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24-921 Kenneth Sorak v. Theresa Cisneros, former Judge, Colorado Fourth Judicial District Court, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-02-26 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment color-of-law constitutional-rights judicial-immunity rooker-feldman-doctrine rule-12b1-dismissal Did the 10th Circuit err in its application of the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine and 11th Amendment when state agents acting under color of law allegedly vi…
24-157 Roy C. Derksen v. Wisconsin, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-08-13 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment administrative-law constitutional-rights due-process jurisdiction sovereign-citizen Whether the district court and 7th Circuit improperly dismissed a pro se litigant's constitutional challenges to administrative law proceedings withou…
24-5094 Kenyatta Quinn Mitchell v. Paul Bennett, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 11th-amendment 42-usc-1983 circuit-court-review civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process heck-v-humphrey judicial-discretion legal-standards plra procedural-due-process state-law statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
23-7648 Jennifer Dupree, et al. v. Pamela Owens, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment ada congress-abrogation congressional-power eleventh-amendment retaliation sovereign-immunity title-v Did Congress validly abrogate states' sovereign immunity for retaliation claims under Title V of the ADA?
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?
23-790 Matthew Flinders v. State Bar of California California 2024-01-23 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment age-discrimination bar-admission due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection privileges-and-immunities sovereign-immunity state-sovereign-immunity Whether the State Supreme Court and State Bar's denial of admission based on age violated Petitioner's rights to due process, equal protection, and hi…
23-748 Langston Austin, et al. v. Glynn County, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied 11th-amendment circuit-split eleventh-amendment eleventh-circuit employment-law fair-labor-standards-act individual-liability public-officials state-officials Whether state officials are subject to liability as employers in their individual capacity for violations of the FLSA
23-6031 Andria Dodwell-Wright v. Nationwide Insurance Company, et al. District of Columbia 2023-11-16 Denied IFP 11th-amendment 14th-amendment 5th-amendment americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights due-process human-rights-act standing whether-the-dc-superior-court-and-the-dc-court-of-appeals-violated-the-human-rights-act-and-the-americans-with-disabilities-act
23-157 Samuel O. Jacobs v. Kent Jacobs, et al. Second Circuit 2023-08-17 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-amendment federal-procedure rooker-feldman-doctrine sovereign-immunity Can a State Court use the 11th Amendment, Soverign Immunity, and the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine to justify or allow it to violate the 14th, 8th, 5th, and…
23-149 Sabine River Authority, Louisiana v. Perry Bonin, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment civil-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment federal-court louisiana-civil-law sovereign-immunity state-agency subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Louisiana's conditional waiver of sovereign immunity to allow suits against it to proceed only in Louisiana courts deprives federal courts of …
22-6887 Steve Audette v. United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied IFP 11th-amendment civil-rights federal-jurisdiction prospective-relief sovereign-immunity standing Whether the Eleventh Amendment bars a federal court from exercising jurisdiction over a state official in his official capacity when the plaintiff see…
22-787 Troy University, et al. v. Sharell Farmer North Carolina 2023-02-21 Denied Amici (1) 11th-amendment constitutional-precedent corporate-registration sovereign-immunity state-courts state-sovereign-immunity sue-and-be-sued sue-and-be-sued-clause waiver-of-immunity Whether a State waives its sovereign immunity from private suit in the courts of another State by operating in the State under a corporate registratio…
22-5488 Thomas James Dorn v. Verna Carpenter, Judge, District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process human-trafficking judicial-misconduct jury-trial protection-orders restraining-order standing Should an appearance be required for a loss of rights, and should the right to trial by jury be explained to the respondent going forward in the unite…
22-152 Thomas Earl Dunn v. Elizabeth Post, Magistrate, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-accountability due-process eleventh-amendment nominal-damages public-trust sovereign-immunity state-actors state-public-trust Shall the lower Courts shield State Public Actors from Constitutional conflicts?
