first-amendment-retaliation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A59 LaTausha Simmons v. Officer Louis Swafford, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-07-15 Presumed Complete civil-rights due-process excessive-force first-amendment-retaliation in-forma-pauperis section-1983 Question not identified.
24-1272 William F. Kaetz v. United States Third Circuit 2025-06-13 Denied Response Waived constitutional-violations first-amendment-retaliation judicial-immunity self-representation separation-of-powers sixth-amendment-rights 1. First Amendment Retaliation: Did the lower courts, including District Judge Mark R. Hor- nak and the Third Circuit in its August 8, 2024, judgme…
24-5140 Frederick David Pina v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Ninth Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied IFP civil-procedure claim-preclusion commissioner-of-internal-revenue-v-sunnen constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment-retaliation fraud fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court hazel-atlas-glass-v-hartford-empire judicial-misconduct kremer-v-chemical-construction naacp-v-button res-judicata 1. Claim Preclusion and Due Process: Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the dismissal of petitioner's claims on the grounds of claim preclus…
23-1256 Donna Davis Javitz v. Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-30 Denied civil-rights confrontation confrontation-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel first-amendment-retaliation free-speech judicial-misconduct mistrial trial-fairness 1. Whether the Petitioner was denied the constitutional right to a fair trial in a First Amendment retaliation case when the judge: (1) struck Petitio…
23-7335 Walter J. Himmelreich v. Janel Fitzgerald Sixth Circuit 2024-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 bivens bivens-action civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation territorial-jurisdiction 1) Asdan"iis£ueaofGEdjrsi Impressi'en 5.fdingtlbisaCoBBt, does the "or Territory" clause of 4 2 USC § 19 8 3 and the related Civil Rights Statutes app…
23-61 Martin E. O'Boyle, et al. v. Town of Gulf Stream, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-21 Denied Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-litigation first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation municipal-policy official-policy probable-cause retaliation 1. Whether the no-probable-cause requirement extends beyond claims for retaliatory criminal prosecution and arrest and applies to claims for retaliato…
22-6385 Peter Gakuba v. Rob Jeffreys Seventh Circuit 2022-12-22 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts first-amendment-retaliation free-speech habeas habeas-corpus sanctions standing Gakuba's one—and only—§2254 habeas petition was not "frivolous" rendering the USCA-7's sanction against Gakuba of "$500" and bar from any future feder…
21-7019 Runnie Myles v. Jay Jacobs, et al. Second Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-error civil-procedure due-process fairly-traceable-standard first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation proximate-cause-analysis standing standing-requirement sua-sponte-dismissal Whether the circuit court committed reversable error when it dismissed Petitioner's case on an issue of fact that was never noticed or briefed and …
21-147 Erik Egbert v. Robert Boule Ninth Circuit 2021-08-03 Judgment Issued Amici (21)Relisted (2) bivens bivens-doctrine civil-rights constitutional-damages federal-officer-liability first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation fourth-amendment immigration immigration-enforcement reconsider-bivens 1. Whether a cause of action exists under Bivens for First Amendment retaliation claims. 2. Whether a cause of action exists under Bivens for claims …
20-1576 145 Fisk, LLC v. F. William Nicklas Seventh Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation judicial-review preliminary-agreement rational-basis retaliation standing 1. Whether false information, which a city official knows to be false, is a "rational basis" for terminating a preliminary agreement allocating city f…
20-6014 Jasper Lee Vick v. Clement F. Bernard, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-10-14 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-violation deliberate-indifference due-process first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation medical-segregation prisoner-grievance retaliation summary-judgment I. Did the Sixth Circuit err in denying Petitioner review of the district court's judgment in favor of Respondents on Whether there is a temporal prox…
19-1436 Denise DeMartini v. Town of Gulf Stream, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-30 Denied 42-usc-1983 causation civil-lawsuit civil-litigation civil-rights first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation municipal-liability probable-cause retaliation section-1983 Did the Eleventh Circuit err in importing a "lack of probable cause" requirement for a First Amendment retaliation claim under 42 U.S.C § 1983 arising…
19-5845 Shawn M. Thomas v. Karen Slusher, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit affidavit-evidence civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-claim district-court-dismissal due-process first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation free-speech retaliation sixth-circuit-appeal standing summary-judgment (1) Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals make the right decision in dismissing Plaintiff Thomas ' appeal and affirming the dismissal of the District…
18-1358 Douglas Echols v. Spencer Lawton Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-violation due-process first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation libel-per-se presumption-of-innocence qualified-immunity retaliation substantive-due-process Where the Eleventh Circuit found a constitutional violation in a prosecutor's use of libel per se to retaliate against a wrongfully convicted person w…
18-228 Western Radio Services Company, Inc. v. John Allen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedures-act agency-discrimination bivens-claim class-of-one equal-protection first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation permitting-actions retaliation Where a company alleges that, after it began filing legal challenges against Forest Service decisions, the agency singled it out for delay and inactio…
25A941 Tasleema Yasin v. VM Master Issuer, LLC Georgia Application access-to-courts due-process e-filing-system equal-protection first-amendment-retaliation state-court-procedure Question not identified.