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25-846 Reed Christensen v. Department of Justice, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-01-15 Pending Response Waived amendment-violations constitutional-rights declaratory-judgment eighth-circuit federal-jurisdiction jan6-misconduct Did the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals err in determining federal district court jurisdiction over alleged Jan6 officer misconduct, and will the Supr…
25-5854 Dmt MacTruong v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. Second Circuit 2025-10-09 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP citizen-prosecution civil-rights constitutional-standing declaratory-judgment due-process separation-of-powers Whether a U.S. citizen has standing to commence a civil action for a declaratory order against individuals who allegedly violate constitutional princi…
25-291 Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP, et al. v. International Paper Company, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-09-12 Denied Response Waived cercla-statute-of-limitations contribution-action declaratory-judgment environmental-cleanup-costs potentially-responsible-parties superfund-liability Whether a declaratory judgment without imposed costs or damages triggers CERCLA's three-year statute of limitations for contribution actions
25-245 Fire-Dex, LLC v. Admiral Insurance Company Sixth Circuit 2025-09-03 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) abstention-doctrine coercive-relief declaratory-judgment diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts state-law When a complaint joins claims for declaratory relief on a novel state-law issue with claims for damages, does a district court retain its discretion t…
25-5195 Missouri, ex rel. Steven Albert Martin v. Ann Hansbrough, Presiding Judge, Circuit Court of Platte County, Missouri, et al. Missouri 2025-07-25 Denied IFP declaratory-judgment due-process fiduciary-control fourteenth-amendment judicial-inaction state-court Whether a state court may constitutionally refuse to act on a properly filed Petition for Declaratory Judgment regarding private trusts and fiduciary …
24-1290 Katie Sczesny, et al. v. Philip Murphy, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Governor of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-17 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge declaratory-judgment employment-termination executive-fiat public-health voluntary-cessation Does the voluntary cessation doctrine require a defendant to provide affirmative assurance that the challenged conduct will not recur, particularly wh…
24-1147 Glenn Bowles, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-05-08 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge court-of-claims declaratory-judgment ex-parte-young standing state-officials Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously held that Petitioners lacked standing to sue under Ex parte Young when naming the Governor and …
24-6727 David Wood v. Rachel Patton, Assistant Attorney General Fifth Circuit 2025-03-10 GVR Relisted (2)IFP article-iii-standing declaratory-judgment judicial-review plaintiff-injury redressability state-official Does Article III standing require a particularized determination of whether a specific state official will redress the plaintiff's injury by following…
24-6590 John Dwayne Garvin v. Levern Cohen, Warden Fourth Circuit 2025-02-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights declaratory-judgment grand-jury habeas-corpus judicial-process void-indictment Whether a South Carolina Supreme Court's Order Declining to Entertain a Complaint for a Declaratory Judgment to Determine the Legality and Constitutio…
24-645 Kelsey Cascadia Rose Juliana, et al. v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-12 Denied Amici (3) article-iii cheney-standard declaratory-judgment mandamus redressability standing When plaintiffs have established ongoing injuries traceable to defendants' policies, does Article III require a particularized factual determination o…
24A267 Kelsey Cascadia Rose Juliana, et al. v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-16 Presumed Complete article-iii-standing declaratory-judgment fifth-amendment leave-to-amend ninth-circuit redressability Whether the Ninth Circuit improperly restricted Article III standing requirements by imposing additional barriers to declaratory relief beyond the Sup…
24A241 John Dwayne Garvin v. Levern Cohen, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-09-06 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge declaratory-judgment due-process grand-jury habeas-corpus Whether a state court's refusal to entertain a declaratory judgment challenging grand jury proceedings violates a petitioner's due process rights when…
