| 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 |
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| 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 |
|