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23-1112 Ryan Cram, et al. v. Service Employees International Union Local 503, Oregon Public Employees Union, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 1st-amendment campaign-contributions campaign-finance civil-rights compelled-speech first-amendment free-speech labor-union labor-unions public-employees public-sector union-political-funds Do public employees who are former union members possess the First Amendment right to refuse to contribute to union political campaign funds?
23-7193 Jared Domei Maloid v. Texas Texas 2024-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-review legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation whether-the-federal-question-was-decided-on-an-important-federal-matter-that-conflicts-with-the-decisions-of-the-united-states-court-of-appeals
23-6917 Saladin Thompson v. Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2024-03-07 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment christopher-v-harbury civil-rights constitutional-amendment due-process habeas-corpus meaningful-access state-agent Did the actions/omissions of State agents deny petitioner of meaningful access to the habeas courts, in violation of the 1st and 14th U.S. Constitutio…
23-6608 Mary M. Mooney v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-discretion due-process filing-procedure pro-se pro-se-litigant rule-59e-motion Whether the trial court erred in denying petitioner's timely-filed Rule-59e-motion
23-182 James W. Tindall v. Department of Labor, Administrative Review Board Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-25 Denied Response Waived 1st-amendment administrative-procedure article-iii constitutional-review federal-sovereign-immunity first-amendment judicial-power judicial-review sovereign-immunity standing strict-scrutiny us-constitution Whether the doctrine of federal sovereign immunity has any basis in the U.S. Constitution
23-5353 Chandra Modugumudi v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel language-barrier plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment-rights Whether the defendant's constitutional rights were violated due to lack of counsel, language barrier, prosecutorial misconduct, and other errors resul…
22-7668 Niki Hamidi v. Ike M. Iqbal, et al. California 2023-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights discovery-sanctions due-process pro-se pro-se-litigant trial-court Whether the 1st and 14th Amendment impose a duty on the trial court to inform and provide certain warnings and opportunities to pro se litigants prior…
22-7549 Gilberto Arreola Chavez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process first-amendment judicial-review legal-procedure post-conviction-relief retroactivity Is retroactivity applicable for post-conviction relief?
22-7507 Robert Stanley Woods, aka Saladin Rushdan v. Haar, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment civil-rights correctional-goals due-process first-amendment medical-treatment out-of-court-settlement prisoner-rights retaliation settlement-agreement Does an out-of-court settlement agreement set the parameters for future legitimate correctional goals?
22-1072 Lori A. Saxon v. Ameritas Life Insurance Corporation District of Columbia 2023-05-04 Denied 1st-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 7th-amendment bankruptcy-law constitutional-rights debt-collection due-process homestead-law judicial-foreclosure Were Lori Saxon's fundamental guaranteed rights to Due Process and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and Ist, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 14th amendments violated?
22-7306 Keith Thomas v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-procedure rule-11 sanctions seventh-amendment standing Did the district court improperly apply Rule 11 sanctions against this petitioner basically stripping him of his 1st-amendment-rights and 7th-amendmen…
22-7083 Rick Lee Searcy v. United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri Eighth Circuit 2023-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 12b-6-dismissal 1st-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial first-amendment judicial-bias judicial-misconduct motion-to-recuse standing Whether the petitioner received a fair and impartial proceeding that led to the 12(b)(6) dismissal of his civil rights complaint
22-842 National Rifle Association of America v. Maria T. Vullo Second Circuit 2023-03-06 Judgment Issued Amici (41)Response RequestedRelisted (7) 1st-amendment civil-rights corporate-social-responsibility first-amendment free-speech government-intimidation government-regulation regulatory-coercion second-amendment viewpoint-discrimination Does the First Amendment allow a government regulator to threaten regulated entities with adverse regulatory actions if they do business with a contro…
22-662 Ramon K. Jusino v. Federation of Catholic Teachers, Inc. Second Circuit 2023-01-18 Denied 1st-amendment church-schools civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech labor-organizations labor-relations religion-clauses standing Whether the Second Circuit contravened the Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection clause
22-6504 Donald Herrington v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2023-01-10 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendments due-process free-speech grand-jury-fraud ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct trial-framework Did the Commonwealth of Virginia adopt a trial framework that allows elected officials to brake their oath by presenting, publicizing and spreading di…
22-640 David Wellington v. Fernando Daza, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-01-10 Denied Response Waived 1st-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights content-seizure first-amendment fourth-amendment overbreadth qualified-immunity search-warrant tax-code Is a search warrant that authorizes a search for violations of the entire federal tax code (26 U.S.C. §7201), plus any other numerous codes and laws f…
22-6101 Norman James Thompson v. Florida Florida 2022-11-18 Denied IFP 1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing Whether a defendant's due process rights are violated when a state has adopted a rule/statute intended to permit its impactor yet, in essence, the rul…
22-5674 Chad M. Vice v. Lee County Sheriff Department, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-09-26 Denied IFP 1st-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech individual-liberties political-expression public-forum Whether the Petitioner's constitutional rights under the First Amendment's Free Speech Clause and the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause were violat…
21-8028 Ryricka Nikita Custis v. Virginia Virginia 2022-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection state-action Whether the Petitioner's Constitutional Rights Were Violated Under The Constitution Of Virginia and the United States Constitution?
