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25A860 Ruth Torres v. Veretta Frazier, Judge, 44th Civil District Court, Dallas County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-01-30 Application constitutional-violations declaratory-relief due-process judicial-conduct judicial-immunity state-court Question not identified.
25-890 Arkansas United, et al. v. John Thurston, in His Official Capacity as the Secretary of State of Arkansas et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending declaratory-relief injunctive-relief preemption private-plaintiffs state-actors voting-rights-act 1. Whether private plaintiffs may maintain a suit in equity for declaratory and injunctive relief against state actors to prevent the continued enfo…
25-185 Barry Rosen v. City of Hawthorne, California California 2025-08-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) anti-SLAPP attorney-fees declaratory-relief petition-clause prior-restraint vehicle-code The California judiciary participates in red-light running camera ticket projects because it collects court fees from alleged violators as do the gove…
24-1213 In Re Bahig Bishay 2025-05-29 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-violations declaratory-relief individual-capacity judicial-immunity official-immunity A. Whether government employees classified as judicial officers are absolutely immune from prosecution for declaratory relief only, if they are sued s…
24-1197 Tarek Farag v. Joseph R. Biden, former President of the United States, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-05-22 Denied Response Waived appellate-review climate-change declaratory-relief injunctive-relief judicial-procedure scientific-evidence I. The Appellate Court erred in not reversing the District Court's ruling that Farag's motion for a declaratory relief is frivolous, and not reversing…
24-1019 Kurt Kanam v. Doug Burgum, Secretary of the Interior, et al. District of Columbia 2025-03-24 Denied administrative-law declaratory-relief federal-indian-law injunctive-relief mandamus tribal-recognition This case concerns whether the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act ("List Act") of 1994, still has judiciary branch tribal recognition or wheth…
24-792 Christine Reule, et al. v. Austin Reeve Jackson, Judge, District Court of Texas, 114th District, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-24 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing constitutional-challenge declaratory-relief injunctive-relief ministerial-capacity state-court-officials This is a case that, as in the Court's Whole Woman's Health proceeding, the state's actors, affirmed by the Fifth Circuit, claim that Petitioners cann…
24-5942 Garry Wayne Wilson v. Carrie Bridges, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-11-08 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation declaratory-relief federal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity state-official tribal-rights If the filer enrolled freedyipm rf (Ihero^ nUilsn Tribe Is (LOMldereJl. an JT^duu'i iO;f£m ?£> fhedMT^ of t&s (kwh adr^ Co^fTro -fjuork, 5^7 US (2a^i)…
24-282 Minnesota RFL Republican Farmer Labor Caucus, et al. v. Mary Moriarty, in Her Official Capacity as County Attorney for Hennepin County, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing declaratory-relief eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young first-amendment ripeness Whether there are additional ripeness or imminence requirements under the Ex parte Young exception to Eleventh Amendment immunity in actions for decla…
24-5437 Carlos Demond Robinson v. Sean Janson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-defendant declaratory-relief judicial-review statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution 1.) Whether a criminal defendant should be allowed to seek judicial review of a criminal statute for constitutional infringement if he seeks only dec…
24-226 Grace Bible Fellowship, et al. v. Jared Polis, Governor of Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-08-29 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing constitutional-rights declaratory-relief first-amendment jurisdictional-analysis mootness Whether plaintiffs seeking only declaratory relief, without alleging an "ongoing" or "imminent" or "continuing" deprivation of constitutional rights, …
24A45 Elaine Mickman v. Superior Court of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2024-07-16 Presumed Complete civil-rights declaratory-relief eleventh-amendment pro-se-litigation state-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
23-1103 Sawtooth Mountain Ranch, LLC, et al. v. United States Forest Service, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived constitutional-rights declaratory-relief equitable-tolling fifth-amendment just-compensation regulatory-taking statute-of-limitations 1. Whether equitable tolling is available for statutes of limitation, highlighting a conflict between Boechler, P.C. v. Commissioner , 142 S. Ct. 1493…
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 Under the U.S. Constitution, courts may not exercise specific personal jurisdiction unless the plaintiff's alleged injury "arise s out of or relate s …
23-6720 Lawrence Remsen, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. California 2024-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights class-action declaratory-relief due-process first-amendment free-speech good-time-credits judicial-immunity liberty-interest standing 1. Did the CSC deny class member Bruce Koklich his First Amendment Right to Petition for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief (DIR) when he was part of t…
23-430 Richard R. Finch v. Harry Wayne Casey, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-25 Denied co-authorship copyright-act declaratory-relief discovery-accrual discovery-accrual-rule statute-of-limitations termination-of-transfer Whether a time-barred assertion of sole authorship status by one co-author may, under the discovery accrual rule, form the basis for a statute of limi…
23-304 Thomas Neilsen v. John Kellner, in His Official Capacity as District Attorney, et al. Colorado 2023-09-26 Denied Response Waived black-letter-law brady-rule civil-rights declaratory-relief due-process heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey mooney-v-holohan prosecutorial-misconduct section-1983 supreme-court-precedent In this case, Prosecutors for the 18th Judicial District in Colorado, acting as advocates for the State of Colorado convicted an innocent man by withh…
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…
