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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25A807 | Dewayne Bulls v. FBI, et al. | Third Circuit | 2026-01-12 | Application | court-access defamation due-process executive-overreach first-amendment judicial-fabrication | Question not identified. | |
| 25-789 | Angela Kay Plese v. Ronald Austin, et al. | Tennessee | 2026-01-06 | Pending | civil-liability constitutional-law defamation first-amendment free-speech reputational-harm | Whether the First Amendment allows a plaintiff who suffers no reputational harm to recover for defamation. | |
| 25-770 | Alan M. Dershowitz v. Cable News Network, Inc. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-31 | Pending | Response Waived | actual-malice circuit-split defamation first-amendment media-liability summary-judgment | As the District Court explained, "Of course, Dershowitz said nothing of the kind[.]" App. 71a. The court was referring to how CNN defamed Professor Al… |
| 25-507 | Chang Y. Aiona, V. v. County of Hawaii, Hawaii, et al. | Hawaii | 2025-10-23 | Denied | defamation first-amendment legal-precedent milkovich-standard opinion-exception public-interest | Whether the "opinion" exception can be extended to a private, non-public interest, defamation lawsuit in violation of the Court's decision Milkovich v… | |
| 25-295 | WG/Welch Mechanical Contractors, LLC v. International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail & Transportation Workers, Local Union 100 - Sheet Metal Division, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-15 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure defamation first-amendment malicious-speech pleading-standard subjective-intent | Whether a plaintiff in a malicious defamation claim must plead facts revealing a defendant's subjective state of mind or if a plausible allegation of … |
| 25-281 | Patrick Byrne v. US Dominion, Inc., et al. | District of Columbia | 2025-09-10 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice defamation due-process fifth-amendment protective-order | Whether a District Court erred in disqualifying counsel of choice in a civil defamation case for violating a protective order by reporting potential c… |
| 25-268 | Alex Emric Jones, et al. v. Erica Lafferty, et al. | Connecticut | 2025-09-09 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-sanction constitutional-review defamation first-amendment media-liability public-figure | Whether a state court may impose a punitive administrative Death Penalty Sanction against a media defendant reporting on a matter of public concern th… |
| 25A250 | Donald J. Trump, President of the United States v. E. Jean Carroll | Second Circuit | 2025-09-02 | Presumed Complete | defamation federal-tort-claims-act issue-preclusion presidential-immunity scope-of-employment westfall-act | Whether a former president can be held liable for defamatory statements made about a public accusation while serving in office, and the proper standar… | |
| 25-232 | King Vanga v. Priscilla N. Juarez, et al. | California | 2025-08-28 | Denied | constitutional-law defamation false-statement first-amendment opinion-speech third-party-attribution | Whether the First Amendment protects a verifiably false factual statement as an opinion based on disclosed facts simply because the statement republis… | |
| 25-136 | Francis Palardy v. AT&T Services Inc., et al. | Texas | 2025-08-05 | Denied | americans-with-disabilities-act defamation disability-discrimination equal-protection supremacy-clause tester-litigation | Whether state courts may disregard the Americans with Disabilities Act when adjudicating defamation claims involving disability-related conduct, in vi… | |
| 25-115 | Monica Miller, et al. v. Letitia James, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as Attorney General of New York | Second Circuit | 2025-07-30 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights defamation first-amendment free-speech reputational-harm standing | Do Petitioners have standing to challenge the Attorney General's statements and are those statements protected by the First Amendment when they allege… |
| 24-1320 | Centerline Logistics Corporation, et al. v. Inlandboatmen’s Union of the Pacific, et al. | California | 2025-06-27 | Denied | Response Waived | actual-malice anti-SLAPP defamation due-process first-amendment jury-trial | Whether the Supreme Court should overturn the actual malice standard from New York Times v. Sullivan and whether anti-SLAPP statutes violate the Seven… |
| 24-1243 | Tri-Corp Housing, Inc. v. Robert Bauman | Wisconsin | 2025-06-05 | Denied | Response Waived | actual-malice defamation jury-trial legal-standard public-figure wisconsin-supreme-court | When is a claimant an 'involuntary public figure' within the meaning of Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc., and must the question of whether a party claiming… |
| 24-7287 | Anthony Michael Branch v. Aidan T. Kearney, et al. | Massachusetts | 2025-05-27 | Denied | IFP | actual-malice defamation media-publications public-figure summary-judgment | Whether a private individual who becomes the subject of defamatory online publications may be designated a 'limited-purpose public figure' based solel… |
| 24-6650 | Abdullah Sall v. Sarah Fair George, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights conspiracy defamation discrimination statute-of-limitations summary-judgment | Whether the District Court abused its discretion by applying improper legal standards and hastily resorting to summary judgment to deny a claim of con… |
| 24-829 | Steve Wynn v. The Associated Press, et al. | Nevada | 2025-02-04 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | actual-malice anti-SLAPP defamation first-amendment public-figure seventh-amendment | Whether the Supreme Court should overturn the actual-malice standard for public figure defamation plaintiffs and whether applying this standard in ant… |
| 24-6429 | Robert Michael Kuczewski v. Robin Marien, et al. | California | 2025-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | defamation first-amendment free-speech government-speech limited-purpose-public-figure public-interest | Whether the standard for classifying limited purpose public figures and the scope of defamation liability for republishing official government documen… |
