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25-532 Diana Snow, et al. v. Dennis Wiertella, as Father and Administrator of the Estate of Randy Wiertella, Deceased Sixth Circuit 2025-10-31 Pending constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference medical-care prison-liability qualified-immunity subjective-awareness 1. Did the Sixth Circuit depart from this Court's decision in Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825 (1994) in denying qualified immunity to Petitioners, des…
25A292 Larce Spikes v. Lesley Wheat, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-09-12 Presumed Complete constitutional-minimum deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-care prisoner-rights qualified-immunity 1. This case presents an important question of federal law to resolve: in order to overcome qualified immunity and proceed on a claim of deliberate in…
24A354 Jessie J. Barnes v. Donald Uhler, Superintendent, Upstate Correctional Facility, et al. Second Circuit 2024-10-15 Presumed Complete conditions-of-confinement cruel-and-unusual deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-care prisoner-rights Question not identified.
24-5636 Robert Moco v. J. M. Janik, et al. Second Circuit 2024-09-25 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference excessive-force law-enforcement medical-care Question not identified.
23A1114 Samuel San Miguel v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-06-14 Presumed Complete circuit-split civil-commitment due-process medical-care pro-se-litigation standard-of-review Question not identified.
23-7538 Jose Luis Garcia v. Kyeong Park Ninth Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process judicial-discretion medical-care medical-malpractice qualified-immunity standard-of-care summary-judgment Did the Court of Appeals Erred in Affirming Summary Judgment When There Is Evidence of Deliberate Indifference of Dr* Park?
23-1204 Daniel Kinsinger v. Sherelle Thomas, Administrator of the Estate of Terelle Thomas, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arrestee-rights civil-rights constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference due-process law-enforcement medical-care qualified-immunity summary-reversal 1. Whether the Third Circuit erred in holding that law enforcement officers' decision to transport an arrestee they believed had ingested drugs, but d…
23-1108 Daril Foose, et al. v. Sherelle Thomas, Administrator of the Estate of Terelle Thomas, et al. Third Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights constitutional-violation custody drug-toxicity due-process fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement law-enforcement-custody medical-care qualified-immunity Whether the police officers' decision to transport a detainee who they suspected had ingested drugs to a nearby prison where he was evaluated by the p…
23A882 Daniel Kinsinger v. Sherelle Thomas, as Administrator of the Estate of Terelle Thomas, et al. Third Circuit 2024-04-04 Presumed Complete deliberate-indifference drug-toxicity fourteenth-amendment medical-care qualified-immunity section-1983 Whether officers violate the Fourteenth Amendment by transporting an arrestee who denies ingesting drugs, declines medical care, and shows no obvious …
23-1046 Peter George Noe v. Berkley, Dr., et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived bivens bivens-action civil-rights civil-rights-remedy constitutional-claim due-process federal-agents federal-tort-claims-act judicial-precedent medical-care medical-indifference standing Whether a cause of action can be maintained under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 (1971), in circumsta…
23-6858 Tujuan Estaisyo Session v. FNU Giannotti, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process medical-care prison-conditions retaliation Question not identified.
23-6673 Lillian Akwuba v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance criminal-procedure harmless-error intent-element jury-instruction jury-instructions medical-care mens-rea standard-of-care In Ruan v. United States, 597 U.S. 450, 454 (2022), this Court held that to convict an authorized person of distributing a controlled substance under …
23-6389 Michael Lavern Boyd v. Lay, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process legal-provisions medical-care petition prison supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23A574 Wayne Resper v. Yescare Corp., fka Corizon Health, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-12-21 Presumed Complete civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-care prisoner-rights pro-se Question not identified.
23-6229 Arnold A. Cary v. Dean Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-12-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-materials medical-care prisoner-rights toxic-exposure toxic-water Did CDOC violate Cary's A constitutional federal question: 1. due process and equal protection, provided in the Fourteenth and Eighth Amendments, rega…
23-6159 Eddie James King v. Doctor Aikens, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment medical-care search-and-seizure standing Question not identified.
