| 25A859 |
Ulysses Lee Feagin v. Mansfield Police Department, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-30 |
Application |
|
excessive-force party-presentation qualified-immunity sixth-circuit summary-judgment taser-use |
Whether the Sixth Circuit improperly applied qualified immunity by resolving disputed factual issues in an excessive force case without proper adversa… |
| 25A854 |
Piper Partridge, Individually and as Mother and Next of Kin to Keagan Schweikle and as Special Administratrix of the Estate of Keagan Schweikle, et al. v. City of Benton, Arkansas, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2026-01-30 |
Application |
|
constitutional-violation excessive-force jury-verdict municipal-liability section-1983 supervisory-liability |
Whether a municipality or supervisor can be held liable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the absence of an underlying constitutional violation by an individu… |
| 25-859 |
Chelesy Eastep, as Surviving Spouse and Next of Kin of Landon Dwayne Eastep v. Steven Carrick, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-20 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor qualified-immunity reasonableness-standard |
Whether police officers' own creation of a dangerous situation prior to using deadly force factors into the Fourth Amendment's 'totality of the circum… |
| 25-838 |
Joseph Heid v. Mark Rutkoski, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-01-15 |
Pending |
|
brady-violation civil-rights evidence-suppression excessive-force franks-challenge qualified-immunity |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit improperly reversed a district court's denial of qualified immunity by relying on potentially false or suppressed evidenc… |
| 25-738 |
Nick Kosmalski v. Sherrell King |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
excessive-force fourth-amendment handcuffing qualified-immunity reasonableness-standard traffic-stop |
Whether the Sixth Circuit's three-factor tight handcuffing test fails to comport with the Fourth Amendment and Graham v. Connor because the test does … |
| 25A696 |
Samantha Lee-Ann Sealey v. Arturo Mancias, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-15 |
Application |
|
bodyworn-camera excessive-force fourth-amendment qualified-immunity seizure use-of-force |
Whether the use of force against a handcuffed arrestee during a foot chase constitutes an objectively unreasonable seizure in violation of the Fourth … |
| 25A677 |
Evan Norman v. Lee Ingle, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-09 |
Application |
|
appellate-review excessive-force qualified-immunity scott-v-harris summary-judgment video-evidence |
Whether appellate courts may review the genuineness of factual disputes in qualified immunity appeals based solely on video evidence, or only when the… |
| 25A618 |
Antonio M. Smith v. John Kind, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-11-25 |
Application |
|
constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment excessive-force prison-conditions qualified-immunity |
Whether the Eighth Amendment precludes qualified immunity for corrections officers who deliberately subject a prisoner to extreme cold conditions with… |
| 25-6224 |
Latoya K. Benton, Administrator of the Estate of Xzavier D. Hill, Deceased v. Seth W. Layton, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a State Trooper for the State of Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
excessive-force fourth-amendment police-conduct qualified-immunity racial-bias summary-judgment |
Whether the Fourth Amendment requires courts to apply a holistic analysis to excessive force claims, including all police conduct leading up to the us… |
| 25-604 |
Drew Craig, et al. v. John Krueger, Individually and as Co-Administrator of the Estate of Jeffery Krueger, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-11-24 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
civil-rights de-novo-review excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity |
Whether the Tenth Circuit improperly applied a collective qualified immunity analysis and evaluated clearly established rights at an impermissibly hig… |
| 25-594 |
Elizabeth Crockett, et al. v. John Krueger, Individually and as Co-Administrator of the Estate of Jeffery Krueger, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-11-21 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
clearly-established-right excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity reasonable-officer |
Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in denying qualified immunity to law enforcement officers without conducting an individualized analysis of excessive f… |
| 25-538 |
City of Los Angeles, California, et al. v. Estate of Daniel Hernandez, By and Through Successors in Interest, Manuel Hernandez, Maria Hernandez, and M. L. H., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-11-03 |
Pending |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
body-camera excessive-force fourth-amendment moment-of-threat police-shooting qualified-immunity |
Whether the Ninth Circuit improperly parsed a six-second police shooting event into discrete segments and denied qualified immunity by artificially re… |
| 25-472 |
Angelic Salgado, as Personal Representative of the Wrongful Death Estate of Jonathan Molina v. Kevin Smith |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-10-17 |
Denied |
|
clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment police-shooting qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether a police officer's second volley of shots after a six to eight second pause violates Fourth Amendment protections against excessive force |
| 25-403 |
Kenneth D. Anderson, et al. v. Crystal Estrada, Deputy, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-violation excessive-force fifth-circuit graham-factors qualified-immunity rule-12b6 |
Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly applied Rule 12(b)(6) standards and Graham factors in dismissing an excessive force complaint and granting qualif… |
| 25-297 |
Jacob P. Zorn v. Shela M. Linton |
Second Circuit |
2025-09-15 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) |
civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity specificity |
Whether the Second Circuit's qualified immunity analysis conflicts with this Court's repeated instruction that courts must define rights with specific… |
| 25-267 |
Milton Green v. Christopher Tanner, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-09-09 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
constitutional-rights excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity reasonableness-standard summary-judgment |
Whether an officer's mistake of fact in using excessive force is a legal or factual question for determining reasonableness at summary judgment, and w… |
| 25-186 |
Alejandro Estevis v. Ignacio Cantu, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment police-shooting qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether Officers Ignacio Cantu and Eduardo Guajardo should be denied qualified immunity before trial for shooting six times at Alejandro Estevis while… |
| 25-179 |
Officer Phillip Reinink, in His Individual and Official Capacity v. Sean Hart, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-08-14 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity seizure use-of-force |
Whether an officer's intended level of force and mistaken use of force impacts Fourth Amendment reasonableness and qualified immunity analysis in exce… |
| 25-5304 |
Jonathan David Loggins v. Ronny Albert, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment implied-consent rule-15b summary-judgment |
Whether the lower courts' refusal to recognize implied consent for a fully litigated excessive force claim conflicts with controlling precedents of th… |
| 25-71 |
Matthew Farney, et al. v. Michael Rose, as Personal Representative for the Estate of Bradley Rose and on Behalf of all Statutory Beneficiaries of Bradley Rose, Deceased |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment police-encounter qualified-immunity summary-judgment |
Did the Ninth Circuit err in defining the qualified immunity right at issue too broadly by holding this was an 'obvious' case? |
| 25-5084 |
Douglas Manning v. Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-07-11 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force prisoner-rights |
Whether a plaintiff's factual allegation of an unprovoked beating by prison staff constitutes a material issue under the Eighth Amendment |
| 25A41 |
Mathew Grashorn v. Wendy Love, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-07-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights domestic-disturbance excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether a law enforcement officer is entitled to qualified immunity when responding to a domestic disturbance involving potential use of force against… |
| 25A3 |
Milton Green v. Christopher Tanner, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-07-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment qualified-immunity reasonable-officer second-amendment |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits an officer to use deadly force against an individual merely possessing a firearm without considering the totality… |
| 24-1310 |
David Engstrom, et al. v. James W. Denby |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment property-damage qualified-immunity warrant-execution |
Did the Ninth Circuit err in applying the Graham v. Connor reasonableness standard for excessive force to a destruction of property claim during warra… |
| 24-1214 |
Jared Cosper, in His Individual Capacity, et al. v. Perla Enriquez Baca, as Personal Representative of Amelia Baca, Deceased |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-05-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
deadly-force edged-weapon excessive-force qualified-immunity tenth-circuit use-of-force |
Whether the Tenth Circuit may establish a bright-line rule for an officer's use of deadly force against a suspect armed with an edged weapon, and whet… |
| 24-1051 |
Michael Nissen v. Javier Ambler, Sr., Individually and on Behalf of All Wrongful Death Beneficiaries of Javier Ambler, II, the Estate of Javier Ambler, II, and as Next Friend of J. R. A., minor child, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-04 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether a fact question on the 'deadliness' of force can impose a heightened deadly force standard that constrains the Fourth Amendment's objective te… |
| 24-980 |
