| 24-6247 |
Christopher Stephen Beckman v. Lloyd Arnold, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Correction |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment mail-restrictions prison-regulations publication-censorship |
1. My right to receive publications from outside sources is being infringed upon by the Indiana Department of Corrections through the use of misrepres… |
| 22-7780 |
John Thomas Entler v. Eric Jackson, et al. |
Washington |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof prison-regulations religiosity religious-accommodation religious-exercise rluipa sincerely-held-beliefs sincerity strict-scrutiny substantial-burden |
A. WHETHER PRISON OFFICIALS CAN REQUIRE PRISONERS TO SHOW CENTRALITY IN W-DOC'S RRIS APPLICATION PROCESS FOR REQUESTING RELIGIOUS ACCOMMODATIONS, AND … |
| 22-7614 |
Lisa A. Biron v. Jody Upton, Warden, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
christian-faith constitutional-rights federal-inmate first-amendment legitimate-penological-interests prison-regulations qualified-immunity religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act substantial-burden |
Does the Religious Freedom Restoration Act ("RFRA" ) and its compelling
government interest/least restrictive means-test apply to protect a
federal … |
| 22-594 |
Hjalmar Rodriguez, Jr. v. Edward H. Burnside, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-12-27 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
plaintiff-specific alternatives to a challenged p alternative-analysis constitutional-rights individual-accommodation obvious-alternatives penological-interests prison-regulation prison-regulations reasonable-relationship Turner-standard |
Whether, under Turner, a court may only consider proposed alternatives to a challenged policy that would apply on a prison-wide scale, or whether a co… |
| 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 … |
| 21-8194 |
Richard Reynolds, et al. v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction |
Second Circuit |
2022-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-agency administrative-law constitutional-review corrections due-process first-amendment free-speech prison-regulations sexually-explicit-materials turner-standard turner-v-safley |
Whether a state administrative agency, based upon the recommendation of an ad hoc committee, can deny access to publications protected by the First Am… |
| 21-6296 |
James Paul Desper v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process familial-association parental-rights prison-regulations prison-visitation |
I. Whether a prison's indefinite ban on visitation between a minor child and her parent without any particularized justification violates the right of… |
| 19-7899 |
Paul Nigl v. Jon Litscher, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-03-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment marriage marriage-rights prison-administration prison-regulations prisoner-rights summary-judgment turner-v-safley |
1. Whether prison officials may, consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment, prohibit a former prison employee and a prisoner from marrying where prison… |
| 19-6158 |
William A. White v. Todd Sloop, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process first-amendment free-speech hate-speech judicial-circuit-split judicial-interpretation prison prison-regulations religion |
1) In ruling that the statement that Judaism is a "doctrine of hate", with to "violence and murder" nothing more, is so equivalent that literature mak… |
| 18-9498 |
Mark Alan Lane v. Cynthia Swain, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights disciplinary-code due-process first-amendment free-speech inmate-communication ninth-circuit prison-regulation prison-regulations procunier-test procunier-v-martinez standing |
Is Section 203's prohibition against threatening another with any offense a close fit to a legitimate penological interest? |
| 18-7762 |
Douglas Fauconier v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process legitimate-penological-interests penological-interests prison-regulation prison-regulations prisoner-rights |
1. What minimum showing of proof must prison officials establish on the record, to meet their initial burden of proof, in demonstrating that a prison … |
| 18-7413 |
Billy Dean Smith v. Robert Corcoran, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
alaska-statute brown-vs-board civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-statute disciplinary-actions due-process free-speech prison-discipline prison-regulations state-action state-law vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
1. Does Full Faith and Credit as defined and as ordered by this Supreme Court in Steel v. Parson Inc., 474 U.S. 518 (1986) at 523-525, apply to Brando… |
| 18-6037 |
Raul S. Zavala v. Hector Rios, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bivens-claim civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions damages-claim due-process federal-courts mail-restrictions prison prison-mail prison-officials prison-regulations standing |
I. WHETHER ZIGLAR v. ABBASI, 137 S.Ct. 1843 (2017). PRECLUDES A MONEY DAMAGES CLAIM UNDER BIVENS v. SIX UNKNOWN NAMED AGENTS OF FEDERAL BUREAU OF NARC… |
| 18-5573 |
Tajuan Williams v. Sherman Campbell, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law contraband due-process evidence-gathering fourth-amendment prison prison-regulations prisoner-rights regulations |
1
Should this Court review thie case, de novo to
address the importancs to the public of the issue in
keeping contraband items out of prieons end out … |
| 18-43 |
Jesse Loor v. Jenny Bailey, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
as-applied-challenge censorship civil-rights correctional-institutions due-process facial-challenge first-amendment mail-regulations prison-mail prison-regulations thornburgh-v-abbott |
Whether the facial validity of a mail regulation automatically defeats an as-applied challenge to a jail's censorship of particular publications? |