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25-1147 Rochelle L. Smith v. General Motors, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2026-04-02 Pending administrative-exhaustion Americans-with-Disabilities-Act continuing-violation-doctrine disability-discrimination equitable-tolling pro-se-litigation 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit 's affirmance of the district court 's dismissal of ADA and TCHRA claims for failure to exhaust administrative remedies…
25-1053 Gregory Hanna v. Department of Labor, Administrative Review Board, et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-03-05 Pending Response Waived administrative-review-board energy-reorganization-act equitable-tolling judicial-review regulatory-ambiguity separation-of-powers 1. Whether the regulation provision in question under the Energy Reorganization Act is genuinely ambiguous in determining federal courts' case law and…
25A961 Donald A. George v. The Cincinnati Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2026-03-02 Application 42-USC-1981 bad-faith-insurance equitable-tolling pro-se-litigant rule-12-motion-to-dismiss statute-of-limitations Question not identified.
25-1021 Richard Cornelius Jackson v. Department of Homeland Security Federal Circuit 2026-02-25 Pending Response Waived due-process equitable-tolling federal-circuit freedom-of-information-act merit-systems-protection-board veterans-employment-opportunities-act Whether the Merit Systems Protection Board and the Federal Circuit erred in denying equitable tolling under the Veterans Employment Opportunities Ac…
25-6865 Robert Andrew Mullins v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2026-02-20 Pending Response WaivedIFP Brady-violations discovery-rule equitable-tolling Federal-Tort-Claims-Act implied-in-fact-contract statute-of-limitations 1. Whether the injury-occurrence rule under the FTCA should control accrual of a claim in a case where relevant exculpatory evidence was allegedly no…
25-6836 In Re Rodolfo Vela Sr., et al. 2026-02-17 Pending IFP americans-with-disabilities-act equitable-tolling fraudulent-concealment mandamus section-1983-civil-rights statute-of-limitations 1. Did the lower courts abuse their discretion by dismissing Petitioners ' § 1983 claims as time-barred without applying equitable tolling for fraudul…
25-6616 Okechukwu Desmond Amadi v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process equitable-tolling governmental-intervention statute-of-limitations Whether the dismissal of an out-of-time appeal upon the government raising a statute of limitations defense, without providing defendant a full and fa…
25-6601 Melvon Adams v. United States Second Circuit 2026-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure criminal-appeals equitable-tolling government-motion jurisdictional-limits time-limitations Some lower courts hold that even when extraordinary circumstances prevent a defendant's timely filing of a notice of appeal in a criminal case, Rule 4…
25-6559 Charles Kafeiti v. United States Second Circuit 2026-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus judicial-delay procedural-rules 1. Whether a district court's 13-month, unexplained silence on liberty-related motions — followed by unsigned docket-entry denials that never addresse…
25-6296 Emmanuel Folly v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-05 Denied IFP arbitration-findings civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances pro-se-litigant 1. Whether systemic barriers preventing a pro se litigant from securing counsel, where stigma impedes representation, constitute "extraordinary circu…
25A649 Denzel Chandler v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2025-12-03 Presumed Complete constitutional-right equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstance habeas-corpus mental-health statute-of-limitations Question not identified.
25A635 Robert Keaton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-02 Presumed Complete equitable-tolling extraordinary-relief federal-prisoner habeas-corpus mental-health suicide-attempt Question not identified.
25-6229 Douglas A. Krusley v. Abigail Caudill, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence brady-violation court-access equitable-tolling habeas-corpus pro-se-prisoner WHETHER PETITIONER QUALIFIES FOR EQUITABLE TOLLING DUE TO INABILITY TO ACCESS THE LIBRARY AND OTHER RESOURCES AND ON THE MERITS OF BEING ACTUALLY INNO…
25A597 Christopher Fonte v. Memorial Hospital of Laramie County, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-11-20 Presumed Complete access-to-justice disability-barriers due-process equitable-tolling judicial-review notice-requirements Whether state notice-of-claim statutes, when applied without regard to equitable doctrines, disability-related barriers, or government misconduct that…
25A558 Chantel Mitchell v. Office Depot, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2025-11-13 Presumed Complete equitable-tolling medical-emergency petition-for-certiorari pro-se statutory-deadline supreme-court-procedure Question not identified.
25-5845 Ohio, ex rel. Christopher Michael Williams v. Marilyn Zayas, Judge, First District Court of Appeals, Hamilton County, Ohio, et al. Ohio 2025-10-09 Denied IFP 14th-amendment due-process equal-protection equitable-tolling judicial-immunity state-court-procedure QUESTION #1: Does a state Court Judge, commit a violation of a Defendants 14th Amendment rights to the United States Constitution for Due process, an…
25-5690 Adam Jay Stone v. Patwin Horn, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus legal-diligence statute-of-limitations In a federal habeas corpus case, an appellant who has missed the one-year filing deadline due to extraordinary circumstances beyond their control may …
25-244 Demetric Simon v. Officer Keith Gladstone, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-09-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights equitable-tolling fraudulent-concealment judicial-notice law-enforcement-conspiracy statute-of-limitations In a now proven criminal conspiracy framing Petitioner but likely undiscoverable before Federal indictment on Conspiracy to Deprive Civil Rights, shou…
25A248 Judy Christian Percival v. Kelley Zimmerman, et al. Third Circuit 2025-08-29 Presumed Complete court-jurisdiction digital-filing due-process equitable-tolling procedural-fairness technical-error Question not identified.
25-229 Emigrant Mortgage Company, et al. v. Jean Robert Saint-Jean, et al. Second Circuit 2025-08-27 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) causation-standard circuit-split discrimination-claims disparate-impact equitable-tolling fair-housing-act In Texas Dept. of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project, Inc., 576 U.S. 519 (2015), this Court held that disparate impact dis…
25-5321 Jeffrey Ricardo Wimberly v. Michigan Michigan 2025-08-11 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-violation equitable-tolling jurisdictional-challenge michigan-supreme-court subject-matter-jurisdiction While Mr. Wimberly was on appeal he sought and received equitable tolling per Michigan Supreme Court Administrative Order 2020-21. The Court of Appeal…
25-5206 Ngozika J. Nwaneri v. George Washington University Hospital District of Columbia 2025-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract due-process eeoc-rights equitable-tolling pro-se-litigant statute-of-limitations 1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's dismissal of Petitioner's claims as untimely, given the ongoing internal adjud…
25A66 Gregory Montgomery v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-07-17 Presumed Complete constitutional-claims equitable-tolling federal-review habeas-corpus prisoner-rights statute-of-limitations Question not identified.
25-5019 Chat Lowe v. Palm Tran, et al. Florida 2025-07-02 Denied IFP case-dismissal counsel-dereliction equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances procedural-rights statute-of-limitations 1) . Should litigants cases be dismissed with prejudice for dereliction of responsibilities on part of their Counsel and no fault or doing of the lit…
24A1283 Demetric Simon v. Officer Keith Gladstone, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-06-25 Presumed Complete civil-rights equitable-tolling fraudulent-concealment inquiry-notice police-misconduct statute-of-limitations Issue One: Whether the trial Court's grant of a Motion to Dismiss under Statute of Limitations, was legally correct and proper, based on the initial i…
24-7424 Wilberto Arellano v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-06-16 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claims equitable-tolling habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-tolling WHETHER PETITIONER IS ENTITLED TO EQUITABLE TOLLING BASED ON HIS CLAIM OF ACTUAL INNOCENCE.
24-1164 Jacqueline R. Everson v. The Coca-Cola Company, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split disability-rights due-process equitable-tolling erisa-plan statutory-violation 1. Whether the courts are precluded from violating statutory laws affecting the rights of the ERISA plan participants nationwide. 2. Whether the cour…
24-1131 Fei Fei Fan v. Yan Yao Jiang, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-05 Denied circuit-split equitable-tolling fourteenth-amendment thirteenth-amendment trafficking-victims visa-dependency 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit's interpretation of 18 U.S.C. § 1595(c) forecloses equitable tolling and continuing violation principles for trafficking …
24-7092 Michael Dwayne Tryals v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP claims-processing direct-appeal equitable-tolling federal-rule-criminal-procedure mandatory-rules trial-court-violation I. Whether a trial court's violation of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32(j)(1) is subject to redress on direct appeal? II. Whether an untimely c…
24-7055 Willie Lee HavMmeri v. Methodist Health Systems, Dallas Fifth Circuit 2025-04-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP covid-19-tolling employment-discrimination equitable-tolling judicial-procedure pro-se-filing right-to-sue 1. Did the Pandemic (Covid-19 Federally Mandated Shutdowns/Lockdowns) present a considerable factor in the Equitable Tolling of Time, Reasonable Dilig…
24-6949 Kendrick Christmas v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2025-04-09 Denied IFP district-attorney equitable-tolling habeas-corpus pro-se supervisory-writ warden WHETHER KENDRICK CHRISTMAS'S FEDERAL WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS IS ENTITLED TO EQUITABLE TOLLING DURING THE TIME HE FILED FOR SUPERVISORY WRITS IN THE LOUI…
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 I. WHETHER THE PETITIONER IS ENTITLED TO EQUITABLE TOLLING OF ONE YEAR STSTUTE OF LIMITATIONS?
24-6699 Reginald Lee Clark v. Bryan Collier, Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-03-04 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel state-action 1. Does Equitable Tolling or the Accrual Rule apply to the application of 28 USC §2244(d), upon discovery of previously concealed material information…
24-6679 Chance Blackman v. Theresa Cisneros, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-principles circuit-split equitable-tolling habeas-corpus legal-assistance mental-disability Under agency principles, petitioners are held responsible for the mistakes of their lawyers, including the late filing of a federal petition. How do t…
24A768 Reginald Lee Clark v. Bryan Collier, Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-02-07 Presumed Complete constitutional-claim due-process equitable-tolling federal-petition habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations Question not identified.
