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25-916 OCA - Greater Houston v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending disability-assistance election-law mail-voting statutory-interpretation voter-support voting-rights Section 208 of the Voting Rights Act provides that "[a]ny voter who requires assistance to vote by reason of blindness, disability, or inability to re…
25-904 La Union del Pueblo Entero v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-02-02 Pending disability-rights election-law mail-ballot preemption voter-assistance voting-rights Whether Section 208 preempts a state law that prohibits eligible voters from compensating their chosen assisters or from choosing trusted assisters wh…
25A860 Ruth Torres v. Veretta Frazier, Judge, 44th Civil District Court, Dallas County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-01-30 Application constitutional-violations declaratory-relief due-process judicial-conduct judicial-immunity state-court Question not identified.
25-845 Greg Abbott, in His Official Capacity as Governor of Texas, et al., Appellants v. League of United Latin American Citizens, et al. Texas 2026-01-15 Pending None
25A816 Wilhemena J. Beary, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Joshua J. Johnson v. Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-01-14 Application en-banc fifth-circuit judicial-procedure petition-review time-extension writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
25-647 Kevin Frymier v. Dianne Curvey, Individually, and as Judge, 280th Judicial District Court, Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-12-04 Pending eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young first-amendment judicial-immunity pro-se-litigant sovereign-immunity 1. Whether a federal appellate court may deem constitutional arguments waived when a pro se appellant, entitled to liberal construction under Haines v…
25-623 Ronald Smith v. Bexar County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-12-02 Pending community-caretaking constitutional-seizure fourth-amendment law-enforcement mental-health-detention qualified-immunity Under the 4th Amendment, a warrantless emergency mental health detention constitutes a physical seizure. Police often misconstrue ordinary street enco…
25-6262 Stevie Wyre v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-12-02 Pending civil-procedure complaint-dismissal constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion procedural-rules Me fiouids Abused rU cVscoehoiJ in vlqjiesilQ€3 Comped, LxDheu Me decl we 4o etfeecise suppkwd jmzisiudwo o\fe£ ChJq $We to Qfl. defied of VbS I^wssd …
25A602 Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., et al. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-11-21 Application election-regulations fifth-circuit minority-voting texas-law voter-assistance voting-rights Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly interpreted Texas voting assistance laws in a manner that potentially restricts minority voters' access to electo…
25A605 OCA - Greater Houston, et al. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-11-21 Application certiorari election-law fifth-circuit injunction senate-bill-1 voting-rights Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly interpreted Texas Senate Bill 1 in a manner that potentially infringes on voting rights and electoral access
25A556 La Union del Pueblo Entero, et al. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-11-13 Application equal-protection fifth-circuit redistricting texas-law voter-assistance voting-rights Whether the Voting Rights Act and Equal Protection Clause prohibit Texas from enacting voter assistance restrictions that disproportionately burden mi…
25-284 Leila Green Little, et al. v. Llano County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-09-11 Denied book-censorship first-amendment free-speech government-action library-access viewpoint-discrimination Whether those book-removal decisions are subject to scrutiny under the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment.
25A184 Ronald Smith v. Bexar County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-08-14 Presumed Complete fourth-amendment mental-health-detention probable-cause seizure traffic-stop warrantless-search Whether law enforcement may conduct a warrantless emergency mental health detention during a traffic stop based solely on subjective observations of '…
25-5290 Stacy L. Conner v. Ken Paxton, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-08-06 Denied constitutional-rights court-access due-process judicial-intervention liberty-interest petition-review 1. ) Does our Constitution no longer protect/serve and umbrella each American Citizen equally? or at all?? 2. ) "After assessing all the Facts and su…
25A116 Leila Green Little, et al. v. Llano County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-07-28 Presumed Complete circuit-split first-amendment free-speech government-speech information-access public-library Whether the First Amendment protects a right to receive information from a public library and how the government speech doctrine applies to library co…
25M10 Rodolfo Vela, Sr., et al. v. Mike Compton, Sheriff, Cooke County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-07-28 Presumed Complete None
25-5193 Samuel San Miguel v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-07-24 Denied civil-commitment due-process facial-challenge legislative-intent punitive-intent rule-59-motion 1. If Texas declares. .. that the Act which they confined Petitioner under (after he completed his prison sentence) is "civil," but it is actually "c…
24-7504 Daniel Ray Garcia v. Matthew Joseph Kacsmaryk, District Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-06-26 Denied None Question not identified.
