| 25-7058 |
Luis Ordonez-Vega v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-03-18 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts extraordinary-circumstance habeas-corpus indigent-inmate ineffective-assistance recall-of-mandate |
1. Whether the fact an indigent inmate was unable to meet his appeal deadline by being prevented from receiving inmate assistance due to the prison he… |
| 25A649 |
Denzel Chandler v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-03 |
Presumed Complete |
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constitutional-right equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstance habeas-corpus mental-health statute-of-limitations |
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… |
| 22-6922 |
Samuel Ross v. Clerk of Courts of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-03-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights civil-rights-action extraordinary-circumstance fed-r-civ-p-60(b)(6) lewis-v-casey prisoner-rights rule-60(b)(6) |
Whether the majority Circuit Court of Appeal decisions clarifying that Lewis v. Casey does not foreclose a prisoner's right to access to courts to lit… |
| 21-5275 |
Alan Gregory Ender v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appealability attorney-abandonment civil-procedure due-process extraordinary-circumstance extraordinary-circumstances notice-of-appeal rule-60-motion rule-60(b)(6) |
1. Petitioner filed a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(6) motion for relief from a final judgment based on attorney abandonment after learning th… |
| 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… |
| 20-5398 |
Lezmond Charles Mitchell v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights death-penalty due-process extraordinary-circumstance juror-interviews jury-selection pena-rodriguez racial-bias rule-60b |
In Peña-Rodriguez v. Colorado, 137 S. Ct. 855 (2017), this Court held, for the first time, that no-impeachment rules may not bar consideration of juro… |
| 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 … |
| 19-6733 |
George R. Durham v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence change-in-relevant-decisional-law civil-procedure extraordinary-circumstance federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-60(b)(6) habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mcquiggin-precedent mcquiggin-v-perkins rule-60b6 |
Petitioner submits that this Honorable Court;s decision in McQuiggin v. Perkins, 569 U.S. 383, 133 S.Ct. 1924, 185 L.Ed. 2d 1019 (2013) was a change i… |
| 18-9680 |
Elester Middlebrook v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence appeals certificate-of-appealability extraordinary-circumstance extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings reopening rule-60b statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction unresolved-claims |
QUESTION 1
an extraordinary This Court holds that factual innocence equates to
circumstance that overrides a statute of limitation. McQuiggin v. Perk… |
| 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… |