| 25-831 |
C. S., by Her Next Friend, Adam Stroub v. Craig McCrumb, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-13 |
Pending |
|
disruption-test first-amendment free-speech school-regulation student-speech tinker-standard |
Is post hoc speculation about emotional harm that speech could cause to other students insufficient to meet Tinker's "substantial disruption" standard… |
| 25-819 |
Jeanne Hedgepeth v. James A. Britton, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2026-01-12 |
Pending |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
first-amendment free-speech pickering-balancing-test political-speech public-employee viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether and in what circumstances public employers may discipline employees based on their expression of controversial views while off the job. |
| 25-789 |
Angela Kay Plese v. Ronald Austin, et al. |
Tennessee |
2026-01-06 |
Pending |
|
civil-liability constitutional-law defamation first-amendment free-speech reputational-harm |
Whether the First Amendment allows a plaintiff who suffers no reputational harm to recover for defamation. |
| 25-727 |
Douglas M. Folts v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2025-12-19 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech military-law obscenity-standard servicemembers |
Whether the military's obscenity standard is unconstitutional under Parker v. Levy and Miller v. California. |
| 25-711 |
Deborah Cooney v. San Diego Gas & Electric, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-18 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech privacy smart-grid |
We live in a fast-paced society where technological innovations make possible the most unthinkable forms of trespass. Never before have policy-makers … |
| 25-6351 |
Anthony James Merrick v. Kenneth Herman, Former Administrator of Religious and Volunteer Services, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-12 |
Pending |
IFP |
constitutional-law due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-decisions prisoners-rights |
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| 25-676 |
In Re John A. Shepardson |
|
2025-12-10 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
attorney-disqualification due-process ex-post-facto free-speech petitioning-rights racial-discrimination |
Should this Court grant certiorari to address California State Courts violating constitutional due process, free speech, and petitioning rights of a s… |
| 25-672 |
Kate Adams v. Sacramento County, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-10 |
Pending |
Amici (4) |
circuit-split constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech matter-of-public-concern public-employee-speech |
This case presents a clear, recognized, and entrenched conflict over the First Amendment rights of public employees: whether speech made as a private … |
| 25A562 |
Jeanne Hedgepeth v. James A. Britton, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-11-14 |
Application |
|
first-amendment free-speech pickering-test political-speech public-employee viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether a public employer violates the First Amendment by terminating an employee for expressing political views on social media while off-duty |
| 25A524 |
C. S., by Her Next Friend, Adam Stroub v. Craig McCrumb, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-11-06 |
Application |
|
first-amendment free-speech hat-day school-regulation student-speech weapon-depiction |
Whether the First Amendment protects a public school student's right to wear clothing depicting a firearm when the message is not overtly threatening |
| 25A426 |
Mark A. Pulley v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2025-10-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
court-martial first-amendment free-speech indecent-conduct military-justice uniform-code-of-military-justice |
Whether a military conviction for indecent conduct under the Uniform Code of Military Justice violates a service member's First Amendment free speech … |
| 25-423 |
Daniel Jon Fouliard v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2025-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
bail-jumping brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence free-speech |
1) It is ideal for the Supreme Court to review
Fouliardv. Wisconsin to clarify the
constitutionality of "bail jumping" because
non-violent, non-argume… |
| 25-284 |
Leila Green Little, et al. v. Llano County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-11 |
Denied |
Amici (7) |
book-censorship first-amendment free-speech government-action library-access viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether those book-removal decisions are subject to scrutiny under the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment. |
| 25-277 |
Aden Rusfeldt v. Officer Cristian Morar, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-09-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
fighting-words first-amendment free-speech heckler's-veto public-forum qualified-immunity |
Under the First Amendment, street preachers and counter-protesters can speak in front of a crowd but not to a crowd, or to any person therein, or else… |
| 25-233 |
Catharine Miller, et al. v. Civil Rights Department |
California |
2025-08-28 |
Denied |
Amici (10) |
compelled-speech employment-division-smith free-speech public-accommodation religious-freedom same-sex-marriage |
Petitioner Cathy Miller runs a small bakery in Bakersfield, California, where she designs and creates custom wedding cakes. After she declined to desi… |
| 25A192 |
Hal Taylor, Secretary, Alabama Law Enforcement Agency v. Jonathan Singleton, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-08-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
begging-laws first-amendment founding-era free-speech historical-tradition speech-categories |
Whether historical practice and tradition at the time of the founding categorically exclude begging from First Amendment free speech protection |
| 25-123 |
Matthew Joseph Connolly v. City of Southfield, Michigan |
Michigan |
2025-07-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-ordinance due-process first-amendment free-speech probation-conditions public-forum |
1. Whether the Due Process Clause protects defendants from being prosecuted under an ordinance that prohibits expression and conduct in public forums,… |
| 25-115 |
Monica Miller, et al. v. Letitia James, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as Attorney General of New York |
Second Circuit |
2025-07-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights defamation first-amendment free-speech reputational-harm standing |
During a press conference convened by the New York Attorney General to announce the filing of a civil lawsuit against Red Rose Rescue, a pro-life orga… |
| 25-110 |
Sally Priester v. Puerto Rico Department of Health, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-07-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
first-amendment free-speech government-interference healthcare-speech licensing-board pandemic-restrictions |
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, Dr. Priester, M.D., exerted her rights under the Free Speech, Freedom of Association, and Free… |
| 25-107 |
Leah Gilliam v. David Gerregano, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Revenue, et al. |
Tennessee |
2025-07-29 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
first-amendment free-speech government-speech license-plate public-forum state-regulation |
Whether the messages paid for and chosen by car owners on personalized license plates—commonly known as "vanity" plates—are government speech. |
| 25A116 |
Leila Green Little, et al. v. Llano County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split first-amendment free-speech government-speech information-access public-library |
Whether the First Amendment protects a right to receive information from a public library and how the government speech doctrine applies to library co… |
| 25A97 |
NetChoice, LLC v. Lynn Fitch, Attorney General of Mississippi |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-23 |
Presumed Complete |
Amici (8) |
age-verification content-based-restrictions first-amendment free-speech parental-consent social-media |
Question not identified. |
| 25-66 |
Alliance Marc & Eva Stern Math & Science High School, et al. v. Public Employment Relations Board, et al. |
California |
2025-07-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law first-amendment free-speech government-speech public-employers union-membership |
In 2017, California enacted the Prohibition on Public Employers Deterring or Discouraging Union Membership (PEDD). The PEDD prohibits "public employer… |
| 25-29 |
Priscilla Villarreal v. Isidro R. Alaniz, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-09 |
Pending |
Amici (11)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) |
arrest-without-cause civil-rights first-amendment free-speech government-officials qualified-immunity |
1. Whether it obviously violates the First Amendment to arrest someone for asking government officials questions and publishing the information they v… |
| 24-1261 |
Cambridge Christian School, Inc. v. Florida High School Athletic Association, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-06-10 |
Denied |
Amici (24)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
establishment-clause free-exercise free-speech government-speech religious-liberty santa-fe-doctrine |
Whether Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe compels a finding of government speech where two private Christian schools sought to engage in com… |
| 24-7299 |
Jerry L. Hoffman, Jr. v. Jose Delgado, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-05-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech municipal-ordinance prior-restraint public-forum |
Whether a city ordinance prohibiting video recording in public areas within City-owned properties constitutes a prior restraint on free speech and vio… |
| 24-1083 |
Jeanne Tamagny v. John Scott Tamagny |
New Jersey |
2025-04-16 |
Denied |
|
content-neutrality family-court first-amendment free-speech parental-rights prior-restraint |
Whether a court's prior restraint on speech must be content-neutral, narrowly tailored to serve a significant governmental interest, and leave open am… |
| 24-1041 |
In Re Sally Priester |
|
2025-04-01 |
Dismissed |
|
appellate-review constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech judicial-procedure writ-of-mandamus |
Whether the Court should issue a writ of mandamus directing the First Circuit to proceed with its duty to rule on an appeal stayed for twenty-two mont… |
| 24-6819 |
Kenneth Daywitt, et al. v. Jodi Harpstead, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Human Services, in her Individual and Official Capacity, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights court-standards first-amendment free-speech judicial-duty legal-standards |
Do federal courts have a duty to citizens of the United States of America to apply established legal standards related to First Amendment claims? |
| 24-965 |
Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Shirley Weber, California Secretary of State |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
circuit-split election-law first-amendment free-speech misinformation retaliation |
Did the Ninth Circuit undermine free speech protections when it found that a retaliatory action is independent from an action that could chill a perso… |
| 24-853 |
Rory Douglas Wilson v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2025-02-11 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-liberties constitutional-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech municipal-ordinance |
Whether Moscow's ordinance or prosecution of Wilson violates the First or Fourteenth Amendments |
| 24-6429 |
Robert Michael Kuczewski v. Robin Marien, et al. |
California |
2025-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
defamation first-amendment free-speech government-speech limited-purpose-public-figure public-interest |
Whether the standard for classifying limited purpose public figures and the scope of defamation liability for republishing official government documen… |
| 24-803 |
Michael Quinn Sullivan v. Texas Ethics Commission |
Texas |
2025-01-28 |
Denied |
Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
citizen-communication first-amendment free-speech government-regulation lobbying-restrictions political-speech |
Whether the First Amendment permits the government to require ordinary citizens to register and pay a fee to communicate with their government represe… |
| 24A702 |
Daniel Z. Crowe, et al. v. State Bar of Oregon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
attorney-discipline civil-liberties constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech state-bar |
Whether a state bar association can impose disciplinary sanctions on attorneys for protected First Amendment speech without violating their constituti… |
| 24-667 |
Belinda Parker Brown v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2024-12-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-communication contempt-power court-procedure first-amendment free-speech judicial-discretion |
Whether a court's exercise of contempt powers for verbal interactions with attorneys during recess violates an individual's First Amendment rights |
| 24A604 |
Rahul Dev Manchanda v. Attorney Grievance Committee for the First Judicial Department |
New York |
2024-12-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
attorney-discipline constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech grievance-committee |
Whether a state attorney grievance committee's disciplinary proceedings against an attorney violate the First Amendment right to free speech and due p… |
| 24A588 |
Brian Firebaugh, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
District of Columbia |
2024-12-16 |
Presumed Complete |
Amici (2) |
content-restriction first-amendment foreign-ownership free-speech social-media tiktok |
Whether a federal statute banning a social media platform based on its foreign ownership violates the First Amendment rights of users to speak, associ… |
| 24A587 |
TikTok, Inc. and ByteDance Ltd. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General. |
District of Columbia |
2024-12-16 |
Presumed Complete |
Amici (5) |
bill-of-attainder content-restriction first-amendment free-speech national-security social-media |
Whether a content-based restriction on a social media platform constitutes a violation of the First Amendment's free speech protections when enacted w… |
| 24-6133 |
Kyle Wolfe v. Jill Krowinski |
Vermont |
2024-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-scrutiny first-amendment free-speech petition-rights second-amendment state-law |
Whether Vermont State Statutes 15 V.S.A. 5133(e) and 12 V.S.A. § 5131(3) are constitutional under the First and Second Amendments, and whether Order N… |
| 24A556 |
Rory Douglas Wilson v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2024-12-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech municipal-ordinance public-property viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether a municipal ordinance prohibiting the posting of notices on public property violates the First Amendment when its enforcement is based on view… |
| 24-621 |
National Republican Senatorial Committee, et al. v. Federal Election Commission, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-12-06 |
Granted |
Amici (40)Relisted (2) |
campaign-finance constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech party-communication political-expenditure |
Whether the limits on coordinated party expenditures in 52 U.S.C. § 30116 violate the First Amendment, either on their face or as applied to party spe… |
| 24-5971 |
Maritza Ortiz v. Supreme Court of Puerto Rico |
Puerto Rico |
2024-11-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights ethics-rules first-amendment free-speech petitioning-redress strict-scrutiny |
Whether Puerto Rico's ethics rules, when applied to private speech while petitioning for redress, are subject to strict scrutiny under the First Amend… |
| 24-539 |
Kaley Chiles v. Patty Salazar, in Her Official Capacity as Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-11-13 |
Granted |
Amici (113)Relisted (4) |
content-based-regulation counseling-restriction first-amendment free-speech gender-identity viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether a law that censors certain conversations between counselors and their clients based on the viewpoints expressed regulates conduct or violates … |
| 24A372 |
Joseph Nierman v. Juan M. Merchan, Justice, New York State Supreme Court, New York County |
New York |
2024-10-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech gag-order judicial-restraint prior-restraint |
Whether a state court-imposed gag order on an individual's speech violates the First Amendment's free speech protections |
| 24A368 |
Children's Health Defense v. Meta Platforms, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
content-moderation first-amendment free-speech government-censorship misinformation social-media-platforms |
Whether the First Amendment permits social media platforms to moderate content based on government-requested misinformation assessments without violat… |
| 24-411 |
