| 25A375 |
Jeremiah Vance v. Jeffery Mims |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-01 |
Presumed Complete |
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bankruptcy-appeal federal-rules jurisdiction notice-of-appeal pro-se time-bar |
Whether a pro se litigant's untimely notice of appeal from a bankruptcy court order can be excused or tolled due to unique procedural circumstances |
| 24-1239 |
Cara Wessels Wells v. Texas Tech University, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-04 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
civil-rights-act discrimination employment-status remuneration time-bar title-vii |
Does an unpaid position qualify someone to be an 'employee' within the meaning of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e(f)? |
| 24-7163 |
Jose Nieves Briones v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim due-diligence habeas-corpus supreme-court-jurisdiction time-bar |
Whether the Supreme Court has jurisdiction to review the denial of a certificate of appealability and whether the Court of Appeals should have issued … |
| 24-6873 |
Roland C. Anderson v. General Motors LLC |
Third Circuit |
2025-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-dismissal court-deadline due-process judicial-procedure legal-equity time-bar |
Whether a court's failure to dismiss a case for missed deadlines constitutes a due process violation |
| 24-6838 |
Cortez Bennett v. Johnny Fitz, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure equitable-tolling judicial-discretion legal-remedy statute-of-limitations time-bar |
Whether the petitioner is entitled to equitable tolling of one year statute of limitations? |
| 24-703 |
Ryan Haygood, et al. v. Camp Morrison, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-02 |
Denied |
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attorney-fees civil-rights due-process frivolity section-1983 time-bar |
Whether a § 1983 civil rights claim can be deemed frivolous and time-barred solely based on an uncertain analogous tort, justifying prevailing defenda… |
| 24-5338 |
Jerry Lester Willis v. Warden, Valdosta State Prison |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
federal-civil-procedure judicial-review merits-not-reached multi-round-litigation rule-60-motion time-bar |
Does the passage of time preclude a federal court from issuing a ruling on a Rule 60(d) motion when the merits of a claim have never been reached thro… |
| 24A109 |
Irina Collier v. Donald J. Trump |
District of Columbia |
2024-07-30 |
Presumed Complete |
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appellate-procedure civil-procedure federal-rules jurisdictional-requirement notice-of-appeal time-bar |
Whether a notice of appeal filed beyond the 60-day period established in Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 4(a)(1)(B) can be deemed timely when the … |
| 23A953 |
Keith Vernon Davis v. David Close, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale |
Third Circuit |
2024-04-23 |
Presumed Complete |
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actual-innocence administrative-error filing-deadline habeas-corpus pro-se time-bar |
Whether a federal habeas petition can be deemed timely when administrative errors prevented the petitioner from receiving critical court correspondenc… |
| 23-5695 |
Stephen Michael Michuda v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2023-10-03 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel indigent-defendants indigent-rights ineffective-assistance procedural-bar public-defender public-defenders time-bar |
Is it unconstitutional for the State of Minnesota to block all avenues for indigent defendants against public defenders? |
| 23-99 |
Wendy B. Adelson v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC, nka PHH Mortgage Corporation, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-02 |
Denied |
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bankruptcy-stay civil-procedure due-process foreclosure foreclosure-sale mortgage-acceleration mortgage-lender post-acceleration-charges procedural-exception sheriff-sale time-bar |
Whether post-acceleration charges and fraudulent foreclosure sale adjournment notices constitute irregularities to invalidate the sheriff's deed |
| 22-7570 |
Gideon Charles Arrington v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2023-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-evidence fraud legal-ethics legal-system standing statute-of-limitations time-bar |
Can the use of false evidence (which is fraud) be time/knaffla barred? |
| 22-6416 |
Nicholas Lee Blair v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 civil-procedure dismissal dismissal-without-prejudice federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus new-evidence rule-60(b) rule-60b time-bar |
Whether a Petitioner can utilize a motion under Rule 60(b) Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, or similar vehicle, to overcome a dismissal without preju… |
| 22-6035 |
Michael Andra Reed, aka Mychal Andra Reed v. California |
California |
2022-11-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indigent-litigants indigent-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant time-bar time-limits |
Does the state of California criminal appeal time limit (time bar) violate the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment equal protection clause pertaining t… |
| 21-8124 |
Kywon A. Datham v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2022-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights compassionate-release criminal-procedure danger-to-community due-process incarcerated-persons judicial-discretion rule-35b sentence-reduction sentencing time-bar |
whether District of Colombia Count of Appeels errel . hen it denicd petitioner's fequest for Somameny reversal? |
| 21-7953 |
Antonio D. McCaster v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion petition-dismissal procedural-error related-cases standing time-bar |
Whether the United States District Court Northern District of Indiana South Bend Division's judge abused his discretion in dismissing the petitioner's… |
| 21-7521 |
Paul E. Pieczynski v. Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-04-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
arbitration arbitration-award civil-action civil-procedure confirmation federal-arbitration-act miscellaneous-filing statutory-interpretation time-bar |
Is the petition or motion, when seeking confirmation to confirm a 'time barred' arbitration award, a miscellaneous filing or civil action complaint fi… |
| 21-1077 |
