state-procedural-rule
6 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6774 | Charles Don Flores v. Texas | Texas | 2026-02-10 | Pending | IFP | actual-innocence death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus liberty-interest state-procedural-rule | Where a state has created liberty interests that give death-sentenced prisoners with credible claims of innocence vehicles for proving their innocence… |
| 25-6754 | Kendrick Simpson v. Christe Quick, Warden, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2026-02-09 | Denied | IFP | eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young federal-civil-rights rooker-feldman section-1983 state-procedural-rule | Whether Rooker-Feldman and the Eleventh Amendment jurisdictionally bar a § 1983 challenge to a state procedural rule announced in a state court decisi… |
| 25-554 | Shawn Edward Shaffer v. James Hill, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2025-11-06 | Denied | Response Waived | certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus jackson-standard ninth-circuit state-procedural-rule | 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying a certificate of appealability where the petitioner alleged a violation of the 14th Amendment's Due Proc… |
| 24-6099 | Joseph William Hart v. Chance Andes, Acting Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-09 | Denied | IFP | adequate-state-grounds coleman-standard habeas-corpus ninth-circuit state-procedural-rule timeliness-bar | Did the Ninth Circuit misapply the standard for adequate state grounds when it found California's timeliness bar was 'firmly established and regularly… |
| 22-457 | Peter Whyte v. Dan Winkleski, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2022-11-15 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-claim federal-constitution federal-law habeas-corpus material-facts plain-statement state-pleading-standard state-procedural-rule | Whether a state court's dismissal of a habeas petitioner's claim under the U.S. Constitution for failure to plead sufficient 'material facts' under a … |
| 19-7398 | Andrew James Gibbons v. Nate Knutson, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2020-01-24 | Denied | IFP | guilty-plea habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel knaffla-bar mental-illness mental-illness-defense Opsahi-rule procedural-default Spears-rule state-procedural-rule | Is petitioner (Gibbons) procedurally defaulted on his claim of ineffective assistance of counsel for failure to investigate a mental illness defense? |