William Jones, Jr., Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Police Officer for the Los Angeles Police Department v. Ymelda Elena, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
excessive-force law-enforcement ninth-circuit qualified-immunity summary-judgment video-evidence |
Whether a court's obligation to view evidence in the light most favorable to the plaintiff allows ignoring undisputed clear video evidence that would … |
| 24-962 |
Autumn Adams v. Kevin Gugliano, Individually and in His Official Capacity as an Officer of the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-03-07 |
Denied |
|
bodily-injury civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment official-immunity police-misconduct |
Whether officers who pull a compliant citizen to the ground causing serious injury violate the Fourth Amendment and whether such malicious actions are… |
| 24-919 |
Mike Miller v. Dillon Rock |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-canine qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying qualified immunity to a police canine officer for the duration of a canine bite during an arrest of an arme… |
| 24-892 |
Alejandro Martinez v. City of Rosenberg, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-19 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split constitutional-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment injury-threshold police-misconduct |
Is an otherwise unreasonable use of excessive force permitted under the Fourth Amendment so long as it results in no, or only minor, injuries? |
| 24-857 |
Brian Estrada v. Jacob Smart |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-02-11 |
Denied |
|
administrative-exhaustion civil-rights excessive-force jury-trial section-1983 seventh-amendment |
Whether the Seventh Amendment's right to a trial by jury extends to issues of fact related to the exhaustion of administrative remedies |
| 24-823 |
Benjamin Benfer v. City of Baytown, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment police-force qualified-immunity |
Whether the Fourth Amendment can countenance an extended bite by a police attack dog where no adequate warning was given, and the suspect was unarmed … |
| 24A752 |
Kyle Smith, et al. v. Rochelle Scott, Individually, and as Co-Special Administrator of the Estate of Roy Anthony Scott, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-31 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied constitutional standards in reviewing a law enforcement use of force claim involving pote… |
| 24-809 |
Howard Goldey, Associate Warden, et al. v. Andrew Fields, III, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-01-30 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
bivens-action constitutional-damages eighth-amendment excessive-force federal-officers judicial-remedy |
Whether an implied cause of action exists for Eighth Amendment excessive force claims against federal officers and whether the Court should reconsider… |
| 24A735 |
Latrisha Winder, as Next Friend of J. W., a Minor and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Stephen Wayne Winder, Deceased, et al. v. Joshua M. Gallardo, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
excessive-force fourth-amendment high-speed-pursuit qualified-immunity seizure use-of-force |
Whether a law enforcement officer's use of force during a high-speed pursuit constitutes an unreasonable seizure in violation of the Fourth Amendment |
| 24-677 |
Victor Hill v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-26 |
Denied |
|
correctional-officer excessive-force fourth-amendment jail-security pretrial-detainees restraint-chairs |
Whether any broad principle of law gives fair warning that it constitutes 'excessive force' in violation of the Fourth Amendment for a correctional of… |
| 24A487 |
City of Los Angeles, California, et al. v. Hasmik Jasmine Chinaryan, Individually and as Guardian ad Litem for NEC, a Minor, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-11-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights constitutional-violations excessive-force law-enforcement municipal-liability ninth-circuit |
Whether a municipality and its employees can be held liable for alleged constitutional violations arising from a law enforcement encounter involving p… |
| 24A473 |
Victor Hill v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-11-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-violation detainee-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement-misconduct restraint-chairs |
Whether the use of passive restraint chairs on nonresistant detainees for extended periods constitutes excessive force in violation of the Fourth Amen… |
| 24A311 |
Donna Chisesi, Administratrix of the Estate of Jonathon Victor, Deceased v. Matthew Hunady, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
common-law-immunity excessive-force failure-to-train qualified-immunity reconstruction-era-law section-1983 |
Whether the doctrine of qualified immunity in Section 1983 cases should be reconsidered in light of historical evidence about the original understandi… |
| 24-5636 |
Robert Moco v. J. M. Janik, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-09-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference excessive-force law-enforcement medical-care |
Whether law enforcement officers can be held liable for deliberate indifference to a plaintiff's medical needs after using excessive force during an a… |
| 24-5466 |
Jarell Davis Terry v. William Straughn, Deputy Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force pro-se-prisoner |
Whether the use of force against a handcuffed and compliant individual violates constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment |
| 24A226 |
Corey Cunningham, on Behalf of Kodi Gaines, a Minor v. Baltimore County, Maryland, et al. |
Maryland |
2024-08-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause permits qualified immunity for law enforcement officers who use objectively unreasonable and egr… |
| 24-5416 |
Christopher Dominguez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-rights excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether the Ninth and Fourth Circuits apply different standards in evaluating qualified immunity for law enforcement officers' use of force claims |
| 24-152 |
Michael Pina v. Estate of Jacob Dominguez |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) |
armed-robbery excessive-force fourth-amendment investigative-stop police-use-of-force qualified-immunity |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in finding a Fourth Amendment violation when police fatally shot a suspect who failed to comply with commands during a… |
| 24A166 |
Tidera Harris v. Gregory Harvey |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether a law enforcement officer can assert qualified immunity when using deadly force against an unarmed suspect who does not pose an immediate thre… |
| 24-5056 |
Tyrone Stafford v. Arnold S. Zwicke, Executive Sheriff, Guadalupe County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement malicious-prosecution police-misconduct qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5036 |
Dalvon Curry, aka Dale, aka Dalo v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights combat-speech constitutional-protections deadly-force deadly-physical-force excessive-force law-enforcement penal-law retreat-duty self-defense use-of-force |
Question not identified |
| 24-15 |
Paulette Smith, Individually and as Successor in Interest to Albert Dorsey, Deceased v. Edward Agdeppa |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
|
clearly-established excessive-force fourth-amendment police-shooting qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment use-of-force |
In a § 1983 action arising out of fatal police shooting involving disputed allegations of Fourth Amendment violations, did the Ninth Circuit err in gr… |
| 24A3 |
Darnell Anderson v. Aaron Fuson, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-07-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
Bivens eighth-amendment excessive-force federal-tort prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Whether the Supreme Court should extend the Bivens remedy to allow a federal prisoner to bring a monetary damages claim for alleged Eighth Amendment e… |
| 23-7834 |
Willie Medina v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force judicial-review law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant unlawful-detention |
Whether the officers had probable cause for the stop, whether there was a search warrant for the car, whether there was sufficient evidence to support… |
| 23-1333 |
Sami Azmi, et al. v. John Sylvester Penny |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-21 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights clearly-established excessive-force law-enforcement ninth-circuit qualified-immunity summary-judgment undisputed-evidence video-evidence |
Does a court's obligation to view the evidence in the light most favorable to the plaintiff allow it to ignore undisputed clear video evidence that wo… |
| 23-7770 |
Jerry A. Smith v. John Galipeau |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process excessive-force judicial-review legal-procedure qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified |
| 23-1239 |
Janice Hughes Barnes, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Ashtian Barnes, Deceased v. Roberto Felix, Jr., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-24 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (36)Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor moment-of-threat-doctrine police-use-of-force totality-of-the-circumstances |
Whether courts should apply the moment of the threat doctrine when evaluating an excessive-force claim under the Fourth-Amendment |
| 23-1190 |
Alexsey Predybaylo v. Sacramento County, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-03 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process excessive-force municipal-liability pre-trial-detainee qualified-immunity strip-search |
Is an officer's intentional use of substantial and aggressive force against a pre-trial detainee in response to mere passive resistance to a strip sea… |
| 23-1182 |
Kenneth Jones v. County of San Diego, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process equitable-tolling excessive-force law-enforcement race-discrimination standing |
Whether equitable tolling should apply in this case? |
| 23-1143 |
Nelda Kellom, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Terrance Kellom, Deceased, et al. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-exhaustion circuit-split civil-rights claims-processing due-process excessive-force federal-tort-claims-act standing statutory-interpretation waiver |
