| 25A807 |
Dewayne Bulls v. FBI, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2026-01-12 |
Application |
court-access defamation due-process executive-overreach first-amendment judicial-fabrication |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6539 |
Dewayne Bulls v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2026-01-09 |
Pending |
constitutional-claims due-process executive-overreach frivolousness-standard judicial-review separation-of-powers |
1. Whether federal courts can brand as "frivolous" under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B) a citizen's constitutional claims supported by official government … |
| 25-705 |
Carter Page v. James B. Comey, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-12-18 |
Pending |
accrual-of-claims fbi-misconduct fourth-amendment government-liability inspector-general-report surveillance-warrant |
The Federal Bureau of Investigation obtained four warrants from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to surveil Petitioner Dr. Carter Page. But… |
| 25A707 |
Edward C. Brown v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-12-17 |
Application |
child-pornography forensic-evidence knowingly-possessed metadata probation-violation supervised-release |
Question not identified. |
| 25-686 |
Gary Sebastian Brown, III v. Federal Bureau of Investigation |
District of Columbia |
2025-12-12 |
Pending |
confidential-source exemption-7d foia foreseeable-harm law-enforcement transparency |
I. Whether, after the FOIA Improvement Act of 2016, an agency invoking Exemption 7(D) must, in addition to establishing that the exemption applies, se… |
| 25-663 |
Alan Headman v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-08 |
Pending |
color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process involuntary-servitude trial-by-jury unconstitutional-avoidance |
IL CONSTITUTIONAL RIPENESS
Whether the Supreme Court, in this age of
equality, should consider gender-based servitude ripe for correction.
II. UNCONS… |
| 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… |
| 25-6111 |
Dewayne Bulls v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-11-14 |
Denied |
constitutional-violation due-process evidence-fabrication fisa-warrant fourth-amendment judicial-scrutiny |
1. Constitutional Validity of FISA Warrants Obtained Through Systematic Perjury and
Evidence Fabrication
Whether this nation will tolerate FISA warra… |
| 25-430 |
Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. v. Yassir Fazaga, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-08 |
Pending |
district-court judicial-review merits-adjudication ninth-circuit privileged-information state-secrets-privilege |
Whether dismissal of a claim after assertion of the state-secrets privilege requires a district court to adjudicate the merits of the claim using the … |
| 25A385 |
Carter Page v. Kash Patel, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-10-02 |
Presumed Complete |
civil-rights fbi fourth-amendment statute-of-limitations surveillance time-barred |
Whether a plaintiff can pursue civil claims for alleged Fourth Amendment violations arising from purported surveillance misconduct when the claims are… |
| 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… |
| 25A113 |
Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. v. Yassir Fazaga, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-28 |
Presumed Complete |
counterterrorism-investigation electronic-surveillance fisa fourth-amendment national-security state-secrets-privilege |
Whether the state-secrets privilege can be displaced by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act's (FISA) procedures for ex parte review of electroni… |
| 25A90 |
Alan Headman v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-22 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 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… |
| 24-1298 |
Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. |
District of Columbia |
2025-06-24 |
Denied |
booz-allen-hamilton civil-rights discrimination fbi-collusion federal-government judicial-interference |
Can the Federal Government Judicial influence and the Courts interference to disregard all the rules of the Courts to protect a corporation from liabi… |
| 24-7437 |
Kaveh L. Afrasiabi v. President and Fellows of Harvard College |
Massachusetts |
2025-06-16 |
Denied |
conflict-of-interest due-process harvard-university judicial-ethics judicial-recusal procedural-fairness |
Whether a presiding justice should have recused himself from a case involving Harvard University due to extensive connections and potential conflict o… |
| 24-1270 |
In Re Harold Jean-Baptiste |
|
2025-06-12 |
Denied |
civil-rights fbi-liability federal-government human-rights judicial-accountability second-amendment |
Can the Federal Government and Judicial influence protect the Federal Bureau of Investigations from liability and accountability of Human Rights, Civi… |
| 24A1052 |
Lawrence Watson v. Kash Patel, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-30 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 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… |
| 24-6736 |
David C. Lettieri v. Federal Bureau of Investigation |
Second Circuit |
2025-03-11 |
Dismissed |
appeal-court constitutional-procedure in-forma-pauperis judicial-delay notification-requirement procedural-rights |
Whether an appeal court's delay constitutes a violation of procedural rights and whether a plaintiff must be notified of an in forma pauperis terminat… |
| 24-6458 |
David C. Lettieri v. Federal Bureau of Investigation |
Second Circuit |
2025-02-03 |
Denied |
abuse-of-process constitutional-rights due-process false-arrest grand-jury probable-cause |
Whether a false arrest without probable cause constitutes a violation of due process rights |
| 24A639 |
Heon Jong Yoo v. Brian Barker, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-12-30 |
Presumed Complete |
bivens-action due-process federal-database firearms-rights mental-health-designation second-amendment |
Whether the Second Amendment and Due Process Clause protect an individual's right to purchase firearms and enlist in the military when erroneously des… |
| 24-674 |