24-6152 Josh Pompey v. Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2024-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP dna-testing equitable-tolling false-confession habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief scientific-evidence 1. HAVING OBTAINED FAVORABLE NEW DNA RESULTS VIA POSTCONVICTION DNA TESTING, IS PETITIONER ENTITLED TO EQUITABLE TOLLING UNDER HOLLAND V. FLORIDA, 560…
24-545 Richard Wershe, Jr. v. City of Detroit, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-11-14 Denied Response Waived circuit-split diligence equitable-tolling habeas-corpus prisoner-doctrine retaliation 1. Does the two-factor equitable tolling test supplied by this Court in Holland v. Florida, 560 U.S. 631, 649 (2010) apply to all federal equitable to…
24A350 Eric Shawn Ray v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-10-15 Presumed Complete constitutional-claims equitable-tolling federal-review habeas-corpus pro-se statute-of-limitations Question not identified.
24-369 Hassell Construction Company, Inc., et al. v. Harris County Improvement District No. 18, et al. Texas 2024-10-02 Denied Response Waived automatic-stay bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-stay equitable-tolling state-court-litigation statutory-interpretation Whether state courts may retroactively refuse to apply 11 U.S.C. §362(a)(3) as plainly worded, as well as attendant equitable tolling principles, afte…
24-165 Trina Wilkins, et al. v. Genzyme Corporation First Circuit 2024-08-15 Denied Response Waived class-action equitable-tolling fairness-act federal-jurisdiction minimal-diversity relation-back-doctrine I. Whether the Class Action Fairness Act creates a combination of both Federal Question jurisdiction and Diversity jurisdiction, termed minimal divers…
24-5130 Devon Nunes v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Third Circuit 2024-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law equitable-tolling immigration-law ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review numerical-limits statutory-motion statutory-motions-to-reopen The deadline to file a statutory motion to reopen under 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(7) is subject to equitable tolling; all the courts of appeals are in agree…
24A21 H.C. v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. California 2024-07-09 Presumed Complete equitable-tolling filing-deadline medical-disability pro-se procedural-rules supreme-court Question not identified.
24A20 H.C. v. A.N. California 2024-07-09 Presumed Complete appellate-jurisdiction equitable-tolling filing-extension medical-disability pro-se-litigant procedural-deadline Question not identified.
23-7781 Timothy Dasler v. Jennifer Knapp, fka Dasler Vermont 2024-06-21 Denied IFP best-interest-of-the-child constitutional-fairness domestic-relations due-process equitable-tolling judicial-discretion jurisdictional-limits Palmore-v-Sidoti parental-rights Troxel-v-Granville 1. In light of the Supreme Court's efforts to clarify the use of 'jurisdictional' versus 'claims-processing' terms (Hamer v. Neighborhood Hous. Servs.…
23-7557 Paul Henry Gibson v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus hospital-records incapacitation judicial-bias procedural-error structural-error Does the lower court's decision to bar petitioner, and deny equitable tolling for the period of time petitioner was incapacitated, in the intensive ca…
23-7392 Elaine Mickman v. Philadelphia Professional Collections, LLC, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-summary-action circuit-courts civil-procedure continuing-tolling discretionary-appeal due-process equitable-tolling federal-appeal-process summary-action 1. Does Circuit Court Summary Action undermine and effectively convert the right to appeal a US District Court Order into a discretionary appeal, ther…
23-7400 Leslie J. Reynard v. Washburn University of Topeka Tenth Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ada-accommodation ada-title-i eeoc-filing eeoc-filing-requirements equitable-tolling light-sensitivity qualified-disabled-employees reasonable-accommodation seizure-disorder summary-judgment I. Title I mandates employers to reasonably accommodate qualified, disabled employees who request help. Dr. Reynard's lifelong seizure disorder is tri…
23-1182 Kenneth Jones v. County of San Diego, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process equitable-tolling excessive-force law-enforcement race-discrimination standing The grant of orders, in favor of the Respondents' motions to dismiss, the District Curt and the Appeals Court granted a dismissal of the above-entitle…
23A923 Bryant Christopher Watts v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-04-16 Presumed Complete civil-procedure equitable-tolling jurisdiction notice-of-appeal prisoner-litigation pro-se Question not identified.
23-1103 Sawtooth Mountain Ranch, LLC, et al. v. United States Forest Service, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived constitutional-rights declaratory-relief equitable-tolling fifth-amendment just-compensation regulatory-taking statute-of-limitations 1. Whether equitable tolling is available for statutes of limitation, highlighting a conflict between Boechler, P.C. v. Commissioner , 142 S. Ct. 1493…
23-7151 Carolyn Sioux Green v. Washington Department of Social and Health Services, et al. Washington 2024-04-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP chemical-lobotomy civil-commitment constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling federal-jurisdiction incarceration legal-representation statute-of-limitations 1. Should the doctrine of equitable tolling be applied to a case of which the central concern is a violation of the constitutional right to due proces…
23-7058 James E. Palmer v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equitable-tolling evidence-standard habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-remedies Whether it only ta deaial ef any stales lerisonex's constitutional cight to the weit of veo fheS £2 PNS te aot...peceait equitable, telling fe — wh th…
23-7062 Clark D. Thomas v. McKendley Newton, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability discovery-and-counsel-denial double-jeopardy due-process equitable-tolling fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying a certificate of appealability on Petitioner's claims that: A) The district court violated Petitioner's D…
23-6764 Kevin Ray Morris, Sr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-02-20 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus mailroom-misconduct prison-mailroom prisoner-mail procedural-default WHEN PETITIONER ALLEGED THAT HE WAS ENTITLED TO EQUITABLE TOLLING BASED ON THE PRISON MAILROOM'S MISHANDLING OF PRISONER MAIL,INCLUD- A SCANDAL INVO…
23-6784 Khaled Elbeblawy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa circuit-split constitutional-rights equitable-tolling habeas-corpus rigid-approach statute-of-limitations totality-of-circumstances QUESTION 1: Equitable Tolling: Whether the Holland Court's direction to review with flexibility the circumstances warranting equitable tolling is cons…
23-6765 Ethan Andrew Hannold v. Bobbi Jo Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2024-02-15 Denied IFP his father and the egregious breach of duty from criminal-procedure due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-health-diagnosis procedural-default Did the U.S. Court of Appeals of the Third Circuit fail to consider the effect the combination of the relevant attributes of Mr. Hannold's diagnoses o…
23-6733 Lunick Janvier v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling judicial-interpretation legal-standard standing statutory-interpretation 1) Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ' decision on equitable tolling is in direct conflict with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals based …
23-6737 Anthony F. Wainwright v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied IFP attorney-misconduct conflict-of-interest due-process equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rule-60b 1. In determining whether a hearing related to equitable tolling is warranted, do the unsworn representations of an attorney —while that attorney is o…
23-870 Metal Conversion Technologies, LLC v. Department of Transportation Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied Amici (2) administrative-law agency-action appellate-procedure civil-procedure equitable-tolling federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure hazardous-materials-transportation-act judicial-review statutory-deadline statutory-interpretation When an aggrieved party petitions for judicial review of the Department of Transportation's final action under the Hazardous Materials Transportation …
23-707 Yossi Govrin, et al. v. City of Santa Monica, California, et al. California 2023-12-29 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling estoppel government-taking property-rights standing substantive-due-process takings Whether a party with close ties to the government should be allowed to proceed with litigating its claims based on equitable tolling and/or estoppel g…
23A581 Metal Conversion Technologies, LLC v. Department of Transportation Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-22 Denied administrative-procedure agency-adjudication appointments-clause equitable-tolling judicial-review time-limit Question not identified.
