private-prisons
5 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-7009 | James Daryl West v. Sabrina Schultz, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-03-11 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights prison-medical-care private-prisons qualified-immunity respondeat-superior section-1983 | Whether private prison medical providers are shielded from respondeat superior suits under Section 1983. |
| 20-7995 | John C. Stuart v. Arizona | Arizona | 2021-05-12 | Denied | IFP | due-process emancipation graft judicial-bias judicial-impartiality private-prisons subject-matter-jurisdiction thirteenth-amendment | Does the state court have subject-matter jurisdiction in a trial wherein the judge of which shall receive extrajudicially paid pecuniary gain ("Graft"… |
| 20-7193 | John C. Stuart v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-impartiality due-process judicial-bias pecuniary-conflict pecuniary-interest private-prison private-prisons state-courts subject-matter-jurisdiction takings | This Supreme Court has always held that state courts lack subject-matter jurisdiction in trials wherein the judge receives additional pecuniary gain f… |
| 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 | PREFACE TO QUESTIONS PRESENTED: Prisoners, by the very nature of their circumstances, are more than merely similarly situated; they are exactly situat… |
| 18-8255 | David E. Ponder v. Avalon Correctional Services, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-04 | Denied | IFP | circuit-court-split civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violations constitutional-protections due-process foia-exemption freedom-of-information inmate-rights prison prison-transparency private-prisons standing takings | Private for profit prisons are allowed to deny Foia and State Open Records laws. (a.) State Courts rulings as to Open Records reqirements involving p… |