21-7478 Derrick Jerome Spencer v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-03-28 Denied IFP 1st-amendment capital-punishment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts standing takings Whether Bikoner is being deprived of his civil rights by the capital courts' denial of due process of law
21-7108 Kevin Stephen Ryan v. Minnesota Minnesota 2022-02-14 Denied IFP 1st-amendment civil-rights content-based-restriction free-speech government-regulation prior-restraint Whether the government's restriction on the petitioner's speech violates the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech
21-927 Donald Clinton Crabtree v. Christine Crabtree South Carolina 2021-12-22 Denied 1st-amendment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-expression gender-bias gender-discrimination judicial-misconduct religious-expression Did Judge Monet Pincus violate the 1st Amendment protection of freedom of expression and generally condemn religious expression of men?
21-6401 Sherry L. Dow v. Debbie Stabenow, United States Senator, et al. District of Columbia 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights congressional-oversight constitutional-rights due-process federal-torts foreign-intelligence-surveillance government-oversight human-experimentation pro-se-complaint Whether the United States District Court and the United States Court of Appeal's erred in violating the petitioner's constitutional rights
21-6354 Erik Mishiyev v. Alphabet Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-19 Denied IFP 1st-amendment censorship civil-rights content-moderation due-process first-amendment free-speech platform-liability standing youtube-censorship Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit order allowed YouTube to deprive the Petitioner of his Due Process rights under the 1…
21-723 Mark Alan Staples v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Tenth Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied Response Waived 1st-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-law disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection ex-parte-communication free-speech social-security-law tax-law Whether the United States is allowed to reduce the income of a person and then tax the income reduction of that person without due process or equal pr…
21-6085 Robert George Knecht, Jr. v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Florida 2021-10-27 Denied IFP 1st-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment standing Whether the State Court of Appeals erred and departed from the essential requirements of the law and federal constitutional claims
21-5981 Ray Sarabian v. Halliburton Logging Services Fifth Circuit 2021-10-15 Denied IFP 1st-amendment civil-rights due-process free-speech school-discipline student-rights Whether the First Amendment protects the right of a public school to discipline a student for off-campus speech
20-1580 Shenglin R. Chen, et al. v. Alvin Turner, et al. Maryland 2021-05-13 Denied 1st-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emergency-access emergency-exit equal-protection equal-rights first-amendment free-speech judicial-misconduct Whether the First Amendment protects freedom of speech
20-7584 In Re Terril Lee Graham 2021-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-threats due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech public-defender Is California Penal Code 422, Criminal Threats, an invalid statute, prohibiting the exercise of 1st Amendment free speech rights?
20-7384 Samuel Rasheen Rymond Toliver v. K. Adner Second Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process exhaustion-of-remedies first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech solitary-confinement Was the treatment of the Petitioner on 5/30/17, being forced into Solitary Confinement for asserting his U.S.C.A. Const. First Amendment Unconstitutio…
20-7155 James Scott, Jr. v. Norm Robinson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment administrative-law civil-rights compelled-speech constitutional-law content-moderation free-speech judicial-review legal-procedure social-media statutory-interpretation Whether the First Amendment prohibits the government from compelling private entities to host and disseminate speech they disagree with
20-7023 Raevon Terrell Parker v. Apple Inc. Federal Circuit 2021-02-03 Denied IFP 1st-amendment civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings Whether the petitioner's First Amendment rights were violated when the respondent, Apple Inc., denied the petitioner access to the Saint Louis Galleri…
20-969 Freedom Watch, Inc., et al. v. Google Inc., et al. District of Columbia 2021-01-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (6) 1st-amendment antitrust appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation first-amendment free-speech human-rights-act political-discrimination sherman-act standing Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit err by failing to find that the District of Columbia Human Rights Act's prohibition on political di…
20-946 John J. Dierlam v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response Waived 1st-amendment affordable-care-act civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech religious-exemptions rfra Do one or more Constitutional violations exist in the ACA?
