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25-949 John Doe, et al. v. X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-10 Pending child-pornography civil-immunity good-samaritan internet-platform section-230 sex-trafficking The Communications Decency Act encourages "Good Samaritan" acts to keep objectionable content off the internet. 47 U.S.C. §230(c). The Act states inte…
25A741 Department of Labor, et al. v. Sun Valley Orchards, LLC Third Circuit 2025-12-23 Application administrative-adjudication article-three h-2a-visa labor-dispute private-rights separation-of-powers Question not identified.
25A631 John Doe, et al. v. Twitter, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-01 Application child-pornography civil-liability content-moderation internet-platform section-230 sex-trafficking Whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act provides immunity to internet platforms for knowingly possessing child pornography and benefitin…
25M39 Olasebikan N. Akinmulero v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-11-18 Pending None
25-5755 Dawud C. S. Gabriel v. Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-29 Dismissed appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-challenge court-access judicial-proceedings venue-jurisdiction 1. Whether or Not the Eleventh (11th) Cir. C.O.A. Departed Far from the Accepted & Usual Course of Judicial Proceedings, As to Call for an Exercise of…
25A326 Kristi Noem, Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. National TPS Alliance, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-19 Presumed Complete administrative-discretion homeland-security judicial-review statutory-interpretation temporary-protected-status tps-termination Whether the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) statute precludes judicial review of the Secretary of Homeland Security's discretionary decisions to term…
25A169 Kristi Noem, Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. Pedro Vasquez Perdomo, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-07 Presumed Complete fourth-amendment illegal-aliens immigration-enforcement investigative-stops reasonable-suspicion totality-of-circumstances Whether the Fourth Amendment permits investigative stops of suspected illegal immigrants based on reasonable suspicion in a high-density immigration a…
25A120 Pamela Bondi, Attorney General v. Fidel Angel Lopez-Quinteros, et al. First Circuit 2025-07-29 Presumed Complete asylum family-relationship immigration-and-nationality-act nexus-requirement particular-social-group persecution Whether a family relationship constitutes a particular social group under the Immigration and Nationality Act such that threats made to compel a relat…
25M7 Deliris Montanez v. Department of Homeland Security Federal Circuit 2025-07-25 Presumed Complete None
24A1153 Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. D.V.D., et al. First Circuit 2025-05-27 Presumed Complete None
24A1079 Kristi Noem, Secretary, Department of Homeland Security v. Svitlana Doe, et al. First Circuit 2025-05-08 Presumed Complete None
24A1059 Kristi Noem, Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. National TPS Alliance, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-01 Presumed Complete None
24A949 Kristi Noem, Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-04-07 Presumed Complete None
24-923 Save Jobs USA v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. District of Columbia 2025-02-26 Denied None Question not identified.
24-817 Edward Lasseville v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2025-01-31 Denied alien-registration federal-preemption homeland-security immigration-law national-security state-regulation Whether federal preemption bars California's Immigration Consultants Act from regulating practitioners and others assisting in alien registration
24A674 Executive Office for Immigration Review, et al. v. Al Otro Lado, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-10 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure-act asylum-seekers border-policy class-action-relief immigration-and-nationality-act immigration-law Whether federal immigration officials may lawfully prevent noncitizens at the U.S.-Mexico border from applying for asylum through a 'metering' policy …
24A564 James Dean Hanapel v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-12-10 Presumed Complete entrapment law-enforcement minor-solicitation online-sting sexual-exploitation undercover-operation Whether the First Amendment and entrapment doctrine limit law enforcement's ability to conduct online sting operations targeting potential sex offende…
24A403 Oscar Silva Perez, et al. v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-10-24 Presumed Complete administrative-stay asylum enforcement homeland-security immigration migrants Whether the Department of Homeland Security's immigration enforcement policies violate statutory or constitutional protections for migrants and asylum…
24-293 Mohammed Jibril, et ux., Individually and on Behalf of Their Minor Children Y. J. and O. J., et al. v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. District of Columbia 2024-09-13 Denied administrative-law dhs-trip due-process injunctive-relief standing-doctrine terrorist-screening-dataset Must plaintiffs establish standing to challenge the DHS TRIP redress process based on the likelihood of repetition of past harm, and must courts defer…
24-258 Lindsey Gremont, et al. v. Jane Nelson, Texas Secretary of State, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-09-06 Denied constitutional-rights election-integrity election-systems federal-interference injury-in-fact voter-privacy Whether voters' private rights are infringed when state actors fail to conduct elections according to law and whether the disclosure of a voter's priv…
24A141 Mohammed Jibril, Individually and on Behalf of Their Minor Children Y.J. and O.J., et al. v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. District of Columbia 2024-08-07 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-deference article-three-standing civil-rights dhs-trip terrorist-screening-dataset Whether individuals challenging government travel restrictions have Article III standing to pursue claims under the DHS Traveler Redress Inquiry Progr…
23-1172 Kristen Lovell, et al. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State, et al. Georgia 2024-05-01 Denied constitutional-rights critical-infrastructure election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment georgia-constitution ninth-amendment official-immunity official-misconduct sovereign-immunity voting-rights Whether the granting of the defense of sovereign or official immunity for employees or officials that are acting outside of the authority of their off…
23-857 Owolabi M. Salis v. Attorney Grievance Committee for the First Judicial Department New York 2024-02-08 Denied 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure new-york-court-of-appeals referee referee-report Whether the New York Court of Appeals can adopt a Referee report that was clearly based on violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amend…
23-6543 Odeiu Joy Powers v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-24 Denied civil-service due-process federal-civil-service judicial-discretion preference-eligible pro-se-litigant procedural-fairness sua-sponte-dismissal unilateral-ban veteran Must rulings reflect material facts on the record?
