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 Pending 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 a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right…
25A450 Melvin Clark v. James Hill, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-10-21 Application appealability-threshold certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim habeas-corpus procedural-ruling slack-standard Whether the district court's denial of a certificate of appealability was an abuse of discretion that improperly foreclosed review of a potentially me…
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 Whether the Second Circuit's procedural ruling warrants Supreme Court review for potential legal error in extending time to file a petition for a writ…
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 Whether the court of appeals erred in denying a certificate of appealability when the petitioner's claim meets the Slack v. McDaniel standard for a co…
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 Whether a state prisoner can obtain a certificate of appealability when challenging a district court's procedural ruling on a constitutional claim
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 Whether a certificate of appealability should be granted when a petitioner fails to demonstrate that jurists of reason would find the constitutional c…
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 Whether Petitioner's Rule 60(b) Motion for Relief from judgment filed within a year of the denial of his Habeas Petition timely?
23A872 Emanuel Mois v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-04-01 Presumed Complete §-2255-motion covid-19 extraordinary-circumstances legal-access pandemic-limitations procedural-ruling Whether the district court's procedural ruling denying a § 2255 motion should be reconsidered due to extraordinary COVID-19 pandemic circumstances tha…
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 Is the petitioner's claim outside the core of habeas corpus when it challenges the invalidity of confinement or particulars affecting duration which a…
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 Whether Lower Court Misapplied Cert. Denial On 10/5/15 Was A Judicial decision Rendered Erroneous By Subsequent Legal Or Factual Changes Also Qualifie…
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 Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals commit Error when that court Denied Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability
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 Was the court's procedure ruling proper in denying LeBeau's equitable-tolling,due-process,civil-rights,habeas-corpus,standing,civil-procedure
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 Whether an applicant must demonstrate both the debatability of constitutional claims and the debatability of procedural rulings to obtain a certificat…
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 in failing to issue a Certificate of Appealability
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 Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in time-barring Mr. Marsh's Section 2254 petition despite his proper filing of a state habeas petiti…
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
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 and issues in the request and a general assessment…
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 Whether a State's application of an aggravating factor to justify the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments when it makes punish…
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 Was petitioner's initial § 2255 Motion denied on the merit, for not demostrating or proving deficient performance or prejudice?
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 Whether jurists of reason would find it debatable whether the petition states a valid claim of a denial of a constitutional right, and whether jurists…
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 Whether the Ninth Federal Circuit Court of Appeals correctly denied Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability
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 Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit erred in failing to issue a Certificate of Appealability
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 Whether reasonable jurists would debate the correctness of the district court's procedural ruling that Gulbrandson's second-in-time § 2254 petition wa…
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