23-652 Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections v. Berman Justus, Jr. Fourth Circuit 2023-12-15 Denied civil-procedure equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstance federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-60(b)(6) habeas habeas-corpus mental-illness statute-of-limitations Whether a habeas petitioner can show that a mental illness constitutes an "extraordinary circumstance" that warrant s reopening a final judgment under…
23-6188 Otis Blaxton v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equitable-tolling false-imprisonment fourteenth-amendment post-conviction-relief sovereign-immunity Vn)<xW«l'T of suiK , of $7^8.2*', Fla. 6,13, AA X (Wftw <?f 5 D y'jXti \YV\ <V\ U A \4Y -[) Was fkt- >/ flor]cjc( pOf'^OO^r\'f' f(j 6ia»v\ a) Dd 4k<L …
23-5994 James Jordan McClain v. Tammy Campbell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation equitable-tolling first-degree-murder habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct second-degree-murder self-defense voluntary-manslaughter 1. In assessing whether extraordinary circumstances stood in a petitioner's path for equitable-tolling purposes, do those circumstances need to make e…
23-5864 Alfred Starling v. Charles Mims, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-statute constitutional-violations equitable-tolling gateway-claim habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations 1. Whether the lower courts erred in holding that reasonable jurists would not debate whether Petitioner's First Federal Habeas Corpus petition was un…
23-5787 Richard Frasca v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, et al. First Circuit 2023-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-discrimination constitutional-rights depression equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing mental-illness procedural-flaws retaliation 1. Extensive Case Law Exists in which Depression and Mental Illness have been accepted by the Courts and Governing Bodies as Valid and Legal Bases for…
23-5420 Bruce Wanzo, Jr. v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability due-process equitable-tolling fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit 1. Whether appointment of counsel on counsel in detracting from the intended issues raised in the Certificate of Appealability(misconstrued by the Nin…
23A160 Brian Williams, Warden, et al. v. Reynaldo Agavo Ninth Circuit 2023-08-22 Presumed Complete attorney-misconduct clearly-established-law confrontation-clause equitable-tolling habeas-corpus section-2254 1. This case raises important questions of federal law involving (1) principles of equitable tolling, and (2) application of this Court's jurisprudenc…
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 1. Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(f) sets a "purposefully unforgiving" fourteen-day deadline to file a petition for permission to appeal from an o…
23-147 Leander Mann v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied aedpa-statute circuit-split civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus habeas-petition statute-of-limitations 1. Whether equitable tolling stops the clock on the AEDPA statute of limitations during periods of extraordinary circumstances, as the Second and Elev…
23-5313 Leonardo Roque v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit 2023-08-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure constitutional-merit due-process equitable-tolling fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-ruling standing statute-of-limitations 1. Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals commit Error when the Court Denied Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability on Grounds that Dispositive Pr…
23-5280 Robert A. Griffin v. Stewart Eckert, Superintendent, Wende Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealibility equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances government-misconduct habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60-motion 1) WHETHER MR. GRIFFIN IS ENTITLED TO A COA BECAUSE JURISTS OF REASON WOULD FIND THE DISTRICT COURT'S RULING ON MR. GRIFFIN'S FEDERAL RULE 60(b)(6) MO…
23-5223 Fidel Rios, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure district-court due-process equitable-tolling judicial-review legal-remedy limitations-period procedural-doctrine standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN CONCLUDING THAT MR. RIOS WAS NOT ENTITLED TO EQUITABLE TOLLING
23-5155 Jeremiah Lyle VanTassel v. Patricia Thompson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2023-07-20 Denied IFP aedpa civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling fraud fraud-upon-court procedural-default prosecutorial-vouching standing time-limits Does fraud upon the court trigger equitable tolling? Would jurists of reason all agree that Petitioner procedurally defaulted in re the time limits u…
23-5133 Gary Watkins v. Willis Chapman, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights equitable-tolling habeas-corpus mental-illness relation-back statute-of-limitations THE DISTRICT COURT ERRONEOUSLY HELD THAT PETITIONER'S SUPPLEMENTAL HABEAS PETITION RAISING NUMEROUS CLAIMS THROUGH COUNSEL WAS UNTIMELY FILED BECAUSE …
23-5068 Lavount Peterson v. Patrick Nogan, Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2023-07-11 Denied IFP equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus habeas-statute new-jersey-directive non-final-order post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief state-court-rulings statute-of-limitations 1. Whether the habeas statute of limitations remains tolled after a state post conviction relief ("PCR") court dismisses a timely and properly filed P…
23-5 Breon Powell v. John Rivello, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2023-07-03 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability court-closure covid-19 covid-19-pandemic due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus 1. Did Circuit Court of Appeals err and thereby abuse its discretion and commit error in denying due process to Appellant Powell when it denied a Cert…
22-7649 Roderick Lamar Williams, aka Rox v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights claim-processing-rule due-process equitable-tolling fraud misconduct The first question for the Court is whether the lower courts, by refusing to apply equitable tolling to Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b)(3) claims are wrongfully…
22-7410 Reynaldo Palomo v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-04-28 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2253 antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus This case present an important nationwide issue concerning what constitues an expeditious remedy and/or a prompt hearing under 28 U.S.C. §2254. The …
22-7363 David Vahlkamp v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure equitable-tolling gross-negligence habeas-corpus holland-v-florida ineffective-assistance postconviction-attorney postconviction-relief reasonable-diligence sixth-amendment 1. Whether the Petitioner is entitled to equitable tolling in light of his postconviction attorney's gross negligence. 2. Whether the Eleventh Circui…
22-988 Credit Consulting Services, Inc. v. Maritza Paredes California 2023-04-11 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-law rotkiske-v-klemm statute-of-limitations supreme-court-precedent Whether the California Court of Appeal erred in holding that the California doctrine of "equitable tolling" applied so as to toll the one-year statute…
22-7234 Gerald Wayne LeBeau v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-diligence due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus procedural-ruling standing QUESTION ONE: WAS THE COURTS PROCEDURE RULING PROPER IN DENYING LEBEAU'S EQUITABLE TOLLING? QUESTION TWO: WAS THE COURTS PROCEDURE RULING PROPER IN D…
22-7221 Carlotta Susann Kutschenreuter v. Lagreta McClain, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment state-post-conviction-procedures Alabama Rule of Criminal Procedure (ARCrimP) 32.2(d) states "any claim that counsel was ineffective must be raised as soon as practicable, either at t…
22-7105 Jimmy Allen Roberts v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus legal-access prison-library statute-of-limitations Mr. Roberts urges that the instant case will terminate a continuous flow of meritorious, but improvidently drafted, and untimely filed habeas petition…
22-928 Roger Swartz v. Board of Trustees of University of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2023-03-23 Denied academic-freedom civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances scienter state-action state-actor university-funding 1. When effectively unrestricted research funding —requiring nothing more than a yearly progress update —by the state enables a party such as a Univer…
22-808 Joe Alfred Izen, Jr. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Fifth Circuit 2023-02-27 Denied Response Waived charitable-deduction deadlines equitable-tolling hardship-exemption I.R.C.-170(f)(12) internal-revenue-code statutory-interpretation substantiation-deadline substantiation-evidence summary-judgment tax-law 1. Whether equitable tolling may extend substantiation evidence gathering deadlines under I.R.C. § 170(f)(12). 2. Whether Congress lacks the power to…
22-694 Jermaine Andra Whitaker v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-restrictions due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prison-access prison-law-library statute-of-limitations 1. Whether the 11th circuit Court erred in determining that the covid-19 pandemic, which led to the quarantine of the Wheeler Correctional Facility fo…
22-6542 Warren Douglas Vann v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-misconduct certificate-of-appealability due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-claim procedural-deadline statute-of-limitations Whether, for purposes of a certificate of appealability, it is debatable that reasonable jurists would find that equitable tolling applies to the Peti…
22-6298 Antoinne Lee Washington v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-of-action equitable-tolling failure-to-state-a-claim habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings heck-doctrine legal-malpractice statute-of-limitations 1. May a legal malpractice cause of action be dismissed for a failure to state a claim, in pursuant to the "Heck Doctrine" (Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.…
22-6291 Jimmy R. Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas statute-of-limitations I. Whether it is inconsistent with Slack v. McDaniel, 539 U.S. 413 (2008) for a Court of Appeals to have declined to issue Certificate of Appealabilit…
22-6283 James R. Turner v. Federal Aviation Administration, et al. Second Circuit 2022-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-procedure due-process equitable-tolling jurisdiction-dismissal psychiatric-disability standing statute-of-limitations 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals was justified by DISMISSING Petitioner's appeal for lack of jurisdiction. 2. Whether the United States …
22-6268 David Miller, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-09 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus mental-illness statute-of-limitations 1. Did the Eleventh Circuit depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings and deny Miller his due process rights under the Fifth a…
22-6086 Dale McCoy v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights covid-19 covid-19-quarantine due-process equitable-tolling federal-bureau-of-prisons fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment section-2255 Whether the unforeseen and unexpected quarantining of the Peti- oner, by the Federal Bureau of Prisons; due to the COVID -19 Pandemic, justifies "Eq…
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…
22-6041 David Williams, III v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 congressional-intent conviction-review eighth-amendment equitable-tolling fifth-amendment government-misconduct section-2255 Whether a defendant's conviction and sentence for nonexistent crimes: (1) violates the Fifth And Eighth Amendments, (2) constitute extraordinary and e…
22-5984 Kenneth Wilbert Brown v. Brad Adams, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-communication civil-procedure court-delays diligence due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances legal-diligence pandemic-impact related-cases 1) How can a defendant be deemed not to have "Been pursuing his rights dilligently ," when he is actively litigating 3 cases simultaneously that are a…
22-5793 Thomas A. Forrest, et ux. v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-10-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling internal-revenue-code judicial-precedent military-benefits military-retirees statutory-interpretation tax tax-recovery 1. Whether the Supreme Court erred in their interpretation of the Internal Revenue Code in United States v. Brockamp, 519 U.S. 347 (1997) by disallowi…
22-5581 Alfonso Ponton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-14 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 castro-v-united-states castro-warning district-court equitable-tolling habeas-corpus pro-se statute-of-limitations Whether a district court's recharacterization of a prior pro se pleading as a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus petition without the warnings required by…
22-5485 Juan Daniel Cano v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas, Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-31 Denied IFP civil-procedure diligence district-court due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances fifth-circuit habeas-corpus standard-of-review Did thh Fifth Circuit erred in adapting to the district court finding that petitioner failed to show both that he pursued habeas relief diligently and…
