timely-filing

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24A1246 Perteacher Drone v. Robert J. Conrad, Director, Administrative Office of the United States Courts, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-06-17 Presumed Complete appeal-deadline federal-rules-appellate-procedure jurisdictional-requirement notice-of-appeal subject-matter-jurisdiction timely-filing Whether a federal court can dismiss an appeal for lack of subject matter jurisdiction when a notice of appeal is filed well beyond the prescribed 60-d…
23-7315 In Re Craig Michael Ralston 2024-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure clerical-error federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure houston-v-lack judicial-review mail-receipt postal-service prison-mailbox-rule timely-filing Is a certified mail receipt and date-stamp from the United States Postal Service along with the Prison Mailroom time-stamp enough to meet the requirem…
23-7077 Wayne M. English v. Lowell T. Cage, as Trustee Fifth Circuit 2024-03-26 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court-clerk judicial-jurisdiction mail-delivery mailbox-rule postal-service pro-se-litigation timely-filing Whether the Fifth Circuit's dismissal of the petitioner's appeal as untimely conflicts with the 'mailbox rule' established by this Court and other cir…
23-6620 Bruce A. Quarles v. Joseph Terra, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. Third Circuit 2024-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights diligence-requirement due-process ex-post-facto federal-rules-of-civil-procedure rule-60 rule-60(d)(1) timely-filing Is an imposition of a diligence requirement upon a timely filed Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 60(d)(1) motion a violation of the rule?
23-6395 In Re Daniel Lee Beckley 2023-12-28 Denied IFP all-writs-act appellate-procedure federal-appeals filing-deadline houston-v-lack incarcerated-person mandamus prison-mail prisoner-litigation pro-se-filing supreme-court-mandate timely-filing Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the court of appeals to abide by the Supreme Court's holding in Houston v. Lack and accept Petitione…
23A548 Mary M. Mooney v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-12-14 Presumed Complete circuit-court clerk-error federal-rules motion-for-reconsideration pro-se timely-filing Whether a pro se litigant's timely motion for reconsideration can be deemed untimely due to a clerk's administrative error when the motion was receive…
23A433 Nelson L. Bruce v. Bank of America, N.A. Fourth Circuit 2023-11-15 Presumed Complete district-court-order federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure jurisdictional-deadline notice-of-appeal rule-59-motion timely-filing Whether a district court's denial of a Rule 59(e) motion can be appealed after the 30-day jurisdictional deadline for filing a notice of appeal has el…
23A337 Caesar Mark Capistrano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-13 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure federal-rule-appellate-procedure-4 incarcerated-litigant petition-for-rehearing prison-mailbox-rule timely-filing Whether the prison mailbox rule under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 4(c)(1)(A)(i) and 28 U.S.C. § 1746 requires a federal appellate court to dee…
22-7023 Maria Orosco v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2023-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appointed-counsel civil-rights due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal procedural-default timely-filing Should my writ of certiorari be granted when my appointed attorney failed to file a timely notice of appeal?
22-5194 Maxo Jean v. United States Second Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appeals appellate-procedure criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction motion-to-vacate timeliness timely-filing Whether the appeals court abused its discretion by dismissing petitioner's notice of appeal from the denial of a motion to vacate, filed pursuant to 2…
21-1442 In Re Adriano Kruel Budri 2022-05-16 Denied appellate-procedure brief-dismissal civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-litigation timely-filing Did the Panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit err by dismissing for want of prosecution a pending Appellant's Opening Brief filed i…
21-452 Falisha Bell v. Scott Wagner & Associates Florida 2021-09-23 Denied Response Waived answer-brief civil-procedure civil-rights court-jurisdiction due-process legal-malpractice standing statute-of-limitations timely-filing After filing case within the lower court and being dealt unfairly
20-6945 Robert White v. Kubotek Corporation, et al. First Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure excusable-neglect federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-for-reconsideration rule-59(e) timeliness timely-filing Does the act of mailing a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 59(e) motion for reconsideration in time for normal US Mail Second Day delivery to the US Di…
20-5754 Palani Karupaiyan v. New York City Department of Education Second Circuit 2020-09-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process homelessness notice-of-appeal pro-se-petition standing timely-filing Jurisdiction-under-28-USC-2107
19-7885 In Re Kenton G. Findlay 2020-03-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-procedure constitutional-amendment court-jurisdiction disqualification due-process foreclosure impartiality judicial-impartiality motion-for-rehearing timely-filing Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida violated the due process protection of the 5th and 14th Amendments…
19-6704 JB Foster McAfee v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court circuit-court-rejection civil-procedure-mail-box-rule due-process federal-rules-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus houston-v-lack mail-box-rule obstruction-of-justice prison-mail prisoner-appeals prisoner-petition sentencing-guidelines timeliness timely-filing Whether a prisoner's petition for rehearing is timely filed under the mail box rule
19-6426 John Ramirez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-10-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure district-court extraordinary-circumstances finality finality-exception legal-standard relief-from-judgement relief-from-judgment timely-filing timely-motion Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief from judgement where he files a motion in a timely fashion and provides the district court with extraordinary…
19-5513 Charles Head v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-appointed-attorney court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure defiance-of-request due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-remedy petition-filing petition-for-certiorari right-to-counsel statutory-right statutory-rights timely-filing writ-of-certiorari What remedy is available for petitioner when court-appointed attorney failed to file timely petition for writ of certiorari in defiance of the petitio…
18-9284 Angela Rogers v. Compass Airlines, Inc., et al. Minnesota 2019-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment certified-mail civil-procedure civil-rights due-process privileges-and-immunities state-court-operations state-supreme-court timely-filing us-postal-service Whether the internal operations of the State Supreme Court of Minnesota violate the Privileges and Immunities clause of the 14° Amendment and the Due …
18-1395 Fraternal Order of Police Chicago Lodge No. 7 v. Illinois Seventh Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure-intervention civil-rights consent-decree deception due-process intervention intervention-motion misrepresentation rule-24 statutory-rights timeliness timely-filing timely-intervention unrebutted-facts Whether a motion to intervene is timely when it is filed shortly after a would-be intervenor learns that the existing parties misrepresented that the …
18-8096 Antonio R. Hall v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure district-court houston-v-lack mailbox-rule notice-of-appeal pro-se timeliness timely-filing Does the presumption of timeliness under Houston v. Lack apply when the petitioner proves timely mailing but the district court did not receive the no…
18-6477 Delmer M. Ackels v. Randy M. Olsen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied IFP answer civil-procedure court-of-appeals default-judgment excuse excuses jurisdiction procedural-rules timeliness timely-filing Whether the Court of Appeals had jurisdiction to deny a default judgment when the defendant was untimely with its Answer without an excuse
18-5939 Gary Michael Allen v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness due-process johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states mandatory-career-offender-guideline mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 timely-filing vagueness Whether a motion for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 filed within one year of Johnson v. United States asserts a right recognized in Johnson