20-6670 Janice Sue Taylor v. United States Federal Circuit 2020-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-rights due-process federal-statutes fifth-amendment first-amendment jurisdiction title-26-usc Has the petitioner's constitutional rights been violated by the appellate court's denial of due process?
20-6542 Alfonso Percy Pew v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Pennsylvania 2020-12-07 Denied IFP 1st-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment federal-religious-land-use-institutionalized-perso federal-settlement-agreement first-amendment pro-se-litigant religious-land-use standing Whether the Pennsylvania state court judicial system has created a hands-off doctrine for pro se litigant's 42 U.S.C. §1983 civil-rights complaint all…
20-6164 In Re Theresa S. Romain 2020-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud-upon-the-court full-faith-and-credit petition-clause race-discrimination Can a State encourage discrimination on the basis of race theory?
20-5845 Deverick Scott v. Danny Burl, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-09-30 Denied IFP 1st-amendment administrative-grievance civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process false-disciplinary first-amendment prisoner-rights property-rights retaliation Confiscation-and-destruction-of-prisoner-property
20-5143 Glen Jones Ward v. Idaho, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-22 Denied IFP 1st-amendment 8th-amendment civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-violation correctional-facility due-process equal-protection inmate-rights personal-safety retaliation staff-misconduct Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the prison authorities' failure to protect the petitioner's safety and security
19-1415 John J. Dierlam v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-24 Denied Response Waived 1st-amendment affordable-care-act civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association healthcare-mandate religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act rfra Whether the Affordable Care Act contains one or more constitutional violations
19-1229 Edward Lee Mulcahy v. Aspen Skiing Company Colorado 2020-04-18 Denied 1st-amendment colorado-constitution constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech national-labor-relations-act public-lands retaliation ski-lift unionization Is the banning from ski lift operations on public lands during Plaintiff's distribution of a unionization flyer promoting a living wage a violation of…
19-8123 Wendell Brown aka Menes Ankh El v. Superior Court of Indiana, Marion County, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment civil-rights due-process first-amendment legal-mail-rights name-change procedural-due-process religious-freedom signature-rights title-42-usc-2000bb-1 title-42-usc-2000cc-1 Does Ankh-El's common-law name change have to be recognized by the courts and IDOC?
19-7559 Elijah Jackson, Jr. v. Department of Housing and Urban Development, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech school-discipline standing statutory-interpretation student-rights DOES the First Amendment protect the right of a public school to discipline a student for off-campus speech that does not cause a substantial disrupti…
19-7572 Abel Revilla Ochoa v. Bryan Collier, Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied IFP 1st-amendment 42-U.S.C.-§-1983 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights clemency clemency-process constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review standing state-actor Whether a state actor can insulate unconstitutional policies and practices from judicial review
19-7551 Donald Arthur Herrington v. Virginia Virginia 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-Amendment case-management case-management-system civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech public-trial separation-of-powers sixth-amendment Was Petitioner's conviction a result of a procedure that violates 1st-Amendment, civil-rights, free-speech, public-trial, due-process
19-7499 Susan Skipp v. United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Second Circuit 2020-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 9th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-amendments discrimination due-process equal-protection fatherhood-initiative federal-funding multi-agency-agreement state-action Does the implemented Section 17b-27a - John S. Martinez Fatherhood Initiative, Objectives, Reports, Funding, Grant program, programming and tenacle(d)…
19-7502 Scott Peters v. Illinois Illinois 2020-01-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing takings Whether the state's actions violated the petitioner's constitutional rights
19-7281 Clifton A. Grant v. MTGLQ Investors, L.P. District of Columbia 2020-01-15 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment access-to-courts due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review pro-se pro-se-litigant right-to-petition Whether the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia denial of Petitioner's timely and duly filed Appeal, without any lawful judicial reasoning o…
19-7058 In Re Ramsey Randall 2019-12-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 35-usc-101 civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech patent-eligibility standing Whether the 35 U.S.C. 101 patent eligibility restrictions unconstitutionally violate the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights of the petitioner
19-6821 Tim Sundy v. Friendship Pavilion Acquisition Co., et al. Georgia 2019-12-03 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment takings Whether Petitioner Tim Sundy, without a meaningful remedy, has immunity, as provided by the due process clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments …
19-686 Snodgrass-King Pediatric Dental Associates, P.C., et al. v. DentaQuest USA Insurance Co., Inc. Sixth Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied Response Waived 1st-amendment 42-usc-1983 blum-v-yaretsky civil-rights first-amendment government-contractor government-directive private-contractor section-1983 significant-encouragement state-action Whether a government directive made to a private contractor while the contractor is bidding on a lucrative and admittedly important government contrac…