24-91 Targeted Justice, Incorporated, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-07-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process injunctive-relief national-security redress-mechanism standing subject-matter-jurisdiction terrorist-watchlist Whether this Court's holding in Fed. Bureau of Investigation v. Fikre warrants reversal of the court of appeals' decision affirming the district court…
24A43 Carlos Demond Robinson v. Sean Janson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-07-15 Presumed Complete declaratory-judgment jones-v-hendrix section-2241 section-2255 statutory-interpretation successive-collateral-attack Whether a federal prisoner can use a § 2241 petition or declaratory judgment action to challenge a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) based on an int…
23-7809 Ruben Gutierrez v. Luis Saenz, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-06-26 Judgment Issued Amici (2)IFP article-iii-standing circuit-split declaratory-judgment due-process federal-courts redressability reed-v-goertz state-official Does Article III standing require a particularized determination of whether a specific state official will redress the plaintiff's injury by following…
23A837 Centura Health Corporation, a Colorado Non-Profit Corporation, et al. v. Barbara Morris, M.D. Colorado 2024-03-12 Presumed Complete church-autonomy declaratory-judgment employment-termination first-amendment pretext religious-organization Whether the church-autonomy doctrine precludes a jury from determining whether a religious employer's stated reason for terminating an employee is pre…
23-921 Mark Jerome Johnson Blount v. United States, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-02-26 Denied Response Waived 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights declaratory-judgment enforcement-deterrence pre-enforcement-action pre-enforcement-challenge reasonable-fear-of-enforcement second-amendment standing standing-doctrine Does Petitioner have standing to challenge a law that infringes his constitutional rights to keep and bear arms?
23-874 Impossible X LLC v. Impossible Foods Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-14 Denied causation civil-procedure declaratory-judgment declaratory-relief due-process forum-contacts personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction trademark-noninfringement Does Ford create a categorical rule that specific jurisdiction does not require any link between the defendant's forum contacts and the plaintiff's in…
23-6269 Yavonne Hand v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-hearing administrative-law civil-rights criminal-conduct declaratory-judgment due-process ethics-violation government-misconduct public-officials standing Right to a fair administrative hearing
23-490 Enrique Jevons, as a Managing Member of Jevons Properties LLC, et al. v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-11-08 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived covid-19 declaratory-judgment eviction-moratoria fifth-amendment just-compensation regulatory-taking standing takings-clause Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in dismissing a challenge to Washington State's COVID-19 eviction moratoria as moot
22-1124 Christian Gilbert Tony Nadal v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-05-18 Denied Response Waived civil-rights coram-nobis declaratory-judgment due-process federal-question fraud habeas-corpus machine-gun-regulation machine-guns second-amendment silencers Are catalogues advertising illegal machineguns and silencers fraudulent?
22-924 John M. Fife v. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. Second Circuit 2023-03-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-law declaratory-judgment due-process exchange-act federal-jurisdiction finra-discipline securities-exchange-act securities-law standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Congress impliedly stripped federal district courts of their 'exclusive jurisdiction' to determine whether FINRA violates the Exchange Act whe…
22-836 Hiram I. Perez Soto v. Maite D. Oronoz-Rodriguez, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, et al. First Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied Response Waived civil-rights declaratory-judgment disbarment due-process ethical-complaints injunction judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct section-1983 standing Whether a Federal Court in a claim filed under Section 1983 can void a disbarment judgment of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico in which the disbarred …
22-6485 Annamarie Riethmiller v. Unnamed Defendants Fourth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-rights declaratory-judgment due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation presidential-actions standing state-court statutory-interpretation Was the notice of appeal timely filed?
