| 25-6408 |
Lynette Cooper v. City of Baltimore, Maryland, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-19 |
Pending |
chemical-battery civil-rico due-process judicial-review pro-se-litigant witness-tampering |
1. Did the Court of Appeals violate the Petitioner's Due Process rights by affirming the District Court's sua sponte dismissal of a detailed civil RIC… |
| 25-517 |
Maryland, et al. v. 3M Company |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-10-27 |
Pending |
28-USC-1442 federal-officer-removal injury-causation liability-basis removal-statute state-court-remand |
Must an action removed under the federal officer removal statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1442, be remanded to state court when the conduct the defendant asserts … |
| 25-214 |
Kenneth Fitch, et al. v. Maryland, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-21 |
Denied |
constitutional-discrimination healthcare-benefits medicare-part-d statutory-employment unilateral-contract unmistakability-doctrine |
1. Whether the use of the unmistakability doctrine renders a fulfilled statutory unilateral employment contract illusory.
2. Whether Maryland may dis… |
| 25A102 |
Maryland, et al. v. 3M Company |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-07-24 |
Presumed Complete |
civil-procedure federal-officer-removal government-contractor jurisdictional-removal pfas-contamination statutory-interpretation |
Whether federal officer removal jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1442(a)(1) applies to private contractors who claim they were acting under the directio… |
| 24-802 |
Aleksandr J. Stoyanov v. Howard County, Maryland, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-01-28 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment fraud-upon-court malicious-prosecution section-1983 |
Whether the Court of Appeals abused its discretion by using Ashcroft to improperly affirm the district court's dismissal order of a §1983 malicious pr… |
| 24-730 |
Robert H. Gravatt, III v. Montgomery County, Maryland, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-01-13 |
Denied |
appellate-jurisdiction court-procedure federal-rules reconsideration-motion rule-4 time-limit |
Whether the 28-day limit to toll a postjudgment reconsideration motion of Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 4(a)(4)(A) is jurisdictional |
| 24-578 |
Corey Cunningham, on Behalf of Kodi Gaines, a Minor v. Baltimore County, Maryland, et al. |
Maryland |
2024-11-26 |
Denied |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 24-373 |
Maryland Shall Issue, Inc., et al v. Wes Moore, Governor of Maryland, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-02 |
Denied |
constitutional-challenge firearms-regulation gun-rights handgun-license maryland-law second-amendment |
Whether Maryland's Handgun Qualification License Requirement violates the Second Amendment |
| 24A226 |
Corey Cunningham, on Behalf of Kodi Gaines, a Minor v. Baltimore County, Maryland, et al. |
Maryland |
2024-08-30 |
Presumed Complete |
clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause permits qualified immunity for law enforcement officers who use objectively unreasonable and egr… |
| 24-203 |
David Snope, et al. v. Anthony G. Brown, in His Official Capacity as Attorney General of Maryland, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-23 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights firearms-regulation gun-ban second-amendment semiautomatic-weapons state-law |
Whether the Constitution permits the State of Maryland to ban semiautomatic rifles that are in common use for lawful purposes |
| 23-863 |
Dominic Bianchi, et al. v. Anthony G. Brown, in His Official Capacity as Attorney General of Maryland, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-12 |
Denied |
2nd-amendment bruen civil-rights common-use constitutional-rights due-process firearms-regulation gun-ownership heller individual-liberty second-amendment self-defense |
Whether the Constitution allows the government to prohibit law-abiding, responsible citizens from protecting themselves, their families, and their hom… |
| 23-751 |
0.12 Acres of Land, More or Less, in Washington County, Maryland, et al. v. Columbia Gas Transmission, LLC |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-11 |
Denied |
citizen-suit eleventh-amendment eminent-domain federal-jurisdiction judicial-power natural-gas-act sovereign-immunity state-sovereign-immunity |
Does the Eleventh Amendment bar federal courts from exercising jurisdiction over Natural Gas Act condemnation actions brought against a State by a cit… |
| 23-5609 |
Eric G. Banks, Sr. v. Anthony Brown, Attorney General of Maryland, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-19 |
Denied |
5th-amendment court-error due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-counsel liberty prosecution-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Did the U.S. District Court violate the Petitioners 5th Amendment Constitutional Right |
| 22-7720 |
Toni Marie Davis v. University of Maryland, et al. |
Maryland |
2023-06-06 |
Denied |
bodily-autonomy civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process experimental-vaccine medical-privacy privacy public-university vaccine-mandate |
Did the University of Maryland including Towson University break the laws by mandating/making a new law forcing their employees and students to tell t… |
