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25A887 Arron Benedetti, et al. v. Marin County, California, et al. California 2026-02-05 Application fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment land-use-exaction nollan-test property-rights residential-development Question not identified.
25A839 David Tangipa, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. California 2026-01-22 Application election-law fifteenth-amendment minority-representation racial-gerrymandering redistricting voting-rights-act Question not identified.
25A810 Elizabeth Mirabelli, et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-13 Application california-education free-exercise opt-out-policies parental-rights religious-liberty substantive-due-process Question not identified.
25-6503 Carlos A. Ortega v. Santa Clara County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-07 Pending None Question not identified.
25-703 Calvary Chapel San Jose, et al. v. California, et al. California 2025-12-17 Pending church-autonomy covid-restrictions excessive-fines free-exercise-clause religious-liberty strict-scrutiny At issue in this case is the ability of government to referee religious services in a house of worship. Government officials in California imposed COV…
25-672 Kate Adams v. Sacramento County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-10 Pending circuit-split constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech matter-of-public-concern public-employee-speech This case presents a clear, recognized, and entrenched conflict over the First Amendment rights of public employees: whether speech made as a private …
25M46 Edward L. Clark v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-02 Pending None
25A553 Shirley V. Remmert v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-11-13 Application appellate-procedure district-court frivolous-appeal in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation Whether a district court has the authority to dismiss an appeal as frivolous under 28 U.S.C. § 1915 without providing a detailed explanation of its re…
25-538 City of Los Angeles, California, et al. v. Estate of Daniel Hernandez, By and Through Successors in Interest, Manuel Hernandez, Maria Hernandez, and M. L. H., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-11-03 Pending body-camera excessive-force fourth-amendment moment-of-threat police-shooting qualified-immunity This case arises from a split-second police encounter in which an officer fired six shots in six seconds at a suspect armed with a knife who appeared …
25-427 Walid Abdelaziz, in His Individual Capacity as a Police Officer for the City of Oakland, California, et al. v. Estate of Decedent Lolomania Soakai, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-10-08 Pending due-process fourteenth-amendment police-liability qualified-immunity state-created-danger substantive-due-process 1. Whether bystanders injured when a fleeing criminal suspect lost control of his car and crashed into them have a Fourteenth Amendment substantive du…
25-414 The Sunshine Group, LLC v. City of Dana Point, California, et al. California 2025-10-06 Denied constitutional-violation due-process ex-parte notice-requirement property-rights regulatory-taking The City of Dana Point "red tagged" Petitioner's motel and then had a receiver appointed to oversee its rehabilitation without ever providing notice o…
25A362 Kate Adams v. Sacramento County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-29 Presumed Complete employment-retaliation first-amendment matter-of-public-concern ninth-circuit public-employee racist-speech Whether speech condemning racist memes constitutes a matter of public concern under the First Amendment's protections for public employee speech
25A366 Calvary Chapel San Jose, et al. v. California, et al. California 2025-09-29 Presumed Complete certiorari first-amendment judicial-review religious-freedom state-court-review supreme-court-procedure Whether a state supreme court's denial of review without substantive analysis violates a religious organization's First Amendment right to meaningful …
25-337 City of Huntington Beach, California, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-23 Pending constitutional-structure first-amendment government-powers local-government official-capacity state-law 1. Whether the Constitution categorically denies a local government any capacity to invoke it against its State, without first determining—by refere…
25-266 City of Fresno, California, et al. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2025-09-09 Denied drought-impact fifth-amendment property-rights reclamation-act takings-clause water-rights 1. Whether in accordance with Section 8 of the Reclamation Act, 28 U.S.C. § 372, the beneficial users of Reclamation Project irrigation water have com…
25A217 Geronimo Velasco v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-22 Presumed Complete court-integrity due-process federal-rules judicial-estoppel phantom-hearing sanctions Whether a federal district judge may commit judicial estoppel by issuing contradictory orders and imposing sanctions based on a legally non-existent '…
25-212 Anh Tuyet Thai v. Los Angeles County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-21 Denied ada-accommodation disability-rights due-process federal-immunity fourth-amendment search-and-seizure This Court has long recognized that "to facilitate the orderly and sympathetic administration of the disability program[s] * * *, the Secretary and …
25A197 Gregory Melvin Haynes v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-19 Presumed Complete civil-procedure disqualification fraud-on-court judgment-renewal judicial-bias rule-60 Whether a district court judge's alleged bias and a party's claim of fraud on the court warrant vacating a final judgment under Federal Rule of Civil …
25-194 Dianna E. Webb v. City of Westminster, California, et al. California 2025-08-18 Denied fourth-amendment health-and-safety-code probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrant-requirement 1. Whether or not forcible and unauthorized entry pursuant to Cal. Health & Safety Code § 17980.7, and obtaining evidence to use is in pseudocriminal …
25-173 Elizabeth Flynt v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-13 Denied constitutional-law dormant-commerce-clause economic-regulation interstate-commerce market-discrimination state-law Whether a state law that discriminates against firms engaged in interstate commerce by forcing firms to choose between being part of the enacting stat…
25A167 City of Los Angeles, California, et al. v. Estate of Daniel Hernandez, By and Through Successors in Interest, Manuel Hernandez, Maria Hernandez and M. L. H., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-07 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
25-142 William Gerard Sangervasi, II v. City of San Jose, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-06 Denied equal-protection first-amendment government-speech police-uniform sexual-orientation viewpoint-discrimination Our American Flag and The Uniform of America's Police Officers are neutral and impartial visual symbols of blind-justice and equal protection under th…
25-68 James Thomas Ballard, Individually and as Trustee of the James T. Ballard Millennium Trust, dated January 9, 2002 v. City of West Hollywood, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-07-18 Denied amendment-standard covid-19-restrictions due-process municipal-regulation property-rights takings-clause 1. Whether a municipality may transform temporary emergency rent restrictions and occupancy mandates adopted at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic i…
25A12 City of Huntington Beach, California, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-07-02 Presumed Complete arm-of-the-state federal-circuit-split municipal-standing political-subdivision sovereign-immunity state-law-analysis Whether a political subdivision can be categorically barred from suing a state based on a per se rule, or whether courts must conduct a functional ana…
24A1228 City of Fresno, California, et al. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2025-06-12 Presumed Complete certiorari federal-circuit municipal-appeal procedural-review supreme-court-rules time-extension Whether a municipality may seek an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari under Supreme Court procedural rules when seeking review of a F…
24-1263 Jeannine Bedard v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. California 2025-06-11 Denied due-process employment-conditions fourteenth-amendment labor-law property-rights vested-rights Did the state courts, including the California Supreme Court, violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by failing to rule on substan…
24-7353 Jose Trinidad Martinez Santoyo v. Lasha Boyden, former United States Marshal for the Eastern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-04 Denied criminal-procedure extradition international-law sixth-amendment speedy-trial treaty-interpretation Whether the Sixth Amendment Speedy Trial Clause constitutes a law that can bar extradition under the United States-Mexico Extradition Treaty due to la…
24A1185 Elizabeth Flynt v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-03 Presumed Complete civil-rights court-of-appeals extension-of-time ninth-circuit petition-for-certiorari summary-judgment Whether the Ninth Circuit correctly applied the standard for granting summary judgment in a civil rights case
24-1180 Corrine Morgan Thomas, et al. v. Humboldt County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-19 Denied civil-rights common-law fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine jury-trial seventh-amendment Whether the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial in suits at common law is incorporated against the States by the Fourteenth Amendment.
