federal-inmate

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23A963 Jovan Marquis Harris v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-04-26 Presumed Complete bureau-of-prisons criminal-procedure eighth-circuit federal-inmate petition-for-certiorari pro-se Question not identified.
22-7614 Lisa A. Biron v. Jody Upton, Warden, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-05-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP christian-faith constitutional-rights federal-inmate first-amendment legitimate-penological-interests prison-regulations qualified-immunity religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act substantial-burden Does the Religious Freedom Restoration Act ("RFRA" ) and its compelling government interest/least restrictive means-test apply to protect a federal …
22-1021 John Jose Watford v. J. Ray Ormond, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-04-20 Denied 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-court-precedent circuit-decision collateral-review convicting-circuit-law federal-inmate habeas-corpus savings-clause statutory-interpretation Under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, a federal inmate can collaterally attack his sentence on any ground cognizable on collateral review, and in a "second or succe…
21-857 Marcus Deangelo Jones v. Dewayne Hendrix, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-12-09 Judgment Issued Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent collateral-review federal-inmate habeas-corpus legal-innocence retroactivity statutory-interpretation Under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, federal inmates can collaterally challenge their convictions on any ground cognizable on collateral review, with successive at…
19-5776 Benjamin R. Schwarz v. Erwin Meinberg, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit assets bivens-claim civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment federal-inmate financial-disclosure free-speech in-forma-pauperis liabilities prison-conditions standing takings ziglar-precedent 1. Is there a federal right, under the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Fed. Bureau of Narcotics, 4…