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Benjamin Adams v. Lloyd Arnold, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Correction, et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, No. 21-1730 · judgment January 30, 2024
Certiorari denied · October 14, 2025
Pre-decision estimate: 2% cert probability
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
The Question Presented is whether incarcerated individuals facing disciplinary segregation that amounts to a deprivation of liberty are entitled the adversarial due process protections described in Wolff v. McDonnell, 418 U.S. 539 (1974), or merely the nonadversarial due process protections described in Wilkinson v. Austin, 545 U.S. 209 (2005).
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Amanda Kelly Rice
Jones Day
For respondent
James Allen Barta
Office of the Indiana Attorney General
Proceedings
- Oct 14 2025Petition DENIED.
- Sep 24 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/10/2025.
- Sep 23 2025Reply of petitioner Benjamin Adams filed. (Distributed)
- Sep 05 2025Brief of respondents Lloyd Arnold, et al. in opposition filed.
- Jul 22 2025Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including September 5, 2025, for all respondents.
- Jul 21 2025Motion to extend the time to file a response from August 8, 2025 to September 5, 2025, submitted to The Clerk.
- Jul 07 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 8, 2025)
- Mar 31 2025Application (24A939) granted by Justice Barrett extending the time to file until July 7, 2025.
- Mar 27 2025Application (24A939) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from May 8, 2025 to July 7, 2025, submitted to Justice Barrett.