| 25A739 |
Triumph Foods, LLC, et al. v. Andrea J. Campbell, Attorney General of Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-12-23 |
Application |
appellate-procedure certiorari extension-of-time first-circuit supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
1. This case presents several significant and complex constitutional issues that warrant a carefully prepared petition for a writ of certiorari, which… |
| 25-6098 |
Elston Bone v. Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-11-13 |
Denied |
42-usc-1983 constitutional-challenge intermediate-scrutiny new-york-rifle-bruen state-court-review subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Does the Federal District Court have subject matter jurisdiction, over a Plaintiff who brings a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action, and presents an indepen… |
| 24A1288 |
Aren S. Tau v. Town of Lakeville, Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-06-26 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 24-1307 |
Jennifer Cotto, et al. v. Andrea J. Campbell, Attorney General of Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-06-24 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-tort ex-parte-young ongoing-violation property-retention state-officials |
Whether the unlawful retention of property by state officials constitutes a past wrong or an ongoing constitutional violation under Ex parte Young |
| 24-7282 |
Imre Kifor v. Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-05-23 |
Denied |
child-separation constitutional-rights due-process federal-reimbursement lgbtq-rights state-law |
Whether Massachusetts can constitutionally 'double protect' some citizens by revoking Constitutional protections for others, and whether LGBTQ+ immuni… |
| 24A976 |
Jennifer Cotto, et al. v. Andrea J. Campbell, Attorney General of Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-04-11 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 24-410 |
L. M., a Minor, By and Through His Father and Stepmother and Natural Guardians, Christopher and Susan Morrison v. Town of Middleborough, Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-10-11 |
Denied |
first-amendment ideological-speech personal-identity school-censorship student-speech tinker-standard |
Whether school officials may presume substantial disruption or a violation of the rights of others from a student's silent, passive, and untargeted id… |
| 24A161 |
L.M., a Minor By and Through His Father and Stepmother and Natural Guardians, Christopher and Susan Morrison v. Town of Middleborough, Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-08-09 |
Presumed Complete |
first-amendment free-speech off-campus-speech school-discipline student-speech tinker-standard |
Whether a public school's disciplinary actions against a student for off-campus, online speech violate the First Amendment's protection of free speech… |
| 23-7005 |
Simon Chan v. Maura Tracy Healey, Governor of Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-03-15 |
Denied |
14th-amendment ashcroft-v-iqbal civil-rights class-of-one due-process engquist-v-oregon equal-protection government-discrimination judicial-review |
Should the US Supreme Court allow government officials to engage in discriminatory conduct without consequence? |
| 23-711 |
James P. Ryan v. Carlo DeMaria, Jr., Mayor of the City of Everett, Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-01-03 |
Denied |
appeal-jurisdiction civil-procedure excusable-neglect federal-court-procedure federal-jurisdiction good-cause notice-of-appeal pro-se-motion statutory-interpretation time-limitation time-limits |
Whether a federal court is deprived of jurisdiction when a notice of appeal is filed beyond the 30 days in the first provision of § 2107 but meets the… |
| 23-6398 |
Imre Kifor v. Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-12-29 |
Denied |
child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection executive-order federal-funding separation-of-powers sovereign-immunity |
Is the mandate to selectively 'advance equity' (for a select few) Constitutional? |
| 23A439 |
Nancy Roe, Individually and as Parent and Natural Guardian of A.R., et al. v. Maura T. Healey, Governor of Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Presumed Complete |
administrative-exhaustion fape idea mootness preliminary-injunction standing |
Whether the Supreme Court should clarify the standards for standing and mootness in educational disability rights cases involving administrative exhau… |
| 23A416 |
Robinhood Financial LLC v. William F. Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2023-11-08 |
Presumed Complete |
broker-dealer fiduciary-duty investor-protection preemption regulatory-conflict sec-regulation |
Whether federal Regulation Best Interest preempts a state law imposing a fiduciary duty standard on broker-dealers that directly conflicts with the SE… |
| 23-468 |
Matthew Haney, as Trustee of the Gooseberry Island Trust v. Town of Mashpee, Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-11-02 |
Denied |
civil-procedure constitutional-property-rights due-process government-permit judicial-review prudential-ripeness ripeness standing takings takings-claim variance variance-request |
Can the government evade adjudication of constitutional takings claims on prudential ripeness grounds—after it has twice definitively denied necessary… |
| 23-5932 |
Imre Kifor v. Massachusetts, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2023-11-01 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection equity-mandate executive-order legal-paradox russell's-paradox |
Does the mandate to selectively 'advance equity' (for only some) violate the Constitution? |
| 23A98 |
Matthew Haney v. Town of Mashpee, Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-08-02 |
Presumed Complete |
fifth-amendment final-decision regulatory-takings ripeness-doctrine variance-request zoning-board |
Whether a property owner's as-applied regulatory takings claim is ripe for federal court review when a local zoning board has not issued a final decis… |
| 22A1020 |
Irving F. Rounds, Jr. v. Maura T. Healey, Governor of Massachusetts, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2023-05-24 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-7545 |
