| 25-6391 |
Delfon Blair v. Ohio, et al. |
Ohio |
2025-12-17 |
Pending |
None |
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| 25-5845 |
Ohio, ex rel. Christopher Michael Williams v. Marilyn Zayas, Judge, First District Court of Appeals, Hamilton County, Ohio, et al. |
Ohio |
2025-10-09 |
Denied |
14th-amendment due-process equal-protection equitable-tolling judicial-immunity state-court-procedure |
QUESTION #1: Does a state Court Judge, commit a violation of a Defendants 14th Amendment rights to
the United States Constitution for Due process, an… |
| 25-5734 |
Charles Robol v. City of Columbus, Ohio, et al. |
Ohio |
2025-09-25 |
Denied |
first-amendment fourth-amendment procedural-due-process public-forum recording-rights viewpoint-discrimination |
1. Whether a municipality's imposition of overbroad and viewpoint-discriminatory restrictions —including a permanent ban from a public forum, the deni… |
| 25-91 |
Richmond Road Partners, LLC, et al. v. City of Warrensville Heights, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-23 |
Denied |
economically-beneficial-use investment-backed-expectations judicial-invalidation legislative-repeal property-rights temporary-takings |
In Agins v. City of Tiburon, this Court suggested in a footnote that "extraordinary delay" plays a central part in temporary takings cases. 447 U.S. 2… |
| 24A1115 |
Richmond Road Partners, LLC, et al. v. City of Warrensville Heights, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-05-20 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 24-6760 |
Christopher Michael Williams v. Pavan Parikh, Clerk, Hamilton County, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-03-13 |
Denied |
administrative-duties civil-rights first-amendment judicial-machinery petition-of-grievances quasi-judicial-immunity |
Is a State Court Clerk entitled to absolute quasi-judicial immunity regardless of their conduct due to their administrative duties being closely inter… |
| 24-6338 |
Hakeem-Ali Shomo v. Ohio, et al. |
Ohio |
2025-01-17 |
Denied |
constitutional-protection double-jeopardy fifth-amendment judicial-misconduct mistrial prosecutorial-intent |
QP: Does the Double Jeopardy Clause bar retrial when judicial misconduct leads to a defense-requested mistrial, even without specific intent to provok… |
| 24-716 |
Tate David Prows v. City of Oxford, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-01-08 |
Denied |
article-iii-standing chilling-effect constitutional-rights first-amendment legislative-authority police-power |
Are all First Amendment Chilling Effect Cases Subjective and Do Political Subdivisions of States Have the Lawful Authority to Create Their Own Police … |
| 24-686 |
Dustin Young v. John R. Swaney, Sheriff, Madison County, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-12-27 |
Denied |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent constitutional-rights federal-appeals habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation |
Whether a certificate of appealability may be granted under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) when the issue that the petitioner wishes to present on appeal has bee… |
| 24-450 |
Ohio, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-10-22 |
Denied |
administrative-record agency-action chenery-doctrine clean-air-act judicial-review rulemaking-procedure |
Whether the Clean Air Act permits remand to the EPA to supplement the administrative record with new information and justifications after a rule is pr… |
| 24A117 |
Ohio, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-07-31 |
Presumed Complete |
administrative-action clean-air-act epa-regulation greenhouse-gas major-questions-doctrine statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Clean Air Act allows the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants in a manner that exceeds i… |
| 24-13 |
Ohio, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
commerce-clause constitutional-structure environmental-regulation equal-sovereignty federal-government federalism sovereign-power state-equality state-power |
May Congress pass a law under the Commerce Clause that empowers one State to exercise sovereign power that the law denies to all other States? |
| 23-1178 |
First Floor Living, LLC v. City of Cleveland, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-01 |
Denied |
circuit-split civil-procedure discovery discovery-rights due-process evidentiary-standards federal-rules-of-civil-procedure legal-procedure motion-to-dismiss summary-judgment trial-court-discretion |
Whether a trial court may enter summary judgment against a party without allowing that party to conduct discovery |
| 23-1147 |
Jahmir Christopher Frank v. Good Samaritan Hospital of Cincinnati, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-23 |
Denied |
civil-procedure equitable-powers federal-civil-rule-60(b)(6) medical-malpractice medical-records public-interest rule-60 sixth-circuit tort |
Should the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit have reversed the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio for f… |
| 23A349 |
Ohio, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-10-18 |
Presumed Complete |
