inmate-rights
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-952 | Brij Mohan, et al. v. Jordan Watkins | Seventh Circuit | 2026-02-11 | Pending | bivens-claim constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment inmate-rights pretrial-detention | In Carlson v. Green, 446 U.S. 14 (1980), this Court recognized a cause of action under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcoti… | |
| 25-921 | Malcolm Wilson v. Angelita Castaneda | Seventh Circuit | 2026-02-04 | Pending | due-process inmate-rights prison-disciplinary-board procedural-fairness restitution-sanction trust-account | Whether due process requires a prison disciplinary board to provide "some evidence" of the amount of actual or estimated loss caused by an inmate's ac… | |
| 25-6447 | Torrence Belcher v. Joshua Wallen, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2025-12-30 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment inmate-rights physical-injury prison-safety | 1. How isn't an official being responsible for an inmate 's death not a basis for suing them?? 2. If it is possible to hypothesize a set of facts cons… |
| 25-6005 | Sean D. Jones v. Kelly Strong, Warden, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-31 | Denied | IFP | inmate-rights medical-indifference negligence prison-healthcare standard-of-care treatment-delay | (1) Did the failure by NP Tenorio ,failure to assure that the pl aintiff , Jones ,was seen by a specialist ,when the medication of which Tenorio had … |
| 25-5586 | David Priest v. Bentley, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | discovery-ruling district-court inmate-rights judicial-discretion legal-standard pro-se-litigation | ARE PRO SE INMATE LITIGANTS HELD TO THE SAME LEGAL STANDARD THAT A LAWYER IS HELD? WAS THE PLAINTIFF GIVEN PROPER NOTICE OF HIS NEED TO RAISE HIS ISS… |
| 24-7350 | Rusty James Driscoll v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights discovery-material fifth-amendment inmate-rights local-rules sixth-amendment | 1. Whether District Court of South Dakota's Local Rules, 16.1 and 57.10, which restrict an inmate's ability to access and to personally possess his/he… |
| 24-182 | Roy Sargeant v. Aracelie Barfield | Seventh Circuit | 2024-08-20 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment federal-inmates inmate-rights prison-violence | Whether federal inmates may bring a cause of action in federal court against rank-and-file federal prison officials that violate their Eighth Amendmen… |
| 23-7224 | Quentin Freeman v. Daniel Deas | Fourth Circuit | 2024-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment inmate-rights prison-conditions prisoner-rights summary-judgment whitley-standard | Whether the decision below should be summarily reversed because the Fourth Circuit misapplied the Whitley factors by viewing the evidence in the light… |
| 23-6996 | Brian Anderson v. Jeff Long, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2024-03-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation court-order due-process inmate-rights prison-warden qualified-immunity standing state-prisons | (1). If a State Prison Warden refuse s to obey a Court Order & refuses to obey the Governor & refuses to obey the Executive Director Of Colorado Pris… |
| 23A801 | Richard Arlee Champion v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-02-29 | Presumed Complete | certiorari court-review en-banc fourth-circuit inmate-rights petition-for-rehearing | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6374 | Vonell Davis, Jr. v. Wayne Hill, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion cause-of-action civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process health-risks inmate-rights motion-to-amend standing | I. DID THE DISTRICT COURT ERR WHEN IT DENIED THE ORIGINAL COMPLAINT WITHOUT A HEARING, AND CONCLUDING APPELLANT HAD NO CAUSE OF ACTION? 2. DID THE … |
| 23-5841 | James Franklin Snyder v. United States, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-10-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction inmate-rights judicial-review legal-materials prison-conditions retaliation statutory-interpretation | 1. Qcl«\ Vdoko txac. ,5oo udh S OV\d TerwkwfiJpg. OOr "Wbkfcs \ckjA l ^OrcJrveA do ^iep l n md^-S trav'O cfakg kjd A^A TideiL cWvy' SeWias, tVdjfmws m… |
| 23-5740 | Jedidiah Isaac Murphy v. Texas | Texas | 2023-10-10 | Denied | IFP | catastrophic-event catastrophic-fire civil-rights death-penalty discovery drug-administration due-process execution execution-protocol inmate-rights procedural-due-process | Is an inmate who is to be executed entitled to procedural due process to discover the effects of a catastrophic fire on the drugs to be used in his ex… |
| 22-1166 | D. K. Williams, Warden, et al. v. Rafiq Sabir, et al. | Second Circuit | 2023-06-01 | Dismissed | civil-rights constitutional-precedent due-process group-prayer inmate-rights prison-policy qualified-immunity religious-freedom-restoration-act | 1. Are RFRA claims exempt from the normally applicable qualified immunity requirement not to define clearly established law at a high level of general… | |
