| 25-6296 |
Emmanuel Folly v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-12-05 |
Pending |
arbitration-findings civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances pro-se-litigant |
1. Whether systemic barriers preventing a pro se litigant from securing counsel, where stigma
impedes representation, constitute "extraordinary circu… |
| 25-639 |
Banc of America Securities LLC, et al. v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-03 |
Pending |
civil-procedure class-action district-court expert-evidence predominance rule-23 |
Whether, when putative class-action plaintiffs offer expert evidence to prove predominance under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3) and the defe… |
| 25-5884 |
Derrick U. Jacobs v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-10-15 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-violation fabricated-prosecution first-amendment immunity-doctrine retaliation |
Philadelphia Police Detective Derrick Jacobs (Petitioner/Jacobs) observed newly elected Philadelphia District Attorney, Lawrence Krasner ("Krasner") a… |
| 25A419 |
Banc of America Securities LLC, et al. v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-10-14 |
Presumed Complete |
antitrust class-certification damages-class-action expert-evidence federal-rule-civil-procedure predominance |
Whether a district court must resolve disputes about expert evidence when determining class certification under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(… |
| 25-5502 |
Aisha Asha Bradley v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2025-08-29 |
Denied |
28-usc-1443 federal-appellate-court jurisdiction-determination removal-procedure statutory-directive third-circuit |
Did the Federal Appellate Court for the Third Circuit, ignore statutory directive 1443(1), by NOT doing a jurisdiction determination under 28 U.S.C. §… |
| 25-176 |
Tristram Heinz v. City of Philadelphia Bureau of Administrative Adjudication |
Pennsylvania |
2025-08-13 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment speed-camera |
1. Whether Section 3370 of the Pennsylvania Motor
Vehicle Code, 75 Pa.C.S. § 3370, the Automated
Speed Camera Enforcement Program, and an
implementing… |
| 24-749 |
In Re Lorraine Bond |
|
2025-01-15 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction government-liability |
Whether government officials can be held liable for damages resulting from the bombing of Osage Avenue and violation of civil rights |
| 24-649 |
The Gun Range, LLC v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2024-12-16 |
Denied |
commercial-speech constitutional-rights gun-shop-regulation municipal-ordinance second-amendment zoning-restrictions |
Whether prohibiting a business that provides Second Amendment-protected goods and services from operating in substantially all of a city's land areas—… |
| 24-243 |
Michael Grant v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-09-04 |
Denied |
content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech public-forum religious-expression solicitation |
Whether a public preacher can be arrested for preaching in a public park with a religious sign and collection plate without violating First Amendment … |
| 23-914 |
Diane Zilka v. City of Philadelphia, Tax Review Board |
Pennsylvania |
2024-02-23 |
Denied |
commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation interstate-taxation out-of-state-tax state-tax tax-burden tax-credit tax-scheme taxpayer-burden |
Whether the Commerce Clause requires states to consider a taxpayer's burden in light of the state tax scheme as a whole when crediting a taxpayer's ou… |
| 23-864 |
Robert Holton v. Robert Henon, aka Bobby Henon, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-02-12 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eminent-domain standing takings |
Whether the district court abused its discretion by denying the plaintiff's motion to defer ruling on summary judgment to allow for the deposition of … |
| 23-738 |
Leasa Marie Wright v. City of Ponca City, Oklahoma, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-01-09 |
Denied |
civil-rights civil-rights-violation discovery due-process emergency-medical-care medical-negligence municipal-liability qualified-immunity spinal-cord-injury substantive-due-process |
Is it a violation of substantive due process for state medical personnel to actively and affirmatively inflict injury on a patient? |
| 23A605 |
Robert Holton v. Robert Henon, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-01-02 |
Presumed Complete |
appellate-review disability legal-counsel third-circuit time-extension writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Third Circuit's prior appellate decision in favor of the petitioner warrants Supreme Court review given the unique circumstances of counse… |
| 23-5914 |
Samuel O. Araoye v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2023-10-30 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process employment-discrimination forensics government-liability policy-maker-liability racial-discrimination record-alteration veterans-rights |
Where Respondent [City Government] and its individual policymaking authorities violate the Appellant's Constitutional rights under 14th Amendment per … |
| 22-1137 |
Conference of Presidents of Major Italian American Organizations, Inc., et al. v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-05-23 |
Denied |
cancel-culture civil-rights discrimination discriminatory-action due-process equal-protection ethnic-holiday executive-order injury-in-fact redressability standing |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in deviating from the test for standing employed by the Eleventh Circuit |
