| 25-846 |
Reed Christensen v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2026-01-15 |
Pending |
amendment-violations constitutional-rights declaratory-judgment eighth-circuit federal-jurisdiction jan6-misconduct |
1. Did the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals err in agreeing that a federal district court does not have jurisdiction to judge unconstitutional actions … |
| 25-722 |
Project for Privacy and Surveillance Accountability, Inc. v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-12-19 |
Pending |
administrative-law agency-disclosure foia-exemptions government-transparency national-security records-search |
In response to requests for records under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) regarding potential domestic surveillance abuse, the respondent agenci… |
| 25-621 |
Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-12-01 |
Denied |
attempted-kidnapping attempted-murder fbi-liability federal-government human-rights terrorist-act |
Can the Federal Government's get away with attempt kidnaping, multiple attempted murder, terrorist act and Human Rights violations on an American Citi… |
| 25-6147 |
Anthony Roland v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-11-18 |
Denied |
administrative-remedies freedom-of-information-act government-transparency judicial-review pro-se-petition summary-dismissal |
Whether the court of Appeals may summarily dismiss a Petitioner's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) claim on the ground that "any issues which could b… |
| 25-572 |
James Stuart Faller, II v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-11-13 |
Denied |
absolute-immunity due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pro-se-litigant qualified-immunity |
1. Whether persistent and categorical judicial bias
and procedural disregard toward pro se litigants,
resulting in dismissal despite detailed factual … |
| 25A393 |
Project for Privacy and Surveillance Accountability, Inc. v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-10-06 |
Presumed Complete |
administrative-secrecy agency-action foia glomar-response public-scrutiny records-search |
Whether an agency can issue a 'Glomar response' to a FOIA request without conducting any search for potentially releasable records |
| 25-329 |
Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-18 |
Denied |
attempted-murder court-influence fbi-liability federal-government human-rights terrorist-acts |
Can the Federal Government get away with attempted murder, terrorist acts, and Human Rights violations on an American Citizen and use the Federal Gove… |
| 25-5295 |
David C. Lettieri v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-08-06 |
Dismissed |
appeal-duration constitutional-procedure jurisdictional-timing notice-of-appeal prisoner-mailbox-rule procedural-prejudice |
1. For a notice of appeal it is sixty days from the notice to the petitioner?
2. Does the "prisioner mailbox rule" matter?
3. Does length of duratio… |
| 25-40 |
Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-07-10 |
Denied |
attempted-murder fbi-liability federal-government human-rights-violations judicial-immunity terrorism |
Can the Federal Government's Judicial influence and the Courts' interference protect the Federal Bureau of Investigation from liability for a Terroris… |
| 24-7247 |
Tamika Seay v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-05-20 |
Denied |
due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plain-error probable-cause substantive-rights |
Whether the United States Government violated Petitioner's Substantive Rights under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment, and … |
| 24-1059 |
Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-04-09 |
Denied |
bureau-of-investigations civil-rights conspiracy federal-government human-rights judicial-interference |
Can the Federal Government's judicial influence and courts' interference protect the Federal Bureau of Investigations from liability for alleged civil… |
| 24-6845 |
David C. Lettieri v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-03-25 |
Dismissed |
case-transfer due-process false-evidence notice-clause plaintiff-amendment prosecutorial-immunity |
Does a plaintiff have a right to amend a case, and does a prosecutor have absolute immunity to create false evidence? |
| 24-6692 |
Barbara Kowal v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-03-04 |
Denied |
circuit-split evidence-admission freedom-of-information-act government-custody judicial-records public-access |
Whether a judicial record admitted into evidence as an unsealed exhibit at a public trial ceases to be a public record if the Government takes custody… |
| 24-751 |
Giorgi Rtskhiladze v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-01-17 |
Denied |
appellate-procedure circuit-court damages-claim footnote-defamation forfeiture privacy-act |
Did Petitioner forfeit his Privacy Act damages claim where the damages issue was fully briefed and the decision finds no support in existing caselaw? |
| 24A552 |
Barbara Kowal v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-12-05 |
Presumed Complete |
administrative-appeals federal-agencies foia information-request public-records statutory-exemptions |
Whether the Freedom of Information Act permits federal agencies to withhold records based on statutory exemptions when requested by a paralegal seekin… |
| 24-603 |
Esther Darnell v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-03 |
Denied |
burden-shifting discovery-compliance employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment overtime-claims title-vii |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's decision regarding DEA employment discrimination claims under Title VII and discover… |
| 24-5965 |
David C. Lettieri v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-11-13 |
Denied |
access-to-justice administrative-law court-filing judicial-discretion legal-procedure procedural-rules |
Whether a judge can improperly restrict court filings and impede access to judicial process |
| 24A449 |
Carla Davis, et al. v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-11-05 |
Presumed Complete |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process medical-records national-security patient-privacy |
Whether the Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments protect citizens' medical records from being classified under national security without access or… |
| 24-479 |
Teresita A. Canuto v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-10-31 |
Denied |
case-caption circuit-court defendant-naming district-court judicial-procedure jurisdictional-issue |
