42-U.S.C.-§-1983
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6325 | Steven R. DeWitt v. Ceressa Haney, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 42-U.S.C.-§-1983 clearly-established-right constitutional-rights first-amendment government-official-recording qualified-immunity | 1. Should the Court abolish or substantially reform qualified immunity? 2. If qualified immunity survives, what constitutes a clearly established rig… |
| 24-383 | For Our Rights, Inc., et al. v. David Y. Ige | Ninth Circuit | 2024-10-04 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-U.S.C.-§-1983 constitutional-rights due-process emergency-powers qualified-immunity state-law-restrictions | In 2020, it was clearly established that Americans had constitutional rights to liberty, to work, and to travel, among others. Moreover, it was clearl… |
| 23-1167 | Dennis O'Connor v. Rachel Eubanks, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2024-04-30 | Denied | Amici (2)Relisted (2) | 42-U.S.C.-§-1983 42-usc-1983 constitutional-history constitutional-taking federal-conflict personal-capacity personal-capacity-suit property-rights sovereign-immunity takings-clause | 1. Whether a state's constitutional obligation to pay just compensation when taking property waives its sovereign immunity from a claim seeking damage… |
| 23-664 | Ralph Harrison Benning v. Tyrone Oliver, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-12-20 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 42-U.S.C.-§-1983 civil-rights constitutional-safeguards correspondence correspondence-interception due-process email prisoner-rights qualified-immunity | 1. Where the Supreme Court has required that a prisoner is entitled to procedural safeguards if their "correspondence" is intercepted, are respondents… |
| 23-513 | Randy Smith, Sheriff, et al. v. Jerry Rogers, Jr. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-15 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-U.S.C.-§-1983 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights discretionary-functions government-officials harlow-v-fitzgerald legal-doctrine qualified-immunity statutory-rights | 1. What does it mean for a statutory or constitutional right to be "clearly established," beyond debate for purposes of § 1983 qualified immunity? 2.… |
| 23-372 | Torey Jarrett v. Service Employees International Union Local 503, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-10-06 | Denied | Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 42-U.S.C.-§-1983 civil-rights consent due-process public-employees public-sector-unions state-action state-actor union-dues wage-deduction wage-deductions | 1. Is a state-designated exclusive representative a state actor under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when it directs a public employer to deduct dues from non-union… |
| 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 | 1. Whether a state actor can insulate unconstitutional policies and practices from judicial review by asserting that the upcoming execution of the pla… |
| 19-116 | Heather Marlowe v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-24 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | and whether a systemic failure to investigate rap 42-U.S.C.-§-1983 42-usc-1983 accrual civil-rights discriminatory-policy equal-protection monell Monell-claim rape-investigation statute-of-limitations | I. When does a Monell-based equal protection claim brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 accrue for statute of limitations purposes? Specifically, does… |
| 19-56 | Mark Milner, et al. v. Vincent Mares, Executive Director, New Mexico Racing Commission, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2019-07-09 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-U.S.C.-§-1983 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-accountability harlow-v-fitzgerald new-mexico qualified-immunity | Did the lower courts err in dismissing Petitioners' cases on the basis of Qualified Immunity in the face of US Supreme Court precedent and New Mexico … |