| 22-7427 | Travis Blank v. United States, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bill-of-costs civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit inmate-rights medical-care special-housing-unit standing | 1) DID THE FIFTH CIRCUIT ERR IN DENYING PLAINTIFF'S APPEAL FOR COMPELLING HIM TO PAY THE BILL OF COSTS THE FIFTH CIRCUIT FOUND THAT PLAINTIFF WAS IN D… |
| 22-7064 | Ryan Rydell Bonner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2023-03-22 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-provisions double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus inmate-rights judicial-review legal-controversy petition-clause pretrial-writ reindictment statutory-provisions | WHEN PETITION FOR EXTRAORDINARY WRIT IS FILED ON DOUBLE JEOPARDY CAUSE THERETO, THE STATE HIGHEST COURT BEFORE TRIAL HAD EITHER JURISDICTION FOR THE S… |
| 22-6705 | Charles Wesley Clearwater v. K. Bennett, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2023-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process inmate-rights rdap rdap-program residual-clause time-credit vagueness | Is it a violation of an inmates Constitutional Rights to due process, to use the Residual Clause criteria to deny him from receiving the on year time … |
| 22-6322 | Jaame Amun Re El v. FNU Melanson, et al. | First Circuit | 2022-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech inmate-rights prison-regulations special-mail standing statutory-law | 0. Is the constitution the law of the land? 1. According to the law, does "category distinction ", evidence it improper for the Robert Hazlewood, or … |
| 22-5808 | Zachary Spada v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. | Pennsylvania | 2022-10-12 | Denied | IFP | 8th-amendment civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-restrictions damages-claim due-process exercise-opportunities inmate-rights institutional-liability mootness mootness-doctrine standing | 1. Whether an inmate that was confined at a correctional institution during the COVID- 19 Pandemic has a right to sue for damages for the denial of ex… |
| 21-8046 | Joseph Martin Danks v. California | California | 2022-06-03 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment criminal-culpability cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment inmate-rights mental-health state-liability state-responsibility | 1. Does the Eighth Amendment preclude the execution of a seriously mentally ill inmate whose homicidal behavior was the reasonably known, foreseeable,… |
| 21-7849 | Mark Stinson v. John P. Yates, Warden, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2022-05-12 | Denied | IFP | 5th-amendment administrative-segregation confinement-standards constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment inmate-rights prison-administration | 1. What limits the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment places on the authority of prison administrators to remove inmates from the general priso… |
| 21-7801 | Richard E. Shreves v. United States District Court for the District of Montana | Ninth Circuit | 2022-05-09 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-authority document-access due-process e-filing e-filing-program inmate-rights prison-litigation pro-se-litigant standing statutory-interpretation | 1. Did the District Court exceed its authority when it determined Pro-Se Inmate Litigants, forced to participate in the Montana State Prison E-Filing … |
| 21-6918 | Robert Rodriguez Trevino v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2022-01-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process fifth-circuit inmate-rights liberty-interest medical-condition medical-supervision parole parole-review tex-gov-code-508.146 texas-criminal-procedure texas-department-of-criminal-justice | Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings as to call for exercise of t… |
| 21-6517 | Mark Stinson v. K. Cauley, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-12-07 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP | 5th-amendment 8th-amendment administrative-segregation civil-rights constitutional-limits due-process fifth-amendment inmate-rights prison-administration | What limits the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment places on the authority of prison administrators to remove inmates from the general prison p… |
| 21-774 | Michelle Munger, et al. v. Brenda Davis, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-11-24 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights federal-rights inmate-rights inmate-services prison private-contractor qualified-immunity | Can an employee of a private contractor providing constitutionally-required services to inmates in a county jail or state prison facility assert quali… |