Jeffrey Gray Thomas v. State Bar of Nevada |
Nevada |
2024-10-11 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
compelled-government-speech constitutional-rights due-process free-speech interstate-commerce right-to-travel |
Whether the Supreme Court of Nevada denied due process and constitutional rights through reciprocal disbarment that allegedly violated free speech and… |
| 24-361 |
Speech First, Inc. v. Pamela Whitten, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-10-01 |
Denied |
Amici (9)Relisted (5) |
bias-response-team constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech student-rights university-policy |
Whether bias-response teams objectively chill students' speech |
| 24-296 |
Kieran Ravi Bhattacharya v. James B. Murray, Jr., in His Official Capacity as Rector of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
academic-hearing disciplinary-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech seventh-amendment |
Was Bhattacharya deprived of his Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial when the district court and Fourth Circuit resolved disputed material facts i… |
| 24-5537 |
Nevin P. Cooper-Keel v. Roberts A. Kengis |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
facebook-page first-amendment free-speech government-speech public-forum viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether a government's Facebook page constitutes a public forum and whether deleting comments based on viewpoint violates First Amendment free speech … |
| 24-5526 |
Terry Dean Birts v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2024-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
campaign-finance constitutional-rights donation-regulation first-amendment free-speech political-speech |
Whether state-level political donations can be considered a form of protected First Amendment speech and whether campaign finance regulations impermis… |
| 24-243 |
Michael Grant v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-09-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech public-forum religious-expression solicitation |
Whether a public preacher can be arrested for preaching in a public park with a religious sign and collection plate without violating First Amendment … |
| 24-5365 |
Troy Steven Richter v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-investigation erotica first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech ineffective-assistance |
Does the First Amendment protect against criminal investigation initiation for materials deemed erotica and not violating criminal statutes? |
| 24-174 |
Jack Jordan v. Attorney Grievance Committee for the First Judicial Department |
New York |
2024-08-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights disbarment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech |
Whether the New York State Court of Appeals violated the Fourteenth Amendment by dismissing an attorney's appeal without addressing substantial consti… |
| 24A161 |
L.M., a Minor By and Through His Father and Stepmother and Natural Guardians, Christopher and Susan Morrison v. Town of Middleborough, Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-08-09 |
Presumed Complete |
|
first-amendment free-speech off-campus-speech school-discipline student-speech tinker-standard |
Whether a public school's disciplinary actions against a student for off-campus, online speech violate the First Amendment's protection of free speech… |
| 24-144 |
Thomas Charles Felton Jones v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2024-08-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement overbreadth-doctrine verbal-resistance |
Whether a county ordinance that criminalizes verbal acts of resistance against law enforcement is facially invalid under the First Amendment due to ov… |
| 24-122 |
Michael Craine v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Council 36, Local 119, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights first-amendment free-association free-speech municipal-liability public-employee state-action union-dues union-membership |
Whether the First Amendment protects a public employee's right to resign union membership and stop government-deducted union dues |
| 24-71 |
Avraham Goldstein, et al. v. Professional Staff Congress/CUNY, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-07-23 |
Denied |
Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
anti-semitism compelled-association exclusive-representation expressive-activities first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association religious-freedom state-prohibition union union-representation |
Whether it violates the First Amendment for a state to prohibit individuals from dissociating from a union's representation to protest that union's ex… |
| 24-5120 |
Adam Strege v. Gmail-Google, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-07-22 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
atoms civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech god-loves launch nuclear-fuel nuclear-missiles religion-persecution standing |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5114 |
Benjamin Biancofiori v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech judicial-review legal-procedure precedent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified |
| 24-59 |
Stephen Lynch Murray v. Phil Archer, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law confrontation due-process fourth-amendment free-speech political-speech speech-retaliation standing witness-confrontation |
When there is speech infringement with arrest, must there be a venue for confrontation and evidence the state did not provide as due, before a federal… |
| 24-57 |
Coalition Life v. City of Carbondale, Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-07-18 |
Denied |
Amici (11)Relisted (9) |
abortion abortion-rights civil-rights constitutional-law due-process first-amendment free-speech public-debate public-forum supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court should overrule Hill v. Colorado |
| 24-53 |
Nathan Miller, et al. v. Republican Party of Minnesota, et al. |
Minnesota |
2024-07-17 |
Denied |
|
campaign-speech civil-rights compelling-state-interest constitutional-law content-based-restriction content-based-restrictions first-amendment free-speech political-speech |
Whether state statutes broadly banning false campaign speech are unconstitutional content-based restrictions on political speech |
| 24-5077 |
Gary Davis v. Randy Irwin, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-statement civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provision due-process free-speech habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing statutory-provision supreme-court-procedure writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 24-41 |
Michael D. Cohen v. Donald J. Trump, former President of the United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-07-15 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
bivens-action bivens-claims civil-liberties constitutional-rights first-amendment first-amendment-rights free-speech habeas-corpus retaliation retaliatory-imprisonment |
Whether a cause of action exists under Bivens when federal officials imprison a critic in retaliation for his refusal to waive his right to free speec… |
| 24-33 |
Reuben Neff v. Iowa Supreme Court Attorney Disciplinary Board |
Iowa |
2024-07-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-disciplinary-rules attorney-speech civil-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process first-amendment free-speech professional-conduct sexual-harassment workplace-speech |
First Amendment-protection |
| 24-5041 |
John Maron Nassif v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2024-07-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
capitol-buildings civil-rights criminal-prohibition demonstrating first-amendment free-speech overbreadth viewpoint-expression |
Whether 40 U.S.C. § 5104(e)(2)(G), which targets and criminalizes core First Amendment expression, is unconstitutionally overbroad |
| 24A10 |
Kieran Ravi Bhattacharya v. James B. Murray, Jr., in His Official Capacity as Rector of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-trial summary-judgment university-discipline |
Whether a public university violates a medical student's First Amendment free speech rights by expelling him based on the content of his protected spe… |
| 24-2 |
Camille Bourque v. Engineers and Architects Association, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech government-employer janus-v-afscme labor-unions public-sector section-1983 union-dues wage-deduction |
Is the First Amendment violated when a union causes a government employer to seize full union dues from the wages of a nonconsenting employee? |
| 23-1366 |
Jenny Jing, et al. v. Joseph Womack, et al. |
Montana |
2024-07-02 |
Denied |
|
adversary-rights constitutional-rights domestic-partner first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech petition-to-redress-grievances privacy probate-court unauthorized-practice-of-law |
Did the Montana Supreme Court overlook a violation of First and Fourteenth Amendment rights, specifically concerning free-speech, petition-to-redress-… |
| 23-7790 |
Marco Cadejuste v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-06-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-review certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure discovery-violations due-process free-speech judicial-process legal-petition standing supreme-court |
Question not identified |
| 23-7815 |
Jesus M. Romero, Sr. v. BronxCare HealthCare System, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-06-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law agency-action child-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law free-speech standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1351 |
Torrey Lynne Henderson, Amara Jana Ridge, and Justin Royce Thompson v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-06-27 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
criminal-conviction first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech obstruction-of-passageway obstruction-statute peaceful-assembly peaceful-protest public-forum public-sidewalks |
Do the First and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the government from convicting individuals for obstructing a passageway based solely on their particip… |
| 23-7793 |
Jesus M. Romero, Sr., Individually and on Behalf of His Minor Child, J. R. v. Bellevue Hospital, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights covid-19 due-process federal-courts free-speech jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation vaccine-mandate |
Question not identified |
| 23-7786 |
Christine H. Scott v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assembly-rights constitutional-rights contract first-amendment free-speech government-property petition-rights private-property public-access public-forum |
Whether the right to petition, assemble and speak freely on government-owned property held open to the public exists when the publicly held land is co… |
| 23A1132 |
Thomas Osadzinski v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-06-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
advocacy first-amendment free-speech material-support statutory-interpretation terrorist-organization |
Whether a citizen's independent viewing and sharing of publicly posted media from a designated foreign terrorist organization constitutes an attempt t… |
| 23A1124 |
Kathryn Dana Papp v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2024-06-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
communication-regulation content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech harassment-statute intent-to-harass |
Whether a state statute criminalizing communications intended to harass, annoy, or alarm constitutes an impermissible content-based restriction on spe… |
| 23-7732 |
Jose Edgar Hernandez v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-06-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process free-speech immigration-law judicial-review migrants-rights standing takings |
Question not identified |
| 23-7730 |
Thomas Richardson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process free-speech fundamental-rights judicial-exceptions legal-precedent standing supreme-court-authority |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7704 |
Michael Jarrow v. Heath H. Orr |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-procedure standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1303 |
Craig Malin v. Lee Enterprises, Inc., et al. |
Iowa |
2024-06-13 |
Denied |
|
actual-malice civil-rights defamation due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-trial publication-law summary-judgment |
Does grant of summary judgment to Respondent Lee Enterprises conflict with requirements for a jury trial per Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S.… |
| 23-7698 |
Garcia Coleman v. Dan Cromwell, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-06-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights custody custody-transfer department-of-corrections due-process free-speech guardianship legal-procedure liberty |
Question not identified. |
| 23A1099 |
Ryan Crownholm, et al. v. Richard B. Moore, in His Official Capacity as Executive Officer, California Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
first-amendment free-speech land-surveying professional-licensing regulatory-conduct site-plan |
Whether a state may regulate as professional 'conduct' the creation and dissemination of site plan drawings that do not establish legally binding prop… |
| 23-7645 |
Antrell Teen v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing voting-rights |
Whether the standards used by the Ninth Circuit in the Brouwer v. Raffensperger case violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 23-1274 |
Brian Philip Manookian v. Board of Professional Responsibility of the Supreme Court of Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2024-06-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-discipline disbarment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech notice retaliation |
Does the disbarment of an attorney for truthful out-of-court statements about other attorneys violate the First Amendment? |
| 23-1276 |
Young Israel of Tampa, Inc. v. Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-05 |
Denied |
Amici (5) |
circuit-split first-amendment free-speech government-forum public-forum religious-speech rosenberger-precedent viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether a public transit agency's ban on advertisements that 'primarily promote a religious faith or religious organization' violates the First Amendm… |
| 23-7633 |
Deanne R. Upson Giese v. William Earl Wallace, III |
Maryland |
2024-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-custody civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process equal-protection equal-rights-amendment free-speech interstate-jurisdiction interstate-relations parent-child parental-rights |
Have the states of Maryland, District of Columbia, and Virginia violated the rights of this Mother and Child under the United States Constitution? |
| 23-7627 |
In Re Tonya Knowles |
|
2024-06-03 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights collective-defense constitution due-process free-speech international-organization military-alliance monarchy nato sovereign standing treaty |
Whether a monarch can be removed from the US Constitution due to an individual 'discreating' on the monarch's image |
| 23-7586 |
Christopher Eugean Brown v. Sergeant Ashley Kern |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure free-speech incarceration judicial-discretion standing takings |
Did the Session Tudor PEA Ca ce JoAv ORS, fe Sesiohe Tee, tans, OEE Ge eb |
| 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 |
Whether the Petitioner was denied the constitutional right to a fair trial in a First Amendment retaliation case |
| 23-7579 |
James B. Jordan v. Federal Bureau of Investigation |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process free-speech retaliation surveillance |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights to due process, freedom of speech, and freedom from unreasonable search and seizure were violated by th… |
| 23-1228 |
Mason Murphy v. Michael Schmitt |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-05-21 |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split civil-rights first-amendment free-speech nieves-exception probable-cause retaliatory-arrest selective-enforcement selective-prosecution |
Whether the Nieves probable-cause exception allows courts to consider allegations that no one else has been arrested for the same crime |
| 23-1223 |
Jennifer L. Cooper, et al. v. US Dominion, Inc., et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-05-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii-standing cease-and-desist civil-rights defamation due-process equal-protection free-speech precedential-opinion standing |
Whether recipients of a cease-and-desist letter have Article III standing |
| 23-7489 |
In Re Tonya Knowles |
|
2024-05-16 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights collective-defense due-process free-speech international-organization military-agreement nato-alliance separation-of-powers sovereign-rights standing treaty-clause |
