| 25-6351 |
Anthony James Merrick v. Kenneth Herman, Former Administrator of Religious and Volunteer Services, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-decisions prisoners-rights |
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| 25A688 |
Pennsylvania, et al. v. Jose Montanez, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-12-11 |
Application |
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americans-with-disabilities-act medical-contractors prisoners-rights rehabilitation-act state-liability vicarious-liability |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5833 |
Braun Thompson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights government-policy judicial-review legal-access prisoners-rights procedural-protections |
1. Do Citizens have a Constitutional right to clarity of the law, and thus access to the Courts?
2. May prisoners issue the right/as violated by the … |
| 24A697 |
Ismael Ruiz v. Dan Shannon, Director, Wyoming Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-01-15 |
Presumed Complete |
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access-to-courts clearly-established constitutional-violation prisoners-rights pro-se tenth-circuit |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5358 |
James Andrew Metcalf v. GEO Group, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights court-access covid-19-restrictions prisoners-rights pro-se-filing summary-judgment |
Are prisoners' Constitutional Rights to access the Courts violated when the institutional law library is closed in response to COVID-19 protocols, lea… |
| 24-5053 |
Patrick Keith Hirt v. Amber Sundquist, Superintendent, Deer Ridge Correctional Institution |
Oregon |
2024-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts bounds-v-smith constitutional-provisions habeas-corpus lewis-v-casey prison-officials prisoners-rights procedural-default supreme-court-precedent |
Did the State of Oregon violate this Court's holdings in Bounds v. Smith, 430 U.S. 817 and Lewis v. Casey, 518 U.S. 343, when prison officials impeded… |
| 23A408 |
Michael Marrara, et al. v. Philip D. Murphy, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-11-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari legal-access prisoners-rights pro-se supreme-court-rules time-extension |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7063 |
Colby Dranoel Leonard v. James M. LeBlanc, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights compact-clause due-care due-process joint-tenancy jurisdiction prisoners-rights rehabilitation-programs standing venue venue-transfer |
4) Should have Pre State District Court transferred Me. Leonard's Civil suit to the correct venue / jurisdiction ?
2) did a joint tenancy contract be… |
| 22-6455 |
Michael Joseph DeMarco, Jr. v. Jeremy J. Bynum |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech government-accountability prison-grievance prisoners-rights property-destruction qualified-immunity retaliation |
1. Does the Plaintiff's First Amendment right to redress in the form of a prison grievance exposing corruption and illegal acts give the government em… |
| 22-6239 |
Nicholas Stewart Hines v. Denny Kaemingk, Secretary, South Dakota Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts access-to-legal-documents civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection first-amendment judicial-access prisoners-rights retaliation |
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| 22-5498 |
Aaron Striz v. Bryan Collier, Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-segregation administrative-state constitutional-minima due-process eighth-amendment equality-under-the-law prisoners-rights solitary-confinement |
Does extended, indefinite solitary confinement of an atypical duration, under some circumstances, violate the Eighth Amendment, as at least five circu… |
| 21-1405 |
Lester J. Smith v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-06 |
Denied |
Amici (8) |
accommodation circuit-court-review circuit-split civil-rights deference penological-interests prison-policy prisoners-rights religious-freedom religious-liberty rluipa |
In Knight v. Thompson , the Eleventh Circuit concluded —on remand following Holt v. Hobbs , 574 U.S. 352 (2015) —that the Religious Land Use and Insti… |
| 21-5695 |
Nicholas Stewart Hines v. Tim Reisch, Secretary, South Dakota Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cares-act civil-rights constitutional-exemption due-process federal-exemption prisoners-rights state-seizure stimulus-payments supremacy-clause |
whether states seizure op prisoners * stimulus payments violate the federal exemption
