| 24-1229 |
Denise A. Canzoneri v. Prescott Unified School District, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-03 |
Denied |
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clearly-established factual-allegations first-amendment light-most-favorable motion-to-dismiss qualified-immunity |
At the motion to dismiss stage, can a court disregard the 'light most favorable' standard and require the plaintiff to prove her rights were 'clearly … |
| 24A697 |
Ismael Ruiz v. Dan Shannon, Director, Wyoming Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-01-15 |
Presumed Complete |
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access-to-courts clearly-established constitutional-violation prisoners-rights pro-se tenth-circuit |
Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals violated a pro se prisoner's clearly established constitutional right of access to courts by disregarding h… |
| 24-15 |
Paulette Smith, Individually and as Successor in Interest to Albert Dorsey, Deceased v. Edward Agdeppa |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
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clearly-established excessive-force fourth-amendment police-shooting qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment use-of-force |
In a § 1983 action arising out of fatal police shooting involving disputed allegations of Fourth Amendment violations, did the Ninth Circuit err in gr… |
| 23-1333 |
Sami Azmi, et al. v. John Sylvester Penny |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-21 |
Denied |
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civil-rights clearly-established excessive-force law-enforcement ninth-circuit qualified-immunity summary-judgment undisputed-evidence video-evidence |
Does a court's obligation to view the evidence in the light most favorable to the plaintiff allow it to ignore undisputed clear video evidence that wo… |
| 23-689 |
City of Los Angeles, California, et al. v. M. A. R., a Minor, By and Through His Guardian ad Litem, Elisabeth Barragan, Individually and as a Successor in Interest to Daniel Rivera, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights clearly-established excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity summary-judgment undisputed-evidence video-evidence |
Whether a court's obligation to view the evidence in the light most favorable to the plaintiff allows it to ignore undisputed clear video evidence tha… |
| 23-521 |
Denise Fisher v. Jodi M. Moore, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment qualified-immunity state-action state-created-danger |
Whether the Due Process Clause prohibits state officials from knowingly placing a person at unjustifiably high risk of harm |
| 23A42 |
Sarah K. Molina, et al. v. City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-07-17 |
Presumed Complete |
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clearly-established first-amendment legal-observers qualified-immunity retaliation section-1983 |
Whether the First Amendment protects individuals from government retaliation for wearing identifying apparel as legal observers and for unobtrusively … |
| 22-1107 |
Officer Matthew Gregory, et al. v. Elise Brown |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law constitutional-rights department-policies excessive-force law-enforcement police-procedure police-training qualified-immunity |
Whether the law was clearly established that following department policies and training would result in individual officer liability |
| 22-735 |
Kori Anderson, et al. v. Tristen Calder, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Coby Lee Paugh |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-02-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
alcohol-withdrawal civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-violation due-process law-enforcement medical-needs qualified-immunity |
Whether qualified immunity was wrongfully denied to Petitioners in an alcohol withdrawal case based on a general determination that ignoring serious m… |
| 22-675 |
Vicki Jo Lewis, et vir, Individually and as Co-Personal Representatives of the Estate of Isaiah Mark Lewis, Deceased v. City of Edmond, Oklahoma, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-01-20 |
Denied |
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42-usc-1983 civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-reversal |
Whether the doctrine of qualified immunity should be reconsidered |
| 22-556 |
N. S., Only Child of Decedent, Ryan Stokes, By and Through Her Natural Mother and Next Friend, Brittany Lee, et al. v. Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-12-19 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (12) |
42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement legal-precedent qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether qualified immunity insulates a law enforcement officer from liability under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 |
| 22-431 |
Gigi Jordan v. Amy Lamanna, Superintendent, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2022-11-08 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
clearly-established federal-law habeas-corpus public-trial-clause sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent unreasonable-application |
Whether a federal habeas petitioner seeking relief on the basis of a violation of the Public Trial Clause can demonstrate an 'unreasonable application… |
| 21-1220 |
County of Sacramento, California, et al. v. Kenard Thomas |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-violation due-process fact-determination law-enforcement qualified-immunity reviewing-standard section-1983 |
Whether a reviewing court should limit the facts considered when determining qualified immunity |
| 21-1141 |
Charles Wade v. Gordon Lewis |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-violation due-process fair-warning medical-treatment prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Whether qualified-immunity-doctrine-demands-identical-fact-pattern |
| 21-1075 |