23M56 Marlene A. Dougherty v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-01-23 Presumed Complete None
23A607 Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-01-02 Presumed Complete border-patrol federal-preemption immigration-enforcement sovereign-immunity state-tort-law supremacy-clause Whether the Supremacy Clause precludes a state from using tort law to restrain federal Border Patrol agents from carrying out their federally authoriz…
23-22 Save Jobs USA v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. District of Columbia 2023-07-06 Denied administrative-law agency-authority department-of-homeland-security employment-authorization executive-power immigration-law major-questions-doctrine nonimmigrant-visas statutory-interpretation Are the statutory terms defining nonimmigrant visas in 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(15) mere threshold entry requirements that cease to apply once an alien is a…
22A996 John C. Kluge v. Department of Homeland Security Federal Circuit 2023-05-16 Presumed Complete None
22-1071 Washington Alliance of Technology Workers v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. District of Columbia 2023-05-04 Denied 8-usc-1101 administrative-law department-of-homeland-security due-process employment-authorization immigration immigration-law immigration-procedure nonimmigrant-visas statutory-interpretation Are the statutory terms defining nonimmigrant visas in 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(15) mere threshold entry requirements that cease to apply once an alien is a…
22-578 Richard Behar v. Department of Homeland Security Second Circuit 2022-12-22 Denied agency-records appellate-procedure confidentiality foia-exemption-7c freedom-of-information-act party-presentation-principle presidential-administration privacy-interests statutory-interpretation Whether documents obtained and used by a federal agency in the legitimate conduct of its official duties are not 'agency records' and thus never subje…
22-5855 Kenrick C. Hamilton v. Northern Virginia District Office, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied civil-procedure debt-collection-practices default-judgment fair-debt-collection-practices federal-jurisdiction security-clearance service-of-process subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the court erred in finding that the plaintiff did not properly serve the defendant despite service by U.S. Marshals
21-1510 David P. Marana v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights commander-authority due-process hipaa-privacy military-discretion reasonable-person-standard redacted-evidence standing subculture-interpretation whistleblower-retaliation whistleblowing What court, tribunal, and or investigative agency ensures that information with redacted information when presented as evidence is valid, legal, and n…
21-1134 Bryan Adams v. Department of Homeland Security Federal Circuit 2022-02-16 Denied active-duty cross-reference differential-pay federal-employees military-reserves national-guard statutory-interpretation Whether 10 U.S.C. § 12301(d) is 'a provision of law referred to in section 101(a)(13)(B) of title 10
21-6976 Tej Bahadur Karki v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. District of Columbia 2022-01-27 Denied administrative-law civil-rights disparate-impact due-process fair-housing-act standing Whether the application of the Fair Housing Act to disparate impact claims is valid
21-954 Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-12-29 Judgment Issued administrative-discretion administrative-law agency-discretion border-policy due-process homeland-security immigration-law immigration-policy judicial-review statutory-interpretation Whether 8 U.S.C. 1225 requires DHS to continue implementing MPP
21-781 NVS Technologies, Inc. v. Department of Homeland Security Federal Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied administrative-law consideration contract-law contract-termination due-process federal-agency funding-limitation good-faith good-faith-dealing government-contracts termination Can a federal agency refuse to allot available funds to an incrementally funded contract for any reason or no reason, and so terminate that contract, …
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
21-421 Damian R. Nastri v. Department of Homeland Security Federal Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied administrative-law agency-governance board-quorum civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process separation-of-powers standing Can the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board make decisions, solicit, hire, promote, transfer, reassign, or fire staff, select, refer, refuse, adjudica…
21-5445 Henryk S. Borecki v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-23 Denied 1983 1985 1986 airline-passenger civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-rights due-process self-incrimination standing travel-identification Does the plaintiff's complaint, based on Sections 1983, 1985 and 1986 of the Civil Rights Acts, state a claim for relief against both or either of the…
21-80 Outdoor Amusement Business Association, Inc., et al. v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied administrative-law clear-statement-rule h-2b-visa immigration-law labor-certification legislative-rulemaking nondelegation-doctrine Whether Congress impliedly authorized the Secretary of Labor to promulgate legislative rules for the admission of H-2B workers and adjudicate H-2B lab…
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…
