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25-6760 Flomo Tealeh v. David Steiner, Postmaster General, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-02-09 Pending Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights employment-discrimination statutory-interpretation time-limitation title-vii Whether under Title VII, the time frame for an employee to file employment discrimination claim is 180 days?
25A303 G. G. v. Allegheny County Office of Children, Youth and Families Pennsylvania 2025-09-16 Presumed Complete allocatur certiorari petition-extension procedural-review supreme-court time-limitation Whether a state supreme court's denial of allocatur precludes or impacts a petitioner's ability to seek certiorari review in the U.S. Supreme Court
25-5174 James Bradley Hammond v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-07-22 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability district-court federal-review habeas-corpus time-limitation WHTHER THE COURT OF APPEALS SHOULD HAVE ISSUED AND/OR GRANTED A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY (C0A) FROM THE DISTRICT COURT'S DETERMINATION THAT THE …
24-7236 Benjamin Ritchie v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2025-05-19 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest counsel-replacement habeas-corpus rule-60(b) substantial-likelihood time-limitation Is a Rule 60(b) motion filed less than seven months after the appointment of conflict-free federal habeas counsel categorically untimely such that it …
24A651 Jared Wade Hinman v. Illinois Illinois 2024-12-31 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure prison-mailing pro-se supreme-court time-limitation writ-of-certiorari Whether a pro se petitioner's motion for leave to file a writ of certiorari can be timely preserved when mailed through the prison mailing system and …
24-5671 Garcia Glenn White v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-09-30 Denied IFP aedpa cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-row Does the Eighth Amendment prohibition against crue eighth-amendment intellectual-disability time-limitation Whether the Fifth Circuit's resolution of counsel substitution replicates the Christeson error and fails to address a potential conflict of interest i…
24-187 Erice Maurice Kency v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2024-08-21 Denied Response Waived administrative-appeal merit-systems-protection-board procedural-deadline statutory-interpretation time-limitation veterans-employment-rights Whether the 15-day appeal period under VEOA is mandatory or allows procedural flexibility for veterans to file appeals with the MSPB after the specifi…
24A139 Kenneth Brown v. Robert Adams, Jr., Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-08-07 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus medical-extension pro-se-petition sixth-circuit time-limitation Whether a prisoner's medical condition and ongoing recovery from brain surgery constitute extraordinary circumstances warranting an extension of time …
24A133 Aisha Wright v. Transportation Communication Union/IAM Fifth Circuit 2024-08-06 Presumed Complete civil-rights district-court-dismissal jurisdictional-deadline notice-of-appeal pro-se time-limitation Whether a pro se plaintiff's untimely notice of appeal in a civil rights case can be excused due to extraordinary circumstances or equitable tolling
23-1253 McLaughlin Freight Services, Inc. v. ContiTech USA, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2024-05-31 Denied civil-procedure claim-processing claim-processing-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judgment judgment-amendment nutraceutical-corp-v-lambert remittitur rule-59 sua-sponte time-limitation Can a district court disregard Rule 59's claim-processing rule by sua sponte remitting and amending a judgment more than nine months after Rule 59's t…
23A894 Terrance Brown v. Andrew Beshear, Governor of Kentucky Sixth Circuit 2024-04-08 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure federal-rules jurisdictional-prerequisite notice-of-appeal pro-se-litigant time-limitation Whether a pro se litigant's notice of appeal filed outside the standard 30-day window can be considered timely under federal appellate procedural rule…
23-6583 Muhammad Khan v. SAP Labs, LLC Ninth Circuit 2024-01-26 Denied IFP 9th-circuit appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment judicial-review notice-of-appeal personal-property special-needs time-limitation unreasonable-searches-and-seizures warrantless-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and indefinite retention of a person's personal property, without any showing of exigent circumstances or…
23-711 James P. Ryan v. Carlo DeMaria, Jr., Mayor of the City of Everett, Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2024-01-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appeal-jurisdiction civil-procedure excusable-neglect federal-court-procedure federal-jurisdiction good-cause notice-of-appeal pro-se-motion statutory-interpretation time-limitation time-limits Whether a federal court is deprived of jurisdiction when a notice of appeal is filed beyond the 30 days in the first provision of § 2107 but meets the…
23-5600 Richard D. Bostwick v. Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services, et al. Massachusetts 2023-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay civil-procedure discretion due-process judicial-discretion motion-to-vacate standing time-limitation Whether Bostwick's Appeal was NOT Reviewed by the Lower Courts (Appeals Case No. 21-P-721) given Bostwick's Notice of Appeal
23-166 Hilton Hotels Retirement Plan, et al. v. Valerie White, et al. District of Columbia 2023-08-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appeal-period civil-procedure class-certification equitable-tolling federal-rules-of-civil-procedure nutraceutical-corp-v-lambert rule-23(f) rule-23f time-limitation time-period Do successive motions for class certification restart the fourteen-day period under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(f) for seeking permission to ap…
22-7836 Tony Michael Julien v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-06-21 Denied IFP civil-procedure court-authority criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process ignorance-of-law jurisdiction legal-maxim procedural-law retroactive time-limitation Can the mere passage of time retroactively confer jurisdiction on a court that did not and does not otherwise have jurisdiction?