24A1240 Stacy L. Conner v. Ken Paxton, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-06-13 Presumed Complete None
24-1254 City of Palestine, Texas, et al. v. Union Pacific Railroad Company Texas 2025-06-09 Denied constitutional-interpretation iccta-preemption interstate-commerce retroactive-application separation-of-powers state-court-judgment Whether the Texas Supreme Court erred in retroactively applying the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act's preemption provisions to a final …
24-1245 Masika Brown Ray v. Anthony Boone, Chief, Longview Police Department, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-06-05 Denied constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection police-accountability selective-enforcement wrongful-detention Did the Fifth Circuit err in affirming the district court's dismissal where substantial constitutional violations under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amend…
24-1168 M. D., By Next Friend, Sarah R. Stukenberg, et al. v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-05-14 Denied civil-contempt compliance court-order due-process judicial-procedure sanctions Whether civil contempt sanctions imposed through proceedings that undisputedly comported with civil due process may be affirmed even if the contempt o…
24-6998 Eric Ellis v. City of White Settlement, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-04-15 Denied fourth-amendment passenger-arrest probable-cause traffic-stop unreasonable-seizure warrantless-seizure Whether the warrantless seizure of a suspect's children without probable cause during a traffic stop violates the Fourth Amendment; Whether an arrest …
24A965 Maria Rocha, et al. v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-04-09 Presumed Complete None
24-934 Edward Turnbull, IV v. Board of Directors of the State Bar of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-02-27 Denied administrative-proceedings civil-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment injunctive-relief standing Whether private citizens have standing to seek injunctive relief against local and state officials to compel them to conduct administrative proceeding…
24-892 Alejandro Martinez v. City of Rosenberg, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-02-19 Denied circuit-split constitutional-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment injury-threshold police-misconduct Is an otherwise unreasonable use of excessive force permitted under the Fourth Amendment so long as it results in no, or only minor, injuries?
24-823 Benjamin Benfer v. City of Baytown, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-02-03 Denied circuit-split due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment police-force qualified-immunity Whether the Fourth Amendment can countenance an extended bite by a police attack dog where no adequate warning was given, and the suspect was unarmed …
24-672 Erma Wilson v. Midland County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-12-20 Pending circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus section-1983 statutory-interpretation If a person never had access to § 2254 to impugn the constitutionality of her state criminal proceeding, is § 1983 presumptively available (as in six …
24A581 Lonzie Hershner, et al. v. City of Dallas, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-12-13 Presumed Complete civil-rights equal-protection first-amendment juneteenth lgbtq-rights municipal-discrimination Whether municipal officials can engage in discriminatory enforcement of local regulations against a minority-owned business based on racial and sexual…
24-618 Erin Wade, et al. v. City of Houston, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-12-05 Denied civil-rights fifth-circuit first-amendment mass-arrests pleading-standards qualified-immunity Whether the Supreme Court should correct the Fifth Circuit's departure from accepted judicial proceedings and pleading standards in civil rights cases…
24-570 Mary Dawes, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Decedent Genevive A. Dawes, et al. v. City of Dallas, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-11-21 Denied body-camera-evidence officer-testimony qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment use-of-deadly-force Whether an officer's subjective belief of danger can negate objective video evidence showing no threat when determining qualified immunity on summary …
24-465 Texas, et al. v. Jerry Black, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-24 GVR administrative-law constitutional-authority federal-trade-commission legislative-delegation private-rulemaking separation-of-powers Whether Congress unconstitutionally delegated legislative authority to a private entity in the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act (HISA)
24-398 Jantzen Verastique, et al. v. City of Dallas, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-09 Denied constitutional-violations deliberate-indifference governmental-entity legal-precedent pattern-requirement section-1983 Whether Leatherman v. Tarrant County precedent applies to deliberate indifference claims under § 1983 and whether pattern of constitutional violations…
24A259 Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-09-12 Presumed Complete federal-grants fiscal-recovery spending-clause state-sovereignty statutory-conditions tax-policy Whether the Spending Clause permits Congress to impose conditions on federal grants that restrict a state's ability to modify its tax policy through a…
24-5167 John Stancu v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. Texas 2024-07-29 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process jury-trial seventh-amendment sovereign-immunity standing state-power texas Did the State of Texas Courts involved in this case wrongly denied Petitioner Stancu's Seventh Amendment right to the United States Constitution by ma…
24-5134 Diana Ingrid Reismann Sexton v. Fort Bend County, Texas, et al. Texas 2024-07-25 Denied alien-tort-statute civil-rights-violations convention-against-torture dual-citizenship due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction international-law international-treaties sovereign-immunity torture torture-prevention May-a-case-demanding-relief-to-a-dual-citizen-with-dominant-nationality-as-an-alien-and-her-child-injured-by-US-naturals-who-committed-tortures-fraud-…
24-45 Dwight Russell, et al. v. Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied civil-procedure constitutional-harm effectual-relief mootness prospective-relief standing Whether legislation enacted during a lawsuit renders asserted claims for prospective relief moot if the legislation does not cure all of the constitut…
24-5056 Tyrone Stafford v. Arnold S. Zwicke, Executive Sheriff, Guadalupe County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-07-11 Denied 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement malicious-prosecution police-misconduct qualified-immunity use-of-force Question not identified.
