ex-parte-young
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6754 | Kendrick Simpson v. Christe Quick, Warden, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2026-02-09 | Denied | IFP | eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young federal-civil-rights rooker-feldman section-1983 state-procedural-rule | Whether Rooker-Feldman and the Eleventh Amendment jurisdictionally bar a § 1983 challenge to a state procedural rule announced in a state court decisi… |
| 25-647 | Kevin Frymier v. Dianne Curvey, Individually, and as Judge, 280th Judicial District Court, Harris County, Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-04 | Pending | eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young first-amendment judicial-immunity pro-se-litigant sovereign-immunity | 1. Whether a federal appellate court may deem constitutional arguments waived when a pro se appellant, entitled to liberal construction under Haines v… | |
| 25-582 | Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. v. Enbridge Energy, LP, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-11-17 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | ex-parte-young federal-court real-party-in-interest sovereign-immunity sovereign-lands state-officials | Whether a State is the real party in interest, and therefore entitled to sovereign immunity, where a private plaintiff sues state officials in federal… |
| 25-491 | Gillian Filyaw v. Steve Corsi, in His Official Capacity as Chief Executive Officer of the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-21 | Denied | Amici (2) | due-process ex-parte-young federal-law prospective-relief sovereign-immunity state-officials | When a suit alleges that state officials are depriving a plaintiff of property in violation of due process, does the suit allege an ongoing violation … |
| 25-477 | Aaron Jacob Mindiola v. Arizona, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-20 | Denied | Response Waived | claim-construction eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young federal-credit-reporting-act pro-se title-ii-ada | In an Arizona divorce, despite A.R.S. §25-403(5)'s best-interests standard addressing the mental health of all parties, the court compelled only the d… |
| 24-1307 | Jennifer Cotto, et al. v. Andrea J. Campbell, Attorney General of Massachusetts, et al. | First Circuit | 2025-06-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights constitutional-tort ex-parte-young ongoing-violation property-retention state-officials | Whether the unlawful retention of property by state officials—in this case, property forfeited from thousands of legally innocent persons whose wrongf… |
| 24A1184 | Cyrus Mark Sanai v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit | Ninth Circuit | 2025-06-03 | Presumed Complete | attorney-discipline civil-rights-lawsuit ex-parte-young state-bar-act supremacy-clause williams-decision | 1. Given that California's State Bar Act, Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code §6000 et seq. ("State Bar Act") immunizes the Ex Parte Young defendants in respect of… | |
| 24-1209 | Daryll Boyd Jones v. New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-05-28 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-discipline civil-rights due-process equal-protection ex-parte-young judicial-bias | 1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred by failing to sever retrospective claims for damages from prospective injunctive claims under Ex parte Young, co… |
| 24-1198 | Association for Government Accountability, et al. v. Steve Simon, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Minnesota Secretary of State, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-05-22 | Denied | Response Waived | drivers-privacy-act ex-parte-young federal-court injunctive-relief seminole-tribe state-officials | Whether the Ex Parte Young exception for prospective injunctive relief applies in federal court actions against state officials in their official capa… |
| 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, who sought a declaratory judgment under the Declaratory Judgment Act tha… |
| 24-1079 | Geoffrey Gray, et al. v. Washington State Department of Transportation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-04-16 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review civil-procedure ex-parte-young injunctive-relief qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity | 1. Should this Court grant certiorari to correct the error of the Court of Appeals below, where the Court of Appeals, contrary to binding authority of… |
| 24-964 | John O'Bannon, Chairman of the State Board of Elections for the Commonwealth of Virginia, et al. v. Tati Abu King, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-03-07 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-war-reconstruction ex-parte-young judicial-enforcement private-parties readmission-acts sovereign-immunity | In the aftermath of the Civil War, Congress enacted a series of "Readmission Acts"—largely identical statutes that imposed restrictions on former Conf… |
| 24-714 | T. W. v. New York State Board of Law Examiners, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-01-03 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | disability-discrimination ex-parte-young federal-law injunctive-relief ongoing-violation sovereign-immunity | Whether a plaintiff who suffers ongoing harm caused by a state official's prior unlawful conduct is subject to an "ongoing violation" of federal law, … |
| 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… |
| 24A231 | OCA-Greater Houston, et al. v. Kim Ogg | Fifth Circuit | 2024-09-04 | Presumed Complete | election-law ex-parte-young first-amendment fourteenth-amendment sovereign-immunity voting-rights | Question not identified. | |
| 23-1011 | Philip C. James, et al. v. Glenn Allen Hegar, Jr., Individually and in His Official Capacities as Comptroller of Texas, Chairman of the Texas Treasury Safekeeping Trust Company, and Administrator of Texas Unclaimed Property Funds, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-14 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-challenge due-process ex-parte-young property-rights standing standing-injury state-enforcement takings texas unclaimed-property | 1. Petitioners' assets were escheated to the State under the Texas Unclaimed Property Act and the State currently has physical possession of their pro… |
| 22-149 | Rosalie Weisfeld, et al. v. John Scott, Texas Secretary of State, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | constitutional-challenge election-law enforcement-authority ex-parte-young federal-jurisdiction federalism sovereign-immunity standing state-official | Under Ex parte Young's exception to state sovereign immunity, a state official is suable in an action for prospective relief from enforcement of an al… |
| 21-8049 | Thomas Tate Tunstall v. Hope Daigle, fka Hope D. Theriot | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 11th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection ex-parte-young fourth-amendment section-1983 statute-of-limitations | Respondent, a Louisiana state agent, procured the post-legal-process seizures of petitioner and his property (seaman's wages and tax refunds) through … |
| 21-547 | Kevin Tung v. Superior Court of New Jersey, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-10-13 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-ethics civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection ex-parte-young federal-law judiciary sovereign-immunity | The Third Circuit affirmed the New Jersey District Court's decision that dismissed the Petitioner Kevin Tung, Esq.'s violation of the constitutional d… |
| 21-5194 | Benjamin Mario Soto v. Minnesota Supreme Court, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-07-23 | Denied | IFP | 11th-amendment 42-usc-1983 contract-law contract-rights due-process equal-protection ex-parte-young supremacy-clause | Judicial officers acting clearly/substantially beyond their judicial capacities fraudulently legislating/extrapolating law deliberately fraudulently m… |
| 20-772 | Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor v. Phil Murphy, Governor of New Jersey, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-12-08 | Denied | CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | congressional-approval ex-parte-young interstate-compact interstate-compacts preemption sovereign-immunity state-officials | Whether, under the doctrine of Ex parte Young, 209 U.S. 123 (1908), an interstate compact agency may sue a state official to prevent that official fro… |
| 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 | 1. 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 Co… |
| 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… |
| 19-1122 | 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 | 1. Whether the lower courts should have liberally construed the pro se litigant's claims against the state officials' offices (the University of Balti… | |
| 18-1056 | Mitzi Johanknecht, Sheriff, King County, Washington v. Eva Moore, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-12 | Denied | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young monell municipal-liability official-capacity prospective-relief section-1983 separation-of-powers standing state-court-orders | Whether Ex parte Young establishes a novel and unprecedented judge-made cause of action, separate from § 1983, that can be used through an official ca… | |
| 18-331 | Rafael Pabon Ortega v. Isabel Llompart Zeno, et al. | First Circuit | 2018-09-13 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-stay civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-law ex-parte-young first-amendment insular-cases promesa puerto-rico section-1983 | Whether the automatic stay provisions of the Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C. §§ 362, 922, as incorporated into PROMESA are unconstitutional as applied by t… |