Whether Chief Justice John Roberts is allowed to remove 'Liberty' from the Supreme Court's motto |
| 23-7497 |
In Re Olamide O. Bello |
|
2024-05-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defamation due-process federal-release first-amendment free-speech government-liability retaliation speech-restriction |
Whether a company's comments with customers on and for redress of grievances are protected under the First Amendment and Article 16 of the Declaration… |
| 23-7468 |
Joe Ernest Robinson v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-05-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process free-speech judicial-procedure legal-review scotus-petition standing statutory-interpretation |
Can a defendant be convicted under laws that are vague and overbroad? |
| 23-7473 |
Cody Ray Leveke, aka Cody Meyer, aka Cody Ray Meyers v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-intent criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-instructions subjective-intent supreme-court supreme-court-precedent threat-standard |
Whether jury instructions based on Elonis v. United States (2015) sufficiently encompass the requirement of 'subjective intent to threaten,' as articu… |
| 23-7482 |
In Re Alfred Lane-Bey |
|
2024-05-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process free-speech habeas-corpus international-law standing |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights under the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, and 14th Amendments were violated |
| 23-1214 |
Tanishia Hubbard v. Service Employees International Union Local 2015, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
civil-rights compelled-speech due-process first-amendment free-speech government-deduction janus-v-afscme labor-union labor-unions public-employee state-action union-dues |
Does the First Amendment protect a nonmember public employee against government deduction of union dues when the employee's union forged her membershi… |
| 23-1215 |
Christopher Deering v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 18, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
color-of-law compelled-speech dues dues-payments first-amendment free-speech political-speech public-employee union union-membership |
Whether the First Amendment protects a public employee's right to disassociate from a union |
| 23-7446 |
Erika Jacobs v. Quest Diagnostics |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-09 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process employment free-speech jurisdictional-issue legal-standing standing statutory-provisions supreme-court-procedure writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the lower court erred in its judgment on the petitioner's claims |
| 23-7426 |
Saye Henry Gofan, Jr. v. Cameron C. Gustafson, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-issue court-of-appeals district-court due-process free-speech habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge legal-procedure standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's constitutional challenges to the government's actions |
| 23-7394 |
Moses Jackson v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2024-05-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech standing takings |
Whether the Iban Act violated the Petitioner's constitutional rights |
| 23-7395 |
Wesley Carl Panighetti v. California |
California |
2024-05-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech judicial-review legal-precedent privacy standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the state courts' determination of the facts of this case was objectively reasonable? |
| 23-1188 |
Jonathon Owen Shroyer v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2024-05-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal-waiver first-amendment free-speech protected-speech relevant-conduct relevant-offense-conduct sentencing substantive-reasonableness |
Whether a prison sentence imposed as a result of the consideration of protected speech as 'relevant offense conduct' violates the First Amendment and … |
| 23-1189 |
Jeryl Turco v. City of Englewood, New Jersey |
Third Circuit |
2024-05-03 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (11) |
abortion-clinic buffer-zones civil-rights content-neutrality due-process first-amendment free-speech hill-v-colorado public-forum sidewalk-counseling speech-suppression standing |
Whether the City of Englewood's speech-free buffer zones, including zones outside an abortion clinic, violate the First Amendment |
| 23-1192 |
Christine Mire v. University Hospital & Clinics, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-conduct civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment estoppel excessive-fines first-amendment free-speech punitive-sanctions subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the lower courts' imposition of punitive sanctions violates Petitioner's rights under the First and/or Eighth Amendments |
| 23-7352 |
Christopher R. Johnson v. Washington |
Washington |
2024-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant civil-rights, due-process, and free-speech laws |
| 23-7372 |
Meghan Kelly v. Disciplinary Counsel Patricia B. Swartz, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-05-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech judicial-discretion professional-disciplinary-proceedings sixth-amendment standing |
Question not identified |
| 23-7373 |
Giovanni DePalma v. Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1981 civil-procedure civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process emergency-petition first-amendment free-speech standing subject-matter-jurisdiction younger-abstention |
Whether the Petitioner is foreclosed from presenting a lack of subject matter jurisdiction and double jeopardy claim |
| 23-1155 |
Priscilla Villarreal v. Isidro R. Alaniz, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-24 |
GVR |
Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
arrest-without-cause civil-rights criminal-procedure first-amendment free-speech government-officials news-reporting public-officials qualified-immunity |
whether-it-obviously-violates-the-first-amendment-to-arrest-someone-for-asking-government-officials-questions-and-publishing-the-information-they-volu… |
| 23-7270 |
Mark Johnson v. New York |
New York |
2024-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus legal-representation sexual-assault standing victim-rights |
Whether the district court erred in denying the petitioner's motion to vacate the conviction and sentence based on the alleged ineffective assistance … |
| 23-7254 |
Alfred Johnson, Sr. v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2024-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing |
Question not identified |
| 23-1135 |
Saline Parents, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
District of Columbia |
2024-04-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
chilling-effect domestic-terrorism first-amendment free-speech government-surveillance reputational-harm standing |
Standing-to-challenge-government-policy |
| 23-7247 |
Calvin Fair v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2024-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech intent mental-state political-speech recklessness standing true-threat |
When the state prosecutes core political speech as a true threat, must the state prove the speaker's intent to terrorize, or is a recklessness standar… |
| 23-1122 |
Free Speech Coalition, Inc., et al. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-16 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (45)Relisted (2) |
adults-access constitutional-rights content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech protected-speech rational-basis rational-basis-review strict-scrutiny |
Whether the court of appeals erred as a matter of law in applying rational-basis review to a law burdening adults' access to protected speech, instead… |
| 23-1112 |
Ryan Cram, et al. v. Service Employees International Union Local 503, Oregon Public Employees Union, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
1st-amendment campaign-contributions campaign-finance civil-rights compelled-speech first-amendment free-speech labor-union labor-unions public-employees public-sector union-political-funds |
Do public employees who are former union members possess the First Amendment right to refuse to contribute to union political campaign funds? |
| 23-1105 |
National Press Photographers Association v. Kelly Higgins, in His Official Capacity as District Attorney of Hays County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
article-iii-standing civil-rights content-based-restriction content-based-restrictions drone-surveillance due-process first-amendment free-speech intermediate-scrutiny standing vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Do journalists and news organizations have standing to bring a void-for-vagueness due process challenge? |
| 23-7198 |
Ebone East, et al. v. Fix It Auto Repair, Inc. |
Arizona |
2024-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-procedure due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech right-to-appeal standing state-court-discretion |
Does the federal courts apply proper standards of review when examining lower court rulings on due process, free-speech, equal-protection, civil-proce… |
| 23-7202 |
Craig Alford v. Lea Baylor, Director, Monroe County Correctional Facility, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-04-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech legal-standing standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Did the lower courts err in dismissing the petitioner's claims challenging the constitutionality of certain federal statutes and regulations governing… |
| 23-7193 |
Jared Domei Maloid v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-review legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation |
whether-the-federal-question-was-decided-on-an-important-federal-matter-that-conflicts-with-the-decisions-of-the-united-states-court-of-appeals |
| 23-7158 |
Russell Dean Alford v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2024-04-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth political-expression protected-speech secret-service statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether 'disorderly' and 'disruptive' in 18 U.S.C. § 1752(a)(2) and 40 U.S.C. § 5104(e)(2)(D) narrow the types of conduct criminalized, or refer only … |
| 23-1087 |
Jack Jordan v. United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
2024-04-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights disbarment due-process federal-judges federal-law federal-offenses free-speech judicial-misconduct legal-procedure |
Whether federal law or the U.S. Constitution authorize federal judges to penalize persons for stating federal judges violated rights |
| 23-1089 |
Coronavirus Reporter, et al. v. Apple Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
antitrust antitrust-law civil-procedure civil-rights digital-distribution due-process free-speech market-definition monopoly-conduct per-se-rule software-tying standing |
Did the District Court err in denying leave to amend a first-to-file developer antitrust lawsuit concerning free digital apps, when Petitioner Dr. Jef… |
| 23-1090 |
Scott D. Pitta v. Dina Medeiros, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as Administrator of Special Education for the Bridgewater Raynham Regional School District, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-04-05 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
citizen-rights civil-rights expressive-activity first-amendment free-speech government-employee inherently-expressive public-interest public-space recording-rights |
Whether the act of recording a government employee engaged in his or her duties is inherently expressive activity entitled to First Amendment protecti… |
| 23-7123 |
Ivan Isho v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-instructions mental-state objective-standard recklessness stalking true-threats |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision violated the Counterman standard for true threats prosecutions |
| 23-7101 |
Deborah A. Redman v. United States, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process ethical-lapses free-speech judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation procedural-trap standing |
May federal judges reframe and distort Petitioner's arguments? |
| 23-1062 |
Mark Changizi, et al. v. Department of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-03-28 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
article-iii-standing civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech government-censorship government-interference public-health-policy social-media social-media-censorship standing |
Whether Petitioners have Article III standing |
| 23-1057 |
Paul Johnson v. Matthew Tepper |
Texas |
2024-03-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech judicial-neutrality party-presentation pro-se pro-se-plaintiff sua-sponte sua-sponte-arguments supreme-court-review |
Whether the United States Supreme Court will review the actions of a Texas Court of Appeals, which departed from its role as a neutral arbiter by enga… |
| 23-7079 |
Santiago Mason Gomez v. Odunay O. Kuku, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process first-amendment free-speech prisoner-rights retaliation standing supreme-court-review |
Whether the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District violated the petitioner's constitutional rights, including the First Amendment right to free … |
| 23-1054 |
Christine Boardman v. Service Employees International Union, aka SEIU, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-03-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process equal-rights first-amendment-rights free-speech labor-management-reporting-disclosure-act labor-union-rights membership-rights trusteeship-power union-official-protections union-trusteeship |
Does a trustee of an international union during the course of a trusteeship have a right under the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act to de… |
| 23-7011 |
Irina Collier v. Superior Court of California, Contra Costa County, et al. |
California |
2024-03-18 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process free-speech jurisdiction legal-document petition standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Writ of Writ of Certiorari has been properly granted to speak on the topics of public interest at mandatory gag order of the year for US f… |
| 23-6998 |
Ossie Lee Slaughter v. Daniel White |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Whether the Wee Haft 6 ' 7 hestn Dstt Cut Ph cea eed nN toe ducing nice Hear tev had Yb , Ant whit ducing the inct Lo py joy My Selk From spook 7 Me o… |
| 23-1008 |
Gwyneth K. Murray-Nolan v. Scott Rubin, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-03-14 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law context due-process expressive-conduct first-amendment free-speech judicial-precedent legal-interpretation standing |
Whether conduct must convey a particularized message to be protected as expressive under the First Amendment |
| 23-1006 |
In Re Christopher Gary Baylor |
|
2024-03-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech judicial-delay mandamus-jurisdiction right-to-appeal section-1657 standing |
Does relief become impliedly denied upon the expiration of time to grant or deny, and if no, when does absence of any judgment, ruling, decision, decr… |
| 23-995 |
Nadine Gazzola, et al. v. Kathleen Hochul, Governor of New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-03-12 |
Denied |
|
2nd-amendment bruen-precedent civil-procedure constitutional-standing due-process firearms-regulation free-speech preliminary-injunction regulatory-overburden second-amendment standing takings |
Did the Second Circuit err in the Winter analysis of Petitioners' request for preliminary injunctive relief under Fed. R. Civ. P. 65, including (1.) w… |
| 23-6946 |
Charles Awusin Inko-Tariah v. Royce C. Lamberth, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process free-speech judicial-review legal-jurisdiction procedural-rules standing statutory-provisions |
Whether the DCCA correctly denied the petition for writ of certiorari |
| 23-6906 |
Thomas Thornton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process free-speech judicial-review separation-of-powers standing |
Why are lower courts not following Supreme Court rulings and overlooking decisions and laws? |
| 23-961 |
John Doe, Through Next Friend Jane Roe v. Snap, Inc., dba Snapchat, L.L.C., dba Snap, L.L.C. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-05 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
civil-rights content-provider due-process free-speech internet-service-provider negligence negligent-design section-230 sexual-assault sexual-predator tortious-misconduct |
Does 47 U.S.C. Section 230 immunize internet service providers from any suit based on their own tortious misconduct simply because third-party content… |
| 23-957 |
David Michael Bishop, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-03-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-investigation civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech irs irs-summons judicial-review powell-factors standing tax tax-procedure |