Yacaira Reyes v. Westchester County Health Care Corporation, dba Westchester Medical Center, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-02-03 |
Denied |
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civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination discrimination-claim due-process election-of-remedies employment hostile-work-environment plausibility-standard retaliation retaliation-claim time-bar |
Whether the election of remedies and New York City impact doctrines barred Plaintiff's NYSHRL and NYCHRL claims |
| 21-982 |
Timothy O. Markland v. Asset Acceptance, LLC |
Oklahoma |
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure debt-collection default-judgment due-process extrinsic-evidence service-of-process statute-of-limitations time-bar |
Whether rigid invocation of the non-extrinsic evidence rule denies due process |
| 21-5395 |
In Re Christopher Burgess |
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2021-08-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mail-room-delay time-bar |
Should a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 be entertained under less stringent conditions if it contains both 'actual-innocence' and 'ineffective-assistance-of-counsel… |
| 20-8304 |
Lee Goston v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appealability appellate-review due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-incompetency statutory-interpretation time-bar |
Question not identified |
| 20-7946 |
Lisa Biron v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure equitable-exceptions federal-appellate-jurisdiction habeas-corpus post-conviction-proceeding statutory-interpretation time-bar time-limits |
Whether the First Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 proceeding as untimely under 28 U.S.C. § 2107 and Federal Rule of Appe… |
| 20-7371 |
Chase Adam Marsh v. Leslie Fleming, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-ruling section-2254 standing statute-of-limitations time-bar |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in time-barring Mr. Marsh's Section 2254 petition despite his proper filing of a state habeas petiti… |
| 20-6695 |
Lori Anna Massey v. MultiCare Health System, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights disability-law due-process legal-incompetency mental-incompetency physical-disability statute-of-limitations time-bar tolling |
Should no time limit apply? |
| 20-394 |
David Alan Schum v. Fortress Value Recovery Fund I, L.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-precedent officers-of-the-court rule-60 stare-decisis time-bar |
Whether a claim brought under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 60(d)(3) as a result of fraud on the court can be time-barred |
| 20-392 |
Fatmata Kamara v. New Jersey, Department of Law and Public Safety, Division of State Police |
New Jersey |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
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administrative-law civil-rights collective-bargaining conscientious-employee-protection-act due-process employment-discrimination employment-law law-against-discrimination police-misconduct state-police-procedure time-bar |
Termination-without-due-process |
| 19-8159 |
Jeffrey Ramirez v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-04-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-time-bar due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-rules time-bar |
When is it permissible for application of the time bar of AEDPA, without due consideration of the evidence provided throughout a diligently pursued ac… |
| 19-7607 |
Jon P. Westrum v. National Labor Relations Board |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
alter-ego-doctrine civil-rights due-process labor-dispute labor-law legal-standing sole-proprietorship statute-of-limitations time-bar union-representation |
Whether a one-man shop can be represented by a union, whether the 6-month time bar had lapsed, whether the union failed to represent the first company… |
| 19-7177 |
Eric C. Miller v. Randy Gibbs, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa civil-procedure district-court federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus procedural-dismissal successive-petition successive-petitions time-bar |
Can District Courts continue to dismiss (numerically) second habeas petitions as 'successive' and hold the petitioner to the stricter AEDPA requiremen… |
| 19-6794 |
Lakesha Smith v. St. Joseph's/Candler Health System, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-law judicial-interpretation statute-of-limitations statutory-definition statutory-interpretation time-bar wrongful-termination |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred in affirming the United States District Court's decision of a time-bar verdict on the issue of 'willf… |
| 19-6611 |
William Severs v. Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts federal-statute habeas-corpus petition section-2254 statute-of-limitations time-bar |
Was the District Court's decision to dismiss Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition as untimely correct? |
| 19-470 |
Darin Jones v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-procedure-time-limits civil-rights discrimination due-process federal-circuit federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review merit-systems-protection-board mixed-cases rule-60(b) time-bar |
Whether the 120 day time bar of 5 U.S.C. § 7702(e)(1)(B) is nonjurisdictional |
| 19-455 |
ARRIS International Limited v. ChanBond, LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
35-usc-315 35-usc-315(b) administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction due-process estoppel inter-partes-review patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board-ptab time-bar |
Whether the Federal Circuit has appellate jurisdiction to review a PTAB decision denying inter partes review |
| 19-5217 |
Lavares Detroen Watkins v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-17 |
GVR |
IFP |
ACCA-enhancement actual-innocence AEDPA armed-career-criminal-act due-process habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-maximum time-bar |
Whether due process is violated when a court sentences a defendant to a term of imprisonment that exceeds the otherwise-applicable statutory maximum s… |
| 18-9499 |
Chad Austin v. Timothy Stewart, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal bureau-of-prisons civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-review retroactive-application sentencing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation time-bar |
