civil-liability

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-829 Matt Martorello v. Lula Williams, et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-01-13 Pending Response Waived civil-liability indian-commerce-clause internet-contract rico-act state-regulation tribal-lending Whether the Indian Commerce Clause preempts state regulation of loans made on an Indian reservation by a tribal lender via internet, and whether a RIC…
25-789 Angela Kay Plese v. Ronald Austin, et al. Tennessee 2026-01-06 Pending civil-liability constitutional-law defamation first-amendment free-speech reputational-harm Whether the First Amendment allows a plaintiff who suffers no reputational harm to recover for defamation
25A631 John Doe, et al. v. Twitter, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-01 Application child-pornography civil-liability content-moderation internet-platform section-230 sex-trafficking Whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act provides immunity to internet platforms for knowingly possessing child pornography and benefitin…
25A529 FemtoMetrix, Inc., et al. v. Hovik Nazaryan California 2025-11-07 Application civil-liability form-1099 fraudulent-filing information-return statutory-interpretation tax-statute Whether 26 U.S.C. § 7434 allows civil liability for fraudulent information returns to extend beyond the individual or entity legally required to file …
25-206 Edwin L. Rojas v. Connecticut, et al. District of Columbia 2025-08-20 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) anti-peonage-act civil-liability double-jeopardy due-process judicial-misconduct state-court-jurisdiction Whether a state criminal court can renege on a prior dismissal of criminal cases and whether such action constitutes judicial misconduct or violates d…
24-1299 Planet Green Cartridges, Inc., a California Corporation v. Amazon.com, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-liability communications-decency-act internet-platforms product-misrepresentation section-230 third-party-content Does Section 230 confer immunity on internet platforms when they knowingly permit, facilitate, and profit from third-party promotion and sale of misre…
24A232 Juan Cartaya v. Travelers Indemnity Company Colorado 2024-09-04 Presumed Complete arbitral-immunity arbitration-decision civil-liability colorado-court-of-appeals federal-arbitration-act supreme-court-review Whether the Federal Arbitration Act provides arbitrators with absolute immunity from civil liability for their decisions
23-1262 Ikemefuna Stephen Nwoye v. Barack H. Obama, former President of the United States, et ux. Second Circuit 2024-06-04 Denied civil-claim civil-liability continuing-wrong factfinding insufficient-pleading jurisdictional-conflict presidential-immunity pro-se-litigation scope-of-employment statute-of-limitation statute-of-limitations Whether the 2>4 Circuit erred in law
23-7104 In Re Tonya Knowles 2024-03-29 Dismissed IFP 14th-amendment civil-liability civil-rights disqualifications fair-credit-reporting-act insurrection rebellion sovereign-immunity Does the civil-liability provisions of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. 1681 et seq., unequivocally and unambiguously 'Waive' Sovereign Immuni…
23-7081 Elias Makere v. E. Gary Early, Administrative Law Judge Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-liability civil-procedure civil-prosecution civil-rights clerical-functions clerical-tasks court-procedure judicial-immunity legal-immunity ministerial-duties ministerial-tasks Are judges immune from civil prosecution when performing clerical or ministerial tasks?
23-6636 Thomas Oliver v. Kristin T. Mihelic, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-immunity civil-liability civil-rights court-orders government-accountability government-personnel judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct legal-ethics official-duties official-misconduct willful-crimes Should judges or other government personnel be protected by civil immunity for willful crimes?