Adis Kovac, et al. v. Kash Patel, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-23 |
Denied |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 24A335 |
Adis Kovac, et al. v. Christopher Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-08 |
Presumed Complete |
administrative-law civil-liberties congressional-authorization major-questions-doctrine statutory-interpretation terrorist-watchlist |
Whether the major-questions doctrine requires clear congressional authorization for the government to maintain a standardless terrorist watchlist that… |
| 24-5581 |
In Re Joe Nathan Pyatt, Jr. |
|
2024-09-19 |
Denied |
criminal-law fbi-jurisdiction federal-statute legal-definition statutory-interpretation vawa-interpretation |
Whether the term 'members' in an indictment sufficiently alleges a specific 'person' under 18 USC 2261A(2)(A) and whether the FBI can be considered a … |
| 24-5276 |
Rhoda Stahmann v. Christopher Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-08-08 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-law-enforcement official-misconduct statutory-violation |
Whether the Director of the FBI violated his duties to enforce the law and protect civil rights under 18 U.S.C. sections 242 and 1001 |
| 23-7579 |
James B. Jordan v. Federal Bureau of Investigation |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process free-speech retaliation surveillance |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights to due process, freedom of speech, and freedom from unreasonable search and seizure were violated by th… |
| 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? |
| 23A310 |
Casondra Pollreis, on Behalf of Herself and Her Minor Children, W.Y. and S.Y. v. Lamont Marzolf, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-10-10 |
Presumed Complete |
dashcam-footage excessive-force qualified-immunity scott-v-harris summary-judgment taser-threat |
Whether Scott v. Harris's narrow exception to the summary judgment standard—permitting courts to resolve disputed facts when video evidence is blatant… |
| 23A84 |
Twitter, Inc. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-28 |
Presumed Complete |
aggregate-disclosure first-amendment foreign-intelligence-surveillance-act national-security-letters prior-restraint transparency-reporting |
Whether the First Amendment requires that a prior restraint on a service provider's disclosure of aggregate data regarding national security letters a… |
| 22-7805 |
Dennis Sheldon Brewer v. Christopher A. Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-06-16 |
Denied |
None |
|
| 22-1178 |
Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. v. Yonas Fikre |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-06 |
Judgment Issued |
administrative-law administrative-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process government-declaration government-power judicial-review mootness no-fly-list standing |
Whether respondent's claims challenging placement on the No-Fly-List are moot |
| 22A822 |
Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. v. Yonas Fikre |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-16 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-879 |
Constantino Basile v. The Los Angeles Film School, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-14 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech rico standing |
Whether the Petitioner's brother Alexander Basile being murdered 6-3-22, the horrific beating and skewering of his body by unknown Secret Service, MI5… |
| 22-6284 |
Bryan M. Espinoza v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-12-12 |
Denied |
bell-v-hood bivens-action bivens-doctrine constitutional-rights davis-v-passman federal-tort-claims-act fourth-amendment obstruction-of-justice whistleblower-protection whistleblower-protection-act |
What is the proper cause of action under Bivens for a violation of the Fourth Amendment? |
| 22-6176 |
Cheryl A. Wolf, et al. v. Federal Bureau of Investigation |
Second Circuit |
2022-11-30 |
Denied |
affidavit civil-procedure declaration financial-disclosure in-forma-pauperis poverty |
Whether the petitioner's affidavit or declaration in support of a motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis satisfies the legal requirements |
| 22-6008 |
David Jay Tyson v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-11-07 |
Denied |
civil-rights due-process law-enforcement property-rights return-of-property seizure |
Whether the right of the property owner to have the property returned after it was seized by law enforcement should be recognized |
| 22-5335 |
Julius Wayne Baker v. Bryan K. Dobbs, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-08-11 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-investigation federal-jurisdiction free-speech incarceration legal-jurisdiction miranda-rights standing |
Did the 4th Circuit err in denying the petitioner's grounds for relief when the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by agents of the Fede… |
| 22-91 |
Stephanie Logsdon Smith, et al. v. Kentucky |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-29 |
Denied |
13th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation involuntary-servitude private-right-of-action probation-officer sexual-slavery slavery sovereign-immunity state-action thirteenth-amendment |
Whether the Constitution confers a private right of action against an individual State when that State violates the explicit prohibitions against slav… |
| 21-1415 |
John Doe v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-04 |
Denied |
constitutional-right-to-informational-privacy constitutional-rights freedom-of-information-act government-records informational-privacy privacy-act relevance single-publication-rule statute-of-limitations timeliness |
Does the single publication rule deprive citizens of their statutory right to timely Privacy Act relief? |
| 21-1032 |
Jason T. Berry v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. |
First Circuit |
2022-01-21 |
Denied |
4th-amendment cell-phone-intrusion civil-procedure en-banc-review evidence exceptional-importance fbi-abuses fourth-amendment mandate-recall pro-se pro-se-litigation standing |