23-587 Mark Jakob, et al. v. Clara Cheeks Eighth Circuit 2023-12-01 Denied civil-rights due-process evading-arrest medical-care police-apprehension qualified-immunity This Court has held, "The Due Process Clause. . . does require the responsible government agency to provide medical care to persons. . . who have been…
23-466 L. W., By and Through Her Parents and Next Friends, Samantha Williams and Brian Williams, et al. v. Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter for Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-02 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (14) civil-rights due-process equal-protection gender-affirming-care heightened-scrutiny medical-autonomy medical-care parental-rights transgender transgender-rights 1. Whether Tennessee's SB1, which categorically bans gender-affirming healthcare for transgender adolescents, triggers heightened scrutiny and likely …
23-5931 Donald Lee Kissner v. Joseph Michael Orr, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-01 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony judicial-error medical-care ninth-circuit pretrial-detention qualified-immunity I. Did the Sixth Circuit United States Court of Appeals commit clear error when it affirmed the motion to dismiss? II. Did the Sixth Circuit United S…
23-290 Marc Grano, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Jose Barron, et al. v. El Paso Healthcare System, Ltd., dba Las Palmas Medical Center New Mexico 2023-09-22 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process forum-contacts forum-state fundamental-fairness healthcare-system medical-care medical-referral personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Whether specific personal jurisdiction in a forum state over a nonresident hospital and healthcare system is permissible where: (1) the hospital syste…
23-210 Christina Jordan v. Karla Howell, as Administratrix of the Estate of Cornelius Pierre Howell Sixth Circuit 2023-09-06 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-claim deliberate-indifference due-process excessive-force kingsley-v-hendrickson medical-care objective-standard pretrial-detainee To successfully state a constitutional claim for inadequate medical care, a pretrial detainee must show that a correctional healthcare provider was de…
23-5520 Tamara Sue Harbec v. North Country Hospital and Health Practices, et al. Second Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-violation disability-discrimination disability-rights due-process expert-testimony interpreter-access medical-care medical-malpractice medical-rights patient-care Was it constitutional to deny the right of an interpreter because of bilateral sensorineural hearing loss? Was it constitutional to deny the right o…
22-7752 Arthur Taylor v. Landon Bird, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-06-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights compassionate-release constitutional-damages cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process medical-care medical-neglect prison-conditions prisoner-rights toxic-exposure Petitioner: IasKtobe Release UNder the case Law of Prima Facie cage's and to becompen sated FoR the aMouNt of EleveN MillioN as IpRayFOR Relief of thi…
22-7567 Enrique Infante, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-compelling-reasons judicial-discretion medical-care sentencing sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation (1) Whether inadequate medical care for a treatable illness is a categorically insufficient basis to qualify as an extraordinary and compelling reason…
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…
22-941 Hatem Saied v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board of Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2023-03-28 Denied Response Waived 13th-amendment benefits bias constitutional-rights due-process effective-counsel employer-liability medical-care workers-compensation 1. In light of the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, should the employer who failed to provide medical care to the injured worker be responsibl…
22-6948 Robert E. Spiker v. Robert E. Erskines, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied IFP cell-phone-data constitutional-claims deliberate-indifference digital-privacy federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence habeas-corpus medical-care prisoner-rights privacy search-and-seizure Neither the Overruled court nor the State Supreme Court of Appeals lacks a Post of Docket to the court by not Providing a Full Litigation Without Judi…
22-638 Mary La Riccia, et vir v. Cleveland Clinic Foundation, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) ada americans-with-disabilities-act disability disability-rights doctor-patient-relationship employment medical-care medical-communication title-i title-iii 1. Can the restrictions placed on employees under Title I of the ADA be applied to an individual seeking medical care and treatment under Title III? …
22-5544 Jason L. Sanders v. Matt Macauley, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights covid-19 due-process medical-care prisoner-rights Question not identified.