22-6115 Danny Fabricant v. Federal Election Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2022-11-21 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP article-iii-standing campaign-finance constitutional-law constitutional-qualifications declaratory-judgment equal-protection federal-election-campaign-act federal-election-commission prisoner-litigation standing statutory-interpretation Does 52 U.S.C. § 30101's requirement that potential candidates for the House of Representatives report contributions or expenditures before being cons…
22-465 Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP, et al. v. International Paper Company, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) cercla cercla-statute-of-limitations contribution contribution-action damages declaratory-judgment environmental-liability judicial-interpretation response-costs statute-of-limitations Does a bare declaratory judgment that determines liability but imposes no 'costs' and awards no 'damages' trigger CERCLA's three-year statute of limit…
22-426 Transperfect Global, Inc., et al. v. Robert Pincus Delaware 2022-11-07 Denied contempt contempt-power corporate-litigation declaratory-judgment delaware-law due-process first-amendment judicial-declaration petition-clause Whether holding TPG in contempt because it filed a lawsuit in Nevada unconstitutionally burdened TPG's First-Amendment-right-to-petition
21-1155 Natalia Marshall v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-02-22 Denied Response Waived civil-rights declaratory-judgment fourth-circuit injunctive-relief mootness second-amendment standing Whether a suit seeking a declaratory judgment and injunctive relief is rendered moot on appeal if the plaintiff remains negatively impacted by the law…
21-997 Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. v. Arizona Attorneys for Criminal Justice, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied Amici (1) civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-judgment federal-courts first-amendment free-speech injunctive-relief standing state-criminal-proceedings state-sovereignty younger-abstention Does Younger apply when a federal claim is derivative of a claim that could be brought in ongoing state court proceedings or does Younger also require…
21-942 Clark County Bancorporation v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, as Receiver for Bank of Clark County Ninth Circuit 2021-12-27 Denied administrative-claims declaratory-judgment federal-common-law firrea jurisdiction jurisdictional-rule tax-refund Whether the Ninth Circuit Memorandum conflicts with the Supreme Court decision in Rodriguez
21-6479 Earnest Lee Langston v. Don Phillips, Chairman, Missouri Board of Probation and Parole Missouri 2021-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP board-of-probation declaratory-judgment due-process fraud hearing judicial-review missouri-statute parole parole-eligibility procedural-fairness state-statute substantive-due-process Whether the Missouri Board of Probation and Parole violated petitioner's substantive due process rights
21-664 Patrick J. Downey v. City of Toledo, Ohio Sixth Circuit 2021-11-04 Denied Response Waived civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process federalism fourteenth-amendment home-rule municipal-ordinance police-powers statutory-interpretation Do federal courts have authority to alter the plain meaning of a state or municipal law?
21-566 Teresa Ward Cooper, as Next Friend of Jane Doe/D. T. v. First Financial Bank, N.A. Texas 2021-10-19 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment attorney-fees civil-procedure constitutional-review declaratory-judgment equal-protection mootness standing subject-matter-jurisdiction When did the Bank have standing to sue Petitioner/D.T. to remove a claimed uncertainty?
21-191 Sergei Vinkov v. United States District Court for the Central District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-11 Denied case-or-controversy civil-rights constitutional-claims declaratory-judgment diversity-jurisdiction establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech insurance-coverage standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the District Court abused its discretion retaining jurisdiction over the Declaratory Judgment Act (28 USC § 2201(a)) in the insurance dispute
21-179 Nehemiah Rolle, Jr. v. Norman St. George Second Circuit 2021-08-06 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process equity equity-lawsuit federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jury-trial section-1983 Whether the petitioner's equity lawsuit under 42 USC § 1983 seeking declaratory judgment against the respondent is barred by statute
20-1716 Melvin Trent Walker v. Tom Wolf, Governor of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2021-06-11 Denied Response Waived civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-law declaratory-judgment discrimination-claims district-court-jurisdiction employee-definition employee-status punitive-damages standing title-vii Can the Governor of Pennsylvania and the Secretary of Transportation be considered 'employees' under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
20-1698 Philip Palade, et al. v. Board of Trustees University of Arkansas System, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied academic-freedom contract-rights declaratory-judgment due-process employment-contract property-rights retroactive-application standing standing-doctrine tenure-rights Whether the lower courts erred in holding that Petitioners lacked standing to seek declaratory relief concerning the retroactive application of newly-…
20-1619 Expensify, Inc. v. Eddie White Ninth Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights declaratory-judgment dignitary-interests due-process free-speech mootness ninth-circuit nominal-damages standing Whether Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski merits summarily granting the petition, vacating the judgment, and remanding to determine whether the Ninth Circuit's…