Whether the IRS summons process is subject to quashing and constraint by the First Amendment's protections against chilling or retaliatory government … |
| 23-6876 |
Joseph Neil Bronson, Jr. v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-attempt criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech legislative-intent overbroad post-conviction-relief standing statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Is IP U.S.C. §1994 unconstitutionally vague or overbroad as applied in Bronson's Metaphysical attempt? |
| 23-950 |
Michael J. Lindell, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment cell-phone-seizure civil-rights electronic-data fourth-amendment free-speech legal-precedent preliminary-injunction retaliation seizure warrant-particularity |
Whether a preliminary injunction may be granted if it requests the ultimate relief sought in the litigation |
| 23-6847 |
Tyrone Anthony Bell v. Heidi E. Washington, Director, Michigan Department of Corrections, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-remedies civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech grievance-process prisoner-rights sixth-circuit-interpretation standing threat true-threat |
Whether the state of mind of the author should be considered when the receiver understood the threat or intimidation to be true |
| 23-941 |
In Re First Choice Women's Resource Centers, Inc. |
|
2024-02-28 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech investigatory-demand pre-litigation-challenge ripeness section-1983 standing state-official |
Whether a section 1983 suit to enjoin an unlawful investigatory demand by a state official is ripe only after a state court has enforced the demand |
| 23-6840 |
Suzanne Ellen Kaye v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law counterman-v-colorado first-amendment free-speech jury-instructions political-speech true-threats watts-v-united-states |
In threat prosecutions where the defendant mounts a political-speech defense, may trial courts—consistent with the First Amendment—instruct the jury o… |
| 23-926 |
No on E, San Franciscans Opposing the Affordable Housing Production Act, et al. v. David Chiu, in His Official Capacity as San Francisco City Attorney, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-27 |
Denied |
Amici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
advertising-regulation association campaign-finance compelled-speech disclosure-requirements donor-disclosure donor-transparency first-amendment free-speech political-speech |
Whether requiring political advertisers to name their donors' donors within their advertisements advances any important or compelling state interest |
| 23-6819 |
In Re Mary A. Nelson-Rogers |
|
2024-02-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights equal-protection first-amendment free-speech standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause |
| 23A769 |
Christine H. Scott v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-02-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
ballot-access constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech quasi-public-property right-to-petition |
Whether the First Amendment protects the right to petition for ballot access on quasi-public property when private entities control access in a manner… |
| 23-895 |
Richard Rogalinski v. Meta Platforms, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
censorship civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech protected-speech social-media standing state-action |
Whether the Petitioner sufficiently stated a claim for relief under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution |
| 23-901 |
John C. Frank v. Debra Lee, in Her Official Capacity as Laramie County Clerk, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-02-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
buffer-zone burson-v-freeman election-buffer-zone election-day electioneering first-amendment free-speech polling-place polling-place-restrictions reasonableness voter-intimidation |
Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in upholding Wyoming's 300-foot election-day-buffer-zone without requiring the state to meet any burden to support the… |
| 23-878 |
Javier Herrera v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (7) |
2nd-amendment arms-protection civil-rights due-process free-speech historical-tradition second-amendment self-defense semiautomatic-rifles standard-magazines standing takings |
Whether semiautomatic rifles and standard magazines are protected 'Arms' under the Second Amendment |
| 23-6720 |
Lawrence Remsen, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. |
California |
2024-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights class-action declaratory-relief due-process first-amendment free-speech good-time-credits judicial-immunity liberty-interest standing |
Did the CSC deny class member Bruce Koklich his First Amendment right to petition for declaratory and injunctive relief? |
| 23-6691 |
Latefah Shampine v. East Cleveland Board of Education, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
ballot-initiatives civil-rights constitutional-law due-process election-law free-speech standing |
Whether the power of public officials to amend voter-approved initiatives is constitutional |
| 23-859 |
Zachary S. Spiegel v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attempted-enticement circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute free-speech mandatory-sentencing obscene-speech obscenity sentencing statutory-interpretation substantial-step |
Does speech alone constitute the 'substantial step' for a charge of attempted enticement of a minor? |
| 23-860 |
Brandon Holtan, et al. v. Mark Edward Nieters |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-09 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity unlawful-assembly warrantless-arrest |
Whether probable cause existed to arrest for unlawful assembly |
| 23-6704 |
Joshua P. Lindsey v. Sarah Evans Barker, Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-02-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-standards criminal-conviction due-process free-speech ninth-circuit prosecutorial-misconduct standing |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 23-855 |
Richard Abbott v. Supreme Court of Delaware, et al. |
Delaware |
2024-02-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
6th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause disbarment due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech pro-se professional-licensure |
Whether a pro se defendant in a confidential professional licensure disbarment proceeding has full 1st Amendment rights |
| 23-6653 |
Mark Marvin v. United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
2024-02-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure first-amendment free-speech habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mandamus standing |
Whether petitioner has standing to file a habeas and mandamus petition |
| 23-6660 |
Douglas Manning v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2024-02-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech judicial-review jurisdiction legal-relief procedural-due-process standing |
Question not identified |
| 23-833 |
Zachary Greenberg v. Jerry Lehocky, in His Official Capacity as Board Chair of the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-02-02 |
Denied |
Amici (7) |
article-iii civil-rights complaint-amendment ethics-rule free-speech jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction mootness standing standing-inquiry time-of-filing-rule |
Does amending or supplementing a complaint to include new factual developments absolve the government of its burden to prove mootness? |
| 23-6617 |
Michael J. Harvey v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-standards civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-rights de-novo-review due-process free-speech judicial-review medical-assistance standing |
Did the DC apply de novo review to A.'s Complaint? |
| 23-822 |
Nicholas Sandmann v. New York Times Company, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
fact-vs-opinion first-amendment free-speech milkovich-standard milkovich-v-lorain opinion opinion-doctrine sensory-impressions sixth-circuit |
Do statements conveying observed sensory impressions in factual, descriptive terms constitute protected 'opinion' under the First Amendment? |
| 23-6584 |
David E. Hill v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process free-speech nlrb-sanctions standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the NLRB's denial of access to the courts and administrative agencies violates the First and Fifth Amendment rights of the petitioner |
| 23-809 |
Peter Kleidman v. Martin R. Barash, Judge, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
brown-vs-board civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-tort due-process equitable-relief federal-judges free-speech judicial-immunity prospective-injunction pulliam-precedent standing |
Are federal judges immune from claims for equitable relief? |
| 23-6561 |
Lawrence Edward Thompson v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions |
| 23-794 |
John Pacilio and Edward Bases v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-01-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
2nd-amendment 35-usc-101 brown-vs-board civil-rights commodities-trading criminal-liability dodd-frank due-process fraud-statutes free-speech prosecutorial-discretion spoofing |
Whether spoofing violates the federal fraud statutes where a trader places a genuine, valid, fully executable order |
| 23-784 |
Kenneth James Rosellini v. New Jersey Office of Attorney Ethics |
New Jersey |
2024-01-18 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech legal-ethics res-judicata |
Can an attorney be sanctioned for failure to obey tribunal rules when asserting unconstitutionality under the First and Fourteenth Amendments? |
| 23-6503 |
David Rivera v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech fundamental-rights pretrial-claims prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-vindictiveness standing |
When a defendant presents strong circumstantial evidence of possible vindictiveness beyond mere correlation, can a presumption of vindictiveness arise… |
| 23-6483 |
Joanne J. Antrobus v. New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation |
Second Circuit |
2024-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech precedent standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant civil-rights, due-process, and free-speech precedents |
| 23-6471 |
Edward J. Steiner v. Brent Kempster, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing video-evidence |
Whether the district court erred in striking the motions as untimely, which are important to the case involving video evidence and tampering issues th… |
| 23-747 |
Marylin Pierre v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland |
Maryland |
2024-01-10 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
actual-malice civil-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-discipline legal-ethics new-york-times-v-sullivan professional-conduct rules-of-professional-conduct |
Does the actual malice test of New York Times v. Sullivan protect lawyers' First Amendment rights in disciplinary proceedings? |
| 23-6417 |
Ralph Hall v. New York |
New York |
2024-01-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights compelled-speech constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech government-speech prosecutorial-discretion sentencing |
Whether the First Amendment prohibits the government from compelling speech that contradicts the government's own message |
| 23-6419 |
Anthony Harris v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-sentencing due-process free-speech jurisdiction recidivism standing state-law-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Question not identified |
| 23A615 |
Curtis Dwayne Vaughn v. Sean M. Flannery, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
americans-with-disabilities-act due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech judicial-misconduct |
Whether the First Amendment and Americans with Disabilities Act protect a student with cognitive disabilities from being denied access to public unive… |
| 23-690 |
Brant Putnam, et al. v. Timothy Ryan |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 adverse-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech investigation medical-staff qualified-immunity standing |
Whether a retaliatory investigation may be a distinct adverse action under the First Amendment |
| 23-672 |
Alessandra Nicole Rogers v. Stanton Riggs, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-21 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights concerted-speech first-amendment free-speech garcetti-pickering group-speech petition-rights public-employees summary-judgment |
Is a petition written, signed and circulated outside of work by 45 current and former county employees and delivered to their elected officials, a mat… |
| 23-6310 |
In Re Joseph Emerson |
|
2023-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fbi-misconduct free-speech interstate-sex-trafficking privacy-violation sex-trafficking social-media-manipulation standing talent-agency-fraud |
Whether the FBI's alleged actions of interstate sex trafficking, coercion, and invasion of privacy violated the petitioner's constitutional and statut… |
| 23-665 |
Tina Goede v. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, LP, et al. |
Minnesota |
2023-12-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights due-process employment-policy first-amendment free-speech philosophical-choice religious-beliefs religious-sincerity state-court-review thomas-v-review-board unemployment-benefits |
Can a state deny unemployment benefits to an applicant whose religious beliefs are independently sufficient to cause her refusal to follow an employer… |
| 23-6305 |
Brendan Hunt v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-12-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-fact first-amendment free-speech independent-review speech-protection standard-of-review true-threat |
Whether the appellate standard of review of a jury's determination that a particular expression constitutes a 'true threat' should be deferential or d… |
| 23-657 |
Michelle MacDonald v. Minnesota Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility |
Minnesota |
2023-12-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-discipline attorney-speech client-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech government-power judicial-discipline judicial-integrity professional-conduct |
Whether a free speech right to impugn judicial integrity must be recognized for attorneys in order to reclaim their First Amendment Rights in invoking… |
| 23-647 |
Adrienne Sepaniak King v. Meta Platforms, Inc., fka Facebook, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
47-usc-230 civil-procedure content-moderation contract contract-law first-amendment free-speech immunity internet-immunity judicial-interpretation section-230 standing |
Should this Court adopt the opinion of Justice Thomas in Malwarebytes v. Enigma Software Group USA, LLC, reverse the Barnes v. Yahoo!, Inc. decision, … |
| 23-6261 |
Tyqashia Sellers v. United States |
North Carolina |
2023-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights |
| 23-646 |
Devon Tinius, et al. v. Luke Choi, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-12-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights curfew curfew-law due-process free-speech fundamental-rights overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether the District of Columbia's curfew law is unconstitutional because it violates fundamental rights and because it is overbroad and void for vagu… |
| 23-6243 |
Offie Curtis Brown, Jr. v. North Carolina Department of Public Safety, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-provisions first-amendment free-speech jurisdictional-issue legal-standard procedural-question public-concern public-employee retaliation statutory-provisions |
Whether the First Amendment protects the right of a public employee to speak on matters of public concern without fear of retaliation |
| 23-626 |
Elon Musk v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Second Circuit |
2023-12-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech government-action sec-enforcement settlement settlement-agreement standing unconstitutional-conditions |
Whether a party's acceptance of a benefit prevents that party from contending that the government violated the unconstitutional conditions doctrine in… |
| 23-6198 |
William Plummer v. Wellpath, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech incarceration medical-parole patent prisoner-rights standing state-law |
Whether the lower court erred in construing the patent claims at issue |
| 23-616 |
Estate of William Han Manstrom-Greening, Through Carol J. Manstrom, Personal Representative v. Lane County, Oregon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-relevance expert-testimony free-speech gun-violence negligence psychological-impact standing suicide |
Is an expert's testimony about the psychological connection between the visible presence of unsecured firearms and death by suicide relevant to a jury… |
| 23-6190 |
Archer Hudson v. D'Artagnan Nathan Debow, et al. |