19-6777 Iris Lamar Anderson v. Florida Florida 2019-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights standing state-court-procedure Was Jae Trois SuPR EMME Loves \\WPLEMENTED Penenites Tor Fiowak's Supiual Sygrem THAT LowTRADICTS He U.S. ConsTtTuT/ONS 1% LE ann \\N™ AMENDMENT RENTS…
19-6459 Kenneth K. DuVall v. Carlos Hernandez, Superintendent, Avery Mitchell Correctional Institution Fourth Circuit 2019-10-31 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 5th-amendment access-to-courts constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-standards judicial-relief judicial-review state-imprisonment Did Judge Whitney's failure to rule on Petitioner's newly discovered evidence of Double Jeopardy issues deny Petitioner his 5th and 14th Amendment Rig…
19-6330 Vicki Corona v. Mariyam Gasparyan California 2019-10-22 Denied IFP 1st-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fair-trial first-amendment judicial-misconduct legal-remedy malice petition-clause remedy standing Where actors of a Superior Court, including the Judge, defense attorney, and clerks, violate the rule of law as announced in the Due Process Clause, a…
19-6191 K. N., et ux. v. Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services Montana 2019-10-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 1st-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1964 constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process fifth-amendment freedom-of-religion parental-rights religious-discrimination self-incrimination state-action state-overreach Did the state's demands that the parents admit guilt violate their Constitutional rights under the 5th Amendment?
19-451 Edward Ronny Arnold v. Jeff McCord, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development Sixth Circuit 2019-10-04 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 1st-amendment appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules-of-appellate-procedure-due-p court-clerk-duties default-judgment due-process electronic-filing pro-se-litigation Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit incorrectly dismissed the civil action in conflict with existing rules of appellate p…
19-6158 William A. White v. Todd Sloop, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-10-03 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process first-amendment free-speech hate-speech judicial-circuit-split judicial-interpretation prison prison-regulations religion Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in ruling that the statement that Judaism is a 'doctrine of hate' is equivalent to 'violence and murder' such that l…
19-6130 George W. Fisher v. John Gregory Mermelstein, et al Eighth Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied IFP 1st-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment disability due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection free-speech media-access medical-treatment prison prisoner-rights state-liability Whether the denial of media treatment at a state prison violates the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of the press
19-6046 Steven Gary Sanders v. William Beck, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied IFP 1st-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure vehicle-seizure Issues being raised
19-5507 David Fennell v. Charles Munger, et al. California 2019-08-08 Denied IFP 1st-amendment assembly civil-rights due-process election-interference first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech freedom-of-assembly petition-for-redress political-speech Does arresting Republican opponents and banning Republicans from running for office or attending Republican political events for life in California vi…
19-171 In Re Jack R. Finnegan 2019-08-06 Denied 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment goldberg-v-kelly government-redress judicial-procedure Was Petitioner denied his Constitutional guaranteed rights, power, privilege, or immunity
19-5207 Admassu Regassa v. Emily Cimino, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment bivens bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ftca ftca-claim judicial-review prison-conditions pro-se-prisoner Whether the district court erroneously dismissed the petitioner's Second Amended Complaint and the Seventh Circuit improperly affirmed the dismissal
19-5156 Theresa A. Logan v. Town of Windsor, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2019-07-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 1st-amendment civil-rights conclusion constitutional-provisions content-discrimination free-speech jurisdiction public-forum reasons-for-granting statement-of-case statutory-provisions viewpoint-discrimination Whether the First Amendment protects the right of a public access television channel to exclude a speaker based on the content of their speech
19-5147 Flordeliza A. Hawkins v. SunTrust Bank, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-07-11 Denied IFP 1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech public-forum standing Whether the petitioner's First Amendment right to free speech was violated when the respondent restricted the petitioner's ability to post comments on…
18-9694 Oliver Douce v. New York New York 2019-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights false-arrest fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-self-incrimination first-amendment-free-speech fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure illegal-arrest illegal-search jurisdiction probable-cause search-and-seizure standing Whether fingerprints obtained from John Doe appellant should have been excluded from evidence as the product of false arrest and illegal search under …
18-1523 Michael Gannon v. City of Eugene, Oregon Oregon 2019-06-07 Denied Response Waived 1st-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment free-speech liberty-interest proportionality public-forum public-university Do the First Amendment's protections to public streets as the archetype of a traditional public forum extend to city and state public streets and publ…