22-5240 Robert C. Del Cid v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-01 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-taint counsel-of-choice due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mailbox-rule standing voir-dire I. WHETHER OR NOT THE EQUITABLE TOLLING, THE MAILBOX RULE ENTITLES PETITIONER FOR RELIEF WHEN THE SUPREME COURT, AS WELL AS THE LOWER COURTS ACCORD DE…
22-48 AC Interests, L.P. v. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Texas 2022-07-19 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights clean-air-act due-process emission-reduction-credits equitable-tolling mootness takings takings-clause 1. Should Common Law allow the 60-month deadline for using emission reduction credits to be equitably tolled while a party seeks to establish the righ…
22-5049 Percy Love, III v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP artuz-v-bennett covid-19 covid-19-exception diligence equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances federal-tolling-doctrine habeas-corpus procedural-timeliness statutory-interpretation Whether an extension to file a 2255 petition is "properly filed" under Artuz v. Bennet? Where petitioner was pursuing his rights diligently during th…
21-8264 Ashley Georges v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-statute brady-v-maryland brady-violation court-of-appeals due-process equitable-tolling exculpatory-evidence fundamental-rights state-disclosure The questions presented to this Court is whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit improperly applied the AEDPA statute of limi…
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 I. Whether the United States Supreme Court decision recognizing ineffective assistance of counsel claims for criminal defense counsels failure to advi…
21-8090 Angelo C. Pearson, II v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claim constitutional-claims equitable-remedies equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus merits-review plain-error procedural-default state-prisoner 1) Considering that federal habeas courts maintain their power to fashion equitable remedies that allow for review and correction of otherwise barred …
21-7799 Sam Jones v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-05-09 Denied IFP equitable-tolling federal-review habeas-corpus irwin-v-dept-of-veterans-affairs martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan statutory-limitations statutory-tolling trevino-exception trevino-v-thaler QUESTION ONE : DID THE DISTRICT COURT AND FIFTH CIRCUIT ERR WHEN REFUSING TO EQUITABLY TOLL PETITIONER'S UNTIMELY REFILED §2254 HABEAS WHICH WAS ORI…
21-1419 Hong Tang v. Kurt L. Schmoke, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-05-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling federal-procedure jurisdictional-dismissal maryland-law saving-statute section-1983 statute-of-limitations 1. Whether in 42 U.S.C. § 1983 proceedings, when the lower court even specifically stated in the initial per curiam opinion and judgment that "[t]he c…
21-7746 David Piper, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion aedpa aedpa-deadline certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus pro-se pro-se-petition Whether the Court of Appeals denying Piper's 2255 motion to vacate, set aside, or correct his sentence for a Certificate of Appealability reasons were…
21-7671 Alan E. Strickland v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2022-04-21 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-pleading procedural-default statutory-interpretation timeliness How does the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit justify affirming the decision of the District Court in denying petitioner's petition for COA,…
21-7343 Harry Hueston v. United States Second Circuit 2022-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion legal-remedy procedural-default timeliness I. WHETHER IT WAS ERROR FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT TO DENY HUESTION THE RIGHT TO FILE AN APPEAL OR COA WHEN TIMELINESS WAS THE RESULT OF FACTS BEYOND HIS …
21-7347 Anthony Phillips v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling jurisdiction statutory-interpretation 1.) WHerAer rde peiwciples of egutaBle rouing spply 40 G8USC 22S(), DUEN MAE gLOBAL CORONAVRUS THT A HA BEN pURSiNg RAgNS DIgE OND SOME EXTROORDINARY …
21-7254 Stephen C. Hanf v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied IFP civil-rights COVID-19-pandemic criminal-procedure due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus molestation-charges standing trial-procedure Whether the COVID-19 pandemic qualifies as an extraordinary circumstance for equitable tolling in the instant cases consistent with Carter v United St…
21-6977 Lavont Flanders, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1591 constitutional-challenge constitutional-claims equitable-tolling habeas-corpus habeas-petition postal-service-interference pro-se-litigant sex-trafficking sua-sponte-dismissal (1) The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has entered a decision in conflict to the United States Supreme Court and other Circuit Courts which prohibi…
21-6907 Linda Baldwin v. Zurich American Insurance Company Fifth Circuit 2022-01-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal citizenship civil-procedure class-action class-decertification constitutional-law due-process equal-protection equitable-tolling privileges-and-immunities 1. Constitution of the United States of America 1789 (rev. 1992). All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction…
21-6813 Ronald Charles Washington v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-01-11 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equitable-tolling habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rule-60(b) rule-60b standing Question #1: Did U.S. District Court and/or Fifth Circuit err by misconstru ing Rule 60(b) as a federal habeas and time-barring petition without all…
21-6797 In Re Lawrence Earl Wilson 2022-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-deprivation criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process equitable-tolling exceptional-case habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel 1. WHETHER, A PERSON WHO HAS BEEN DENIED THE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL AT A CRITICAL STAGE OF THE TRIAL PROCEEDINGS AND RECEIVED THE INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANC…
21-6765 Hitoshi Ombe v. George Cook, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-01-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-liberty due-process equitable-tolling fifth-amendment mental-disability pro-se pro-se-litigant How the Court should respond to pro se litigant with mild mental disability, e.g., highly functional autism disability (i.e., least severe autism spec…
21-967 Pius Barikpoa Nwinee v. St. Louis Developmental Disability Treatment Centers, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-01-06 Denied administrative-process civil-rights discrimination-claim due-process eeoc equitable-tolling pro-se pro-se-litigant right-to-sue-letter title-vii Should the doctrine of equitable tolling be expanded to include a situation in which a pro se litigant who filed his case under Title VII EEOC adminis…
21-6698 In Re Carlton West II 2021-12-22 Denied IFP due-process equitable-rule equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule prisoner-rights procedural-default standing trevino-precedent EXACTLY HOW, WHEN AND WHERE ARE PRISONERS TO USE THE NEW EQUITABLE RULE ANNOUNCED IN MARTINEZ V. RYAN 566 U.S. 1 (2012) AND TREVINO V. THALER 569 U.S.…
21-6655 Henry Trevillion v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure covid-19 covid-19-pandemic equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing federal-procedure judicial-review lockdown statute-of-limitations IS PETITIONER HENRY TREVILLION ENTITLED TO AN EVIDENTIARY HEARING REGARDING HIS CLAIM THAT THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS SHOULD BE EQUITABLY TOLLED BECAU…
21-6562 Francis Timothy Plaza v. Barry Smith, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale, et al. Third Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied IFP case-progress civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing judicial-precedent precedent prisoner-rights procedural-fairness state-court WAS IT AN UNREASONABLE APPLICATION OF THIS COURT'S PRECEDENT TO RULE THAT EQUITABLE TOLLING SHOULD NOT APPLY TO THE PETITIONER'S CASE WHERE THE STATE …
21-6031 William Greg Thomas v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied IFP constitutional-rights court-appointed-counsel due-process equitable-tolling federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance 1. When a court determines that a court-appointed CJA counsel "sacrificed [Petitioner's] guaranteed opportunity of federal habeas review" by intention…
21-6015 Robert Lee Walden v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied IFP circuit-split due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus holland-v-florida legal-precedent reasonable-diligence unsettled-circuit-law Equitable tolling is available to excuse an untimely claim for habeas relief if a petitioner shows extraordinary circumstances and reasonable diligenc…
21-5964 Robert L. Kelly v. Garrett Laney, Superintendent, Oregon State Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2021-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-access due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus procedural-default standing state-procedural-requirements Whether the Court should issue a grant of certiorari, vacatur, and remand to the Court of Appeals for issuance of a certificate of appealability when …
21-5852 Jay Warren Arnold v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-10-01 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims constitutional-rights de-novo-review due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances federal-habeas pro-se-litigation procedural-inquiry state-collateral-review The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has denied a COA in this Cause by applying Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 484 (2000) in a vague and conclusory ma…
21-432 Adolfo R. Arellano v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2021-09-21 Judgment Issued Amici (7)Relisted (2) 38-usc-5110 disability-benefits disability-compensation equitable-tolling federal-circuit irwin-v-department-of-veterans-affairs judicial-review statutory-deadline veterans veterans-benefits (1) Does Irwin's rebuttable presumption of equitable tolling apply to the one-year statutory deadline in 38 U.S.C. § 5110(b)(1) for seeking retroactiv…
21-5593 Dennis Akaazua v. Walker Novack Legal Group, LLC, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure district-court equitable-relief equitable-tolling filing-deadline postal-delivery postal-service pro-se timeliness weather-conditions winter-conditions Whether the U.S. District Court which received the removal brief, on behalf of the Respondents, could Equitably rule that despite (40) degrees below z…
21-315 Jacquelyn Bouazizi v. Hillsborough County Civil Service Board, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-31 Denied Relisted (2) age attorney-negligence civil-service eeoc-claim employment-discrimination equal-pay equitable-tolling fmla gender pro-se-litigation race retaliation Should the Doctrine of Equitable Tolling be expanded to include a situation in which a pro se party previously represented by counsels, having receive…
21-5536 Eddie Dewayne Lee v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2021-08-31 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights equitable-tolling filing-deadline habeas-corpus legal-library prison-access procedural-barriers Should a criminal defendant that can demonstrate that he has been diligently pursuing a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 sec. 2254 be afforded Equ…
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 Ujke4W ordinary ex.i'v4 +o +oll>r,^ coVen, Kro^V, no £<*olf KCs O? ki5 S+cde koVeos denial o-fW fw e*.prcd-ion <=*r k'* -yeiar S+ah^e of li mikaVt on…
21-5411 Jerome Skee Smith v. Timothy Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa due-process equitable-tolling fifth-circuit habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations successive-petition 1. Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err when it dismissed Jerome Smith's successive §2254 petition as untimely without considering his McQuiggin…
21-79 Jonathon Herrera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief rule-60(b) rule-60b section-2255 Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly decided Petitioner's Motion for a Certificate of Appealability on the merits of his § 2255 petition rather than e…
21-5103 Duane Yates v. Patty Wachtendorf, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence attorney-misconduct equitable-tolling habeas-corpus holland-v-florida ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-deadline post-conviction-relief post-conviction-remedy procedural-default 1. Whether, in light of Petitioner's compelling case of actual innocence, and the state post-conviction attorney's express lies about two missed deadl…
21-38 Henry E. Gossage v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2021-07-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure claim-processing-rule due-process equitable-tolling foia-request jurisdiction jurisdictional-deadline misconduct opm-investigation subject-matter-jurisdiction want-of-service 1. Whether the 60-day filing deadline is subject to equitable tolling beyond the control of the Petitioner or under "Unique or Personal Circumstances …
