post-traumatic-stress-disorder

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-7037 Marlon Edgardo Siguenza v. Fidencio N. Guzman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review post-traumatic-stress-disorder In this noncapital habeas case, Marlon Siguenza alleges that his trial attorney was constitutionally ineffective for failing to investigate and presen…
23-1354 Jamilah Abdul-Haqq v. Permanente Medical Group, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) americans-with-disabilities-act duty-of-fair-representation employment-discrimination fair-employment-and-housing-act interactive-process post-traumatic-stress-disorder reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations The basis for the Grant of Certiorari is that the lower court's error regarding individuals with disabilities has fundamental legal significance and m…
23-7187 Leslie Galloway, III v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-04-09 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-defense death-penalty ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation-standard mitigation post-hoc-strategy post-traumatic-stress-disorder procedural-history sixth-amendment Leslie Galloway III was sentenced to death after his trial counsel conducted a constitutionally inadequate investigation that failed to uncover his ex…
23-5277 Sergio Ochoa v. Oak Smith, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied IFP background-investigation capital-punishment capital-sentencing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence neuropsychological-deficits post-traumatic-stress post-traumatic-stress-disorder strickland-v-washington williams-v-taylor In Ochoa v. Davis, the Ninth Circuit endorsed trial counsel's presentation of a "family sympathy" defense at the penalty phase of Sergio Ochoa's capit…
22-1193 Jeffry Thul v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-06-09 Denied Response Waived civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection expedited-proceedings federal-employees federal-employment post-traumatic-stress-disorder service-of-process Whether service of process is relevant in a psycho logical disability case when the equal protection component of the Due Process Clause confers on al…
21-465 James L. Kisor v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied administrative-law disability-benefits federal-circuit post-traumatic-stress-disorder pro-veteran-canon regulatory-interpretation service-records statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits Whether the term "relevant official service department records" in 38 C.F.R. § 3.156(c)(1)'s "reconsideration" provision encompasses all records that …
20-6934 Fred Cartwright v. Silver Cross Hospital, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process en-banc-rehearing equal-protection legal-counsel medical-condition post-traumatic-stress-disorder standing writ-of-certiorari The Petitioner does not know what he are doing, please view the next page labeled "List of Parties " for more details and everything that listed may h…
20-668 Nina Allison v. Robert Dar-Teh Liou, et al. California 2020-11-16 Denied accommodations americans-with-disabilities-act attorney-disability civil-rights due-process judicial-procedure legal-accommodation legal-profession mental-health mental-illness post-traumatic-stress-disorder This Petition involves the issue of attorneys with undiagnosed mental disabilities, not being properly accommodated by the court in order to effective…
20-5721 Sheyna Douprea v. Janel Espinoza, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP battered-woman-syndrome ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health post-traumatic-stress-disorder prejudice prejudice-analysis self-defense strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Sheyna Douprea was convicted of first degree murder after she stabbed her boyfriend with a pocketknife while he tried to strangle her. At trial, Doupr…
19-8717 Lance E. Felton v. City of Jackson, Mississippi Fifth Circuit 2020-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-accommodation disability-rights employment-discrimination interactive-process post-traumatic-stress-disorder pretext reasonable-accommodation termination A. While a Patrol Lieutenant employed with the City of Jackson, Mississippi ("the city"), Lance Felton ("Felton") suffered post-traumatic stress disor…
19-8153 Keith Clayton Brooks, Jr. v. Celia Schwartz, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-04-01 Dismissed IFP civil-rights conditions-of-confinement due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment post-traumatic-stress-disorder prisoner-rights section-1915g suicidal-impulses PETITIONER IS A STATE PRISONER ALLEGING FIRST AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT VIOLATIONS FOR RETALIATION AND DUE PROCESS VIOLATIONS AGAINST PRISON STAFF. PET…