Mandy England, in Her Individual Capacity v. Annissa Colson |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights correctional-officer due-process eighth-amendment inmate-treatment medical-determination medical-treatment qualified-immunity |
Whether a correctional officer violated a constitutional right of an inmate for not requesting further treatment for a injury to the inmate's knee whe… |
| 21-6593 |
Murray Hooper v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 clearly-established clearly-established-law evidence-suppression federal-law greene-v-fisher habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct state-court supreme-court-review united-states-v-bagley witness-testimony |
Whether the state court decision by which 'clearly established federal law' is measured is rendered when the state court issues its mandate |
| 20-1632 |
Patrick H. Stockdale, et al. v. Kim R. Helper |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-24 |
Denied |
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absolute-immunity clearly-established constitutional-rights first-amendment petition-clause public-employee qualified-immunity retaliation |
Whether the decisional law regarding retaliation under the Petition Clause of the First Amendment was clearly established to place a public official o… |
| 20-1128 |
Ralph Clay Walsh, Jr. v. Lisa Hodge, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law cross-examination due-process qualified-immunity title-ix |
Does the mere presence of a circuit split necessarily foreclose a finding that the law is 'clearly established' for qualified immunity purposes? |
| 20-1002 |
Cody William Cox v. Don Wilson |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process fair-notice fair-warning government-official legal-standard precedent-comparison qualified-immunity |
Whether a court may uphold a qualified immunity claim on the ground that qualified immunity had been granted in a prior case in which the 'impropriety… |
| 20-877 |
Trinell King v. Ricky Pridmore, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
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civil-rights clearly-established excessive-force hope-v-peltzer police-misconduct qualified-immunity racial-bias summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit disregarded the summary judgment standard in Trinell King's case and improperly weighed the evidence in favor of the Whit… |
| 19-1085 |
Shannon Deasey, et al. v. Daniella Slater, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
7th-circuit 9th-circuit civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law closely-analogous constitutional-rights due-process legal-precedent ninth-circuit qualified-immunity seventh-circuit sufficiently-analogous |
Whether a 'sufficiently analogous' case is enough to show that the law is 'clearly established' for purposes of qualified immunity, or if something mo… |
| 19-725 |
JonMichael Guy v. Robert O. Lampert, Director, Wyoming Department of Corrections, et al. |
Wyoming |
2019-12-09 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights clearly-established due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-interpretation qualified-immunity religion-clauses religious-discrimination sincere-belief standing |
When a government official discriminates against a belief that is sincere and religious to the victim, and is therefore protected by the Religion Clau… |
| 19-466 |
Zachery Pittman v. Herman Harris |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established excessive-force fourth-amendment qualified-immunity scott-v-harris section-1983 summary-judgment use-of-force |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in deviating from other circuit holdings and announcing that Scott v. Harris directs the lower courts to examine whet… |
| 19-174 |
Jeri Lynn Rich, Representative for Gavrila Covaci Dupuis-Mays, an Incapacitated Person v. Michael Palko, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-rights clearly-established collateral-order collateral-order-doctrine excessive-force fourth-amendment material-facts qualified-immunity seizure |
When courts are deciding qualified immunity in Fourth Amendment cases, shouldn't they recite the trial court's identification of the disputed issues o… |
| 18-1458 |
Charles J. Vernier v. Debra Gallegos |
New Mexico |
2019-05-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-search burden-of-proof circuit-precedent circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law consent consent-burden fourth-amendment implied-consent qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Did the state appellate court err in failing to apply the standards set forth in federal case law regarding 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the qualified immunit… |
| 18-1358 |
Douglas Echols v. Spencer Lawton |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-violation due-process first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation libel-per-se presumption-of-innocence qualified-immunity retaliation substantive-due-process |
Whether a prosecutor's use of libel per se to retaliate against a wrongfully convicted person seeking compensation through legislative means violates … |
| 18-643 |
Janette Dunkle v. Jennifer Dale, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment child-seizure circuit-court-precedent circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment qualified-immunity warrantless-seizure |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in applying the narrow approach from Kirkpatrick, and whether Circuit-level opinions stating that an emergency is requ… |
| 18-46 |
City of Middletown, Connecticut, et al. v. William McKinney |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
4th-amendment active-resistance civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights detainee-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity reasonable-officer use-of-force |
Did the Second Circuit Court of Appeals improperly find a constitutional violation in failing to consider the reasonableness of the use of force from … |