21-5003 Don Edward Carter v. Shawn Phillips, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-07-02 Denied IFP due-process equitable-tolling federal-habeas-corpus federal-question habeas-corpus mental-incompetence post-conviction sixth-circuit-court-of-appeals statute-of-limitations Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decision question of federal law that has not been, but should be, settled by this Court, or has decidedwas…
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 Did the U.S. District Court and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals error by denying petitioner's 28 U.S.C.A. § 2254 Writ of Habeas Corpus Petition as…
20-8173 Lenroy McLean v. United States Second Circuit 2021-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation certificate-of-appealability circuit-conflict civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling government-misconduct judicial-discretion judicial-integrity standing Question I Whether the Government sought to diminish the likelihood of Petitioner's finding of a Brady violation, by interjected a manufactured decl…
20-8171 Terry L. Ogle v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest-warrant civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus plea-bargaining statute-of-limitations 1. Whether fraud, false and misleading statements in arrest & extradition warrant affidavit - irrespective of the subsequent indictment in this case -…
20-8140 Jamaal Diggs v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure diligence due-process equitable-tolling federal-habeas federal-petition habeas-corpus judicial-notice state-court state-habeas Whether, in pursuit of his first federal habeas corpus petition, Diggs exhibited sufficient diligence to entitle him to equitable tolling during the d…
20-8128 Teddy Ogle v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest-warrant civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus plea-bargaining statute-of-limitations 1. Whether fraud, false and misleading statements in arrest & extradition warrant affidavit - irrespective of the subsequent indictment in this case -…
20-1624 Robert Butts v. William Sperfslage, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-05-20 Denied anti-terrorism-act anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act attorney-deception effective-death-penalty-act equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus holland-v-florida section-2254 1. WHETHER, IN LIGHT OF EXPRESS AFFIDAVIT BY PETITIONER DEMONSTRATING ATTORNEY DECEPTION ABOUT COMPLYING WITH DEADLINE, THIS COURT SHOULD GRANT WRIT T…
20-7957 Kelley Keller v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied IFP aedpa circuit-split civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling federal-courts habeas habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations Petitioners who seek to have AEDPA's statute of limitations equitably tolled must show (1) they were diligent in preparing their federal habeas petiti…
20-7962 Wesley Brian Earnest v. Keith W. Davis, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claims covid-19 dna-evidence equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances federal-review habeas-corpus pro-se procedural-grounds a. Should courts Procedurally time-bar a pro se inmetes habeas Corpus then a priser official with a sericus health illness, such as COVTD ~ 19, is Tes…
20-1525 Lewis Archer v. America's First Federal Credit Union Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-03 Denied equal-protection equitable-tolling non-judicial-foreclosure respa statute-of-limitations supremacy-clause Does the fact that there is "no defense for Federal Mitigation wrongdoing by lenders in non-judicial State court " while such defense naturally exists…
20-1528 Lawrence Doby Wilson, aka Amin A. Rashid v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-05-03 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence appeals coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process equitable-tolling fifth-amendment 1. Whether The Court Of Appeals In A Coram Nobis Proceeding Denies A Criminal Defendant Due Process Under The Fifth Amendment To The United States Con…
20-7828 Kevin Norris Mitchell v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-22 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 attorney-death attorney-performance civil-procedure constitutional-rights equitable-tolling federal-tolling ineffective-assistance judicial-opinions legal-procedure post-conviction post-conviction-relief TIME FRAME UNDER 28 U.S.C. § 2244 (d)(2)? TOLLING TIMES UNDER 28 U.S.C. § 2254?
20-1472 Boechler, P.C. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eighth Circuit 2021-04-21 Judgment Issued Amici (6) claim-processing-rule equitable-tolling internal-revenue-code jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirement tax-court tax-law time-limit Whether the time limit in Section 6330(d)(1) is a jurisdictional requirement or a claim-processing rule subject to equitable tolling.
20-7406 Lionel Robinson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-court-conflict civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling federal-petition gross-negligence habeas-corpus postconviction-counsel 1. Does gross negligence on the part of postconviction counsel in the filing of timely postconviction motions constitute reasons warranting applicatio…
20-7328 Alberto Matias-Martinez v. Dean Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied IFP actual-innocence equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan state-impediment statutory-limitations I. WHETHER THE LOWER COURTS ERRED IN FAILING TO FIND THAT Mr. MATIAS-MARTINEZ 'S § 2254 HABEAS APPLICATION WAS TIMELY FILED, OR IN THE ALTERNATE, THAT…
20-1197 Eugene Milton Clemons, II v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-01 Denied Amici (4) atkins-v-virginia circuit-split civil-rights court-clerk-error due-process equitable-tolling filing-deadline habeas-corpus intellectual-disability post-conviction-review procedural-default standing 1. Petitioner's request for state post-conviction review was deemed filed three days late because of a series of errors by the court clerk, who: • inc…
20-7201 Jerry Neil Alfred v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied IFP 2254-petition civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel successive-petition trial-counsel WHETHER DOCTRINE OF EQUITABLE TOLLING COULD BE PROPERLY INVOKED AND ULTIMATELY APPLIED BY DISTRICT COURT TO RENDER AN OTHERWISE UNTIMELY CLAIM THAT EX…
20-7135 Lamont R. Reed v. Scott Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-limitations discovery discovery-hearing equitable-tolling habeas-corpus postconviction-petition postconviction-relief state-court-procedure statute-of-limitations statutory-tolling Is the AEDPA one year limitations for filing a Federal Petition statute of tolled when a State Court statutorily or equitably delays the filing of a S…
20-1090 Thasha A. Boyd v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied Response Waived administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling federal-courts federal-employment judicial-review retroactive-legislation statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection 1. Whether the 60-day deadline for seeking judi­cial review pursuant 5 U.S.C. § 7703(b)(1)(B) and the FRAP sets a bar to an appeal, as the Eleventh Ci…
20-7093 Noel Christopher Turner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-02-09 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-error equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mcquiggin-v-perkins statutory-provisions 1. Are the lower Courts misinterpreting and applying the United States Supreme Courts decision in McQuiggin v. Perkins, 569 U.S. 383, 133 S.Ct. 1924,…
20-1067 Maria M. Rosas v. Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation, dba Advocate Christ Medical Center, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-02-04 Denied Response Waived civil-rights damages disability equitable-tolling fourth-amendment section-1983 statute-of-limitations (1) WHETHER THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS, UPON A § 1983 CLAIM SEEKING DAMAGES UNDER THE FOURTH AMENDMMENT FOR DEPRIVATION OF LIBERTY, CAN BE EQUITABLY T…
20-1014 Organic Cannabis Foundation, LLC, dba Organicann Health Center v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied administrative-law due-process equitable-tolling fifth-amendment judicial-notice jurisdictional-deadline tax-law tax-procedure L Is 26 U.S.C. § 6213(a)'s deficiency petition (90-day) Filing Deadline jurisdictional (such that it is not subject to equitable tolling) under curren…
20-1031 Northern California Small Business Assistants, Inc. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Amici (1) administrative-procedure civil-procedure equitable-tolling jurisdiction jurisdictional-deadline statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent tax-law Is 26 U.S.C. § 6213(a)'s deficiency petition (90-day) Filing Deadline jurisdictional (such that it is not subject to equitable tolling) under current …
20-6598 Stephen Frederick Baker, Jr. v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2020-12-10 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equitable-tolling guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner is entitled to step through the gateway of equitible tolling? 1. Whether state courts determinations of trial counsels effecti…
20-6286 Ruben Aragon v. Dean Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2244 due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus plea-agreement state-impediment state-imposed-impediment statutory-limitations 1) Is Mr. Aragon entitled to equitable tolling of the statutory limitations set by 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(A), due to a state-imposed impediment which …
20-6089 Jermaine D. Hill v. Catherine S. Bauman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-hearing retroactivity statute-of-limitations In 2012 this Count ruled in Miller v. Alabama 567 U.S. that it is Unconstitutional to sentence a juvenile to life without the possibility of parole. I…
20-6039 Earl McBride v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP due-process due-process-clause equitable-tolling evidentiary-standard habeas-corpus habeas-petition parole parole-board postal-service-form procedural-grounds Does United States Postal Service Form 3811 Domestic Certified Returned Receipts demonstrating properly and timely filing of State and Federal Habeas …
20-484 Patricia L. Woods v. Robert Storms, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-10-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies civil-rights de-novo-review due-process equitable-estoppel equitable-tolling fraudulent-concealment ninth-circuit-review pro-se-complaint statutes-of-limitation Whether the Ninth Circuit decision should be reversed and remanded because the panel erred by failing to conduct de novo review affirming the final ju…
20-367 Anna Baran v. ASRC Federal Mission Solutions, et al. Third Circuit 2020-09-23 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals defamation discovery-rule dismissal due-process equitable-tolling prejudicial-evidence statute-of-limitations Whether the Court of Appeals Erred in Affirming the District Court's Order Dismissing Ms. Baran's Defamation Claim on the Grounds that it was Time-Bar…
20-5668 Kelly Frithiof Sundberg v. Harold Oreol, Executive Director of Patton State Hospital Ninth Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-procedure diligence-standard due-process equitable-tolling federal-procedure habeas-corpus section-2254 standing Along with the Fifth and Eighth Circuits, the Ninth Circuit requires petitioners that qualify for equitable tolling to show diligence during the perio…
20-258 Alvin E. Medina v. Federal Aviation Administration Federal Circuit 2020-09-01 Denied Response Waived appeal appeal-rights arbitration arbitration-decision civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling judicial-review notice notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-litigant Alvin E Medina, the Petitioners, request this Petition for Writ of Certiorari be granted given the salient issue equitable tolling, and the constituti…
20-5556 Genaro Edgar Espinosa Dorantes v. Kevin Genovese, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-09-01 Denied IFP §2254-case civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling extradition extradition-treaty habeas-corpus language-barrier mexican-national Did the District Court Err Or Abuse Its Discretion in a § 2254 case When It Denied Equitable Tolling To A Mexican National, Unable To Speak Or Underst…
20-5510 Robert L. Pernell, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 direct-appeal equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus jurisdictional-requirements procedural-default supreme-court-precedent I. WHETHER THE GOVERNING PROVISIONS IN THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS PRECEDENT CASE LAW, IN RE GODDARD, 170 F.3d 43541999), HAS UNLAWFULLY CREAT…
20-5527 Mark Benton v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 aedpa attorney-abandonment capital-cases circuit-split equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus 1). When this Court issued Holland v. Florida, 130 S.ct. 2549 (2010), decision, is this Honorable Court intent to apply Hollando to "Capital cases onl…
20-201 Debe Olson v. Farmers New World Life Insurance Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied 14th-amendment civil-procedure class-action due-process equitable-tolling motion-to-dismiss notice rule-23 rule-23(e)-frcp One: Whether the trial court improperly granted a Motion to Dismiss the putative class because there was no notice to the putative class and therefore…