administrative-overreach clean-air-act epa-regulation greenhouse-gas power-plant-emissions statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Clean Air Act allows the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants beyond the statutory autho… |
| 23-50 |
Jascha Chiaverini, et al. v. City of Napoleon, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-07-20 |
Judgment Issued |
42-usc-1983 any-crime-rule charge-specific-rule circuit-split criminal-charges fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause section-1983 |
Whether Fourth Amendment malicious prosecution claims are governed by the charge-specific rule or the any-crime rule |
| 22-7800 |
Mac Truong v. Richard Michael DeWine, Governor of Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-06-15 |
Denied |
abortion abortion-rights civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech intellectual-property pro-se-litigation standing standing-doctrine |
Does Petitioner have standing to sue Defendants for violating his copyrighted intellectual property and constitutional rights? |
| 22A935 |
Jascha Chiaverini, et al. v. City of Napoleon, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-04-26 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-6817 |
Carline Curry v. City of Mansfield, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-17 |
Denied |
civil-rights civil-rights-violation due-process employment-discrimination jury-trial jury-trial-denial retaliation statutory-interpretation summary-judgment |
Why wasn't plaintiff Curry given an opportunity to become a plant Operator? |
| 22-6599 |
Herman Harris, Jr. v. Ohio, et al. |
Ohio |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
criminal-statute due-process legislative-intent liberty-interest life-imprisonment parole parole-discretion sentencing sentencing-ambiguity statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Question not identified |
| 22-6367 |
Randall Bernard Allen v. County of Los Angeles, California, et al |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-21 |
Denied |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-action individual-rights rule-of-law standing takings |
Where government, state and city administrations are regulators, can The Rule of Law, and U.S.Constitutional rights be abandoned for those administrat… |
| 22-493 |
Erica Bojicic, dba Evolve Dance Company, LLC, et al. v. Richard Michael DeWine, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Governor of Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-23 |
Denied |
constitutional-law due-process emergency-powers eminent-domain fifth-amendment government-action necessity police-power property-rights regulatory-takings takings takings-clause |
Is the government required to prove with evidence that its action taken during an emergency which intrudes on private property rights was a necessity … |
| 22-293 |
Anthony Novak v. City of Parma, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-09-28 |
Denied |
circuit-split civil-rights first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement parody parody-speech police-misconduct qualified-immunity |
Whether an officer is entitled to qualified immunity for arresting an individual based solely on speech parodying the government, so long as no case h… |
| 22-248 |
Larry Tawney, Jr. v. Portage County, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-09-15 |
Denied |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights eighth-amendment intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress monell-claim section-1983 summary-judgment |
Whether a trial court properly dismisses a plaintiff's complaint seeking compensation under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for Eighth Amendment violations, a Monell… |
| 21A834 |
Anthony Novak v. City of Parma, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21A636 |
Reginald E. Barnes, Sr. v. City of Cleveland, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-04-22 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-1120 |
Chad Thompson, et al. v. Richard Michael DeWine, Governor of Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-14 |
Denied |
ballot-access civil-rights constitutional-challenge COVID-19-restrictions first-amendment free-speech government-regulation initiative-placement mootness standing |
Whether ever-changing and ongoing government-issued COVID-19 restrictions moot First Amendment challenges to ballot access restrictions |
| 21A247 |
Ohio, et al. v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-20 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-900 |
City of Cincinnati, Ohio, et al. v. Lamar Advantage GP Company, LLC, et al. |
Ohio |
2021-12-17 |
Denied |
billboard billboard-advertising business-privilege commercial-speech first-amendment freedom-of-press freedom-of-speech municipal-tax state-court-conflict |
Whether a municipal excise tax on the business privilege of charging for the use of billboard space abridges the freedom of speech, or of the press |
| 21A173 |
Chad Thompson, et al. v. Richard Michael DeWine, Governor of Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-5824 |
Mary Jill Allgeyer v. City of Cincinnati, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-09-29 |