STATUTES WITHIN THE CARES ACT AND THE SUPREMACY CLAUSE OF THE UN… |
| 20-6825 |
Andrew Andersen v. Marisela Montes, Commissioner of California Board of Parole Hearings, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process first-amendment greenholtz-v-inmates-of-nebraska parole parole-denial prisoners-rights protected-freedoms swarthout-v-cooke |
1. Did this court's ruling in swarthout v. cooke and Greenholtz v. inmates of Nebraska foreclose First Amendment challenges agasint statements of reas… |
| 20-5521 |
Wilbert Williams, aka Serenity Izabel Williams v. Beverly Kelly, Assistant Warden, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment gender-dysphoria medical-treatment prisoners-rights transgender transgender-rights |
1) Whether this court "Decide Whether Gender dysphoria IS A SERIOUS MEDICAL CONDITION, AND, IF SO, TO ENTER A DECISION FOR THE COMPANY that THE 5TH CI… |
| 19-8505 |
George Tolbert v. Stephanie Waggoner, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-05-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis judicial-review prisoner-rights prisoners-rights statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8355 |
Lancey Darnell Ray v. Kevin Stitt, Governor of Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2020-04-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process equal-protection federal-grants federal-statute parole parole-eligibility prisoners-rights private-prisons sentencing-rules state-corrections truth-in-sentencing |
PREFACE TO QUESTIONS PRESENTED: Prisoners, by the very nature of their
circumstances, are more than merely similarly situated; they are exactly situat… |
| 19-8127 |
Casey Rafael Tyler v. Erik A. Hooks, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights disciplinary-hearings documentary-evidence due-process evidence hearing-procedures prison-rights prisoners-rights video-surveillance wolff-v-mcdonnell |
McDonnell, HI 8 U.S. 558 ( IHTH )y established
prisoners' right 'to present documentary evidence ot
disciplinary hearings. vSmce then , lovuer court… |
| 19-5702 |
Tony D. Walker v. Green Bay Correctional Institution Health Services Unit, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process exhaustion-of-remedies frivolous-claims prison-conditions prisoners-rights procedural-hurdles standing statutory-interpretation |
I. WHETER 28 U.S.C.3 1915(S) s OVERBROAL, UNCONSTUTIONAL, AND INVALID WHERE CONSRESS HAS ENAETEd THE STAIUNE THAT INTENTIONALLY CHILLS ANd VIOLAIES IN… |
| 18-9753 |
Jason Brooks v. Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-access-to-courts,first-amendment,four court-access due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech lewis-v-casey pleading-standard prisoners-rights section-1983 standing |
(1) Whether a federal district court's adoption of a Department of Corrections Administrative Regulation and implementing it in D.C.COLO. L. Civ. Rule… |
| 18-9662 |
Mark Alan Lane v. Josias Salazar, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons due-process first-amendment penological-interests prisoner-speech prisoners-rights procunier-v-martinez prohibited-act-code-203 true-threats void-for-vagueness |
As construed to apply to statements in outgoing mail that are not true threats, is Prohibited Act Code 203 crafted so that its "limitation of First Am… |
| 18-8332 |
Abu-Ali Abdur'Rahman, et al. v. Tony Parker, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tennessee |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
cross-examination discovery due-process execution-method execution-secrecy method-of-execution prisoners-rights privileged-communications standing state-officials state-secrecy |
Does a state deprive condemned prisoners of due process when, to defeat a challenge to the state's method of execution, state officials rely on and th… |
| 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… |
| 18-8209 |
Raymond Alford Bradford v. M. Marchak, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights due-process healthcare judicial-precedent legal-interpretation mental-health ninth-circuit prisoner-rights prisoners-rights statutory-interpretation |
507, 5a7 (I9Be) In Which the California CourT OF Appeal held tHat "state Priooners Presently have a statutory right absent a judicial determination th… |
| 18-7852 |
Donald Hug v. T. J. Conley, Warden |
Georgia |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-review freedom-of-religion freedom-of-speech habeas-corpus judicial-authority prison-policies prisoners-rights statute-of-limitations time-limits |
Do prisons, through their policies and actions, have the authority to prevent (delay) prisoners from filing legal document notary until it is too late… |