slack-standard
12 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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… | |
| 25-5760 | Darval Ledet v. Keith Cooley, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-right district-court habeas-corpus miller-el reasonable-jurists slack-standard | Whether Ledet made a substantial showing of denial of a constitutional right under Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322, 327 (2003), such that reasonab… |
| 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… |
| 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… | |
| 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 | |
| 21-7411 | Richard E. Platt v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 11th-circuit appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default slack-standard slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review | Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the certificate of appealability pursuant to Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 120 S.Ct. 159… |
| 20-8309 | Robin Renee Melchior v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-15 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court habeas-corpus newly-presented-evidence rule-4 section-2254 slack-standard standard-of-review state-court-records | Whether a United States District Court erred in failing to grant a certificate of appealability for a habeas corpus appeal |
| 20-7982 | Eugene Jacobs, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aedpa aedpa-limitations certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus post-conviction-review procedural-grounds slack-standard statute-of-limitations | Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit err in its reading of Slack, in denying Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability, giv… |
| 20-5889 | In Re Jesus Anaya | 2020-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | adversarial-testing certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights constructive-denial-of-counsel criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel slack-standard standard-of-review | Whether trial and appellate counsel's inadequate representation constituted constructive denial of counsel | |
| 19-8301 | Stephen J. Mocco v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-04-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey brady-v-maryland brady-violation certificate-of-appealability sixth-amendment slack-standard slack-v-mcdaniel townsend-hearing townsend-v-sain | Whether the standard announced in Slack v. McDaniel compels issuance of a certificate of appealability where prima facie evidence demonstrating a Sixt… |
| 19-8089 | Michael W. Jenkins v. Brigitte Amsberry | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus ninth-circuit slack-standard slack-v-mcdaniel statutory-interpretation statutory-standard | Does the Ninth Circuit's ruling, denying a Certificate of Appealabiliy to a habeas corpus petitioner, contravene the statutory standard, under 28 U.S.… |
| 18-8017 | Jacoby Kindred v. Jeff Titus, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2019-02-19 | Denied | IFP | barefoot-standard barefoot-v-estelle certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-courts habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default procedural-grounds slack-standard slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review | Whether district courts can employ the Barefoot v. Estelle standard instead of the Slack v. McDaniel analysis when determining whether to issue a cert… |