Whether Petitioners' FTCA claim should have been allowed to proceed against the United States |
| 23-7224 |
Quentin Freeman v. Daniel Deas |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment inmate-rights prison-conditions prisoner-rights summary-judgment whitley-standard |
Whether the decision below should be summarily reversed because the Fourth Circuit misapplied the Whitley factors by viewing the evidence in the light… |
| 23-991 |
City of Long Beach, New York, et al. v. Ricky Joshua Benny |
Second Circuit |
2024-03-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-court civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process excessive-force law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity |
Whether the Second Circuit departed from this Court's precedents |
| 23-976 |
Jeremy Henning v. Donald V. Snowden |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-03-06 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
bivens-remedy civil-rights civil-rights-action due-process excessive-force federal-law-enforcement fourth-amendment implied-damages judicial-immunity warrant-execution warrants |
Whether the court of appeals erred in allowing a Bivens remedy in this case, where the claim arises from an arrest made outside the home, in a place o… |
| 23-931 |
J. W., et al. v. Elvin Paley |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-27 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment school-official school-seizure seizure student-rights |
Whether a claim that a school official has used excessive force against a student that meets the definition of a Fourth Amendment seizure should be ev… |
| 23-6832 |
Willie Levens, II v. Louisiana Insurance Guaranty Association, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity racial-discrimination standing |
Whether an off-duty officer qualifies for qualified-immunity |
| 23-905 |
John William Hanson, III v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arrest-time civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process excessive-force false-testimony jury-instructions search-and-seizure sentencing |
whether-the-petitioner-was-falsely-arrested |
| 23-872 |
Josh Patrick v. LaRhonda Dunlap Perez |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity taser taser-use |
Is there variance among federal judicial circuits regarding how they apply Fourth Amendment law in excessive force cases involving taser use? |
| 23A679 |
Jeremy Henning v. Donald V. Snowden |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-01-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
bivens-remedy damages-action excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement new-context |
Whether a Fourth Amendment excessive-force claim against a federal law enforcement officer in a public setting constitutes a 'new Bivens context' that… |
| 23A608 |
J. W., et al. v. Elvin Paley, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split constitutional-standard excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor school-officials |
Whether the Fourth Amendment governs excessive force claims by students against school officials, resolving a circuit split on the appropriate constit… |
| 23-689 |
City of Los Angeles, California, et al. v. M. A. R., a Minor, By and Through His Guardian ad Litem, Elisabeth Barragan, Individually and as a Successor in Interest to Daniel Rivera, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights clearly-established excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity summary-judgment undisputed-evidence video-evidence |
Whether a court's obligation to view the evidence in the light most favorable to the plaintiff allows it to ignore undisputed clear video evidence tha… |
| 23-688 |
Travis Scott King, By and Through His Guardian ad Litem, Breanna Raymundo, et al. v. DeMichael Dews, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bodily-harm civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment excessive-force hudson-v-mcmillian prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Can the doctrine of qualified immunity ever apply when force is used maliciously and sadistically for the very purpose of causing harm in violation of… |
| 23-6287 |
Parnell R. May v. Kawhun Tims, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process excessive-force federal-procedure judicial-review qualified-immunity standing takings |
Whether the U.S. District Court erred in granting a Supplemental 1983 claim |
| 23-611 |
Adrian Martinez v. Sean Jenneiahn, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-07 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process excessive-force police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment use-of-force |
Whether the Court should reverse or recalibrate the doctrine of qualified immunity |
| 23-541 |
Michael Donnellon, Deputy, et al. v. John Jordan |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-11-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
arrest civil-rights excessive-force first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity |
Whether the Tenth Circuit's use of Hill's First Amendment analysis negated the objective Fourth Amendment standard of Maryland v. Pringle |
| 23-6030 |
Gregory P. Burleson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confession corroborating-evidence defense-of-others excessive-force federal-law law-enforcement reasonable-doubt self-defense supreme-court |
Is a citizen entitled to act in self-defense or defense of others against law-enforcement-officers if he has a reasonable-belief that there is an immi… |
| 23-440 |
S. B., on Behalf of Her Minor Daughter, S. B. v. Jefferson Parish School Board, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-scrutiny corporal-punishment due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment section-1983 |
Is unconstitutionally excessive corporal punishment by a public-school employee cognizable under § 1983? |
| 23A368 |
Adrian Martinez v. Sean Jenneiahn, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-10-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-canine qualified-immunity |
Whether the use of a police canine to bite a motionless, unarmed suspect in a closed storage closet constitutes excessive force in violation of the Fo… |
| 23-5803 |
Robert K. Decker v. Edwin Baez, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force failure-to-protect federal-question shackling spoliation |
Did the United States District Court, Magistrate Judge err in the decision to have the Plaintiff, Robert K. Decker be hand cuffed, (left wrist) and sh… |
| 23-396 |
Bowe Marvin v. David Holcomb, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-16 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment in-home-arrest law-enforcement-conduct probable-cause warrantless-arrest |
Whether there is a felony-exception to requiring probable-cause for in-home-arrests without-a-warrant |
| 23-377 |
Chris Dutra, et al. v. Kim Jackson |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
|
circuit-court-precedent clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment ninth-circuit police-conduct qualified-immunity supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court's precedents are the only source of clearly established law for purposes of qualified immunity |
| 23A310 |
Casondra Pollreis, on Behalf of Herself and Her Minor Children, W.Y. and S.Y. v. Lamont Marzolf, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-10-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
dashcam-footage excessive-force qualified-immunity scott-v-harris summary-judgment taser-threat |
Whether Scott v. Harris's narrow exception to the summary judgment standard—permitting courts to resolve disputed facts when video evidence is blatant… |
| 23-5681 |
Justin Weible v. Kevin Provost, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
arbitrary-or-capricious civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement legal-malpractice license-revocation procedural-due-process unlawful-procedure |
Question not identified |
| 23-335 |
Kansas v. Jeremy A. Cline |
Kansas |
2023-09-29 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment adequate-remedies civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force exclusionary-rule lawful-seizure police-misconduct remedies |
Does the exclusionary rule apply to suppress evidence where a court has found the use of excessive force in the execution of an otherwise lawful seizu… |
| 23-210 |
Christina Jordan v. Karla Howell, as Administratrix of the Estate of Cornelius Pierre Howell |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-06 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-claim deliberate-indifference due-process excessive-force kingsley-v-hendrickson medical-care objective-standard pretrial-detainee |
Whether the courts should employ the historically accepted two-prong deliberate indifference framework or the 'objective unreasonableness' analysis fo… |
| 23-5481 |
Festus Okwudili Ohan v. Armando B. Fontoura, Sheriff, Essex County, New Jersey, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights digital-privacy due-process excessive-force false-arrest fourth-amendment law-enforcement malicious-prosecution probable-cause retaliation traffic-stop warrantless-search |
Which legal issues were raised in the SCOTUS petition? |
| 23-5470 |
Cedric Adams v. Nick Diamond, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force governmental-tort-liability qualified-immunity standing |
Should a local government be dismissed from acceptance of claims and the very beginning of a suit with prejudice giving absolute immunity without allo… |
| 23-5460 |
Clinton D. Johnson, Jr., aka Kayzon Ru v. Sgt. Johnson, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 8th-amendment antiterrorism-act civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement |
Was excessive force used during an arrest and detention at a detention center? |
| 23A61 |
Chris Dutra, et al. v. Kim Jackson |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity second-story-railing summary-judgment use-of-force |
Whether qualified immunity protects law enforcement officers from liability for excessive force claims when officers use force to prevent a suspect fr… |
| 23-37 |
Kyle Cardenas v. Josiah Saladen, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 unlawful-arrest |
Regularizing qualified immunity |
| 22-1157 |