California |
2023-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of their constitutional rights |
| 23-603 |
Jeffrey Gray Thomas v. California Department of Justice, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process federal-taxation fraud free-speech judicial-misconduct rooker-feldman state-court-sanctions taxation |
Does Rooker-Feldman cutoff Petitioner's attack on fraudulent inducement to the state courts to enter fraudulent orders of sanctions against him, based… |
| 23A505 |
Dale Wendall Laue v. State Bar of California |
California |
2023-12-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
attorney-discipline due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-review state-bar-court |
Whether a state bar court's disciplinary decision against an attorney violates due process or First Amendment rights of free speech |
| 23-6161 |
Norman Javier Herrera Pastran v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-amendment free-speech internet-access sex-offender supervised-release |
Whether the constitutional holding of Packingham v. North Carolina applies to individuals on supervised release |
| 23-6146 |
Catherine Denise Randolph v. United States District Court for the District of Maryland |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process free-speech harmless-error ineffective-assistance obscenity standing state-court-decision surveillance |
Whether the 'Miller test' to prove obscenity violates the First Amendment |
| 23-572 |
Dustin Williams, et al. v. Randall McElhaney |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split civil-rights extracurricular-activities first-amendment free-speech parent-speech-rights qualified-immunity school-rules |
Whether a school employee violates a parent's First Amendment rights by suspending the parent from attending games for one week for violation of team … |
| 23-553 |
William Clark Turner v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction flight-attendant free-speech intimidation jury-instructions statutory-interpretation |
Did the inclusion of multiple alternative definitions of 'intimidate' within the jury instructions for the charged violation of 49 U.S.C. section 4650… |
| 23-545 |
Achashverosh Adnah Ammiyhuwd Ngola Mbandi, et al. v. Pangea Adventures LLC, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
|
alien-tort-statute civil-rights federal-question first-amendment free-speech human-rights international-law retaliation self-determination standing |
Whether aliens of the Hebrew Israelite Kingdom/Nation self-determination, self-governing and autonomy, expressive-first-amendment, retaliatory-tort, 4… |
| 23-6084 |
Joe Stephens v. Alaska Division of Elections |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
ballot-access constitutional-rights due-process election-law equal-protection federalism first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech |
Whether a candidate's right to have their full legal name on the ballot |
| 23-535 |
Jillian Ostrewich v. Teneshia Hudspeth, in Her Official Capacity as Harris County Clerk, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
ballot-measure election-law first-amendment free-speech polling-place polling-place-censorship union voter-apparel |
Does a state violate the First Amendment when it censors voters' t-shirts with a union logo in a polling place because the union took a position on a … |
| 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 |
| 23-6053 |
Nathan Nixon v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process first-district-court florida-supreme-court free-speech jurisdiction public-records standing |
Whether the First District Court of Appeals of the State of Florida erred in denying Petitioner's federal constitutional claims |
| 23-5989 |
In Re Kevin McKenna |
|
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
case-history civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection free-speech judicial-review legal-petition standing supreme-court voting-rights |
Should this Court find that the First Amendment prohibits the government from interfering with a person's right to vote or 'adel vsti o liberally ares… |
| 23-5918 |
Theodore Lee Williams, II v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law equal-protection free-speech standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause |
| 23A386 |
Marylin Pierre, et al. v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland |
Maryland |
2023-10-31 |
Presumed Complete |
|
actual-malice attorney-discipline first-amendment free-speech judicial-criticism new-york-times-v-sullivan |
Whether the First Amendment protects lawyers from disciplinary sanctions for criticizing judges under the actual malice standard established in New Yo… |
| 23-5911 |
Jeffrey Rivard v. Brattleboro Reformer, et al. |
Vermont |
2023-10-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
false-light first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech journalists-privilege libel negligence |
Whether the Vermont Superior Court's ruling granting a Motion to Strike in Jeffrey Rivard v Susan Smallheer, Brattleboro Reformer is inconsistent with… |
| 23-5912 |
Darrell Cathey v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing |
Whether the lower courts properly dismissed the petitioner's claims because the alleged harms were not a concrete case or controversy |
| 23-450 |
M. C., et vir v. Indiana Department of Child Services |
Indiana |
2023-10-30 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
14th-amendment child-custody due-process first-amendment free-exercise free-speech parental-rights prior-restraint |
Whether a prior restraint barring a religious parent's speech about the topic of sex and gender with their child while allowing and even requiring spe… |
| 23-5902 |
Kaleb J. Cole v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process first-amendment free-speech retaliation speech-protection worldview-perception worldviews |
Whether the First Amendment, Post Counterman v. Colorado permits a criminal conviction for retaliatory speech which is inherently threatening not on t… |
| 23-5887 |
Arthur Vasquez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech judicial-procedure legal-jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether the Supreme Court of the United States has jurisdiction to review the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit |
| 23-438 |
Austin Roy Clark v. Neeli Bendapudi, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
academic-freedom civil-rights dobbs-decision dobbs-v-jackson due-process first-amendment free-speech retaliation standing viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether a medical student was expelled from the University of Louisville School of Medicine in retaliation for his expression and support of conservat… |
| 23-441 |
Patrick Fehlman v. James Mankowski |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-26 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-law first-amendment free-speech government-retaliation public-employee public-employment retaliation |
Is the government free to continue to retaliate against a former public employee for speech made during the employee's employment? |
| 23-5873 |
Benjamin R. Ross v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the First Amendment's free speech protections |
| 23-423 |
Susan Porter v. Kelly Martinez, in Her Official Capacity as Sheriff of San Diego County, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
categorical-ban content-neutral expressive-conduct first-amendment free-speech government-restriction less-restrictive-alternatives traffic-safety |
Whether the government may categorically ban expressive conduct, such as expressive honking of car horns, in the name of traffic safety without presen… |
| 23-5850 |
In Re Lawrence Smith |
|
2023-10-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus standing |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing petitioner's civil-rights, due-process, and free-speech claims |
| 23-5853 |
Alex Adams v. Unknown Layton, Sergeant, Coffield Unit, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-20 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection free-speech judicial-review legal-jurisdiction standing state-law takings |
Whether the state's actions in this case violated the petitioner's constitutional rights |
| 23-5854 |
In Re Terrance A. McCauley |
|
2023-10-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection free-speech judicial-review petition-for-review sovereign-immunity standing |
Whether the criminal proceedings against Terrance A. McCarley prejudice the rights of the Moorish Science Temple of America |
| 23-5800 |
Malcolm Muhammad v. William E. Jackson, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-10-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 circuit-court civil-rights federal-law free-speech judicial-interpretation land-use property-rights religious-land-use-and-institutionalized-persons-a standing statutory-construction summary-judgment |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in deferring to the district court's findings that the appellant failed to present evidence disputing the defendants'… |
| 23-5821 |
Vanessa Sue Stafford v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights content-moderation due-process first-amendment free-speech government-censorship government-corruption legal-statements public-platform standing |
Whether Nextdoor has the right to take down legal statements about government corruption |
| 23-5789 |
Jean Max Darbouze v. Patrick Covello, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure csaas-testimony due-process evidence expert-testimony free-speech habeas-corpus translation-accuracy witness-credibility |
Whether the introduction of CSAAS testimony is unconstitutional junk science |
| 23-389 |
Colleen Reilly, et al. v. City of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
content-based content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech monell monell-liability rule-30b6-testimony speech-restriction standing viewpoint-based viewpoint-discrimination |
whether-the-test-for-content-neutrality-should-be-overruled |
| 23-5765 |
Lewis Eugene Day v. Anne L. Precythe, Director, Missouri Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
42-usc-1983 americans-with-disabilities-act civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights disability-law first-amendment free-speech grievance-procedures pursuit-of-happiness |
Whether the petitioner's rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act, First Amendment, 42 U.S.C. 1983, and Civil Rights/Civil Liberties were viol… |
| 23-373 |
DeRay Mckesson v. John Doe |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-10 |
Denied |
Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) |
civil-rights first-amendment free-speech naacp-precedent naacp-v-claiborne-hardware negligence negligence-action protest-leader-liability protest-liability |
Do the First Amendment and NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co. foreclose a state law negligence action against a protest leader for injuries from an unide… |
| 23-363 |
Stephen R. Porter v. Board of Trustees of North Carolina State University, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-10-05 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
academic-freedom causal-connection employment-retaliation faculty-hiring first-amendment free-speech garcetti-doctrine garcetti-v-ceballos public-concern scholarship teaching |
Were Petitioner's statements about the role that diversity and equity considerations should play in faculty hiring and evaluation protected by the Fir… |
| 23-5720 |
In Re Terrance A. McCauley |
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2023-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-proceedings legal-procedure peaceable-assembly sovereign-immunity standing state-court |
Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in sustaining the dismissal of Terrance A. McCauley's civil rights claims against state officials f… |
| 23-348 |
Kristen H. Colindres, et al. v. Department of State, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-10-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (3) |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-limitations consular-nonreviewability due-process equal-protection free-speech immigration immigration-law judicial-review standing |
Whether the doctrine of consular nonreviewability insulates from judicial review a consular decision |
| 23-342 |
X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
civil-rights content-based-restriction disclosure due-process first-amendment free-speech government-surveillance national-security prior-restraint speech-restriction |
Whether the Government's prohibition on disclosure of the receipt of national security process is unconstitutional in the absence of the procedural re… |
| 23-326 |
Vanessa A. Phillips v. Macon Bibb County Government |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-09-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
at-will-employment breach-of-contract civil-rights defamation due-process employee-handbook employment employment-termination first-amendment free-speech unemployment-benefits |
Whether the At-Will employment statute shelters the employer, Macon-Bibb County Government (MBCG), from the First Amendment's 'unprotected speech |
| 23-280 |
Darrell Gaebel v. United States Polo Association |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actionable-harm civil-rights defamation disciplinary-hearing due-process free-speech legal-process private-association publication |
Whether a private association can commit actionable defamation by publicizing defamatory material during a legally improper disciplinary hearing, even… |
| 23-282 |
Cynthia Stepien, on Behalf of Herself and Her Minor Child, et al. v. Phil Murphy, Governor of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-09-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech pandemic-masking school-restrictions schoolchildren speech-protection state-intrusion |
Whether the First Amendment protects schoolchildren from forced masking that eliminates communication, speech, and association |
| 23-274 |
William Felkner v. John Nazarian, et al. |
Rhode Island |
2023-09-21 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights clearly-established-law first-amendment free-speech legal-standard policy qualified-immunity section-1983 supreme-court |
Whether the judge-made 'clearly established law' qualified immunity standard should be abolished or limited |
| 23-276 |
Dijon Sharpe v. Winterville Police Department, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-21 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement-interaction police-accountability police-filming public-recording qualified-immunity |
Whether filming police officers in public is First Amendment protected activity |
| 23-5635 |
William Raymond Carter v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-09-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process evidence free-speech jurisdiction legal-procedure standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional and statutory rights were violated |
| 23-5598 |
Esteban Merchan v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process education equal-protection free-speech standing |
Whether the Florida statute prohibiting certain speech about sexual orientation and gender identity in public schools violates the First Amendment's f… |
| 23A243 |
Vivek H. Murthy, Surgeon General, et al. v. Missouri, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-14 |
Presumed Complete |
Amici (5) |
content-moderation first-amendment free-speech government-speech injunction social-media |
Whether the First Amendment prohibits the federal government from communicating with social media platforms regarding the removal or suppression of us… |
| 23-244 |
Lawyers for Fair Reciprocal Admission v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights conflicts-of-interest due-process free-speech judicial-admission local-rules nonuniform-standards professional-speech standing third-circuit writ-of-certiorari |
Has the Petitioner established good cause for this Court to issue a writ of certiorari before judgment because the nonuniform local rules directly con… |
| 23-227 |
Sarah K. Molina, et al. v. Daniel Book, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-09-12 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
circuit-split civil-rights clothing-expression first-amendment free-speech particularized-message police-observation qualified-immunity speech-rights |
whether-words-on-clothing-are-protected-speech |
| 23-220 |
Michael Parietti v. Ed Day, et al. |
New York |
2023-09-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
bias-standard first-amendment free-speech judicial-disqualification probability-of-bias public-hearing public-hearings redistricting speech-rights |
Did the New York Courts use the wrong standard for judicial disqualification? |
| 23-5518 |
Willie J. Gamble v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Question not identified |
| 23-5461 |
Joshua David Giddings v. Austin Knudsen, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights equal-protection first-amendment free-speech standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause |
| 23-5444 |