22-898 Ronald I. Paul v. South Carolina Department of Transportation, et al. South Carolina 2023-03-16 Denied declaratory-relief eminent-domain fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment just-compensation property-rights settlement-agreement Whether a settlement agreement in an eminent domain case violates the just compensation clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments
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…
22-778 Danielle Howard Martinez, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-02-17 Denied covid-19-education declaratory-relief disability-rights free-appropriate-public-education idea-compliance individuals-with-disabilities-education-act injunctive-relief mootness mootness-doctrine school-closures state-educational-agencies Whether Petitioners' claims that the CDE Defendants violated federal law
22-5688 Michael G. Peters v. David Hittner, Judge, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-09-28 Dismissed IFP abortion civil-rights constitutional-rights declaratory-relief due-process free-speech injunctive-relief judicial-interpretation legal-standing procedural-law standing Whether the courts below erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for declaratory and injunctive relief against the enforcement of a state statute that…
22-83 B&G Foods North America, Inc. v. Kim Embry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-28 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-enforcement declaratory-relief injunctive-relief legal-immunity noerr-pennington noerr-pennington-doctrine standing state-actors unconstitutional-laws Whether the Noerr-Pennington doctrine immunizes state actors
21-8282 Allan M. Leavitt v. United Services Automobile Association, et al. First Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights contract-dispute declaratory-relief due-process federal-jurisdiction injunctive-relief lance-v-dennis rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine specific-performance standing Did the Court of Appeals violate Petitioner's rights when it relied on the Rooker-Feldman doctrine as authority and affirmed dismissal his Complaints …
21-1159 Balubhai Patel, et al. v. Julie A. Su, et al. California 2022-02-22 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights declaratory-relief federal-courts-improvement-act injunctive-relief judicial-immunity quasi-judicial-officers section-1983 Whether 42 U.S.C. § 1983 extends quasi-judicial immunity to claims for injunctive relief
21-790 Bradford Disney Lund v. David J. Cowan, Judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-29 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 ada civil-rights declaratory-relief judicial-immunity ninth-circuit respondeat-superior section-1983 title-ii-ada Whether judicial immunity applies to Title II ADA claims
21-5663 Justin Michael Rossi v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2021-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation declaration-of-independence declaratory-relief due-process executive-power government-formation international-law pro-se-petition revolution sovereign-immunity sovereignty Whether United States citizens have the right, duty, and privilege to alter, abolish, and form a new government
20-765 M. S. Willman v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Sixth Circuit 2020-12-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 8th-amendment constitutional-rights declaratory-relief eighth-amendment federal-registry full-faith-and-credit res-judicata sex-offender-registration sorna sorna-compliance Whether state sex offenders are only required to register with their jurisdiction or if SORNA imposes an independent federal registration obligation
20-6392 Peter Gakuba v. United States District of Columbia 2020-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights declaratory-relief electronic-communications federal-circuit-court privacy privacy-protection search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation telecommunications Whether the Carpenter v. United States decision extends to cell-site location information obtained from a third-party cell phone provider without a wa…
20-6355 Randall Thomas McArty v. Asa Hutchinson, Governor of Arkansas Arkansas 2020-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada ada-violations civil-action civil-rights declaratory-relief ex-parte-young injunctive-relief sovereign-immunity state-court Does the opinion of the Supreme Court of Arkansas in a State Court Civil Action for violations of A.D.A. make an exception in opposition to this Court…
20-6236 Fuad Ndibalema v. Mark A. Levine Vermont 2020-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP adequate-remedy civil-procedure constitutional-law declaratory-relief due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment legal-remedy property-rights Whether the Existence of another Adequate Remedy does preclude a Judgment for Declaratory Relief
20-6167 Fareed Sepehry-Fard v. United States Federal Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1653 arbitration-award civil-procedure compensatory-damages declaratory-relief federal-circuit federal-circuit-court henry-schein motion-to-dismiss standing summary-affirmance Whether the unanimous decision in Henry Schein, Inc., et al. v. Archer & White Sales, Inc. that an arbitration award is not a cause of action but a fa…
20-24 Great Lakes Minerals, LLC v. Ohio, et al. Kentucky 2020-07-15 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure comity declaratory-relief individual-capacity injunctive-relief minimum-contacts sovereign-immunity state-jurisdiction state-sovereign-immunity Whether the Court's decision in Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt extends a state's sovereign-immunity to declaratory-and-injunctive-relief a…
19-1122 Hong Tang v. University of Baltimore, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-injunctive-relief declaratory-relief due-process eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young jurisdictional-grounds official-capacity pro-se-litigant service-of-process sovereign-immunity standing Whether the lower courts should have liberally construed the pro se litigant's claims
19-1041 Rostislav Khrapko v. Kristin Splain, et al. Second Circuit 2020-02-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-relief due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction government-corruption interlocutory-appeal standing Whether discrimination with no legitimate rationale, motivated by government corruption violates the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Cons…
19-890 Tom Jensen v. Hannah Blumenstiel, Judge, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied Response Waived attorney-misconduct bankruptcy-court declaratory-relief due-process injunctive-relief judicial-immunity public-access Is a Bankruptcy Court judge absolutely immune from a complaint for injunctive and declaratory relief for denial of public access to the court?