23-1312 Interim Storage Partners, LLC v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-06-14 Judgment Issued administrative-law agency-action hobbs-act jurisdictional-limitations nuclear-regulation nuclear-regulatory-commission spent-nuclear-fuel standing ultra-vires Whether the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's exercise of authority to issue a license to a private party to temporarily possess spent nuclear fuel at a…
23A1114 Samuel San Miguel v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-06-14 Presumed Complete circuit-split civil-commitment due-process medical-care pro-se-litigation standard-of-review Whether the Due Process Clause requires a deliberate indifference or professional judgment standard for medical care claims brought by civilly committ…
23-1300 Nuclear Regulatory Commission, et al. v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-06-12 Judgment Issued administrative-law agency-authority agency-review atomic-energy-act hobbs-act nuclear-regulatory-commission spent-nuclear-fuel standing statutory-authority Whether the Hobbs Act allows nonparties to obtain review of claims asserting that an agency order exceeds the agency's statutory authority
23-7618 Jesse A. Reynolds v. Titus County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-06-03 Denied civil-rights due-process equal-protection fair-housing fair-housing-act judicial-immunity prosecutorial-immunity sovereign-immunity statute-of-limitations takings Question not identified.
23-1248 Keresa Richardson v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied appellate-courts constitutional-law election-law equal-protection judicial-elections one-man-one-vote state-representation texas voting-districts Does the Equal Protection Clause's one man, one vote requirement apply to the election of Texas appellate court justices?
23A986 Dwight Russell, et al. v. Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-03 Presumed Complete fundamental-rights judicial-review legislative-intervention liberty-interest mootness pretrial-detention Whether legislation enacted during ongoing litigation can moot the underlying claims when the legislation does not provide the complete relief origina…
23-1105 National Press Photographers Association v. Kelly Higgins, in His Official Capacity as District Attorney of Hays County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied article-iii-standing civil-rights content-based-restriction content-based-restrictions drone-surveillance due-process first-amendment free-speech intermediate-scrutiny standing vagueness void-for-vagueness Do journalists and news organizations have standing to bring a void-for-vagueness due process challenge?
23-1088 John Doe 1, et al. v. Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-04-05 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-rights government-liability standing Can public employees of a county jail join as a class to sue their employing county under 42 U.S.C. 1983 to force compliance with state-mandated safet…
23-1076 Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-04-03 Denied emergency-medical-treatment federal-preemption health-care healthcare-law labor-act medical-emergency patient-stabilization preemption reproductive-rights state-law Whether the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act preempts state law in the narrow circumstance where terminating a pregnancy is required to stabi…
23A814 United States v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-03-04 Presumed Complete arizona-v-united-states federal-immigration-authority immigration-preemption removal-power state-border-enforcement supremacy-clause Whether a state law criminalizing unauthorized border entry and mandating removal of noncitizens is preempted by federal immigration law under the Sup…
23-943 Samuel T. Russell v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied 11th-amendment civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation due-process eleventh-amendment judicial-tradition matthew-15-6 state-sovereignty Is it a civil right for citizens to complain against their own state?
23A790 John Doe 1, et al. v. Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-02-27 Presumed Complete cause-of-action certiorari fifth-circuit judicial-review procedural-dismissal time-extension Whether the lower courts properly dismissed the Petitioner's case for failure to state a viable cause of action
23-756 Angela Robinson, et al. v. Midland County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-01-12 Denied actual-knowledge civil-rights civil-rights-violation constructive-knowledge county-liability monell monell-claim municipal-liability section-1983 Whether county policymakers' actual or constructive knowledge of contractor's misconduct is required for Monell claim
23A521 Terry Petteway, et al. v. Galveston County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-12-08 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23A523 Dickinson Bay Area Branch NAACP, et al. v. Galveston County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-12-08 Presumed Complete civil-rights discrimination lulac minority-representation naacp voting-rights Whether local civil rights organizations have standing to challenge voting restrictions that potentially discriminate against minority voters
23A449 Terry Petteway, et al. v. Galveston County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-11-20 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23-5856 Dmt MacTruong, aka Mac Truong v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-10-23 Pending abortion civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights copyright copyright-law federal-jurisdiction obstruction-of-justice standing texas-heartbeat-act Does Petitioner have standing to sue Defendants for violating Petitioner's constitutional and civil rights?