20-5366 Anthony Bernard Smith, Jr. v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied IFP civil-procedure equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstance judicial-precedent ninth-circuit reasonable-diligence statute-of-limitations supreme-court-precedent Whether reasonable diligence to remedy an extraordinary circumstance is sufficient for equitable tolling to stop the clock on a statute of limitations…
20-5391 Inez Lambert v. Rob Paersson Ninth Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-limitation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-ineffectiveness due-process equitable-tolling habeas habeas-petition 1. Whether a Certificate of Appealability should have been granted to review petitioner's equitable tolling defense where a reasonable jurist could ha…
20-5370 Luis Guillen v. Russell Washburn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling federal-procedure habeas-corpus standing statute-of-limitations supreme-court-precedent 1. WHETHER THE PETITIONER'S PETITION IS TIMELY AND/OR THE ONE YEAR STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS IN PETITIONER'S CASE ARE EQUATABLY TOLLED UNDER HOLLAND V. F…
20-5274 James S. Harris v. Sherie Korneman, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability district-court equitable-tolling habeas-corpus limitations-period reasonable-jurists Did Mr. Harris present reasons for why the one-year limitations period should be equitably tolled in his case to which reasonable jurists could differ…
20-5210 Ashley L. Dunn v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-29 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling federal-statute habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-timeliness substantial-showing timeliness I. DID PETITIONER MAKE A SUBSTANTIAL SHOWINIG THAT HER 28 U.S.C. 2254 PETITION WAS TIMELY? II. DID PETITIONER MAKE A SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING THAT HER 28 …
20-5141 Daniel Harold Williford v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP equitable-tolling family-resemblance-test federal-securities fraud iou-agreement private-transaction private-transactions securities-law state-statutes The Securities Act of 1934, 15 U.S.C. § 78, et seq., provides a broad but not all-inclusive definition of "security". This Court has previously recogn…
20-16 Edward Wayne Binns v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process eeoc-complaint equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances res-judicata standing title-vii WHETHER AN EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION COMPLAINT FILING, IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WOULD BE TIMELY FILED FOR A TITLE 7 ACTION, U…
20-5009 Curtis Wiggins v. Golden Corral Corporation Fifth Circuit 2020-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-remedies attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights court-partiality defamation-claim due-process equitable-tolling fraud fraud-on-court judicial-misconduct standing 1. Whether those lower courts, decision are reversed if Defense Attorney for Respondent, perpetrated-professional misconduct to defeat Petitioner; sup…
19-8762 Percy St. George v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2020-06-22 Denied IFP circuit-court-review civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-timeliness statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation WHETHER REASONABLE JURIST COULV DEBATE THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ADOPTION THAT THE DISTRICT COURT'S RULING THAT APPELLANT'S PETITION WAS UN…
19-8575 In Re Andrew Robinson 2020-06-01 Denied IFP 14th-amendment access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection equitable-tolling habeas-corpus jurisdiction-claims 1) . Does State and Federal law allow jurisdiction claims to be made at anytime? 2) . Does Sate and Federal law say jurisdiction claims go under habe…
19-8343 Kenan Allen v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-04-22 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling federal-review habeas-corpus state-court-notification statutory-limitation Whether a "Certificate of Appealability" should have been issued regarding the matter of conduct during Mr. Allen's filing of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 pet…
19-1211 James Christopher North v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-04-13 Denied Response Waived aedpa circuit-split diligence equitable-tolling federal-habeas federal-limitations-period habeas-corpus state-court-proceedings state-habeas statute-of-limitations Absent relief from this Court, James North will forfeit federal appellate review of his conviction and life sentence because his lawyers forgot to put…
19-8228 Kirk Russell Marsh v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP claims-processing criminal-procedure direct-appeal equitable-tolling federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-procedure mandatory-claims-processing-rule procedural-error unique-circumstances Whether a trial court's violation of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32(j)(1) is subject to redress on direct appeal. II. Whether an untimely crim…
19-8219 Juan Gilberto Medrano v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstance extraordinary-circumstances federal-habeas federal-petition habeas-corpus legal-question ninth-circuit timeliness (1) Was Petitioner's 2016 Petition filed in a timely manner? (2) Does the dismissal of a protective federal habeas petition prior to the decision in …
19-7993 Thomas Victor Sway v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review certificate-of-appealability conclusory-order conflict-of-interest discretionary-review due-process equitable-tolling precedent procedural-due-process standard-of-review strickland-standard When denial of COA was made in conlusory order without any precendent to rely on and there exists no sufficient basis for appellant court to review,…
19-7970 Shawnte L. Shade v. Rusty Washburn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus holland-v-florida ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-unconstitutionality statute-of-limitations I. Whether the Petitioner's statute of limitation was equitably tolled under Holland v. Florida, 560 U.S. 631 (2010) in excusing his 92-day delay. II…
19-7913 Pooroushasb Parineh v. Michael Martel, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 actual-innocence aedpa civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equitable-tolling federal-review habeas-corpus standing state-remedies statutory-tolling (1) Pursuant to 28 USC 2244 & 2254 ? did the Petitioner file a timely (AEBPA ) Writ of Habeas Corpus/Pe tit ion from the State Court to Federal Cour…
19-7928 Al Prince v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief WHETHER A STATE CREATED DELAY OF UNINFORMED NOTIFICATION THAT A SECOND AMENDED (CORRECTED SENTENCING)JUDGMENT OF CONVICTION HAD BECOME FINAL AND RIPE …
19-7606 Robert McKinnon, III v. Florida Florida 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2254 civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling extrinsic-fraud federal-court federal-courts federal-petition habeas-corpus jurisdictional-default standing statutory-tolling subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. DOES STATUTORY TOLLING AS DESCRIBED IN 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(B) AND (D) PERMIT A PETITIONER 'S DIRECT FILING OF SECOND 28 U.S.C. § 2254 HABEAS COR…
19-7540 Random Jackson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 attorney-abandonment attorney-neglect confrontation-clause due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus holland-v-florida ineffective-assistance postconviction-proceedings reasonable-diligence state-postconviction 1. Whether the Petitioner is entitled to equitable tolling in light of his attorney's neglect/abandonment (i.e., after his attorney abandoned him in t…
19-7315 Andrew Wright v. United States Second Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-U.S.C-2255(f)(4) civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal retained-counsel standing statutory-interpretation 1. Does equitable tolling automatically apply under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(4) where a defendant relies, to his detriment, on an oral order of a United St…
19-7280 David Everett Jones v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP despite Petitioner's diligent efforts to timely f -civil-procedure aedpa aedpa-limitations civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default standing state-post-conviction statute-of-limitations timeliness To whether Jones' successful Florida Claim 23-80 motion created a new judgment, sufficient to restart his one-year statute of limitations and Effectiv…
19-7087 Anthony May v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances ineffective-assistance low-iq manifest-injustice mental-retardation 1) WHETHER PETITIONER'S "MENTAL RETARDATION" AND "LOW IQ" "EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES" IN WHICH "EQUITABLE TOLLING" SHOULD BE APPLIED TO AVOID A MANI…
19-6954 Jerry Scott Camp, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied IFP coa department-of-corrections disability due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus medical-condition medical-disability procedural-barriers sec-2254 section-2254 statute-of-limitations 1. Should an inmate, who has shown that he was prevented by the Departement of Corrections (the State) from timely filing his Sec. 2254 petition, and…
19-707 Irma Rosas v. San Antonio Housing Authority, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling erickson-precedent magistrate-transfer mental-illness pro-se pro-se-plaintiff standing tolling twombly-standard WHETHER THE LOWER COURT ERRED IN (1) APPLYING THIS COURT'S HOLDING IN BELL ATLANTIC CORP. V. TWOMBLY, 550 U.S. 544 (2007) TO PRO SE PLAINTIFF-APPELLAN…
19-6410 Donald W. Rager v. Paige Augustine, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied IFP administrative-remedies circuit-split civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling exhaustion-of-administrative-remedies exhaustion-of-remedies plra prison-conditions prison-litigation-reform-act statute-of-limitations tolling Incarcerated inmate Donald W. Rager (Rager) was physically assaulted by Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Lt. Keith Buford on July 13, 2010. Rager filed…
19-501 Shawn C. Rutland v. Warden, Smith State Prison Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied Response Waived aedpa aedpa-tolling assistance-of-counsel discretion-of-district-courts district-court-discretion equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations Did the Eleventh Circuit opinion improperly create a new bright-line rule, unsupported by authority and in derogation of principles of equity and of t…
19-6231 William Dean Chapman v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations circuit-split due-process equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing fraud-upon-the-court habeas-corpus hill-v-lockhart holland-v-florida kyles-v-whitley lemaster materiality miller-v-united-states plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct raines-v-united-states rule-11 standing strickland supreme-court-precedent 1) a.Is equitable tolling warranted when access to legal files and resources is severely hampered? Where the 4th Circuit has denied equitable tolling…
19-6081 Robert Wayne Gillman v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-proceedings due-diligence due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance initial-review standing statute-of-limitations 1. Is this instant case before the Court to answer the question left open in Coleman v. Thompson, 501 U.S. 722, 111 S.Ct. 2546, 115 L.Ed.2d 640 (1991)…
19-397 Susan Levy v. BASF Metals Limited, et al. Second Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response Waived american-pipe-tolling civil-procedure class-action commodity-exchange-act discovery-accrual-rule discovery-rule due-process equitable-tolling opt-out rico statute-of-limitations The issues-presented are important because they concern individual rights, a principal that our founders used to establish our Democracy that allowe…
19-6012 Kevin Carroll Anderson v. Arthur B. Greene, et al. Second Circuit 2019-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-procedure-standards equitable-tolling judicial-procedure motion-to-dismiss pro-se pro-se-litigant second-circuit statute-of-limitations summary-judgment supervisory-power 1. Were the Second Circuit's decisions, approving the District Court's application of the summary judgment standard to all of the pro se and uneducate…
19-5934 Bruce Randol Merryman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence AEDPA-statute-of-limitation constitutional-claim equitable-tolling evidence-insufficiency evidence-sufficiency federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence right-to-be-present statute-of-limitations 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals Fyrfth Civeultr erred w affir ming the lewer tribunals ruling and denied petitroner 4 gateway tlaim ef a…
19-5717 Ronnie C. Brown v. Jeff Macomber, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mental-capacity mental-illness pro-se pro-se-petition Is equitable tolling available to render a late-filed pro se habeas petition timely when the record shows that during the relevant time period the pet…
19-5683 Isaiah Jermale Legall v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-deadline appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion standing time-limit 1. Whether equitable tolling applies to the time limit to appeal set forth in Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 4(b)(1)(A).