22-5253 Dennis Charles Helmer v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release covid-19 criminal-justice-reform first-step-act medical-care sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines 1.) Whether the District Court erred when it denied relief to Petitioner 18 U.S.C. 3582(c)(1)(A)(i) motion based upon the applicability of 18 U.S.C. 3…
22-5121 Barbara Marie Frantz v. Kansas, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process medical-care qualified-immunity Whether the United States Supreme Court should decide, or further investigate, a case of Respondent's death, dependent on deliberate indifference to A…
21-8065 Arthur Glenn Jones, Sr. v. Sam Wong, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-circuit atrophy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process informed-consent judicial-discretion medical-care medical-negligence prisoner-rights psychotropic-medication standing 1. ) Did the 9th Circuit - U-S. Court of Appeals abuse its discretion when the Court denied petitioner's appeal? When the issue was not the constitut…
21-8043 William Sims v. Alexis Figueroa Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit factual-disputes medical-care nonmovant-rights prison-conditions prisoner-rights summary-judgment This Court has exercised its power to summarily vacate a lower court's decision when that decision "reflect[ed] a clear misapprehension" of the standa…
21-7817 Jordan Nathaniel Mitchell v. Dentist, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process incarceration medical-care pro-se MAy I Be gAntd Cout Appointed LAWer or with u.s. MAAll An confined, I can't nnderstand how to get copies when the Conrt only Jent me One copy. Coming …
21-7781 Jorge Palacios v. Kevin Smith Ninth Circuit 2022-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legal-assistance legal-procedure medical-care standing statutory-interpretation takings to support my argument? why he th rost lout dened to methe ettorney ssistene? was legal my ssstive devise contisration by respondent despite my comple…
21-7653 Nathan Christopher Braun v. Justin DeMars, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-preparation civil-rights confinement document-access due-process eleventh-circuit legal-access legal-materials medical-care prison-litigation retaliation transfer ebsequent deprivation of e Petitioner's legal mal reference materils anddocuments unti Sept.29 20, s vell as depriving him of access to envelopes, pap…
21-1210 Scott County, Tennessee v. Tammy Brawner Sixth Circuit 2022-03-04 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process medical-care objective-standard pretrial-detainee pretrial-detention subjective-test Whether this Court should apply the subjective test for deliberate indifference set forth in Farmer v. Brennan to claims by pretrial detainees of inad…
21-7232 Lance Reberger v. Michael Koehn, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-01 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protections cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-treatment prison prison-medical-care prisoner-rights qualified-immunity Are all U.S. prison officials required to provide all prisoners with healing spiritual medication for epilepsy, to prevent seizures that cause death? …
21-6531 Billy Mack Nichols, Jr. v. Gary Kerstein, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-12-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment equal-protection medical-care medical-negligence summary-judgment 1) Whether the lower courts were wrong for not seeking out, or for not causing the medical doctor, defendant, to seek out the cause for my Central Dia…
21-655 Max Ray Butler v. S. Porter, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) adequate-medical-care bivens bivens-remedy civil-rights constitutional-rights eighth-amendment federal-courts federal-prisoner federal-prisoners medical-care In Carlson v. Green, 446 U.S. 14 (1980), the Court recognized a remedy under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.…
21-264 San Diego County, California, et al. v. Ana Sandoval, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Amici (1) circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established-rights deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-care medical-needs pretrial-detainee qualified-immunity Under the Fourteenth Amendment, must a pretrial detainee alleging deliberate indifference to medical needs prove that the defendant was subjectively a…
21-5412 Alfred E. Caraffa v. California Housing Securities, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process medical-care prison-conditions retaliation the DEfendentos) urder the wroNg of Listing CoMpaNy2) Address the U.S.C.A. violation of Due Process of Law under Section I925@4) 3 Address tE violatio…
21-48 Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center Commission v. John Doe 5, et al., By and Through Their Next Friend, Nelson Dolores Lopez, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Fourth Circuit 2021-07-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-standard due-process federal-custody immigrant-detainee injunctive-relief juvenile-detention medical-care professional-judgment standing (1) Whether professional judgment rather than deliberate indifference is the proper constitutional standard for a claim of inadequate medical care bro…
20-7997 John Sloan v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2021-05-12 Denied IFP access-to-courts administrative-review civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legal-standing medical-care retaliation Was Pefifioners rights vio lated when: a She was not afforded a safe work envivonment while incarcerated? bo he was a nectie of retaliation seeking …
20-1562 Faye Strain, as Guardian of Thomas Benjamin Pratt v. Vic Regalado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Amici (5) 8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process jail jail-official medical-care pretrial-detainee pretrial-detainees subjective-knowledge Whether a pretrial detainee can prevail against a jail official who disregarded an obvious risk of serious harm or whether the pretrial detainee must …