23-5831 Roberto Carlos Mendives, Individually and On Behalf of His Four Minor Children, R. C. M., II, M. A. M., G. L. M., and E. F. M. v. Bexar County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied child-custody civil-rights due-process family-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment parens-patriae parental-rights standing strict-scrutiny Whether this court should overrule the fact that the state court has separated a fit parent from his/her minor children without an adjudication hearin…
23M31 Stand for Something Group Live, LLC, dba The Rail Club Live, et al. v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. Texas 2023-10-04 Presumed Complete None
23A181 Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-28 Presumed Complete constitutional-separation-of-powers covid-19-vaccination federal-authority militia-clauses national-guard state-militia-capacity Whether the Militia Clauses of the Constitution, Article I, Sections 8, Clauses 15 and 16, prohibit the federal government from imposing a COVID-19 va…
23-141 Rowland J. Martin, Jr., Individually and as Administrator to the Estate of Johnnie Mae King v. Bexar County, Texas, et al. Federal Circuit 2023-08-15 Denied appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure federal-circuit jurisdiction patent patent-jurisdiction remand removal removal-action statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a removal action supported by 28 USC 1338 and 1454 is justiciable by way of a district court order of remand issued pursuant to 28 USC 1447?
23-5347 Edward Lynn Russell v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-14 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process illegible-text indecipherable-text standing takings texas-health-and-safety-code unclear-petition unreadable-document Does Section 311 of the Texas Health and Safety Code violate the Constitution by imposing sanctions to protect constitutional rights?
23-126 Joe Blessett v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statutes public-private social-security-act title-iv Is there a distinction between the Public and Private in applying a federal government-funded Public Service, Title IV of the Social Security Act (Act…
23-97 Shannon Daves, et al., on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated v. Dallas County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-02 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review mootness pretrial-detention standing younger-abstention Whether Younger v. Harvis and its progeny require federal courts to abstain from adjudicating petitioners' constitutional challenges
23-5153 Felix Lyle Cowan v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-07-20 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure howey-test investment-contract securities-exchange-act-of-1934 securities-regulation Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Howey test for determining an 'investment contract' under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
23-39 Haseeb Abdullah v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-07-14 Denied article-iii civil-rights due-process establishment-clause fiduciary-duty first-amendment free-speech ideological-viewpoint standing Does a beneficiary have standing for a First Amendment challenge to a state statute requiring divestment from companies boycotting Israel?
22A1029 Shannon Daves, et al. v. Dallas County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-05-26 Presumed Complete None
22-1088 John T. Morris v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-05-09 Denied accumulated-knowledge article-1-section-2 constitutional-interpretation election-integrity first-amendment frequent-elections political-rights redistricting voter-participation voting-rights Are frequent elections implied in Article 1, Section 2 Clause 1 of the United States Constitution that were meant by the Framers of the Constitution t…
22-1092 Onoyom Ukpong v. International Leadership of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-05-09 Denied employment-discrimination federal-laws final-pretrial-judgment qualified-immunity section-1981 statute-of-limitations summary-judgment supremacy-clause title-vii Did the Fifth Circuit deviate from paramountcy of Supremacy-Clause, federal-laws, final-pretrial-judgment, qualified-immunity, summary-judgment
22-933 Jean Henderson, as Next Friend and Guardian of Christopher Henderson v. Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment police-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 unreasonable-force Does qualified immunity shield an officer who uses unreasonable force against a fleeing misdemeanor suspect who complies with an officer's order to st…
22-7081 Tamir Abdullah v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-03-23 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction qualified-immunity standing Whether petitioner has a right to have his allegations disputed by respondents
22A803 Tamir Abdullah v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-03-13 Presumed Complete None
22-6971 Joseph Dingler v. Terry Garrett, Sheriff, Rockwall County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-03-08 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-evidence preservation-rights standing statutory-interpretation takings tax Whether Congress's taxing power under the Sixteenth Amendment authorizes the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate as a valid exercise of that powe…
22A707 Jean Henderson v. Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-02-06 Presumed Complete None
22A597 Onoyom Ukpong v. International Leadership of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-01-06 Presumed Complete None
22-601 Peter Lake, Chairman, Public Utility Commission of Texas, et al. v. NextEra Energy Capital Holdings, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-12-30 Denied commerce-clause federal-energy-regulatory-commission incumbent-utilities police-power public-utilities state-regulation transmission-lines utility-regulation Whether States may exercise their core police power to regulate public utilities by recognizing a preference for allowing incumbent utility companies …
22-548 Randall E. Rollins v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-12-15 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-jurisdiction justice-courts pro-se pro-se-litigant sovereign-immunity Did the court below err in not considering the issue that pro se litigants in Texas justice courts are treated unequally from all litigants in non-jus…
22-521 Jack Pidgeon, et al. v. Sylvester Turner, Mayor of the City of Houston, Texas, et al. Texas 2022-12-05 Denied civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection family-code fourteenth-amendment marriage-recognition same-sex-marriage texas-constitution Whether Texas Constitution article I, § 32 and Texas Family Code § 6.204 violate the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendm…