19-5101 Darryl Puderer v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process equitable-tolling evidence-standard forcible-rape jurisdiction second-degree-kidnapping standing statute-of-limitations tolling 1. Did the Federal District Court err in denying the petitioner's statutory or equitable tolling request when adequate record evidence was presented i…
18-9724 Clifford Marcus Winkles v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process equal-protection equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sentencing statute-of-limitations successive-habeas WHETHER AN UNSOLICITED AND UNAPPOINTED ATTORNEY'S FILING TRUMP.S A PRISONER'S PRO SE FILING WHEN BOTH FILINGS RELATE TO THE SAME ISSUE BUT RELY ON DIF…
18-9533 Shua Tilahun v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Oregon 2019-06-04 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment equitable-tolling fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment successive-post-conviction If Martinez V. Ryan, 566 U.S. 1, 132 S Ct 1309, allows for a case to be over-turned if the Plaintiff can show, had it not been for ineffective assista…
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 RELIEF? SHOULD EQUITABLE TOLLING…
18-9503 Donald M. Boswell v. Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2254-petition certificate-of-appealability due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief state-created-impediments statute-of-limitations Boswell contends that, due to several errors by the state court officials in processing his post-conviction filings, his §2254 petition hsould be cons…
18-9457 Edwin D. McMillan v. Ron Rackley, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied IFP 28-u.s.c.-2244(d)(1) 28-usc-2244 constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure habeas-corpus state-impediment statutory-interpretation DOES STRICT CALCULATION OF TIMELINESS AFTER FINDING OF EXTRAORDINARY CURCUNSTANCES CREATED BY A STATE IMPEDIMENT TO FILING 28.U.S.C. SECTION 2244(D)(1…
18-9475 Darrell Kennedy v. Rusty Washburn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins pro-se schlup-v-delo statute-of-limitations Whether Mr. Kennedy was denied due process by the Court of Appeals' improper evaluation of Mr. Kennedy's actual innocence claim establish cause to exc…
18-9240 Carlos Cordoba v. United States Second Circuit 2019-05-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-misconduct criminal-procedure discovery-of-new-facts due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel limitations-period rule-35 section-2255 statute-of-limitations A one year statute of limitation exists for a federal prisoner to collaterally challenge his criminal judgment. The limitation period, however, is not…
18-9251 Willie James Atkins v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-13 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-legislation civil-procedure constitutional-provisions discovery-rule equitable-tolling fraudulent-concealment materially-indistinguishable standing 1. QUESTION: Does the Doctrine of 'Equitable Tolling' due to claims of 'FRAUDULENT CONCEALMENT' of obviously important facts, extend to AEDPA legislat…
18-1414 Giuliano Stefano Giovanni Wildhaber v. EFV, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-10 Denied aliens-tort-claim-act aliens-tort-claims-act constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling jurisdiction property-rights sovereign-immunity statute-of-limitation The special facts and procedural posture of this case render it ideal for resolving whether the ATS/ATCA allows liability under a hundred percent (100…
18-9207 Leon Markel Winston v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling filing-deadline habeas-corpus legal-assistance one-year-filing-deadline prison-access prison-law-library Should a criminal defendant that can demonstrate that he has been diligently pursuing a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 sec. 2254 be afforded Equ…
18-1407 Anita M. Barrow v. B. Grant Willis, et al. First Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights civil-rights-act congressional-intent constitutional-violation discrimination due-process equitable-tolling fair-housing-act federal-jurisdiction pro-se-litigant Should the First Circuit Court have applied the doctrine of equitable tolling regarding Appellant's tardy brief and heard the merits of the case with …
18-9176 Gregory T. Pierce v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2019-05-07 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus limitations-period mandamus mandamus-application post-conviction post-conviction-relief state-court-review state-post-conviction 1.Under the AEDPA of Title 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(2), should Petitioner's State Nunc Pro Tunc Request be considered as "other collateral review with resp…
18-9027 Marc Nielsen v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief professional-conduct sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations Whether petitioner's request for equitable tolling of the statute of limitations period set out in 28 U.S.C. S 2244(d) based on evidence of his post-c…
18-8958 Sheila Davalloo v. Amy Lamanna, Acting Superintendent, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP adjudication AEDPA equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstance extraordinary-circumstances federal-claims state-created-impediment statute-of-limitation statute-of-limitations WHETHER PETITIONER HAS DEMONSTRATED AN EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE WARRANTING EQUITABLE TOLLING OF THE AEDPA STATUTE OF LIMITATION? WHETHER PETITIONER…
18-8917 Gilbert Demetrius Aguilar v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2107 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability counsel-ineffectiveness due-diligence due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition habeas-petition ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal statutory-interpretation (1):In light of MENDEZ V.KNOWLES,535 F3.d 973(9th Cir.2008)1 day late tiling of habeas pitition.and ditterentcoUrts:t may be more or less open to gran…
18-1319 Elijah Thomas v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response Waived bodily-impairment civil-procedure court-of-appeals-for-veterans-claims disability disability-compensation due-process equitable-tolling judicial-review procedural-barriers procedural-exhaustion statutory-deadline statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs veterans-benefits veterans-claims Should the 120 day deadline stated in 38 U.S.C. § 7266(a) for filing a claim in the Court of Appeals for Veteran Claims be equitably tolled where the …
18-8875 George E. Brown v. Pam Bondi, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied IFP aedpa-time civil-rights civil-rights-law due-process equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pipeline-analysis postconviction-relief retroactivity standing statutory-interpretation Question One: The 'Pipeline' Analysis Should Be Expanded To New Law That Applies To Postconviction Claims Where The Resolution Of The Postconviction …
18-8772 Ellery Bennett v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prison-law-library pro-se pro-se-petitioner statute-of-limitations 1. According to the pro se petitioner's undisputed affidavit filed in the district court, he did not know about the habeas corpus statute of limitatio…
18-8765 Michael A. Young v. Thomas Duncan, et al. Second Circuit 2019-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure equitable-tolling recusal rico standing statute-of-limitations a. Wht U.S.CHIEFCoenTAGEDRYI Yuin DRT I entitled "FINALITY"??? 4. Whether "EQUITABLE TOLLING"doctrine ofF the "STATUTE"F"'LIMITATIONS" is applicable …
18-1187 Mitchell Miorelli, et al. v. Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Ltd. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied admiralty-jurisdiction civil-procedure discovery discovery-limitations discovery-rules disputed-facts due-process equitable-tolling maritime-law material-fact material-facts motion-to-dismiss pre-answer-dismissal summary-judgment 1. Whether Summary Judgment Was Proper Where the Respondent Royal Caribbean Cruise Line, LTD. Moved To Dismiss Before Filing An Answer, No There Were …
18-1196 In Re William Kinney, et ux. 2019-03-14 Denied 14th-amendment all-writs-act civil-rights district-court-discretion district-court-jurisdiction due-process equitable-tolling fair-debt-collection fdcpa fdcpa-claim federal-jurisdiction mandamus state-court-jurisdiction state-court-proceedings stay-of-proceedings title-42-claims Whether this court should reverse the decision of the Sixth Circuit, and direct the District Court: To apply the doctrine of Equitable Tolling and re…
18-1087 Javier Chavez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied access-to-courts attorney-abandonment attorney-death certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-access due-process equitable-tolling filing-deadline legal-malpractice pro-se 1. Should the Fifth Circuit have granted a Certificate of Appealability on equitable tolling when Petitioner's retained lawyer died and no one could f…
18-8056 Ronald Glick v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief professional-conduct remand sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations Whether petitioner's request for equitable tolling of the statute of limitations period set out in 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d) based on evidence of his post-c…
18-8000 Allister Freeman v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts aedpa-limitations aedpa-time-limitations circuit-court-precedent civil-rights diligence due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus holland-test indigent-prisoner law-library law-library-access prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant standing QUESTION ONE: WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS PRECEDENT IN DODDS V. UNITED STATES AND ATKINS V. UNITED STATES, DENYING EQUITABLE TOLLING…
18-7747 Jae Yung Kim v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling federal-habeas-proceedings habeas-corpus ninth-circuit substantial-showing Did the Ninth Circuit misapply the standard for the issuance of a certificate of appealability ("COA") articulated by this Court in such cases as Buck…
18-7687 Dre'Shawn Markuise Lee v. William Muniz, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus institutional-confinement pro-se state-court-appeals statute-of-limitations timeliness For an inmate confined in an institution in Prose wher does their Federal Habeas Petition clock begin tò run once the Supreme court of therr State has…
