bad-faith-prosecution

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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 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