| 25A434 |
James Saylor v. Rob Jeffreys, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-10-15 |
Presumed Complete |
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americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights eighth-circuit res-judicata serious-mental-illness solitary-confinement |
Whether res judicata precludes a prisoner with serious mental illness from bringing a new lawsuit challenging prolonged solitary confinement based on … |
| 24-1067 |
John Wetzel, et al. v. Roy L. Williams |
Third Circuit |
2025-04-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-rights death-row eighth-amendment mental-illness qualified-immunity solitary-confinement |
Was it clearly established for qualified immunity purposes that long-term solitary confinement for a death-row inmate with a mental illness violated t… |
| 23-6921 |
Hannibal Eason v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-03-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment access-to-courts administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure judicial-review solitary-confinement |
Whether the State of Illinois violated the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment and the Fourteenth Amendment's due process c… |
| 23A483 |
Salvador Magluta v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-29 |
Presumed Complete |
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acquitted-conduct circuit-split compassionate-release sentence-modification sentencing-guidelines solitary-confinement |
Whether a federal court may consider non-medical factors, such as prolonged solitary confinement and its psychological effects, when evaluating a moti… |
| 23-5472 |
Jorge Andrade Rico v. James Robertson, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-detention civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus mootness procedural-default solitary-confinement standing |
Whether administrative prisoners can be placed in solitary confinement units without due process |
| 23-5249 |
Ryan David Green v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment appellate-review certiorari-request civil-rights court-filing death-penalty due-process legal-petition mental-health solitary-confinement supreme-court |
Whether the conditions of confinement and treatment of a death-row inmate violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment |
| 22-1067 |
Brian E. Johnson v. Mike Dobbins, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
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ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process intentional-discrimination prisoner-rights reasonable-accommodation sixth-circuit-court solitary-confinement |
Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals err by holding that Title II of the American Disabilities Act (ADA) requires a prisoner with a known disability… |
| 22-693 |
Michael Johnson v. Susan Prentice, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-01-25 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) |
circuit-split civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment exercise-deprivation prisoner-rights solitary-confinement |
Whether punitively depriving a prisoner in solitary confinement of virtually all exercise for three years notwithstanding the absence of a security ju… |
| 22-5498 |
Aaron Striz v. Bryan Collier, Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-segregation administrative-state constitutional-minima due-process eighth-amendment equality-under-the-law prisoners-rights solitary-confinement |
Does extended, indefinite solitary confinement of an atypical duration, under some circumstances, violate the Eighth Amendment? |
| 21-1363 |
Brandon Scott Lavergne v. Darrell Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual cruel-and-unusual-punishment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel life-without-parole plea-agreement rule-60b-petition solitary-confinement |
Is a criminal sentence of life without parole in solitary confinement a cruel and unusual sentence? |
| 21-1065 |
Dennis Wayne Hope v. Todd Harris, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
constitutional-protections cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-review mental-health physical-health prison-conditions prisoner-rights review-procedures solitary-confinement |
Whether decades of solitary confinement can violate the Eighth Amendment |
| 21-6221 |
David Jackson v. Massachusetts Department of Correction |
Massachusetts |
2021-11-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech prisoner-rights protected-speech racial-discrimination solitary-confinement true-threat |
Whether petitioner's letter constitutes protected speech or a true threat |
| 20-7384 |
Samuel Rasheen Rymond Toliver v. K. Adner |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process exhaustion-of-remedies first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech solitary-confinement |
Was the treatment of the Petitioner on 5/30/17, being forced into Solitary Confinement for asserting his U.S.C.A. Const. First Amendment Unconstitutio… |
| 20-508 |
Brandon S. LaVergne v. Michael Vaughn, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech mail-restriction qualified-immunity religious-freedom solitary-confinement turner-test |
Can a prisoner's 1st amendment right to correspondence be totally revoked without a hearing or due process? |
| 20-281 |
Waseem Daker v. Clinton Perry, Jr., Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
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8th-amendment circuit-split conditions-of-confinement due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus prisoner-rights solitary-confinement |
Whether a prisoner may file a habeas corpus petition to challenge his placement on segregated/solitary confinement |
| 19-846 |
George Artem v. King County Department of Adult & Juvenile Detention, et al. |
Washington |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights disability-law due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-health procedural-due-process solitary-confinement |
Whether clearly established Eighth-and-Fourteenth-Amendment-and-Federal-Disability-Law-permits-jail-officials-to-sanction-inmates-with-mental-health-d… |
| 19-742 |
James Bailey-Snyder v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-11 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
arrest-definition civil-rights criminal-investigation criminal-procedure due-process liberty-restriction prisoner-rights prosecutorial-discretion solitary-confinement speedy-trial wilkinson-v-austin |
Does imposing solitary confinement on a prisoner while police and prosecutors investigate and consider new criminal charges amount to an 'arrest' givi… |
| 19-514 |
Nikko A. Jenkins v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2019-10-21 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (3) |
capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-health mental-illness mitigating-evidence sixth-amendment solitary-confinement |
Whether the sentencing court violated the requirement of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment that capital sentencers give meaningful consideration and… |
| 18-8196 |
Larry R. Tart v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection forensic-evaluation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medication medication-consent mental-health pretrial-detention solitary-confinement |
Where the petitioner was unknowingly administered multiple mental health medications while in pre-trial confinement, resulting in incompetence to unde… |
| 18-5183 |
Christopher M. Holmes v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-security-officer due-process grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-be-present right-to-confrontation right-to-counsel solitary-confinement standing testimony |
Whether the standard for ineffective assistance of counsel has been met when court-appointed trial counsel admits that she failed to confer with the c… |