22-998 Alt’s Dairy Farm, LLC v. Nau Country Insurance Company Sixth Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-dispute contract-terms crop-insurance federal-arbitration-act judicial-review statutory-interpretation time-limitation time-period Is the timeliness of petitioners' district court actions governed by the one-year period provided in the Common Crop Insurance Policy or by §12 of the…
22-7161 Moses D. Estrada v. California California 2023-03-30 Denied IFP access-to-courts appeal-rights appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process finality procedural-fairness time-limitation timeliness transcript-denial Whether the Court of Appeals' failure to issue its order for over 11 months and then denying the appellant the opportunity to file a petition for rehe…
22-6089 Heeralall Puran v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process equitable-tolling federal-procedure habeas-corpus math-mistake time-limitation untimely-petition Whether Petitioner Puran Is Entitled to a Certificate of Appealability on the Question Whether Equitable Tolling Should Apply to Permit an Untimely Ha…
22-5885 Christopher Surles v. Warden, Limestone Correctional Facility, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process federal-government federal-procedure notice-of-appeal procedural-rules standing time-limitation time-limits united-states-agency Whether the time limit for filing a notice of appeal is extended when the United States or an agency of the United States is a party?
21-8267 Dave Lawrence v. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. Third Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP equitable-tolling habeas-corpus immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief retroactive-constitutional-right retroactivity time-limitation Whether the Padilla decision has retroactive effect
21-8104 Frederick Williams v. Toll Brothers Builders, et al. Delaware 2022-06-09 Denied IFP civil-procedure complaint-response default-judgment failure-to-answer judicial-discretion motion-for-default relief-demanded service-of-process time-limitation time-to-answer Is there something called a default judgment and how does it come into play?
21-687 John Donnelly Sweeney, et al. v. San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, et al. California 2021-11-09 Denied Response Waived administrative-hearing agency-enforcement defendant-rights due-process enforcement-order fair-trial procedural-fairness prosecutorial-misconduct time-limit time-limitation Does an administrative hearing on an enforcement order comply with due process when the board limits the defendant's time to try his case to as little…
21-5365 Mark Lee Wilkinson v. Siobhan Burtlow, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP conviction conviction-challenge habeas-corpus new-judgment petition-filing sentence statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation successive-petitions time-limitation whether-new-judgment-restarts-one-year-time-limitation
20-8195 Calvin James Reid v. Michigan Michigan 2021-06-02 Denied IFP collateral-attack constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdictional-defect legal-remedy retroactivity state-court-conviction statute-of-limitations time-limitation Whether a 30-year-old jurisdictional defect in state court conviction should stand uncorrected because the violation occurred over 30 years ago?
20-963 Stephen K. Walton, Sr. v. Virginia International Terminals, LLC Virginia 2021-01-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) land-based marine-terminal-operator personal-injury preemption property-handling shipping-act shipping-act-1984 state-law terminal-operator time-limitation Whether a marine terminal operator's schedule of rates under the Shipping Act of 1984 can time-bar a land-based personal-injury action that is timely …
20-663 Peter R. Culpepper v. Provectus Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. Tennessee 2020-11-13 Denied Response Waived arbitration-agreement dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act grounds-for-vacating notice-requirement preemption state-arbitration-law state-law-preemption supremacy-clause time-limitation Whether a state arbitration law that provides a stricter mandate than Congress intended is preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act and the Supremacy …
20-6187 Robin Elaine Jackson v. County of Sacramento Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-law fmla fmla-violation standing statutory-interpretation time-limitation wrongful-termination Whether a plaintiff who has no available remedy in a FMLA time limitation violation is barred from pursuing a willful violation claim
20-5460 Keith L. Calvin v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa antiterrorism-act civil-rights due-process federal-petition habeas-corpus post-conviction state-prisoner statute-of-limitations time-limitation Whether the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) requires a state prisoner seeking federal habeas corpus relief to file his federal p…
19-8068 Daniel B. Boudette v. Tammy Boudette, nka Tammy Oskerson Montana 2020-03-23 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law enforceability foreign-judgment full-faith-and-credit judgment-enforcement originating-state sister-state-judgment state-law time-limit time-limitation Does a state's enforcement of a sister state's judgment beyond the time limit when it is enforceable in the originating state contravene the Full Fait…
19-7276 Ketut Pujayasa v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules due-process judicial-discretion prejudice prisoner prisoner-litigation prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant rule-4a6 time-limitation timeliness Did the district court and appellate court err in concluding that the petitioner's Rule 4(a)(6) motion, which was sent on February 20, 2019, and recei…
19-6952 Sir Giorgio Sanford Clardy v. Judy Gilmore, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure default-judgment due-process federal-rules procedural-compliance service-of-process standing summons time-limitation time-limits timely-answer waiver Whether defendants must comply with Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(d)(1)(F) and timely answer after waiving service of summons
19-6780 Darius Kinney v. Ohio Ohio 2019-11-29 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appellate-rights constitutional-rights due-process effective-counsel ineffective-counsel mail-box-rule ohio-appellate-rules sixth-amendment time-limitation time-limits Were Petitioner's Sixth Amendment rights violated?