| 24A508 | Steve Wynn v. The Associated Press, et al. | Nevada | 2024-11-22 | Presumed Complete | actual-malice anti-slapp defamation first-amendment jury-trial new-york-times-v-sullivan | Whether the First Amendment's actual malice standard under New York Times v. Sullivan improperly limits a public figure's right to a civil jury trial … | |
| 24-543 | Nili N. Alai v. Law Offices of Mark B. Plummer, P.C., et al. | California | 2024-11-14 | Denied | actual-malice defamation due-process first-amendment public-figure res-judicata | Whether a state court's application of res judicata to deem an appeal moot based on another defendant's appeal violates the Due Process Clause of the … | |
| 24-5917 | Myrna De Jesus v. Dignity Health Corporation | Ninth Circuit | 2024-11-05 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | actual-malice defamation private-citizen publication qualified-immunity slander-per-se | Whether the concepts of actual malice and excessive publication are required elements of defamation slander per se for a private citizen to prove that… |
| 24A144 | Frank McKenna v. Dillon Transportation, LLC | Sixth Circuit | 2024-08-07 | Presumed Complete | consumer-reports defamation employment-records fair-credit-reporting-act preemption truck-driver | Whether the Fair Credit Reporting Act preempts state law defamation claims arising from employment-related consumer reports about truck drivers | |
| 23-1328 | Yuval Golan v. Daily News, L.P., et al. | New York | 2024-06-20 | Denied | Response Waived | anti-slapp constitutional-rights defamation first-amendment jury-trial public-figure public-figures seventh-amendment | Is the New York anti-SLAPP statute unconstitutional? |
| 23-1303 | Craig Malin v. Lee Enterprises, Inc., et al. | Iowa | 2024-06-13 | Denied | actual-malice civil-rights defamation due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-trial publication-law summary-judgment | Does grant of summary judgment to Respondent Lee Enterprises conflict with requirements for a jury trial per Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S.… | |
| 23-1223 | Jennifer L. Cooper, et al. v. US Dominion, Inc., et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2024-05-20 | Denied | Response Waived | article-iii-standing cease-and-desist civil-rights defamation due-process equal-protection free-speech precedential-opinion standing | Whether recipients of a cease-and-desist letter have Article III standing |
| 23-7497 | In Re Olamide O. Bello | 2024-05-16 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defamation due-process federal-release first-amendment free-speech government-liability retaliation speech-restriction | Whether a company's comments with customers on and for redress of grievances are protected under the First Amendment and Article 16 of the Declaration… | |
| 23-6582 | Joseph Emerson v. United States District Court, et al. | Ohio | 2024-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights court-corruption defamation due-process employment-discrimination extraordinary-writ favoritism interstate-dispute judicial-misconduct nepotism standing | Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the dismissal of his cases by the Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Sharon Kennedy, who… |
| 23-671 | Byron Johnson v. Kaija Freborg | Minnesota | 2023-12-21 | Denied | Response Waived | defamation first-amendment online-speech private-figure public-concern sexual-assault | Whether a private figure's online accusation of sexual assault by another private figure is a 'matter of public concern' under the First Amendment |
| 23A543 | Mischa Shuman, et al. v. New York Magazine, et al. | New York | 2023-12-13 | Presumed Complete | defamation first-amendment journalistic-standards libel public-concern supreme-court-precedent | Whether the First Amendment requires a different standard for evaluating libel claims involving private figures in media reporting about matters of al… | |
| 23-6200 | Courtney Green v. LG Electronics USA, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-12-08 | Dismissed | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights consumer-privacy data-collection defamation electronic-surveillance invasion-of-privacy racketeering telecommunications | Whether the respondent LG Electronics Inc. aided in corrupt intent and racketeer influenced acts |
| 23-5830 | Joseph Emerson v. Craigslist/Craig Newmark, et al. | Ohio | 2023-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-conspiracy defamation due-process fbi-interference interstate-commerce interstate-sex-trafficking legal-obstruction sex-trafficking standing union-job-rights | Whether the FBI's alleged interference with Petitioner's employment and housing, as well as its alleged involvement in interstate sex trafficking, vio… |
| 23-326 | Vanessa A. Phillips v. Macon Bibb County Government | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-09-29 | Denied | Response Waived | at-will-employment breach-of-contract civil-rights defamation due-process employee-handbook employment employment-termination first-amendment free-speech unemployment-benefits | Whether the At-Will employment statute shelters the employer, Macon-Bibb County Government (MBCG), from the First Amendment's 'unprotected speech |
| 23-280 | Darrell Gaebel v. United States Polo Association | Fourth Circuit | 2023-09-22 | Denied | Response Waived | actionable-harm civil-rights defamation disciplinary-hearing due-process free-speech legal-process private-association publication | Whether a private association can commit actionable defamation by publicizing defamatory material during a legally improper disciplinary hearing, even… |
| 23-84 | Jermaine Jevon Howard v. Shawn Jay-Z Carter | Second Circuit | 2023-07-28 | Denied | Response Waived | breach-of-duty business-ventures civil-procedure copyright-infringement defamation legal-duty pseudonym-authorship songwriter-rights songwriting-compensation | Did Shawn Jay-Z Carter have a legal duty owed to the Petitioner, and did he breach of that duty? |
| 22-7838 | Tori Smith v. Jehovah's Witnesses Organization, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-06-21 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights defamation due-process hate-crimes judicial-bias racial-discrimination religious-persecution standing | Whether the plaintiff, a Black woman, was unlawfully barred from filing a lawsuit against a White women's organization due to racial discrimination |
