ex-parte-young

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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…