Bivens-remedy
16 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A823 | Brij Mohan, et al. v. Jordan Watkins | Seventh Circuit | 2026-01-16 | Application | bivens-remedy due-process eighth-amendment federal-tort-claims-act medical-negligence prisoner-rights | Question not identified. | |
| 25-417 | Francis Nielsen v. Kekai Watanabe | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-07 | Pending | alternative-remedies bivens-remedy damages-action eighth-amendment prison-conditions special-factors | Whether the Ninth Circuit here erred in recognizing a Bivens cause of action. | |
| 25A295 | Lesly Pompy v. Lt. Marc Moore, MANTIS, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-09-15 | Application | bivens-remedy fourth-amendment joint-task-force qualified-immunity warrantless-search westfall-act | 1. Bivens / Fourth Amendment: Whether, after Egbert v. Boule, 596 U.S. 482 (2022), a Bivens remedy remains available for warrantless searches and seiz… | |
| 24-1170 | LaQuan Stederick Johnson v. Elaine Terry, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-05-15 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-remedy bivens-remedy constitutional-rights federal-courts prison-officials special-factors | Does the existence of the BOP's Administrative Remedy Program foreclose a Bivens action where prison officials prevent the inmate from accessing that … |
| 23A1024 | Roy Sargeant v. Aracelie Barfield | Seventh Circuit | 2024-05-17 | Presumed Complete | bivens-remedy constitutional-claim deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment federal-prison inmate-violence | Whether this Court's precedents recognize a cause of action for damages under the Eighth Amendment against prison officials who exhibit deliberate ind… | |
| 23-976 | Jeremy Henning v. Donald V. Snowden | Seventh Circuit | 2024-03-06 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | bivens-remedy civil-rights civil-rights-action due-process excessive-force federal-law-enforcement fourth-amendment implied-damages judicial-immunity warrant-execution warrants | Whether the court of appeals erred in allowing a Bivens remedy in this case, where the claim arises from an arrest made outside the home, in a place o… |
| 23A740 | Elbert Walker, Jr. v. Dismas Charities, Inc., et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-08 | Presumed Complete | bivens-remedy constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment home-confinement | Question not identified. | |
| 23A679 | Jeremy Henning v. Donald V. Snowden | Seventh Circuit | 2024-01-23 | Presumed Complete | bivens-remedy damages-action excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement new-context | Question not identified. | |
| 23A367 | Joseph Randolph Mays v. T.B. Smith, Warden, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-10-24 | Presumed Complete | bivens-remedy circuit-split due-process fifth-amendment prison-officials race-discrimination | Question not identified. | |
| 21-1492 | Anas Elhady v. Blake Bradley | Sixth Circuit | 2022-05-27 | Denied | bivens bivens-remedy border-enforcement civil-rights collateral-order-doctrine due-process federal-law-enforcement interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction qualified-immunity | For decades, this Court has vigilantly enforced the final judgment rule codified at 28 U.S.C. § 1291, emphasizing the "modest scope" of the "small cla… | |
| 21-655 | Max Ray Butler v. S. Porter, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-03 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | adequate-medical-care bivens bivens-remedy civil-rights constitutional-rights eighth-amendment federal-courts federal-prisoner federal-prisoners medical-care | In Carlson v. Green, 446 U.S. 14 (1980), the Court recognized a remedy under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.… |
| 21-5341 | Vernon Norman Earle v. Shreves, C/O, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-08-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | policy-based judgments that present special Biven administrative-grievance bivens Bivens-remedy civil-rights constitutional-violation correctional-officer due-process policy-based-judgment policy-based-judgments retaliation special-factors | Whether a rogue correctional officer's unlawful retaliation against an inmate for utilizing an administrative grievance process implicates the sort of… |
| 21-187 | Hamdi Mohamud v. Heather Weyker | Eighth Circuit | 2021-08-10 | Denied | Amici (2)Relisted (2) | bivens bivens-remedy circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-violation fourth-amendment law-enforcement-overreach qualified-immunity ziglar-v-abbasi | Whether a constitutional remedy is available against federal officers for individual instances of law enforcement overreach in violation of the Fourth… |
| 20-1060 | Jose Oliva v. Mario Nivar, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-03 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | bivens bivens-remedy civil-rights constitutional-remedy constitutional-violation federal-police fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure | Whether claims against federal police for Fourth Amendment violations committed during standard law enforcement operations fall within an established … |
| 19-1259 | Carlos Loumiet v. United States, et al. | District of Columbia | 2020-04-30 | Denied | Response Waived | bivens-remedy civil-procedure civil-rights damages due-process federal-courts forum-of-defense standing takings | This Court has stated that individual unconstitutional acts "are difficult to address except by way of damages actions after the fact," and that "foru… |
| 18-309 | Lonnie Swartz v. Araceli Rodriguez, Individually and as the Surviving Mother and Personal Representative of J. A. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-11 | GVR | CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (4) | bivens bivens-remedy bivens-v-six-unknown-named-agents border-security cross-border-shooting extraterritorial-application foreign-relations fourth-amendment qualified-immunity separation-of-powers | Whether the panel's decision to create an implied remedy for damages under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of the Fed. Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S… |