| 25-275 |
Clifford James Frost, Jr. v. Dana Nessel, Attorney General of Michigan |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-09-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bad-faith-prosecution constitutional-challenge criminal-prosecution election-law pre-emption younger-abstention |
Does the "bad faith" exception to Younger preemption require the plaintiff to show that he or she has been subject to multiple criminal prosecutions a… |
| 24A1262 |
Feifei Gu v. Michael Sher, New York City Police Officer, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-06-23 |
Presumed Complete |
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bad-faith-prosecution constitutional-rights first-amendment judicial-misconduct retaliation state-court-proceedings |
Whether state officials can be enjoined from pursuing allegedly retaliatory and bad-faith criminal and civil proceedings that purportedly violate a pl… |
| 22-6301 |
Relonzo Phillips v. Melody M. Maddox, Sheriff, DeKalb County, Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-12-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
bad-faith-prosecution civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-procedure due-process irreparable-injury probable-cause standing state-prosecution younger-doctrine |
Whether a state criminal prosecution brought in bad faith satisfies the requirement of irreparable injury to enjoin state proceedings |
| 21-1451 |
Elile Adams v. Raymond G. Dodge, Jr., Chief Judge, Tribal Court of the Nooksack, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bad-faith-prosecution civil-procedure civil-rights court-remedies due-process exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine federal-plaintiffs habeas habeas-petition pleading-standard standing |
Whether federal plaintiffs seeking to challenge their non-federal prosecution on the basis of bad faith face a heightened pleading standard |
| 18-6211 |
Pedro Rodriguez v. San Diego County, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
abstention-doctrine bad-faith-prosecution civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-error due-process exhaustion-of-remedies extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus paredes-v-atherton perez-v-ledesma prosecutorial-bad-faith standing younger-abstention younger-v-harris |
Whether the district court erred in failing to consider Petitioner's claim under the Abstention Doctrine, YOUNGER-V-HARRIS |