procedural-obstacles

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6146 William G. Roberson, IV v. Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff, Cook County, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2025-11-18 Denied IFP civil-rights establishment-clause first-amendment government-liability procedural-obstacles religious-coercion Whether the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment is violated when a pretrial detainee is compelled to attend a court hearing conducted in the s…
24A667 Shariff Butler, et al. v. Laurel R. Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2025-01-08 Presumed Complete incarceration page-limit pro-se procedural-obstacles supreme-court-rules writ-of-certiorari Whether procedural rules governing Supreme Court filings should be interpreted flexibly for pro se incarcerated litigants facing extraordinary circums…
19-5672 Gary Ray Bowles v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability procedural-obstacles Whether a capital defendant's claim that the Eighth Amendment forbids his execution as he is intellectually disabled becomes viable upon the issuance …