Craig Roper v. De'On Crane, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment civil-rights deadly-force excessive-force objective-reasonableness officer-safety police-conduct police-intervention qualified-immunity use-of-force vehicle-stop |
Whether an objective police officer could have believed it reasonable to shoot a person who had warrants for his arrest, had locked the doors and rais… |
| 22-7651 |
Lily Cassandra Alphonsis v. Joel Garnica, Deputy, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force hijab-ban prison-administration religious-accommodation religious-freedom rluipa |
Whether a jail facility's ban on the hijab or religious head scarf worn for religious reasons was the least restrictive means of ensuring effective pr… |
| 22-1107 |
Officer Matthew Gregory, et al. v. Elise Brown |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law constitutional-rights department-policies excessive-force law-enforcement police-procedure police-training qualified-immunity |
Whether the law was clearly established that following department policies and training would result in individual officer liability |
| 22-1003 |
Mucio Ramirez v. Christopher Martin |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-standard graham-v-connor police-brutality police-misconduct qualified-immunity reasonable-force use-of-force |
Whether Petitioner's initial non-compliance followed by surrender permitted Respondent to reject the then-existing circumstances and slam Petitioner's… |
| 22-7162 |
In Re Anthony Dewayne Lee Turner |
|
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment probable-cause warrantless-arrest |
Whether the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were violated when he was arrested without a warrant and probable cause |
| 22-933 |
Jean Henderson, as Next Friend and Guardian of Christopher Henderson v. Harris County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment police-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 unreasonable-force |
Does qualified immunity shield an officer who uses unreasonable force against a fleeing misdemeanor suspect who complies with an officer's order to st… |
| 22-848 |
James Douglas Fox v. Mark Campbell, et ux. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
county-of-sacramento-v-lewis excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment graham-v-connor law-enforcement qualified-immunity seizure self-defense unreasonable-force |
Whether the Fourth Amendment standard for evaluating unreasonable force claims or the Fourteenth Amendment standard applies when law enforcement shoot… |
| 22-675 |
Vicki Jo Lewis, et vir, Individually and as Co-Personal Representatives of the Estate of Isaiah Mark Lewis, Deceased v. City of Edmond, Oklahoma, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-01-20 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-reversal |
Whether the doctrine of qualified immunity should be reconsidered |
| 22-564 |
Juan Carlos Salazar v. Juan Rene Molina |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-20 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment circuit-split excessive-force graham-v-connor law-enforcement qualified-immunity reasonableness-of-force surrender-protocol use-of-force |
Whether a suspect's dangerous past flight, without more, authorizes officers to doubt the sincerity of a subsequent surrender |
| 22-513 |
Hyrum James Geddes v. Weber County, Utah, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-12-02 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights detention-facility due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment objective-reasonableness section-1983 |
Whether the test of objective reasonableness for excessive force claims under the Fourteenth Amendment is the same as the test under the Fourth Amendm… |
| 22-510 |
Jody Lombardo, et al. v. City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-30 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights detainee-death due-process excessive-force law-enforcement police-misconduct police-restraint qualified-immunity |
Whether officers are entitled to qualified immunity when they put a handcuffed and shackled person face-down on the floor and push into his back until… |
| 22-366 |
County of Sonoma, California, et al. v. Gabbi Lemos |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights comity conviction excessive-force heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey judicial-preclusion section-1983 |
Does Heck's 'necessarily imply' standard bar a § 1983 suit only if success would 'necessarily require' plaintiff to negate the underlying conviction, … |
| 22-223 |
County of Riverside, California, et al. v. Estate of Clemente Najera-Aguirre, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
9th-circuit clearly-established-law constitutional-rights deadly-force excessive-force law-enforcement ninth-circuit particularized-consideration qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Did the Ninth Circuit's panel decision denying qualified immunity contravene this Court's mandate that courts should not hold officers to a standard o… |
| 22-183 |
Bryan Cowan, et al. v. Masa Nathaniel Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
1983-action civil-rights criminal-plea excessive-force heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey judicial-estoppel qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether a §1983 claim is barred under Heck when the plaintiff must disprove part of the factual basis for his criminal conviction to succeed |
| 22-64 |
Samuel Arrington v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process excessive-force false-arrest false-imprisonment habeas-corpus heck-doctrine plea-agreement |
Whether Heck applies to a former prisoner who was ineligible to challenge his subsequent conviction through federal habeas |
| 21-8283 |
Sushila Gaur v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-force police-misconduct qualified-immunity |
Whether the police's use of a chokehold on an individual during an arrest violated the individual's constitutional rights |
| 21-1540 |
Nita Gordon, Personal Representative of the Estate of Antonio Gordon v. Keith Bierenga |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-06-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation excessive-force fourth-amendment police-misconduct police-use-of-force precedent qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether qualified immunity protects government officials when no prior precedent exists recognizing the unconstitutionality of a fact pattern exactly … |
| 21-1425 |
Darvin Castro Santos v. Craig White, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights correctional-officers due-process excessive-force heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey prison-disciplinary-proceedings prisoner-rights section-1983 |
Whether Heck v. Humphrey bars a prisoner's excessive-force claim against correctional officers for damages under § 1983 where the claim does not direc… |
| 21-1396 |
Dustin Dillard, et al. v. Vicki Timpa, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Anthony Timpa, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment bystander-liability civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement-liability mental-health-intervention qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether the Fifth Circuit misapplied the Court's qualified-immunity jurisprudence |
| 21-1362 |
Timothy Gray v. Craig White, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-22 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
civil-rights correctional-officers due-process excessive-force heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey prison-disciplinary-proceedings prisoner-rights section-1983 |
Whether Heck v. Humphrey bars a prisoner's excessive-force claim against correctional officers for damages under § 1983 where the claim does not direc… |
| 21-7571 |
Anton F. Liverpool v. Reggie Cleveland, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-04-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process excessive-force habeas-corpus judicial-review qualified-immunity standing |
Question not identified |
| 21-7512 |
Kevin E. Herriott v. Major Parrish, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment disciplinary-action due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force good-faith good-faith-effort law-enforcement |
Whether petitioner given defendants' notice of what the claims are and the grounds upon which it rests? |
| 21-1225 |
The Estate of Dillon Taylor, et al. v. Salt Lake City, Utah, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-03-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights excessive-force jury law-enforcement material-dispute qualified-immunity summary-judgment tenth-circuit |
qualified-immunity |
| 21-7313 |
Domonick Deshay Wright v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Whether the lower courts have sanctioned a dangerous expansion of qualified immunity that shields police officers from liability for violating clearly… |
| 21-7288 |
Rolandis Larenzo Chatmon v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force inmate-treatment prison prison-policy standing |
Has the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit created a harmful precedent that would establish that an officer/prison guard could give a citize… |
| 21-1204 |
City of Chico, California, et al. v. Estate of Tyler S. Rushing, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-03 |
Denied |
|
arrest-procedure civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Does the Fourth Amendment prevent law enforcement officers from deploying a Taser to safely arrest a suspect who violently attacked the officers but w… |
| 21-1128 |
John Turnure v. Latrent Redrick |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-15 |
Dismissed |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process excessive-force qualified-immunity scott-v-harris sixth-circuit summary-judgment use-of-force |
Did the Sixth Circuit contravene Scott v. Harris, 550 U.S. 372 (2007) by ignoring record admissions, videos, and photographs to credit to Redrick with… |
| 21-6983 |
Shahid L. A. Majid, aka Arthur Moseley v. RN Richards, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-01-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process excessive-force municipal-liability qualified-immunity |
Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing petitioner's civil rights claims against the City of Chicago and individual police of… |
| 21-1014 |
T. O., a Child, et al. v. Fort Bend Independent School District, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment pedagogical-purpose public-school qualified-immunity school-officials |
