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Malcolm Wilson v. Angelita Castaneda

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, No. 22-3068 · judgment July 15, 2025


Certiorari denied · April 20, 2026
Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

Whether due process requires a prison disciplinary board to provide “some evidence” of the amount of actual or estimated loss caused by an inmate’s actions before depriving the inmate of his trust-account funds by imposing a restitution sanction.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Michael Louis Lindinger
Mayer Brown

For respondent

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Linked docket
25A620

Proceedings

  1. Apr 20 2026
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Mar 25 2026
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/17/2026.
  3. Feb 02 2026
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 6, 2026)
  4. Dec 01 2025
    Application (25A620) granted by Justice Barrett extending the time to file until February 2, 2026.
  5. Nov 21 2025
    Application (25A620) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from December 4, 2025 to February 2, 2026, submitted to Justice Barrett.