| 22-1154 | Winglet Technology, LLC, et al. v. United States | District of Columbia | 2023-05-30 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-conflict defamation discovery-standard government-certification government-liability limited-discovery personal-spite scope-of-employment westfall-act | Where the FAA disowned as verifiably false its employee's defamatory statements about petitioners and questioned his decision to publish them in the f… |
| 22-1141 | Gary Pisner v. Marla Rubinstein, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-05-25 | Denied | civil-procedure cross-jurisdictional-preclusion defamation defamation-privilege documentary-evidence evidence forum-non-conveniens judicial-notice litigation-privilege procedural-requirements | Whether a party can take judicial notice of documents without identifying the purpose, material to be recognized, and grounds under Fed. R. Evid. 201(… | |
| 22-1147 | Sandra Susan Merritt v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-25 | Denied | defamation first-amendment fraud free-speech journalistic-investigation newsgathering rico rico-act | Whether the First Amendment's Free Speech Clause prevents the application of defamation liability and RICO to undercover newsgathering | |
| 22-1125 | Don Blankenship v. NBCUniversal, LLC, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-05-18 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | actual-malice constitutional defamation first-amendment media-liability public-figure summary-judgment | Whether the actual malice standard imposed on public figure plaintiffs in defamation cases should be replaced |
| 22-1081 | Bruce J. Chasan v. Correale F. Stevens, et al. | Pennsylvania | 2023-05-05 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-jurisdiction credibility-determinations defamation excess-of-jurisdiction fact-finding judicial-authority judicial-immunity non-monetary-relief statutory-limitations usurpation-of-authority | Where Superior Court judges in Pennsylvania are deprived by statute of jurisdiction to make findings of fact and credibility determinations as appella… |
| 22-7150 | Courtney Green v. Fox Corporation | Second Circuit | 2023-03-30 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights cyber-stalking defamation defamation-of-character invasion-of-privacy media-exploitation non-consensual-monitoring privacy racketeering surveillance unfair-business-practices | Whether repeated actions over time arguably abandon coincidence and prove to be the product of orchestrated and intentional scenarios |
| 22-7151 | Courtney Green v. ABC Entertainment Inc. | Second Circuit | 2023-03-30 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights cyber-stalking data-collection defamation electronic-communications-privacy invasion-of-privacy non-consensual-monitoring privacy racketeering surveillance | Whether repeated actions over time arguably abandon coincidence and prove to be the product of orchestrated and intentional scenarios |
| 22-939 | Robert Frese v. John M. Formella, Attorney General of New Hampshire | First Circuit | 2023-03-28 | Denied | Amici (3) | civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-prosecution defamation due-process first-amendment free-speech public-official standing vagueness vagueness-doctrine | Whether the First Amendment tolerates criminal prosecution for alleged defamation of a public official |
| 22-906 | Alan Grayson v. No Labels, Inc., et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-03-17 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | actual-malice appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure defamation first-amendment new-york-times-v-sullivan public-figure public-figures | should-the-actual-malice-standard-be-revisited |
| 22-792 | Sergei Vinkov v. Superior Court of California, County of Riverside, et al. | California | 2023-02-22 | Denied | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights defamation due-process first-amendment free-speech religious-speech standing | Does California Supreme Court create unconstitutional burden on Petitioner's rights abstaining from compelling the state trial court to enter the fina… | |
| 22-591 | Donald V. Watkins, et al. v. Matrix, LLC, et al. | Alabama | 2022-12-27 | Denied | Response Waived | actual-malice civil-rights defamation due-process first-amendment free-speech presumed-damages public-figure summary-judgment | Whether the Alabama Courts' grant and affirmance of a summary judgment for Respondents in a state law defamation case conflicts with this Court's deci… |
| 22-6272 | Courtney Green v. Kansas City Public Library, Trails West Branch | Eighth Circuit | 2022-12-09 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights cyber-stalking cybersecurity data-protection defamation electronic-communications invasion-of-privacy personal-information-disclosure privacy privacy-violation unfair-business-practices | Whether these actions repeated in sequence over a course of time support claims of improper use of company software to carry out direct violations of … |
| 22-6056 | Susan Kay Slivicki v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs | Eighth Circuit | 2022-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | ada-accommodation agency-misconduct civil-rights contract-breach defamation eeoc-retaliation employment-discrimination federal-employment geographic-exclusion non-communication owcp veterans-preference | Contract-law,civil-rights,federal-employment,ada,veterans-preference,hippa |
| 22-302 | Brent Ristow v. Amanda Cunningham | Minnesota | 2022-09-28 | Denied | absolute-immunity adversarial-proceeding civil-rights defamation ex-parte free-speech government-communication private-citizen | Whether a private citizen who has submitted allegedly defamatory statements, to the government, ex parte, outside of any adversarial proceeding, about… | |
| 22-137 | BYD Company Ltd. v. Alliance for American Manufacturing, et al. | District of Columbia | 2022-08-11 | Denied | Response Waived | actual-malice civil-rights defamation discovery first-amendment free-speech pleading-standard pleading-standards public-figure reckless-disregard | Whether Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly and Ashcroft v. Iqbal sub silentio overturned the balance struck in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan and its prog… |