20-1452 Rick C. Sasso v. Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2021-04-16 Denied 28-usc-1295(a)(1) 28-usc-1338(a) breach-of-contract declaratory-judgment federal-circuit federal-patent-laws jurisdiction patent-jurisdiction removal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether this is a case 'arising under' federal patent laws under 28 U.S.C. § 1338(a) within the Federal Circuit's jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1295(…
20-6138 Jerry Walker v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Arkansas 2020-10-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure declaratory-judgment due-process evidence procedural-error sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner was denied due process in his criminal trial
20-5096 In Re Shavez Evans 2020-07-16 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 campaign-finance civil-rights constitutional-law declaratory-judgment due-process equal-protection first-amendment judicial-elections judicial-immunity state-court Did the District Court of Arizona deny the petitioner Evans justice when abusing their discretion ruling Judges are absolutely immune from §1983 suits…
19-1441 City of Austin, Texas v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption preemption standing state-preemption supremacy-clause Under Ex parte Young, is a state official a proper defendant in a federal declaratory judgment challenge under the Supremacy Clause to the validity of…
19-8395 Peter Gakuba v. Charles O'Brien, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process equitable-relief federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-review standing statutory-protection Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for equitable relief under the Declaratory Judgment Act and the Administrative Proc…
19-7152 Allan M. Leavitt v. Cynthia A. Phillips, et al. Massachusetts 2020-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP choice-of-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation contract-enforcement contract-law declaratory-judgment due-process interstate-dispute judicial-procedure massachusetts property property-rights property-rights-deprivation standing state-interest vermont Did Massachusetts deprive a Vermont citizen the fundamental right to property without a compelling state interest by refusing to enforce its substanti…
19-65 Jonna Corporation, dba Premier Recycling Company v. City of Sunnyvale, California Ninth Circuit 2019-07-12 Denied 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pleading pleading-standards property-rights section-1983 standing Did Petitioner Premier Recycling adequately plead its Declaratory Judgment claim alleging a violation of 42 U.S.C. Section 1983, pursuant to FCRP 8?
18-8710 Veronica Moody Johnson v. Social Security Administration Fourth Circuit 2019-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights declaratory-judgment due-process lien lien-enforcement social-security social-security-administration spousal-support Whether the United States District Court had jurisdiction to make a 14th Amendment due process declaration of rights
18-1169 John Stephen Thorne v. Union Pacific Corporation, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure declaratory-judgment equitable-defense equitable-defenses equity judicial-remedy laches legal-claims limitations-period prejudice property-rights statute-of-limitations stock-ownership texas-law Applicability of laches to legal claims within statute of limitations period
18-970 Thomas Mitchell, et al. v. Tulalip Tribes of Washington Ninth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) allotment declaratory-judgment jurisdictional-challenge non-indian-fee-land regulatory-authority sovereign-immunity treaty treaty-rights tribal-authority tribal-taxation Does sovereign immunity bar the federal courts' consideration of a declaratory judgment action to determine whether Respondent Tribes can exercise reg…
18-549 Voter Verified, Inc. v. Election Systems & Software LLC Federal Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied 35-usc-101 bilski-v-kappos collateral-estoppel declaratory-judgment federal-circuit issue-preclusion method-claims patent-infringement patent-validity res-judicata voting-method Whether the Federal Circuit erred in deciding that patent claims for a method of voting are invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101 in a second action for paten…
18-304 Kimberly-Clark Corporation, et al. v. Jennifer Davidson Ninth Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied article-iii-standing consumer-protection consumer-standing deception declaratory-judgment false-advertising future-harm injunctive-relief product-misrepresentation standing Whether a consumer who has used a product and determined that a representation concerning that product is allegedly misleading can plausibly allege a …
18-182 AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Inc. v. Gilead Sciences, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response Waived actual-controversy article-iii declaratory-judgment drug-exclusivity fda-approval generic-drugs patent-invalidity pharmaceutical pharmaceutical-patents standing Whether the 'actual controversy' requirement of the Declaratory Judgment Act requires a party seeking to introduce a generic drug product to file an a…
18-76 Tracey E. George, et al. v. Tre Hargett, Tennessee Secretary of State, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-07-16 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 declaratory-judgment due-process equal-protection federal-action section-1983 state-actors Whether state actor defendants may defend and foreclose a federal action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by suing civil-rights plaintiffs in a subseque…