| 21-6093 | Jeffrey D. Leiser v. Karl Hoffmann, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2021-10-27 | Denied | IFP | 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment inmate-rights medical-treatment summary-judgment wanton-suffering | Did the District Court and Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied the legal presidents that 46 days of severe "unnecessary inflict of wanton pain… |
| 21-5637 | Vinicio Jesus Garcia v. Darryl Glenn, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-09 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-resources due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus inmate-rights legal-access standing | DOES THE DENIAL OF THE RIGHT TO FILE A §2254 HABEAS PETITION OF A CLAIM AND AN INJURY? IS THE COMPLETE AND TOTAL DENIAL OF SUPPLIES TO INCARCERATED I… |
| 21-5168 | Darrell Demetrius Cross v. Kecia Davidson, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-07-22 | Denied | IFP | administrative-procedure attorney-general civil-procedure civil-rights detainer-warrant due-process federal-district-court inmate-rights prisoner-rights standing voluntary-protective-custody | A Con a louler U. federal distriat court beallowto Stopapetitioner incustody a acauntbyration Voluntar y protective fromm been issue afelonywoarrant f… |
| 20-7639 | Joseph A. Harris v. Michael Pacheco, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2021-04-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-violation corrections department-of-corrections due-process inmate-rights judicial-authority judicial-review sentencing sentencing-authority separation-of-powers | 1.) Is the Department of Corrections above the Judicial Branch in such a way that it may increase a judicially given Maximum sentence without judicial… |
| 20-6849 | Casey Rafael Tyler v. Katy Poole, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-01-12 | Dismissed | IFP | access-to-courts civil-rights covid-19 cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process health-safety inmate-rights institutional-policy prison-conditions | DOES LAWFUL IMPRISONMENT IMPOSE A LEGAL Duty om the prisoner to try surviving '~The General Population ^ so that he can oe Lawfully ordered 'to go i… |
| 20-839 | Kenneth Greenway v. Southern Health Partners, Inc., et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-12-22 | Denied | credibility-of-statements deliberate-indifference fourteenth-amendment inmate-rights jail-officials medical-needs serious-medical-needs summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton | 1. Should the Eleventh Circuit be permitted to reinvent the Fourteenth Amendment standard for deliberate indifference to serious medical needs by ruli… | |
| 20-6534 | Deverick Scott v. Rory Griffin, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2020-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment grievances inmate-rights medical-malpractice medical-treatment policy | 1. Is "A.D.C. ", Correct Care Solutions Medical policy unconstitutional to Scott, and all other inmates in A.D.C. when Dr. Dove refuse to refill and r… |
| 20-5143 | Glen Jones Ward v. Idaho, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-22 | Denied | IFP | 1st-amendment 8th-amendment civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-violation correctional-facility due-process equal-protection inmate-rights personal-safety retaliation staff-misconduct | Question not identified. |
| 19-7860 | Robert Rowles v. GEO Group, Inc., et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-03-04 | Denied | IFP | 8th-amendment circuit-court civil-rights cost-cutting deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment inmate inmate-rights judicial-discretion medical-treatment prison standing | DID THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEAL ABUSE ITS DISCRETION IN DENYING RELIEF ON THE LACK OF MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT IS FAILING TO TREAT A … |
| 19-7801 | James Benjamin Barstad v. Washington Department of Corrections, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arbitrary-and-capricious civil-rights constitutional-violation contract contract-breach due-process equal-protection inmate-rights punishment sandin-v-conner state-sanctions | 1) When STATE OF WASHINGTON repeatedly imposes sanctions back-to-back, i.e. , when 'temporary" restrictions become perpetual through various schemes,… |
| 19-7565 | Tyree Wright v. S. Alvarez, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-02-05 | Denied | IFP | 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference diagnostic-imaging due-process eighth-amendment inmate-rights medical-care medical-records prison-healthcare qualified-immunity | 1. While you are incarcerated in the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC), how are you supposed to notify Medical of your prior medical history/he… |
| 19-7543 | Earl Osborn v. Christopher Williams, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law administrative-remedies civil-rights corrections-department disability-accommodation disability-rights due-process inmate-rights medical-treatment mental-disability mental-health prisoner-rights standing summary-judgment | 1. In Blake v Ross, 1365.Ct. 185o, Did The United states Supreme Coort Eliminate The Requirement For An Individualized, Fact Specific petermination Re… |
