procedural-safeguards

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A787 Jacquelyn Miller v. Dylan Farris, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-07 Application constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review procedural-safeguards Question not identified.
25-255 Dion Horton, et al. v. Bruce R. Beemer, Administrative Judge, et al. Third Circuit 2025-09-04 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) due-process government-interest judicial-finding liberty-deprivation morrissey-v-brewer procedural-safeguards Whether the Due Process Clause requires a judicial finding that depriving a person of physical liberty pending a probation-revocation hearing is neces…
25-5523 Mohamed A. Ibrahim v. Allison L. Lynn Maryland 2025-09-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-settlement mental-disability procedural-safeguards 1- Whether a Maryland state courts' failure to recognize and accommodate a documented mental disability who is suffering from: A- Dementia and Alzhei…
25-5118 George Hamilton v. California Department of General Services, Government Claims Program, et al. California 2025-07-15 Denied IFP administrative-law constitutional-rights due-process government-claims mental-health-claims procedural-safeguards Whether the Department of General Services Government Claims Program, in failing to process and provide notice of filed government claims in complianc…
24-1018 I. S., By and Through His Attorney in Fact, M. S., et al. v. Fulton County School District Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-24 Denied Response Waived free-appropriate-public-education idea individualized-education-plan procedural-safeguards psychological-report school-district When Congress enacted the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), it imposed on public school districts an affirmative duty to ensure that…
24-6829 Timothy Dasler v. Jennifer Knapp, fka Dasler Vermont 2025-03-21 Denied IFP due-process evidentiary-standards judicial-review pro-se-litigant procedural-safeguards retroactive-restrictions Does a state violate the Due Process Clause and fundamental common law principles when it retroactively imposes litigation restrictions on a pro se li…
24A516 In Re Martin Akerman District of Columbia 2024-11-27 Denied administrative-discretion automated-enforcement constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment procedural-safeguards This case presents urgent and significant constitutional questions about the intersection of automated enforcement systems, due process, and fundament…
24-175 Kathleen M. Bonczyk v. John Wardle, et al. Florida 2024-08-19 Denied Response Waived communication-restrictions due-process ex-parte-communications judicial-policy procedural-safeguards state-court 1. Whether violations of the Due Process Clause occur when a state judicial policy authorizes exceptions to the proscription against ex parte communic…
24-105 Boris Kotlyarsky v. Department of Justice, et al. Second Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights conviction criminal-plea criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus innocence judicial-review procedural-safeguards In the context of habeas corpus, would it constitute a breach of due process to convict a defendant in a criminal proceeding, despite clear evidence d…
24-5145 Antonio Tyree Gaskin v. Kentucky Kentucky 2024-07-25 Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification law-enforcement legal-representation lineup procedural-safeguards right-to-counsel suspect-rights Whether the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution have guaranteed protection that safeguard law in enforcement showing in single paragraph a suspect…
23-7610 David K. Horsley v. Ohio Ohio 2024-05-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment anders-review appellate-procedure constitutional-violation due-process procedural-safeguards right-to-counsel sixth-amendment stare-decisis time-limit Does Ohio's App. R. 26 (B)(1) violate the 6th Amendment of the United States Constitution by applying a time limit to when an applicant can file to re…
23-7188 Jacob Winding, et ux. v. Superior Court of California, San Joaquin County, et al. California 2024-04-09 Denied IFP civil-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-disqualification procedural-safeguards recusal-standards standing verified-statement If a judge files and order Striking Petitioners verified statement of Disqualification under CCP section 170.3 but in the same moving order files and …
23A879 C. B., Father v. Vermont Department for Children and Families Vermont 2024-04-03 Presumed Complete child-witnesses due-process hearsay-evidence parental-rights procedural-safeguards termination-of-rights Question not identified.
23A564 Donte Johnson v. Nevada Nevada 2023-12-19 Presumed Complete capital-punishment constitutional-error ineffective-assistance jury-instructions procedural-safeguards sixth-amendment Question not identified.