| 22-5246 | Bruce H. Singman v. IMDb.com, Inc. | California | 2022-08-01 | Denied | IFP | anti-SLAPP commercial-speech damaging-information defamation digital-media edit-system first-amendment freedom-of-speech internet-movie-database internet-publication tortious-interference wrongful-information | Did the Supreme Court of California error in failing to note that the Respondent's IMDb.com i.e., Internet Movie Data Base had an EDIT System providin… |
| 22-29 | Richelle D. Wallace v. City of Hampton, Virginia, et al | Virginia | 2022-07-11 | Denied | actual-malice constitutional-interpretation curtis-publishing-co-v-butts defamation first-amendment free-speech libel-law new-york-times-v-sullivan public-figure | Whether the actual-malice standard should be reconsidered for public-figure defamation cases | |
| 21-8275 | James Lawrence v. Hearst Communications, Inc. | Second Circuit | 2022-06-29 | Denied | IFP | arrest-reporting civil-rights criminal-characterization defamation due-process free-speech journalistic-ethics media-defamation media-law privacy substantial-truth warrant-interpretation | Can a media organization repeatedly dox a past arrest insinuating conviction without clarifying if the arrest ever became a conviction? |
| 21-1580 | MyPillow, Inc. v. US Dominion, Inc., et al. | District of Columbia | 2022-06-22 | Denied | actual-malice collateral-order-doctrine defamation first-amendment free-speech interlocutory-appeal jurisdictional-appeal new-york-times-standard | Whether a critic of official conduct may immediately appeal under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 a district court's refusal to dismiss under New York Times Co. v. S… | |
| 21-1518 | BYD Company Ltd. v. Vice Media LLC | Second Circuit | 2022-06-02 | Denied | actual-malice defamation discovery-rights first-amendment iqbal pleading-standard public-figure twombly | Whether Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly and Ashcroft v. Iqbal sub silentio overturned the balance struck in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan and its prog… | |
| 21-1474 | Candace Owens, et al. v. Lead Stories, LLC, et al. | Delaware | 2022-05-24 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights contract contract-law defamation first-amendment free-speech marketplace-regulation tortious-interference | Should the First Amendment provide a defense to claims of tortious interference and similar torts that involve speech? |
| 21-1412 | Pamela Young, et al. v. Wendy Rogers, et al. | Arizona | 2022-05-03 | Denied | Response Waived | defamation false-light first-amendment milkovich milkovich-standard political-speech private-figure reasonable-reader | Whether the First Amendment immunizes a political candidate from a private figure's defamation-and-false-light-claims,whether-under-Milkovich's-enhanc… |
| 21-1369 | Carter Page v. Oath Inc. | Delaware | 2022-04-21 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | burden-of-proof defamation first-amendment passive-voice public-figure qualified-language truth-standard | Does couching factual claims in qualified language and in the passive voice suffice to render them 'true or substantially true' under the First Amendm… |
| 21-1074 | Mark A. Di Carlo v. James R. Swartz, Jr., et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2022-02-03 | Denied | attorneys-fees civil-procedure defamation due-process federal-removal fourteenth-amendment ohio-law rule-54 | Can a federal district court judge grant attorneys fees in federal district court in a federal removal proceeding from Ohio state courts for defamatio… | |
| 21-1071 | Stephen Lynch Murray v. Janelle Irwin Taylor, et al. | Florida | 2022-02-02 | Denied | civil-rights cyberstalking-statute defamation due-process first-amendment free-speech government-retaliation judicial-discretion political-speech standing | Can the government deputize private actors to attack political speech and thereby abridge political speech? | |
| 21-7042 | Craig Nelsen v. Southern Poverty Law Center | Eighth Circuit | 2022-02-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-malice constitutional-protection defamation diversity-jurisdiction first-amendment free-speech public-figure summary-judgment | Whether the US Court for the 8th Circuit wrongly allowed the District Court's improper statement of a Missouri Supreme Court ruling |
| 21-1030 | Peter Brimelow v. The New York Times Company | Second Circuit | 2022-01-21 | Denied | Response Waived | actual-malice civil-rights defamation due-process first-amendment free-speech government-policy media-entity media-liability new-york-times-standard race-intelligence-crime | Whether the Sullivan Malice rule should be abandoned |
| 21-839 | Thomas H. Oehmke v. Patrick Andrew Guinan | Michigan | 2021-12-07 | Denied | Response Waived | actual-malice civil-rights constitutional-protection defamation first-amendment free-speech malicious-reporting qualified-privilege | Qualified Privilege for FBI Crime Tips |
| 21-802 | Coral Ridge Ministries Media, Inc., dba D. James Kennedy Ministries v. Southern Poverty Law Center | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-30 | Denied | Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (14) | actual-malice common-law curtis-publishing-co-v-butts defamation first-amendment free-speech public-figure reputational-harm sullivan | Whether the Court should reconsider the 'actual-malice' standard in defamation cases involving public figures |
| 21-6219 | Martin Lindstedt, et al. v. Bryan Anthony Reo | Ohio | 2021-11-08 | Denied | IFP | civil-lawfare civil-procedure defamation false-light jurisdiction monopoly-license public-figure punitive-damages statutory-limitations white-supremacy | Question not identified |
| 21-673 | Robert Allen Austin v. James McCann, Judge, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights defamation due-process free-speech judicial-procedure standing statutory-interpretation | What statute grants federal and state judges the use of defamation 18 U.S.C. § 4101(1) to deprive a U.S. citizen of a protected right under the 14th A… |