18-971 Faye R. Hobson v. James Mattis, former Secretary of Defense Sixth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response Waived ada administrative-exhaustion chevron-deference civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling fmla pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation rehabilitation-act standing title-vii Should the doctrine of equitable tolling be expanded to include a situation in which a pro se party in federal sector employment discrimination litiga…
18-818 Hubert Thompson v. James C. Rovella, Chief of Police, City of Hartford, Connecticut, et al. Second Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights compensation due-process equitable-tolling prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation wrongful-incarceration Whether the statutory requirement that the petitioner show his criminal case was dismissed based on innocence or grounds consistent with innocence as …
18-7117 Charles J. Mayberry v. Michael A. Dittman, Warden Seventh Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus holland-v-florida mental-incompetency statute-of-limitations Whether the opinion of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals contravenes this Court's precedent in Holland v. Florida, 560 U.S. 631 (2010), by ruling t…
18-776 Pedro Pablo Guerrero-Lasprilla v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Fifth Circuit 2018-12-19 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (2) agency-decision criminal-alien-bar diligence-standard due-process equitable-tolling immigration-law judicial-review removability statutory-deadline statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the application of a legal standard to an undisputed set of facts is a question of law, or a pure question of fact that may be barred from …
18-7021 Juan Thomas v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2018-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility-of-evidence due-process eighth-amendment equitable-tolling fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-charge martinez-v-ryan notice-of-appeal public-defender Whether the Circuit Court erred in failing to appropriately consider the "Equitable Tolling" in conjunction with Ineffective Assistance of the Public …
18-6850 Steven Madina Esparza v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2254 court-appointed-counsel discretionary-review equitable-tolling federal-courts finality-of-conviction gonzales-v-thaler gross-negligence habeas-corpus look-through-presumption ylst-v-nunnemaker I. Under GONZALES V. THALER, 565 U.S.134(2012), does a Petitioner's conviction become 'Final" for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1) (A), 30 days afte…
18-6838 Alvin Leon Roundtree v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se section-2255 sixth-amendment standing Whether the district court's failure to construe Mr. Roundtree's pro se motion for specific performance as a motion to vacate under 28 U.S.C. §2255 - …
18-6539 Allan Wayne Rencountre v. Colby Braun, Warden Eighth Circuit 2018-11-01 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights counsel-ineffectiveness due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion merits-review procedural-default statutory-deadline statutory-filing-deadline Should the Court have granted equitable tolling with regards to the statutory filing deadline due to the ineptitude of Petitioner's retained counsel s…
18-6450 Justen Russell v. LaShann Eppinger, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 28-usc-2244 aedpa aedpa-limitations appeal appellate-rights diligence due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus mental-health-confinement mental-illness right-to-appeal state-created-impediment I. DOES THE COMPLETE FAILURE TO ADVISE OF HIS RIGHT TO APPEAL AND THE FAILURE OF A DEFENDANT "STATE IMPEDIMENT" SUFFICIENT TIME PERIOD IN WHICH TO TOL…
18-6465 Jose Ricardo Yanez v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied IFP aedpa-statute-of-limitations antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act certificate-of-appealability equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit-review ongoing-investigations pro-se pro-se-petition statute-of-limitations WHETHER AN ALTERNATE TRIGGERING DATE OF THE ANTITERRORISM AND EFFECTIVE DEATH PENALTY ACT OF 1996'S 1-YEAR STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS, AND EQUITABLE TOLLI…
18-6326 Terry Alfred Coxe v. Daniel White, Superintendent, Washington State Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations civil-rights counsel-abandonment due-process equitable-tolling fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel pro-se-litigant sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations WHETHER THE LOWER COURTS RULINGS' DIRECTLY CONFLICT WITH THE HOLDINGS IN (1) McQUIGGIN V. PERKINS; (2) CRONIC V. UNITED STATES, AND (3) CUYLER V. SULL…
18-6312 Tyrone Mason v. Kevin Lindsey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-1 article-1-section-9 constitutional-law due-process equitable-tolling federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ninth-amendment standing writ-suspension DOES ARTICLE 1 § 9 ci. 2 OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION PROHIBIT SUSPENSION OF THE WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS AND IMPLICITLY GRANT THE PETITIONER AN INA…
18-5926 Darnell Wilkins v. Jay Lane, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equitable-tolling guilty-plea habeas-corpus mental-health mental-incapacity pcra psychotropic-medications standing DID PETITIONER'S MENTAL INCAPACITY DID NOT ENTITLE HIM TO EQUITABLE TOLLING? WERE THE PETITIONER'S PCRA AND APPELLATE RIGHTS VIOLATED AS HIS GUILTY P…
18-5842 Ricky B. Chhea v. Theresa DelBalso, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP but no substantive text was provided in your mess I cannot generate a meaningful question presented please provide the full text of the petition. aedpa civil-rights discovery due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus notes-of-testimony right-to-appeal standing statute-of-limitations HIS RIGHT TO APPEAL WITHIN THE SCOPE OF AEDPA ONE (1) YEAR STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS?
18-5802 John Doe v. Kaweah Delta Hospital, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-procedure-statute-of-limitations civil-rights confidentiality district-court-review due-process employment employment-conditions equitable-tolling medical-information-act statute-of-limitations summary-judgment Why did the District Court ask for a brief on equitable tolling and the statute of limitations and then ignore the material facts presented without re…
18-5782 Michael Lynn Cook v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus judicial-remedies procedural-timeliness state-misconduct state-waiver statute-of-limitations Under U.S.C.A. Const. Amend. 14: 1. Does the "Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decision on Which Review Is Sought Conflict with a decision of the …
18-5752 Randall B. Causey v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4(a)(5) appellate-procedure civil-procedure equitable-tolling federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure incapacitation judicial-discretion legal-tolling medical-condition medical-incapacity procedural-rules standing Whether Equitable Tolling applies to Federal Rules Of Appellate Procedure 4(a)(5) when the Petitioner was incapacitated due to a medical condition?
18-5727 Andre K. Clarke v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-principles attorney-error buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability circuit-split equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus limitations-period miller-el-v-cockrell I. Whether Maples v. Thomas, 565 U.S. 266 (2012) requires importation of agency principles into the equitable tolling context, such that it alters thi…
18-5731 Heather Jo Cox v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-justice-reform-act criminal-procedure due-process equitable-tolling johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states second-successive-filing successive-filing successive-petitions vagueness vagueness-doctrine vagueness-standard DID THE LOWER COURT ERR IN ITS DECISON TO DENY RELIEF WHERE THIS COURT HAS RECOGNIZED THAT ROBBERY/BURGLARY FALL INTO THE CATEGORY, THAT FALLS UNDER T…
18-5519 Mark Templeton v. Brigitte Amsberry, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice civil-procedure criminal-conviction due-process equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus parole procedural-default section-2254 standing Question not identified.
18-5312 Gregory Alan Rowe v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied IFP aedpa-limitations aedpa-tolling circuit-court-split circuit-split dna-testing due-process equal-protection equitable-tolling federal-habeas-review finality habeas-corpus post-conviction-dna post-conviction-dna-testing post-conviction-review statutory-tolling Does a properly filed application for post-conviction DNA testing constitute "a properly filed application for state post-conviction or other collater…
18-5334 Marlon Crawford v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus illiteracy judicial-procedure non-english-prisoners prisoner-rights statutory-interpretation Whether equitable tolling may be extended to non-English or illiterate prisoners that lose access to courts as a result.
18-5224 Frank Costelon v. New Mexico Tenth Circuit 2018-07-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constructive-denial-of-counsel cronic-violation custody due-process equitable-tolling federal-custody gideon-violation habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction standing state-court-conviction Whether the District Court err in concluding that it did not have jurisdiction because Petitioner herein was no longer in in the custody of the judgme…
18-5098 Thaddeus Williams v. Cindi S. Curtin, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal certificate-of-appealability district-court-review due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus procedural-timeliness statutory-tolling WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT CORRECTLY DETERMINED THAT PETITIONER'S HABEAS CORPUS PETITION WAS. UNTIMELY; WHETHER THE BLANKET DENIAL OF. HIS MOTION FOR …
18-5057 James T. Bagby v. William Hyatte, Warden Seventh Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 7th-circuit-court 7th-circuit-court-of-appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct timeliness Did the United States 7th Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying a certificate of appealability without specifically addressing any of Bagbys' claims…
24A308 Garcia Glenn White v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied atkins-claim eighth-amendment equitable-tolling ineffective-assistance intellectual-disability successive-habeas Question not identified.