22-480 City of Palestine, Texas, et al. v. Union Pacific Railroad Company Fifth Circuit 2022-11-21 Denied circuit-conflict circuit-split contractual-obligations iccta-preemption interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-commission-termination-act judicial-review preemption retroactive-application summary-judgment Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in retroactively applying the preemption provisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act (ICCTA) to a…
22A440 Peter Lake, Chairman, Public Utility Commission of Texas, et al. v. NextEra Energy Capital Holdings, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-11-17 Presumed Complete None
22-370 Percy Utley v. City of Houston, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-10-19 Denied 5th-circuit burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review pleading-standard probable-cause Whether the Fifth Circuit has so far departed from the accepted and usual application of the pleading standard as to require this Court's correction
22-5583 John Doe v. Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-09-15 Denied civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures
22-234 Texas, et al. v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure due-process executive-power federal-rule immigration intervention judicial-procedure litigation-strategy public-charge standing Whether petitioners were entitled to intervene in defense of the Rule
22-5559 Patricio Estrada v. Troy Nehls, Sheriff, Fort Bend County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference disciplinary-isolation due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection medical-treatment prison-conditions Whether Estrada's due process rights were violated by being placed in disciplinary isolation prior to any hearing
22-136 Roy Charles Brooks, et al., Appellants v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. Texas 2022-08-11 Denied None
22A83 Roy Charles Brooks, et al. v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. Texas 2022-07-29 Presumed Complete None
22-58 United States, et al. v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-07-21 Denied None
22-59 Paul Nunu v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-07-21 Denied 14th-amendment ab-initio constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction first-amendment privileges-or-immunities rooker-feldman state-court-judgments void-ab-initio Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars inferior Federal Courts from voiding State Court judgments that are void ab initio under State and Federal la…
22A17 United States, et al. v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-07-08 Presumed Complete None
22-5025 Arthur Luther McKinney v. Gary Painter, Sheriff, Midland County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-07-05 Denied administrative-law civil-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies prisoner-litigation standing Did McKinney exhaust the administrative remedies required by the PLRA?
21-1563 Reynaldo Antonio De Los Santos, et al. v. William Bosworth, In the Official Capacity as Employee and/or Administrator and/or Policymaker and/or Official of Johnson County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied civil-rights county-commissioners due-process government-code indigent-appointment legal-counsel open-meetings open-meetings-act public-funds texas-government-code texas-open-meetings-act Whether conditions precedent that are specified in both the Texas Open Meetings Act and the Texas Government Code must be met before county commission…
21-8032 Michael G. Peters v. Innocent Projects of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-06-02 Dismissed civil-rights due-process equal-protection fundamental-rights marriage sexual-orientation Whether the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause and the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause prohibit the government from denying a person'…
21-1437 Carol M. Kam v. Dallas County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied civil-rights due-process judicial-conduct judicial-misconduct non-final-orders probate-court rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-court-orders state-court-ruling Can the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine apply to non-final state court rulings?
21-7847 Michael G. Peters v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-05-13 Dismissed access-to-courts civil-rights due-process free-speech public-trial standing Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial extends to the public's right to access court records and proceedings, and whether the government …
21-7851 Joseph Chhim v. City of Houston, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-05-12 Dismissed civil-rights civil-rights-act discrimination employment employment-discrimination employment-terms federal-courts protected-status statutory-interpretation title-vii workplace-conditions Are the 'terms, conditions, or privileges of employment' covered by Section 703(a)(1) limited only to hiring, firing, promotions, compensation, and le…
21-7531 Michael G. Peters v. City of Houston, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-04-04 Dismissed certiorari-petition civil-procedure civil-rights court-review due-process federal-tax-code free-speech legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation takings tax-liability Whether the court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims
21-7281 Kevin Debnam v. Javier Salazar, Sheriff, Bexar County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-03-04 Denied 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process police-misconduct probable-cause unlawful-arrest Whether police violated the Fourth Amendment by arresting the petitioner without probable cause
21-1104 John Davis v. City of Andrews, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-02-09 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-statements law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in upholding the doctrine of qualified immunity for a police officer who utilized known false statements to ensure the…
21-1041 Michael J. P. v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-01-26 Denied arbitrary-and-capricious benefit-eligibility erisa firestone-v-bruch judicial-review metro-life-v-glenn plan-administrator plan-administrator-discretion standard-of-review substantial-evidence Whether the Supreme Court's dicta in Firestone Tire and Rubber Co v. Bruch and the Supreme Court's ruling in Metro. Life Ins. Co. v. Glenn render it i…
21-954 Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-12-29 Judgment Issued administrative-discretion administrative-law agency-discretion border-policy due-process homeland-security immigration-law immigration-policy judicial-review statutory-interpretation Whether 8 U.S.C. 1225 requires DHS to continue implementing MPP
