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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 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 …