When prisoners can appeal
Phillips v. Plummer
In brief
- Where it stands
- Dismissed
Petition denied.
- What it’s about
- Edward S.
- Who it affects
- Phillips’s request for Supreme Court review is over, but the denial did not decide whether the Seventh Circuit followed the rule he cited.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
Phillips asks the Supreme Court to review whether the Seventh Circuit departed from—or approved a departure by the Southern District of Illinois from—the rule governing permission to appeal after a federal court rejects a prisoner’s challenge to confinement. The rule Phillips cites requires a prisoner to show that reasonable judges could debate or disagree with the rejection of the prisoner’s constitutional claims.
The dispute concerns the permission a prisoner must get to appeal a federal court’s rejection of a challenge to confinement; Phillips said the appeals court departed from the rule in Slack.
Question presented
Whether the Seventh Circuit has so far departed from the rule of law established in Slack, and/or sanctioned such a departure from this rule of law by the Southern District of Illinois, as to call for an exercise of this Court’s supervisory power, per S. Ct. R. 10(a)?
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More questions
- What standard did Phillips say the courts departed from?
- He cited a rule requiring a showing that reasonable judges could debate or disagree with the rejection of his constitutional claims.
Sources
Primary materials plus reporting. Best-effort analysis: this explainer relies on a mix of primary materials and trusted secondary sources. Official filings and opinions remain authoritative.