20-1402 Stephen Hammonds v. Robert Theakston, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-07 Denied 11th-circuit 8th-amendment appellate-precedent civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process medical-care qualified-immunity section-1983 1. When the unconstitutionality of an officials' conduct is reasonably obvious, does that suffice to render the violation of those constitutional righ…
20-7435 Steven G. Knickerbocker v. Wisconsin, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process evidence-destruction excessive-force federal-crime judicial-misconduct law-enforcement-misconduct medical-care VIOLATING Federal law, then sever beating Knickerbocker in a cell, by Sgt Wilson and 6 deputies, in Outagamie jail. Judge Vincent R. Biskupic had me b…
20-7331 Kevin L. Martin v. Frank Vanihel, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-claim district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-care prison-conditions procedural-default Whether the state failed to disclose exculpatory evidence in violation of Brady v. United States. Whether petitioner's request for counsel was ineffe…
20-7204 Shane Faithful v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-distribution criminal-law federal-sentencing medical-care medical-prescription prescription-drugs sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation 1. Whether a physician who prescribes a controlled substance to a patient for reasons other than medical care has unlawfully "dispensed" the substance…
20-7157 David Smith-Garcia v. Paula Burke Ninth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment bivens civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-need prison-healthcare probation U Indies cw\ QjnoJaV'K AfAendmtnV clWiwi (b Vq a ^enoo^ vv\€d\Ca\ need Ck<^o,\ a'SV (X deO "vS'Nen^ ConVe*V-'\r\ vde\'i bf<~afe indiW-erencc. Ov 0-…
20-6723 Akando Ducksworth v. Hal MacMurdo, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-review civil-procedure civil-rights correctional-institute due-process medical-care prisoner-rights standing Whether this Petitioner's case should have proceeded past the dismissal phase based on the merits of his claim.
20-834 James A. Widtfeldt v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-12-21 Denied Response Waived biological-weapons civil-rights constitutional-rights lyme-disease medical-care medical-malpractice pre-trial-testing stevia QUESTION 1* Whether the failure to include testing and treatment of Lyme spirochete Bb as a pre-trial requirement of all criminal and most civil case…
20-785 Eboni Nicole Baldwin v. Latoisha Dorsey Fifth Circuit 2020-12-10 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment medical-care medical-care-delay pre-gerstein-arrestee state-actor-liability 1. How many hours of delayed mental health care is reasonable before a state actor can be held liable for deliberately indifferent or objectively unre…
20-6499 Robert T. Sigler v. Jimmy Thornton, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied IFP civil-rights class-action constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference detainee-rights detention-conditions due-process equal-protection medical-care prison-conditions iMAS £_QLiMTV ^.a\/ERaEMT DE-LlfiH^T^LV Xt\(hUPPH b^r/UMBS dLfl£s.iMHEM cy) b&rmiAlB&s SLEPT iM % yC ID. (LEiLL- hEZSJ£>Kldb FOR- CX)jIaI3LTI4 3RD b…
20-6026 Kenneth H. Newkirk v. Jeffery Kiser, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-matter civil-rights court-of-appeals deliberate-indifference due-process judicial-review legal-proceeding medical-care pattern-of-misconduct physical-injury standing 1. SHOULD I HAVE BEEN RELEASED FROM THIS PRISON AND THE CUSTODY OF THE VA. DEPT.OF CORRECTIONS ON 14/20 WHEN THE 4TH CIRCUIT COURT ALLEGED THAT I ADEQ…
20-6010 Cezary Wojcik v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-10-14 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment ada ada-statute civil-rights constitutional-rights disabled-persons disabled-prisoners-rights eighth-amendment estelle-v-gamble fourteenth-amendment medical-care 1. Did cook county defendants violate disabled Cezary Wojcik Constitutional Rights to provide disable person proper medical care-treatment with medica…
20-5819 Kyle Damond Jones v. Texas Texas 2020-09-25 Denied IFP checks-and-balances civil-rights due-process equal-protection medical-care state-supremacy 1. Can the state make medical care an area of diminished rights due to detainment? 2. Can the state deny a class of medication previously prescribed …
20-381 Hamilton County Job and Family Services, et al. v. Joseph Siefert, et ux. Sixth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied 42-usc-1983 child-services circuit-conflict civil-rights due-process medical-care qualified-immunity state-action state-actor A. Did the Sixth Circuit err when it failed to conduct an individualized analysis of Petitioners' actions before blanketly rejecting their asserted de…
20-5572 Michael Aaron Witkin v. Mariana Lotersztain, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment expert-testimony medical-care prison-conditions summary-judgment The Eighth Amendment prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain. Prison officials violate the…
19-1280 Idaho Department of Correction, et al. v. Adree Edmo, aka Mason Edmo Ninth Circuit 2020-05-12 Denied Relisted (2) advocacy-organization-guidelines circuit-split constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment estelle-v-gamble gender-dysphoria inmate-medical-care medical-care prison-healthcare The Ninth Circuit became the first circuit in the nation to conclude that the Eighth Amendment mandates the provision of sex reassignment surgery when…
19-8348 Roland I. Kehano, Sr. v. Scott Harrington, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-04-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process medical-care prisoner-rights Question not identified.
