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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5167 Monique C. Wallace v. Cedar Hill Dental District of Columbia 2025-07-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP compensation evidence justice legal-action mental-health service Question not identified.
23-1142 Tarun Surti v. Fleet Engineers, Inc. Federal Circuit 2024-04-22 Denied attorney-fees cease-and-desist compensation doctrine-of-equivalents non-infringement patent-compensation patent-rights tortious-interference Whether the Court erred in denying proper compensation, including 'Cease and Desist order', requested by the patentee
23-7201 Wayne Phillip Vance v. Glen Engstrom, et al. Second Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights community-welfare compensation due-process government-action individual-rights liberty property standing takings Does the U.S. government have the right to place citizens and other people in hellish circumstances or conditions without regard for their wealth, saf…
23-7149 Deterrius Wilson v. Randy F. Philhours, Circuit Judge, 2nd Judicial Circuit, Crittenden County, Arkansas, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-04-05 Denied IFP civil-rights compensation cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process retaliation sentencing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated due to vindictive prosecution, illegal sentencing, and denial of due process
23-151 Richard Rynn, et al. v. UHS of Phoenix, LLC, et al. Arizona 2023-08-16 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights compensation due-process parental-rights standing Can court judgement be entirely untrue, refer to a previous vague judgement in dispute from an ex parte dependency case in violation of due process?
22-6789 Juan Francisco Turcios v. Texas Texas 2023-02-15 Denied IFP compensation criminal-procedure due-process illegal-confinement judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct plea-agreement plea-bargain sentencing sentencing-error Whether the 20-year sentence imposed was legal after the plea bargain agreement for no more than 10 years was approved
22-5975 Donnie Earl Phillips, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2022-11-04 Denied IFP civil-rights compensation constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fundamental-rights judicial-review legal-proceedings malicious-prosecution speedy-trial wrongful-imprisonment Does Fundamental Error, Plain Error, and Constitutional Error all coincide when depriving a person of a final judgment?
20-1468 Robert David Dupuch-Carron, et ux. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services Federal Circuit 2021-04-20 Denied compensation compensation-eligibility foreign-vaccination residency-requirement statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vaccine-act vaccine-injury Does the ordinary meaning of the words of section 11(c)(1)(B) of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act require that a person who received a covere…
20-1003 Christy, Inc. v. United States Federal Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived compensation government-fees inter-partes-review patent patent-exaction patent-invalidation post-grant-review private-property property-rights takings-clause When a duly-issued patent is invalidated through a post-grant review process (such as an IPR), must compensation be paid under the Takings Clause?
20-6886 Zachary M. Enslow v. Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied IFP civil-rights compensation constitutional-rights due-process false-arrest illegal-incarceration speedy-trial Question not identified
20-890 Stanford Vina Ranch Irrigation Company v. California, et al. California 2021-01-05 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived compensation constitutional-rights due-process emergency-authority property-rights public-trust-doctrine quasi-legislative takings water-rights Whether government may avoid constitutional rights to due process and compensation by crafting quasi-legislative regulations that eliminate the proper…
20-582 Shadreck Kifayatuthelezi v. South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied civil-rights compensation eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment incarceration qualified-immunity release-date seventh-amendment state-law Whether the Eighth Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment, and/or state law provide a source of compensation when an inmate is incarcerated past his lawf…
20-512 National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Shawne Alston, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-10-19 Judgment Issued Amici (2) antitrust antitrust-law board-of-regents circuit-conflict compensation federal-antitrust ncaa ncaa-rules ninth-circuit rule-of-reason student-athlete-compensation student-athletes Whether the Ninth Circuit erroneously held, in conflict with decisions of other circuits and general antitrust principles, that the National Collegiat…
20-323 John S. Barth v. City of Peabody, Massachusetts First Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights compensation due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment municipal-ordinance property property-rights regulatory-taking takings Did municipal denial of permission to rebuild a home effect a taking of private property, where an ex post facto ordinance prohibited all other econom…
19-1109 Timothy C. Yoakum v. Sabre GLBL Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied adverse-action adverse-employment-action civil-rights compensation constitutional-rights employment employment-discrimination performance-review summary-judgment title-vii Does the issuance of an undeserved Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) and undeserved employee performance review become actionable under Title VII as …
19-7552 Joseph Michael Guarascio v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights compensation constitutional-violation digital-data digital-evidence due-process evidence-retention government-seizure law-enforcement property-rights Can the government retain indefinitely petitioner's seized business and personal electronic files, digital data and other physical property?
