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24A3 Darnell Anderson v. Aaron Fuson, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-07-03 Presumed Complete Bivens eighth-amendment excessive-force federal-tort prisoner-rights qualified-immunity Whether the Supreme Court should extend the Bivens remedy to allow a federal prisoner to bring a monetary damages claim for alleged Eighth Amendment e…
23-1234 Konstantinos Zografidis v. Vanessa Richards, Assistant United States Attorney, et al. Second Circuit 2024-05-23 Denied Response Waived bivens bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process evidence-fabrication federal-courts federal-procedure judicial-bias standing Did the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals act with bias in failing to reverse the District court's ruling on the Petitioner's civil-rights complaint?
23-7335 Walter J. Himmelreich v. Janel Fitzgerald Sixth Circuit 2024-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 bivens bivens-action civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation territorial-jurisdiction Does the 'or Territory' clause of 42 USC § 1983 apply to Federal Bureau of Prisons properties?
23-1046 Peter George Noe v. Berkley, Dr., et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived bivens bivens-action civil-rights civil-rights-remedy constitutional-claim due-process federal-agents federal-tort-claims-act judicial-precedent medical-care medical-indifference standing Whether a Bivens claim can be maintained for deliberate indifference to serious medical needs
23-723 Joseph Randolph Mays v. T. B. Smith, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-01-04 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (3) bivens bivens-claim civil-rights damages-suit due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-prisoner race-discrimination racial-discrimination supreme-court-precedent Whether a federal inmate prisoner may bring a Bivens claim for racial discrimination against prison officials
23-6153 Isaiah S. Harris, Sr. v. Deborah S. Hunt, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-12-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts bivens bivens-action civil-rights court-access federal-counterpart-to-42-u.s.c.-§-1983 federal-remedy first-amendment habeas-corpus who-should-decide-whether-to-provide-for-a-damages-remedy,-congress-or-the-courts?
23-324 Gerald L. Ferreyra, et al. v. Nathaniel Hicks Fourth Circuit 2023-09-28 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bivens circuit-split federal-officers fourth-amendment qualified-immunity search-and-seizure Whether a Bivens cause of action exists for Fourth Amendment claims against federal officers operating under a different legal mandate or not involvin…
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 Whether a court of appeals has jurisdiction to decide Bivens issue in interlocutory appeal on qualified immunity
21-6535 Jennifer Smith v. William Paul Nichols, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment bivens bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-injury due-process extraterritorial-warrant fourth-amendment monell search-and-seizure search-warrant section-1983 Does forgery, drug distribution, perjured affidavits, defective extraterritorial search warrants, improper execution of search warrants, coupled with …
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 Whether Bivens remedies are categorically unavailable to federal prisoners in any other context
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…
21-184 Kevin Byrd v. Ray Lamb Fifth Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) abbasi-standard bivens bivens-action circuit-split civil-rights federal-officer-liability federal-officials fourth-amendment judicial-remedy Under Abbasi, may line-level federal officers be sued for violating the Fourth Amendment?
21-147 Erik Egbert v. Robert Boule Ninth Circuit 2021-08-03 Judgment Issued Amici (21)Relisted (2) bivens bivens-doctrine civil-rights constitutional-damages federal-officer-liability first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation fourth-amendment immigration immigration-enforcement reconsider-bivens Whether a Bivens cause of action exists for First Amendment retaliation
21-16 Robert Paul Magtulis Cledera v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment bivens civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-expectation-of-privacy redressability search-and-seizure standing Does a Petitioner need to be charged with a crime and arrested for him to have Locus Standi
20-7157 David Smith-Garcia v. Paula Burke Ninth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment bivens civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-need prison-healthcare probation Does an Eighth Amendment claim for deliberate indifference to a serious medical need against a U.S. Probation officer present a valid Bivens claim in …
20-7127 Clyde Pontefract v. United States, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP bivens bivens-action civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment federal-prisoner federal-prisons injunctive-relief municipal-liability standing Does Ziglar V Abbasi apply to Eighth Amendment claims by federal prisoners?
