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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-826 | Lesly Pompy v. Lieutenant Marc Moore, MANTIS, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2026-01-13 | Pending | Response Waived | bivens-action constitutional-tort fourth-amendment home-entry qualified-immunity warrantless-search | 1. Bivens and the Fourth Amendment— Whether a warrantless, post-warrant home entry—conducted hours after the original warrant was executed and without… |
| 25-760 | Hamdi A. Mohamud v. Heather Weyker, St. Paul Police Officer | Eighth Circuit | 2025-12-29 | Pending | Amici (2)Response Waived | bivens-action cross-deputization fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 state-action state-action-doctrine | 1. Whether a local police officer wielding both state and federal authority can act under color of state law for purposes of 42 U.S.C. 1983. 2. If no… |
| 25A208 | Francis Nielsen v. Kekai Watanabe | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-21 | Presumed Complete | alternative-remedies bivens-action eighth-amendment federal-detention medical-treatment prisoner-rights | Whether the Ninth Circuit correctly applied the first step of the Egbert v. Boule test by holding that a case involving a federal detention center's r… | |
| 24-6728 | David C. Lettieri v. Lawrence Joseph Vilardo, Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of New York | Second Circuit | 2025-03-10 | Dismissed | IFP | 42-usc-1985 bivens-action civil-rights due-process judicial-immunity sixth-amendment | 1. Does a judge have power to tell a lawyer to:-tell a lawyer what to object to? 2. Does a judge have immunity to a no-constutional civil tort? 3. D… |
| 24-955 | Gabino Ramos Hernandez v. Phillip Causey | Fifth Circuit | 2025-03-06 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 bivens-action constitutional-rights federal-employee state-action willful-participation | 1. Is the rule expressed in Lugar v Edmondson Oil Co., 457 U.S. 922, 102 S. Ct.2744, 73 L. Ed. 2d 482 (1982), that a challenged activity is deemed sta… |
| 24-6712 | David C. Lettieri v. Paul E. Bonanno | Second Circuit | 2025-03-06 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law bivens-action document-production habeas-corpus judicial-review title-5 | 1. What can a habeas corpus be used for? 2. Can a Bivens Cause of action be used to get Documents? 3. Can a habeas be used for a Title 5 United States… |
| 24-809 | Howard Goldey, Associate Warden, et al. v. Andrew Fields, III, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-01-30 | Judgment Issued | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | bivens-action constitutional-damages eighth-amendment excessive-force federal-officers judicial-remedy | In Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 (1971), the Court recognized an implied cause of action under the C… |
| 24A639 | Heon Jong Yoo v. Brian Barker, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-12-30 | Presumed Complete | bivens-action due-process federal-database firearms-rights mental-health-designation second-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 24-6174 | David C. Lettieri v. Federal Marshals | Sixth Circuit | 2024-12-19 | Denied | IFP | abuse-of-process access-to-courts bivens-action constitutional-rights federal-agency pro-se | 1. Can a pro se be denied to araed? 2. Does a pro se have to know an officers name to file a sue under.Bivens? 3. Does abuse of process work on a Fede… |
| 24-41 | Michael D. Cohen v. Donald J. Trump, former President of the United States, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-07-15 | Denied | Amici (1) | bivens-action bivens-claims civil-liberties constitutional-rights first-amendment first-amendment-rights free-speech habeas-corpus retaliation retaliatory-imprisonment | Petitioner, Michael Cohen, was eligible for release from federal prison to home confinement for health reasons. But Respondents conditioned his rele… |
| 23-1343 | Darwin Quinones-Pimentel, et al. v. Nicholas W. Cannon, et al. | First Circuit | 2024-06-26 | Denied | Response Waived | bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-tort federal-agents fourth-amendment frank-v-delaware monetary-damages search-warrant | I. WHETHER A BIVENS ACTION BE MAINTAINED AGAINST FEDERAL AGENTS AND ACTORS WHEN A SEARCH WARRANT IS OBTAINED IN VIOLATION OF THE DOCTRINE ESTABLISHED … |
| 23A1061 | Michael D. Cohen v. Donald J. Trump, former President of the United States, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-05-29 | Presumed Complete | bivens-action constitutional-rights deterrence fourth-amendment home-confinement retaliation | Question not identified. | |
| 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 | 1. Did the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, en banc, acted in a BIAS decision in failing to reverse the District courts ' ruling by denying Petitioner 's… |
| 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 | 1) Asdan"iis£ueaofGEdjrsi Impressi'en 5.fdingtlbisaCoBBt, does the "or Territory" clause of 4 2 USC § 19 8 3 and the related Civil Rights Statutes app… |
| 23-1121 | Brent Edward Clark v. Vibeke Dankwa | Fourth Circuit | 2024-04-16 | Denied | Response Waived | bivens-action exceptions ftca-claim ftca-judgment-bar remand remand-rights section-2680-exception statutes-of-limitations sua-sponte-dismissal | 1) Did the district court make two reversible errors in 1) sua sponte raising the statutes of limitations affirmative defense to dismiss the Petitione… |
| 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 cause of action can be maintained under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 (1971), in circumsta… |
| 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 | Isaiah S. Harris Sr.'s case presents exceptional circumstances that warrant the exercise of this Court's discretionary power. Where Harris highlights … |