Whether the Circuit Judges erred in changing the defendants' case caption and failing to detect a purported jurisdictional 'key' in a district court p… |
| 24A300 |
Esther Darnell v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-27 |
Presumed Complete |
burden-shifting discovery-compliance employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas personal-knowledge summary-judgment |
Whether an attorney's conclusory declaration without personal knowledge can be used to support summary judgment in an employment discrimination case |
| 24-105 |
Boris Kotlyarsky v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-07-31 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights conviction criminal-plea criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus innocence judicial-review procedural-safeguards |
In the context of habeas corpus, would it constitute a breach of due process to convict a defendant in a criminal proceeding, despite clear evidence d… |
| 23A1115 |
Ryan P. Givey v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-06-17 |
Presumed Complete |
criminal-testimony department-of-justice federal-jurisdiction safety-threat supreme-court-review witness-protection |
Whether the Attorney General's discretionary authority under 18 U.S.C. § 3521 to provide witness protection can be compelled by the Supreme Court when… |
| 23-7063 |
Ryan P. Givey v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-03-22 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-complaint criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment government-accountability petition-clause standing |
Can the Department of Justice refuse to take a criminal complaint of federal crimes from Givey? |
| 23-603 |
Jeffrey Gray Thomas v. California Department of Justice, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-05 |
Denied |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process federal-taxation fraud free-speech judicial-misconduct rooker-feldman state-court-sanctions taxation |
Does Rooker-Feldman cutoff Petitioner's attack on fraudulent inducement to the state courts to enter fraudulent orders of sanctions against him, based… |
| 23-549 |
Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-of-columbia federal-courts judicial-procedure jurisdictional-error subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Court of Columbia erred in issuing an improper Order stating the Court had no subject matter jurisd… |
| 23-429 |
Brett C. Kimberlin v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-25 |
Denied |
civil-rights dna-evidence fraud-based-discovery heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey official-corruption section-1983 statute-of-limitations |
Whether Heck v. Humphrey bars a civil rights suit against officials who corruptly concealed evidence until time for appeal expired |
| 23-379 |
John S. Barth v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
checks-and-balances civil-rights due-process executive-discretion grand-jury political-corruption racketeering rico sovereign-immunity |
Do federal agencies have discretion to collude in racketeering crime? |
| 23-5737 |
Roger Wilson v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-10 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights dobbs-precedent due-process equal-protection fundamental-rights history-and-tradition obergefell-v-hodges originalist-interpretation same-sex-marriage substantive-due-process unenumerated-rights |
Does the Supreme Court's ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson apply to same-sex marriage rights? |
| 23A216 |
Brett Kimberlin v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-09-06 |
Presumed Complete |
civil-rights-action declaratory-relief DNA-testing heck-bar innocence-claim section-1983 |
Whether the Heck v. Humphrey bar to civil rights actions under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 applies when a plaintiff seeks declaratory relief and DNA testing to p… |
| 22-1176 |
Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment judicial-error jurisdiction rule-of-law standing |
Whether inexcusable error or neglect by U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Court of Columbia |
| 22-6147 |
Eric Lee Porterfield v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-23 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights contract due-process standing takings |
Whether the petitioner has the same protections as an independent contractor |
| 22-351 |
Charles Simon v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-10-14 |
Denied |
administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act arbitrary-and-capricious arbitrary-capricious civil-rights due-process inmate-compensation judicial-review standing |
Whether the Lower Courts' unconstitutional procedural departure conflicts with the prerequisite demand pursuant several holding of United States Appea… |
| 22-5770 |
Julian Okeayainneh v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-10-05 |
Dismissed |
administrative-procedure administrative-remedies attestation-requirement civil-action disclosure-requirements foia-exemptions freedom-of-information-act government-transparency judicial-review records-disclosure |
Whether the records provided to the petitioner through the FOIA process sufficiently complied with the FOIA's disclosure requirements and whether thos… |
| 22-5611 |
William A. White v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-09-19 |
Denied |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-provisions disclosure due-process freedom-of-information-act judicial-review legal-jurisdiction public-interest standing statutory-provisions |
Whether the Seven Circus eXia Riding, Phe ony perseas' FOIA disclosure obstructions 'greatly Comfounded' under 5 USC 552(a)(4)(B) could be justified b… |
| 22-5009 |
Larry Welenc v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-06-30 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exemptions foia foia-exemption freedom-of-information-act investigative-procedure judicial-review standing statute-of-limitations |
Can a US District Court Judge determine that an excised document released under FOIA consists only of a blank sheet and page number falls under a FOIA… |
| 21-1320 |
Robert Campo, et al. v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-04-04 |
Denied |
constitutional-precedent court-interpretation evidence-rules federal-rules-of-evidence federal-rules-of-procedure freedom-of-information-act judicial-discretion judicial-review procedural-rules supreme-court-precedent u.s-constitution |
Whether federal judges are free to flout and violate FOIA, federal rules, the Constitution, and Supreme Court precedent in FOIA adjudications |
| 21-7304 |