| 21-571 | Infowars, LLC, et al. v. Marcel Fontaine | Texas | 2021-10-20 | Denied | class-action defamation first-amendment free-speech media-organization public-concern rosenblatt-test speech-rights sullivan-test tort-actions | Whether the First Amendment bars tort actions seeking damages for speech on matters of public concern directed at a loosely associated, large class of… | |
| 21-577 | Fredric N. Eshelman v. Puma Biotechnology, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-10-20 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review civil-procedure damages damages-challenge defamation federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judgment-as-matter-of-law rule-50 sufficiency-of-evidence unitherm unitherm-precedent | Whether a defendant who did not file a Rule 50 motion for judgment as a matter of law in the district court can nonetheless raise a sufficiency of the… |
| 21-529 | Bataski Bailey v. Fair & Walker Unit Owners Association, Inc., et al. | Georgia | 2021-10-08 | Denied | Response Waived | 5th-amendment attorney-misconduct civil-rights defamation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceeding judicial-proceedings legal-ethics | Do intentional false statements by an attorney violate opposing party's rights? |
| 21-509 | James Lawrence v. Altice USA | Second Circuit | 2021-10-06 | Denied | Response Waived | arrest-warrant civil-rights defamation due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-interpretation media-defamation media-reporting standing substantial-truth | Can a media lawfully portray a ONE TIME One Count of Second Degree Breach of Peace arrest as 'ARRESTED FOR STALKING SEVERAL WOMEN? |
| 21-394 | D. F. Pace v. Emily Baker-White, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-09-13 | Denied | Response Waived | actual-malice civil-rights defamation due-process first-amendment free-speech internet-speech new-york-times-sullivan standing technological-advances | Whether the Court should revisit the 'actual malice' doctrine of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan |
| 21-398 | Jesus Guerrero v. Diocese of Lubbock | Texas | 2021-09-13 | Denied | Response Waived | child-sexual-abuse defamation first-amendment free-speech religious-organization secular-audience tort-liability | Whether the First Amendment shields a religious organization from tort liability for defamatory statements made to a secular audience regarding the se… |
| 21-343 | Michelle J. Smith v. Nicholas French, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Martin D. French, Deceased | Massachusetts | 2021-09-02 | Denied | Response Waived | actual-malice child-athletes defamation first-amendment fourteenth-amendment libel preemption public-figure sports-governance | Whether the standard of proof in a State Defamation/Libel case arising from a parental complaint to a National Governing Body of Sport, should automat… |
| 21-298 | Bobby Wilson v. Phoenix Newspapers, Inc., et al. | Arizona | 2021-08-30 | Denied | Response Waived | context defamation false-publication first-amendment freedom-of-press freedom-of-speech malice media-liability speech-protection | Is a fabricated publication sufficient proof of malice? |
| 21-142 | Robert J. Frey v. Anthony Binford Minter, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-08-03 | Denied | choice-of-law defamation diversity-jurisdiction forum-shopping internet-communication internet-publication personal-jurisdiction reputation-injury reputational-injury | Whether Petitioner, a natural person, domiciled in Florida, who suffered injury to his reputation in Florida from a defamatory multistate internet com… | |
| 21-121 | Christiana Tah, et al. v. Global Witness Publishing, Inc., et al. | District of Columbia | 2021-07-28 | Denied | Amici (1) | actual-malice civil-rights defamation first-amendment free-speech inference-of-intent pleading-standard pleading-standards public-figure public-plaintiff | Whether a complaint by a public plaintiff alleging defamation sufficiently pleads actual-malice, in-the-absence-of-direct-evidence, by-presenting-deta… |
| 21-97 | Anne Georges Telasco v. The Florida Bar | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-07-23 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights criminal-procedure defamation due-process ex-parte-judgment false-criminal-report felony-conviction florida-bar free-speech sovereign-immunity standing | Whether Sovereign Immunity is inapplicable to Telasco's Defamation Action |
| 21-40 | Lumbsden A. Sangster v. Anthony Valencia | California | 2021-07-12 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-procedure civil-rights defamation evidence evidence-tampering fair-report-privilege free-speech police-communication press-communication section-47 | Whether the fair report privilege applies to a private communication between a police officer and a member of the press in a defamation case |
| 21-5 | Solomon Adu-Beniako v. Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs | Michigan | 2021-07-06 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law cdc-guidelines civil-rights constitutional-rights defamation due-process expert-testimony government-liability judicial-review standing substantial-evidence | Does the Respondent's unfairly tasking, and blaming the Petitioner for the DOJ/DEA responsibility violate the Petitioner's Constitutional rights? |
| 20-1687 | Jules Dylan Stuer v. Susan Duesler | Texas | 2021-06-04 | Denied | amicus-attorney child-abuse child-custody civil-rights constitutional-provisions defamation due-process fraud standing victim-rights | Whether an amicus attorney is allowed to side with someone who damages a child repeatedly, perjures themselves in civil court, and defrauds the opposi… | |
| 20-1637 | Janice Dickinson v. Ryan Seacrest Productions, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-25 | Denied | Response Waived | actual-malice defamation first-amendment lanham-act new-york-times-v-sullivan public-figure rogers-test rogers-v-grimaldi | Whether a defendant who willfully creates a false narrative about a public figure that is marketed to the public as a true story, for the intentional … |
| 20-1588 | Michael Konowicz, aka Michael Phillips, et al. v. Jonathan P. Carr, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-05-17 | Denied | actual-malice commercial-speech constitutional-interpretation defamation first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech lanham-act | Whether the Court should revisit the 'actual malice' doctrine of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan | |
