procedural-safeguards

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A787 Jacquelyn Miller v. Dylan Farris, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-07 Application constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review procedural-safeguards Question not identified.
25-255 Dion Horton, et al. v. Bruce R. Beemer, Administrative Judge, et al. Third Circuit 2025-09-04 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) due-process government-interest judicial-finding liberty-deprivation morrissey-v-brewer procedural-safeguards Whether the Due Process Clause requires a judicial finding that depriving a person of physical liberty pending a hearing is necessary to serve a gover…
25-5523 Mohamed A. Ibrahim v. Allison L. Lynn Maryland 2025-09-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-settlement mental-disability procedural-safeguards Whether Maryland state courts' failure to recognize mental disabilities violates due process when enforcing a marital settlement agreement
25-5118 George Hamilton v. California Department of General Services, Government Claims Program, et al. California 2025-07-15 Denied IFP administrative-law constitutional-rights due-process government-claims mental-health-claims procedural-safeguards Does the Office of General Services' Government Claims Program violate due process by failing to process mental health claims filed by petitioner?
24-1018 I. S., By and Through His Attorney in Fact, M. S., et al. v. Fulton County School District Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-24 Denied Response Waived free-appropriate-public-education idea individualized-education-plan procedural-safeguards psychological-report school-district Does a school district predetermine a child's IEP under the IDEA where it secretly alters a psychological report and refuses to engage meaningfully wi…
24-6829 Timothy Dasler v. Jennifer Knapp, fka Dasler Vermont 2025-03-21 Denied IFP due-process evidentiary-standards judicial-review pro-se-litigant procedural-safeguards retroactive-restrictions Does a state violate the Due Process Clause when retroactively imposing litigation restrictions on a pro se litigant without specific findings, height…
24A516 In Re Martin Akerman District of Columbia 2024-11-27 Presumed Complete administrative-discretion automated-enforcement constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment procedural-safeguards Whether automated enforcement systems that issue citations without human oversight violate due process protections under the Fifth Amendment by depriv…
24-175 Kathleen M. Bonczyk v. John Wardle, et al. Florida 2024-08-19 Denied Response Waived communication-restrictions due-process ex-parte-communications judicial-policy procedural-safeguards state-court Whether violations of the Due Process Clause occur when a state judicial policy allows exceptions to ex parte communication restrictions without proce…
24-105 Boris Kotlyarsky v. Department of Justice, et al. Second Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights conviction criminal-plea criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus innocence judicial-review procedural-safeguards In the context of habeas corpus, would it constitute a breach of due process to convict a defendant in a criminal proceeding, despite clear evidence d…
24-5145 Antonio Tyree Gaskin v. Kentucky Kentucky 2024-07-25 Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification law-enforcement legal-representation lineup procedural-safeguards right-to-counsel suspect-rights Whether the 6th Amendment of the US Constitution has guaranteed protections that safeguard against law enforcement showing a single photograph of a su…
23-7610 David K. Horsley v. Ohio Ohio 2024-05-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment anders-review appellate-procedure constitutional-violation due-process procedural-safeguards right-to-counsel sixth-amendment stare-decisis time-limit Does Ohio's App. R. 26(B)(1) violate the 6th Amendment by applying a time limit to reopen an appeal when an applicant has proven counsel error in not …
23-7188 Jacob Winding, et ux. v. Superior Court of California, San Joaquin County, et al. California 2024-04-09 Denied IFP civil-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-disqualification procedural-safeguards recusal-standards standing verified-statement Is a verified statement of disqualification required to meet the standards applied to a motion or Is a verified statement of disqualification a statem…
23A879 C. B., Father v. Vermont Department for Children and Families Vermont 2024-04-03 Presumed Complete child-witnesses due-process hearsay-evidence parental-rights procedural-safeguards termination-of-rights Whether the Due Process Clause requires states to provide parents with an opportunity to challenge hearsay evidence and cross-examine witnesses before…
23A564 Donte Johnson v. Nevada Nevada 2023-12-19 Presumed Complete capital-punishment constitutional-error ineffective-assistance jury-instructions procedural-safeguards sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a new trial when counsel fails to adequately investigate guilt-phase evidence and secure appropriate jury instruc…
23A376 Ralph Harrison Benning v. Tyrone Oliver, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-25 Presumed Complete due-process email-censorship first-amendment prisoner-rights procedural-safeguards qualified-immunity Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires prison officials to provide notice and an opportunity to challenge the censorship …
22-1196 GEFT Outdoor, L.L.C. v. Monroe County, Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-06-09 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights content-based-regulation first-amendment free-speech prior-restraint procedural-safeguards speech-licensing zoning-ordinance Can a governmental entity escape 42 US.C. § 1983 liability for failing to have procedural safeguards in its speech licensing scheme by—only after bein…
22-7430 Debora D. v. John D., et al. California 2023-05-01 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process idea idea-protections jurisdiction parental-rights procedural-safeguards special-education standing Did the California Court act in Obstruction of the Federal Individuals Disabilities Act (IDEA) Jurisdiction and Protections?