24-1157 Taylor Packwood, et al. v. County of Contra Costa, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-12 Denied civil-procedure domestic-relations due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud-exception rooker-feldman Whether there is a fraud exception to the Rooker-Feldman doctrine in domestic relations cases raising claims of a violation of due process of law
24-1146 Gilda Ryan, et al. v. County of Imperial, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-08 Denied civil-rights due-process judicial-supervision ninth-circuit pro-se-litigation section-1983 Whether the Ninth Circuit's sanctioning of the District Court's use of a pro-se §1983 civil action as on-the-job training constitutes a severe departu…
24A1073 Anh Tuyet Thai v. Los Angeles County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-06 Presumed Complete disability-benefits due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure social-security Whether law enforcement may conduct warrantless, forcible home searches of Social Security disability applicants without violating their Fourth Amendm…
24-7097 Jermel Arcilicia Taylor v. City of Sacramento, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-04-29 Denied None Question not identified.
24A995 William Gerard Sangervasi, II v. City of San Jose, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-04-17 Presumed Complete None
24A962 Jeannine Bedard v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. California 2025-04-09 Presumed Complete None
24-6921 Benjamin Kohn v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-04-03 Denied dismissal-with-prejudice federal-procedure jurisdictional-challenge rule-12b1 sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether sovereign immunity implicates subject-matter jurisdiction such that it may be resolved through factual challenges under Federal Rule of Civil …
24A910 Department of Education, et al. v. California, et al. First Circuit 2025-03-26 Presumed Complete administrative-discretion district-court-jurisdiction executive-power federal-grants judicial-review separation-of-powers Whether a federal district court exceeds its jurisdictional authority by compelling the Executive Branch to reinstate and fund federal grants that hav…
24M74 Thomas Ostly v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-03-25 Presumed Complete None
24-956 Los Angeles County, California, et al. v. Peter Woods Nyarecha, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-03-06 Denied cell-check-policy constitutional-violation monell-doctrine municipal-liability section-1983 summary-judgment Whether video evidence from a single cell block on one night is sufficient to establish a municipal custom or practice under Monell liability
24-948 Patricia Guerrero, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of California, et al. v. Stephen Moreland Redd Ninth Circuit 2025-03-04 Denied appellate-procedure circuit-split judicial-review mootness munsingwear-doctrine vacatur Whether, under United States v. Munsingwear, a court of appeals' decision should be vacated when an appeal becomes moot by happenstance while a petiti…
24-932 Pierre Kory, et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-02-27 Pending content-neutrality first-amendment medical-communication physician-speech strict-scrutiny viewpoint-discrimination Whether the Ninth Circuit's rule that all physician communications with patients are unprotected by the First Amendment is consistent with NIFLA and s…
24-6488 Jordy Ezequiel Ochoa, aka Jordy Ezequil Ochoa-Cordova v. Robert Luna, Sheriff, Los Angeles County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-02-06 Denied criminal-procedure double-jeopardy habeas-corpus jury-trial mistrial probation-violation Is it a violation of clearly established federal law under the Double Jeopardy clause to allow a court to declare a mistrial based on a hung jury, hol…
24A749 Frederick Luehring v. Los Angeles County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-31 Presumed Complete civil-rights court-order dismissal pro-se section-1983 service-of-process Whether a pro se plaintiff's failure to serve a complaint and comply with court orders warrants dismissal under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(b)
24A747 Corrine Morgan Thomas, et al. v. County of Humboldt, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-30 Presumed Complete civil-penalties due-process fourteenth-amendment incorporation jury-trial seventh-amendment Whether the Fourteenth Amendment incorporates the Seventh Amendment's right to a jury trial against the states in civil proceedings involving substant…
24-736 Village Communities, LLC, et al. v. San Diego County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-13 Denied fifth-amendment inverse-condemnation land-use-permit property-rights takings-claim unconstitutional-conditions Whether the Ninth Circuit's holding improperly requires a land use permit applicant to show government permit conditions would coerce surrender of pro…
24-728 Iowa Pork Producers Association v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-10 Denied circuit-split dormant-commerce-clause fractured-opinion interstate-commerce judicial-interpretation pike-balancing-test Whether a party alleging that Proposition 12 discriminates against interstate commerce states a claim under Pike v. Bruce Church, and whether lower fe…
24-598 B&L Productions, Inc., dba Crossroads of the West, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied commercial-speech equal-protection first-amendment gun-show-ban public-forum second-amendment Whether California's ban on gun show sales at public fairgrounds violates First and Second Amendment protections for commercial speech and lawful comm…
24A487 City of Los Angeles, California, et al. v. Hasmik Jasmine Chinaryan, Individually and as Guardian ad Litem for NEC, a Minor, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-15 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-violations excessive-force law-enforcement municipal-liability ninth-circuit Whether a municipality and its employees can be held liable for alleged constitutional violations arising from a law enforcement encounter involving p…
24-521 Bethany Farber v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-07 Denied fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment section-1983 substantive-due-process unreasonable-seizures wrongful-detention Whether the right against wrongful detention falls under the Fourth Amendment's proscription against unreasonable seizures or the Fourteenth Amendment…
24A400 Iowa Pork Producers Association v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-24 Presumed Complete agricultural-regulation ballot-measure dormant-commerce-clause interstate-commerce ninth-circuit state-law Whether a state ballot measure regulating agricultural production methods imposes an undue burden on interstate commerce in violation of the dormant C…
24-435 GHP Management Corporation, et al. v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-17 Denied eviction-moratorium just-compensation physical-taking property-rights right-to-exclude takings-clause Whether an eviction moratorium depriving property owners of the fundamental right to exclude nonpaying tenants effects a physical taking
24-5771 Kyle Christopher Zoellner v. City of Arcata, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-17 Denied criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering fourth-amendment probable-cause sixth-amendment Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's judgment regarding probable cause for arrest and the constitutional implications of …
24-427 Ronald Hittle v. City of Stockton, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-16 Denied burden-shifting causation employment-discrimination motivating-factor supreme-court-precedent title-vii Whether the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting framework requires a plaintiff to disprove an employer's proffered reason for adverse employment action …
24A315 B&L Productions, Inc., et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-02 Presumed Complete administrative-law california emergency-application judicial-review mandate ninth-circuit Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly issued a mandate affecting the legal rights of B&L Productions without proper judicial review
24-269 Lydia Olson, et al. v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-10 Denied constitutional-challenge failure-to-state-claim hypothetical-facts judicial-review pleading-standard rational-basis-review Whether a court may dismiss for failure to state a claim a constitutional challenge to a law subject to rational-basis review based on hypothetical fa…
24-227 John Kevin Woodward v. California, et al. California 2024-08-29 Denied acquittal criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment judicial-interpretation substantial-evidence Does the Supreme Court of California's narrow test for an 'acquittal' under the Fifth Amendment conflict with this Court's precedent?
