| 24-1081 |
Saundra Rhodes v. Jessica Gifford |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-04-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1988 attorney-fees frcp-54d nominal-verdict rimini-street-precedent taxable-costs |
Did the circuit court err in affirming an award of attorney's fees in excess of $800,000 where the Appellee received only a nominal verdict of one dol… |
| 23-621 |
Gerald F. Lackey, in His Official Capacity as the Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles v. Damian Stinnie, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-08 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (19)Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
42-usc-1988 civil-rights injunction-standard judicial-procedure legal-merits merits preliminary-injunction prevailing-party standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a party must obtain a ruling that conclusively decides the merits in its favor, as opposed to merely predicting a likelihood of later success,… |
| 22-773 |
Tre Hargett, Tennessee Secretary of State, et al. v. Tennessee State Conference of the NAACP, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
42-usc-1988 attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights merits-determination preliminary-injunction prevailing-party statutory-interpretation |
When, if ever, does a party who obtains a preliminary injunction, but never secures a final merits determination, qualify as a 'prevailing party' elig… |
| 22-717 |
Adrian Perkins, Mayor of the City of Shreveport, Louisiana v. Celcog, LLC, dba Strawn's Eat Shop Too, et al. |
Louisiana |
2023-02-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
42-usc-1988 attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-statute judicial-procedure louisiana-constitution louisiana-revised-statutes state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower courts erroneously granted attorney's fees |
| 21-1598 |
City of Anaheim, California, et al. v. Fermin Vincent Valenzuela, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-28 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
42-usc-1983 42-usc-1988 circuit-split civil-rights federal-court hedonic-damages robertson-v-wegmann section-1983 state-law survivorship-claim wrongful-death |
Whether state law prohibitions on hedonic damages apply to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 survival claims |
| 21-7518 |
Jay Alan Myers v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1988 attorney-fees civil-rights due-process prevailing-party standing |
Whether a court can award a prevailing party attorney's fees under 42 U.S.C. § 1988 for time spent litigating a fee petition |
| 21-1163 |
Carolyn L. Baburka v. Township of Hazlet, New Jersey, et al. |
New Jersey |
2022-02-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1988 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-amendments federal-law qualified-immunity search-and-seizure state-law |
Did the courts below commit error by failing to recognize federal law? |
| 20-7351 |
Sheena Shaw v. Sacramento County Sheriff's Department, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 42-usc-1988 circuit-court civil-rights federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation section-1983 statute-of-limitations statutes-of-limitations tolling-rules |
May the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ignore the goals of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when interpreting and applying state statutes of limitations and the coord… |
| 19-1217 |
Scottie A. Bagi, et al. v. City of Parma, Ohio |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-15 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1988 attorney-fees christiansburg-garment civil-rights discretionary-standard due-process first-amendment free-speech public-employee retaliation retaliation-claim summary-judgment |
Whether the District Court abused its discretion in its application of the standards set forth in Christiansburg Garment Co. v. EEOC, 434 U.S. 412 (19… |
| 19-1064 |
Kealii Makekau, et al. v. Hawaii, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1988 all-writs-act civil-rights civil-rights-attorneys-fees election-cancellation injunctions judicial-imprimatur merits prevailing-party statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court's grant of an injunction constitutes a sufficient consideration of the merits to be the 'judicial imprimatur' necessary for prevaili… |
| 19-677 |
Dave Yost, et al. v. Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
42-usc-1988 abortion-providers abortion-rights article-iii article-iii-standing attorney-fees civil-rights patient-rights preliminary-injunction prevailing-party standing statutory-interpretation |
Do abortion providers have Article III standing to assert the rights of their patients? |
| 19-409 |
City of Cleveland, Ohio, et al. v. Ricky Jackson, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 42-usc-1988 brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 federal-law municipal-liability personal-injury personal-injury-claims qualified-immunity section-1983 section-1988 state-law state-law-survival-rule survival |
Whether §1988 requires the survival of §1983 claims to be determined using the state-law survival rule for the most closely analogous state cause of a… |
| 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… |
| 18-8011 |
Kevin Kerr v. William P. Barr, Attorney General |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1988 6th-amendment civil-rights competency criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech pardon pro-se-appearance psychological-evidence self-representation sixth-amendment standing |
Does 42 U.S.C. § 1988(a) confer jurisdiction on the respondent, the United States District Court, and the United States Court of Appeals conveying to … |