19-6981 Vladik Bykov v. Steven G. Rosen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 absolute-immunity ada-title-ii americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights compensatory-damages declaratory-relief discriminatory-motive Does Title II of the Americans with Disabilities A section-1983 standing Is absolute immunity a bar to declaratory relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983?
19-5602 Kirk Wayne McBride, Sr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-15 Denied IFP administrative-agency administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure declaratory-relief due-process exclusionary-rule exhaustion-of-remedies federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment habeas-corpus probable-cause search-and-seizure standing Whether the court of appeals erred by concluding that the petitioner's federal habeas corpus claim under 28 U.S.C. Section 2241 rather than under Titl…
19-5097 Danny Fabricant v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Ninth Circuit 2019-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals declaratory-relief injunctive-relief judicial-recusal procedural-due-process recusal standing Whether a Court of Appeals may ignore an appellant's request to recuse itself in an appeal where the Court of Appeals is the only defendant and appell…
18-1205 Phillip B. Leiser, et al. v. Donald W. Lemon, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-relief due-process federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 standing state-court-judgment state-court-judgments subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Rooker-Feldman abstention doctrine applies to deprive the lower federal courts of subject matter jurisdiction when a state-court loser, se…
18-923 Carol Coghlan Carter, Next Friend of A. D., C. C., L. G., and C. R., et al. v. Tara Katuk Mac Lean Sweeney, Assistant Secretary of Bureau of Indian Affairs, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response Waived civil-rights civil-rights-act damages declaratory-relief due-process mootness prospective-relief retrospective-relief standing title-vi Whether claims for declaratory and damages relief to redress past injuries under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 are moot when no prospective…
18-903 Robbie Perry, et al. v. Coles County, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 28-usc-2201 comity-doctrine declaratory-relief equal-protection equal-protection-clause equitable-jurisdiction property-tax property-tax-assessment state-court-remedies Did the Seventh Circuit err under the exception to the comity doctrine by holding Illinois state court remedies 'adequate' and 'complete' even though …
18-605 Mitchell J. Stein v. California California 2018-11-08 Denied Response Waived civil-litigation civil-procedure constitutional-law declaratory-relief due-process due-process-clause harmless-error judicial-review prejudice structural-error When a fundamental structural error results in an invalid judgment against a civil litigant in violation of the Due Process Clause, is the error per s…
18-580 Nu Image, Inc. v. International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-02 Denied arbitration collective-bargaining-agreement declaratory-relief fraud fraud-claims intentional-misrepresentation labor-management-relations-act negligent-misrepresentation subject-matter-jurisdiction textron-lycoming Do federal courts have subject matter jurisdiction pursuant to Section 301(a) of the Labor Management Relations Act over a complaint for intentional a…
18-244 Charles E. Woide, et ux. v. Federal National Mortgage Association Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied bankruptcy bankruptcy-code-interpretation bankruptcy-procedure circuit-split consumer-protection consumer-rights consummation contractual-obligation creditor-defenses creditor-rights declaratory-relief notice-of-rescission regulation-z rescission rescission-notice statutory-interpretation truth-in-lending-act Whether the rescission is effectuated upon mailing of notice where no challenge was raised within 20 days of receipt of said notice?
18-5169 Clifton B. Davidson v. Federal Bureau of Prisons Sixth Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts administrative-remedies administrative-remedy bounds-v-smith circuit-split declarative-and-injunctive-relief declarative-relief declaratory-relief due-process fiduciary-duty injunctive-relief inmate-trust-funds lewis-v-casey mitchell-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent Inmate-trust-fund-management
18-5099 Lennie Williams v. Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation declaratory-relief due-process fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court monell-v-department-of-social-services municipal-immunity officer-of-court perjury prospective-relief standing Whether a municipality engaged in an ongoing violation of the Constitution is immune from declaratory and other prospective relief in an action under …