20-1775 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
20-1636 Douglas Bourdon v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied None
20-7659 Ilma Alexandra Soriano Nunez v. United States Third Circuit 2021-04-05 Denied bail-reform-act civil-detention criminal-defendant homeland-security pretrial-release statutory-interpretation statutory-time-period Whether section 3142 (d)(2) of the Bail Reform Act (BRA), 18 U.S.C. § 3141 et seq. prevents the United States Department of Homeland Security from civ…
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
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
20-6587 In Re Marie Joy Tanamor-Steffan 2020-12-09 Denied administrative-procedure civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-risk due-process habeas-corpus humanitarian-parole immigration immigration-detention medical-vulnerability public-health Whether the petitioner should be released from federal custody due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the petitioner's underlying medical conditions
20-718 Mario Nelson Reyes-Romero v. United States Third Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied attorney-fees civil-rights criminal-procedure eaja equal-access-to-justice-act government-misconduct hyde-amendment standing united-states-position Does the Hyde Amendment inquiry into whether 'the position of the United States was vexatious, frivolous, or in bad faith' encompass actions of non-pr…
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
20-449 Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2020-10-08 Granted administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-rulemaking homeland-security immigration-law immigration-nationality-act judicial-review notice-and-comment public-charge standing Whether entities that are not subject to the public-charge ground of inadmissibility are proper parties to challenge the final rule
20-450 Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-10-08 Dismissed administrative-law administrative-procedure homeland-security immigration-law immigration-nationality-act inadmissibility notice-and-comment notice-and-comment-rulemaking 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
20-5678 Charise L. Logan v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-09-12 Denied cia-testing civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech frivolous-law government-conspiracy jurisdictional-law standing systematic-oppression Did the lower courts fail to properly review the appellant's complaint and detect federal jurisdictional law violations?
20-5532 Larry Golden v. United States Federal Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied administrative-review fifth-amendment government-taking government-use implied-in-fact-contract intellectual-property just-compensation takings Has the Government taken private property under the Fifth Amendment Clause of the U.S. Constitution for the benefit of the public without paying just …
20-138 Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. v. Sierra Club, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-07 Judgment Issued administrative-law appropriations appropriations-transfer department-of-defense executive-power judicial-review national-security separation-of-powers standing statutory-authority statutory-interpretation Whether respondents have a cognizable cause of action to obtain review of the Acting Secretary's compliance with Section 8005's proviso in transferrin…
20-91 Joseph H. Martin v. Department of Homeland Security Federal Circuit 2020-07-29 Denied 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-employee-rights first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech hotel-privacy labor-management-relations standing union-speech Whether the 4th amendment protects speech in a rented hotel room
19-1212 Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. v. Innovation Law Lab, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-04-14 Judgment Issued administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-authority border-policy due-process immigration-law non-refoulement notice-and-comment preliminary-injunction statutory-interpretation Whether MPP is a lawful implementation of the statutory authority conferred by 8 U.S.C. 1225(b)(2)(C)
19-1170 Ricky W. Campbell v. Chad Wolf, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Fourth Circuit 2020-03-26 Denied administrative-exhaustion causal-connection civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eeoc-filing employment-discrimination federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdictional-bar standing staub-v-proctor-hospital supreme-court-precedent issue being raised
19-7495 Abu Ala M. D. Badruddoza v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-30 Dismissed administrative-law civil-rights covid-19 due-process employment equal-protection osha standing statutory-authority takings vaccination workplace-safety Whether the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) exceeded its statutory authority in issuing the COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Emer…
19A831 Ernest Asiedu Odei, et al. v. Department of Homeland Security, et al., Seventh Circuit 2020-01-24 Presumed Complete None
19A785 Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2020-01-13 Presumed Complete None
19-6867 Jose Luis Maya v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-05 Denied administrative-law asylum civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process immigration jurisdiction parole standing statutory-provisions Whether the Department of Homeland Security's policy of denying parole to asylum seekers violates the Immigration and Nationality Act and the Due Proc…
