pro-bono
6 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A454 | Stanley Kappell Watson v. Shenekka Bradsher, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-21 | Application | certiorari eleventh-circuit pro-bono supreme-court time-extension writ-petition | Whether a pro bono counsel's personal scheduling constraints constitute good cause for a 60-day extension of time to file a petition for a writ of cer… | |
| 25A333 | Ledale Nathan v. Heather Cofer, Warden, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-09-23 | Presumed Complete | certificate-of-appealability eighth-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus pro-bono supreme-court-rule | Whether the Eighth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability in a federal habeas corpus petition improperly restricted the petitioner's right… | |
| 24A176 | Anthony Patterson v. Asli Baz | Seventh Circuit | 2024-08-15 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review certiorari jurisdiction pro-bono rehearing seventh-circuit | Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied legal standards in its decision in Baz v. Patterson that potentially impacted the appli… | |
| 20-583 | Mitzi Elaine Dailey v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland | Maryland | 2020-11-03 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-disciplinary-proceedings attorney-discipline confidentiality confidentiality-breach due-process equal-protection judicial-bias mandamus-petition pro-bono | Should the Maryland Court of Appeals have granted Petitioner's request for a hearing on her Petition for Writ of Mandamus |
| 18A1356 | Montye Benjamin v. Lynn Thomas | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-24 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights constitutional-claims eleventh-circuit pro-bono summary-judgment wrongful-death | Whether a civil rights action for wrongful death can survive summary judgment when the underlying constitutional claims have been dismissed by the low… | |
| 18-9361 | Jordan Alexander Clemons v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2019-05-21 | Denied | IFP | affidavit appellate-procedure civil-rights court-access criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-proportionality in-forma-pauperis indigence indigent-status juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing legal-representation life-imprisonment pro-bono | Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court erred in rejecting petitioner's claim that his sentence of life imprisonment without parole for a crime committ… |