22-7165 James Woo v. El Paso County Sheriff's Office, et al. Colorado 2023-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process governmental-immunity procedural-safeguards property-rights replevin takings Whether the Colorado Supreme Court erred in holding that the Colorado Governmental Immunity Act does not violate the petitioner's constitutional right…
22-652 Pavel Ivanovich Lazarenko v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split criminal-forfeiture procedural-safeguards statutory-interpretation substitute-property tainted-property untainted-property Whether property can be forfeited as substitute property under § 853(p) without first determining whether it is tainted or untainted
22-5848 Benjamin Robert Cole v. Jim Farris, Warden Oklahoma 2022-10-17 Denied IFP death-row disputed-issues-of-fact eighth-amendment execution-competency ford-v-wainwright fourteenth-amendment panetti-v-quarterman procedural-safeguards state-court warden-gatekeeper Whether it violates the Eighth Amendment and this Court's decisions in Ford v. Wainwright and Panetti v. Quarterman, for a state court to bypass proce…
22-310 A. W., et al. v. Princeton Public Schools Board of Education, et al. Third Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied Relisted (3) civil-rights educational-placement educational-placement-and-settlement-agreement federal-court individuals-with-disabilities-education-act procedural-safeguards special-education state-law waiver-of-rights Whether a school district can condition special education services on a parent's agreement to waive a child's federal statutory and civil rights
22-5397 Trenton J. Miller v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus procedural-safeguards unlawful-detention Whether the petitioners were lawfully detained for 4 days without a hearing
22-5248 Douglas A. Hoglan v. Virginia Virginia 2022-08-02 Denied IFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process extrinsic-fraud fifth-amendment miranda-rights plea-agreement plea-bargain procedural-safeguards right-to-counsel right-to-due-process Did the extrinsic-fraud deprive-Hooper-of-due-process
21-7235 Wesley S. Ricks v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-offense capital-offenses criminal-procedure due-process joinder-of-offenses non-capital-offenses procedural-safeguards state-constitution trial-rights Whether Capital and NonCapital Offenses may be Joinder of Offenses for Trial?
21-5616 Felix Antequera Rivera, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-safeguards separation-of-powers standing Whether the court below erred in allowing the petitioner to bring a claim for a writ of mandamus
20-6636 Lan Tu Trinh v. Citizen Business Banking, et al. Third Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied IFP banking banking-negligence civil-rights client-protection customer-protection due-process fiduciary-duty institutional-integrity institutional-sabotage procedural-safeguards unauthorized-transfer Should Citizens Business Banking consider the protection of its customers' money and line of credit as one of its essential responsibilities?