18-9419 Mario Laron Waiters v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourth-amendment Whether the Virginia Statute 19.2-72 violates due-process, equal-protection, 1st-amendment, 4th-amendment, 5th-amendment, 6th-amendment
18-9383 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 1st-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection erroneous-decisions first-amendment judicial-misconduct patent-law patent-rights Whether the lower court vacating hearings and arbitrarily ordering Petitioner to amend her complaint and the Judge acting as attorney to Defendants or…
18-1438 Caleigh Wood v. Evelyn Arnold, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 1st-amendment compelled-speech curriculum establishment-clause First-Amendment free-speech Lemon-Test lemon-v-kurtzman preferential-treatment public-school Public-School-Curriculum public-schools religion Religious-Freedom religious-practices Whether public schools may require students to assert religious beliefs and recite prayers that offend their religious convictions
18-1235 Joe Ribakoff v. City of Long Beach, California, et al. California 2019-03-22 Denied 1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights content-based-regulation content-based-speech expert-testimony first-amendment free-speech government-speech public-forum speech-restriction Is a rule abridging speech by members of the public at an open public meeting of a city government a presumptively unconstitutional content-based spee…
18-8235 Arthur Lopez v. California California 2019-03-04 Denied IFP 1st-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-bias racial-discrimination Whether the deprivation of Alo's civil rights under the United States Constitution Amendments 1 and 6 violates his constitutional rights to free speec…
18-8072 John J. Wilson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2019-02-21 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment access-to-courts appellate-counsel constitutional-violation criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process pro-se-representation sixth-amendment transcripts Can appellate counsel be denied, forcing a criminal defendant to represent himself in a direct appeal to the state district courts of appeal?
18-7962 Al-Rashid Muhammad Abdullah v. Plant City Police Department, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty-rights property-rights section-1983 takings Whether the Due Process Clause requires an opportunity for a post-deprivation hearing for a property right/interest § 1983 claim
18-7605 Daniel Diaz v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings Whether the First Amendment prohibits the government from compelling speech
18-6510 Frank Pruitt v. New York New York 2018-11-01 Denied IFP 1st-amendment 6th-amendment courtroom-access criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-inquiry public-trial removal-from-trial right-to-attend-trial right-to-observe sixth-amendment Was the right to a Public trial, and the right of the Public to attend trial, abrogated when the trial judge failed to conduct careful inquiry 'before…
18-355 Prison Legal News v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-19 Denied Amici (9) 1st-amendment censorship civil-rights content-restriction corrections-policy due-process first-amendment free-speech media-rights prior-restraint prison prison-censorship Whether the Florida Department of Corrections' blanket ban of Prison Legal News violates Petitioner's First Amendment right to free speech and a free …
18-336 Thaddeus Jones, et al. v. Michelle Markiewicz-Qualkinbush, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied 15th-amendment 1st-amendment class-of-one constitutional-challenge Engquist equal-protection first-amendment municipal-referendum political-animus referendum-rights strict-scrutiny Whether the reasoning and decision of Engquist v. Oregon Department of Agriculture extends to the political context, precluding class-of-one equal pro…
18-5921 Jeffrey Allen Stevens v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights civil-unrest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-trial law-enforcement-misconduct standing Are Predictions of Civil Unrest or Violent Revolt Protected Speech under the First Amendment?
18-5870 Matthew Prow v. Tom Roy, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment art-censorship civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech prison prison-policies prison-restrictions reasonable-relationship-standard standing turner-analysis turner-standard Proper methodology for applying Turner standard for constitutional infringements in prison context
18-5792 Marlon Watford v. Thomas LaFond, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied IFP 1st-amendment 42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing Petitioner's claims under 42 U.S.C. §1983 alleging violations of his constitutional rights under the Fi…
18-136 Catherine Rose Dreyer v. County Court of Texas, Coleman County Texas 2018-07-31 Denied Response Waived 1st-amendment 4th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process due-process,4th-amendment,1st-amendment,property-r ex-parte-hearing fourth-amendment property-rights religious-freedom supremacy-clause Whether the issuance of a court order from an ex-parte probate hearing, granting the petitioning party the power to enter someone else's private home …
18-122 Michael Sinegal v. Dawn Polk Fifth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) 1st-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-law employment-retaliation first-amendment free-speech political-candidacy qualified-immunity standing Whether candidacy for political office, standing alone, is a protected right under the First Amendment
18-17 Rodney Keister v. Stuart Bell, in His Official Capacity as President of the University of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied Amici (2) 1st-amendment campus-speech civil-rights college-campus constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech public-forum public-sidewalk public-street sidewalk sidewalk-access sidewalk-restrictions Does the presence of adjacent college campus buildings negate the First Amendment public forum status of a sidewalk running along a public street?