23-6133 Jacquelyn Reaves v. Monmouth University, et al. Third Circuit 2023-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-liability civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection false-imprisonment hate-crime jurisdiction racial-discrimination Should respondents be criminally and civilly liable for hate-crime, false-imprisonment, racial-discrimination, persecution, emotional-distress, miscon…
23A209 DeRay Mckesson v. John Doe Fifth Circuit 2023-09-01 Presumed Complete civil-liability first-amendment NAACP-v-Claiborne-Hardware negligence protest-organizer third-party-violence Whether the First Amendment protects a protest organizer from civil liability for negligence in organizing and conducting a protest when a third party…
22-846 Department of Agriculture Rural Development Rural Housing Service v. Reginald Kirtz Third Circuit 2023-03-07 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Relisted (3) civil-liability civil-procedure fair-credit-reporting-act federal-jurisdiction federal-law sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation waiver Whether the civil-liability provisions of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. 1681 et seg., unequivocally and unambiguously waive the sovereign i…
22-695 Jane Does No. 1–6, et al. v. Reddit, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-25 Denied Relisted (2) child-pornography civil-action civil-liability communications-decency-act internet-immunity sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation third-party-liability Whether the exception to CDA immunity contained in 47 U.S.C. § 230(e)(5)(A) is limited solely to Section 1595 claims where the defendant itself has co…
22-593 United States, ex rel. Deborah Sheldon v. Allergan Sales, LLC Fourth Circuit 2022-12-27 GVR Relisted (5) civil-liability false-claims-act government-fraud knowingly knowledge-standard statutory-interpretation subjective-beliefs subjective-understanding Whether and when a defendant's contemporaneous subjective understanding or beliefs about the lawfulness of its conduct are relevant to whether it 'kno…
22-195 Thomas J. Dart, et al. v. Salvatore Ziccarelli Seventh Circuit 2022-09-01 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-liability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employee-rights employment-law family-medical-leave-act interference-claim standing statutory-interpretation whether a plaintiff bringing a claim for FMLA-interference must prove that he was denied any rights granted by the FMLA
22-5423 Elise LaMartina v. Jason Patrick Johnson, et al. Mississippi 2022-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-liability civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection indigent-rights interstate-commerce privileges-and-immunities Whether the State of Mississippi may unconstitutionally discriminate against interstate commerce to shield and protect its citizens and businesses fro…
21-1326 United States, et al., ex rel. Tracy Schutte, et al. v. SuperValu Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-04-05 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) civil-liability deliberate-ignorance false-claims-act fraud knowingly materiality reckless-disregard scienter statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant's contemporaneous subjective understanding or beliefs about the lawfulness of its conduct are relevant to whether it 'knowingly' v…
21-908 Kate Marie Bartenwerfer v. Kieran Buckley Ninth Circuit 2021-12-21 Judgment Issued Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 11-usc-523 bankruptcy bankruptcy-fraud circuit-split civil-liability discharge discharge-exception fraud imputation imputation-liability statutory-interpretation Whether an individual can be subject to liability for another's fraud barred from discharge in bankruptcy under 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(2)(A) by imputation…
21-682 Mackie L. Shivers, Jr. v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied circuit-split civil-liability constitutional-violation discretionary-function-exception employee-liability federal-tort-claims-act government-immunity Whether the discretionary function exception to the Federal Tort Claims Act immunizes the United States from tort liability for acts taken by its empl…
21-419 Bob Lewis v. Google LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied Response Waived 47-usc-230 censorship civil-liability constitutionally-protected-speech first-amendment free-speech hate-speech packingham-v-north-carolina section-230 social-media Does this Court's holding in Packingham v. North Carolina override 47 U.S.C. § 230's civil liability indemnification for censorship of constitutionall…
21-382 Moses Strauss, et al. v. Credit Lyonnais, S.A. Second Circuit 2021-09-09 Denied CVSGRelisted (2) aiding-and-abetting civil-liability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process foreign-terrorist-organization free-speech justice-against-sponsors-of-terrorism-act standing substantial-funds terrorism terrorist-organization Whether a person who knowingly transfers substantial funds to a designated foreign terrorist organization aids and abets that organization's terrorist…
21-381 Tzvi Weiss, et al. v. National Westminster Bank, PLC Second Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied CVSGAmici (5)Relisted (2) 18 U.S.C. § 2333(d)(2) aiding-abetting civil-liability civil-rights due-process foreign-terrorist-organizations free-speech material-support standing substantial-assistance terrorism terrorist-organizations Whether a person who knowingly transfers substantial funds to a designated FTO aids and abets that organization's terrorist acts for purposes of civil…
21-81 Burt W. Newsome, et al. v. Clark A. Cooper, et al. Alabama 2021-07-21 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived appellate-review civil-claims civil-liability civil-rights criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process newton-v-rumery release-dismissal Whether a release-dismissal order entered in a criminal case is enforceable under the standards set forth in Newton v. Rumery
20-1685 Scott Fulford, et al. v. George Wingate Fourth Circuit 2021-06-04 Denied civil-liability fourth-amendment law-enforcement-training qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion terry-stop totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances Whether the Fourth Amendment requires that seemingly innocent factors be eliminated from the totality of the circumstances analysis for a Terry stop, …
20-1069 Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. v. A. Y., et al. Pennsylvania 2021-02-05 Denied Amici (4) civil-liability drug-labeling fda-regulation federal-preemption impossibility-preemption off-label-use preemption state-tort-law Whether federal law preempts state-law claims that a manufacturer failed to provide adequate warnings relating to the off-label use of their products,…
20-651 Cook Children's Medical Center v. T. L., a Minor, et al. Texas 2020-11-13 Denied Amici (1) civil-liability civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process hospital-review internal-review-process medical-ethics section-1983 state-action texas-advance-directives-act Whether private doctors who discontinue private care for a private patient at a private hospital are state actors for invoking a state law's internal-…
20-144 Spencer Savings Bank, SLA, et al. v. Lawrence B. Seidman New Jersey 2020-08-12 Denied bank-secrecy-act civil-liability customer-privacy financial-crimes financial-institution non-disclosure-obligation state-court-liability statutory-scheme suspicious-activity-report Whether a state court's imposition of a good faith requirement for termination of a customer account is repugnant to the statutory scheme embodied in …
20-5336 Matthew Jones v. Captain Alice Brumbley Delaware 2020-08-12 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-liability civil-procedure civil-prosecution civil-rights constitutional-protection criminal-law criminal-liability due-process government-immunity immunity legal-accountability official-misconduct Do government employees enjoy immunity from committed crimes and civil prosecution?