| 19-7508 | Jeffrey D. Leiser v. Karen Kloth, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2020-01-30 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | by triggering PTSD symptoms rise to a level that is cognizable under the Eigh that caused psychological harm civil-rights correctional-officer correctional-officer-duties due-process eighth-amendment emotional-distress inmate-rights intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress psychological-harm ptsd qualified-immunity | 1. Does the intentional infliction of severe emotional distress, by triggering PTSD symptoms, that caused psychological harm, rise to a level that is… |
| 19-7186 | James R. Young v. United States, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-01-06 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | bivens bivens-claim civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-review fifth-amendment in-forma-pauperis inmate-rights property property-theft standing | (1) - Did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals abuse Petitioner's 5th Amendment due process right to be heard on his Bivens claim on appeal by summa… |
| 19-7143 | In Re Steven Darby McDonald | 2020-01-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process inmate-deaths inmate-rights judicial-misconduct medical-care medical-malpractice ninth-circuit-court prison-conditions pro-se-brief standing | 1. WHY IS THE NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS AND THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON ALLOWED TO ACT AS THE RIGHT ARM OF THE DOC? (See GO 09-16) 2. WHY… | |
| 19-6985 | Boaz Pleasant-Bey v. Shelby County, Tennessee, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure appropriate-relief circuit-court-conflict first-amendment-free-exercise inmate-led-religious-services inmate-rights qualified-immunity rluipa rluipa-appropriate-relief-clause sixth-circuit trial-on-merits trial-on-the-merits | I.) WHETHER RLUIPA'S "APPROPRIATE RELIEF " CLAUSE ENCOMPASSES THE REQUESTED RELIEF OF A TRIAL ON THE MERITS AND IF SO, DID PLAINTIFF'S REQUEST OF A … |
| 19-5502 | David Anderson v. Jackie T. Strode, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-08-08 | Denied | IFP | 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force inmate-rights law-enforcement prison-conditions prisoner-treatment qualified-immunity restraint-chair tasing-in-restraints | WHY WAS I TASED IN A RESTRAINT CHAIR WITH ONLY ONE ARM LOOSE OUT|OF THE RESTAINTS.WHY IS THIS A LEGAL ACTION AGAINST INMATES, WHY IS THERE NOT A LAW A… |
| 18-9191 | Jerome Allen Bargo v. Raymond Naylor, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | contradictory-evidence cruel-punishment cvsa cvsa-test disciplinary-action due-process eighth-amendment inmate-rights prison-conditions prison-discipline unsupported-evidence | Did the Eighth Circuit err in holding that Bargo's CVSA tests results constituted "some evidence" to support disciplinary action, even though the resu… |
| 18-8255 | David E. Ponder v. Avalon Correctional Services, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-04 | Denied | IFP | circuit-court-split civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violations constitutional-protections due-process foia-exemption freedom-of-information inmate-rights prison prison-transparency private-prisons standing takings | Private for profit prisons are allowed to deny Foia and State Open Records laws. (a.) State Courts rulings as to Open Records reqirements involving p… |
| 18-8088 | Steve Lee Menius v. Michael Stephan, Warden, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-courts administrative-law administrative-response civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights corrections-system due-process free-speech grievance-procedure grievance-process inmate-rights prison-litigation-reform-act retaliation standing | Question not identified. |
| 18-761 | D. Dahne v. Thomas W. S. Richey | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-14 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (4) | civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech grievance inmate-rights ninth-circuit prison prison-grievance qualified-immunity | Inmates in state and federal prisons file hundreds of thousands of grievances every year, and grievance programs peacefully resolve countless disputes… |
| 18-6638 | Israel C. Isbell v. Steven Merlak, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2018-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure comity custody-transfer due-process inmate-rights inmate-transfer jurisdictional-comity presumption-of-intent primary-custody primary-jurisdiction sentencing-rights sovereign-intent sovereign-jurisdiction transfer-of-custody waiver-intent | QUESTION ONE: At what point is a sovereign's intent to waive primary jurisdiction assessed, and how is that intent assessed? QUESTION TWO: Is there a… |