42-usc-1985
18 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-7131 | Kevin Michael Cardwell v. Paul David Bojrab, M.D., et al. | Indiana | 2025-05-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 42-USC-1985 attorney-appointment cognitive-impairment conspiracy constitutional-violation sex-offender-rights | Whether individuals convicted of sex offenses constitute a protected class under U.S.C. 1985(3) when their constitutional rights are allegedly violate… |
| 24-7119 | Mark Anthony Hill v. Jennifer Pell, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-05-02 | Denied | IFP | 42-usc-1985 civil-rights-conspiracy discriminatory-animus fundamental-rights-guarantee material-evidence-concealment state-court-proceeding | Whether the factual allegations demonstrate that defendants' conduct of concealing material eyewitness evidence is a hindrance to establishing a compl… |
| 24-6728 | David C. Lettieri v. Lawrence Joseph Vilardo, Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of New York | Second Circuit | 2025-03-10 | Dismissed | IFP | 42-usc-1985 bivens-action civil-rights due-process judicial-immunity sixth-amendment | Can a judge be held liable for civil rights violations under Bivens and 42 U.S.C. 1985(3) despite claims of absolute or qualified immunity? |
| 23A611 | Linda Ann Wright v. United States, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-01-02 | Presumed Complete | 42-usc-1985 civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process elder-abuse judicial-recusal | Whether federal courts improperly dismissed civil rights claims involving alleged elder abuse and constitutional violations without proper judicial re… | |
| 23-300 | ATM Shafiqul Khalid v. Microsoft Corporation | Ninth Circuit | 2023-09-26 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 congressional-power constitutional-rights copyright-clause exclusive-right fourteenth-amendment inventor-protection patent-clause patent-ownership sherman-act statutory-interpretation | Whether the exclusive Right in inventions as written in the Constitution is a fundamental Right or Constitutional privilege separate from common law e… |
| 23-5615 | Roosevelt L. Linicomn, Jr. v. District Attorney, 482nd Judicial District Court of Texas, Harris County, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-19 | Denied | IFP | 42-usc-1985 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement probable-cause warrant-validity warrants | Does the Constitution ensure that a person is entitled to section 242 of title 18 if a person is truly deprived of a right or privilege protected by t… |
| 23-5123 | Aaron Abadi v. Target Corporation | Third Circuit | 2023-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 42-USC-1985 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process injunction intra-corporate-conspiracy mootness pandemic pandemic-mandate standing | Whether a pandemic-related mandate case becomes moot when the mandate is lifted, or remains justiciable due to the ongoing pandemic and plaintiffs' la… |
| 22-5689 | Michael G. Peters v. Lee H. Rosenthal | Fifth Circuit | 2022-09-28 | Dismissed | IFP | 42-usc-1985 civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy due-process standing | Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioners' claims alleging a conspiracy to interfere with their civil rights under 42 U.S.C. § 19… |
| 21-352 | Jason Gonzales v. Michael J. Madigan, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2021-09-07 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process election-campaign electoral-misconduct first-amendment summary-judgment | Do the protections of the First Amendment bar use of a candidate's unproven allegations of electoral misconduct during an election campaign as a basis… |
| 20-1773 | Pasadena Republican Club v. Western Justice Center, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-06-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 civil-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-management state-action state-actor viewpoint-discrimination | Whether the Western Justice Center is a state actor for purposes of the First and Fourteenth Amendments and 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1985(3) |
| 20-1713 | Symon B. Mandawala v. Era Living, LLC, et al. | Washington | 2021-06-10 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 14th-amendment 42-usc-1985 attorney-client-doctrine civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-law due-process equal-protection motion-to-dismiss service-of-process | As of Matter of Equal Protection Clause in the 14th Amendment right of the U.S constitution: (1) (a) while racially civil rights action is pending, wi… |
| 19-552 | William A. Salzwedel v. California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-challenge disability-rights due-process equal-protection rehabilitation-act rooker-feldman-doctrine standing third-party-standing title-ii-ada | Does an attorney have standing to challenge a state's adult conservatorship/guardianship practices? |
| 19-5520 | Terry G. Watson v. Nathan B. Stewart, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-08-08 | Dismissed | IFP | 42-usc-1981 42-usc-1982 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 42-usc-1986 civil-rights due-process ethnic-discrimination ethnic-origin federal-statutes human-rights political-prisoners religious-conscience | Did the USCA8 err by not addressing civil-rights, 42-usc-1981, 42-usc-1982, 42-usc-1983, 42-usc-1985, 42-usc-1986, bivens, federal-torts-claim-act |
| 19-126 | Gary A. Oram, Jr. v. City of Dillon, Montana, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-26 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1985 civil-procedure civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial judicial-resolution liability magistrate-jurisdiction private-citizen section-1985 standing | Are the Courts able to find a judicial resolution in a §1985(3) claim against one private citizen, after all other individuals in the action are relea… |
| 18-9778 | Xue Jie He v. Office of the New York City Comptroller | Second Circuit | 2019-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 42-usc-1985 civil-rights conspiracy discrimination due-process equal-protection immigration national-origin-discrimination racial-discrimination racial-discrimination-act | Whether the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provides Petitioner relief for discrimination in a US visa application |
| 18-9040 | Valerie Arroyo v. Joseph Colbert, Jr., et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-01 | Denied | IFP | 1985 1988 and 18 U.S.C. §§ 241 242? 18-usc-241-242 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 42-usc-1988 civil-rights civil-rights-deprivation-due-process-42-usc-1983-1 color-of-law constitutional-violation due-process federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation | Did the lower tribunal, federal or state court, federal or state agencies, or employees' actions, conduct or interference were unconstitutional throug… |
| 18-347 | West Congress Street Partners, LLC v. Rivertown Development, LLC, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2018-09-17 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1985 42-usc-1986 civil-rights conspiracy conspiracy-claims discrimination due-process elliott-larsen-civil-rights-act federal-statute gentrification minority-protection real-estate real-estate-discrimination | Is the plausibility standard for federal conspiracy claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1985 and § 1986 sufficient to protect minorities against discrimination i… |
| 18-5424 | Patsy N. Sakuma v. Association of Apartment Owners of the Tropics of Waikele, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-claim due-process hypothetical-jurisdiction jurisdictional-waiver merits-question rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing sua-sponte waiver | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit properly applied waiver on appeal as a new exception to bypass the Rooker-Feldman jur… |