22-5081 Palani Karupaiyan, et al. v. Township of Woodbridge, New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 11th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-procedure foreign-sovereign-immunities-act jurisdictional-challenge racial-discrimination sovereign-immunity standing When USCA does not have jurisdiction to Constitutional challenges, US Supreme Court has (Original) Jurisdiction for the [following] reliefs petitioner…
22-21 Abdur-Rahim Dib Dubar v. Department of Community Affairs Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment federal-jurisdiction immunity-waiver procedural-default standing taking-clause takings waiver Was Petitioner's Amended Complaint considered in All Courts?
21-1583 Jerry Bird v. Oregon Commission for the Blind, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment administrative-procedures-act arbitration-process blind-vendor-rights commercial-contract eleventh-amendment federal-arbitration federal-statute sovereign-immunity vending-services Does a State waive its sovereign immunity from money damages when it voluntarily enters into a commercial vending services contract with a private ind…
21-8193 Robert D. Keith v. Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment civil-rights color-of-law conflict-of-interest due-process eleventh-amendment judicial-immunity state-court title-iv-d Does a State Judge have authority to preside over a case when they have a conflict of interest?
21-8049 Thomas Tate Tunstall v. Hope Daigle, fka Hope D. Theriot Fifth Circuit 2022-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection ex-parte-young fourth-amendment section-1983 statute-of-limitations Whether the doctrine of Ex parte Young allows a federal court to exercise jurisdiction over a claim seeking return of illegally seized property
21-1443 Edward Ronny Arnold v. Bob Oglesby, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of General Services Sixth Circuit 2022-05-16 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment sovereign-immunity state-authority wage-withholding warn-act Whether the Defendant, as Commissioner of the State of Tennessee Department of General Services, can use the defense of sovereign immunity
21-1328 Community Baptist Church, et al. v. Jared Polis, Governor of Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment 42-usc-1983 due-process free-exercise mootness standing Whether a statute requires strict scrutiny for facial and as-applied claims where officials invoke it as legal authority to issue mandates which depri…
21-1232 Paul C. Nordberg v. The Massachusetts Teachers' Retirement System First Circuit 2022-03-10 Denied 11th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law due-process hans-v-louisiana judicial-interpretation legal-precedent sovereign-immunity standing state-immunity Should the 11th Amendment be the basis for judicial determinations
21-1175 Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. District of Columbia 2022-02-24 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-order default-judgment federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure human-rights judicial-review state-sovereign-immunity Whether the DC Appeal Court can ignore inexcusable neglect by the Superior Court for failure to apply Default Judgement
21-674 North Carolina State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees v. Maxwell Kadel, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-11-05 Denied 11th-amendment civil-rights discrimination-waiver eleventh-amendment federal-financial-assistance rehabilitation-act sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation Whether the residual clause of Section 1003 provides an 'unequivocal textual waiver' of sovereign immunity, permitting suits against States under subs…
21-435 Kevin D. Loggins, Sr. v. Rebecca L. Pilshaw, Judge, District Court of Kansas, Sedgwick County, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-09-21 Denied Relisted (2) §-1983-suit 11th-amendment 11th-amendment-immunity civil-rights due-process fraud-upon-court immunity judicial-conflict-of-interest judicial-misconduct judicial-nullity standing Whether the lower courts ruled in contradiction to long-standing Supreme Court precedent regarding a void judgment or unlawful judicial conduct
21-317 Dean Koch v. Ohio Department of Natural Resources, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-08-31 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment 42-usc-1983 bostock-v-clayton-county civil-rights-act civil-rights-act-of-1871 constitutional-interpretation eleventh-amendment judicial-doctrine qualified-immunity statutory-construction Does the Decision of the Sixth Circuit herein violate the canons of statutory construction
21-109 California State Lands Commission v. Eugene Davis, Liquidating Trustee of the Venoco Liquidating Trust, et al. Third Circuit 2021-07-27 Denied 11th-amendment bankruptcy bankruptcy-jurisdiction inverse-condemnation liquidating-trust post-confirmation-claim sovereign-immunity state-agency state-lands state-treasury Whether the States' consent to suit in the bankruptcy courts, found to exist in Katz, reaches a suit brought against a State, after the effective date…
21-5194 Benjamin Mario Soto v. Minnesota Supreme Court, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied IFP 11th-amendment 42-usc-1983 contract-law contract-rights due-process equal-protection ex-parte-young supremacy-clause Judicial-officers-acting-beyond-judicial-capacities
20-1578 William A. Graven v. Arizona Ninth Circuit 2021-05-14 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment civil-rights criminal-acts due-process qualified-immunity respondeat-superior service-of-process sovereign-immunity state-official-immunity state-officials Whether state officials can be sued in their individual capacities for alleged criminal acts under Ex Parte Young
20-1567 Marshall Abbas Khan v. Clark County Enforcement, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-12 Denied 11th-amendment administrative-capacity bill-of-attainder civil-rights color-of-law conflict-of-interest eleventh-amendment judicial-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction Does a county/state judge have authority to preside over a case when they have a conflict of interest?
