al. v. Jose Montanez, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-12-11 |
Application |
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americans-with-disabilities-act medical-contractors prisoners-rights rehabilitation-act state-liability vicarious-liability |
Whether a state can be held vicariously liable under the Americans with Disabilities Act and Rehabilitation Act for medical care violations committed … |
| 25-5833 |
Braun Thompson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights government-policy judicial-review legal-access prisoners-rights procedural-protections |
1. Do Citizens have a Constitutional right to clarity of the law, and thus access to the Courts?
2. May prisoners issue the right/as violated by the … |
| 24A697 |
Ismael Ruiz v. Dan Shannon, Director, Wyoming Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-01-15 |
Presumed Complete |
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access-to-courts clearly-established constitutional-violation prisoners-rights pro-se tenth-circuit |
Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals violated a pro se prisoner's clearly established constitutional right of access to courts by disregarding h… |
| 24-5358 |
James Andrew Metcalf v. GEO Group, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights court-access covid-19-restrictions prisoners-rights pro-se-filing summary-judgment |
Whether prisoners' constitutional rights are violated by court procedural technicalities that impede access to justice during COVID-19 pandemic |
| 24-5053 |
Patrick Keith Hirt v. Amber Sundquist, Superintendent, Deer Ridge Correctional Institution |
Oregon |
2024-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts bounds-v-smith constitutional-provisions habeas-corpus lewis-v-casey prison-officials prisoners-rights procedural-default supreme-court-precedent |
Did the State of Oregon violate this Court's holdings in Bounds v. Smith and Lewis v. Casey when prison officials impeded access to courts and proxima… |
| 23A408 |
Michael Marrara, et al. v. Philip D. Murphy, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-11-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari legal-access prisoners-rights pro-se supreme-court-rules time-extension |
Whether pro se prisoners can obtain a 60-day extension to file a Supreme Court certiorari petition due to institutional limitations that substantially… |
| 22-7063 |
Colby Dranoel Leonard v. James M. LeBlanc, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights compact-clause due-care due-process joint-tenancy jurisdiction prisoners-rights rehabilitation-programs standing venue venue-transfer |
Should the State District Court have transferred Mr. Leonard's civil suit to the correct venue/jurisdiction? |
| 22-6455 |
Michael Joseph DeMarco, Jr. v. Jeremy J. Bynum |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech government-accountability prison-grievance prisoners-rights property-destruction qualified-immunity retaliation |
Does the Plaintiff's First Amendment right to redress in the form of a prison grievance exposing corruption and illegal acts give the government emplo… |
| 22-6239 |
Nicholas Stewart Hines v. Denny Kaemingk, Secretary, South Dakota Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts access-to-legal-documents civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection first-amendment judicial-access prisoners-rights retaliation |
Whether a prisoner's right to access a county courthouse and public records is different than a regular citizen |
| 22-5498 |
Aaron Striz v. Bryan Collier, Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-segregation administrative-state constitutional-minima due-process eighth-amendment equality-under-the-law prisoners-rights solitary-confinement |
Does extended, indefinite solitary confinement of an atypical duration, under some circumstances, violate the Eighth Amendment? |
| 21-1405 |
Lester J. Smith v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-06 |
Denied |
Amici (8) |
accommodation circuit-court-review circuit-split civil-rights deference penological-interests prison-policy prisoners-rights religious-freedom religious-liberty rluipa |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in applying RLUIPA when it held that Georgia need not grant a religious accommodation offered in 39 other prison sy… |
| 21-5695 |
Nicholas Stewart Hines v. Tim Reisch, Secretary, South Dakota Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cares-act civil-rights constitutional-exemption due-process federal-exemption prisoners-rights state-seizure stimulus-payments supremacy-clause |
Whether states' seizure of prisoners' stimulus payments violate the federal exemption statutes within the CARES Act and the Supremacy Clause of the Un… |
| 20-6825 |
Andrew Andersen v. Marisela Montes, Commissioner of California Board of Parole Hearings, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process first-amendment greenholtz-v-inmates-of-nebraska parole parole-denial prisoners-rights protected-freedoms swarthout-v-cooke |
Did this Court's ruling in Swarthout v. Cooke and Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska foreclose First Amendment challenges against statements of reasons… |
| 20-5521 |
Wilbert Williams, aka Serenity Izabel Williams v. Beverly Kelly, Assistant Warden, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment gender-dysphoria medical-treatment prisoners-rights transgender transgender-rights |
Whether gender dysphoria is a serious medical condition and whether there is a conflict between the 5th Circuit and other U.S. Courts of Appeals |
| 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 |
| 19-8355 |
Lancey Darnell Ray v. Kevin Stitt, Governor of Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2020-04-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process equal-protection federal-grants federal-statute parole parole-eligibility prisoners-rights private-prisons sentencing-rules state-corrections truth-in-sentencing |
Whether 34 U.S.C.A. § 12104's (Formerly cited as 42 U.S.C.A. § 13704) 85% requirement disturb States' settled parole statutes regarding eligibility fo… |
| 19-8127 |
Casey Rafael Tyler v. Erik A. Hooks, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights disciplinary-hearings documentary-evidence due-process evidence hearing-procedures prison-rights prisoners-rights video-surveillance wolff-v-mcdonnell |
Did the Wolff right to present documentary evidence encompass the right to present video evidence? |
| 19-5702 |
Tony D. Walker v. Green Bay Correctional Institution Health Services Unit, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process exhaustion-of-remedies frivolous-claims prison-conditions prisoners-rights procedural-hurdles standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a) is unconstitutional, when courts have denied prisoners past relief for their grievances merely because the prisoners have … |
| 18-9753 |
Jason Brooks v. Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-access-to-courts,first-amendment,four court-access due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech lewis-v-casey pleading-standard prisoners-rights section-1983 standing |
Whether a federal district court's 30-page limit on unrepresented prisoners' § 1983 complaints violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 18-9662 |
Mark Alan Lane v. Josias Salazar, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons due-process first-amendment penological-interests prisoner-speech prisoners-rights procunier-v-martinez prohibited-act-code-203 true-threats void-for-vagueness |
Whether the Bureau of Prisons' broad construction of Prohibited Act Code 203 to punish statements in outgoing mail that are not true threats violates … |
| 18-8332 |
Abu-Ali Abdur'Rahman, et al. v. Tony Parker, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tennessee |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
cross-examination discovery due-process execution-method execution-secrecy method-of-execution prisoners-rights privileged-communications standing state-officials state-secrecy |
Does a state deprive condemned prisoners of due process when, to defeat a challenge to the state's method of execution, state officials rely on and th… |
| 18-1162 |
P. Swaney, et al. v. Hector Lopez |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights correctional-officers deliberate-indifference due-process medical-care prisoners-rights qualified-immunity |
Denial of qualified immunity to correctional officers for alleged deliberate indifference to prisoners' medical needs |
| 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 |
| 18-7852 |
Donald Hug v. T. J. Conley, Warden |
Georgia |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-review freedom-of-religion freedom-of-speech habeas-corpus judicial-authority prison-policies prisoners-rights statute-of-limitations time-limits |
Whether prison officials have the authority to prevent (deny) pro se prisoners from getting their legal documents notarized until it is too late to fi… |