| 20-1174 | Kim Lippard, et vir v. Larry Holleman, et al. | North Carolina | 2021-02-25 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (3) | civil-claims defamation ecclesiastical-settings first-amendment neutral-principles neutral-principles-of-law religion-clauses tort-claims | Whether the First Amendment's Religion Clauses prohibit courts from hearing defamation claims that arise from ecclesiastical settings, even when the c… |
| 20-1063 | Shkelzën Berisha v. Guy Lawson, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-02-04 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | actual-malice constitutional-law curtis-publishing-co-v-butts defamation first-amendment libel libel-law mckee-v-cosby public-figure | Whether the Court should overrule the 'actual malice' requirement for public figure defamation plaintiffs |
| 20-981 | Fidelis Agbapuruonwu v. NBC Subsidiary (WRC-TV), LLC, dba NBC4 Washington, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-01-25 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights defamation due-process federal-pleading-standards malice malice-standard media-defendant pleading-requirements private-individual qualified-privilege | Whether Twombly and Iqbal require heightened factual pleading of allegations of malice in a common law defamation complaint brought by a private indiv… |
| 20-952 | Construction Cost Data, L.L.C., et al. v. The Gordian Group, Incorporated, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-14 | Denied | business-disparagement defamation false-statements first-amendment jury-findings noerr-pennington noerr-pennington-doctrine reckless-disregard state-law-liability | Whether the Noerr-Pennington doctrine has been improperly expanded beyond its First-Amendment-protections to insulate knowingly-false-statements | |
| 20-780 | Joe W. Aguillard v. Louisiana College | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-08 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights defamation defamation-suit eeoc eeoc-complaint employment-discrimination opposition-clause participation-clause retaliation title-vii | Does the 'participation' clause protect an employee from a retaliatory defamation suit? |
| 20-693 | Mikhail Fridman, et al. v. Orbis Business Intelligence Limited, et al. | District of Columbia | 2020-11-19 | Denied | Response Waived | actual-malice anti-slapp anti-slapp-act defamation due-process herbert-v-lando public-figure | Whether the application of the D.C. Anti-SLAPP Act to dismiss a public figure's defamation claim violates due-process, actual-malice, herbert-v-lando |
| 20-506 | Sergei Vinkov v. Mark Smith, et al. | California | 2020-10-16 | Denied | civil-rights communication-decency-act defamation due-process first-amendment religious-organization subject-matter-jurisdiction volunteer-protection-act | Whether the lower courts have subject matter jurisdiction over a defamation lawsuit against a foreign national board director of a religious organizat… | |
| 20-367 | Anna Baran v. ASRC Federal Mission Solutions, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-09-23 | Denied | appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals defamation discovery-rule dismissal due-process equitable-tolling prejudicial-evidence statute-of-limitations | Whether the Court of Appeals Erred in Affirming the District Court's Order Dismissing Ms. Baran's Defamation Claim on the Grounds that it was Time-Bar… | |
| 20-252 | Gannett Co., Inc., et al. v. Ryan Larson | Minnesota | 2020-09-01 | Denied | Response Waived | defamation fair-report-privilege falsity-element first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement-statements media-reporting public-concern | In a defamation case, where a jury finds that media defendants' reporting on what law enforcement said in a news release and news conference was subst… |
| 20-70 | Jagan Mahadevan v. Prem Bikkina | California | 2020-07-24 | Denied | civil-rights defamation due-process federal-preemption first-amendment free-speech public-concern public-interest research-misconduct scientific-integrity standing | Whether federal statutory and regulatory scheme for research misconduct preempted state law defamation claims | |
| 19-1345 | Jon Butcher v. Cady Vishniac | Massachusetts | 2020-06-05 | Denied | Response Waived | defamation defamation-law due-process-clause first-amendment gertz-precedent gertz-v-robert-welch private-concern private-figure republication republication-doctrine | Does the First Amendment or Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. impose limitations on defamation claims by private, non-public figures involved in private mat… |
| 19-1290 | Michael T. Bennett v. Marvel Entertainment, LLC | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-05-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | admissions-of-guilt character-design civil-procedure copyright-infringement damages defamation discovery intellectual-property plagiarism poor-man's-copyright standing | If the Court finds that the Marvel Character 'Falcon' in the 2014 Captain America The Winter Soldier movie looks strikingly similar from the neck down… |
| 19-1271 | Toni Sharretts Collins v. William Zolnier | Texas | 2020-05-07 | Denied | Response Waived | absolute-privilege circuit-conflict civil-procedure communication-privilege defamation defamation-privilege first-amendment free-speech judicial-privilege legal-immunity procedural-exception tort tort-law | Whether a party has absolute judicial privilege when a defamatory communication is made that has no logical relation to the proceeding |
| 19-1247 | Judson A. Lovingood v. Discovery Communications, Inc., et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-04-27 | Denied | Response Waived | actual-malice defamation entertainment entertainment-media first-amendment free-speech public-official sworn-testimony | Whether the publication of totally false and fabricated testimony of a public official testifying under oath to produce an entertaining, dramatic effe… |
| 19-902 | Michael Ramon Ochoa v. Arthur Levine, et al. | Pennsylvania | 2020-01-23 | Denied | Response Waived | 18-usc-1846 civil-conspiracy collateral-order collateral-orders constitutional-protection criminal-complaints defamation judicial-notice pa-constitution trial-court-discretion | Does Exhibit F. The Hill School Conversations sufficiently represent the facts supporting civil-conspiracy,defamation |
