pro-se-filing

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-592 Teresa Miller v. Officer Helms, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-11-20 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 conviction-vacatur heck-v-humphrey judicial-prejudice pro-se-filing section-1404 1. Did the Fourth Circuit 's affirmance (Case No. 24-1718) of the Northern District of West Virginia 's dismissal (Case No. l:23-CV-26) of a 42 U.S…
25-6172 Quantell Williams v. Austin J. Robinson, et al. Florida 2025-11-19 Denied IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment pro-se-filing psychiatric-duress settlement state-court 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause is violated when a state court enforces a settlement entered over a litigant's explicit objec…
25A345 Dennis Michael Hogan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-09-25 Presumed Complete administrative-remedies extraordinary-circumstances pro-se-filing section-3553a section-3582 sentence-reduction Question not identified.
24A1069 Luis Fernando Puente v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-05-05 Presumed Complete ineffective-assistance legal-diligence pro-se-filing supreme-court-procedure time-extension writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24-7055 Willie Lee HavMmeri v. Methodist Health Systems, Dallas Fifth Circuit 2025-04-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP covid-19-tolling employment-discrimination equitable-tolling judicial-procedure pro-se-filing right-to-sue 1. Did the Pandemic (Covid-19 Federally Mandated Shutdowns/Lockdowns) present a considerable factor in the Equitable Tolling of Time, Reasonable Dilig…
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 Are prisoners' Constitutional Rights to access the Courts violated when the institutional law library is closed in response to COVID-19 protocols, lea…
23-791 Peter Thompson v. Gregg Sullivan, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response Waived appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court-proceedings due-process fraud ninth-circuit-rules pro-se-filing procedural-due-process record record-exclusion standing 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in concluding that the lower US District Court of Montana proceedings could be equitably affirmed when the district court…
23A629 Henry Eugene Gossage v. Reality Homes, Inc., et al. Washington 2024-01-09 Presumed Complete certiorari-petition court-procedure extension-of-time pro-se-filing procedural-defect supreme-court-rules Question not identified.
23-6395 In Re Daniel Lee Beckley 2023-12-28 Denied IFP all-writs-act appellate-procedure federal-appeals filing-deadline houston-v-lack incarcerated-person mandamus prison-mail prisoner-litigation pro-se-filing supreme-court-mandate timely-filing In Houston v. lack , 487 U.S. 266,108 S.Ct. 2379, 101 L.Ed.2d 245 (1988), this Honorable Court held that when an incarcerated person submits his/her l…
23-5471 Scott A. Shreffler v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-08-29 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure clerical-error due-process evidentiary-hearing houston-v-lack notice-of-appeal prisoner-mailbox-rule pro-se-filing timeliness Whether the Pennsylvania appellate court erred in dismissing the petitioner's appeal for untimely filing of notice of appeal
22-7323 Henry E. Gossage v. Office of Personnel Management, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP administrative-law agency-decision civil-procedure due-process freedom-of-information-act jurisdictional-challenge merit-systems-protection-board pro-se-filing standing suitability-determination unusual-circumstances Whether this appeal is frivolous
21-7245 Julia Ann Poff v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus pro-se pro-se-filing sentence-reduction sentencing Whether a defendant who is not represented by an attorney can be denied the right to file a pro se motion for compassionate release under 18 U.S.C. § …
21-221 Blake Cretacci v. Joe Call, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-08-16 Denied civil-rights counsel-communication court-of-appeals-split due-process federal-law legal-representation mailbox-rule prisoner-filing prisoner-representation pro-se-filing standing Whether a prisoner who submits a filing through the prison mail system loses the benefit of the mailbox rule if he has counsel?
20-548 Jessie Eugene Shelton v. Robert C. Tanner, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-10-26 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process improper-jurisdiction ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-filing prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a pro se filing by petitioner in 2012 to the District Court, alleging ineffective assistance of counsel and an invalid plea would deny a secon…
20-6009 Lamar Thornton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appointed-counsel criminal-justice-act due-process in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-for-leave-to-proceed-in-forma-pauperis petition-for-writ-of-certiorari pro-se-filing sixth-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the government's actions
20-5954 Meryl S. McDonald v. Florida Florida 2020-10-08 Denied IFP criminal-procedure death-penalty death-sentence due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment post-conviction postconviction-counsel pro-se-filing right-to-counsel Whether rule 3.851(b)(6)&(i) of the Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure is unconstitutional and violates the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses …
18-8929 In Re Lavont Flanders, Jr. 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process habeas-corpus indictment-amendment mailbox-rule postal-service-error pro-se-filing pro-se-prisoner procedural-due-process right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to counsel was violated when the indictment was amended during a critical stage of the proceedings with…
18-8075 Godwin Oriakhi v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper plain-error plain-error-review plea-bargaining pro-se-filing strickland-v-washington Whether Lafler v. Cooper is violated when trial counsel advises a defendant to enter a guilty plea to an indictment that, on its face, violates the Fi…
18-7822 Meryl S. McDonald v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2019-02-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-fact postconviction-counsel pro-se-filing standing voir-dire Whether the voir dire examination oath provision of Rules 3.191 and 3.300(a) of the Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure is a jurisdictional fact
18-6786 Curtis J. Hill v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied IFP cause-of-death confrontation-clause due-process evidence expert-reports expert-testimony habeas-corpus medical-evidence pro-se pro-se-filing unreasonable-determination unreasonable-factual-findings Whether the California Court of Appeal unreasonably determined the facts critical to a Confrontation Clause analysis of the introduction of a non-test…