civil-rights-action

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-752 Paul Thomas v. Kathleen Harder, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-15 Denied Amici (4)Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights-action investigator-immunity medical-board-immunity medical-disciplinary-proceedings quasi-judicial-immunity Are members and staff of the Oregon Medical Board entitled to absolute or qualified immunity in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil rights action?
23-976 Jeremy Henning v. Donald V. Snowden Seventh Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bivens-remedy civil-rights civil-rights-action due-process excessive-force federal-law-enforcement fourth-amendment implied-damages judicial-immunity warrant-execution warrants Whether the court of appeals erred in allowing a Bivens remedy in this case, where the claim arises from an arrest made outside the home, in a place o…
23A216 Brett Kimberlin v. Department of Justice, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-09-06 Presumed Complete civil-rights-action declaratory-relief DNA-testing heck-bar innocence-claim section-1983 Whether the Heck v. Humphrey bar to civil rights actions under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 applies when a plaintiff seeks declaratory relief and DNA testing to p…
22-6922 Samuel Ross v. Clerk of Courts of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights civil-rights-action extraordinary-circumstance fed-r-civ-p-60(b)(6) lewis-v-casey prisoner-rights rule-60(b)(6) Whether the majority Circuit Court of Appeal decisions clarifying that Lewis v. Casey does not foreclose a prisoner's right to access to courts to lit…
22-813 Samuel Edward Trapp v. John Gunn, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 bar-licensing civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-action declaratory-relief due-process licensing rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-court state-court-action Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine foreclose a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action in federal court against individual influencers of a state's attorney licensing p…
22-376 Louisville-Jefferson County, Kentucky Metropolitan Government, et al. v. Johnetta Carr Sixth Circuit 2022-10-21 Denied Amici (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-action conviction criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey pardon section-1983 May a convicted offender, subsequently pardoned, bring a § 1983 action where the pardon fails to expunge the underlying criminal conviction or call it…
21-6819 Christopher Varner v. Stan Shepard, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-remedy booth-v-churner civil-rights civil-rights-action due-process exhaustion-of-remedies exhaustion-requirement internal-investigation prison-conditions prison-grievance ross-v-blake section-1997e Whether a prison grievance procedure is an available administrative remedy when it automatically refers a grievance for an internal investigation and …
21-593 Priscilla Everette-Oates v. Beth Wood, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-10-22 Denied Response Waived civil-rights civil-rights-action conspiracy due-process evidence-concealment immunity municipal-immunity municipal-liability prosecutorial-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment Can municipal defendants win summary judgment solely on the basis that one defendant has prosecutorial immunity and was otherwise deemed not liable un…
19-8869 Robert Wade v. Monroe County District Attorney, et al. Third Circuit 2020-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-action District-Attorney's-Office-for-the-Third-Judicial- district-court-order due-process rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 Skinner-v-Switzer standing supreme-court-precedent Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine was properly applied
19-8511 Herbert W. Morrison, Jr. v. Andrew J. Hale Eighth Circuit 2020-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-action collateral-estoppel fourth-amendment heck-doctrine Heck-v-Humphrey illegal-search-and-seizure qualified-immunity section-1983 Whether 42 U.S.C. §1983 civil-rights claims based on 4th-amendment illegal-search-and-seizure are barred under Heck-v-Humphrey, collateral-estoppel, o…
19-8384 In Re Levon Spaulding 2020-05-01 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-action due-process federal-action free-speech institutional-conditions legal-assistance prisoner-rights standing takings Question not identified.
18-9697 Dennis Gordon v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1983-action 28-usc-2254 civil-rights civil-rights-action due-process ex-post-facto federal-court-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ninth-circuit parole parole-hearing parole-release-hearings section-1983 section-2254 Does Dennis Gordon's ex post facto challenge to the eight-year increase in the interval between his parole release hearings fall within the Federal Co…