19-6505 Michael Ingram v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-851 21-usc-851-enhancement 28-usc-2255 28-usc-2255-f-4 federal-law federal-procedure federal-sentencing geographic-disparities geographic-disparity habeas-corpus sentencing-commission sentencing-commission-report statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation time-limit time-limitation Where the United States Sentencing Commission publishes a report summarizing the geographic disparities in the application of the 21 U.S.C. §851 enhan…
19-5210 Therian Wimbush v. Christopher M. Carr, Attorney General of Georgia, et al. Georgia 2019-07-17 Denied IFP access-to-courts appeal appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights discretionary-appeal due-process georgia-court-of-appeals georgia-courts incarceration jurisdiction mailbox-rule parental-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant time-limitation Should the 'Mailbox Rule' be extended to all notices of appeal that must be filed in the trial court, filed by pro se incarcerated litigants?
19-5068 Willie J. Trimble, Jr. v. Mathew Hansen, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 due-process federal-holidays fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus implicit-conclusion mailbox-rule party-presentation time-limitation Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeal(s) decision was in contrary with U.S. Supreme Court precedent
18-9450 Angela Pizzarelli v. Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus habeas-relief jurisdiction notice notice-requirement procedural-default standing state-court time-limitation Does the failure of the state court clerk's office to notify petitioner of the court's decision on appeal constitute grounds for equitable tolling of …
18-8307 Dockery Cleveland v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment-search-and-seizure 6th-amendment-jury-trial appellate-review cell-phone cell-phone-search equal-protection fourth-amendment jury-selection ongoing-intrusion peremptory-challenge race-neutral-basis search-and-seizure suppression suppression-of-evidence time-limitation warrant warrant-limitation whether-defendant-must-renew-objection-to-perempto Whether the failure to extract information from a cell phone within the time limitation of a warrant requires suppression of the tardily obtained info…
18-7660 LaBarrion Harris v. James Deal, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-challenge constitutional-law custody-violation due-process federal-courts federal-procedure habeas-corpus state-courts statute-of-limitations time-limitation unconstitutional void-judgment Whether the 1-year limitation period under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(A) and (D) can be tolled under Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) and (c)(1), and whether the tim…
18-6228 John Laschkewitsch v. American National Life Insurance Company Fourth Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP breach-of-contract civil-procedure contestability due-process estoppel insurance-authorities insurance-contestability insurance-contract insurance-law precedent statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation time-limitation unfair-and-deceptive-trade-practices unfair-claim-settlement Whether Hurni, Enelow, Stewart and Pickering contestability precedent from this Court; American Trust Co. and Chavis precedent from the NC Supreme Cou…
18-312 David R. Smith v. Tennessee National Guard Tennessee 2018-09-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation employment employment-law preemption reemployment-rights state-law statute-of-limitations supremacy-clause time-limitation title-38-usc-4301 uniformed-services-reserve-reemployment-act userra-act Does a state law that sets a time limit on when an action may be filed under the Uniformed Services Reserve Reemployment Act, Title 38 U.S.C. §§ 4301,…
18-5806 Edwin David Corbett v. Washington Washington 2018-08-29 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence jackson-v-virginia post-conviction-relief statute-of-limitations sufficiency-of-evidence time-limitation Whether the one-year limitations period under Washington's Revised Code §10.73.100(4) bars a petitioner from relitigating a sufficiency of evidence cl…
18-5409 In Re Daniel Riley 2018-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights drug-reimbursement due-process erisa-preemption habeas-corpus judicial-discretion pharmacy-benefit-managers rate-regulation sentencing state-regulation statutory-interpretation supervisory-authority supreme-court-precedent time-limitation time-limits Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in holding that A Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals has abused its discretion by failing to decide petitioner's application for permission to file a second or …
18-5135 Mark Francis Honish v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP abuse-of-discretion certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation time-limitation tolling Was Honish's first state habeas writ 'application' properly filed within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. §2244(d)(2), and required to be tolled?
18-5101 Sean P. Reilly v. Jennifer Davis Florida 2018-07-03 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure constitutional-violation due-process florida-statutes fourteenth-amendment injunction injunctions standing time-limitation time-limitations Whether a Florida court deprived Mr. Reilly of due-process by creating an exception to time-limitations for injunctions under §§ 784.046, 784.0485 Flo…