| 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 … |
| 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. |
| 25-74 |
Sullivan Equity Partners, LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company v. City of Los Angeles, California |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-22 |
Denied |
42-usc-1983 administrative-law due-process england-reservation pullman-abstention takings-clause |
Where a property owner has its building permits revoked by a government agency on false pretenses and in violation of state Due Process law, is that p… |
| 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… |
| 24A962 |
Jeannine Bedard v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. |
California |
2025-04-09 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 24-1045 |
City of Los Angeles, California v. Jesus Pimentel, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-01 |
Denied |
42-usc-1983 burden-of-proof eighth-amendment excessive-fines gross-disproportionality prima-facie-case |
Does a government defending against an Eighth Amendment excessive fines claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 bear a burden to produce affirmative evidence tha… |
| 24A579 |
City of Los Angeles, California v. Jesus Pimentel, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-13 |
Presumed Complete |
civil-rights constitutional-violation law-enforcement municipal-liability ninth-circuit section-1983 |
Whether a municipality can be held liable for constitutional violations arising from law enforcement policies or practices that allegedly result in sy… |
| 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… |
| 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 |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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 |
| 22-64 |
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 |
| 21A506 |
Samuel Arrington v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-15 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-1022 |
Daniel Garza v. City of Los Angeles, California |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
civil-rights constructive-notice due-process monell monell-doctrine municipal-liability policy-maker ratification unconstitutional-conduct |
May a municipality be held liable for ratification under Monell v. Department of Social Services |
| 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… |
| 20M38 |
Walter Lancaster v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. |
California |
2020-10-29 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 19-6944 |
Bahman Khodayari v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-16 |
Denied |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights damages discovery due-process nominal-damages rule-26 rule-26(a)(1)(A)(ii) rule-37 rule-37(c)(1) rule-41 rule-41(b) sanctions section-1983 |
Does the Ninth Circuit's affirmance of the District Court's dismissal of a Petitioner's 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim under Fed.R.Civ.P. Rule 41(b) due to Ru… |
| 19-6553 |
Vicki Corona v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-filing deprivation-of-rights due-process filing-procedures in-forma-pauperis judicial-conduct judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct Question not identified. standing takings |
Whether the Mayor of Los Angeles and California courts have unlawfully and unethically ignored Supreme Court precedent and higher court rulings |
| 18-1268 |
Paras Jhokke v. City of Los Angeles, California |
California |
2019-04-03 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-violation domestic-violence due-process equal-protection gender-bias gender-discrimination hate-crime police-misconduct section-1983 |
Whether States, Cities or its Police Officers knowingly or unknowingly Commit Hate Crime Acts motivated by Gender Bias while Enforcing Domestic Violen… |
| 18-1257 |
Peter Lee, et al. v. City of Los Angeles, California |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-01 |
Denied |
civil-rights district-boundaries hunt-v-cromartie legislative-privilege racial-gerrymandering redistricting shaw-claim shaw-v-reno summary-judgment united-states-v-gillock village-of-arlington-heights-v-metropolitan-housin |
Whether legislators drew boundaries with a predominant racial intent |