19-7464 Derrick Dewayne Davis v. Raymond Laborde Correctional Center, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights compensation constitutional-rights correctional-facility deliberate-indifference due-process medical-neglect medical-treatment standing writ-of-habeas-corpus Whether the 5th Circuit and the United States District Court violated plaintiff's constitutional rights by denying plaintiff's writ without reviewing …
19-925 Kebreab Zere v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2020-01-24 Denied Response Waived compensation constitutional-rights due-process eminent-domain fourteenth-amendment prescriptive-easement public-prescriptive-easement taking-clause takings tax-sale Whether the due process law of the Fourteenth Amendment was violated
19-739 Julius Barbour, et al. v. Halliburton Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-12-11 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights class-action class-action-settlement-notice class-action-settlement-notice,due-process,hisen-v class-member-compensation compensation due-process hisen-v-carlisle-jacquelin judicial-discretion notice notice-requirement post-settlement-requirements procedural-fairness procedural-order settlement settlement-procedure Whether class members received constitutionally adequate notice under Hisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin
19-365 John Barth v. United States First Circuit 2019-09-19 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights compensation constitutional-rights copyright copyright-law due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction seizure sovereign-immunity takings takings-clause Violation of Constitutional Rights
19-344 Qihui Huang v. Ajit Varadaraj Pai, Chairman of Federal Communications Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) burden-shifting civil-procedure civil-rights compensation constitutional-amendments discrimination due-process retaliation standing supreme-court-precedent Whether lower court could not comply rulings of Supreme Court
19-5735 Yolanda M. Williams v. Shawna L. Reagin Fifth Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights compensation constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution demand-letter deprivation-claim due-process immunity judgment judgment-enforcement procedural-process sovereign-immunity standing Whether the defendant forfeited her immunity: failed to comply with elementary principles of procedural process and rendered an in just judgment enfor…
19-5726 Wingrove Robinson v. Raintree Tower Apartments, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights compensation due-process libel standing Question not identified
18-8953 Carol J. Morris v. Noel Francisco, Solicitor General of the United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-04-23 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights compensation constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction just-compensation standing statutory-interpretation takings veterans-benefits Whether the petitioner was denied just compensation pursuant to Title 38 USC § 1151 when the Department of Veterans Affairs statute (being challenged)…
18-8431 David Kelly Brewster v. Florida Florida 2019-03-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof compensation constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-precedent restitution wrongful-incarceration Whether the Victims of Wrongful Incarceration Compensation Act, §961.03, Fla. Stat. is unconstitutional as a violation of due process and equal protec…
18-7328 Anthony Sheely, et ux. v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied IFP affidavit civil-procedure compensation costs court-access declaration due-process fifth-amendment financial-hardship in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure legal-filing poverty poverty-exemption private-property regulatory-burden takings Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment requires compensation when the government imposes a regulatory burden on private property that does …
18-818 Hubert Thompson v. James C. Rovella, Chief of Police, City of Hartford, Connecticut, et al. Second Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights compensation due-process equitable-tolling prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation wrongful-incarceration Whether the statutory requirement for compensation for wrongful incarceration equitably tolled the petitioner's civil rights claims
18-6987 Javon Sanders v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied IFP 13th-amendment civil-rights compensation constitutional-challenge due-process evidence-standard forced-labor-slavery interaction-log international-covenant international-law involuntary-servitude labor-conditions law-enforcement police-contact prison-labor prison-reform procedural-review Whether the failure of the Arkansas Department of Correction to pay equitable remuneration to its inmate population violates the Thirteenth Amendment'…
18-6928 Asia Johnson v. Christopher Wylie, et al. Third Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied IFP civil-rights compensation data-misuse data-privacy data-protection due-process facebook-litigation government-surveillance personal-information privacy privacy-violation social-media standing third-party-access Was the petitioner's Facebook account improperly accessed and their personal information obtained and used without authorization?
18-6242 Billy Wayne Locke v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process property-rights takings civil-rights compensation due-process property seizure takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the government seized his personal property without just compensation
18-276 Richard J. Baker v. Microsoft Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2018-09-04 Denied Response Waived article-i-section-8-clause-8 compensation constitutional-interpretation contract due-process government-compensation government-obligation invention-security judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings patent-infringement patent-rights property-protection property-rights takings trial Whether under rights given by Congress and contained in U.S. Constitution Article I Section 8 Clause 8 to all U.S. patent holders, courts must forward…
18-272 Jim Yovino, Fresno County Superintendent of Schools v. Aileen Rizo Ninth Circuit 2018-09-04 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Relisted (6) circuit-split civil-rights compensation due-process employment employment-law equal-pay-act factor-other-than-sex gender-discrimination prior-salary sex-discrimination wage-differential Whether prior salary is a factor other than sex' under the Equal Pay Act
18-163 James P. Teufel v. The Northern Trust Company, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-08-06 Denied Response Waived accrued-benefits age-discrimination compensation defined-benefit-plan disparate-impact disparate-impact-theory employee-protection erisa-anti-cutback-rule pension-benefits pension-plan-changes Does an employer violate ERISA's anti-cutback rule by amending its defined benefit plan in a manner that freezes the promised growth of previously-acc…
18-5248 Kitti Ruth Payne, aka Kitty Ruth Power v. Publishers Clearing House, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-18 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights compensation due-process property-rights standing takings Whether the Petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the government's actions in seizing his property without just compensation