pro-bono-counsel

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24A1253 Daniel Raul Santiago Vasquez v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-06-18 Presumed Complete capital-murder death-penalty eighth-amendment extension-of-time post-conviction pro-bono-counsel Question not identified.
24-7387 Anthony Wainwright v. Ron Desantis, Governor of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-10 Denied Amici (2)IFP capital-litigation constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus pro-bono-counsel 1. Whether a State violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it mandates that capital litigants have counsel during their state…
23-6922 Benjamin Kohn v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law arms-of-the-state bar-admission civil-rights eleventh-amendment en-banc judicial-review ninth-circuit pro-bono-counsel sovereign-immunity state-university Question not identified.
22-5021 Palani Karupaiyan v. L. Naganda, et al. Third Circuit 2022-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights conjugal-rights due-process false-arrest guardian-ad-litem injunctive-relief parental-rights pro-bono-counsel right-of-access-to-courts A) DISTRICT COURT DENYING PLAINTIFF(S) REQUEST TO APPOINT PRO BONO ATTORNEY AND/OR GUARDIAN AD LITEM IS ERROR. B) DIST COURT DENYING AN ORDER PROHIBI…
21-7208 Theresa Bailey v. New York Law School, et al. Second Circuit 2022-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process indigent-plaintiff judicial-review pro-bono-counsel procedural-errors standing title-ix [This Court and circuits have agreed: plaintiffs demonstrated triable issues for a jury on review of similar facts and issues under Title IX, See Davi…
21-6675 Robert JW McCleland v. Rick Raemisch, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1915 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process expert-witness fed-r-evid-706 indigent-party judicial-notice medical-facts pro-bono-counsel standing summary-judgment 1. Whether the appellate courts should apply case law established under Fed.R.Evid. 706, which denies the appointment of expert witnesses because of …
21-5459 Bernabe Encarnacion v. Anthony J. Annucci, Acting Commissioner, New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, et al. Second Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest double-jeopardy due-process final-decision jurisdiction pro-bono-counsel standing summary-judgment Question not identified.
20-7478 Paul Eric Lewis v. Southern Connecticut State University, et al. Second Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure pro-bono-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Where a plaintiff who was granted pro bono counsel, specifically for the purpose "to write the preliminary pleadings sufficiently to allow a jury tria…
19-7668 Darlene Kay Herran v. Indiana Indiana 2020-02-14 Denied IFP 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-rights appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process home-detention indigent-client indigent-rights pro-bono-counsel sixth-amendment standing transcript-costs 1) Did the Indiana Court of Appeals err by ruling that when a trial court states that pro-bono counsel may be charged for costs of a transcript for an…