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25A497 Arthur Torlucci v. California Ninth Circuit 2025-10-30 Application certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim federal-petition habeas-corpus procedural-grounds section-2254 Whether a state court's denial of a habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 can be appealed when the underlying petition fails to state a debatable fed…
25-5931 Caleb Campbell v. Officer Terry Pruitt, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-10-22 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge conviction-review criminal-procedure due-process procedural-grounds state-court Whether a petitioner's due process rights were violated when a state court denied his constitutional challenge to a criminal conviction based on proce…
24-1316 Wendy Downs v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-26 Denied aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas-corpus procedural-grounds statute-of-limitations Whether the Ninth Circuit applied an overly stringent standard in assessing the district court's disposition of a habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. § 22…
24-7454 William Demont White, Jr. v. Lisa Stenseth, Warden Eighth Circuit 2025-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-court habeas-corpus procedural-grounds reasonable-jurists Whether a federal court may find that 'reasonable jurists would not disagree' about denying a certificate of appealability when other courts have reso…
24-7394 Edwin D. Calligan v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-disqualification procedural-grounds sixth-amendment Whether jurists of reason would find it debatable that a Certificate of Appealability (COA) should have been issued under Slack v. McDaniel after the …
24A1038 Dominique Ashley Childs v. Virginia Fourth Circuit 2025-04-28 Presumed Complete 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right district-court-review habeas-corpus procedural-grounds Whether a state prisoner can obtain a certificate of appealability for a federal habeas petition when the district court denies relief on procedural g…
24-6515 Joseph T. Shine-Johnson v. Shelbie Smith, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-02-10 Denied IFP appellate-review habeas-corpus judicial-finality merits-review procedural-grounds rule-60b Whether a petitioner can use Rule 60(b) to gain Relief of Judgment from a legal error that precluded merits review when habeas relief was denied on fl…
24-5984 Jason Keith-David Manners v. Bryan Morrison, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-challenge court-relief criminal-defendant organizational-rights procedural-grounds Whether a criminal defendant's organizational rights can be challenged when a court denies relief based on procedural grounds
24-5835 Jaylin Godbolt v. California California 2024-10-28 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-grounds Whether the California Supreme Court's denial of a writ of habeas corpus based on procedural grounds violated the appellant's constitutional right to …
23-7340 Kelton Vondre Yates v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-04-30 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-court-jurisdiction jurisdictional-dismissal procedural-grounds standing statute-of-limitations Whether Petitioner is entitled to equitable tolling of the statute of limitations
23-682 Alabama v. Marcus Bernard Williams Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-26 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (2) AEDPA-deference habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits merits-review procedural-grounds state-court-adjudication Does a state-court adjudication on the merits lose its entitlement to AEDPA deference if it is affirmed on procedural grounds?
23-5197 Marshall Ray Partain v. Jason Hallmark, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-07-26 Denied IFP appeal-dismissal civil-procedure court-of-appeals deadlines due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure filing-deadline judicial-process legal-timeliness mental-illness procedural-grounds standing Should a federal district court allow an appeal to proceed if the opposing party fails to object to an untimely filed appeal?
22-7789 Douglas Manning v. Patrick Nogan, Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2023-06-15 Denied IFP case-merits civil-rights defendant-justification due-process harmful-consequences ineffective-assistance legal-excuses legal-malpractice plaintiff-claims procedural-grounds professional-responsibility standing Was the defendant's representation so deficient that the plaintiff should be held responsible for it?
22-1153 Hector Mendez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-30 Denied Response Waived appellate-review constitutional-rights district-court due-process federal-prisoner habeas-corpus procedural-grounds right-to-hearing statutory-rights Does a district court deny a federal prisoner the constitutional or statutory right to be heard by misreading or ignoring the case files and records a…
21-973 John Colangelo, et al. v. Nicole Chase Second Circuit 2022-01-06 Dismissed Response Requested civil-rights criminal-charges due-process false-statement malicious-prosecution police-investigation procedural-grounds qualified-immunity section-1983 Whether the officers were entitled to qualified immunity where the law was not clearly established that a charge of making a false statement could be …
21-6619 Jeremiah Y. Nation v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-process legal-review procedural-grounds procedural-review state-court state-court-petition Should a Certificate of Appealability be issued on a Fourth Amendment claim in a Habeas Corpus petition where there was a dispute in the U.S. District…
20-7982 Eugene Jacobs, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-limitations certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus post-conviction-review procedural-grounds slack-standard statute-of-limitations Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit err in its reading of Slack, in denying Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability, giv…
20-7962 Wesley Brian Earnest v. Keith W. Davis, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claims covid-19 dna-evidence equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances federal-review habeas-corpus pro-se procedural-grounds Should courts procedurally time-bar a pro-se-inmate's habeas-corpus petition when a prison-official with a serious-health-illness is responsible for t…
20-6658 Michael Brent Brown v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-12-18 Denied IFP death-penalty district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-petition fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prisoner-rights procedural-grounds statute-of-limitations Whether the courts erred in denying relief and review on procedural grounds
20-6039 Earl McBride v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP due-process due-process-clause equitable-tolling evidentiary-standard habeas-corpus habeas-petition parole parole-board postal-service-form procedural-grounds Does USPS Form 3811 meet 28 USC 2244 evidentiary standard for equitable tolling?
