detainee-rights

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6423 Ammar al Baluchi, aka Ali Abdul Aziz Ali v. Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense District of Columbia 2025-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review detainee-rights geneva-convention jurisdiction military-law mixed-medical-commission Whether the Court of Appeals erred by denying jurisdiction over Petitioner's appeal. In particular, did the Court of Appeals err by interpreting provi…
24A473 Victor Hill v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-12 Presumed Complete constitutional-violation detainee-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement-misconduct restraint-chairs Question not identified.
23-972 Angela Germaine Spencer, By and Through Next Friend and Mother of A. S., a Minor v. Harrison County, Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) children-in-court civil-procedure civil-rights detainee-rights detainees due-process fifth-circuit nonjury-proceedings shackling Whether the indiscriminate shackling of detainees, particularly children, in nonjury proceedings violates the Due Process Clause.
20-6499 Robert T. Sigler v. Jimmy Thornton, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied IFP civil-rights class-action constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference detainee-rights detention-conditions due-process equal-protection medical-care prison-conditions iMAS £_QLiMTV ^.a\/ERaEMT DE-LlfiH^T^LV Xt\(hUPPH b^r/UMBS dLfl£s.iMHEM cy) b&rmiAlB&s SLEPT iM % yC ID. (LEiLL- hEZSJ£>Kldb FOR- CX)jIaI3LTI4 3RD b…
20-6360 Robert Hughes Wilkins v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-review civil-rights detainee-rights due-process health-conditions interlocutory-appeal pandemic-considerations pretrial-detention pretrial-release public-health Whether the Circuit Court Erred Failing To Reverse District Court's Denial of Pretrial Release Conditions to Health Compromised Pretrial Detainee on I…
19-8244 Frank Morgan v. Illinois Department of Corrections Illinois 2020-04-14 Denied IFP chaplain-duties civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protections detainee-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment religious-services standing takings 1. Whothere the Illissis Dopnatnout ot COLNELTION'S HAS HUTHONITY TO CHANBO Qocumers Promalquted by THe IiGOOONA/ ASSEblY N01S 2y 21607 Body? THO DinO…
19-1014 Teresa Berry v. Delaware County Sheriff's Office Sixth Circuit 2020-02-14 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights deliberate-indifference detainee-rights due-process jail-conditions medical-care medical-policy medical-training municipal-liability policy training withdrawal The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment from the United States District Court Southern District of Ohio Eastern Division finding that…
18-1172 Tynisa Williams v. City of Cleveland, Ohio Sixth Circuit 2019-03-11 Denied civil-rights delousing detainee-rights due-process fourth-amendment penological-interests prison-policy privacy-rights reasonable-alternatives reasonable-search strip-search Whether the court below erroneously held that the physical delousing of all detainees entering the Cleveland Workhouse, whereby delousing solution was…
18-150 Phil Plummer, et al. v. David M. Hopper, Special Administrator of the Estate of Robert Andrew Richardson, Sr. Sixth Circuit 2018-08-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment civil-rights clearly-established-right deliberate-indifference detainee-rights due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement medical-intervention qualified-immunity 1. Whether the Sixth Circuit defined the constitutional rights in question at too high a level of generality contrary to this Court's teachings on qua…
18-46 City of Middletown, Connecticut, et al. v. William McKinney Second Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 4th-amendment active-resistance civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights detainee-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity reasonable-officer use-of-force Police officers were attempting to transfer a detainee to a padded cell where he could be appropriately monitored after he repeatedly obstructed the v…