24-158 Allison Cole-Kelly v. Malia M. Cohen, in Her Official Capacity as State Controller of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-14 Denied due-process just-compensation property-rights sovereign-immunity takings-clause unclaimed-property Whether a state's seizure and use of unclaimed property without compensation constitutes an unconstitutional taking under the Fifth Amendment's Taking…
24A168 Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, et al. California 2024-08-12 Presumed Complete court-access judicial-review pro-se procedural-rights vexatious-litigant writ-of-mandate Whether a state court's denial of a pro se litigant's petition for writ of mandate constitutes an impermissible restriction on access to judicial revi…
24A169 Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, et al. California 2024-08-12 Presumed Complete civil-procedure court-access judicial-restriction legal-filing pro-se vexatious-litigant Whether a state court can designate a pro se litigant as a vexatious litigant and restrict their ability to file future legal actions
24A150 GHP Management Corporation, et al. v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-08 Presumed Complete covid-19 eviction-moratorium fifth-amendment municipal-code regulatory-taking takings-clause Whether a municipal eviction moratorium during the COVID-19 pandemic constitutes a regulatory taking under the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause that r…
24A145 Ronald Hittle v. City of Stockton, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-07 Presumed Complete bostock-standard but-for-causation mcdonnell-douglas-framework religious-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii Whether the McDonnell Douglas framework for summary judgment in Title VII cases improperly conflicts with the but-for causation standard established i…
24A82 Gregory Melvin Haynes v. City of Colusa, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-23 Presumed Complete case-assignment court-procedure due-process judicial-assignment judicial-bias non-random Whether a federal district court judge's non-random case assignment violates due process and judicial ethics when the assignment appears to be motivat…
24A67 Allison Cole-Kelly v. Malia Cohen, in Her Official Capacity as State Controller of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-22 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure benefit-claims certiorari-extension joint-petition ninth-circuit state-controller Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the plaintiffs' consolidated claims challenging the California State Controller's admin…
22O158 Alabama, et al., Plaintiffs v. California, et al. 2024-05-24 Denied None
23-1190 Alexsey Predybaylo v. Sacramento County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-03 Denied civil-rights due-process excessive-force municipal-liability pre-trial-detainee qualified-immunity strip-search Is an officer's intentional use of substantial and aggressive force against a pre-trial detainee in response to mere passive resistance to a strip sea…
23-1182 Kenneth Jones v. County of San Diego, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process equitable-tolling excessive-force law-enforcement race-discrimination standing Whether equitable tolling should apply in this case?
23-7282 Jeff Baoliang Zhang v. County of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-19 Dismissed access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-violations deprivation-of-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-courts judicial-misconduct Whether federal courts can take serious civil rights violations as frivolous
23-1130 Uber Technologies, Inc., et al. v. California, et al. California 2024-04-18 Denied arbitration-agreements eeoc-v-waffle-house federal-arbitration-act individual-relief litigation-claims monetary-relief preemption state-law state-officials Does the FAA allow state officials to litigate claims for monetary relief on behalf of people who agreed to arbitrate those claims?
23A901 Carl Gordon v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-09 Presumed Complete california-constitution conflict-of-interest constitutional-authority false-claims-act gubernatorial-recall void-ab-initio Whether the California gubernatorial recall election and laws enacted during that period are void ab initio due to Governor Newsom's alleged lack of c…
23-6922 Benjamin Kohn v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-07 Denied administrative-law arms-of-the-state bar-admission civil-rights eleventh-amendment en-banc judicial-review ninth-circuit pro-bono-counsel sovereign-immunity state-university Whether sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment extends to a state university
23-938 Cynthia Wheeler, et al. v. Orange County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied attorney-appearance civil-rights continuing-violation-doctrine emotional-distress intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress negligent-infliction-of-emotional-distress preemption statutory-rights tort tort-claims Whether the 'pure' form of 'Continuing Violation Doctrine' should apply to Civil Rights and Tort Claims of Intentional and Negligent Infliction of Emo…
23-917 Jeffrey-Allen Witzeman v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-23 Denied breach-of-trust civil-rights due-process jurisdiction land-patent nonfeasance restraint-of-trade standing title title-challenge Whether the United States District Court, District of California lacked lawful jurisdiction in the case
23-6720 Lawrence Remsen, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. California 2024-02-12 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights class-action declaratory-relief due-process first-amendment free-speech good-time-credits judicial-immunity liberty-interest standing Did the CSC deny class member Bruce Koklich his First Amendment right to petition for declaratory and injunctive relief?
