pro-bono-counsel
9 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24A1253 | Daniel Raul Santiago Vasquez v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2025-06-18 | Presumed Complete | capital-murder death-penalty eighth-amendment extension-of-time post-conviction pro-bono-counsel | Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the imposition of a death sentence where the defendant was represented by pro bono counsel during post-convicti… | |
| 24-7387 | Anthony Wainwright v. Ron Desantis, Governor of Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-06-10 | Denied | Amici (2)IFP | capital-litigation constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus pro-bono-counsel | Whether a State violates the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses by preventing capital litigants from accessing state habeas process with pro bon… |
| 23-6922 | Benjamin Kohn v. State Bar of California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-03-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law arms-of-the-state bar-admission civil-rights eleventh-amendment en-banc judicial-review ninth-circuit pro-bono-counsel sovereign-immunity state-university | Whether sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment extends to a state university |
| 22-5021 | Palani Karupaiyan v. L. Naganda, et al. | Third Circuit | 2022-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment civil-rights conjugal-rights due-process false-arrest guardian-ad-litem injunctive-relief parental-rights pro-bono-counsel right-of-access-to-courts | Question not identified |
| 21-7208 | Theresa Bailey v. New York Law School, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process indigent-plaintiff judicial-review pro-bono-counsel procedural-errors standing title-ix | Whether the underlying case presents one or more Questions of Fact for a jury; and, if no, Whether the case presents one or more cognizable claims tha… |
| 21-6675 | Robert JW McCleland v. Rick Raemisch, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2021-12-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-1915 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process expert-witness fed-r-evid-706 indigent-party judicial-notice medical-facts pro-bono-counsel standing summary-judgment | Whether the appellate courts should apply case law established under Fed.R.Evid. 706 to an indigent party's request for the appointment of pro bono co… |
| 21-5459 | Bernabe Encarnacion v. Anthony J. Annucci, Acting Commissioner, New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, et al. | Second Circuit | 2021-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest double-jeopardy due-process final-decision jurisdiction pro-bono-counsel standing summary-judgment | Whether the court has jurisdiction over the defendants, and whether the court of appeals order was a final decision and this petition was timely filed |
| 20-7478 | Paul Eric Lewis v. Southern Connecticut State University, et al. | Second Circuit | 2021-03-17 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure pro-bono-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | Whether the plaintiff's right to counsel was violated, resulting in a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause and the Sixth Amendme… |
| 19-7668 | Darlene Kay Herran v. Indiana | Indiana | 2020-02-14 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-rights appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process home-detention indigent-client indigent-rights pro-bono-counsel sixth-amendment standing transcript-costs | Did the Indiana Court of Appeals err by ruling that when a trial court states that pro-bono counsel may be charged for costs of a transcript for an in… |