23A376 Ralph Harrison Benning v. Tyrone Oliver, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-25 Presumed Complete due-process email-censorship first-amendment prisoner-rights procedural-safeguards qualified-immunity Whether censorship of prisoner emails, without any notice that the emails are being censored, nor any opportunity to challenge the decision before a n…
22-1196 GEFT Outdoor, L.L.C. v. Monroe County, Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-06-09 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights content-based-regulation first-amendment free-speech prior-restraint procedural-safeguards speech-licensing zoning-ordinance 1. Can a governmental entity escape 42 U.S.C. § 1983 liability for failing to have procedural safeguards in its speech licensing scheme by—only after …
22-7430 Debora D. v. John D., et al. California 2023-05-01 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process idea idea-protections jurisdiction parental-rights procedural-safeguards special-education standing Did the California Court act in Obstruction of the Federal Individuals Disabilities Act (IDEA) Jurisdiction and Protections? Did the California Distr…
22-7165 James Woo v. El Paso County Sheriff's Office, et al. Colorado 2023-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process governmental-immunity procedural-safeguards property-rights replevin takings 1. Whether the Colorado Supreme Court erred in holding that (I) the Colorado Governmental Immunity Act does not violate Petitioners Constitutional Fig…
22-652 Pavel Ivanovich Lazarenko v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split criminal-forfeiture procedural-safeguards statutory-interpretation substitute-property tainted-property untainted-property Whether property can be forfeited as substitute property under § 853(p) without first determining whether it is tainted or untainted. Whether untaint…
22-5848 Benjamin Robert Cole v. Jim Farris, Warden Oklahoma 2022-10-17 Denied IFP death-row disputed-issues-of-fact eighth-amendment execution-competency ford-v-wainwright fourteenth-amendment panetti-v-quarterman procedural-safeguards state-court warden-gatekeeper 1. Whether it violates the Eighth Amendment and this Court's decisions in Ford v. Wainwright, 477 U.S. 399 (1986), and Panetti v. Quarterman, 551 U.S.…
22-310 A. W., et al. v. Princeton Public Schools Board of Education, et al. Third Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied Relisted (3) civil-rights educational-placement educational-placement-and-settlement-agreement federal-court individuals-with-disabilities-education-act procedural-safeguards special-education state-law waiver-of-rights 1. May a school district condition its provision of special education and related services to a disabled child under the Individuals with Disabiliti…
22-5397 Trenton J. Miller v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus procedural-safeguards unlawful-detention Whether reasonable suspicion existed to the level required to detain Petitioner for a 'dog sniff'
22-5248 Douglas A. Hoglan v. Virginia Virginia 2022-08-02 Denied IFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process extrinsic-fraud fifth-amendment miranda-rights plea-agreement plea-bargain procedural-safeguards right-to-counsel right-to-due-process Did the extrinsic fraud which deprived Hooper of knowing of the existence of, and effectively having access to, the recordings of his police interroga…
21-7235 Wesley S. Ricks v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-offense capital-offenses criminal-procedure due-process joinder-of-offenses non-capital-offenses procedural-safeguards state-constitution trial-rights 1. Whether Capital and NonCapital Offenses may be Joinder of Offenses for Trial? 2. Whether The Constitution of the State of Louisiana of 1974, Artic…
21-5616 Felix Antequera Rivera, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-safeguards separation-of-powers standing Wv€_ <Vex>eXo.\ oc^Wo-Oe-d .v^dvCA CXxT\ £oC cx*\ (X\\e.0^d \V ncA 'cOV- vVcV, \V\.?_ \Ze_'T ^ SVcAe.~X1-^ \o ^jr-V£>X^- C3 VW* W>g_ cc\^e_ vOGx^>AA…
20-6636 Lan Tu Trinh v. Citizen Business Banking, et al. Third Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied IFP banking banking-negligence civil-rights client-protection customer-protection due-process fiduciary-duty institutional-integrity institutional-sabotage procedural-safeguards unauthorized-transfer 1. Should Citizens Business Banking consider the protection of its customers ' money and line of credit as one of its essential responsibilities? 2.…
20-5138 Patricia A. McColm v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada ada-violation civil-rights constitutional-violation court-access court-services disability-rights due-process procedural-safeguards retaliation standing Question One: Whether imposition of a daily 15 minute time restriction on physical access to the court building and use of court services is a constit…
19-1478 John Kristoffer Larsgard v. Arizona Arizona 2020-07-08 Denied Response Waived adequate-appeal appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel omitted-issues procedural-safeguards smith-v-robbins whether the process of review implemented by Arizona in claims of ineffective assistance of counsel satisfy Fourteenth Amendment protections where the…
19-1209 Thomas Edward Nesbitt v. Scott Frakes Eighth Circuit 2020-04-11 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence aedpa appellate-review castro-v-us constitutional-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus non-successiveness panetti-v-quarterman procedural-safeguards The untrained pro se Appellant respectfully attempts to succinctly present from the trial record, compelling justiciable Constitutional reasons of err…
19-7137 Patrick Randell McIntosh v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-detention civil-commitment civil-rights commitment confinement constitutional-rights dangerousness due-process mental-health personality-disorder procedural-safeguards public-safety standing Question not identified.
