plra

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5489 Peter Fowler v. Correctional Officer Lucas Bohnert, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-08-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment equal-protection incarceration plra sexual-abuse I. WHETHER "EQUAL PROTECTION" APPLIED TO ELDER INMATES UNDER [SEXUAL ABUSED] WHILE INCARCERATED (14TH AMEND. U.S.CONST.) II. WHETHER U.S.COURT OF AP…
24-5094 Kenyatta Quinn Mitchell v. Paul Bennett, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 11th-amendment 42-usc-1983 circuit-court-review civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process heck-v-humphrey judicial-discretion legal-standards plra procedural-due-process state-law statutory-interpretation Did the Ninth Circuit and Fifth District Court apply all necessary and properly applicable elements to the petitioner's 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 claim? …
23-6142 Fathiree Ali v. Steven Simmons, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-remedies civil-rights due-process exhaustion exhaustion-requirement grievance-procedure judicial-review plra prison-litigation-reform-act ross-v-blake WHEN ASSESSING WHETHER PRISON ADMINISTRATORS MADE THE GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE UNAVAILABLE BASED ON THE THREE CIRCUMSTANCES IN ROSS V BLAKE, (1) WILL ALL F…
22-6325 Travis Ray Thompson v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied IFP administrative-grievance civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-prison due-process due-process-protections exhaustion exhaustion-requirement imminent-danger-exception plra prison prison-litigation-reform-act Whether the Eastern District abused its discretion finding Petitioner was not entitled to an "imminent danger" exception to the PLRA, 42 USC § 1997e(a…
21-8010 Louis Gonzalez v. Elaine E. Bucklo, Magistrate Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process immigration in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure notice plra standing Whether the Seventh Circuit, in not allowing Petitioner proceed in forma pauperis on appeal, adopted an opinion from the District Court that conflict …
19-7842 Manetirony Clervrain v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-ambiguity administrative-law alien-definition civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process immigration immigration-law plra standing statutory-interpretation trade-secret I. When considering whether agency expertise could be brought to bear on the questions presented in the "Bennett " decision, the United States Court o…
19-6449 Antwoine Marquise Bealer v. Kern Valley State Prison Ninth Circuit 2019-10-31 Denied IFP 8th-amendment administrative-decision administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-screening PLRA prison prisoner-rights standing DOES THE PLRA REQUIRE THE COURT TO LOOK BEYOND AN PRIMA FACIE SHOWING WHEN SCREENING PRISONER IN FORMA PAUPERIS COMPLAINTS. DOES DOUBLE JEOPARDY P…
19-6410 Donald W. Rager v. Paige Augustine, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied IFP administrative-remedies circuit-split civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling exhaustion-of-administrative-remedies exhaustion-of-remedies plra prison-conditions prison-litigation-reform-act statute-of-limitations tolling Incarcerated inmate Donald W. Rager (Rager) was physically assaulted by Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Lt. Keith Buford on July 13, 2010. Rager filed…
18-9569 Joel Marvin Munt v. Tom Roy, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process judicial-recusal petition-for-appeal plra pro-se-litigation recusal standing three-strikes tro Can denial of a Rule 5 Petition for Permission to Appeal be a strike under the PLRA? Should Petitioner have received a strike for the denial of his P…
18-7959 Paul David Maze v. Renea Terrell, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 12(b)(6) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion plra prisoner-rights pro-se-litigant section-1983 standing Does a prisoner's §1983 civil matter require a remand if a District Court wrongly equate the standard for frivolousness of a complaint under §1915(d) …
18-7006 Gordon C. Reid v. Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis plra prisoner-litigation-reform-act standing three-strikes I. Whte oe lprcisnmnt to "malicousness" Under the PLRR, 28 U.SC8 1915te (2), whereit is prisoner conplaint fom, enrelted to ony any chaim agoinst the …
18-5695 Robert Wayne Annabel, II v. Michigan Department of Corrections, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada amendment-opportunity civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy deliberate-indifference due-process plra plra-dismissal prisoner-litigation prisoner-rights rehabilitation-act res-judicata retaliation sua-sponte I. "The Sixth Circuit is alone in its PLRA interpretation that a sua sponte dismissal for failure to state a claim at screening no longer affords a "f…
18-162 Elzie Ball, et al. v. James M. LeBlanc, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-08-06 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse Waived air-conditioning constitutional-remedies constitutional-remedy eighth-amendment heat-index judicial-relief plra plra-restrictions prison-conditions prospective-relief remedies The Question Presented is whether the PLRA's tailoring requirement prohibits a district court from ordering a prison to maintain a maximum heat index …