| 22-5683 |
Gregory Scott Savoy v. Peter Franchot, Comptroller of Maryland, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-09-26 |
Denied |
9th-amendment antipsychotics brain-integrity brain-shrinkage civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process government-tyranny medical-intervention ninth-amendment unenumerated-rights whistleblower |
Do Americans have an unenumerated right to retain a full-sized brain? |
| 22-260 |
Burtonsville Associates, et al. v. Montgomery County, Maryland, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
church-construction equal-terms equal-terms-claim free-exercise religious-exercise religious-land-use rluipa substantial-burden zoning zoning-denial |
Must a congregation prove reasonable expectation of zoning approval to establish substantial burden under RLUIPA? |
| 22-5141 |
Jodie Louise Byrne v. Maryland, et al. |
First Circuit |
2022-07-19 |
Denied |
1983-civil-action civil-rights constitutional-violation consular-notification due-process equal-protection human-rights state-actor-liability victim-protection |
Failure to apply U.S. laws and protect crime victims' rights |
| 22A9 |
Burtonsville Associates, et al. v. Montgomery County, Maryland, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-05 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-7877 |
James Adeyemi v. Maryland, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-16 |
Denied |
americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights discrimination-claim due-process eleventh-amendment public-safety-department retaliation-claim sovereign-immunity state-employees state-sovereign-immunity |
Does the Eleventh amendment bar claims of retaliation or discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act? |
| 21-7185 |
Brian Arthur Tate v. Lawrence J. Hogan, Jr., Governor of Maryland, et al. |
Maryland |
2022-02-23 |
Denied |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders liberty-interest parole parole-hearing sentencing-procedure |
Whether the Eighth Amendment extends to governmental release systems for juvenile offenders |
| 21-6925 |
Chong Su Yi v. Lawrence J. Hogan, Jr., Governor of Maryland, et al. |
Maryland |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
administrative-law civil-rights court-rules due-process equal-protection judicial-deference judicial-discretion legal-interpretation procedural-fit statutory-interpretation |
Could the court apply rules that do not fit the person? |
| 21-902 |
Dominic Bianchi, et al. v. Brian Frosh, Attorney General of Maryland, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-20 |
GVR |
2nd-amendment arms-possession civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process firearms firearms-regulation heller-precedent second-amendment self-defense standing takings |
Whether the Constitution allows the government to prohibit law-abiding, responsible citizens from protecting themselves, their families, and their hom… |
| 20-272 |
Maryland, et al. v. Jimmie Rogers |
Maryland |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment sentencing sex-offender-registration sixth-amendment |
Did the Court of Appeals of Maryland depart from this Court's decisions in Smith v. Doe and Apprendi v. New Jersey |
| 19-8595 |
Brandon Williams v. Lawrence J. Hogan, Jr., Governor of Maryland, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-04 |
Denied |
bill-of-rights civil-rights constitutional-supremacy due-process federalism judicial-review negligence standing state-statute takings |
Does state statutes supersede the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights? |
| 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 |
| 18-980 |
Bismark Kwaku Torkornoo v. Maryland, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection estoppel fourteenth-amendment fraud res-judicata rooker-feldman |
Whether the District Court's decisions based upon estoppel to dismiss petitioner's civil lawsuit against the State of Maryland violate the Constitutio… |
| 18-773 |
Daniel Sullivan v. City of Frederick, Maryland, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
42-usc-1983 assembly civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech monell monell-doctrine municipal-immunity retaliation |
Did the court below err in affirming that a six-month criminal investigation of police officer Dan Sullivan, for his off-duty activity of raising mone… |
| 18-6878 |
Shomari Salim Daley v. Maryland, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-29 |
Denied |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing |
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| 18A466 |
Katherine B. Robinson, et al. v. Chesapeake Bank of Maryland, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-01 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 18-546 |
Brian E. Frosh, Attorney General of Maryland, et al. v. Association for Accessible Medicines |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
commerce-clause consumer-protection dormant-commerce-clause drug-pricing extraterritoriality federalism generic-drugs prescription-drugs price-control price-gouging state-police-powers state-regulation |
Does the Commerce Clause prohibit a state from protecting consumer access to essential off-patent and generic prescription drugs by requiring manufact… |