Denied |
civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination magistrate-review prima-facie protected-class reverse-discrimination standing title-vii wage-disparity |
Reverse-discrimination |
| 21-5590 |
Ray Scott Heid v. Algenon L. Marbley, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process pleading standing |
Was petitioner denied due process by the district court when his complaint was dismissed for failure to state a claim |
| 21-226 |
Libertarian Party of Ohio, et al. v. Don Michael Crites, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-16 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-rights election-law first-amendment political-parties public-office standing state-restriction |
Whether a state violates the First Amendment by barring members of small political parties from holding a public office |
| 21-45 |
Peter C. Benedith v. Cuyahoga County, Ohio, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-13 |
Denied |
attempted-murder civil-rights due-process electronic-harassment free-speech legal-system-integrity pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation right-to-life |
Question presented to the court |
| 20-1667 |
City of East Cleveland, Ohio, et al. v. Arnold Black |
Ohio |
2021-06-01 |
Denied |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights discovery-sanctions due-process exemplary-damages municipal-liability police-misconduct section-1983 vicarious-liability |
Whether the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals committed plain error and the Ohio Supreme Court abused its discretion in denying review of this cas… |
| 20-1533 |
Carline M. Curry v. City of Mansfield, Ohio, et al. |
Ohio |
2021-05-04 |
Denied |
civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination employment-practices job-vacancy ohio-revised-code retaliation title-vii |
Should Plaintiff Curry been given an Opportunity for Reemployment |
| 20-1072 |
Chad Thompson, et al. v. Richard Michael DeWine, Governor of Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-05 |
Denied |
anderson-burdick anderson-burdick-test ballot-access ballot-initiative electoral-rights first-amendment initiative recurring-issue signature-gathering strict-scrutiny |
Whether and how the First Amendment applies to regulations that impede a person's ability to place an initiative on the ballot |
| 20-951 |
Mary Stewart, as Administrator of the Estate of Luke O. Stewart, Sr., Deceased v. City of Euclid, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-15 |
Denied |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference fourth-amendment municipal-liability qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Where a municipal employee has violated the Constitution, must a plaintiff point to 'clearly established law' (such as would overcome a defense of qua… |
| 20-903 |
First Choice Chiropractic, LLC, et al. v. Mike DeWine, Governor of Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
central-hudson-test circuit-split commercial-speech content-based-regulation content-based-restrictions first-amendment free-speech heightened-scrutiny speaker-based-restrictions speaker-identity |
First Amendment challenge to Ohio statute restricting medical practitioner-patient communications |
| 20-24 |
Great Lakes Minerals, LLC v. Ohio, et al. |
Kentucky |
2020-07-15 |
Denied |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure comity declaratory-relief individual-capacity injunctive-relief minimum-contacts sovereign-immunity state-jurisdiction state-sovereign-immunity |
Whether the Court's decision in Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt extends a state's sovereign-immunity to declaratory-and-injunctive-relief a… |
| 19A1054 |
Chad Thompson, et al. v. Richard Michael DeWine, Governor of Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-17 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 19-1367 |
Vernon Lee Havens, II v. Maureen O'Connor, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-guarantees due-process equal-protection equal-treatment federal-law judicial-immunity jurisdiction rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 section-1988 superior-courts |
Do Mireles v. Waco, Brookings v. Clunk, and associated case law combine to grant absolute judicial immunity to all other regulation, Section 1988 suit… |
| 19-472 |
City of East Cleveland, Ohio, et al. v. Charles Hunt, et al. |
Ohio |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
abuse-of-discretion bifurcation civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-procedure-bifurcation discretion emergency-vehicle-immunity expert-witness-testimony juror-misconduct manifest-weight-of-evidence motion motion-to-bifurcate trial trial-court-discretion trial-procedure |
Whether the Trial Court abused its discretion when it denied Petitioners' Motion to Bifurcate the trial |
| 19-409 |
City of Cleveland, Ohio, et al. v. Ricky Jackson, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-26 |
Denied |
42-usc-1983 42-usc-1988 brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 federal-law municipal-liability personal-injury personal-injury-claims qualified-immunity section-1983 section-1988 state-law state-law-survival-rule survival |