Whether a public school student is barred from bringing an excessive-force claim alleging a violation of his federal constitutional rights whenever th… |
| 21-6856 |
Darrell Wayne Butler v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anderson-v-liberty-lobby civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force material-facts prison-officials summary-judgment |
Whether the court erred in granting summary judgment to the officials on the ground that there was a genuine dispute of material fact concerning wheth… |
| 21-789 |
Casey Benton v. Mary Bradley, as Administrator of the Estate of Troy Robinson, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-29 |
Denied |
|
clearly-established-law constitutional-rights deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity taser-deployment tennessee-v-garner |
Whether a police officer is entitled to qualified immunity for deploying a taser to stop a fleeing person on top of an eight-foot wall |
| 21-770 |
Shelby Hawkins v. Johnny Banks, III |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights eighth-circuit excessive-force fourth-amendment police-conduct probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-force use-of-force |
Whether the use of force was reasonable |
| 21-778 |
Selina Marie Ramirez, et al. v. Jeremias Guadarrama, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (16) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force mental-health-crisis motion-to-dismiss police-conduct qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment |
Whether plaintiffs must plead an available alternative that 'would have' avoided harm to defeat a motion to dismiss in a Section 1983 excessive-force … |
| 21-737 |
David Saxon Bagley, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Jeremiah Ray Bagley v. Ramona Rogers, M.D., et al. |
Texas |
2021-11-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights dismissal-with-prejudice excessive-force expert-report mandatory-dismissal medical-liability preemption section-1983 state-healthcare state-healthcare-institutions |
Whether the Texas Medical Liability Act's expert report and mandatory sanction of dismissal with prejudice for failure to serve an expert report provi… |
| 21-569 |
Gregory V. Tucker v. City of Shreveport, Louisiana, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights excessive-force fair-warning qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether police officers are entitled to qualified immunity when there is no prior caselaw declaring their actions unconstitutional in an identical fac… |
| 21-6016 |
Zelda Ware v. City of Atlanta, Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity search-warrant state-agency |
Whether a court order directing a state agency to pick up a child is the functional equivalent of a search warrant |
| 21-5959 |
Darwin J. Fifield, Sr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights coerced-statement counsel-ineffectiveness due-process excessive-force fifth-amendment fourth-amendment involuntary-confession law-enforcement self-representation sixth-amendment |
Whether law enforcement's unprovoked excessive use of force during an arrest should invalidate as coerced by threat or force a Petitioner's later stat… |
| 21-492 |
Edeline Julmisse Prosper, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Junior Prosper v. Anthony Martin |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights excessive-force scott-v-harris section-1983 summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton use-of-force video-evidence |
Whether courts must implement the traditional summary judgment requirement to consider all evidence in the light most favorable to the nonmovant when … |
| 21-5733 |
Eric Westry v. Victor Leon |
Second Circuit |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
brady-violation civil-rights due-process excessive-force police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment |
How is it proper and legal for the court to state there were undisputed facts of physical-assault, threatening-behavior, physical-resistance, false-na… |
| 21-423 |
Jason Cunningham, Individually and as Administrator ad Litem and Personal Representative of the Estate of Nancy Jane Lewellyn, Deceased v. Robert Paschal, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-09-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights due-process excessive-force material-fact qualified-immunity summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton use-of-force |
Does the ruling in this case violate Rule 56 and Supreme Court precedent? |
| 21-5038 |
Donnell Bledsoe v. Stockton Police Department, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process excessive-force exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment police-misconduct qualified-immunity search-and-seizure section-1983 |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 prohibit law enforcement officers from using excessive force against individuals who are handcuf… |
| 20-8315 |
Joel Barcelona v. M. Escotto Rodriguez, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-gas due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement mental-health petitioner use-of-force |
Whether the respondents, M. Rodriguez, et al., used excessive force by using a deadly gas spray to deter petitioner, which violated petitioner's const… |
| 20-1696 |
Jeriel Edwards v. Steven Harmon, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-06-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bodycam-evidence bodycam-video civil-rights civil-rights
20-1695" civil-rights-litigation de-novo-standard excessive-force fifth-circuit-review frcp-60b4-motion inherent-court-powers jurisdictional-requirements qualified-immunity rule-54-attorney-fees section-1983 summary-judgment Whether the Fifth Circuit can refuse to review the |
Does Scott v. Harris alter or merely implement traditional summary-judgment |
| 20-1690 |
Ramon Cortesluna v. Daniel Rivas-Villegas, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights due-process excessive-force graham-factors material-facts police-shooting qualified-immunity scott-v-harris summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton video-evidence |
Did the Ninth Circuit depart from longstanding procedure and precedent and fail to view video and other evidence in the light most favorable to the pl… |
| 20-1539 |
Daniel Rivas-Villegas v. Ramon Cortesluna |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-05 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
civil-rights constitutional-violation excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor law-enforcement ninth-circuit plumhoff-v-rickard qualified-immunity supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Ninth Circuit depart from this Court's decisions in Graham v. Connor and Plumhoff v. Rickard in denying qualified immunity to petitioner based… |
| 20-1471 |
Jonathan Lozada, Deputy Sheriff, in His Individual Capacity v. Dudley Teel, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Susan Teel |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-04-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-factors law-enforcement obvious-factual-clarity-rule qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether the Graham factors apply to a law enforcement officer's use of force during a call for service that does not involve commission of a crime |
| 20-1362 |
Davdrin Goffin v. Robbie K. Ashcraft, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-30 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment police-shooting probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure tennessee-v-garner use-of-force |
Is an officer entitled to qualified immunity for shooting an unarmed fleeing suspect? |
| 20-1324 |
Charles McManemy v. Bruce Tierney, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-23 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process eighth-circuit excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement-conduct qualified-immunity standing |
Is the test for clearly established law being properly applied within the Eighth Circuit? |
| 20-7490 |
Martin Stanley Ivie v. Washington |
Washington |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights commerce-clause due-process excessive-force false-charges interstate-commerce medical-cannabis police-misconduct qualified-immunity regulatory-burden state-licensing |
Whether it is legally permissible for police to use excessive force against a U.S. citizen committing no crimes, including shooting the person in the … |
| 20-7435 |
Steven G. Knickerbocker v. Wisconsin, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process evidence-destruction excessive-force federal-crime judicial-misconduct law-enforcement-misconduct medical-care |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the alleged physical abuse and denial of medical care while in custody |
| 20-7368 |
Antonio Dewayne Hooks v. Kayodi Atoki, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process excessive-force failure-to-protect fourteenth-amendment medical-needs objective-reasonableness pretrial-detainee |
Whether Kingsley v. Hendrickson's objective-reasonableness standard applies to pretrial detainees' deliberate-indifference claims |
| 20-1172 |
George Ponik, et al. v. Jamie Williams, Individually and as Administratrix ad Prosequendum of the Estate of Peter Lee Williams, Deceased, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-force law-enforcement objective-reasonableness qualified-immunity summary-judgment |
May a Court refuse to engage in the requisite two step qualified-immunity analysis |
| 20-1006 |
City of Hayward, California, et al. v. Jessie Lee Jetmore Stoddard-Nunez |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-27 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment qualified-immunity section-1983 seizure use-of-force |
Whether an accelerating fleeing driver's sudden turn deprives a threatened shooting officer of qualified-immunity |
| 20-990 |
Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff, Cook County, Illinois v. Anthony Mays, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
bell-v-wolfish civil-rights conditions-of-confinement due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment pretrial-detainee pretrial-detainees |
Whether Kingsley v. Hendrickson abrogated or modified the standard for evaluating pretrial detainees' claims challenging their conditions of confineme… |
| 20-877 |
Trinell King v. Ricky Pridmore, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights clearly-established excessive-force hope-v-peltzer police-misconduct qualified-immunity racial-bias summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit disregarded the summary judgment standard in Trinell King's case and improperly weighed the evidence in favor of the Whit… |