19-668 Courtney Bird v. Hawaii, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Response Waived child-abuse-registry constitutional-challenge continuing-violation continuing-violations due-process erroneous-listing liberty-interest procedural-safeguards statute-of-limitations Courtney Bird alleges the State of Hawai'i systematically violates the due process rights of parents by reporting them as confirmed child abusers on t…
19-6432 Michael Anthony Thibodeaux v. Drew Evans, Superintendent, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Minnesota 2019-10-29 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process government-regulation liberty-interest predatory-offender-registration procedural-due-process procedural-safeguards sex-offender-registration split-authority The Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution provides that the government may not infringe upon a person's protectable liberty interest wi…
19-561 Gail Rosier v. Jeffrey Strobel Arizona 2019-10-29 Denied Response Waived child-support contempt contempt-proceedings due-process imprisonment incarcerated-obligors indigent-obligors interstate-enforcement procedural-safeguards uniform-interstate-family-support-act 1. In light of Turner v. Rogers , 564 U.S. 431 (U.S. 2011), what minimum procedural safeguards are required to ensure due process for incarcerated and…
19-6361 Gregory Alan McKown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights commitment competency-evaluation criminal-procedure due-process involuntary-commitment liberty liberty-interest mathews-factors mathews-v-eldridge mental-health procedural-safeguards substantive-due-process I. Does mandatory, involuntary commitment of an incompetent defendant to the Bureau of Prisons for the sole purpose of evaluating whether he can attai…
19-5876 Joachim Dressler v. Circuit Court of Wisconsin, Racine County Wisconsin 2019-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP censorship civil-rights content-seizure criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence first-amendment free-speech freedman-v-maryland judicial-review prior-restraint procedural-safeguards southeastern-promotions-ltd-v-conrad Do this Court's First Amendment "prior restraint" holdings that command "strict procedural safeguards" designed to obviate the dangers of a freewheeli…
18-1591 R. F., a Minor Child, By and Through Her Parents and Next Friends, E. F. and H. F., et al. v. Cecil County Public Schools Fourth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied administrative-law due-process educational-benefit educational-rights fape free-appropriate-public-education hearing-officer idea individuals-with-disabilities-education-act-idea parental-participation procedural-safeguards special-education This case raises the question of whether, pursuant to 20 U.S.C. § 1415(E)(ii), a hearing officer may find a denial of a free appropriate education sol…
18-9745 Marion Wilson, Jr. v. Georgia Georgia 2019-06-20 Denied IFP capital-case capital-punishment dna-testing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection forensic-evidence procedural-issues procedural-safeguards 1. Was Petitioner denied due process by the state court's refusal to provide a hearing that was mandated by Georgia's DNA statute, particularly given …
18-9617 Randolph Harris Austin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP cocaine cocaine-base constitutional-rights constitutional-safeguards democratic-constraints due-process grand-jury grand-jury-indictment indictment jury-instructions procedural-rights procedural-safeguards Whe re the grand jury alleged c ocaine base and the jury was instructed that it didn't matter whether it was c ocaine b ase or cocaine and the judgme…
18-8211 Russell Berger v. James Gibson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied IFP ada civil-rights criminal-law disability discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-statute judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-safeguards standing statutory-interpretation 1) Can a persons height be a disability under Tithe II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42U.s.C.8 12102(1)(A)-(C)? 2) Can a "Strike" be access…
18-7890 In Re Jose Joaquin Ramirez 2019-02-13 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection involuntary-commitment mental-health procedural-safeguards standing state-government Question not identified.
18-7369 Rash B. Ghosh v. City of Berkeley, California, et al. California 2019-01-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeal due-process judicial-petition judicial-review procedural-safeguards property-rights standing vexatious-litigant The question presented is, does due process affirmatively require the State to provide meaningful procedural safeguards when it responds to judicial p…