19-1223 Demetrias Taylor, as Representative of the Estate of Iretha Jean Lilly, Deceased, et al. v. McLennan County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-04-16 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process medical-care municipal-liability municipal-policy myocardial-infarction policy pre-trial-detainee procedure section-1983 summary-judgment Does the provision of three EKGs, an aspirin, and a nitroglycerin pill over the course of three hours to a pre-trial detainee (who then died from an o…
19-8084 Christopher Young v. Rehka Halligan Third Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-care medical-treatment standing 1. Whether continuous persistence in a course of treatment known to be ineffective through a petitioner's complaints, while knowing or should've kno…
19-7807 Christopher Young v. Jose Boggio, et al. Third Circuit 2020-02-27 Denied IFP constitutional-claim deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment ineffective-treatment intentional-mistreatment medical-care medical-need prisoner-rights serious-medical-need treatment 1.) Whether the contention that an Eighth Amendment deliberate indifference to serious medical need claim fails simply because the Plaintiff received…
19-1014 Teresa Berry v. Delaware County Sheriff's Office Sixth Circuit 2020-02-14 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights deliberate-indifference detainee-rights due-process jail-conditions medical-care medical-policy medical-training municipal-liability policy training withdrawal The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment from the United States District Court Southern District of Ohio Eastern Division finding that…
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…
19-7401 Dumisai H. Hockaday v. Helene Christner, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied IFP administrative-regulations civil-procedure confrontation-clause constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference double-jeopardy due-process exhaustion-of-remedies grievance-process medical-care prison-conditions standing summary-judgment 1. Whether the underlying activity of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit is ethical or not under Thomas v. Am, 474 U.S. 140, at …
19-7214 Gregory Brown v. Ellen Mace-Liebson, et al. Third Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment bivens bivens-action civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment intra-circuit-conflict medical-care medical-treatment pro-se summary-judgment WHETHER THE SITTING PANEL FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS, PER-. CURIAM OPINION, AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S ENTRY OF SUMMARY JUDGMENT. ON P…
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…
19-7140 Antonio Medrano Ortiz v. George T. Solomon, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process excessive-force judicial-review medical-care medical-rule standing statute-of-limitations statutory-limitations My OriginAl ComplAinT As Time- barved STATUTES OF LIMITATIONS . 2. Whether DR. MckeNzie's deli berATe INdiFFereNce To my Serious Medical Needs Violat…
19-7036 Jeremy L. Dale v. Anthony Agresta, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied IFP 8th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-damages cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process excessive-force federal-tort-claims habeas-corpus medical-care prisoner-rights qualified-immunity Y MR. depriveration of Rigt's ? (SecONd TSSUE $1983, persons liable ndto $ 1983 dAmAgES WAs itUuncnstitio oeni f mdcal d M D tmutoA C A DENiaM2.DAlE…
19-701 Lloyd N. Johnson v. Karen Rimmer, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process immunity institutional-care medical-care medical-negligence mental-health professional-judgment qualified-immunity standing youngberg This petition poses two questions: first, whether the "professional judgment standard" this court articulated in Youngberg can be reduced to "whethe…