20-5964 Marlow Shelton McDonald v. Jeff Titus, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-court federal-courts habeas-corpus procedural-grounds reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation Whether a federal court may find that 'reasonable jurists would not disagree' about the denial of relief on procedural grounds where other courts have…
20-5946 Roberto Antoine Darden v. Barbara Von Blanckensee, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights disciplinary-notice district-court due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus liberty-interest prisoner-rights procedural-grounds qualified-immunity Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision that due process was satisfied because the officer's act was 'above the norm' conflicts with other appellate cour…
20-5160 Keith Henderson v. Eddie Miles, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-court federal-courts habeas-corpus procedural-grounds reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation Whether a federal court may find that 'reasonable jurists would not disagree' about the denial of relief on procedural grounds where other courts have…
19-8835 Billy Joe Wardlow v. Texas Texas 2020-06-26 Denied IFP capital-murder constitutional-rights federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice procedural-default procedural-grounds state-court state-habeas-corpus wiggins-claim Whether in Mr. Wardlow's case to grant certiorari, vacate the decision of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, and remand for reconsideration in the m…
19-8664 Charles T. Kirvin v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-10 Denied IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-court civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenges legal-standing petition-denial procedural-grounds standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit arbitrarily and erroneously denied Appellant a Certificate of Appealability
19-7602 Joshua Neil Harrell v. Michelle Belyea, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing takings civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process eminent-domain jurisdiction legal-opinion procedural-grounds property-rights reasons-for-writ regulatory-takings statement-of-case takings What is the proper standard for determining whether a government regulation effects a taking under the Fifth Amendment?
19-7505 Lamar James Crump v. Tracy Beltz, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-court habeas-corpus procedural-grounds reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation Whether a federal court may find that 'reasonable jurists would not disagree' about the denial of relief on procedural grounds where other courts have…
19-6532 Pedro J. Amaro v. Hector Balderas, Attorney General of New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights class-action constitutional-claims due-process equal-protection grand-jury habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction procedural-grounds Whether the lower courts prejudicially abused their discretion in denying both COA and the Rehearing request to review the district court's summary di…
19-6399 Carmen A. Zammiello v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis jones-v-bock jurisdictional-grounds procedural-grounds Whether the court of appeals for the eleventh circuit rendered a decision in conflict with the law of the U.S. Supreme Court
19-5036 Craig Alan Toaz v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentences concurrent-sentencing criminal-conduct criminal-procedure federal-convictions habeas-corpus habeas-petition judicial-review procedural-grounds sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-5g1.3 Whether the district and circuit courts erroneously dismissed petitioner's habeas petition under procedural grounds
18-9823 Freddie Lee Morris v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied IFP coerced-confession criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus informant involuntary-plea manifest-injustice paid-informant procedural-grounds right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the state of Florida violated petitioner's sixth amendment right to the assistance of counsel
18-9187 Jason Brooks v. Matthew Hanson, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied IFP adequate-appellate-review appellate-court appellate-review due-process exhaustion-of-state-remedies federal-appellate-court federal-court federal-court-jurisdiction habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition judicial-precedent prior-judgment procedural-grounds state-procedural-rules Whether a federal appellate court can substantially change its prior judgment to intentionally sabotage a petitioner being able to file a subsequent h…
18-1325 Dieter Charles Vogt v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals district-court-order due-process habeas-corpus procedural-grounds reasonable-jurist right-to-counsel standard-of-review summary-denial Should the order of the court of appeals denying a certificate of appealability be reversed and remanded, because it is manifestly incorrect to sugges…
18-8904 Octavius Matthews v. Terry Ratliff (TR Motors) Alabama 2019-04-18 Denied IFP appeal appeal-procedure appeals civil-procedure court-dismissal down-payment due-process jurisdiction legal-timeliness plaintiff-claim procedural-grounds standing statute-of-limitations timeliness Why did the courts find that the Appeal was improper, because the plaintiff did not do it right?
18-8798 Brent Lynch v. Eddie Miles, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-court habeas-corpus procedural-grounds reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation Whether a federal court may find that 'reasonable jurists would not disagree' about the denial of relief on procedural grounds where other courts have…
18-8695 Deontray Vershon Tate v. Jeff Titus, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-court habeas-corpus procedural-grounds reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation Whether a federal court may find that 'reasonable jurists would not disagree' about the denial of relief on procedural grounds where other courts have…
18-8017 Jacoby Kindred v. Jeff Titus, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied IFP barefoot-standard barefoot-v-estelle certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-courts habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default procedural-grounds slack-standard slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review Whether district courts can employ the Barefoot v. Estelle standard instead of the Slack v. McDaniel analysis when determining whether to issue a cert…