Disability rights in federal prisons
Joseph Tyrell Duhon v. FCI-Coleman Medium
In brief
- Where it stands
- Petition Pending
Awaiting an order on the petition
- What it’s about
- Joseph Tyrell Duhon asks the Supreme Court to review his claim that the Eleventh Circuit rejected his appeal without explaining why.
- What's at stake
- Duhon's Rehabilitation Act complaint remains dismissed, and the Supreme Court has not decided whether to review his challenge.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
He says the ruling left in place a lower-court dismissal of his Rehabilitation Act civil-rights complaint for lack of an administrative record, denying him due process and shielding agency inaction.
The underlying case is Duhon's Rehabilitation Act civil-rights complaint, which the lower court dismissed for lack of an administrative record.
Question presented
Whether a federal appellate court denies Fifth Amendment due process and abdicates its appellate function by issuing a summary, unreasoned denial of review that insulates a lower court’s structural error — namely, dismissing a plenary civil rights complaint under the Rehabilitation Act for lack of an administrative record to shield agency inaction?
What happens next
The petition was distributed for the Court's Dec. 4, 2026 conference. The Court must decide whether to hear it; no argument or decision date is set.
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Sources
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