procedural-hurdles
5 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-6594 | Jermaine Alexander Foster v. Florida | Florida | 2025-02-19 | Denied | IFP | atkins-standard death-penalty intellectual-disability procedural-hurdles retroactivity supreme-court-precedent | 1. Whether the categorical restriction against executing the intellectually disabled can be circumvented via procedural hurdles implemented after liti… |
| 21-5531 | Garlin Raymond Farris v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | agency-principles appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process excusable-neglect indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pioneer-investment-services procedural-hurdles sixth-amendment | The question presented, on which the federal appellate courts are currently divided, is whether appointed counsel's misconduct can serve as excusable … |
| 20-7219 | Cedric C. Westbrook v. California | California | 2021-02-23 | Denied | IFP | arbitrary-action arbitrary-classification civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-classification procedural-hurdles standing state-court | Does the State Court have an arbitrary right to re-classify a legal document into a specific classification of filings that the State knows has surmou… |
| 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… |
| 18-8182 | Monty M. Shelton v. Gene Beasley, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2019-03-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence due-process fair-hearing habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice non-capital obstruction procedural-hurdles savings-clause sixth-amendment | Should meritorious actual innocence claims in non-capital Habeas Corpus filings overcome all procedural hurdles and be afforded at least one full and … |