23A739 Irina Collier v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. California 2024-02-08 Presumed Complete first-amendment government-misconduct institutional-fraud political-conspiracy retaliation whistleblower-protection Whether the First Amendment protects a whistleblower's claims of systemic institutional fraud and potential political conspiracy when alleging retalia…
23-809 Peter Kleidman v. Martin R. Barash, Judge, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-26 Denied brown-vs-board civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-tort due-process equitable-relief federal-judges free-speech judicial-immunity prospective-injunction pulliam-precedent standing Are federal judges immune from claims for equitable relief?
23-6540 Jennifer Agnes Lopez v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-immunity state-actors statute-of-limitations Whether the State actors can deprive the individual of a fair treatment which violates the guarantees of the Fifth Fourteenth Amendment
23-707 Yossi Govrin, et al. v. City of Santa Monica, California, et al. California 2023-12-29 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling estoppel government-taking property-rights standing substantive-due-process takings Whether a party with close ties to the government should be allowed to proceed with litigating its claims based on equitable tolling and/or estoppel g…
23-689 City of Los Angeles, California, et al. v. M. A. R., a Minor, By and Through His Guardian ad Litem, Elisabeth Barragan, Individually and as a Successor in Interest to Daniel Rivera, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-12-27 Dismissed civil-rights clearly-established excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity summary-judgment undisputed-evidence video-evidence Whether a court's obligation to view the evidence in the light most favorable to the plaintiff allows it to ignore undisputed clear video evidence tha…
23-526 Charles Nichols v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-11-17 Denied 2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process firearms-rights fourteenth-amendment second-amendment self-defense standing Does the Second Amendment protect the keeping and bearing of loaded and unloaded rifles, shotguns, and handguns, in case of confrontation, for the pur…
23-410 Estate of Gabriel Strickland, et al. v. Nevada County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-19 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights deadly-force graham-factors graham-v-connor objective-reasonableness section-1983 totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances use-of-force Whether the reasonableness of an officer's use of deadly force should be evaluated solely upon the circumstances of the final moment or upon the 'tota…
23A297 Yehoram Uziel v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California Ninth Circuit 2023-10-05 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23A298 Yehoram Uziel v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-05 Presumed Complete abuse-of-discretion due-process equal-protection-clause federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discrimination self-represented-litigant Whether the Ninth Circuit violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments and abused its discretion under 28 U.S.C. § 455 …
23A274 Charles Nichols v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-29 Presumed Complete None
23A278 Naomi Bar-Lev v. City of San Diego, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-29 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23-319 Evelyn Newey v. Orange County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-27 Denied 1983-claims civil-rights decertification due-process heck-doctrine judicial-conduct judicial-policy law-enforcement police-accountability sb-2 Should police be held accountable for decisions under all circumstances?
23-270 County of Tulare, California, et al. v. Jose Murguia, Individually and on Behalf of the Estates of Mason and Maddox Murguia, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment private-violence shocks-the-conscience state-action state-created-danger substantive-due-process Whether a State's failure to protect an individual who is not in state custody from violence by a private person constitutes a violation of the Due Pr…
23-255 Cooper D. Johnson v. Malia M. Cohen, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as State Controller of California, et al. California 2023-09-15 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-rights takings takings-clause unclaimed-property Whether the Controller's actions under the California Unclaimed Property Law violate the Due Process Clause and Takings Clause
23-207 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied engine-manufacturers federal-law federal-preemption national-meat ninth-circuit preemption product-standards sales-ban sales-bans state-standards tobacco-control-act Whether the Tobacco Control Act expressly preempts state and local laws that prohibit the sale of flavored tobacco products
23-195 Aaron Hashim, et al. v. Malia M. Cohen, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as State Controller of California, et al. California 2023-08-31 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment california constitutional-law due-process notice-requirement property-rights takings takings-clause unclaimed-property Whether the Controller's actions under color of the California Unclaimed Property Law violate the Due Process Clause and Takings Clause
23A91 Susan Porter v. Kelly Martinez, Sheriff, San Diego County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-31 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23-5165 Jeff Baoliang Zhang v. County of Los Angeles, California, et al. California 2023-07-24 Denied amendment-xiv civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-corruption judicial-misconduct standing state-court Whether the state court judges can willfully use all the lies made by Respondents and impose the unreasonable state statutes to dismiss this case
23-53 Frederick Bates v. City of San Jose, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-21 Denied access-to-courts collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process frcp-60 law-of-the-case miscarriage-of-justice ninth-circuit res-judicata Whether the Ninth Circuit's ruling affirming the dismissal conflicts with SCOTUS precedent on FRCP 60 and independent actions
23-5097 Allen Auten v. California California 2023-07-13 Denied 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legislative-intent parole sentencing sentencing-structure standing Whether the California Supreme Court prejudicially abused its discretion and acted in excess of jurisdiction when it refused to issue a decision on th…
23-35 City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. v. Ivana Kirola, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Ninth Circuit 2023-07-12 Denied civil-procedure class-action injunctive-relief legal-injury standing trial-record unnamed-class-members unnamed-plaintiffs Whether a court may order injunctive relief in a case where the sole named plaintiff failed to prove she suffered any legal injury at trial but the tr…
22-1224 Randy Ralston, et al. v. San Mateo County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-06-21 Denied civil-rights coastal-development due-process government-action land-use-regulation pleading-standards property-rights ripeness ripeness-doctrine takings takings-claim Is a takings claim ripe when the government establishes a mandatory process requiring property owners to ask whether any development on their land is …
22-7694 Karl Ray Masek v. Rob Isonta, Attorney General of California, et al. District of Columbia 2023-06-02 Denied civil-rights conspiracy due-process federal-procedure law-enforcement mail-fraud racketeering retaliation rico-complaint standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's RICO and BIVENS complaints
22A976 Godspeak Calvary Chapel, et al. v. County of Ventura, California, et al. California 2023-05-09 Presumed Complete None
22-1080 City of Stockton, California, et al. v. Francisco Duarte Ninth Circuit 2023-05-05 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-claim criminal-procedure due-process heck-bar heck-v-humphrey nolo-contendere plea-bargaining plea-deal pretrial-diversion section-1983 Whether the 'Heck Bar' bars a 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 claim where the plaintiff pled nolo contendere as part of a plea deal