| 20-6716 |
Mack Calvin Martin v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether the petitioner's alleged pretrial bias against him violated his due process rights |
| 20-741 |
Tacara Anderson, on Behalf of Minor Child M. A. v. Officer Jonathan Vazquez |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment bodily-injury civil-rights due-process excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Are federal courts required to afford qualified immunity to a law enforcement officer who released a K9 on a child causing serious bodily injury? |
| 20-636 |
Shase Howse v. Thomas Hodous, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-10 |
Denied |
|
and strike him in the neck when he poses no threa and whether a Fourth Amendment malicious prosecut tackle him circuit-split civil-rights excessive-force false-arrest fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution qualified-immunity unlawful-arrest |
Whether the law is clearly established that an officer cannot arrest a person whom the officer has no reason to believe committed a crime, tackle him … |
| 20-600 |
Anthony Sevy v. Philip Barach |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-04 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights excessive-force first-amendment free-speech government-official qualified-immunity retaliation retaliatory-force symbolic-protest |
Does the First Amendment prohibit government officials from using retaliatory force against an individual exercising protected speech? |
| 20-477 |
Shanika Day, et al. v. Franklin Wooten, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
asphyxiation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement positional-asphyxiation qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Does an arrestee have a clearly established right to have his difficulty breathing considered by officers in their handcuff and adverse body position,… |
| 20-445 |
Matthew Anderson v. John Bonnewell, et al. |
Delaware |
2020-10-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment civil-rights correctional-officers due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force intent prison-conditions qualified-immunity summary-judgment |
Whether a trial court can disregard the Whitley-factors in an Eighth-Amendment-excessive-force case |
| 20-5846 |
Anthony C. Green v. Kelly Lake, Sheriff, Carlton County, Minnesota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
8th-circuit civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-standard due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment objective-reasonableness qualified-immunity |
Whether the 8th Circuit's decision is contrary to Kingsley |
| 20-391 |
Jody Lombardo, et al. v. City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (21) |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity reasonable-jury |
Whether a reasonable jury could find that officers used excessive force when they put a handcuffed and shackled person face-down on the ground and pre… |
| 20-5789 |
Gerard Nguedi v. Brian Caulfield, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity |
Are police officers entitled to qualified immunity even if they use substantial force against non-threatening suspected misdemeanants? |
| 20-263 |
Nanette Blanchard-Daigle, Representative of the Estate of Lyle Blanchard v. Shane Geers, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fifth-circuit law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by overlooking precedent in determining whether an officer enjoys qualified immunity after applying deadly excessive f… |
| 20-245 |
Patricia Nelson v. Esteban Rivera |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-31 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights excessive-force eyewitness-testimony qualified-immunity summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton |
Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in granting qualified immunity despite evidence supporting the plaintiff's position |
| 20-226 |
Kenneth Ratliff v. Aransas County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-force municipal-liability pleading-standard qualified-immunity summary-judgment |
Should lower federal courts demand a heightened pleading standard for municipal liability claims? |
| 20-202 |
Robert Massie v. Basilea Mena |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights clearly-established-law detention excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether Officer Massie's actions constituted excessive force in violation of the Fourth Amendment |
| 20-183 |
Billy D. Stair, III v. Charles Jackson |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
|
excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor law-enforcement plumhoff-v-rickard qualified-immunity reasonableness-standard totality-of-the-circumstances use-of-force |
Did the Eighth Circuit depart from this Court's decisions in Graham v. Connor and Plumhoff v. Rickard in denying qualified immunity to petitioner base… |
| 20-5330 |
Layne Aucoin v. Andrew Cupil, Lieutenant, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights eighth-amendment excessive-force muhammad-v-close prison-discipline prisoner-rights sixth-amendment |
Do the Sixth Amendment and this Court's decision in Muhammad v. Close, 540 U.S. 749 (2004), foreclose a federal court from dismissing an inmate 8th Am… |
| 20-104 |
Brian Smith v. Washington |
Washington |
2020-07-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
blood-draw breath-test excessive-force force fourth-amendment medical-consent needle-phobia search-and-seizure warrant |
Fourth-Amendment |
| 20-83 |
Jacob Jones, et al. v. Wayne Duke Kalbaugh |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement objective-reasonableness police-conduct qualified-immunity tenth-circuit |
Did the Tenth Circuit improperly focus on the knowledge and intentions of the suspect, rather than the facts knowable to the officers, in reversing th… |
| 20-5186 |
John Edward Butler v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2020-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights confidential-informant constitutional-rights criminal-investigation dna-evidence due-process excessive-force law-enforcement trial-procedure |
Whether the defendant's Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated by the police officers' use of excessive force, warrantless searc… |
| 20-31 |
Prince McCoy, Sr. v. Tajudeen Alamu |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-16 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights eighth-amendment excessive-force hudson-factors prison-conditions prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Whether a prison official is entitled to qualified immunity for an unprovoked assault on a prisoner even when not every Hudson factor favors the plain… |
| 20-21 |
Billy Duane Card Fleshner v. Matthew Tiedt, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-07-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process excessive-force law-enforcement police-accountability police-misconduct qualified-immunity |
Can Peace Officers use excessive force when the force is objectively unreasonable and it violates well established case law and department policies? |
| 19-1472 |
Phillip Antonio Davis v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
|
character-evidence conspiracy conspiracy-theory criminal-defense criminal-procedure-evidence-admissibility due-process evidence-exclusion excessive-force jackson-v-virginia judicial-review relevance right-to-present-defense standard-of-review trial-procedure |
Whether the exclusion of evidence deemed necessary by Petitioner to present a complete defense and to combat the State's theory of guilt could be rati… |
| 19-8699 |
Jeremy P. Spencer v. Lieutenant Minter, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force qualified-immunity unlawful-arrest |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the use of excessive force and unlawful arrest by law enforcement officers |
| 19-8471 |
Eddie Gene Vaughn v. Timothy Hawkins, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-05-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-obligations due-process equal-protection excessive-force poverty prisoner-rights standing |
Whether correctional staff are free to physically beat prisoners due to their appearance and demeanor of illiteracy and/or being too poor to employ ci… |
| 19-8447 |
Jeanette D. Davis v. Renee Thomas, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process equal-protection excessive-force grievance-interference grievance-process |
Were us cha 1.Defendant Officer Renee Thomas inflicted crule an unusal punishment |
| 19-8406 |
Jihad Shahaddah v. Deputy Gotcher, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment administrative-law assault civil-rights constitutional-law due-process excessive-force judicial-review notice statutory-interpretation |
Whether the defendant had notice of the plaintiffs' assault, and whether the lack of such notice is sufficient to show that the plaintiffs' Eighth Ame… |
| 19-1266 |
H. B., a Minor, Individually and as Successor in Interest to Michelle Lee Shirley, By and Through His Guardian ad Litem, Ronnie Shirley v. City of Torrance, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment objective-reasonableness police-conduct qualified-immunity scott-v-harris summary-judgment use-of-force |
In a 42 USC § 1983 action where videos capturing the claimed use of excessive force are open to multiple interpretations as to whether the use of leth… |
| 19-1099 |
City of Bakersfield, California, et al. v. Leslie Laray Crawford |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment mental-illness negligence objective-reasonableness police-procedure prior-knowledge reasonable-officer use-of-force |
Did the Ninth Circuit err when it held that evidence of prior incidents which indicate that an individual may be mentally ill could be introduced for … |
| 19-7790 |
Brenda Mason, Individually and on Behalf of Quamaine Dwayne Mason, et vir v. Martin Faul |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (6)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fifth-circuit objective-reasonableness police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing use-of-force |
Whether a finding of 'objectively unreasonable excessive force' can be squared with a finding of qualified immunity |
| 19-1042 |