Adam P. Strege v. Eric A. Vos, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Chief Defender for the Office of the Federal Public Defender District of Puerto Rico, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-08-25 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-civil-procedure free-speech government-officials malicious-prosecution standing |
Question not identified |
| 23-179 |
Alaska, et al. v. Alaska State Employees Association/American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 52, AFL-CIO |
Alaska |
2023-08-25 |
Denied |
Amici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) |
civil-rights due-process employee-rights first-amendment free-speech paycheck-deduction public-sector-unions state-action union union-speech voluntary-waiver waiver |
Whether the First Amendment prohibits a state from taking money from employees' paychecks to subsidize union speech when the state lacks sufficient ev… |
| 23-172 |
Cynthia L. Pollick v. Anthony P. Trozzolillo |
Pennsylvania |
2023-08-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-record-sealing judicial-records judicial-transparency speech-restraint standing |
Whether the complete sealing of a judicial record violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 23-5414 |
Joseph D Gilberti, Jr. v. The Pentagon, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy-theory covid-19 due-process free-speech government-corruption legal-fraud standing takings water-resources |
Why did the lower Courts with the entire US Media, CDC hide this US Resource and faked a Pandemic, knowing the Covid19 Mask was printed on the $20bill… |
| 23-5408 |
James Lee Ballard v. Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim |
| 23-5383 |
Ramham Dupriest v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech minor mistake-of-age obscene-material obscenity scienter |
Does it violate First Amendment free speech protections to convict a person for conduct involving distributing obscene material to a minor without hav… |
| 23-5386 |
Bryant Matthew Parker v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process free-speech jurisdiction legal-procedure petition-review reasons-for-writ standing statement-of-case voting-rights |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that the Plaintiff's Yoakum County Protest Voting Restrictions Act was unconstitutional, … |
| 23-156 |
Speech First, Inc. v. Timothy Sands, Individually and in His Official Capacity as President of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-17 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (10)Relisted (9) |
bias-response-team bias-response-teams chilling-effect circuit-split first-amendment free-speech protected-speech student-rights university-administration |
Do bias-response teams objectively chill students' free speech? |
| 23-150 |
Ronald Preston Harper v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2023-08-16 |
Denied |
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civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech objective-reasonableness police-conduct swatting |
Is it illegal to criticize police in North Carolina? |
| 23-5361 |
Andrew Slabon v. Angelo R. Sanchez, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech jury-trial procedural-rules seventh-amendment standing state-action trial-by-jury |
Whether the Seventh Amendment's fundamental right to a trial by jury is violated when meritorious complaints are dismissed based on monetary policies … |
| 23-5326 |
Latonia Smith v. United States District Court for the District of Nevada |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech habeas-corpus legal-detention speech-conduct standing |
Whether AOL A(C2I0B) targers_conduct lone_0f SPeecin.and.Conduck Can sir — —_ opinyvons among _. — tthe lowes Coutts ond signifreanty | -taising Fiest… |
| 23-5327 |
In Re Titus Lee Radcliff |
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2023-08-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-review patent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Alice test for patent eligibility under 35 USC 101 |
| 23-127 |
Leonard Cooperman v. Social Security Administration |
Federal Circuit |
2023-08-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation disciplinary-proceedings due-process free-speech public-sector-employment vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Is the 'conduct unbecoming' standard unconstitutionally vague and violative of due-process in a case involving free-speech concerns? |
| 23-5308 |
James Renwick Manship v. Susan Beals, Commissioner |
Virginia |
2023-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights election-integrity electronic-voting first-amendment free-speech grand-jury petition petition-rights voting-machines voting-rights |
QUESTIONS PRESENTED RELATED TO FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS OF HONEST VOTE (FREE SPEECH) & PETITION FOR REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES TO A GRAND JURY |
| 23-118 |
Ashton R. O'Dwyer, Jr. v. Ron Carter, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-08 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal recusal sanctions standing |
Whether the failure of Federal District Judge Carl J. Barbier to recuse himself prior to his summary dismissal of an underlying civil diversity action… |
| 23-5300 |
Sandro Ramos v. Chris Rankins |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-violation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech ineffective-assistance jury-misconduct standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the First Amendment's free speech protections |
| 23-5272 |
Grace Woodham v. Helen Hanks, Commissioner, New Hampshire Department of Corrections, et al. |
New Hampshire |
2023-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compelled-speech content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech government-regulation private-entities |
Whether the First Amendment prohibits the government from requiring private entities to host speech they disagree with |
| 23-5279 |
Robert Annabel, II v. Joseph Novak, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process free-speech in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure lawsuit-dismissal prisoner-rights retaliation standing |
Should truthful prisoner complaints be protected conduct? |
| 23-98 |
Gregory Lemelson, aka Father Emmanuel Lemelson, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
First Circuit |
2023-08-02 |
Denied |
|
first-amendment fraud free-speech market-speech material-misstatement rule-10b-5 sec-rule-10b-5 securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-of-1934 securities-law securities-regulation |
Whether the First Amendment protects a securities market participant from being punished and enjoined by the government for intentionally or recklessl… |
| 23-73 |
Colleen Huber v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
censorship civil-rights conspiracy first-amendment free-speech pleading-stage pleading-standards social-media-regulation state-action twombly-iqbal |
Whether an alternative explanation of nonliability requires additional facts beyond a plausible claim that tend to exclude the alternative explanation… |
| 23-74 |
Debra A. Vitagliano v. County of Westchester, New York |
Second Circuit |
2023-07-25 |
Denied |
Amici (18)Relisted (2) |
abortion abortion-clinic-protests constitutional-law content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech precedent public-forum stare-decisis |
Whether the Court should overrule Hill v. Colorado |
| 23-5160 |
Scott Eric Houston v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compelled-speech content-moderation first-amendment free-speech government-regulation social-media |
Whether the First Amendment prohibits the government from compelling private entities to host and disseminate speech they disagree with |
| 23-39 |
Haseeb Abdullah v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii civil-rights due-process establishment-clause fiduciary-duty first-amendment free-speech ideological-viewpoint standing |
Does a beneficiary have standing for a First Amendment challenge to a state statute requiring divestment from companies boycotting Israel? |
| 23A32 |
M.C., et vir v. Indiana Department of Child Services |
Indiana |
2023-07-13 |
Presumed Complete |
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child-custody first-amendment free-speech fundamental-liberty-interest parental-rights prior-restraint |
Whether a state court order removing a child from parental custody and enjoining parents from discussing transgenderism with their child violates the … |
| 23-5087 |
Michael R. v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2023-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography civil-rights constitutional-interpretation dost-factors due-process first-amendment free-speech miller-standard obscenity obscenity-test |
Should the Dost factors be modified to prevent unconstitutional restrictions on First Amendment freedom of expression? |
| 23-29 |
CLA Estate Services, Inc., et al. v. Washington |
Washington |
2023-07-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights commercial-speech consumer-protection due-process fair-notice first-amendment free-speech state-action state-regulation vagueness |
Whether a company has fair notice under the Due Process Clause |
| 23-5070 |
Samuel Tobin McKaig v. Arkansas |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-07-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech judicial-review legal-issue precedent prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the police threatened him with prosecution for exercising his right to remain silent… |
| 23-10 |
Miriam Brysk, et al. v. Henry Herskovitz, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
anti-semitism attorney-fees civil-rights civil-rights-statute due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-bias synagogue synagogue-picketing |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly affirmed a decision awarding attorney fees to defendant protesters |
| 23-5029 |
In Re Robert L. Hedrick |
|
2023-07-05 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech judicial-procedure standing |
Whether the District Court and Appellate Court violated Appellant's 1st, 5th, 6th, 8th, and 14th Amendment rights |
| 23-5041 |
LaTanya Lynn Jackson v. Humana |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment |
| 23-5021 |
Jerry A. Smith v. John Galipeau, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-07-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process free-speech humane-treatment privacy security |
Possible violation of civil rights |
| 23-5001 |
Emmanuel Antione Hemphill v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process free-speech individual-rights judicial-review legal-procedure standing state-law statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred in its interpretation of the First Amendment's Free Speech Clause and the Due Process Clause of the F… |
| 22-7867 |
Nelson Alexander Polk v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-sentencing discovery due-process evidence free-speech judicial-procedure legal-standards |
Whether Poli biouee's Doe Peseoes Ricits Waser uiolated, When Ig tounge was not Present al TaCameva Wearing which Was conducted Lo assess the validity… |
| 22-7907 |
Terrence Terrell Moore v. Bryan Morrison, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus standing |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in upholding the district court's dismissal of petitioner's claims alleging violations of his constit… |
| 22-7885 |
Antwon Whitten v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affordable-care-act civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing petitioners' claims challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate and… |
| 22-7851 |
George Poulo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-pornography civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process free-speech minor-exploitation sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction |
Whether a person 'uses' a minor 'to engage in' sexually explicit conduct, and thereby produces child pornography, when he creates a visual image of hi… |
| 22-7855 |
Edgar Dawson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-pornography civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law free-speech minor-exploitation sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction |
Whether a person 'uses' a minor 'to engage in' sexually explicit conduct, and thereby produces child pornography, when he creates a visual image of hi… |
| 22-7849 |
Jensen Ken Alexander v. Joseph Ely, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure damages due-process free-speech judicial-discretion legal-standards religious-claims standing state-court-review |
Whether the regional ombudsman and the officials of the Common Cause Task Force violated the Petitioner's First Amendment rights under the U.S. Consti… |
| 22-1227 |
Nejla K. Lane v. Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission |
Illinois |
2023-06-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-disciplinary-proceedings attorney-discipline constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech illinois-constitution professional-conduct |
Whether the Hearing Board's and the Review Board's Recommendation and Report violated Petitioner's due-process rights |
| 22-7798 |
Rifat Shafique v. Equity Residential Management, L.L.C. |
District of Columbia |
2023-06-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights default-judgment due-process eviction-proceedings free-speech landlord-tenant remote-hearings standing takings |
Whether an initial order declaring default against party who does not consent to remote hearings constitute violation of a person's natural rights, Ar… |
| 22-7800 |
Mac Truong v. Richard Michael DeWine, Governor of Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-06-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
abortion abortion-rights civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech intellectual-property pro-se-litigation standing standing-doctrine |
Does Petitioner have standing to sue Defendants for violating his copyrighted intellectual property and constitutional rights? |
| 22-7767 |
Wesley Sinclair Ricks v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing |
| 22-1199 |
Rogan O'Handley v. Shirley N. Weber, California Secretary of State, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-12 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
censorship first-amendment free-speech government-speech online-censorship political-speech social-media social-media-regulation state-action |
Whether state officials violated the First Amendment by directing social media companies to remove political speech deemed false or misleading |
| 22-1196 |
GEFT Outdoor, L.L.C. v. Monroe County, Indiana, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-06-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights content-based-regulation first-amendment free-speech prior-restraint procedural-safeguards speech-licensing zoning-ordinance |
Can a governmental entity escape 42 US.C. § 1983 liability for failing to have procedural safeguards in its speech licensing scheme by—only after bein… |
| 22-7743 |
Mac Truong v. Kevin Stitt, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-06-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
abortion abortion-rights civil-rights constitutional-violation copyright copyright-law due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech standing |
Does Petitioner have standing to sue Defendants for violating Petitioner's copyrighted intellectual property and constitutional rights? |
| 22-7750 |
Jessie Traylor v. Stevie Knight, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights clemency constitutional-law criminal-justice-reform due-process equal-protection expressive-conduct first-amendment free-speech hate-crime sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the difference between new convictions and the role of law in the FIRST STEP Act and how constraints on the release of prisoners violates the … |
| 22-7691 |
Jace Emerson Fesler v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment citizen-rights civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement police-procedure reasonable-suspicion terry-stop |
Does a citizen's noncompliance with an unlawful order from law enforcement create reasonable suspicion to conduct a Terry frisk? |
| 22-1168 |
Center for Medical Progress, et al. v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-02 |
Denied |
Amici (5) |
civil-rights creative-pleading due-process emotional-distress first-amendment free-speech general-application-law public-speech publication standing tort tort-liability |
Does the First Amendment protect defendants against tort claims arising out of speech or expression? |
| 22-1160 |
Albin Rhomberg v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
abortion-litigation civil-rights compensatory-damages due-process first-amendment free-speech no-injury racketeering rico-damages standing takings undercover-journalism |
Whether RICO claims should be dismissed where the plaintiffs suffered no compensable injury |
| 22-1162 |
Frank Lawrence, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-31 |
Denied |
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abuse-of-discretion bar-admission due-process free-speech independent-review speech-related-activities standard-of-review unconstitutional-conditions |