| 23-384 | Michael Boresky, in His Individual and Official Capacity as a Special Agent for the U.S. Secret Service v. Jeremy Graber | Third Circuit | 2023-10-12 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | appeals appellate-jurisdiction bivens-action civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts federal-remedy implied-cause-of-action standing | Whether a district court decision fashioning a new implied cause of action under Bivens is immediately appealable. |
| 23A133 | Gerald L. Ferreyra, et al. v. Nathaniel Hicks | Fourth Circuit | 2023-08-15 | Presumed Complete | bivens-action circuit-split damages-remedy fourth-amendment qualified-immunity warrantless-search | Whether a Bivens action is available to remedy Fourth Amendment violations occurring outside the context of a warrantless home search or against offic… | |
| 22-6284 | Bryan M. Espinoza v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-12-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bell-v-hood bivens-action bivens-doctrine constitutional-rights davis-v-passman federal-tort-claims-act fourth-amendment obstruction-of-justice whistleblower-protection whistleblower-protection-act | What is the proper cause of action under Bivens for a violation of the Fourth Amendment? |
| 22-533 | Ifrah Yassin v. Heather Weyker | Eighth Circuit | 2022-12-09 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 bivens-action civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights federal-cross-deputization qualified-immunity section-1983 task-force | Whether state and local police officers are immune from suit under 42 U.S.C. 1983 whenever they are federally cross-deputized as members of joint stat… |
| 21-7286 | Andrew J. Johnston v. Frances Ward, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2022-03-07 | Dismissed | IFP | bivens-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-misconduct recusal-request standing transcript trial-transcript witness-testimony | Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated by the omission of material testimony from the trial transcript |
| 21-6995 | Admassu Regassa v. C. Brininger, et al. | Third Circuit | 2022-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bivens-action civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violation constitutional-rights due-process federal-tort-claims-act government-liability prison-officials standing summary-judgment | Whether the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit erred an… |
| 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 … |
| 21-5780 | Omari H. Patton v. Crystal Kimble | Fourth Circuit | 2021-09-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment prison-litigation-reform-act retaliation-claim special-factors-doctrine standing | Can federal prisoners use a Bivens action for a First Amendment retaliation claim? |
| 21-5458 | Henry J. DuLaurence, III v. Douglas P. Woodlock, Judge, United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts | First Circuit | 2021-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | bivens-action constitutional-rights criminal-obstruction-of-justice due-process fraud-upon-the-court judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice | Whether the May 21, 2021 dismissal in the instant case must be declared void |
| 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? |
| 20-1318 | Vincent W. Shack v. NBC Universal Media, LLC, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-22 | Denied | bivens-action civil-rights civil-rights-violation constitutional-rights due-process federal-agents governmental-immunity qualified-immunity | Does the law afford the means to prevent and redress alleged civil rights abuse by public officers and agencies? | |
| 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? |
| 20-6650 | Gregory Scott Sumner v. Brett Carter, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-12-18 | Denied | IFP | ada ada-discrimination bivens-action civil-rights disability-rights due-process equal-access equal-protection free-speech public-services reasonable-accommodation | Whether the public entity violated Title I of the ADA by excluding the plaintiff from participation in or denying the benefits of its programs and ser… |
| 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? |
| 19-8277 | Abraham A. Augustin v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-04-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ancillary-jurisdiction bivens-action civil-procedure constructive-possession criminal-investigation criminal-procedure fed-r-crim-p-16 fed-r-crim-p-41 jurisdiction property-seizure | Whether the district court had ancillary jurisdiction over property seized during the criminal investigation |
| 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… |
| 19-661 | 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… | |
| 19-5560 | 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… |
| 19-5265 | Benjamin E. Schreiber v. Nick Ludwick, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-07-22 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | administrative-law administrative-remedies appeals bivens-action civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation dismissal due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-courts parties section-1983 standing | Did the Court of Appeals violate Petitioner's Due Process Rights when it 'ADDED' extra Defendants not in the original lawsuit and in which the U.S. Di… |
| 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 |
| 18A1347 | John M. Wasson v. United States, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-21 | Presumed Complete | bivens-action due-process fourth-amendment property-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment protects an individual's reasonable expectation of privacy when law enforcement photographs a property through an unobstr… | |
| 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… |
| 18-5400 | In Re Wilma Pennington-Thurman | 2018-08-01 | Dismissed | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process habeas-corpus mental-health mental-incarceration pro-se standing unlawful-detention writ-of-right | Can I file a writ of habeas corpus when I am not physically incarcerated, but mentally incarcerated by those in authority? |