20-5138 Patricia A. McColm v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-23 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP ada ada-violation civil-rights constitutional-violation court-access court-services disability-rights due-process procedural-safeguards retaliation standing Whether imposition of a daily 15 minute time restriction on physical access to the court building and use of court services is a constitutional violat…
19-1478 John Kristoffer Larsgard v. Arizona Arizona 2020-07-08 Denied Response Waived adequate-appeal appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel omitted-issues procedural-safeguards smith-v-robbins Whether the process of review implemented by Arizona in claims of ineffective assistance of counsel satisfy Fourteenth Amendment protections
19-1209 Thomas Edward Nesbitt v. Scott Frakes Eighth Circuit 2020-04-11 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence aedpa appellate-review castro-v-us constitutional-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus non-successiveness panetti-v-quarterman procedural-safeguards Does the Appellate Court's obscure Panel denials violate the 1996 A.E.D.P.A. Constitutional Due Process Question in Conflict with the Certiorari Decis…
19-7137 Patrick Randell McIntosh v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-detention civil-commitment civil-rights commitment confinement constitutional-rights dangerousness due-process mental-health personality-disorder procedural-safeguards public-safety standing Whether the inmate's narcissistic personality disorder and alleged dangerousness due to exogenous factors justify his continued confinement since Nove…
19-668 Courtney Bird v. Hawaii, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Response Waived child-abuse-registry constitutional-challenge continuing-violation continuing-violations due-process erroneous-listing liberty-interest procedural-safeguards statute-of-limitations Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in affirming the dismissal of Courtney's § 1983 claim as untimely?
19-6432 Michael Anthony Thibodeaux v. Drew Evans, Superintendent, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Minnesota 2019-10-29 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process government-regulation liberty-interest predatory-offender-registration procedural-due-process procedural-safeguards sex-offender-registration split-authority Whether a person has a protectable liberty interest in not registering as a sex offender if he has not been convicted of a sex offense
19-561 Gail Rosier v. Jeffrey Strobel Arizona 2019-10-29 Denied Response Waived child-support contempt contempt-proceedings due-process imprisonment incarcerated-obligors indigent-obligors interstate-enforcement procedural-safeguards uniform-interstate-family-support-act What minimum procedural safeguards are required to ensure due process for incarcerated and indigent obligors who face child support proceedings under …
19-6361 Gregory Alan McKown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights commitment competency-evaluation criminal-procedure due-process involuntary-commitment liberty liberty-interest mathews-factors mathews-v-eldridge mental-health procedural-safeguards substantive-due-process Does mandatory, involuntary commitment of an incompetent defendant to the Bureau of Prisons for the sole purpose of evaluating whether he can attain c…
19-5876 Joachim Dressler v. Circuit Court of Wisconsin, Racine County Wisconsin 2019-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP censorship civil-rights content-seizure criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence first-amendment free-speech freedman-v-maryland judicial-review prior-restraint procedural-safeguards southeastern-promotions-ltd-v-conrad Do this Court's First Amendment 'prior restraint' holdings that command 'strict procedural safeguards' designed to obviate the dangers of a freewheeli…
18-1591 R. F., a Minor Child, By and Through Her Parents and Next Friends, E. F. and H. F., et al. v. Cecil County Public Schools Fourth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied administrative-law due-process educational-benefit educational-rights fape free-appropriate-public-education hearing-officer idea individuals-with-disabilities-education-act-idea parental-participation procedural-safeguards special-education Whether a violation of the IDEA's procedures that significantly impedes parents' opportunity to participate in the decisionmaking process regarding th…
18-9745 Marion Wilson, Jr. v. Georgia Georgia 2019-06-20 Denied IFP capital-case capital-punishment dna-testing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection forensic-evidence procedural-issues procedural-safeguards Whether the state court's refusal to provide a hearing mandated by Georgia's DNA statute denied due process
18-9617 Randolph Harris Austin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP cocaine cocaine-base constitutional-rights constitutional-safeguards democratic-constraints due-process grand-jury grand-jury-indictment indictment jury-instructions procedural-rights procedural-safeguards Whether the grand jury's indictment for cocaine base and the jury's instruction that it did not matter whether it was cocaine base or cocaine, which r…
18-8211 Russell Berger v. James Gibson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied IFP ada civil-rights criminal-law disability discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-statute judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-safeguards standing statutory-interpretation Can a person's height be a disability under Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 12101-12213?
18-7890 In Re Jose Joaquin Ramirez 2019-02-13 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection involuntary-commitment mental-health procedural-safeguards standing state-government Can a cblhy graduated individual for a be cwled college ith Corrplebe contol of the Era} ish Lantaaaye ith gbjo lately No Sincere hishry ok mental Win…
18-7369 Rash B. Ghosh v. City of Berkeley, California, et al. California 2019-01-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeal due-process judicial-petition judicial-review procedural-safeguards property-rights standing vexatious-litigant Does due process require the State to provide meaningful procedural safeguards when responding to judicial petitions?