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 …
20-6527 Byron Brown v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review bivens civil-rights criminal-procedure damages due-process federal-government legal-interpretation seventh-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's dismissal of petitioner's civil rights claims against the United States government…
20-587 Hope Angelic White, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Myron Pollard v. United States, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied bivens bivens-action civil-procedure civil-rights federal-tort-claims-act judgment-bar personal-representative sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation Whether, in the same lawsuit, a partial judgment for or against a claimant in her capacity as personal representative for an estate claiming one set o…
19-8864 Calvin D. Williams v. Samson Resources Corporation Third Circuit 2020-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP bivens bivens-action civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-authority federal-procedure judicial-authority judicial-conduct procedural-due-process Are judges bound by ABA-Rule-2.15, Judicial-Canons-1-5, and FRCP-Rule-46 while under color-of-federal-authority?
19-1033 Daniel Enrique Cantú v. James M. Moody, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied bivens bivens-claim civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process evidence-fabrication fabricated-evidence federal-officer qualified-immunity standing Whether a plaintiff may pursue a claim under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 (1971), alleging that…
19-7214 Gregory Brown v. Ellen Mace-Liebson, et al. Third Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment bivens bivens-action civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment intra-circuit-conflict medical-care medical-treatment pro-se summary-judgment Whether the sitting panel for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's entry of summary judgment on petitioner's pro…
19-7186 James R. Young v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-06 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP bivens bivens-claim civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-review fifth-amendment in-forma-pauperis inmate-rights property property-theft standing Did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals abuse Petitioner's 5th Amendment due-process right to be heard on his Bivens claim on appeal by summarily di…
19-718 James King v. Douglas Brownback, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-12-06 Denied Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 bivens civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law due-process federal-law law-enforcement section-1983 state-law task-force Does a law enforcement officer's membership in a joint state-federal police task force managed, in part, by a federal agency preclude him or her from …
19-661 Mynor Abdiel Tun-Cos, et al. v. B. Perrotte, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied 4th-amendment bivens bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-law-enforcement federal-tort-claims-act immigration-enforcement law-enforcement qualified-immunity search-and-seizure Whether victims of an unconstitutional search and seizure may bring a civil action against rogue agents under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of th…
19-443 Charles G. Kinney v. Philip S. Gutierrez, Judge, United States District Court for the Central District of California Ninth Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts bivens bivens-claim cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines obstruction-of-justice vexatious-litigant Whether the use of vexatious litigant laws to punish an individual and preclude access to the courts, resulting in excessive fines and cruel and unusu…
19-5560 Cecil McDonald Davis v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment bivens bivens-action bivens-claim certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-claim Whether the District Court in denying the Petitioner's medical claim under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Fed. Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 38…
19-5207 Admassu Regassa v. Emily Cimino, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment bivens bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ftca ftca-claim judicial-review prison-conditions pro-se-prisoner Whether the district court erroneously dismissed the petitioner's Second Amended Complaint and the Seventh Circuit improperly affirmed the dismissal
18-1461 Dawn Marie Delebreau v. Cristina Danforth, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 bivens civil-rights constitutional-equality domestic-dependent-nations due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction native-american-rights section-1983 sovereign-immunity territorial-jurisdiction tribal-law tribal-sovereignty Are tribal laws considered territorial laws under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 such that Native Americans must also have an equal § 1983 remedy when Indians are c…
18-1350 Maria S., as Next Friend for E. H. F. and S. H. F., Minors, and A. S. G. v. Ramiro Garza Fifth Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) bivens border-protection civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-tort immigration qualified-immunity retaliation standing wrongful-death Whether a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent is entitled to qualified immunity for allegedly coercing a mother into departing the U.S., where sh…
18-1121 Captain James Linlor v. Michael Polson Fourth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied 4th-amendment bivens bivens-action civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment police-powers qualified-immunity sexual-battery tsa tsa-screener tsa-screening Whether the attested-as-intentional excessive and unreasonable force striking of a cooperative passenger's genitals by a TSA screener not meeting mand…
18-474 LeFloris Lyon v. Canadian National Railway Company, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) bivens bivens-action civil-rights first-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause retaliatory-prosecution seventh-circuit-conflict Whether retaliatory prosecution in violation of the First Amendment and Fourth Amendment is actionable under Bivens when the arrest warrants and prose…
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…