How can the Bureau of Prisons make petitioner's federal sentence, where petitioner was sentenced of violating 18 USC 3581(b), 18 USC 3553, USSG § 5G1.… |
| 18-8778 |
Fred Huffman v. Dana Metzger, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
americans-with-disabilities-act constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-justice ex-post-facto-law judicial-vindictiveness redress-of-grievance retroactive-sentencing time-bar |
Retroactive amendment of U.S. Constitution's ex-post facto law |
| 18-8685 |
Ervin Thomas v. Cathy A. Jess, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-district-court habeas-corpus pleading-standards pro-se pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation standing time-bar |
Whether a federal district court should deny petitioners petitions for a writ of habeas corpus as untimely and failed to issue a certificate of appeal… |
| 18-1027 |
Superior Communications, Inc. v. Voltstar Technologies, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (4) |
35-usc-314 35-usc-314d 35-usc-315 35-usc-315b administrative-law appealability inter-partes-review inter-partes-review-ipr patent-infringement patent-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board patent-trial-and-appeal-board-ptab statutory-interpretation time-bar voluntary-dismissal |
Whether the PTAB's application of 35 U.S.C. § 315(b)'s time-bar provision in its decision to institute IPR is appealable under 35 U.S.C. § 314(d), and… |
| 18-999 |
Atlanta Gas Light Company v. Bennett Regulator Guards, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
35-usc-314 35-usc-315 administrative-procedure administrative-review america-invents-act dismissal-without-prejudice federal-circuit-jurisdiction inter-partes-review jurisdiction patent patent-law patent-review-procedure-35-usc-314-315 patent-trial-and-appeal-board standing time-bar |
Did the Federal Circuit err in concluding that it had jurisdiction to review the Board's decision to institute inter partes review |
| 18-7661 |
Philip Walter Jones v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-courts circuit-split diligence diligence-standard judicial-procedure new-evidence pace-v-diguglielmo postconviction-motion proper-filing properly-filed relief-standard time-bar untimely |
Is diligence in discovering new evidence a condition to filing a postconviction motion or a condition to obtaining relief on that motion? |
| 18-916 |
Thryv, Inc., fka Dex Media, Inc. v. Click-To-Call Technologies, LP, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (18)Relisted (3) |
35-usc-314 35-usc-315 america-invents-act cuozzo inter-partes-review patent-infringement patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board ptab section-315b time-bar wi-fi-one |
Whether 35 U.S.C. § 314(d) permits appeal of the PTAB's decision to institute an inter partes review upon finding that § 315(b)'s time bar did not app… |
| 18-7357 |
David T. Frazier v. Stephen Crump, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
1983-suit civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,civil-procedure,standing, due-process equal-protection favorable-termination heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey pro-se-litigant section-1983 time-bar |
Is petitioners claims Time Barred Under The Favorable Termination Rule Founded under Heck V. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994) When he brought the 1983 su… |
| 18-861 |
WesternGeco LLC v. ION Geophysical Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
agency-procedure discovery due-process inter-partes-review patent-invalidation patent-litigation patent-office patent-office-procedures privy real-party-in-interest standing statutory-interpretation time-bar |
Whether the court of appeals and agency erred by holding that 'real party in interest, or privy of the petitioner' refers only to others who 'control'… |
| 18-599 |
Wi-Fi One, LLC v. Broadcom Corporation, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-315b administrative-law administrative-procedure-act administrative-procedure-act-apa indemnity-agreements inter-partes-review inter-partes-review-ipr judicial-review patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board patent-trial-and-appeal-board-ptab standard-of-review time-bar |
Whether the PTAB panel violated the Administrative Procedure Act by refusing to admit known indemnity agreements into evidence when deciding whether t… |
| 18-5687 |
Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. |
Nevada |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights collateral-review due-process federal-review habeas-corpus liberty-interest procedural-default standing state-court-decision state-court-proceedings statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent time-bar |
Whether rights generated by federal procedural and substantive due-process prohibit the state from concluding direct review |
| 18-5569 |
Sean Weisner v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2244 circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-habeas federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandate-rule mental-illness standing time-bar |
Whether the classification made by the Fifth Circuit Court in Colley v. Sattizahn, 130 F.3d 496 (5th Cir. 1997) constitutes a violation of clearly est… |
| 18-5472 |
In Re Alan James Hedrick |
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2018-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 actual-innocence constitutional-claims habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins miranda-rights prosecutorial-misconduct successive-petition successive-petitions time-bar time-barred |
Whether McQuiggin v. Perkins permits a state court prisoner to rely on 'actual innocence' as a gateway to pursue constitutional claims that were previ… |
| 24A307 |
Garcia Glenn White v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
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Denied |
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constitutional-review habeas-corpus identity-claim prisoner-rights procedural-default time-bar |
Whether a prisoner may bring an identity-related claim outside of standard procedural time limitations |
| 25A280 |
David Joseph Pittman v. Florida |
Florida |
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Denied |
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atkins-claim death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability time-bar |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of an intellectually disabled defendant when state courts have arbitrarily applied time bars that… |