What standard of review should be employed by Courts of Appeals when reviewing a federal district court's decision to deny an attorney's application f… |
| 22-1150 |
Josh Stein, Attorney General of North Carolina, et al. v. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-05-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process duty-of-loyalty employee-rights employment-law first-amendment free-speech newsgathering property-protection standing tort-law |
Whether the First Amendment prohibits applying state tort law against double-agent employees who gather information, including by secretly recording, … |
| 22-1147 |
Sandra Susan Merritt v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-25 |
Denied |
|
defamation first-amendment fraud free-speech journalistic-investigation newsgathering rico rico-act |
Whether the First Amendment's Free Speech Clause prevents the application of defamation liability and RICO to undercover newsgathering |
| 22-1135 |
Center for Medical Progress, et al. v. National Abortion Federation |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-22 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
abortion abortion-debate civil-rights constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech prior-restraint public-debate public-discourse |
Is the district court's suppression of speech about a high-profile and highly charged issue of public debate an unconstitutional prior restraint? |
| 22-7598 |
Larry Donahill Jones v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights |
| 22-7592 |
Grace Woodham v. Tucker Scheffer |
New Hampshire |
2023-05-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-rights digital-privacy due-process electronic-communications equal-protection fourth-amendment free-speech probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrantless-search |
Whether the New Hampshire Supreme Court violated the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution by denying the petitioner's appeal to continue their app… |
| 22-1123 |
Richard J. Peltz-Steele v. UMass Faculty Federation, Local 1895 American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-05-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights exclusive-representation first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association labor-law |
Does a state law forcing a government employee to accept a union of which the employee is not a member to speak and negotiate on their behalf as their… |
| 22-7568 |
John B. Freitas v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County, et al. |
California |
2023-05-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights domestic-terrorism due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-misconduct rico-violations sedition standing |
The United States Attorneys and the U.S. Attorney General, vested with such dignity and power, are especially entrusted with the duty to protect the i… |
| 22-7475 |
Jason J. Hyatt v. Mike Lukas, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-05-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights equal-protection first-amendment free-speech standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause |
| 22-1056 |
Jeffrey Gray Thomas v. State Bar of California |
California |
2023-05-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights disbarment due-process expressive-association free-speech petitioning state-bar-court |
Whether the Final Decision of a State Court Denying Review of the Decision of an Administrative Agency Recommending Disbarment, Causes an Interlocutor… |
| 22-7397 |
Daniel Kim v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2023-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-speech due-process fighting-words first-amendment free-speech jury-determination jury-instructions speech-protection state-court true-threats |
Whether a state court is prohibited from unilaterally determining whether a defendant's written speech on his blog is protected or criminal, without h… |
| 22-1033 |
Eugene Mazo, et al. v. Tahesha Way, New Jersey Secretary of State, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-04-25 |
Denied |
Amici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
ballot ballot-restrictions civil-rights content-based-regulation content-regulation election first-amendment free-speech political-speech strict-scrutiny viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether a state that permits political candidates to engage in core political speech on the ballot may restrict that speech on the basis of content an… |
| 22-1025 |
Sylvia Gonzalez v. Edward Trevino, II, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-24 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (23)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
arrest circuit-split civil-rights first-amendment free-speech government-record probable-cause qualified-immunity retaliation retaliatory-arrest standing |
Whether the Nieves probable cause exception can be satisfied by objective evidence other than specific examples of arrests that never happened |
| 22-1009 |
Barbara Kolkowski v. Ashtabula Area Teacher's Association, et al. |
Ohio |
2023-04-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights collective-bargaining due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech grievance-process individual-rights labor-law liberty-interest public-employment statutory-interpretation |
Whether a public employee in Ohio under a collective bargaining agreement providing for binding arbitration has the Constitutional right either fundam… |
| 22-7306 |
Keith Thomas v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-procedure rule-11 sanctions seventh-amendment standing |
Did the district court improperly apply Rule 11 sanctions against this petitioner basically stripping him of his 1st-amendment-rights and 7th-amendmen… |
| 22-990 |
Bright Harry, et al. v. KCG Americas LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure free-speech judicial-procedure pro-se-litigation standing summary-judgment |
Whether the Ninth Circuit has statutory authority to deny oral argument to indigent and unrepresented litigants by applying incorrect standards, in co… |
| 22-7241 |
Eric Matthew Ray v. Utah |
Utah |
2023-04-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-statute due-process facial-challenge first-amendment free-speech statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether Salerno's 'no set of circumstances' test, the Hoffman/Grayned 'more stringent vagueness test,' or some other test, should govern judicial revi… |
| 22-971 |
Glenn Henderson v. Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., et al. |
North Carolina |
2023-04-07 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process employment-dispute first-amendment free-speech legal-threat pro-se-litigation self-defense threat |
Is it legal to say you will attempt to defend yourself if attacked? |
| 22-7198 |
Richard Roy Blake v. Liliane Hong, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-assembly free-speech municipal-ordinance section-1983 void-for-vagueness |
Did the City of Northglenn, Colorado police department violate Petitioner's First Amendment rights to free-speech, free-assembly, 42-usc-1983 |
| 22-7201 |
Adrienne Brown-Mallard v. Next Day Temps, et al. |
Virginia |
2023-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-power civil-rights conspiracy-against-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech pro-se-litigation workers-compensation |
Is it a violation of the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment on Freedom of Speech or abuse of power when Workers' Compensation Commissioners during he… |
| 22-7159 |
Denzel Simmons v. Mike Walczak, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fraud-on-court free-speech ineffective-assistance-of-counsel police-misconduct sixth-circuit |
QUESTION(S) PRESENTED |
| 22-951 |
Jane Doe No. 1, et al. v. Todd Rokita, Attorney General of Indiana, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
abortion abortion-rights constitutional-law dobbs-precedent dobbs-v-jackson first-amendment free-exercise free-speech medical-protocols religious-beliefs |
Whether Indiana's laws prohibiting standard medical disposition of embryonic tissue from lawful abortion procedures violate the Free Exercise and Free… |
| 22-954 |
Justin Marcus Zinman v. California |
California |
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech homeland-defense political-ideology second-amendment state-secrets takings |
Whether allowing a Progressive political ideology to influence the law violates the Establishment clause of the First Amendment? |
| 22-7128 |
James Cody McMahon v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2023-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-sex-offender civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-restrictions due-process first-amendment free-speech sex-offender-registration social-media |
Whether Louisiana's statute prohibiting child-sex-offender registrants from using social media is meaningfully distinguishable from the North Carolina… |
| 22-939 |
Robert Frese v. John M. Formella, Attorney General of New Hampshire |
First Circuit |
2023-03-28 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-prosecution defamation due-process first-amendment free-speech public-official standing vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the First Amendment tolerates criminal prosecution for alleged defamation of a public official |
| 22-942 |
Brian Tingley v. Robert W. Ferguson, Attorney General of Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-28 |
Denied |
Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (10) |
counseling counseling-regulation employment-division-v-smith first-amendment free-speech gender-identity professional-speech religious-freedom religious-liberty |
Whether a law that censors conversations between counselors and clients as 'unprofessional conduct' violates the Free Speech Clause |
| 22-932 |
North Carolina Division of Sons of Confederate Veterans, Inc. v. North Carolina Department of Transportation, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-law first-amendment fourth-circuit free-speech government-speech license-plate public-forum specialty-license-plate state-law |
Did the district court and Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err in applying the 'Government Speech' doctrine? |
| 22-7056 |
Alexander Cameron v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
2023-03-21 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law due-process false-evidence free-speech judicial-procedure standing supreme-court takings writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the dismissal of his appeal based on the state court's erroneous application of the 'n… |
| 22-879 |
Constantino Basile v. The Los Angeles Film School, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech rico standing |
Whether the Petitioner's brother Alexander Basile being murdered 6-3-22, the horrific beating and skewering of his body by unknown Secret Service, MI5… |
| 22-6997 |
John B. Freitas v. Noel Wise, Judge, Superior Court of California, Alameda County, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights conspiracy domestic-terrorism due-process first-amendment free-speech government-corruption judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct real-estate-fraud sedition |
Whether federal judges can be held accountable for misconduct and criminal acts |
| 22-6994 |
In Re Devon Banks-Bey |
|
2023-03-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment brown-vs-board civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech habeas-corpus international-law sovereign-citizen subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Should this court use its power to grant a writ of Habeas Corpus to a Moorish American sovereign man who has no other available remedy to raise his cl… |
| 22-865 |
Mobilize the Message, LLC, et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-10 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
campaign-finance campaign-material civil-rights content-based-regulation content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech independent-contractor independent-contractors political-canvassing political-speech speech-regulation |
Whether regulating canvassing and the delivery of printed material based on that speech's content, function, or purpose implicates the First Amendment |
| 22-842 |
National Rifle Association of America v. Maria T. Vullo |
Second Circuit |
2023-03-06 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (41)Response RequestedRelisted (7) |
1st-amendment civil-rights corporate-social-responsibility first-amendment free-speech government-intimidation government-regulation regulatory-coercion second-amendment viewpoint-discrimination |
Does the First Amendment allow a government regulator to threaten regulated entities with adverse regulatory actions if they do business with a contro… |
| 22-6891 |
Joseph Dingler v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech indigent-defendant post-conviction-relief standing takings trial-transcript voting |
Question not identified |
| 22-812 |
Isaac D. Koch v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2023-02-28 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal protection-order standing statutory-interpretation |
What is the government's interpretation of an order against all contact and communication and presence? |
| 22-6848 |
Maurice Daniels v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights commerce-interference criminal-obstruction due-process federal-law federal-revised-code free-speech hobbs-act public-corruption standing threats-of-violence vagueness |
Whether the Hobbs Act's prohibition on interference with commerce by threats or violence is unconstitutionally vague as applied to the facts of this c… |
| 22-792 |
Sergei Vinkov v. Superior Court of California, County of Riverside, et al. |
California |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights defamation due-process first-amendment free-speech religious-speech standing |
Does California Supreme Court create unconstitutional burden on Petitioner's rights abstaining from compelling the state trial court to enter the fina… |
| 22-777 |
William E. Henry v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
butterworth-precedent compelled-speech constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech grand-jury grand-jury-secrecy prior-restraint secrecy witness-testimony |
Whether Alabama's Grand Jury Secrecy Act restricts a grand jury witness's public disclosure of their own testimony — including information known to th… |
| 22-6783 |
Meghan M. Kelly v. Disciplinary Counsel Patricia B. Swartz, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-02-15 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts bar-dues civil-rights disciplinary-action due-process first-amendment free-speech reciprocal-discipline religious-freedom |
Whether the Third Circuit abused its discretion by denying a stay of civil-rights proceedings |
| 22-6769 |
Thomas L. Fast v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech material-support metadata-collection national-security-agency privacy-rights standing surveillance terrorism usa-patriot-act |
Whether the petitioner's conviction for providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization under 18 U.S.C. § 2339B violates the First Amen… |
| 22-753 |
Jason Fyk v. Facebook, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
|
communications-decency-act content-moderation due-process free-speech good-samaritan immunity interactive-computer-service-provider internet-service-provider section-230 |
Proper scope of immunity under Section 230(c) of the Communications Decency Act |
| 22-6734 |
In Re Lee Kent Hempfling, et ux. |
|
2023-02-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
censorship civil-procedure civil-rights court-jurisdiction criminal-investigation due-process free-speech judicial-review legal-standing standing writ-of-mandamus |
Whether the listed state and federal court actions are parallel to any legally invoked criminal investigation or prosecution stemming from crimes repo… |
| 22-6740 |
Lisa Antoine v. Delancy LLC, dba Vital Medical Staffing |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-discrimination civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery-withholding due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech retaliation whistleblower-protection whistleblowing |
Did the District court and the Court of Appeal erred in denying the Petitioner her legal rights within her legal capacity from the facts in her case a… |
| 22-741 |
Faith Bible Chapel International v. Gregory Tucker |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-02-08 |
Denied |
Amici (12)Relisted (4) |
church-autonomy civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination first-amendment free-speech interlocutory-appeal judicial-immunity ministerial-exception religion-clauses religious-freedom standing |
Whether the First Amendment's 'ministerial exception' should be understood as an immunity from judicial interference in church employment decisions fa… |
| 22-6715 |
Donnell Bledsoe v. Mark Zuckerberg, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-07 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech religious-freedom social-media standing statutory-interpretation surveillance |