19-6416 Jurijus Kadamovas v. John F. Caraway, Warden, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment administrative-discretion administrative-law bureau-of-prisons civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process medical-care medical-conditions prison-conditions prisoner-rights standing torture-prevention 1) WHETHER THE FEDERAL AGENT ROW (PARTY WHO HAS BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH ASTHMA CAN BE TORTURED IN CUSTODY OF THE BUREAU OF PRISONS BY EXPOSURE TO OLEORESI…
19-6329 Jackie Lee Boyd v. Carol Monroe, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-treatment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment incarceration medical-care prison-conditions (1) Is a constitutional right to be free of the wanton infliction of sei pain rendered void upon incarceration? (2) Is the denial of life sustaining …
19-6217 Joanne Hall v. Department of Veterans Affairs Fourth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights disability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review medical-care negligence post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court-dismissal veterans-affairs 1. Whether the Disabled Veteran Petitioner had Beceived Adequate healthcare at the Veterans Medicalcentar? 2. Whether Petitioner's Symptons, tests, m…
19-6148 Cornelius Lorenzo Wilson v. Dennis Grimes, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment medical-care monell-doctrine monell-liability municipal-jail municipal-liability prison-conditions prisoner-rights serious-medical-need systemic-underfunding 1. Does systemic underfunding and understaffing of a municipal jail that knowingly causes significant delays for prisoners receiving access to outside…
19-5966 Delbert Heard v. Andrew Tilden, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process electronic-evidence medical-care medical-malpractice medical-negligence negligence ostrich-defense prison-conditions prisoner-rights qualified-immunity surgical-delay Whether prison doctor can evade culpability for 8th Amendment violation for delay of prisoner's hernia surgery, by invoking ostrich defense and claimi…
19-5558 Frank Stephon Johnson v. Correct Care Solutions, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-conditions punishment was the defendonts conduct de\ therately ,Pucposely Knowing nd cbjecluely yu intera' in Respect to Vv ialating Johnson rcHottonal Vio S Fourteen 1 Ame…
19-5419 Raleigh D. Wiggins v. Eddie Pearson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process medical-care prison standing takings WAS THE COURT UNETHICAL IN NOT FINDING THE REVOCATION OF SENTENCE VOID, 2 3 O 5,0 3 8 2. WAS PETTIONER'S 5T AND IY AMENOMENT DUE PROLESS GUARANTEED B…
18-9586 Jovan Watkins v. Robert Green, Secretary, Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-06-07 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-need policy-procedures prison-conditions standing DID THE COURT OF APPEOLS ERTED IN NOT REVIEWING by holD Me to a hiqhad THE /OWER COURT DECESSIOS 8SFAMdARD OF A SRD SE SAMdAR OF LAW ThEN THE PlAilTif…
18-9508 Floyd Dewaine Scott v. I. Jimenez Ninth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment appeals civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process internal-bleeding medical-care medical-indifference ninth-circuit qualified-immunity summary-judgment triable-issues Reason number one is that the Petitioner did present a Medical Deliberate Indifference cause against the Respondent. Is it contrary to clearly establi…
18-9286 Prentis Rupert v. Keith Bowers, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights class-action deliberate-indifference due-process hepatitis-c medical-care prison-conditions settlement-agreement standing summary-judgment Question not identified.