22-7375 R. J. Kulick v. United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-authority magistrate-judge pro-per-status procedural-fairness report-and-recommendations standing The USDC & USCA-9 denied Kulick's right to Due Process by NOT Addressing Clause '(5) Filing Of Magistrate -Judge's Report And Recommendations Before T…
22A910 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, et al. v. Robert Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-18 Presumed Complete None
22-969 City of Santa Maria, California, et al. v. San Luis Obispo Coastkeeper, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-06 Denied agency-authority agency-discretion cooperative-federalism federal-statute nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers state-water-rights statutory-interpretation water-rights Whether the nondelegation doctrine and separation of powers prevent courts from interpreting a federal statute's 'and other purposes' clause to invest…
22A865 Randy Ralston, et al. v. San Mateo County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-03 Presumed Complete None
22-943 Andre Verdun, et al. v. City of San Diego, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-28 Denied administrative-search fourth-amendment parking-enforcement precompliance-review probable-cause public-health-safety search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-searches Whether tire-chalking falls outside the administrative-search exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement
22-7018 Michael Wright v. Contra Costa County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-15 Denied civil-rights due-process federal-court-denial heck-v-humphrey jackson-v-virginia Jackson-v-Virginia-standard section-1983 state-court-invalidation state-tribunal unlawful-conviction Heck-v-Humphrey-standard-for-1983-civil-actions
22-778 Danielle Howard Martinez, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-02-17 Denied covid-19-education declaratory-relief disability-rights free-appropriate-public-education idea-compliance individuals-with-disabilities-education-act injunctive-relief mootness mootness-doctrine school-closures state-educational-agencies Whether Petitioners' claims that the CDE Defendants violated federal law
22-739 David Kagan, et al. v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-02-07 Denied constitutional-law due-process eminent-domain eviction physical-occupation physical-taking property-rights rent-control rent-stabilization takings tenant-protection Whether a law that bars termination of a tenancy, and compels the occupation of property by an unwanted tenant, amounts to a per se, physical taking
22-6577 Marcus Brent Fields v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied 14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process housing-policy medical-ethics prison-conditions prisoner-rights segregation Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when he was injected with the harmful Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine against his will
22-6559 Yan Minkovitch v. Ticor Title Company of California, et al. California 2023-01-18 Denied civil-rights community-property consumer-protection due-process family-law legal-standing marital-rights real-estate real-estate-transaction standing title-insurance Should private title insurers be permitted to force married couples to relinquish their state-law community property rights when purchasing a home?
22A617 Andre Verdun, et al. v. City of San Diego, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-10 Presumed Complete None
22A552 Danielle Howard Martinez, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-20 Presumed Complete None
22-6330 Billy Ray Jackson v. Bryan Daniel, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-12-19 Denied administrative-review civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment individual-capacity liberty property section-1983 sovereign-immunity state-action unemployment-benefits Whether petitioner Billy Ray Jackson's 42 U.S.C. 1983 complaint states a claim against the respondent state officials under color of state law
22-551 Francisco Negrete, et al. v. City of Oakland, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied civil-rights consent-decree federal-consent-decree federal-court-power federal-jurisdiction federal-power local-government municipal-charter settlement-agreement state-law state-law-conflict subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether federal courts have subject-matter jurisdiction over a state law claim that requires resolving a conflict between state law and a federal cons…
22-6244 LeeAnn Morgan v. Regents of the University of California, et al. California 2022-12-07 Denied 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights fraud-concealment jury-trial medical-battery private-party seventh-amendment state-funded-medical-institution writ-of-error-coram-nobis Does the 7th Amendment provide for a jury trial in civil private matters between a private party and a state-funded medical institution?
22M53 Best Supplement Guide, LLC, et al. v. San Joaquin County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-07 Presumed Complete None
22A474 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, et al. v. Robert Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-11-29 Presumed Complete None
22-495 Chevron Corporation, et al. v. San Mateo County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-11-28 Denied civil-procedure climate-change climate-injury federal-jurisdiction greenhouse-gas-emissions preemption standing state-law-claims statutory-interpretation transboundary-impact Whether a federal district court has jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1331 over nominally state-law claims
22-366 County of Sonoma, California, et al. v. Gabbi Lemos Ninth Circuit 2022-10-19 Denied 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights comity conviction excessive-force heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey judicial-preclusion section-1983 Does Heck's 'necessarily imply' standard bar a § 1983 suit only if success would 'necessarily require' plaintiff to negate the underlying conviction, …
22-338 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, et al. v. County of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied civil-rights express-preemption federal-regulation flavored-tobacco ninth-circuit preemption sales-ban state-and-local-laws tobacco-control-act Whether the Tobacco Control Act expressly preempts state and local laws that prohibit the sale of flavored tobacco products
22-250 Matthew Brach, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-16 Denied article-iii article-three case-or-controversy civil-rights due-process emergency-powers executive-action mootness pandemic-restrictions standing Is a case moot under Article III's case or controversy requirement when the governor rescinds the offending policy after it is challenged in court, bu…
22-223 County of Riverside, California, et al. v. Estate of Clemente Najera-Aguirre, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied 9th-circuit clearly-established-law constitutional-rights deadly-force excessive-force law-enforcement ninth-circuit particularized-consideration qualified-immunity use-of-force Did the Ninth Circuit's panel decision denying qualified immunity contravene this Court's mandate that courts should not hold officers to a standard o…
22-219 Cara O'Callaghan, et al. v. Michael V. Drake, in His Official Capacity as President of the University of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-09 Denied civil-rights collective-bargaining first-amendment government-worker janus-precedent janus-v-afscme labor-law labor-rights union-dues Whether a union can trap a government worker into paying dues for longer than a year under Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31, 138 S. Ct. 2448 (2018)
22-213 Delores Polk, et al. v. Betty Yee, in Her Official Capacity as State Controller of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied 42-usc-1983 first-amendment nonmembers state-action union-speech waiver Whether states and unions need clear and compelling evidence of a waiver to seize payments for union speech from nonmembers
22A196 Chevron Corporation, et al. v. San Mateo County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-08-31 Presumed Complete None
22-187 County of Orange, California, et al. v. Kathy Craig, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-08-30 Denied 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights damages due-process federal-court section-1983 state-law survival-claim survival-claims Must a federal court apply a state law prohibition on 'loss of life' damages in survival claims pursued via 42 U.S.C. § 1983?