21-658 Rodolfo Canales, Jr. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Texas 2021-11-03 Denied constitutional-standard criminal-law due-process facial-challenge felony-offense indefinite-financial-support statutory-interpretation texas-supreme-court vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether a statute with no definitions, explicit standards, reasonably clear guidelines, or objective criteria that allows a court to order indefinite …
21-588 United States v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-22 Dismissed abortion-rights civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process judicial-review preemption preliminary-injunction sovereign-immunity standing state-law supreme-court-precedent Whether Texas's S.B. 8 violates the Supreme Court's precedents on abortion rights
21-564 Diane Scott Haddock v. Tarrant County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-18 Denied association-rights constitutional-rights elrod-branti-test first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-association freedom-of-petition government-employment pickering-connick-test strict-scrutiny Where public employees allege violations of First Amendment rights by their government employers
21A85 United States v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-18 Presumed Complete None
21-549 Nicole Hutcheson, et al. v. Dallas County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied civil-rights discovery discovery-standard municipal-liability plausibility-pleading qualified-immunity summary-judgment training To what extent should discovery be allowed from third-party eyewitnesses when the only evidence in support of 'what actually happened' is a soundless …
21-5734 Tony Lamar Vann v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-09-21 Denied civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process police-misconduct racial-discrimination standing whether-police-can-plant-drugs-on-black-men
21-379 Texas, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied administrative-law affordable-care-act agency-rule medicaid-rates nondelegation-doctrine private-entity rulemaking-authority statute-of-limitations Whether an agency rule delegating rulemaking authority to a private entity violates the nondelegation doctrine
21-5619 Jaime Luevano v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Due Process Clause to the petitioner's claims
21-5507 Michael Geoffrey Peters v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-08-27 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing takings Whether the court below erred in dismissing petitioner's claims
21A21 Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-08-20 Presumed Complete None
21-105 Harmon L. Taylor v. City of Sherman, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-07-26 Denied compelled-commerce compelled-consent disqualification due-process illegal-seizure judicial-discretion malicious-prosecution municipal-court pro-se-litigation transfer-of-venue venue-transfer Was it abusive to deny that extension?
21-5195 M. T. Q. v. Office of the Attorney General of Texas, et al. Texas 2021-07-26 Denied child-support disability-compensation due-process federal-preemption military-benefits state-court-jurisdiction supremacy-clause veterans-benefits Whether state courts may order the inclusion of veterans' disability benefits as income for purposes of calculating child support obligations, despite…
20-8406 Michael Geoffrey Peters v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
20-1717 Harris County Hospital District v. Public Utility Commission of Texas, et al. Texas 2021-06-11 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights class-action collateral-review cy-pres due-process judicial-procedure settlement-class standing Whether the scope of collateral review of class action judgments comports with the Due Process Clause
20-1475 Wesley Perkins v. John Mischtian, Judge, County Court at Law 2, Bell County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-04-22 Denied arbitration civil-procedure civil-rights compelled-arbitration due-process jurisdictional-challenge probable-cause standing statutory-challenge transportation-code Statutory Challenge ; Compelled Arbitration
20-7662 Jaime Luevano v. Lee Yeakel, Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-04-06 Denied 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process privacy standing surveillance Whether the government's warrantless surveillance of a person's location and movements through their cell phone violates the Fourth Amendment's protec…
20A150 Texas, et al. v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-03-26 Presumed Complete None
20-1325 Wesley Perkins v. John Lipscombe, Judge, County Court at Law No. 3, Travis County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied administrative-rules civil-procedure civil-rights compelled-arbitration consent-doctrine due-process ex-post-facto jurisdictional-challenge standing statutory-interpretation transportation-code Statutory Challenge-Pleading Standard
20-7375 Christopher Wooten v. Stan Parker, Sheriff, Howard County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied 7th-amendment civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the OSDC, AE, and Txe, violated the 7th Amendment right to a jury trial by allowing a special master to make findings of fact and conclusions …
20-7335 Raymond E. Carr v. Ed Gonzalez, Sheriff, Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process free-speech government-action habeas-corpus retaliation standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the Texas state government retaliated against him for exercising his First Amendment…
20-6874 Jacob Earl Murphy v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-law due-process government-fraud standing Whether the law of civil conspiracy to defraud the government under 18 U.S.C. § 371 requires proof of an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy
20-6615 Cornell McHenry v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-12-11 Denied conflict-of-interest constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review witness-testimony Did the 11th Circuit err in deferring to the State Court finding that Mr. McHenry was not prejudiced by trial counsel's conflict of interest and failu…
20-465 Young County, Texas, et al. v. Nichole Sanchez, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-10-09 Denied 42-usc-1983 bell-v-wolfish civil-rights conditions-of-confinement judicial-management monell-v-dept-of-soc-servs municipal-liability pretrial-detainee respondeat-superior section-1983 Has the Fifth Circuit violated the dictates of Monell and its progeny by exposing Young County to liability based on a theory of respondeat superior?
