procedural-ruling

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6643 Lawrence Rhoden v. Brittany Greene, Warden Seventh Circuit 2026-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court habeas-corpus procedural-ruling WHETHER A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT IS LEGALLY ENTITLED TO A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY WHERE: (1) IT IS DEMONSTRATED THAT A SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING OF THE DE…
25A450 Melvin Clark v. James Hill, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-10-21 Presumed Complete appealability-threshold certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim habeas-corpus procedural-ruling slack-standard Question not identified.
25A170 Andrew E. Roth v. Austin Russell, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-08 Presumed Complete counsel-of-record procedural-ruling second-circuit supreme-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24-6576 Simaron D. Hill v. Todd Ishee Fourth Circuit 2025-02-14 Denied IFP 5th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process procedural-ruling slack-standard In the Uis Court 9 F appeals For the YW circuth ecide an ih pockant fed eral question in q way that contlids with Slack me Danie (2000) Fn Slack v. M…
24A327 James Franklin Snyder v. Al Ramirez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-03 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim district-court habeas-corpus procedural-ruling slack-standard Question not identified.
24A326 James Franklin Snyder v. Glenn Armstrong, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-03 Presumed Complete appealability certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right habeas-corpus procedural-ruling slack-standard Question not identified.
24-5153 Jonathan Godwin v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure-rule-60(b) constitutional-rights eleventh-circuit final-order habeas-corpus habeas-petition procedural-ruling rule-60b standards-of-review timeliness 1. Whether Petitioner's Rule 60(b) Motion for Relief from judgment filed within a year of the denial of his Habeas Petition timely? 2. Whether the Co…
23A872 Emanuel Mois v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-04-01 Denied §-2255-motion covid-19 extraordinary-circumstances legal-access pandemic-limitations procedural-ruling Question not identified.
23-6933 Huy Trong Tran v. Tammy L. Campbell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-03-08 Denied IFP civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights confinement constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-ruling standing HOW ARE PETITIONERS' CLAIM OUTSIDE "THE CORE OF HABEAS CORPUS", WHEN IT CHALLENGES THE INVALIDITY OF CONFINEMENT OR PARTICULARS AFFECTING DURATION WHI…
23-6639 Omar Sierre Folk v. United States Third Circuit 2024-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP cert-denial civil-procedure extraordinary-circumstances judicial-decision legal-standard procedural-ruling rule-60(b)(1) rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b supreme-court-rule 1. Whether Lower Court Misapplied Cert. Denial On 10/5/15 Was A Judicial decision Rendered Erroneous By Subsequent Legal Or Factual Changes Also Quali…
23-5313 Leonardo Roque v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit 2023-08-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure constitutional-merit due-process equitable-tolling fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-ruling standing statute-of-limitations 1. Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals commit Error when the Court Denied Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability on Grounds that Dispositive Pr…
22-7234 Gerald Wayne LeBeau v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-diligence due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus procedural-ruling standing QUESTION ONE: WAS THE COURTS PROCEDURE RULING PROPER IN DENYING LEBEAU'S EQUITABLE TOLLING? QUESTION TWO: WAS THE COURTS PROCEDURE RULING PROPER IN D…
21-5741 Jonathan Godwin v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 abandonment-of-claims certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-claims district-court habeas-corpus procedural-ruling procedural-rulings slack-v-mcdaniel 1. WHETHER AN APPLICANT HAS TO DEMONSTRATE BOTH THE DEBATABILITY OF CONSTITUTIONAL CLAIM(S) AND THE DEBATABILITY OF PROCEDURAL RULING(S), BEFORE ISSUA…
21-5702 Ronald Webster v. Scott Dauffenbach, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights district-court habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason procedural-ruling procedural-rulings Whether the United States Court of Appeals Erred by failing to Issue a Certificate of Appealability (COA) Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1)(A), becau…
20-7371 Chase Adam Marsh v. Leslie Fleming, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied IFP aedpa civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-ruling section-2254 standing statute-of-limitations time-bar Question not identified.
20-6082 Douglas D. Yokois v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice ninth-circuit procedural-ruling Whether the Ninth Federal Circuit Court of Appeals improperly denied Petitioner's Motion for Issuance of Certificate of Appealability (hereinafter, "C…
19-8109 Antonio Bogan v. Deanna Brookhart, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fair-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-ruling threshold-inquiry Whether a certificate of appealability (coa) can be denied without an overview of the habeas claims land issues in the request) and a general assesmen…
19-7231 Joshua Andrew Monroe v. Scott Lewis, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-court-of-appeals habeas-corpus procedural-ruling statute-of-limitations DID THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERR IN NOT ISSUING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY WHERE PETITIONER DEMONSTRATED THAT JURIST OF REASON COULD FI…
19-697 James Dwight Pavatt v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Amici (2) aggravating-factor aggravating-factors arbitrary-application capital-punishment capital-punishment-sentencing capital-sentence cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-bar procedural-ruling A divided panel of the Tenth Circuit, sitting en banc, vacated a panel opinion that reversed a capital sentence on the ground that the sentence rested…
19-5523 Manuel Maldonado Aguilar v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion motion-reconsideration procedural-default procedural-ruling section-2255 standard-of-review successive-petitions § 2255 Motion denied on the merit, for not Was petitioner's initial demostrating or proving deficient performance or prejudice? Was it legal for the…
19-5049 Michael Wilson v. Shawn Hatton, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-right constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason procedural-ruling sixth-amendment standing Under the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution would "jurists of reason" find it debatable of whether the petition states a valid claim o…
18-1507 Augustin Zambrano v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Response Waived appellate-court appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability certificates-of-appealability coa-standard court-discretion due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review judicial-standard procedural-ruling standard-of-review Should this Court grant certiorari to make explicit that in ruling on a request for certificates of appealability, an appellate court must apply the a…
18-9494 Matthew Mounir Awad v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice ninth-circuit procedural-ruling sentencing 1. Whether the Ninth Federal Circuit Court of Appeals correctly denied Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability (hereinafter, "COA"). A Ce…
18-9326 David Marshall v. Wisconsin Seventh Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus habeas-petition jurists-of-reason procedural-ruling seventh-circuit 1) Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit erred, when it failed to issue a Certificate of Appealibility under title 28 U.S…
18-6766 David Gulbrandson v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-punishment-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-default procedural-ruling second-in-time-petition statutory-aggravating-factors statutory-aggravator successive-petitions (1) Whether reasonable jurists would debate the correctness of the district court's procedural ruling that Gulbrandson's second-in-time § 2254 petitio…
18-5789 John Thompson v. United States Second Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason motion-for-appeal procedural-default procedural-ruling second-circuit standard-of-review standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in denying Thompson's Motion for Certificate of Appealability because Petition…