Whether §1988 requires the survival of §1983 claims to be determined using the state-law survival rule for the most closely analogous state cause of a… |
| 19-327 |
Jaonte Hairston v. Ohio, et al. |
Ohio |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
aggregate-facts constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-reasonableness law-enforcement limited-search police-conduct reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop |
Whether facts that do not individually show or permit an inference of a connection between a person and a crime that had been committed nearby may, in… |
| 18-1387 |
Susan Lloyd v. Becky Doherty, Judge, Court of Common Pleas, Portage County, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
access-to-courts ada ada-violations civil-rights courtroom-access disability-rights discrimination judicial-bias judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation rehab-act service-dogs sunshine-law transcript-alteration |
Is a magistrate and judge allowed to refuse well behaved service dogs in a courtroom? |
| 18-1388 |
Susan Lloyd v. City of Streetsboro, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
abuse-of-power civil-rights due-process government-misconduct property-damage qualified-immunity retaliation trespass wiretapping |
Are public officials allowed to show a repeated pattern of abuse and dereliction of duties and still maintain immunity towards a private citizen? |
| 18-943 |
Fairfield County, Ohio, et al. v. Neil A. Morgan, II, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-procedure fourth-amendment knock-and-talk law-enforcement officer-safety perimeter-security search-and-seizure |
Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits law enforcement officers from securing the perimeter of a residence, for officer safety, when conducting a lawf… |
| 18-6645 |
Peyton John Wesley Hopson v. Stark County, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
access-to-courts civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure good-faith in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion manifest-injustice pro-se standing |
Do the district court's failure to state reasons for certifying lack of good faith, failure to dismiss as frivolous, and failure to allow amendment am… |
| 18-259 |
City of East Cleveland, Ohio, et al. v. Derrick Wheatt, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-deadline due-process indemnification motion-to-amend qualified-immunity settlement-agreement standing state-actors wrongful-conviction |
Whether the Court abused its discretion in denying Petitioner City Defendants Qualified Immunity defense |
| 18-5779 |
Ray Cobia v. Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-27 |
Denied |
2004-conviction 2012-conviction civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing |
Whether the petitioner was afforded due process in the 2004 conviction and 2012 conviction, and why the conduct was prosecuted so harshly |
| 18-5591 |
Valerie Mason v. Dan A. Polster, Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
42-usc-1983 chambers-conduct civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process federal-courts free-speech judicial-conduct judicial-misconduct photography recusal standing |
Whether a judge's refusal to recuse himself after being photographed in his chambers violates the petitioner's civil rights under 42 USC 1983 |
| 18-5568 |
Carline Curry v. City of Mansfield, Ohio, et al. |
Ohio |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
bad-faith civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge opinions-below patent procedural-defect standing summary-judgment takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions |
| 18-5567 |
Carline Curry v. City of Mansfield, Ohio, et al. |
Ohio |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-procedure court-discretion default-judgment due-process failure-to-answer fraud judicial-review jurisdiction perjury procedural-due-process standing |
Should Plaintiff Curry been Awarded Default Judgement |
| 18-5133 |
Peyton John Wesley Hopson v. Stark County, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
amendment certification civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure forma-pauperis in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion manifest-injustice pro-se standing |
Whether the district court's failure to state its reasons for certifying that the petitioner could not proceed in forma pauperis in good faith, along … |
| 18-5096 |
Raymond Tibbetts v. John Kasich, Governor of Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
baze-v-rees baze-vs-rees eighth-amendment execution-protocol glossip-v-gross glossip-vs-gross lethal-injection midazolam prisoner-rights scientific-evidence substantial-risk substantial-risk-of-harm substantial-risk-of-serious-harm |
Whether a prisoner challenging a midazolam three-drug lethal-injection protocol must prove with scientific evidence that the first drug is sure or ver… |
| 18A495 |
Carline Curry v. City of Mansfield, Ohio, et al. |
Ohio |
|
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 18A494 |
Carline Curry v. City of Mansfield, Ohio, et al. |
Ohio |
|
Presumed Complete |
None |
|