19-1284 Malwarebytes, Inc. v. Enigma Software Group USA, LLC Ninth Circuit 2020-05-13 Denied Amici (4)Relisted (2) anticompetitive-animus antitrust blocking civil-liability civil-rights communications-decency-act computer-service-providers filtering free-speech immunity section-230 Whether federal courts can derive an implied exception to Section 230(c)(2)(B) immunity for blocking or filtering decisions when they are alleged to b…
19-1077 Chris Ann Jaye v. Oak Knoll Village Condominium Owners Association, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied Response Waived civil-liability color-of-law due-process equal-protection first-amendment judicial-immunity separation-of-powers Are the circuit judges of the Third Circuit acting in violation of the US Constitution by providing different due process to citizens similarly situat…
19-741 Estate of Esther Klieman, By and Through Its Administrator, Aaron Kesner, et al. v. Palestinian Authority, aka Palestinian Interim Self-Government Authority, et al. District of Columbia 2019-12-11 GVR anti-terrorism-act civil-liability civil-litigation congress-power congressional-intent criminal-prosecution due-process fifth-amendment foreign-sovereign Whether the PA-PLO has the right to raise a Due Process defense under the Fifth Amendment
19-695 Dean Browning Webb, et al. v. Deere Credit, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-02 Denied Response Waived beck beck-v-prupis civil-liability civil-rico co-conspirator-liability conspiracy-law mediate-causation pinkerton-doctrine procedural-sanctions rico-1962-d salinas salinas-v-united-states Does the Pinkerton Doctrine, Salinas v. United States, and Beck v. Prupis apply to the imposition of civil RICO § 1962(d) co-conspirator liability?
19-5720 Melinda Scott v. Joshua Moon, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-08-27 Denied IFP 47-usc-230 civil-liability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process immunity internet-law invasion-of-privacy legal-standing privacy section-230 standing tort-liability Has Plaintiff Scott stated sufficient facts to support an Invasion of Privacy claim against Defendants Moon and Zaiger?
19-153 Yasmeen Daniel, Individually and as Special Administrator of the Estate of Zina Daniel Haughton v. Armslist, LLC, et al. Wisconsin 2019-08-01 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 47-usc-230 circuit-split civil-liability communications-decency-act internet-regulation section-230 state-civil-liability third-party-content tort-liability website-liability website-owners Does the Communications Decency Act, 47 U.S.C. §230's prohibition on treating providers of interactive computer services as publishers or speakers of …
19-40 Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. v. J. W., a Minor California 2019-07-05 Denied church-governance civil-liability clergy-privilege first-amendment fourteenth-amendment intra-faith-communications religious-doctrine religious-freedom religious-practice Did California violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments when it held the former national offices of Jehovah's Witnesses (Watchtower) responsible fo…
18-1090 Mary Kay Beckman v. Match.com, LLC Ninth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response Waived circuit-court-interpretation circuit-court-split civil-liability communications-decency-act immunity internet-immunity negligence publisher-liability section-230 third-party-content tort tort-liability website-immunity Petitioner seeks review of whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act immunizes website operators from liability for their own negligent or…
18-7450 Bradley B. Miller v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP anti-injunction-act civil-liability civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-law judicial-immunity removal removal-proceedings state-court-procedure state-courts supremacy-clause title-28 Whether federal jurisdiction remains during the pendency of a removal
18-913 Joshua Brennan v. James Dawson, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (9) civil-liability civil-procedure civil-rights common-law constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement liability police-conduct qualified-immunity reasonable-reliance Whether a police officer may reasonably rely on a narrow exception to a specific and clearly established right to shield him from civil liability when…
18-7092 Ileen Cain v. Atelier Esthetique Institute of Esthetics, Inc. Second Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP character-damage civil-liability civil-rights defamation defamation-per-se due-process financial-prospects professional-reputation rehabilitation-act terrorism trade trade-school Question not identified