solitary-confinement

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A434 James Saylor v. Rob Jeffreys, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2025-10-15 Presumed Complete americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights eighth-circuit res-judicata serious-mental-illness solitary-confinement Question not identified.
24-1067 John Wetzel, et al. v. Roy L. Williams Third Circuit 2025-04-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights death-row eighth-amendment mental-illness qualified-immunity solitary-confinement Was it clearly established for qualified immunity purposes that long-term solitary confinement for a death-row inmate with a mental illness violated t…
23-6921 Hannibal Eason v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-03-07 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment access-to-courts administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure judicial-review solitary-confinement Question not identified.
23A483 Salvador Magluta v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-29 Denied acquitted-conduct circuit-split compassionate-release sentence-modification sentencing-guidelines solitary-confinement Question not identified.
23-5472 Jorge Andrade Rico v. James Robertson, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-detention civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus mootness procedural-default solitary-confinement standing The OCR text provided is too degraded and illegible to accurately extract the "Question(s) Presented" section verbatim. While a "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED…
23-5249 Ryan David Green v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment appellate-review certiorari-request civil-rights court-filing death-penalty due-process legal-petition mental-health solitary-confinement supreme-court Question not identified.
22-1067 Brian E. Johnson v. Mike Dobbins, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-05-04 Denied ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process intentional-discrimination prisoner-rights reasonable-accommodation sixth-circuit-court solitary-confinement 1. Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals err by holding that Title II of the American Disabilities Act ("ADA") requires a prisoner with a known disab…
22-693 Michael Johnson v. Susan Prentice, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-01-25 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) circuit-split civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment exercise-deprivation prisoner-rights solitary-confinement Whether punitively depriving a prisoner in solitary confinement of virtually all exercise for three years notwithstanding the absence of a security ju…
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…
21-1363 Brandon Scott Lavergne v. Darrell Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-04-19 Denied Response Waived 8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual cruel-and-unusual-punishment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel life-without-parole plea-agreement rule-60b-petition solitary-confinement 1) Is a criminal sentence of life without parole in solitary confinement a cruel and unusual sentence? 2) Ifone federal district court finds I was no…
21-1065 Dennis Wayne Hope v. Todd Harris, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) constitutional-protections cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-review mental-health physical-health prison-conditions prisoner-rights review-procedures solitary-confinement Whether decades of solitary confinement can, under some circumstances, violate the Eighth Amendment, as at least five circuits have held, or whether s…
21-6221 David Jackson v. Massachusetts Department of Correction Massachusetts 2021-11-09 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech prisoner-rights protected-speech racial-discrimination solitary-confinement true-threat Whether the petitioner, a senior African American prisoner complaining about systemic racism in a letter he mailed to the governor of Massachusetts at…
20-7384 Samuel Rasheen Rymond Toliver v. K. Adner Second Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process exhaustion-of-remedies first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech solitary-confinement Was the treatmenttof the Petitioner on 5/30/17, being forced into Solitary Confinment for asserting his U.S.C.A. Const. First Amendment Unconsitutiona…
20-508 Brandon S. LaVergne v. Michael Vaughn, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech mail-restriction qualified-immunity religious-freedom solitary-confinement turner-test 1) Can a prisoner's 1st amendment right to correspondence be totally "revoked" without a hearing or due process? This included all religious mail, edu…
20-281 Waseem Daker v. Clinton Perry, Jr., Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied 8th-amendment circuit-split conditions-of-confinement due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus prisoner-rights solitary-confinement I. Whether a prisoner may file a habeas corpus petition to challenge his placement on segregated/solitary confinement. II. If so, whether a court con…
19-846 George Artem v. King County Department of Adult & Juvenile Detention, et al. Washington 2020-01-06 Denied Response Waived civil-rights disability-law due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-health procedural-due-process solitary-confinement Whether clearly established Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment and Federal Disability. Law permits jail officials to sanction inmates with mental health …
19-742 James Bailey-Snyder v. United States Third Circuit 2019-12-11 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived arrest-definition civil-rights criminal-investigation criminal-procedure due-process liberty-restriction prisoner-rights prosecutorial-discretion solitary-confinement speedy-trial wilkinson-v-austin Does imposing solitary confinement on a prisoner while police and prosecutors investigate and consider new criminal charges amount to an "arrest" givi…
19-514 Nikko A. Jenkins v. Nebraska Nebraska 2019-10-21 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (3) capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-health mental-illness mitigating-evidence sixth-amendment solitary-confinement (1) Whether the sentencing court violated the requirement of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment that capital sentencers give meaningful consideration…
18-8196 Larry R. Tart v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied IFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection forensic-evaluation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medication medication-consent mental-health pretrial-detention solitary-confinement Where in pre trial confinement Petitioner was unknowingly admnistered3 three different mental health psychologica "twenty nine medication's and not hi…
18-5183 Christopher M. Holmes v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-security-officer due-process grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-be-present right-to-confrontation right-to-counsel solitary-confinement standing testimony MEt, IF CURT -AppoatEd TRIAL CWNSEl ADMITTS ThAT ShE D NEyleCtEC To woNfeR nith client ABout Peremptory staikes befire oR durins peremptory Strike ses…