| 24-6448 |
Dennis Sheldon Brewer v. John Ratcliffe, Director, Central Intelligence Agency |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-03 |
Denied |
circuit-court due-process judicial-precedent mandamus standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly disregarded established standing principles by dismissing a pleading sua sponte contrary to Supreme Court precede… |
| 24-520 |
James G. Connell, III v. Central Intelligence Agency |
District of Columbia |
2024-11-06 |
Denied |
agency-disclosure circuit-split evidence-standard foia glomar-response judicial-review |
Whether a court may weigh all relevant evidence or only agency-acknowledged evidence when assessing the legality of a Glomar response under the Freedo… |
| 24-250 |
Samuel Biar Pech v. Central Intelligence Agency |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-05 |
Denied |
agency-misconduct civil-liberties constitutional-rights government-accountability harassment surveillance |
Whether the CIA violated constitutional rights through alleged long-term surveillance and harassment |
| 23-1207 |
Assassination Archives and Research Center, et al. v. Central Intelligence Agency |
District of Columbia |
2024-05-10 |
Denied |
cia-records dc-circuit declassification executive-order executive-orders first-circuit foia-request jfk-assassination kennedy-assassination national-security |
Whether the CIA may refuse to search and disclose its operational records |
| 22-7083 |
Rick Lee Searcy v. United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-03-23 |
Denied |
12b-6-dismissal 1st-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial first-amendment judicial-bias judicial-misconduct motion-to-recuse standing |
Whether the petitioner received a fair and impartial proceeding that led to the 12(b)(6) dismissal of his civil rights complaint |
| 22-7078 |
Rick Lee Searcy v. Central Intelligence Agency, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-03-23 |
Denied |
12b6-dismissal civil-rights due-process fair-trial federal-rules-evidence first-amendment judicial-bias judicial-misconduct motion-to-recuse recusal standing |
Question not identified |
| 22A836 |
Rick Lee Searcy v. Central Intelligence Agency, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-03-22 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-791 |
Timothy H. Edgar, et al. v. Avril D. Haines, Director of National Intelligence, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-29 |
Denied |
civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-censorship national-security prepublication-review prior-restraint public-debate speech-licensing |
Whether Snepp should be overruled because it applied mere 'reasonableness' scrutiny to an agency's prepublication review regime, and failed to require… |
| 21-449 |
Bilal Abdul Kareem v. William J. Burns, Director, Central Intelligence Agency, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-09-23 |
Denied |
civil-rights d-c-circuit due-process government-media government-transparency judicial-notice online-publication standing sua-sponte technology |
Whether the D.C. Circuit's decision to dismiss the case based on disputed facts noticed sua sponte and without due process was improper |
| 20-931 |
Wynship W. Hillier v. Central Intelligence Agency, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-01-11 |
Denied |
administrative-procedure agency-declaration agency-records civil-rights classified-records judicial-review privacy-act summary-judgment terrorism |
Shall summary judgment be awarded in favor of an agency in a Privacy Act suit to compel notice of records existence based on agency declaration |
| 20-827 |
United States v. Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn, aka Abu Zubaydah, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-18 |
Judgment Issued |
cia cia-contractors civil-procedure classified-information discovery discovery-proceedings executive-privilege foreign-proceedings national-security state-secrets-privilege |
Whether the court of appeals erred in rejecting the United States' assertion of the state-secrets privilege |
| 20-5340 |
Tanveer S. Majid v. Central Intelligence Agency |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-12 |
Denied |
abuse-of-discretion administrative-procedure agency-complaint civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process federal-courts harassment-claim judicial-dismissal standing |
Are the Federal Courts abusing their dismissal powers? |
| 20-5140 |
Wilfredo Torres v. City of New York, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-07-22 |
Denied |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process judicial-procedure petition-for-certiorari qualified-immunity standing warrantless-raids warrantless-search |
Whether the U.S. District Court-Southern District of New York and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner'… |
| 19-1273 |
Assassination Archives and Research Center v. Central Intelligence Agency |
District of Columbia |
2020-05-08 |
Denied |
administrative-law cia-search cia-search-activities deliberative-process-privilege due-process epa-v-mink foia-exemption foia-exemption-5 foia-request freedom-of-information-act kennedy-assassination public-importance summary-judgment tax-analysts |
Whether CIA can assert a deliberative process privilege under Exemption 5 of the FOIA for its search activities in responding to a FOIA request? |
| 19A1010 |
Assassination Archives and Research Center v. Central Intelligence Agency |
District of Columbia |
2020-03-13 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 18-1371 |
Jefferson Morley v. Central Intelligence Agency |
District of Columbia |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
administrative-law attorney-fees circuit-court-conflict civil-rights due-process foia-attorney-fees freedom-of-information-act judicial-precedent legal-uniformity mandate-rule national-uniformity precedent |
Whether conflicts within the D.C. Circuit and between the D.C. Circuit and other circuits created by Morley XI require reversal in order to maintain n… |
| 18-1232 |
Al Zeiny v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process emotional-distress fbi-investigation federal-tort-claims-act free-speech government-misconduct intelligence-agency intelligence-agency-misconduct mental-health pro-se pro-se-litigant standing |
Whether Zeiny's rights would prevail over the CIA's power |
| 18A838 |
Jefferson Morley v. Central Intelligence Agency |
District of Columbia |
2019-02-15 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
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