19-6464 Alejandro Garcia-Jacobo v. Marion Feather, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-10-31 Denied criminal-convictions due-process habeas-corpus immigration jurisdiction suspension-clause Whether 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(5) eliminates jurisdiction over § 2255 / § 2241 claims challenging criminal convictions
19A463 Center for Biological Diversity, et al. v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. District of Columbia 2019-10-29 Presumed Complete None
19-517 Daniel Barbosa, et al. v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. District of Columbia 2019-10-22 Denied administrative-procedure-act agency-transparency civil-procedure discretionary-function discretionary-function-exception express-statement-requirement foia foia-publication-requirements freedom-of-information-act judicial-review mandatory-publication secret-law stafford-act statutory-interpretation Whether the Stafford Act bars review of claims that FEMA uses secret law in violation of FOIA's mandatory requirements
19A186 Daniel Barbosa, et al. v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. District of Columbia 2019-08-19 Presumed Complete None
19-161 Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. Vijayakumar Thuraissigiam Ninth Circuit 2019-08-05 Judgment Issued administrative-law constitutional-challenge due-process expedited-removal habeas-corpus immigration-law judicial-review suspension-clause Whether Section 1252(e)(2) is unconstitutional under the Suspension Clause as applied to respondent
18-1537 Youras Ziankovich v. Colorado Colorado 2019-06-13 Denied choice-of-law civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceeding due-process federal-agency federal-agency-practice federal-preemption free-speech interstate-practice legal-ethics license-suspension preemption professional-conduct professional-misconduct standing state-licensing supremacy-clause Whether Colorado violated the petitioner's constitutional rights by suspending his New York law license for alleged violations of Colorado's professio…
18-1509 Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. Rahinah Ibrahim Ninth Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied administrative-procedure bad-faith civil-rights due-process foreign-national government-lists government-misconduct national-security ninth-circuit no-bad-faith no-fly-list standing Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in vacating the district court's finding of no bad faith in the government's conduct
18A1219 Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. Vijayakumar Thuraissigiam Ninth Circuit 2019-05-24 Presumed Complete None
18-1469 Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. Casa de Maryland, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-action agency-discretion deferred-action dhs-policy executive-discretion immigration immigration-enforcement immigration-law judicial-review policy-rescission standing Whether DHS's decision to wind down the DACA policy is judicially reviewable
18A954 Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. Rahinah Ibrahim Ninth Circuit 2019-03-22 Presumed Complete None
18A876 Department of Homeland Security v. Judicial Watch, Inc. District of Columbia 2019-02-27 Presumed Complete None
18-589 Chad Wolf, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. v. Martin Jonathan Batalla Vidal, et al. Second Circuit 2018-11-05 Denied administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-discretion daca-policy deferred-action due-process executive-action executive-power homeland-security immigration immigration-law judicial-review separation-of-powers standing Whether DHS's decision to wind down the DACA policy is judicially reviewable
18-588 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, et al. District of Columbia 2018-11-05 Denied administrative-law administrative-law-review administrative-procedure-act agency-action deferred-action due-process equal-protection executive-discretion executive-power homeland-security immigration immigration-policy judicial-review standing Whether DHS's decision to wind down the DACA policy is judicially reviewable
18-587 Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. Regents of the University of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-05 Judgment Issued administrative-law administrative-procedure-act administrative-procedure-act-apa deferred-action-for-childhood-arrivals-daca department-of-homeland-security-dhs dhs-policy due-process equal-protection executive-power immigration immigration-enforcement immigration-law judicial-review standing Whether DHS's decision to wind down the DACA policy is judicially reviewable
18-544 Teresita A. Canuto v. Department of Defense, et al. District of Columbia 2018-10-25 Denied 28-usc-1604 28-usc-1605 acting-official foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity foreign-state government-liability individual-capacity individual-liability official-capacity service-of-process sovereign-immunity state-immunity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a foreign state's immunity from suit under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act extends to an individual for acts taken in the individual's fo…
18-247 Animal Legal Defense Fund, et al. v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. California 2018-08-28 Denied None