Maude Laroche-St. Fleur v. Board of Bar Overseers of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2023-05-15 |
Denied |
attorney-discipline constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-proceedings fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity state-court state-court-jurisdiction |
Whether a State court is permitted to issue decisions in conflict with Supreme Court precedents and violate fundamental rights under the Fourteenth Am… |
| 22-1109 |
Irving F. Rounds, Jr. v. Maura T. Healey, Governor of Massachusetts, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2023-05-12 |
Denied |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process evidence evidence-weighing judicial-recusal public-records recusal |
Has Irving Rounds, Jr. been deprived of his due process rights under the 5th and 14th Amendments? |
| 22-7115 |
Imre Kifor v. Massachusetts, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2023-03-27 |
Denied |
child-support-enforcement congressional-research-service constitutional-challenge constitutional-interpretation federal-matching-grant federal-reimbursement federal-reimbursements open-ended-program reimbursement-rate state-matching-grant |
In the context of the federal CSE reimbursement program, is the 'open-ended' and thus manipulatable federal program constitutional as currently practi… |
| 21-8246 |
Richard D. Bostwick v. 44 Chestnut Street, Wakefield, Massachusetts, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2022-06-28 |
Denied |
access-to-courts americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-immunity reasonable-accommodation regulatory-taking standing substantive-due-process |
Whether the Remedies, Procedures and Rights set forth in the Americans with Disabilities Act are unconstitutional |
| 21A611 |
Richard D. Bostwick v. 44 Chestnut Street, Wakefield, Massachusetts, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2022-04-19 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-1324 |
John Zarba, et ux. v. Town of Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2022-04-04 |
Denied |
appellate civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process hearing municipal-liability rule-12b6 section-1983 standing |
Should Rule 12(b)(6) motions be modified? |
| 21-1301 |
Hector M. Jenkins v. Housing Court Department, City of Boston, Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2022-03-29 |
Denied |
civil-procedure-amendment civil-rights eeoc eeoc-notice employment-discrimination insubordination retaliation title-vii workplace-retaliation |
Whether an employee's repeated complaints of unlawful and discriminatory treatment can provide the basis for a legitimate, nonretaliatory reason to te… |
| 20-1800 |
Harold Shurtleff, et al. v. City of Boston, Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-06-24 |
Judgment Issued |
content-discrimination establishment-clause first-amendment flag-display free-speech government-speech public-forum religious-expression religious-viewpoint viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether the First Amendment prohibits the City of Boston from denying a private religious organization's request to briefly display its flag on a city… |
| 20A141 |
Michael L. Taylor, et al. v. Jerome P. McDermott, Sheriff, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-02-12 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 20-568 |
William Geoffroy v. Town of Winchendon, Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2020-10-30 |
Denied |
29-usc-626 age-discrimination due-process employee-rights employment-law statutory-interpretation voluntary voluntary-consent waiver waiver-validity |
Whether a waiver of age discrimination claims can be found to be voluntary when an employer verbally revokes an employee's twenty-one (21) day review,… |
| 19-1031 |
Erin Capron, et al. v. Office of the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
cultural-exchange federal-preemption federal-regulations foreign-policy immigration labor-laws state-regulation |
Whether federal law preempts the application of state and local labor laws to the terms and conditions of participation in the federal au pair program |
| 19-404 |
David Seth Worman, et al. v. Maura T. Healey, Attorney General of Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
2nd-amendment caetano civil-rights due-process firearms-ban heller heller-standard individual-right intermediate-scrutiny mcdonald second-amendment self-defense |
Does Massachusetts' ban unconstitutionally infringe the individual right to keep and bear arms under the Second Amendment? |
| 19-6007 |
Natasha DeLima v. Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2019-09-19 |
Denied |
abuse-of-power civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process fiduciary-duty judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice standing |
Why did so many partake in Obstruction-of-Justice on the Petitioner? |
| 19M47 |
Gareth Evan Lomax v. Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2019-09-05 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 18-8150 |
Ilya Liviz, Sr. v. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
access-to-court access-to-courts care-and-protection child-custody constitutional-rights due-process federally-protected-rights jury-trial parental-rights question-of-law state-court |
Is Dad being denied his federally protected due process right to petition for redress and access to a meaningful hearing resulting from state's refusa… |
| 18-7433 |
Hamid R. Ardaneh v. Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-discrimination discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-review pro-se-petition refugee-rights refugee-status |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated due to discrimination based on race, religion, and national origin |
| 23A1060 |
Simon Chan v. Maura Tracy Healey, Governor of Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
|
Presumed Complete |
certiorari-filing petition-extension pro-se procedural-relief rule-33.1 supreme-court |
Whether a pro se litigant's request for a procedural extension to file a Supreme Court petition meets the Court's standards for extraordinary relief |