22-5181 Edward Avila v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-26 Denied administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection standing Whether the Petitioner's due process rights were violated when the Respondent did not provide the Petitioner a voice as guaranteed by the United State…
22-64 Samuel Arrington v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-25 Denied civil-rights due-process excessive-force false-arrest false-imprisonment habeas-corpus heck-doctrine plea-agreement Whether Heck applies to a former prisoner who was ineligible to challenge his subsequent conviction through federal habeas
22A33 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, et al. v. County of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-14 Presumed Complete None
22-28 Yi Tai Shao v. Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of California, et al. California 2022-07-08 Denied child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech habeas-corpus prefiling-order standing Does May 17, 2022 Order of California Supreme Court violate the First Amendment, Fifth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment
21-1598 City of Anaheim, California, et al. v. Fermin Vincent Valenzuela, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1988 circuit-split civil-rights federal-court hedonic-damages robertson-v-wegmann section-1983 state-law survivorship-claim wrongful-death Whether state law prohibitions on hedonic damages apply to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 survival claims
21A848 County of Orange, California, et al. v. Kathy Craig, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-22 Presumed Complete None
21-1498 Norman Bartsch Herterich v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-05-31 Denied adjudication appellate-review constitutional-violations district-court-dismissal due-process federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-proceedings Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars federal-district-court jurisdiction over an action merely because the action alleges Constitutional-violation…
21-1478 Nicholas Honchariw v. County of Stanislaus, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied constitutional-interpretation due-process finality-requirement finality-ripeness knick pakdel ripeness-doctrine supreme-court-precedent takings takings-claim williamson-county Whether Knick v. Township of Scott, 139 S.Ct. 2162 (2019) and Pakdel v. City and Cty. of San Francisco, 141 S.Ct. 2226 (2021) have sanctioned a pervas…
21-1469 Samuel Armstrong v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-05-23 Denied 14th-amendment due-process emergency-powers executive-order fourteenth-amendment jacobson-v-massachusetts judicial-review public-health roman-cath-diocese-v-cuomo Did Governor Newsom's Executive Order N-33-20 violate the Due Process Clause?
21-1367 Amy Nichols-Stuart v. County of Amador, California, et al. California 2022-04-21 Denied child-welfare civil-procedure civil-rights dependency-proceeding dependency-proceedings drunk-driving due-process familial-association jurisdictional-report standing waiver-of-rights Does a parent who in a state court dependency proceeding submitted to jurisdiction on a staff prepared jurisdictional report and did not submit on a d…
21-1351 Don Barnes, Sheriff, Orange County, California, et al. v. Melissa Ahlman, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-14 Denied appellate-review judicial-error merits-review miller-v-french mootness preliminary-injunction prison-litigation-reform-act standing supreme-court-stay Whether a preliminary injunction issued under the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) and stayed by this Honorable Court shall evade appellate review …
21-1298 Leonard Albrecht, et al. v. Riverside County, California, et al. California 2022-03-28 Denied federal-preemption indian-lands indian-reorganization-act leasehold-interest reservation-rights state-taxation tax-preemption tribal-sovereignty Whether federal regulations governing the leasing of Indian lands preempt state and local governments from taxing the leasehold interest conveyed by t…
21A506 Samuel Arrington v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-15 Presumed Complete None
21A484 Samuel Armstrong v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-09 Presumed Complete None
21-1220 County of Sacramento, California, et al. v. Kenard Thomas Ninth Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-violation due-process fact-determination law-enforcement qualified-immunity reviewing-standard section-1983 Whether a reviewing court should limit the facts considered when determining qualified immunity
21-1204 City of Chico, California, et al. v. Estate of Tyler S. Rushing, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-03 Denied arrest-procedure civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity use-of-force Does the Fourth Amendment prevent law enforcement officers from deploying a Taser to safely arrest a suspect who violently attacked the officers but w…
21A395 The Roman Catholic Bishop of Oakland, et al. v. Superior Court of the State of California, et al. California 2022-02-07 Presumed Complete None
21-1038 John B. Kenney v. City of San Diego, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-25 Denied brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights damages due-process equal-protection first-amendment judicial-misconduct retaliation standing Whether the video evidence of criminal and constitutional violations by law enforcement was improperly suppressed
21-6798 Daniel Everett v. Justices of the Supreme Court of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied administrative-law administrative-proceedings civil-rights disability due-process involuntary-inactive-status licensee-rights standing state-bar state-bar-court younger-abstention Whether the Younger abstention doctrine applies to a challenge against California State Bar rules which allow that agency to place licensees with phys…
21-6777 Carol Garrard, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-07 Denied appearance-of-impropriety civil-rights due-process first-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-conduct judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics paupers-penalty standing whether-an-allegation-of-infra-judicial-acts-of-bias-is-required-for-standing
21-810 Luis Lorenzo Vargas v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-civil-litigation federal-civil-procedure heck-v-humphrey mcdononugh-v-smith preclusion preclusive-effect section-1983 state-criminal-conviction vacated-judgment Whether a wrongful state criminal conviction retains preclusive effect in a later federal action under 42-U.S.C-§1983 challenging the constitutionalit…
21-788 Apartment Association of Los Angeles County, Inc., dba Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-29 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights contracts-clause covid-19-moratorium due-process eviction-moratorium judicial-scrutiny lease-impairment municipal-law takings Whether a municipal law challenged under the Contracts Clause as impermissibly impairing private contracts is subject to variable scrutiny based on th…
21-768 Lil’ Man in the Boat, Inc. v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied 42-usc-1983 commerce-clause fees-and-obligations navigable-waters rivers-and-harbors-act statutory-interpretation tonnage-clause Whether an action can be maintained under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for a violation of a Constitutional provision or federal statute
21-731 Jesse Plasola v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-17 Denied 5-cfr-1653-2-b-1 court-jurisdiction divorce-decree federal-employees-retirement-system federal-employees-retirement-system-act-of-1986 judicial-jurisdiction retirement-benefits thrift-savings-plan zero-balance zero-balance-account Whether the state court's 09-14-2006 TSP final judgment divorce decree violated The Federal Employees' Retirement System Act of 1986 (FERSA), Public L…