| 19-903 | Michael Ramon Ochoa v. Arthur Levine, et al. | Pennsylvania | 2020-01-23 | Denied | appellate-review civil-conspiracy civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-order-doctrine collateral-orders constitutional-protection defamation standing wrongful-use-of-civil-proceedings | Whether claims of wrongful use of civil proceedings, civil conspiracy, or defamation would be irreparably lost if this appeal is not heard | |
| 19-904 | Michael Ramon Ochoa v. Arthur Levine, et al. | Pennsylvania | 2020-01-23 | Denied | appellate-procedure civil-conspiracy collateral-order collateral-orders constitutional-protection criminal-complaints defamation malpractice pa-constitution us-constitution | questions-presented | |
| 19-905 | Michael Ramon Ochoa v. Arthur Levine, et al. | Pennsylvania | 2020-01-23 | Denied | appellate-procedure civil-conspiracy civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-order constitutional-protection defamation due-process malpractice standing | Whether claims of malpractice, civil-conspiracy, or defamation would be irreparably lost if this appeal is not heard | |
| 19-6544 | Bradly M. Cunningham v. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-07 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | actual-knowledge anti-SLAPP civil-rights civil-rights-violation defamation defamation-statute discovery due-process false-light media-liability state-actor-doctrine statute-of-limitations | Whether the Court can stay this matter until final resolution of a related and dependent money damages case, or order the petitioner be allowed to obt… |
| 19-562 | Brian Burke v. New York City Transit Authority, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-10-29 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 ada civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation defamation due-process fair-labor-standards-act first-amendment leave-to-amend pleading-standards pro-se pro-se-litigation standing state-statute title-vii unconstitutionality | Pleading standards for pro se parties in Title VII, 42 U.S.C. 1983, and ADA cases |
| 19-6442 | William Conrad Yeager, II v. National Public Radio, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2019-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights defamation defamation-law first-amendment free-speech libel libel-standards media-access newsworthiness public-controversy public-figure public-figure-doctrine public-interest | Whether the petitioner, an unknown musician and independent filmmaker, who fails to meet the requirements for a limited purpose public figure under Ge… |
| 19-405 | Nicholas Schiano, dba HotWireMedia.com, et al. v. Matt Friedman, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-25 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-law defamation due-process eleventh-circuit federal-law first-amendment free-speech legal-defense motives substantial-truth | Whether substantial truth is a complete defense to defamation under the First Amendment, regardless of the motives of the speaker? | |
| 19-63 | Murphy J. Painter v. Shane Evans | Louisiana | 2019-07-11 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-protection defamation first-amendment government-speech new-york-times-v-sullivan public-figure | Does the First Amendment apply to government speech such that defamatory government speech is protected free speech? |
| 18-1592 | Allstate Insurance Company v. Daniel Rivera, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2019-06-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | article-iii article-iii-standing civil-procedure defamation fair-credit-reporting-act fcra federal-jurisdiction standing state-law-claims supplemental-jurisdiction trial-court-discretion | Whether a federal court may exercise supplemental jurisdiction over state-law claims when it determines after trial that a plaintiff lacks standing to… |
| 18-1576 | Adriano Kruel Budri v. Daniel M. Humphreys | Texas | 2019-06-25 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights defamation due-process employment-dispute free-speech legislative-interpretation private-communication private-employment-dispute snyder-v-phelps statutory-construction texas-citizens-participation-act | Does the TCPA apply to a private employment dispute involving allegedly defamatory statements in a private intended audience and location? |
| 18-9779 | Xue Jie He v. Trinity Church, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-06-25 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy defamation discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment personal-injury racial-discrimination standing visa-status | US visa: 0187, legal short-term stay, Personal Injury, can Petitioner get The Equal Protection Clause Of The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States… |
| 18-9550 | Jerome L. Grimes v. Avis Budget Group | Third Circuit | 2019-06-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights defamation due-process framed-up pro-se-plaintiff sixth-amendment standing statute-of-limitation theft | Whether a plausible claim for relief was asserted in the plaintiff's amended complaint, and whether tolling the statutes of limitation to file and/or … |
| 18-1477 | Competitive Enterprise Institute, et al. v. Michael E. Mann | District of Columbia | 2019-05-28 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) | constitutional-law defamation first-amendment free-speech opinion provably-false public-concern public-figure question-of-law-or-fact subjective-commentary | Whether the First Amendment permits defamation liability for subjective commentary on true facts concerning a matter of public concern |
| 18-1451 | National Review, Inc. v. Michael E. Mann | District of Columbia | 2019-05-21 | Denied | Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) | defamation first-amendment free-speech matter-of-public-concern opinion-speech provably-false provably-false-factual-connotation public-concern public-policy-debate scientific-controversy scientific-misconduct subjective-opinion | Whether a statement contains a 'provably false' factual connotation is a question of law for the court, not a question of fact for the jury |