Wilfredo Torres v. New York City Police Department, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Dismissed |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct presidential-power standing torture-allegations warrantless-search warrantless-surveillance |
Whether United States Judge Ronnie Abrams and United States Magistrate-Judge Kevin Nathaniel Fox violated rules of ethics and my right to due process … |
| 21-1175 |
Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-02-24 |
Denied |
11th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-order default-judgment federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure human-rights judicial-review state-sovereign-immunity |
Whether the DC Appeal Court can ignore inexcusable neglect by the Superior Court for failure to apply Default Judgement |
| 21A358 |
Robert Campo, et al. v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-01-25 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-6665 |
Steven William DeLia v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
None |
|
| 21-827 |
Darek J. Kitlinski, et ux. v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
burden-of-proof discriminatory-animus employee-rights employment-discrimination employment-rights federal-employment military-service protected-status reemployment-rights userra |
Whether the employee must prove that protected status or activity was a motivating factor or prove that the employer had hostility to military service… |
| 21M45 |
Darek J. Kitlinski, et ux. v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-05 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 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? |
| 20-7975 |
Larry Welenc v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-05-10 |
Denied |
administrative-law civil-procedure district-court document-redaction foia-exemption freedom-of-information-act government-transparency judicial-review |
Can a US District Court Judge determine that an excised Document released under the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552, consisting only of a b… |
| 20-796 |
City of New York v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-12-10 |
Dismissed |
administrative-law byrne-jag-grant civil-procedure federal-grants federal-immigration-enforcement government-funding immigration separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Do the three substantive conditions the DOJ has imposed on Byrne JAG program eligibility exceed its authority under the statute? |
| 20-795 |
New York, et al. v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-12-10 |
Dismissed |
administrative-law byrne-jag-program civil-rights federal-funding federal-grants grant-conditions immigration immigration-enforcement spending-clause statutory-interpretation tenth-amendment |
Did Congress authorize DOJ to condition Byrne-JAG-funding on acceptance of DOJ's three new requirements? |
| 20-324 |
Peter J. Barclay v. Oregon Department of Justice, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
constitutional-sovereignty federal-preemption judicial-accountability judicial-immunity stare-decisis state-sovereignty statutory-injunction statutory-injunctions supervisory-powers |
Will this Court exercise its supervisory powers against lower court judgments which expressly hold the stare decisis of this Court 'irrelevant' and wh… |
| 20-5309 |
Michael Owen Harriot v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-10 |
Denied |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process law-enforcement property-rights search-and-seizure |
Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits law enforcement from conducting a warrantless search of a person's home and seizing their personal property wit… |
| 19-470 |
Darin Jones v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-procedure-time-limits civil-rights discrimination due-process federal-circuit federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review merit-systems-protection-board mixed-cases rule-60(b) time-bar |
Whether the 120 day time bar of 5 U.S.C. § 7702(e)(1)(B) is nonjurisdictional |
| 19-396 |
Charles Simon v. Department of Justice, et al. |
First Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
Denied |
administrative-law administrative-procedure-act civil-rights civil-rights-act discriminatory-practices due-process employment first-amendment judicial-review preliminary-injunction standing unlawful-termination |
Whether the lower court erred in denying legal sufficiency of the well-pleaded facts of unlawful termination without cause and restricting judicial re… |
| 18-9651 |
Carlos Arturo Patino-Restrepo v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
administrative-law agency-discretion civil-procedure due-process foia freedom-of-information-act government-transparency judicial-review mandatory-regulation summary-judgment |
Does a district court abuse its discretion in granting an agency summary judgment in a FOIA proceeding where the agency has failed to comply with a ma… |
| 18-8720 |
Rodney Reep v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
agency-records agency-referrals civil-procedure exemption-7(c) exemption-interpretation foia foia-request government-disclosure government-misconduct grand-jury improper-conduct judicial-procedure statute-of-limitations |
Does 28 U.S.C. §2401(a) apply to FOIA? |
| 18-405 |
Shabnam Dastmalchian v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-01 |
Denied |
asset-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-immunity government-overreach government-seizure innocent-third-party property-rights takings third-party-property |
Whether the interplay of the Constitution, Fed.R.Crim.P.7(c)(2), and 21 U.S.C. § 853 allow government employees to seize an innocent third party Calif… |
| 18-5911 |
Manuel Lampon-Paz v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-09-10 |
Denied |
case-redaction child-abuse child-abuse-neglect child-abuse-or-neglect court-of-appeals fair-trial federal-procedure minor-plaintiff minor-protection ongoing-case ongoing-federal-case plaintiff-rights redaction trial-fairness |
Whether a plaintiff can have his case redacted in accordance with laws and regulations about disclosure |
| 18-5250 |
Vincent Michael Marino v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2018-07-17 |
Denied |
administrative-secrecy civil-rights document-disclosure due-process foia FOIA-access foia-exemptions foia-privacy-act Inadequate-search privacy-act Privacy-Act-amendment public-records Reimbursement-of-FOIA-fees search-fee statutory-compliance statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court and appeals court erred in improperly categorizing and misapplying FOIA/Privacy Act exemptions, failing to compel agency co… |