21-678 Big Sandy Rancheria Enterprises v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-08 Denied 28-usc-1362 cigarette-sales federal-charter federal-indian-law indian-reorganization-act indian-tribe preemption tribal-sovereignty Whether an Indian tribe incorporated by federal charter under section 17 of the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 is authorized to bring suit under 28…
21-6057 Eugene Korte v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-22 Denied civil-rights due-process equal-protection racial-discrimination standing voting-rights Question not identified
21-5859 Shikeb Saddozai v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied actual-innocence aedpa-statute brady-material certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prima-facie-case statute-of-limitations Whether Petitioner seeking a COA demonstrated a substantial showing of the denial of a Constitutional right
21-264 San Diego County, California, et al. v. Ana Sandoval, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established-rights deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-care medical-needs pretrial-detainee qualified-immunity Whether a pretrial detainee must show subjective awareness of medical needs or only objective unreasonableness
21-5385 Albert M. Kun v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-16 Denied bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-rights due-process excessive-fine fifth-amendment fourth-amendment state-bar timbs-standard timbs-v-indiana Whether the approximately $40,000 fine assessed by the State Bar is an excessive fine under Timbs v. Indiana 586 U.S.—(2019) for a $460-financial viol…
21-191 Sergei Vinkov v. United States District Court for the Central District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-11 Denied case-or-controversy civil-rights constitutional-claims declaratory-judgment diversity-jurisdiction establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech insurance-coverage standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the District Court abused its discretion retaining jurisdiction over the Declaratory Judgment Act (28 USC § 2201(a)) in the insurance dispute
21-194 California Trucking Association, Inc., et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-11 Denied federal-aviation-administration-authorization-act federal-preemption independent-owner-operator independent-owner-operators motor-carrier motor-carriers preemption state-law statutory-interpretation trucking-services workforce-law Whether the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act preempts a state law that effectively precludes motor carriers from using independent ow…
21-5289 Gregory Moore, Individually, and on Behalf of J. M., et al. v. County of Orange, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied child-seizure civil-rights due-process federal-funds fourth-amendment fraud res-judicata rooker-feldman standing warrant-requirement Whether Rooker-Feldman should be uniformly applied across federal districts
21-96 Paul Daniels, et al. v. County of Alameda, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied civil-rights federal-law malicious-prosecution probable-cause retaliation section-1983 state-law Where absence of probable cause to prosecute is an element of a federal section 1983 civil-rights claim
21-5170 Patricia A. McColm v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-22 Dismissed appointment-of-counsel civil-rights counsel-appointment court-procedure disability-accommodation dismissal-with-prejudice due-process exceptional-circumstances judicial-discretion medically-verified-limitations ninth-circuit standing Did the Ninth Circuit err in finding an appropriate issue for appeal, where the magistrate judge failed to find that medically verified permanent limi…
21-5187 Patricia A. McColm v. Trinity County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-22 Dismissed access-to-courts appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access disability-accommodation disability-accommodations dismissal-with-prejudice due-process pre-filing-order pro-se Whether pro-se-plaintiffs-with-disabilities-should-receive-accommodations-or-counsel
21-59 Carl Gordon v. Regents of the University of California, et al. California 2021-07-15 Denied administrative-procedure-act administrative-record california-public-records-act california-state-law daca due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fraud-upon-the-court preemption Does the de facto nullification of California state law [Cal. Gov. Code §§ 6258 and 6259] (resulting in fraud upon the court) by the Regents of the Un…
20-8441 Thomas Kenneth Mills v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-28 Denied civil-rights due-process free-speech religious-freedom standing takings whether-the-pharmacist's-refusal-to-fill-a-prescription-violates-the-patient's-constitutional-rights
20A176 Albert M. Kun v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-25 Presumed Complete None
20-1775 Arizona, et al. v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-23 Judgment Issued administrative-law apa civil-rights immigration mootness standing Whether States with interests should be permitted to intervene to defend a rule when the United States ceases to defend
20-8336 Guillermo Vera v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-16 Dismissed civil-rights due-process equal-protection federalism full-faith-and-credit same-sex-marriage Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires a State to recognize a same-sex marriage license from another State
20-7993 Eugene Korte v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied civil-rights due-process free-speech government-surveillance internet-service-providers standing Question not identified
20M81 Arizona, et al. v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-07 Presumed Complete None
20-1453 Cal Cartage Transportation Express, LLC, et al. v. California, et al. California 2021-04-16 Denied commercial-ramifications federal-aviation-administration-authorization-act federal-statute independent-contractor independent-contractors motor-carrier preemption pricing-regulation statutory-interpretation worker-classification Does the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act preempt state laws that have an effect on a motor carrier's prices and services by discoura…
20A151 Ritesh Tandon, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-02 Presumed Complete None
20-1212 Peyman Pakdel, et ux. v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-03 GVR 42-usc-1983 administrative-remedies exhaustion-of-remedies finality-requirement land-use-regulation property-rights regulatory-takings takings-claim unconstitutional-conditions williamson-county Whether a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 takings claim is ripe under Williamson County's finality requirement when a city has definitively and unalterably imposed a…
20-1215 North American Meat Institute v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied agricultural-regulation animal-welfare commerce-clause constitutional-limits dormant-commerce-clause extraterritorial-regulation interstate-commerce preemption state-police-power Whether the Constitution permits California to extend its police power beyond its territorial borders by banning the sale of wholesome pork and veal p…
20-1217 Daniel Kristof Lak v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied 11th-amendment 14th-Amendment civil-procedure civil-rights consent-to-suit federal-jurisdiction private-right-of-action social-security-act state-immunity title-iv-d Whether a state can be shielded from suit in federal court via 11th-Amendment-immunity
20M62 Arthur Lopez v. Superior Court of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-02 Presumed Complete None
20A138 Gateway City Church, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-17 Presumed Complete None
20-1100 Paul Rodriguez, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied electoral-college equal-protection first-amendment political-parties presidential-election summary-affirmance vote-dilution voting-rights Do the Equal Protection Clause and the First Amendment prohibit California's winner-take-all system for appointing presidential electors?