Euince J. Winzer, Individually and on Behalf of the Statutory Beneficiaries of Gabriel A. Winzer v. Kaufman County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fifth-circuit law-enforcement qualified-immunity |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's qualified immunity analysis sets a dangerous precedent for the Civil Rights Act, exposing flaws in the Supreme Court's qua… |
| 19-1001 |
Noble Cooper, et al. v. Officer Oliver Flaig, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (7) |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force law-enforcement police-accountability qualified-immunity |
Should the Court eliminate or significantly revise the judicially created doctrine of qualified immunity to protect the people's core constitutional r… |
| 19-899 |
Shaniz West v. Doug Winfield, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-21 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (6) |
4th-amendment civil-rights consent due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement property-damage property-rights qualified-immunity |
Whether an officer who has consent to 'get inside' a house but instead destroys it from the outside is entitled to qualified immunity in the absence o… |
| 19-7319 |
Thomas Bradford Waters v. John Stewart, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process evidentiary-standards excessive-force free-speech judicial-interpretation legal-procedure procedural-review qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment takings |
Whether the district court erred by granting summary judgment in favor of the defendant, despite the plaintiff's claims that there were genuine issues… |
| 19-868 |
Aaron Miner, et al. v. Steven L. Picatti |
Idaho |
2020-01-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
42-U.S.C.-1983 42-usc-1983 civil-rights clearly-established-rights constitutional-rights excessive-force factual-disputes qualified-immunity summary-judgment |
May a court decline to address qualified-immunity argument based on factual disputes? |
| 19-7252 |
Clarence Joseph Jason v. Robert Tanner, Warden, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process excessive-force inmate-safety prison-conditions qualified-immunity |
Whether a prison's 'control policy' that allows inmates to attack other inmates violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punis… |
| 19-7140 |
Antonio Medrano Ortiz v. George T. Solomon, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process excessive-force judicial-review medical-care medical-rule standing statute-of-limitations statutory-limitations |
Where the District Court erred by dismissing my original complaint as time-barred by statutes of limitations |
| 19-811 |
Christine Almas Rose, Individually and as Mother of Jessie Lee Rose, et al. v. City of Utica, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force free-speech mental-health-intervention police-procedure qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Did the Second Circuit commit legal error when it granted qualified immunity to the police officer |
| 19-7036 |
Jeremy L. Dale v. Anthony Agresta, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-damages cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process excessive-force federal-tort-claims habeas-corpus medical-care prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment was violated by the defendants' alleged deliberate indifference to the plai… |
| 19-753 |
Michael Hunter, et al. v. Randy Cole, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) |
civil-rights clearly-established-law deadly-force deadly-weapon due-process dynamic-encounter excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment police-use-of-force qualified-immunity shooting-encounter use-of-force |
Whether police officers can use deadly force when a person armed with a firearm moves the weapon toward the officer, even if the officer has not shout… |
| 19-694 |
Heather Baker, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Kyle Baker, Deceased v. City of Trenton, Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment home-invasion police-conduct police-procedure search-and-seizure second-amendment self-defense standing warrantless-search |
Whether the Second Amendment right to bear arms precludes warrantless home searches based on lawful firearm possession |
| 19-6776 |
William Dawson v. Bryan K. Wells |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process excessive-force good-faith habeas-corpus jurisdiction police-misconduct qualified-immunity sentencing voluntary-manslaughter writ |
Whether the petitioner is entitled to a remand of the case with instructions for the district court to reduce his or her sentence to time served and o… |
| 19-679 |
Amy Corbitt v. Michael Vickers |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) |
burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force interlocutory-appeal law-enforcement pleading-requirement pleading-standards police-use-of-force qualified-immunity section-1983 use-of-force |
Whether qualified immunity is an affirmative defense or a pleading requirement |
| 19-682 |
Melanie Kelsay v. Matt Ernst |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment non-compliance police-misconduct qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Are police officers entitled to qualified immunity as a matter of law even if they use substantial force against non-threatening suspected misdemeanan… |
| 19-657 |
Virgil Brewer v. Kristina Myers |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-11-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force graham-factors law-enforcement police-use-of-force qualified-immunity summary-judgment use-of-force |
Whether there is a clearly established right not to be shot with a less than lethal beanbag projectile at close range |
| 19-626 |
Robert Huff, et al. v. Michele Choate |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-11-15 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor pre-seizure-conduct qualified-immunity reckless-creation |
Whether the Tenth Circuit's 'reckless creation' theory, which imposes liability for the creation of the need to use force, should be barred because it… |
| 19-614 |
Cesar Vizcarra, et al. v. Monica Ortiz, Individually and as Co-Successor in Interest to Decedent Christian Pena, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anderson-v-liberty-lobby armed-suspect civil-rights excessive-force interlocutory-appeal johnson-v-jones law-enforcement mitchell-v-forsyth qualified-immunity summary-judgment taser use-of-force |
Whether qualified immunity bars liability for officers' use of force against an armed, combative suspect |
| 19-609 |
Erin J. Shepherd, et al. v. Angela Studdard |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (3) |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity sixth-circuit summary-judgment use-of-force |
Whether police officers are entitled to qualified immunity for shooting a knife-wielding suspect on open ground based on a case involving a shooting-t… |
| 19-6512 |
Michael Allen Channel, Sr. v. John Brinker, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process excessive-force judicial-review legal-precedent qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the defendants' warrantless seizure and search of the plaintiffs' home violated the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches an… |
| 19-6342 |
Michael Shavers v. Lavern Sharp, Deputy Warden, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process excessive-force excessive-use-of-force prisoner-rights standing summary-judgment |
Whether plaintiff is entitled to relief from dismissal of lawsuit - Shavers v. Bergh (excessive use of force claims dismissed on the nature of the sus… |
| 19-466 |
Zachery Pittman v. Herman Harris |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established excessive-force fourth-amendment qualified-immunity scott-v-harris section-1983 summary-judgment use-of-force |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in deviating from other circuit holdings and announcing that Scott v. Harris directs the lower courts to examine whet… |
| 19-452 |
Gregory Clark v. Austin Clark |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
excessive-force fourth-amendment police-encounter reasonable-suspicion seizure voluntary-interaction |
Whether a voluntary interaction with police becomes an unconstitutional seizure when the officer runs the subject's ID |
| 19-292 |
Roxanne Torres v. Janice Madrid, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
apprehension circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law detention excessive-force fourth-amendment physical-force police-force seizure |
Is an unsuccessful attempt to detain a suspect by use of physical force a 'seizure' within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment? |
| 19-263 |
Cody Ross v. Johnnie Rochell, Jr. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-28 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment 8th-circuit assault-weapon civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-violation eighth-circuit excessive-force kisela-v-hughes law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Did the Eighth Circuit depart from this Court's decision in Kisela v. Hughes, __ U.S. _, 188 S. Ct. 1148 (2018) (per curiam) and numerous other cases … |
| 19-222 |
Paul Anthony Valderas v. City of Lubbock, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-force due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct police-use-of-force qualified-immunity reasonable-force reasonable-inference use-of-force |
Whether an officer on the scene constrained by what he observes to use any force creates a reasonable inference that deadly force is excessive? |
| 19-5502 |
David Anderson v. Jackie T. Strode, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force inmate-rights law-enforcement prison-conditions prisoner-treatment qualified-immunity restraint-chair tasing-in-restraints |
Why was I tased in a restraint chair with only one arm loose out of the restraints? |
| 19-174 |
Jeri Lynn Rich, Representative for Gavrila Covaci Dupuis-Mays, an Incapacitated Person v. Michael Palko, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-rights clearly-established collateral-order collateral-order-doctrine excessive-force fourth-amendment material-facts qualified-immunity seizure |
When courts are deciding qualified immunity in Fourth Amendment cases, shouldn't they recite the trial court's identification of the disputed issues o… |
| 19-5495 |
David Gray v. Phil Bryant, Governor of Mississippi, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts assault civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-dismissal due-process excessive-force federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus legal-procedure prisoner-rights retaliation standing |