20-7814 Brandon Bowie v. Hamilton County Juvenile Court, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment 14th-amendment americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights court-access disability-discrimination due-process rehabilitation-act sovereign-immunity Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act violated sovereign immunity under the 11th Amendment when it allowed individuals to sue states for denying…
20-7508 James W. Campbell v. Tammy Brown, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-law Whether exigent circumstances can validate an otherwise invalid search under a defective search warrant
20-7332 Justin Laster v. Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity standing takings unidentified-issue Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing Petitioner's civil rights claims against the State of Georgia …
20-1217 Daniel Kristof Lak v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment 14th-Amendment civil-procedure civil-rights consent-to-suit federal-jurisdiction private-right-of-action social-security-act state-immunity title-iv-d Whether a state can be shielded from suit in federal court via 11th-Amendment-immunity
20-1115 Christopher R. Granton v. Washington State Lottery Ninth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied 11th-amendment civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment federal-jurisdiction judicial-bias lottery-dispute property-rights standing state-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit err in its rulings on this case?
20-1037 Wanda Bowling v. John Roach Fifth Circuit 2021-01-29 Denied 11th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights court-conflict due-process fifth-circuit judicial-immunity judicial-precedent legal-remedy prefiling-injunction standing vexatious-litigant Whether the Fifth Circuit's panel's opinion is in direct conflict with its own previous decisions, other U.S. Court of Appeals, and with the U.S. Supr…
20-945 Samuel T. Russell v. Texas Fifth Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied 11th-amendment bill-of-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process eleventh-amendment federal-jurisdiction jury-trial right-to-petition search-and-seizure sovereign-immunity When the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said they reviewed 'an Eleventh Amendment immunity determination de novo,' did they fail…
20-912 Abigail Ladd, et al. v. Jack Marchbanks Sixth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment inverse-condemnation just-compensation knick-v-township-of-scott mandamus property-rights takings takings-clause Whether Ohio's mandamus scheme provides its citizens with a reasonable, certain, and/or adequate procedure or process sufficient to meet the guarantee…
20-6455 Patricia A. Wade v. Trustees of Indiana University, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process employer-liability judicial-review monetary-damages sovereign-immunity standing state-sovereign-immunity takings Which parts of the constitution (if any) justify the doctrine of state sovereign immunity?
20-5703 James L. Miller v. Virginia A. Phillips, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 11th-amendment civil-rights due-process federal-courts sovereign-immunity standing Does Ex parte Young allow a federal court to enjoin state officials from enforcing unconstitutional state laws?
19-1450 Samuel T. Russell v. Texas Fifth Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment bill-of-rights case-law civil-rights congressional-authorization constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-law-violations federal-rules-of-law founding-fathers state-sovereign-immunity When the lower Courts overlooked the Framers' written intent of the 11th Amendment, by applying this oversight to Rules of law that discredit Bill of …
19-1315 Nevada, et al. v. Donald Walden, Jr., et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-05-27 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) 11th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-law court-jurisdiction due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-removal judicial-procedure removal sovereign-immunity state-courts state-immunity Whether a state remains immune from suit after voluntarily removing a federal claim to federal court when the state is immune from such claims in its …
19-1263 Mark Thompson v. Chicago Board of Education, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-05-04 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment abstention administrative-hearing civil-procedure civil-rights claim-splitting constitutional-rights due-process injunctive-relief judicial-procedure ongoing-state-proceedings standing title-vii Did the lower federal courts err in not permitting petitioner's claims for injunctive relief against a state branch if the ongoing state proceedings v…
19-7262 Danilo Mallari v. Tracy Vessigault, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-13 Denied IFP 11th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-amendment first-amendment free-speech standing state-immunity Whether the petitioner has standing to bring the case
19-205 City of Flint, Michigan, et al. v. Shari Guertin, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied 11th-amendment bodily-integrity civil-rights conscience-shocking due-process eleventh-amendment environmental-toxin governmental-policy standing state-immunity substantive-due-process Whether the substantive due process right to bodily integrity should be extended to protect the public at large from exposure to an environmental toxi…
19-191 Ashley Wilcox Page v. Todd L. Hicks, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 11th-amendment civil-procedure eleventh-amendment federal-court federal-jurisdiction lapides-v-board-of-regents removal sovereign-immunity state-court state-removal waiver waiver-by-removal Does a state waive its sovereign immunity by voluntarily removing a civil claim from state to federal court?