20-305 Planned Parenthood Center for Choice, et al. v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-09-09 GVR abortion abortion-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 due-process executive-order judicial-review mandamus mootness Whether, pursuant to United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), this Court should vacate the court of appeals' judgments granting writs o…
20-298 El Paso County, Texas, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-09-08 Pending appropriations-clause border-wall caa congressional-spending department-of-defense executive-branch executive-power separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation transfer-of-funds Whether the Executive Branch's expenditure of $2.5 billion on border-wall construction violates the CAA and thus the Appropriations Clause
20-226 Kenneth Ratliff v. Aransas County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-08-26 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-force municipal-liability pleading-standard qualified-immunity summary-judgment Should lower federal courts demand a heightened pleading standard for municipal liability claims?
19-1441 City of Austin, Texas v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-30 Denied civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption preemption standing state-preemption supremacy-clause Under Ex parte Young, is a state official a proper defendant in a federal declaratory judgment challenge under the Supremacy Clause to the validity of…
19-1389 Texas Democratic Party, et al. v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-18 Granted age-discrimination constitutional-amendment constitutional-law due-process election-law mail-in-ballot mail-in-voting standing twenty-sixth-amendment voter-access voting-rights Does Texas's limitation of the right to cast a no-excuse mail-in ballot to only voters who are '65 years of age or older on election day' violate the …
19A1055 Texas Democratic Party, et al. v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-17 Presumed Complete None
19-1223 Demetrias Taylor, as Representative of the Estate of Iretha Jean Lilly, Deceased, et al. v. McLennan County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-04-16 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process medical-care municipal-liability municipal-policy myocardial-infarction policy pre-trial-detainee procedure section-1983 summary-judgment Does the provision of three EKGs, an aspirin, and a nitroglycerin pill over the course of three hours to a pre-trial detainee (who then died from an o…
19A1019 Planned Parenthood Center for Choice, et al. v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-04-11 Presumed Complete None
19-1203 Children's Hospital Association of Texas, et al. v. Alex M. Azar, II, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. District of Columbia 2020-04-09 Denied administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation chevron-deference disproportionate-share-hospital medicaid medicaid-reimbursement regulatory-policy statutory-interpretation supplemental-payments Whether an agency may receive Chevron deference when it erroneously denies that its current interpretation marks a change in position
19-8017 Maria Mercedes Cancino, et al. v. Cameron County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied 5th-circuit civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process legal-error state-created-danger Whether the District Court and the 5th Circuit erred, as a matter of law, in failing to find that Appellants have a constitutional right to be free fr…
19-8010 Joseph Chhim v. City of Houston, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied administrative-procedure burden-of-proof civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination hiring-process job-referral performance-review pre-qualification prequalification termination Whether Appellant was discriminated against in the initial prequalification process?
