| 25A576 |
John Bejarano v. William Reubart, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-11-17 |
Application |
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capital-punishment federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-procedure successive-petition |
Whether a state's procedural default bar for successive state petitions in capital habeas cases constitutes an inadequate state procedural mechanism t… |
| 25-451 |
Faytima Howard v. Macomb County, Michigan |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-10-15 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2) |
constitutional-challenge just-compensation property-rights state-procedure takings-clause tax-foreclosure |
Does the government violate the Takings Clause's 'categorical duty' to pay just compensation for property taken in excess of taxes by enacting a proce… |
| 25-5214 |
Byron Lewis Black v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2025-07-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-claim death-penalty federal-precedent intellectual-disability liberty-interest state-procedure |
May a lower court deprive a death-sentenced prisoner his liberty interest to access a state-created procedure designed to correct injustice by refusin… |
| 24-5561 |
Marcellus Williams v. Missouri, ex rel. Michael L. Parson, Governor of Missouri, et al. |
Missouri |
2024-09-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment clemency-proceedings constitutional-rights due-process executive-discretion state-procedure |
Whether the State of Missouri will deprive Williams of his life without due process by executing him after initiating and then terminating a special c… |
| 23-7567 |
Michael David Carruth v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
alabama appellate-counsel constitutional-right criminal-procedure death-penalty exhaustion ineffective-assistance procedural-bar right-to-counsel state-procedure writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a defendant-appellant has a right to counsel through the filing of a petition for a writ of certiorari |
| 23-7237 |
William Bruce Justice v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2024-04-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
cross-examination due-process indigent-rights mootness parole-revocation post-conviction-relief procedural-fairness right-to-be-heard state-procedure witness-confrontation |
Does South Carolina's parole revocation scheme comply with the constitutional framework? |
| 22-7586 |
Mark Ringland v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment privileges-and-immunities procedural-protections standing state-procedure |
Whether the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment provide that no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abrid… |
| 22-7164 |
Paul A. Bernard v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-impartiality judicial-review opposing-parties procedural-rules standing state-procedure substantive-rights |
Whether the State of Michigan's complete failure to ensure judicial impartiality, as evidenced by the lack of procedure to address allegations of judi… |
| 22-5843 |
Clifton William Batts v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-10-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-protections criminal-sentencing custody-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law habeas-corpus post-conviction standing state-procedure |
What is the timeline for Ordeg_ habesS Corpys, Dy deadina, Judge. Assigued to hobers on liberty Bie Enterest oF STARS PUY sone 'Ni Custady LN A\\nolab… |
| 22-5785 |
Robert Alan Fratta v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-10-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-neglect constitutional-compliance criminal-procedure grand-jury habeas-corpus indictment pro-se state-courts state-procedure supreme-court-precedent |
Whether state courts are required to accept and rule on the merits of claims presented in writs of habeas corpus by prisoners who dismiss their attorn… |
| 22-5351 |
Gary Lee Johnson v. Minnesota |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-court federalism legal-standing sovereign-immunity standing state-procedure takings |
When is State Sovereignty allowed to override a U.S. citizen's unalienable rights? |
| 21-8170 |
Samuel Gaines, Jr. v. Brooks L. Benton, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights court-fraud criminal-law due-process federal-procedure fraud-on-the-court judicial-interference legal-obstruction obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct standing state-procedure |
Whether the lower court's order violated the Petitioner's constitutional and statutory rights by disrespecting the authority of the United States Dist… |
| 21-7401 |
Harold Edwards v. Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habitual-sentence liberty-interest sixth-amendment state-court state-procedure |
Did the state district court judge's failure to abide by Nevada's state procedural laws violate my constitutionally protected liberty interest, Fourte… |
| 21-6680 |
Jemaine Monteil Cannon v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2021-12-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure direct-appeal final-conviction jurisdiction jurisdictional-claim mcgirt-retroactivity post-conviction postconviction-proceeding retroactivity right-to-counsel state-procedure |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma applies retroactively to final convictions |
| 21-6198 |
Billy Dean Smith v. Lynnie Einerson, Acting Superintendent, Spring Creek Correctional Center |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-protections death-penalty disadvantaged-groups due-process federal-habeas-corpus federal-review prisoner-rights standing state-prisoners state-procedure |
Can the US Supreme Court find that when litigating a state by way of a federal habeas corpus, the matter of what race, color or creed a state prisoner… |
| 21-5466 |
Roxman C. Castro v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process state-procedure statute-of-limitations |
whether extraordinary Circumstances exist te warrant equitable tolling when, through no fault of his oun, Petikoner mceived notica of his State habeas… |
| 21-240 |