18-8580 Sidney Marts, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process sanctions standing Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in upholding sanctions against the petitioner that violated his due process rights under the 14th Amendment
18-1210 Chad Chronister, Sheriff, Hillsborough County, Florida v. Doris Freyre, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 11th-amendment ada ada-standing arm-of-the-state associational-claim child-protective-investigations child-protective-services child-welfare civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment eleventh-amendment-immunity florida-statute-39.3065 grant-agreement judicial-restraint standing standing-associational-ada-claim state-immunity Whether the court of appeals violated this Honorable Court's 'fundamental rule of judicial restraint' by failing to address whether Doris Freyre had s…
18-8412 Lamar Perryman v. Georgia, et al. Georgia 2019-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment cherokee-nation-v-georgia civil-rights constitutional-interpretation eleventh-amendment johnson-v-mcintosh native-american-rights non-intercourse-act sovereign-immunity treaty-law worcester-v-georgia Does Title 25 U.S.C. Section 177 (Non-Intercourse Act) and this Court's decisions abrogate Georgia's sovereign immunity and Eleventh Amendment immunit…
18-7911 Albert Miklos Kun v. State Bar of California California 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 11th-amendment 14th-amendment bankruptcy-clause bankruptcy-discharge bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-preemption federalism fourteenth-amendment sovereign-immunity standing state-bar Whether petitioner's right to protection by the Eq Whether petitioner's rights protected by the Due P Whether the California Supreme Court may order pay Whether California waived its sovereign immunity to the Bankruptcy Clause
18-7469 David Valenzuela Arzate v. James Robertson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process fair-trial gang-evidence insufficient-evidence judicial-review legal-interpretation statutory-provisions Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals abuse discretion or err in denying petitioner's certificate of appealability?
18-835 Mario R. Lozano v. Superior Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk County, et al. First Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied 11th-amendment 14th-amendment 14th-amendment-enforcement-clause 42-usc-1985-conspiracy 7th-amendment-jury-trial civil-rights congress due-process enforcement-clause fraud rooker-feldman-doctrine sovereign-immunity Does Congress have the authority to override the States' Sovereign Immunity under the 11th Amendment to the US Constitution?
18-571 James Lee Williams v. United States Federal Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment 14th-amendment 1964-supreme-court-decree civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-agencies fraud sovereign-immunity statute-of-limitations water-rights yuma-reclamation-project Whether valid claims of constitutional rights violations containing elements of fraud should be dismissed as frivolous due to the statute of limitatio…
18-243 Anthony Fox v. John Powell, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment checks-and-balances civil-rights constitutional-protection constitutional-rights discovery due-process eleventh-amendment judicial-abrogation judicial-proceedings motion-to-dismiss rule-12b6 standing supervisory-liability supervisory-responsibility Is this Court not required to protect the Constitution as envisioned by our founding fathers in the Eleventh Amendment of the Constitution and does no…
18-42 GlaxoSmithKline LLC v. Louisiana Third Circuit 2018-07-09 Dismissed Amici (4) 11th-amendment absent-class-member civil-procedure class-action due-process federal-court federal-courts federalism opt-out rule-23 sovereign-immunity state-sovereign-immunity Whether state sovereign immunity bars a federal court from binding a State to a Rule 23 class settlement as an absent class member plaintiff based on …