Whether petitioner's civil rights were violated when his in forma pauperis application was denied, resulting in the dismissal of his civil rights laws… |
| 19-5475 |
Mitchell Taebel v. Maricopa County Attorney's Office, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing unreasonable-seizure |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated |
| 19-5488 |
Loretta Jackson v. Joseph Barla, et al. |
Delaware |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment animal-rights civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment property-rights state-action state-actor |
Whether The Supreme Court of the State of Delaware deprived Loretta Jackson of her Due Process rights under the 4th and 14th Amendment of the United S… |
| 19-76 |
Martin Marquardt, Deputy Sheriff v. William Fletcher |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
|
circuit-precedent civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process excessive-force ninth-circuit pretrial-detainee qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether the use of force by a correctional officer against a pretrial detainee was reasonable |
| 18-1553 |
Cheri Marie Hanson, as Trustee for the Next of Kin of Andrew Derek Layton v. Daniel Best, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process excessive-force excited-delirium fourth-amendment police-practices police-restraint police-training positional-asphyxia qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Was the use of prolonged prone restraint with compressive force on an individual who was already handcuffed and hobble-tied a clearly established cons… |
| 18-9144 |
Delbert Heard v. John R. Baldwin, Director, Illinois Department of Corrections, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protection cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force failure-to-protect inmate-safety prisoner-rights standing substantial-risk |
Whether the risk of inmate-on-inmate assault became sufficiently substantial to trigger 8th Amendment protections under Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 82… |
| 18-9102 |
Michael Bazan v. Robert Whitfield, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process evidence excessive-force qualified-immunity standing |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner's Excessive-Force claim |
| 18-8731 |
Carlos Noguera v. Greg Smith, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection excessive-force medical-care prison-conditions standing takings |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment was violated when the petitioner was subjected to excessive force and denie… |
| 18-1287 |
Alexander L. Baxter v. Brad Bracey, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (11) |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force police-misconduct police-use-of-force qualified-immunity search-and-seizure seizure |
Whether the use of a police dog to apprehend a suspect who has surrendered by sitting on the ground with his hands up violates the Fourth Amendment |
| 18-1176 |
Eric Wenzel, et al. v. Carl Storm |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anderson-v-liberty-lobby civil-rights dash-camera-evidence dash-camera-video excessive-force fourth-amendment lytle-v-bexar-county police-use-of-force qualified-immunity scott-v-harris seizure-intrusive seizure-standard summary-judgment unarmed-suspect |
Did the Eighth Circuit err in holding that Officer Storm was entitled to qualified immunity for the fatal shooting of Mr. Wenzel under the Fourth Amen… |
| 18-1128 |
Curtis Minchuk v. Craig Strand |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split deadly-force deadly-force-justification excessive-force fourth-amendment police-use-of-force qualified-immunity self-defense totality-of-the-circumstances use-of-force |
Whether evidence of a dangerous and violent suspect's sudden and unexpected gesture of surrender immediately and objectively terminates the deadly thr… |
| 18-1121 |
Captain James Linlor v. Michael Polson |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment bivens bivens-action civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment police-powers qualified-immunity sexual-battery tsa tsa-screener tsa-screening |
Whether the attested-as-intentional excessive and unreasonable force striking of a cooperative passenger's genitals by a TSA screener not meeting mand… |
| 18-7889 |
Ramon Romero v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-force police-misconduct qualified-immunity |
Whether the police officers' use of force against the petitioner was reasonable under the Fourth Amendment |
| 18-7246 |
Harold Shawgnessy Sims v. King, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process sentencing civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-force federal-law-enforcement qualified-immunity |
What constitutional and statutory protections apply to individuals who are assaulted by federal law enforcement officers? |
| 18-810 |
John Maguire, et al. v. Anika Edrei, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-12-26 |
Denied |
|
acoustic-device civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement lrad police-tactics protest-control qualified-immunity |
Did the Second Circuit err in finding a potential constitutional violation for excessive force and denying the officers qualified immunity |
| 18-6908 |
Livingston Manners v. Ronald Cannella, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-U.S.C.-1983 Excessive-Force fleeing-and-eluding fourth-amendment Fourth-Amendment-Violation probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop |
Is there a violation of the fourth amendment where the arrest of a civilian stems from an illegal traffic stop |
| 18-695 |
Christopher Chung, et al. v. Gulstan E. Silva, Jr., as Personal Representative of the Estate of Sheldon Paul Haleck, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
civil-rights clearly-established-law community-caretaking due-process excessive-force law-enforcement ninth-circuit qualified-immunity reasonableness use-of-force |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying the officers qualified immunity |
| 18-5963 |
Steve Kassab v. S. Skinner, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process excessive-force law-enforcement-misconduct new-trial qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment trial-procedure |
Whether the district court's dismissal of all but 2 defendants caused prejudice to petitioner |
| 18-323 |
Suzan Evans, Individually and as Wife and Next of Kin of Scott Evans, Deceased v. United States, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split constitutional-law excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor police-conduct reasonableness-standard tennessee-v-garner totality-of-circumstances use-of-force |
Whether the totality of the circumstances test for assessing the reasonableness of a use of force under Tennessee v. Garner and Graham v. Connor requi… |
| 18-236 |
Paul Weddle v. Alan Nutzman, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity seizure standing use-of-force |
Whether there was clearly established precedent that the officers' use of force against Weddle, who had surrendered and posed no immediate threat, vio… |
| 18-5584 |
Lawrence L. Thompson v. Pete Copeland, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-14 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment 8th-amendment arrest-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force failure-to-supervise fourth-amendment qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether Deputy Copeland's arrest of Mr. Thompson was unconstitutional and warranted the denial of qualified immunity |
| 18-150 |
Phil Plummer, et al. v. David M. Hopper, Special Administrator of the Estate of Robert Andrew Richardson, Sr. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment civil-rights clearly-established-right deliberate-indifference detainee-rights due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement medical-intervention qualified-immunity |
Whether the Sixth Circuit defined the constitutional rights in question at too high a level of generality contrary to this Court's teachings on qualif… |
| 18-110 |
Andrew Burningham, et al. v. John Morrison Raines, III, Guardian of the Estate of John Morrison Raines, IV |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
8th-circuit anderson-v-liberty-lobby civil-rights clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment interlocutory-appeal johnson-v-jones mitchell-v-forsyth qualified-immunity summary-judgment use-of-force |
Whether qualified immunity should be denied where the underlying evidentiary fact is undisputed but different inferences may be drawn from it |
| 18-5327 |
Adib Eddie Ramez Makdessi v. Lieutenant Fields, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference deliberate-misconduct due-process evidence-suppression excessive-force federal-courts fourth-circuit judicial-conflict retaliation standing takings witness-tampering |
Whether the Fourth Circuit's conflicting rulings overlooked key evidence and were in conflict with Supreme Court precedent in Farmer v. Brennan |
| 18-5219 |
Anthony Tyrone Campbell v. J. Mendez, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-exhaustion administrative-procedure administrative-remedies circuit-court-of-appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-force exhaustion-of-remedies judicial-review litigation-reform prison-litigation-reform-act section-1983 standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals decision conflicted with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision on the issue of whether the plaintiff sub… |
| 18-46 |
City of Middletown, Connecticut, et al. v. William McKinney |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
4th-amendment active-resistance civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights detainee-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity reasonable-officer use-of-force |
Did the Second Circuit Court of Appeals improperly find a constitutional violation in failing to consider the reasonableness of the use of force from … |
| 24A1078 |
Mike Miller v. Dillon Rock |
Ninth Circuit |
|
Presumed Complete |
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canine-deployment excessive-force fourth-amendment irreparable-harm qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits a police officer to deploy a canine to apprehend a suspect and, if deployment is justified, whether the duration … |