20-1089 Chevron Corporation, et al. v. City of Oakland, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-09 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights climate-change due-process federal-common-law federal-removal interstate-pollution jurisdictional-challenge standing state-law takings tort-claims Whether putative state-law tort claims alleging harm from global climate change are removable because they arise under federal law
20-1006 City of Hayward, California, et al. v. Jessie Lee Jetmore Stoddard-Nunez Ninth Circuit 2021-01-27 Denied civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment qualified-immunity section-1983 seizure use-of-force Whether an accelerating fleeing driver's sudden turn deprives a threatened shooting officer of qualified-immunity
20-962 United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-21 Dismissed administrative-procedure administrative-rulemaking homeland-security immigration-law immigration-nationality-act inadmissibility notice-and-comment public-charge standing statutory-interpretation Whether entities that are not subject to the public-charge ground of inadmissibility are proper parties to challenge the final rule
20A120 Wendy Gish, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied None
20-890 Stanford Vina Ranch Irrigation Company v. California, et al. California 2021-01-05 Denied compensation constitutional-rights due-process emergency-authority property-rights public-trust-doctrine quasi-legislative takings water-rights Whether government may avoid constitutional rights to due process and compensation by crafting quasi-legislative regulations that eliminate the proper…
20-884 Chevron Corporation, et al. v. San Mateo County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-04 GVR 28-usc-1442 28-usc-1447d appellate-review civil-rights-removal federal-officer-removal jurisdictional-issue remand-order statutory-interpretation Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1447(d) authorizes appellate review of any issue encompassed in a remand order when removal was premised in part on the federal-of…
20-6700 Melissa Calabrese v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied 28-usc-1915 americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights civil-rights 20-66" collateral-order-doctrine counsel-appointment district-court-order due-process in-forma-pauperis moral-rights property-development recognized-stature standing statutory-damages visual-artists-rights-act Whether the Due Process Clause permits imposing st Whether the collateral order doctrine permits the immediate appeal of a district court order denying appointment of counsel under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(…
20-6659 Eddie Ashley v. California, et al. California 2020-12-18 Denied california-law california-supreme-court constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements Does Petitioner had a Federal Due Process Right to the Prohibition of the Imposition of Two Different Sentencing Enhancements, per the California Supr…
20-6520 Paul Viriyapanthu v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-03 Denied 14th-amendment ada americans-with-disabilities-act arbitration-immunity noerr-pennington sovereign-immunity spending-clause title-ii u.s.-v.-georgia Where Congress conditioned the ADA to states' receipt of funding, must a Title II plaintiff demonstrate a 14th Amendment violation under U.S. v. Georg…
20-755 Kenan Biberovic v. City of Culver City, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied 28-usc-1343 28-usc-1831 28-usc-sections circuit-split extrinsic-fraud federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman-doctrine subject-matter-jurisdiction Has the court of appeals failed to exercise the federal jurisdiction given it by Congress under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1831 & 1343(a)(3) & (4), by refusing to a…
20-746 South Bay United Pentecostal Church, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-30 GVR civil-rights constitutional-review first-amendment free-exercise free-speech jacobson-v-massachusetts pandemic-restrictions religious-liberty strict-scrutiny Do Governor Newsom's lockdown orders and reopening restrictions under the 'Blueprint' framework, placing strict limitations, including closures, on al…
20-676 J. P., By and Through His Guardian Ad Litem, Shannon Villanueva v. Alameda County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emotional-harm fair-notice first-amendment foster-care fourteenth-amendment qualified-immunity Whether emotional harm alone triggers 42 U.S.C. §1983 liability
20-6329 Daniel Acedo v. United States District Court for the Southern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-16 Denied 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process extraordinary-remedy federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation property-rights relief-sought standing statute-of-limitations Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits warrantless searches of vehicles parked on private property
20-6333 Immanuel F. Sanchez v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-16 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fundamental-rights government-power hearing judicial-power oral-argument procedural-fairness standing statutory-interpretation Whether the government's denial of Petitioner's request for a hearing violates his fundamental right to due process under the Fifth Amendment
20-666 Robert M. Wilkinson, Acting Attorney General, et al. v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-13 Dismissed byrne-jag-program civil-rights department-of-justice federal-funding federal-grants grant-conditions immigration immigration-compliance information-sharing state-and-local-government statutory-authority statutory-interpretation Whether the Department has statutory authority to impose the notice and access conditions on grantees that accept Byrne JAG awards
20-561 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al., Appellants v. City of San Jose, California, et al. California 2020-10-29 Denied None
20M38 Walter Lancaster v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. California 2020-10-29 Presumed Complete None
20-519 State Bar of California, et al. v. Lenore L. Albert-Sheridan Ninth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied 11-usc-523(a)(7) attorney-discipline bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge circuit-split federal-courts kelly-v-robinson public-protection statutory-interpretation Whether payments ordered by the California Supreme Court as a condition of an attorney's discipline, imposed to protect the public, are non-dischargea…
20-6081 Lenore L. Albert-Sheridan v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied 11-usc-523 bankruptcy-discharge court-costs due-process equal-protection license-suspension professional-licensing state-bar-discipline statutory-interpretation Whether 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(7) bars a debtor from obtaining a discharge of State Bar disciplinary costs under Chapter 7
20-6052 Donald R. Conway v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied appellate-procedure appellate-review case-law-conflict circuit-court-precedent constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection procedural-default Did the Court of Appeals err or abuse its discretion
20-242 Norine Sylvia Cave v. Delta Dental of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-28 Denied beneficiaries-rights benefits-denial breach-of-fiduciary-duties claim-adjudication erisa erisa-fiduciary-duty fiduciary-duties fiduciary-responsibility medical-records medical-records-withholding plan-administration unauthorized-benefits Whether a covered entity violates ERISA, by improperly denying beneficiaries' rights and further compounds such violations by approving unauthorized b…
20-190 Daniel Sohn, et ux. v. Mariposa County, California, et al. California 2020-08-19 Denied 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-statute constitutional-violation fourth-amendment government-entity property-rights subdivision-map-act Where a government entity enters and takes real and personal property of its citizens under color of law based on an intentional misinterpretation of …
20-161 City of Sacramento, California, et al. v. Robert Mann, Sr., et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment intimate-association section-1983 sibling-relationship sibling-relationships standing Whether the First Amendment protects intimate associations absent expressive activity
20-5332 William David Bush v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied 10th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federalism preemption public-health-emergency quarantine-powers state-authority state-police-powers tenth-amendment Where the State of California's Health and Safety Code declares supremacy over the U.S. Constitution, under what circumstances does Article X not appl…
20-67 Delaney E. Smith, Jr. v. County of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights contradictory-rulings due-process en-banc-panel federal-removal notice-of-appeal racial-discrimination standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals forfeited subject matter jurisdiction
20A19 Don Barnes, Sheriff, Orange County, California, et al. v. Melissa Ahlman, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-24 Presumed Complete None