Whether additional evidence of claims occurring while a judgment is pending and immediately after case closure merit recall of a mandate |
| 21-6181 |
Ahmad Jamaleddin Aljindi v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-04 |
Denied |
abuse-of-power bribery civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process judicial-bias judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice retaliation |
Did the United States District Court — Central District of California's Chief Judge Philip S. Gutierrez violate the United States Constitution when he… |
| 21-6022 |
In Re Robert L. Hedrick |
|
2021-10-21 |
Dismissed |
access-to-courts bureau-of-prisons civil-procedure deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment frivolous plausible-claim rule-8 standing |
Did the Court Error in ruling that the complaint failed to comply with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8(a)? |
| 21-93 |
Lawyers' Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, Inc., et al. v. Christopher A. Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-07-23 |
Denied |
9-11-transparency article-iii-standing attorney-general department-of-justice federal-judicial-disqualification-statute federal-procedure government-accountability judicial-disqualification legislative-history recusal supervisory-power |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings to such … |
| 21-72 |
Khalid M. Turaani v. Christopher Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-20 |
Denied |
adverse-effect constitutional-rights government-disclosure privacy-act reputation second-amendment sixth-circuit-review standing standing-doctrine traceability |
Whether the standing analysis for Privacy Act improper disclosure claims requires determining if the plaintiff sufficiently alleged an 'adverse effect… |
| 20-828 |
Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. v. Yassir Fazaga, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-18 |
Judgment Issued |
civil-procedure ex-parte-proceedings fisa foreign-intelligence foreign-intelligence-surveillance-act government-surveillance in-camera-review national-security state-secrets-privilege |
Whether Section 1806(f) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act displaces the state-secrets privilege and authorizes a district court to resolve,… |
| 20-6503 |
George J. Raudenbush, III v. Monroe County, Tennessee, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-12-02 |
Denied |
civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process false-prosecution in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance police-brutality right-to-counsel |
Whether the Sixth Circuit erred by denying Raudenbush's application to proceed in forma pauperis |
| 20-625 |
Joseph Findler v. Christopher Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-10 |
Denied |
civil-procedure constitutional-claims dismissal-with-prejudice entitlement-to-relief federal-rules iqbal-twombly pleading-standards subject-matter-jurisdiction unconstitutional-conduct |
Do the lower federal courts have the authority to depart from the pleading standards required by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and this Court's… |
| 19-1027 |
David Caswell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-18 |
Denied |
child-pornography computer-search federal-investigation fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception jurisdiction magistrate-jurisdiction network-investigative-technique search-warrant |
Did the FBI act in good-faith when it indicated to a magistrate judge that property to be searched pursuant to a search warrant application was locate… |
| 19-796 |
Michael Cowels, et al. v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. |
First Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
administrative-procedure-act agency-review arbitrary-and-capricious civil-rights dna-profile due-process fbi-determination federal-bureau-of-investigation national-dna-index-system pretext pretextual-basis pretextual-determination |
Whether the FBI's determination that a DNA profile is ineligible for upload to NDIS is arbitrary and capricious |
| 19A511 |
Michael Cowels, et al. v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. |
First Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 18-8986 |
David E. Kelly v. Joseph M. Arpaio, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-25 |
Denied |
14th-amendment business-identity-theft civil-rights constitutional-rights copyright-infringement due-process equal-treatment identity-theft law-enforcement property-rights |
Are law enforcement officers allowed to violate the constitutional rights of US citizens? |
| 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 |
| 18-1143 |
Ronald Lee Blake v. Federal Bureau of Investigation |
District of Columbia |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-determination employment-law expungement federal-employment federal-law-enforcement full-faith-and-credit standing state-felony-conviction |
can federal law enforcement employment determinations be based upon a state felony conviction that was expunged by operation of law within the state o… |
| 18-7188 |
Ian R. Davis v. Margaret Bradshaw, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
28-usc-2244 actual-innocence brady-v-maryland discovery due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition prima-facie-showing successive-petition witness-recantation |
Whether the proof necessary to make a prima facie showing that a petitioner satisfies 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2)(B)(ii) is equivalent to the proof necessa… |
| 18-323 |
Suzan Evans, Individually and as Wife and Next of Kin of Scott Evans, Deceased v. United States, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
circuit-split constitutional-law excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor police-conduct reasonableness-standard tennessee-v-garner totality-of-circumstances use-of-force |
Whether the totality of the circumstances test for assessing the reasonableness of a use of force under Tennessee v. Garner and Graham v. Connor requi… |
| 21A27 |
Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. v. Yassir Fazaga, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
|
Presumed Complete |
None |
|