18-8990 Raszell Reeder v. E. Wheldon, et al. Second Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights compensatory-damages constitutional-claims cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process medical-care medical-neglect medical-records medical-treatment mental-health prisoner-healthcare I have genital herpes. I experience painful ulcers that appears in the open end of sores that are extremely painful. Also, herpetic lesions, systemic …
18-1328 Stephen Gilmore, et al. v. Neil R. Holland, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied administrative-law agency-regulation chevron-deference circuit-split cms-regulation emergency-medical-treatment emergency-medical-treatment-and-active-labor-act hospital-inpatient-care hospital-stabilization medical-care statutory-interpretation 1. Should the regulation issued by CMS, 42 C.F.R. § 489.24(d)(2)(ii), be stricken as contrary to the statutory language, which provides that the oblig…
18-8731 Carlos Noguera v. Greg Smith, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection excessive-force medical-care prison-conditions standing takings With the Record Reflecting that the alleged victim consented to engaging in Sexual intercourse—Should Noguera have been convicted of Sexual Assault? …
18-8606 Lester J. Smith v. Greg Dozier, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-rights continuing-harm continuing-violation-doctrine due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment medical-care medical-standard standing 1) ES HCV © Serious medical ailment that requires treatin pettioner with Cure. Medianes, 1A accord +0 the Pfs ssene! Community Standard at Medical Car…
18-8326 Dana Gray v. V. Romero, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment access-to-court civil-rights constitutional-access due-process expert-testimony medical-care medical-care-claims medical-expert neutral-expert prisoner-rights pro-se-litigation summary-judgment UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURTS NEED TO RELIABLY APPOINT NEUTRAL MEDICAL EXPERTS IN INDIVIDUAL PRISONER PRO SE §42 USC 1983 MEDICAL CARE CASES WITH COGN…
18-1162 P. Swaney, et al. v. Hector Lopez Ninth Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights correctional-officers deliberate-indifference due-process medical-care prisoners-rights qualified-immunity Did the Ninth Circuit err when a divided panel of that court denied qualified immunity to correctional officers notwithstanding Third and Seventh Circ…
18-7403 Keith Lamar Blackwell v. Charlie A. Dooley, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process informed-consent medical-care medical-ethics medical-licensing medical-practice patient-consent pharmacist-duties physician-duties physician-licensing professional-licensing state-regulations 1. In the State of Missouri,can a license pharmacist redunciently practice medicine as to aphysicia±. duties of professional judgment and proform phys…
18-7338 Crystal Nicole Jones v. Office of Administrative Hearings, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights discrimination drug-addiction due-process medical-care medical-treatment professional-licensing standing On Andio recording hearing did BryceD.Benedict i state I was an dddict have alwoys been and addict and would Cortinve to be an addict. ?lstate ment ma…
18-7281 Olandio Ray Workman v. John Vandermosten, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence false-charges indigent-defense legal-mail medical-care prison prison-conditions right-to-counsel standing (1) "Did The DisTricT COurT in GrEEnVille SOuTh Carolina denie me due process when They denied me appointed Counsel when They (2) "Is iT Lawfull for …
18-7049 Joel Marvin Munt v. Nanette Larson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights dismissal due-process eighth-amendment expert-evaluation jury-trial medical-care mootness prisoner-rights standing summary-judgment Was. Petitioner unconstitutionally denied his right to have a jury determine the facts of his case? Can the State escape their Eighth Amendment Duty …
18-476 Cowlitz County, Washington, et al. v. Jule Crowell, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-care monell monell-doctrine municipal-liability objective-reasonableness section-1983 serious-medical-needs subjective-intent 1. Whether a pretrial de tainee alleging Fourteenth Amendment claims of deliberate indifference to serious medical needs under 42 U.S. C. § 1983 must …
18-337 County of Orange, California, et al. v. Mary Gordon, Individually and as Successor in Interest to Matthew Shawn Gordon, Deceased Ninth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied Amici (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-standard due-process eighth-amendment fourth-amendment medical-care objective-reasonableness pretrial-detainee qualified-immunity section-1983 standard-of-care Whether a pretrial detainee's "inadequate medical care" claim pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 requires a showing of a jail professional's subjective inte…
18-5816 Keith L. Nash v. Richard J. Bishop, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process incarceration jurisdiction medical-care prison standing statutory-interpretation takings Question not identified.
18-5652 Glen Springer v. Benjamin Dale Caple, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-needs prison-conditions 1. Did Plaintif SufferA EighthAmendment Violation? Medical Needs? ex is Administative Remedies by the grlevance process USiNg When he only thing that…
18-5430 James Davis Bennett, et ux. v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment constitutional-defense deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment estelle-vs-gamble federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure medical-care prisoner-rights serious-medical-needs summary-judgment 1. The Question before the Court is Whether the Eight Amendment under Estelle vs Gamble allows a Court to create a Constitutional Defense to an admitt…
18-5326 Mario Howard Lloyd v. Scott Moats, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights counsel counsel-recruitment district-court-discretion due-process eighth-amendment fundamental-error intercircuit-conflict jury-trial medical-care standing summary-judgment (1) Whether the District Court's "persuasive authority" test order this case to be trial by a jury trial on February 211 2017, and than less then rwo …