KWS Inc., a Member of the Thiele Group v. Eric Scalla |
Pennsylvania |
2021-08-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure default-judgment federal-removal federal-rights federal-statutory-right federal-supremacy procedural-prerequisites state-court-procedure state-procedure supremacy-clause |
Whether a state court may require a federal-court litigant that has exercised its federal statutory right of removal following the state court's entry… |
| 20-7434 |
William Dawes v. California |
California |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process forced-medication judicial-discretion judicial-oversight legal-incompetence mental-health prison punishment-standards state-procedure |
Whether the involuntary medication of a prisoner without judicial oversight or even a court order violates the 5th Amendment's due process protections |
| 20-6128 |
Ilya Liviz v. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2020-10-26 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law jury-trial parental-rights patent-claims state-procedure |
Does CL have a right to a jury trial when the state seeks to terminate parental rights? |
| 19-8881 |
George A. Foote, Jr. v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment anders-procedure appellate-procedure counsel-withdrawal davis-hatton-procedure direct-appeal due-process state-procedure |
Did the Indiana appellate court overstep its authority in supporting counsel depriving a direct appeal as of right, without following Anders or equal … |
| 19-5617 |
Gary Ray Bowles v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
Amici (2)IFP |
death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-prohibition execution-risk florida-supreme-court intellectual-disability procedural-bar standing state-procedural-bar state-procedure unacceptable-risk |
Can a state procedural bar override the Eighth Amendment prohibition against executing the intellectually disabled? |
| 18-9706 |
Scott Peters v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-06-19 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-concealment evidence-disclosure fair-trial judicial-access judicial-procedure mandamus material-facts rules-and-regulations standing state-procedure transparency |
Whether the state violated the Constitution and deprived petitioner of due process rights by concealing exculpatory evidence and witness statements fr… |
| 18-9400 |
Charlie Russell Martin v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process evidence-admission false-testimony fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jury legal-standard miranda-warnings procedural-due-process state-procedure trial |
Did the knowing use of false testimony at defendant's second trial rise to a denial of due process that likely affected the jury's judgment? |
| 18-8615 |
In Re Patrick Henry Murphy |
|
2019-03-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment civil-rights due-process equal-protection establishment-clause execution-protocol first-amendment free-exercise religious-accommodation religious-freedom state-procedure |
Whether the Constitution or federal statutory law requires that members of all faiths be permitted to be accompanied in the execution chamber by a min… |
| 18-7813 |
Bradley Jared Barton v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-process judicial-review post-conviction-relief postconviction-remedy standing state-court-proceedings state-post-conviction state-procedure |
At what point does a state's post-conviction remedy become ineffective as contemplated by 28 U.S.C. 2254(b)(1)(B) |
| 18-7521 |
Freddie King, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-review constitutional-right counsel douglas-v-california habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel louisiana-criminal-procedure martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-review procedural-default right-to-counsel state-procedure |
Whether a defendant in a Louisiana state criminal case has a constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel in a first post-conviction procee… |
| 18-6362 |
Edwin Darrell Lett v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2018-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights continuance counsel criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-counsel sixth-amendment state-procedure trial |
Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial was violated when the Mississippi Supreme Court failed to properly review the trial cou… |
| 18-490 |
Jael Watts v. Michael K. Allen |
Virginia |
2018-10-17 |
Denied |
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civil-procedure court-rules due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights hearing-rights notice procedural-notice state-law state-procedure trial-court virginia-court-rules virginia-supreme-court |
Whether the trial court's failure to provide advance written hearing notices, as required by state procedural rules, constitutes a denial of the Petit… |
| 18-6315 |
David Ivy v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia constitutional-prohibition cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability moore-v-texas procedural-mechanism roper-v-simmons state-procedure |
Where this Court has declared, States may not execute anyone in the entire category of [intellectually disabled] offenders. Moore v. Texas, 137 S. Ct.… |
| 18-6082 |
Jeffrey Eugene Lee v. R. C. Cheatham, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
betterman-v-montana braden-v-kentucky civil-rights constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-circuit sentencing sentencing-obligation speedy-trial state-constitutional-obligations state-obligations state-procedure |
Whether the court of appeals erred in rejecting the petitioner's claim under Braden v. 30th Judicial Circuit of Kentucky and Betterman v. Montana |
| 18-193 |
John Cannici v. Village of Melrose Park, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process employment-context employment-law equal-protection government-procedure municipal-ordinance property-rights random-and-unauthorized state-procedure |
Whether the Due Process Clause requires a government agency to provide due process before depriving a citizen of his property where the deprivation oc… |