| 22-300 |
Wessie Sims v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-09-28 |
Denied |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-provisions court-of-appeals due-process final-judgment judicial-code standing takings zoning-law |
Whether the Court of Appeals is in conflict with Catlin |
| 21A806 |
Wessie Sims v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-06-08 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-1151 |
Arthur O. Armstrong v. School District of Philadelphia |
Third Circuit |
2022-02-22 |
Denied |
civil-rights collective-bargaining constitutional-rights due-process employment-termination fourteenth-amendment procedural-fairness property reinstatement |
Whether Respondent School District of Philadelphia discharged appellant without due process |
| 21-6299 |
Daryl Cook v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights collusion conspiracy conspiracy-prosecution constitutional-rights due-process legislative-immunity political-association prosecutorial-discretion standing |
Whether the procedure due process violation, a federal complaint caused the settlement of the state court to be void ab initio and whether petitioner'… |
| 21-649 |
Walder Vacuflo, Inc. v. Illinois Human Rights Commission, et al. |
Illinois |
2021-11-02 |
Denied |
access-to-courts circuit-split civil-rights discrimination due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech human-rights-commission religious-freedom standing |
Whether the Illinois Supreme Court and Appellate Court's refusal to consider this matter violates the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights of Petitio… |
| 21-276 |
Safehouse v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-08-25 |
Denied |
commerce-clause controlled-substances-act federalism felony-statute medical-supervision opioid-crisis overdose-prevention public-health public-health-intervention |
Does 21 U.S.C. § 856(a) make it a felony to offer medically supervised consumption services for the purpose of preventing opioid overdose deaths? |
| 21-164 |
Trustees of the New Life In Christ Church v. City of Fredericksburg, Virginia |
Virginia |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
church-autonomy church-state-separation civil-authority civil-rights establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech ministerial-exception ministerial-exemption property-tax religious-doctrine religious-freedom |
Whether civil authorities violate the First Amendment when they engage in their own interpretation of church doctrine to overrule a church's determina… |
| 20M54 |
Constantine Polites v. City of Philadelphia Law Department |
Pennsylvania |
2021-01-28 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 19M135 |
Anton Purisima v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-04-14 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 19-6274 |
Sergei Kovalev v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-16 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employee-immunity first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-information freedom-of-speech government-accountability government-liability municipal-liability public-access qualified-immunity |
Whether the First Amendment guarantees the right to enter public offices and seek information or petition the government |
| 19A284 |
William P. Barr, Attorney General v. City of Philadelphia |
Third Circuit |
2019-09-12 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 19-123 |
Sharonell Fulton, et al. v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Judgment Issued |
circuit-split civil-rights discrimination employment-division-v-smith first-amendment foster-care free-exercise general-applicability government-neutrality neutral-and-generally-applicable neutral-laws religious-discrimination religious-liberty unconstitutional-conditions |
Whether free exercise plaintiffs can only succeed by proving a particular type of discrimination claim |
| 18-9655 |
Sylvester Ekwunife v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-06-17 |
Denied |
4th-amendment affidavit affidavit-accuracy civil-rights constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure detective-misconduct fourth-amendment groh-v-ramirez probable-cause warrant warrant-preparation |
Whether the dictates of Groh v. Ramirez were violated when the Detective in this case did not have all the correct facts when preparing a probable cau… |
| 18M168 |
Sylvester Ekwunife v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-05-21 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 18-9103 |
Milton Thomas, Sr. v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
28-usc-1334 article-iii bankruptcy-court-jurisdiction bankruptcy-jurisdiction congressional-intent district-court-jurisdiction fraudulent-transfer non-core-proceeding non-core-proceedings stem-v-marshall stern-v-marshall |
Can the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals deny the Act of Congress conferring original and exclusive jurisdiction on the District Court of all civil procee… |
| 18-1227 |
Alvin S. Kanofsky v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
abuse-of-process civil-procedure civil-rights conservatorship due-process free-speech government-corruption judicial-bias judicial-misconduct municipal-fraud municipal-liability property-rights standing takings |
Whether the City of Bethlehem improperly seized Kanofsky's property through abuse of process and collusion with the courts |
| 18A118 |
Sharonell Fulton, et al. v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-03 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|