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 … |