19-1042 Euince J. Winzer, Individually and on Behalf of the Statutory Beneficiaries of Gabriel A. Winzer v. Kaufman County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fifth-circuit law-enforcement qualified-immunity Whether the Fifth Circuit's qualified immunity analysis sets a dangerous precedent for the Civil Rights Act, exposing flaws in the Supreme Court's qua…
19-1036 Teresa Ann Waters v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied 14th-amendment adam-walsh-act civil-liberties due-process equal-protection federal-funding sex-offender-registration substantive-due-process tier-classification tier-iii-sex-offender Whether Ms. Waters is a Tier III sex offender according to 18 U.S.C. § 2241(c)
19-1019 Texas, et al. v. California, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-02-14 Judgment Issued affordable-care-act affordable-care-act-aca congress congressional-intent constitutional-interpretation due-process health-insurance individual-mandate severability standing tax Whether the unconstitutional individual mandate to purchase minimum essential coverage is severable from the remainder of the ACA
19A843 Children's Hospital Association of Texas, et al. v. Alex Michael Azar, II, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. District of Columbia 2020-01-27 Presumed Complete None
19-907 Dejenay Beckwith, et al. v. City of Houston, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-questions due-process fifth-circuit government-conspiracy motion-to-dismiss standing statute-of-limitations Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming a statute of limitations defense on a motion to dismiss
19-889 Kaufman County, Texas, et al. v. Eunice J. Winzer, Individually and on Behalf of the Statutory Beneficiaries of Gabriel A. Winzer, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity summary-judgment use-of-force Did the Fifth Circuit panel majority err in reversing Kaufman County's summary judgment after concluding Officer Hinds did not violate clearly establi…
19A758 Cecil Max-George v. Justices of the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-01-08 Presumed Complete None
19-840 California, et al. v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-01-03 Judgment Issued affordable-care-act article-iii-standing congress-power constitutional-challenge due-process minimum-coverage-provision severability standing tax-power taxation Whether the individual and state plaintiffs in this case have established Article III standing to challenge the minimum coverage provision in Section …
19-841 United States House of Representatives v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-01-03 Denied affordable-care-act article-iii article-iii-standing congress-power congressional-authority constitutional-challenge severability standing tax-provision taxation Whether the individual and state plaintiffs (respondents here) possess Article III standing to challenge the constitutionality of Section 5000A
19-6905 John Alan Conroy v. Cliff Harris, Sheriff, Pecos County, Texas, et al. Texas 2019-12-11 Denied appellate-court-consideration-of-evidence appointment-of-counsel brady-v-maryland brady-violation continuing-duty-of-federal-government criminal-procedure discovery discovery-rules dismissal-with-prejudice due-process evidence-withholding federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure in-camera-review michael-morton-act plea-agreement plea-bargaining rule-16-federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure state-law-enforcement state-law-enforcement-compliance Whether the withholding of recorded statements by the government violates due process and Brady v. Maryland
19-471 Frederick Collins Fermin v. Priest of Saint Mary-Marfa, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied baptism civil-rights constitutional-law due-process evidence exodus fourteenth-amendment jesus-christ religious-freedom standing Were petitioner's civil rights violated upon being baptized illegally?
19M60 Edna Mary Larson v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, dba Champion Mortgage Company of Texas, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-10-04 Presumed Complete None
19-384 Harmon L. Taylor v. City of Sherman, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-09-23 Denied civil-rights compelled-commerce compelled-consent consent-doctrine due-process fourth-amendment illegal-seizure probable-cause seizure transfer-of-venue transportation-code vehicle-definition Question not identified
19-222 Paul Anthony Valderas v. City of Lubbock, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-force due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct police-use-of-force qualified-immunity reasonable-force reasonable-inference use-of-force Whether an officer on the scene constrained by what he observes to use any force creates a reasonable inference that deadly force is excessive?
19-31 Carol M. Kam v. Dallas County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied associate-judge dallas-county judicial-authority judicial-misconduct probate-court probate-court-procedure rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court state-court-jurisdiction state-law void-judgment void-rulings Does the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine apply to two void 'proposed' State Court rulings produced by a former Associate Judge, employed solely by Dallas Coun…
18-9518 Blayne D. Williams, Sr. v. City of Austin, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied 7th-amendment civil-rights due-process employment federal-law federal-rules-of-civil-procedure municipal-employer municipal-government property-interest rule-12b6 seventh-amendment state-law Whether the City of Austin, as a municipal government employer violated the Appellant's federal and state law rights secured by the United States Cons…
18-8709 Emmanuel Adeyinka v. Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-04-05 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law common-law-fraud conspiracy-against-rights due-process failure-to-train fourteenth-amendment fraud standing statute-of-frauds Can the United States identify any of nine elements of common and law fraud in this case?
18-1193 Brandon Lee Moon v. County of El Paso, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied absolute-immunity brady-violation circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process imbler-v-pachtman judicial-proceedings post-conviction post-conviction-DNA-testing prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct Prosecutorial misconduct in post-conviction DNA testing
18-7791 Joyce Ann Smith v. City of Princeton, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied case-dismissal civil-mediation civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal district-court due-process magistrate-judge mediation procedural-review reconsideration settlement settlement-dispute standing towing Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
18-7450 Bradley B. Miller v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied anti-injunction-act civil-liability civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-law judicial-immunity removal removal-proceedings state-court-procedure state-courts supremacy-clause title-28 Whether federal jurisdiction remains during the pendency of a removal
18-535 Residents Against Flooding, et al. v. Reinvestment Zone Number Seventeen, City of Houston, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure land-use land-use-decisions motion-to-dismiss property-rights rational-basis rule-12b6 standard-of-review substantive-due-process takings Whether, and to what extent, a court must give deference to a plaintiff's complaint and view the government's rational basis as a rebuttal presumption…
18A154 Residents Against Flooding, et al. v. Reinvestment Zone Number Seventeen, City of Houston, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-08-10 Presumed Complete None