| 18-1441 | Presbyterian Church U.S.A. v. Brian Edwards, Judge, Jefferson Circuit Court, et al. | Kentucky | 2019-05-17 | Denied | Relisted (2) | church-autonomy church-constitution civil-rights defamation ecclesiastical-abstention first-amendment free-speech ministerial-role religious-doctrine supremacy-clause | Whether the First Amendment requires state courts to dismiss suits immediately upon a showing that the claim turns upon the interpretation or applicat… |
| 18-8979 | Lisa Jacobs v. Lorraine MacDonald, et vir | New Hampshire | 2019-04-24 | Denied | IFP | actual-malice constitutional-rights defamation defamation-damages first-amendment negligence-per-se presumptive-damages punitive-damages | Whether enhanced compensatory damages in connection with an action for negligence per se requires proof of 'actual malice' consistent with St. Amant v… |
| 18-1228 | Barbara Mrzlak Brundo v. Christ the King Church of Omaha | Eighth Circuit | 2019-03-21 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights defamation due-process employment estate-administration estate-litigation frivolous-litigation judicial-retaliation ministerial-exception probate-court retaliation rule-11-sanctions | Whether Rule 11 sanctions paid by petitioner for alleged frivolous complaints should be returned with interest |
| 18-1155 | James Michael Murphy v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-06 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights claim-preclusion defamation discovery due-process first-amendment government-liability judicial-estoppel litigation-strategy res-judicata | Defamation lawsuit precluded by res judicata after dismissal of first lawsuit due to withholding of key information about additional, later, widesprea… |
| 18-964 | Father John Gallagher v. Diocese of Palm Beach, Inc. | Florida | 2019-01-25 | Denied | Amici (2) | church-doctrine civil-rights defamation first-amendment free-speech legal-immunity public-safety religious-speech standing | Whether the priest is barred by the First Amendment from bringing a defamation action against a church |
| 18-7438 | Armando A. Villa v. Robert J. Kowalski | Illinois | 2019-01-16 | Denied | IFP | abuse-of-power appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights defamation due-process free-speech judicial-misconduct legal-procedure legal-profession rule-of-law standing unclean-hands | Why would the United States Supreme Court refuse to hear the Appeal of a case in which an individual, who as an 'Honorable' member of the legal profes… |
| 18-864 | John Tatum, et ux. v. The Dallas Morning News, Inc., et al. | Texas | 2019-01-07 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-protection defamation first-amendment free-speech milkovich-precedent milkovich-v-lorain omnicare-v-laborers opinion opinion-piece opinion-speech | Whether an otherwise verifiable accusation of dishonesty should be considered Constitutionally protected opinion under the First Amendment because suc… |
| 18-7092 | Ileen Cain v. Atelier Esthetique Institute of Esthetics, Inc. | Second Circuit | 2018-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | character-damage civil-liability civil-rights defamation defamation-per-se due-process financial-prospects professional-reputation rehabilitation-act terrorism trade trade-school | Question not identified |
| 18-7027 | Crystal Nicole Kuri v. Addictive Behavioral Change Health Group, et al. | Kansas | 2018-12-14 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy defamation due-process emotional-distress slander standing | Has Haw Stecruke o Unni ation sepired on AN 13 of my Claims? |
| 18-6907 | Robert J. Kulick v. Leisure Village Association, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-04 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | anti-SLAPP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights defamation due-process equal-protection freedom-of-speech home-owners-association legal-procedure rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing | Is 9th Cir's Case#18-56000, Dismissal, 11-29-18, null & void because of defective Defendant-Appellee, when correct was Leisure Village Association, In… |
| 18-602 | Jodi A. Smith v. Lakewood Ranch Gymnastics LLC, et al. | Florida | 2018-11-07 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review civil-procedure defamation enhanced-appellate-review first-amendment jurisdiction legal-procedure new-york-times-v-sullivan non-media-defendant private-plaintiff standing supreme-court | Whether the enhanced appellate review reiterated in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan is required for First Amendment protection in a defamation case wit… |
| 18-584 | Angela Engle Horne v. WTVR, LLC, dba CBS6 | Fourth Circuit | 2018-11-05 | Denied | Response Waived | actual-malice civil-rights constitutional-standard defamation first-amendment free-speech media-law public-figure public-official sullivan | Whether this Court should overrule New York Times v. Sullivan |
| 18-453 | Olivia de Havilland v. FX Networks, LLC, et al. | California | 2018-10-11 | Denied | artistic-license civil-rights defamation docudrama false-statements first-amendment free-speech pleading-stage public-figure right-of-publicity | Are reckless or knowing false statements about a living public figure, published in docudrama format, entitled to absolute First Amendment protection … | |
| 18-275 | Patricia Smith, et al. v. Hillary Rodham Clinton, et al. | District of Columbia | 2018-09-04 | Denied | Response Waived | benghazi civil-procedure civil-rights dc-circuit defamation federal-court-procedure federal-courts government-immunity hillary-clinton motion-to-dismiss sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction substitution substitution-of-defendant westfall-act | Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit erred in affirming the substitution of the United States for Hillary Clinton an… |
| 18-70 | William H. Cosby, Jr. v. Janice Dickinson | California | 2018-07-12 | Denied | attorney-client attorney-speech attorney-statements california-court-of-appeal client-representation constitutional-protection defamation first-amendment first-amendment-protection free-speech milkovich public-accusations public-figure third-circuit | Whether an attorney's statement denying wrongdoing on behalf of a client who has been publicly accused of serious misconduct enjoys constitutional pro… |