mental-disability
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6336 | Joshua J. Lewandowski v. Jefferey Perkins, Superintendent, Coyote Ridge Corrections Center | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-11 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights effective-assistance-counsel fetal-alcohol-syndrome guilty-plea mental-disability sixth-amendment | A. Does the Sixth Amendment to the United State Constitution require Defense Counsel to ensure A mentally disabled defendants guilty plea tod of Congr… |
| 25A273 | Thomas Bryon Cattell v. Victoria Deeks, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-09 | Presumed Complete | abuse-of-discretion autism continuance due-process mental-disability pro-se | Whether and in what context a showing of actual prejudice is required in determining when a court abuses its discretion in failing to grant a continua… | |
| 25-5523 | Mohamed A. Ibrahim v. Allison L. Lynn | Maryland | 2025-09-02 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-settlement mental-disability procedural-safeguards | 1- Whether a Maryland state courts' failure to recognize and accommodate a documented mental disability who is suffering from: A- Dementia and Alzhei… |
| 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… |
| 24-6106 | In Re Freeman William Stanton | 2024-12-10 | Denied | IFP | concurrent-sentences guilty-plea ineffective-counsel mental-disability plea-agreement resentencing | 1. WHETHER OR NOT THE PETITIONER IS ENTITLED TO BE RESENTENCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS OF THE PLEA AGREEMENT THAT IN VOLVES A "QUID PRO QUO" AND … | |
| 24-5985 | Tara Dawn Chapman v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services | Tennessee | 2024-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | americans-with-disabilities-act fundamental-rights guardianship mental-disability parental-rights state-court | The question presented is whether the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) applies to termination of parental rights cases in state courts. And, if s… |
| 22-7799 | Gregory Smith v. Patricia Thompson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-06-15 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-disability mental-illness pro-se pro-se-defendant | SHOULD A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY ISSUE TO DEBATE THE MATTER OF COUNSEL BEING APPOINTED TO AID A PRO SE DEFENDANT SUFFERING FROM RETARDATION AND M… |
| 22-7265 | Allen Franks v. Florida | Florida | 2023-04-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 3.850-motion civil-procedure due-process government-fraud ineffective-counsel mental-capacity mental-disability plea-bargaining plea-process post-conviction-relief standing | WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED DUE PROCESS WHEN TRIAL COURT FAILED TO ALLOW THE PETITIONER AN OPPORTUNITY TO FILE A REPLY TO STATE'S RESPONSE ON PETITI… |
| 22-143 | Jada Ku v. Great Falls Public Library | Montana | 2022-08-15 | Denied | Response Waived | accommodation civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process legal-representation mental-disability public-library supreme-court | Can the Great Falls Public Library discriminate against me because of my mental disability? Will the Supreme Court of the State of Montana accommodat… |
| 22-141 | Michelle McDonald-Witherspoon, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Kenyada Jones v. Amber Browne, et al. | Third Circuit | 2022-08-15 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights disability due-process equal-protection mental-disability mental-health probation-officer section-1983 | Whether a probation officer with no medical or psychiatric training who is in charge of a mentally disabled (schizophrenic) person (who is out of jail… |
| 22-45 | Jada Ku v. Great Falls Public Schools | Montana | 2022-07-18 | Denied | civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-accommodation legal-representation mental-disability public-education school-discrimination standing supreme-court-procedure | Can the Great Falls Public Schools discriminate against me because of my mental disability? Will the Supreme Court of the State of Montana accommodat… | |
| 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… |
| 21-6333 | Eddy Jean Philippeaux v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2021-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment disability-process due-process mental-disability military-discharge traumatic-brain-injury | Question not identified. |
| 20-1527 | Michelle Stopyra Yaney v. State Bar of California | California | 2021-05-03 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process effective-communication government-agency mental-disability reasonable-accommodation reasonable-modification | Is communication to facilitate understanding regarding procedure by one who suffers from a mental disability, such as anxiety disorder, a statutory re… |
| 20-1504 | J. L., a Child v. Kate Halamay, et al. | Washington | 2021-04-28 | Denied | Response Waived | americans-with-disabilities-act attorney-representation civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment informed-consent legal-representation mental-disability | 1. Did the Washington Supreme Court and the Washington Court of Appeals violate the Americans with Disabilities Act by refusing to allow an attorney t… |
| 20-7364 | James Baldwin v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel equal-protection ineffective-assistance mental-disability sixth-amendment | 1. Whether Appellant was denied rights under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution to effective trial counsel and w… |
| 20-6106 | Rafael Cruz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights coerced-confession criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance mental-disability plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment voluntariness | When the District Court denied to issue a Certificate of Appealability, then a jury picked Court abused its discretion when the Defendant was forced t… |
| 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… |
| 19-5191 | Kenneth Byron Davenport v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2019-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-determination criminal-procedure individualized-sentencing juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing mental-disability mental-health mental-health-and-mental-retardation-act mental-illness miller-v-alabama post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act schizophrenia | Does the legal "right" recognized in Miller v. Alabama, 132 S.Ct. 2455 (2012), include all substantive components necessary to its creation, including… |
| 18-9644 | Jeffrey Castleberry v. Florida | Florida | 2019-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion mental-disabilities mental-disability reasonable-accommodations retroactive-application sentencing state-courts | 1) Does the Americans with Disabities Act (ADA) require State Trial Courts to make reasonable accommodations for persons with mental disabilities? 2)… |
| 18-7850 | Larry Howard v. Daniel Lesatz, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights due-process exhaustion exhaustion-of-remedies judicial-review mental-disability pro-se standing | Since it is MDOC Policy to maintan fair possibility & guidelines pursvant PD 06.05.103 as it is initially to Ist discred:t the Mich. State Court great… |
| 18-6391 | Matthew Vaughn Hawks v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure mental-disability plain-error sentencing sentencing-disparity sentencing-reasonableness substantial-rights united-states-v-olano | I. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Misapplied Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(b) and United States v. Olano, 507 U.S. 725 (1998) by Failing to Grant Relief for Plain… |
| 18-5616 | Robert Earl Clayborne, Jr. v. Nebraska | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment civil-rights competency competency-hearing criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel mental-disability mental-health prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | Why Petitioner entitled to a Certificate of Appealability on the issue of Ineffective Assistance of Counsel based on Incompetence? Was the Petitioner… |
| 18-5328 | Muffin Anderson v. Susan A. Larsen | Washington | 2018-07-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fair-hearing jury-trial mental-capacity mental-disability physical-capacity procedural-fairness stare-decisis summary-judgment | If a significant question of law under the constitution of the state of Washington or of the United States is involved. Did the trial court violate t… |