Whether the plaintiffs' First Amendment rights were violated by Facebook's surveillance of their religious posts about UFOs |
| 22-726 |
Alejandro Evaristo Perez v. LinkedIn Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-03 |
Denied |
|
anti-slapp bioweapon-allegations civil-rights due-process free-speech judicial-misconduct pro-se rule-40 standing takings veterans veterans-rights |
Whether the excommunication of an Honorable US War Veteran (and paying customer) by Fallen Federal Judges and unpatriotic Corporatistas for the evil C… |
| 22-6669 |
Kenneth H. Newkirk v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-02-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review pro-se-petition procedural-deficiency standing takings va-code-19.2-271 |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated because the VDOC policy prohibits incarcerated individuals, other than law enforcement or… |
| 22-704 |
Katherine K. Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office v. Steve Elster |
Federal Circuit |
2023-01-27 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (8)Relisted (2) |
first-amendment free-speech government-official public-figure registration section-1052c trademark trademark-registration |
Whether the refusal to register a mark under Section 1052(c) violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment when the mark contains criticism o… |
| 22-696 |
Reginald L. Gundy v. City of Jacksonville, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-01-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights first-amendment free-exercise free-speech government-speech qualified-immunity retaliation |
Whether Petitioner's invited invocation before the City Council was private speech or government speech |
| 22-684 |
Jack Jordan v. Kansas Disciplinary Administrator |
Kansas |
2023-01-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights disbarment due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-misconduct legal-ethics standing |
Whether a court may disbar a lawyer for speech and petitioning exposing and opposing lies and crimes of judges without clear and convincing evidence o… |
| 22-6595 |
Solita Harrington v. MedStar Washington Hospital Center, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-client-privilege civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance medical-malpractice ninth-circuit standing state-court |
Whether the respondents' actions violated the petitioner's constitutional rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 22-6585 |
Tennessee, ex rel. David Jonathan Tulis v. Bill Lee, Governor of Tennessee, et al. |
Tennessee |
2023-01-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 covid-restrictions due-process executive-orders free-speech press-freedom religious-liberty standing |
Can Tennessee courts lawfully deny relief to press member petitioner where the governor and a local official by executive orders and directives chill … |
| 22-667 |
Chen Bing v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-01-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process executive-authority free-speech genocide-determination human-rights-violations international-law judicial-review standing |
Whether there is sufficient evidence of genocide, crimes against humanity and forced labor in Xinjiang, China, and whether the Secretary of State has … |
| 22-662 |
Ramon K. Jusino v. Federation of Catholic Teachers, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2023-01-18 |
Denied |
|
1st-amendment church-schools civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech labor-organizations labor-relations religion-clauses standing |
Whether the Second Circuit contravened the Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection clause |
| 22-6530 |
Warren Havens v. Arnold Leong, et al. |
California |
2023-01-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-state appeal-procedure civil-disentitlement civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech judicial-state takings |
Does the Constitution provide for government-provided entitlement to rights or citizens' reservation of rights under the Fifth, Fourteenth, and First … |
| 22-6517 |
William F. Kaetz v. Freda L. Wolfson, Judge, United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-01-11 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violations content-discrimination first-amendment free-speech government-accountability government-retaliation speech-suppression viewpoint-discrimination |
First-Amendment-retaliation |
| 22-6519 |
Thomas Alan Arthur v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-defense defendant-rights due-process evidence-exclusion free-speech harmful-error harmless-error judicial-review miller-test obscenity obscenity-standard |
Should this Court adopt the Seventh Circuit's rule that where a district court erroneously excludes evidence that makes up the entirety of a defendant… |
| 22-6504 |
Donald Herrington v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 1st-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendments due-process free-speech grand-jury-fraud ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct trial-framework |
Did the Commonwealth of Virginia adopt a trial framework that allows elected officials to brake their oath by presenting, publicizing and spreading di… |
| 22-623 |
James William Hall v. G.M.S. Management Co., Inc., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-statute constitutional-rights court-access due-process first-amendment free-speech pro-se-litigation standing |
Does a person have rights to a day in court to represent himself as a pro-se even when the appeal court lower United States District and the United St… |
| 22-611 |
Kevin Lindke v. James R. Freed |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-01-04 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (9)Relisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-scrutiny first-amendment free-speech government-duty government-official public-forum public-official social-media state-action |
Whether a public official's social media activity can constitute state action only if the official used the account to perform a governmental duty or … |
| 22-612 |
Marshall Spiegel v. 1618 Sheridan Road Condominium Association, Inc., et al. |
Illinois |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech municipal-liability public-photography |
Does the First Amendment protect a person's right to photograph or videotape in public? |
| 22-6455 |
Michael Joseph DeMarco, Jr. v. Jeremy J. Bynum |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech government-accountability prison-grievance prisoners-rights property-destruction qualified-immunity retaliation |
Does the Plaintiff's First Amendment right to redress in the form of a prison grievance exposing corruption and illegal acts give the government emplo… |
| 22-586 |
Kimberly Beemer, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge covid-19-restrictions due-process emergency-powers free-speech fundamental-rights judicial-review mootness standing voluntary-cessation |
Is this constitutional challenge to the Michigan Governor's emergency restrictions that directly infringed fundamental rights moot when the restrictio… |
| 22-591 |
Donald V. Watkins, et al. v. Matrix, LLC, et al. |
Alabama |
2022-12-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-malice civil-rights defamation due-process first-amendment free-speech presumed-damages public-figure summary-judgment |
Whether the Alabama Courts' grant and affirmance of a summary judgment for Respondents in a state law defamation case conflicts with this Court's deci… |
| 22-582 |
United States v. Jose Felipe Hernandez-Calvillo, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-12-22 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-prohibition first-amendment free-speech immigration immigration-law overbreadth-doctrine statutory-interpretation |
Whether the federal criminal prohibition against conspiring to encourage or induce unlawful immigration is facially unconstitutional on First Amendmen… |
| 22-6385 |
Peter Gakuba v. Rob Jeffreys |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-12-22 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts first-amendment-retaliation free-speech habeas habeas-corpus sanctions standing |
Whether the USCA-7's imposition of a $500 sanction and bar from filing future habeas petitions against Gakuba constitutes a First Amendment retaliatio… |
| 22-577 |
Jodee Wright v. Service Employees International Union Local 503, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-21 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
civil-rights collective-bargaining due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech labor-law public-sector union-dues |
Do the constitutional guarantees of Freedom of Speech and Due Process of law create an affirmative duty for government employers to ensure employees' … |
| 22-6355 |
Jess Richard Smith v. Sgt. Ellis, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts federal-procedure free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief standing |
Whether Khe Uuth Circo tks (0-722, ORDER Granting CVeseevdeniis _ Metion TO Reveke TH Comme |
| 22-555 |
NetChoice, LLC, dba NetChoice, et al. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-19 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (8)Relisted (2) |
content-moderation editorial-discretion first-amendment free-speech free-speech-rights social-media social-media-regulation viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether the First Amendment prohibits viewpoint-, content-, or speaker-based laws restricting select websites from engaging in editorial choices about… |
| 22-558 |
Pedro Lance Soto v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-12-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process electronic-communication first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine |
Is a law that criminalizes expressive speech immunized from First Amendment scrutiny if it also criminalizes non-expressive conduct? |
| 22-6322 |
Jaame Amun Re El v. FNU Melanson, et al. |
First Circuit |
2022-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech inmate-rights prison-regulations special-mail standing statutory-law |
Is the constitution the law of the land? |
| 22-6299 |
Judith Yigal, et vir, on Behalf of Their Minor Child, R. Y. v. Julia A. Butler, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-12-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-discrimination brandenburg-v-ohio child-trafficking civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process family-separation free-speech government-speech racketeering |
Does the targeting of a specific child, mother, father, and Jewish family and manipulating government authority to harm the well-adjusted child (with … |
| 22-6290 |
Bennie Mitchell v. Levern Cohen, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit erred in finding the publisher met the legal standard for standing |
| 22-6282 |
Ileen Cain v. Mercy College, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights cybercrime department-of-education due-process free-speech higher-education sexual-assault title-ix vawa-reauthorization violence-against-women |
Whether the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act 2022 Sec 1401 1309 and the Department of Education clause that mandate institutions of higher e… |
| 22-6274 |
John C. Killingbeck v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights content-provider criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process free-speech habeas-corpus internet-immunity internet-service-provider-liability section-230 standing |
Whether the government and courts have acted within their constitutional authority in prosecuting and denying relief to an individual convicted of dow… |
| 22-6269 |
Ronald W. Telepo v. Leroy Ferguson, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anonymity civil-rights due-process free-speech internet social-media |
Does the First Amendment protect the right to engage in anonymous online speech? |
| 22-497 |
Jasper Robin Chen v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-11-28 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
communications criminal-law criminal-statute electronic-communication first-amendment free-speech harassment-law intent overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine |
Is a law that criminalizes expressive speech immunized from any First Amendment scrutiny if it also criminalizes non-expressive conduct? |
| 22-498 |
Kristine Kurk v. Los Rios Classified Employees Association, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-28 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights collective-bargaining compelled-association due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association public-employment state-statute union-membership |
Does the First Amendment protect a public employee's right to resign union membership at will? |
| 22-494 |
Melodie DePierro v. Las Vegas Police Protective Association Metro, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
collective-bargaining consent first-amendment free-speech government-employer janus-precedent janus-v-afscme union-dues |
Can the government and a union restrict when employees can exercise their First Amendment right not to subsidize union speech without the employees' a… |
| 22-6143 |
Blake Sandlain v. C. Maruka, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-11-22 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
compelled-speech content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech government-regulation private-entities |
Whether the First Amendment prohibits the government from compelling private entities to host and disseminate speech they disagree with |
| 22-6101 |
Norman James Thompson v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing |
Whether a defendant's due process rights are violated when a state has adopted a rule/statute intended to permit its impactor yet, in essence, the rul… |
| 22-6062 |
Thomas Walter Gillen v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anti-riot-act circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-appellate-courts first-amendment free-speech severability statutory-interpretation |
Whether the difference of opinion between the Fourth Circuit and the Ninth Circuit as to the constitutionality of 'organize' within the context of the… |
| 22-6084 |
Jerry Bonton v. David R. Harris, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech medical-privacy mental-health-history standing trial-rights |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's dismissal of petitioner's claims alleging vio… |
| 22-447 |
Johnson & Johnson, et al. v. California |
California |
2022-11-15 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
civil-penalties civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-protection due-process fair-notice false-advertising free-speech speech-chilling statutory-interpretation unfair-competition-law |
Whether a robust fair notice standard applies to California's Unfair Competition Law and False Advertising Law |
| 22-6052 |
Vandell Slade v. Supreme Court of Ohio |
Ohio |
2022-11-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Question not identified |
| 22-443 |
Michael S. Zummer v. Jeffrey S. Sallet, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-10 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights civil-service-reform-act constitutional-claims due-process employment employment-law federal-jurisdiction first-amendment free-speech judicial-review standing |
Whether a federal district court has jurisdiction to hear colorable constitutional claims by federal employees related to their employment |
| 22-434 |
Slade Alan Moore v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-11-09 |
Denied |
|
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process electronic-communication first-amendment free-speech harassment intent-standard overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine |
Is a law that criminalizes expressive speech immunized from any First Amendment scrutiny if it also criminalizes non-expressive conduct? |
| 22-6030 |
In Re Jason Paul Maple |
|
2022-11-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-trial-error due-process free-speech jurisdictional-power manifest-disregard pro-se-litigant standing third-circuit-court |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit acted in excess of its jurisdictional power |
| 22-430 |
Charles Barton v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-11-08 |
Denied |
Amici (7) |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process electronic-communication electronic-communications expressive-speech first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine public-concern |
Does the criminalization of expressive electronic communications in Texas Penal Code § 42.07(a)(7) implicate the First Amendment? |
| 22-415 |
Mark Elliott Stuart v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2022-11-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-law due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech municipal-code statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether Scottsdale Revised Code 19-13 is overbroad and violates the First Amendment |
| 22-407 |
Maria Herta v. Terrie E. Roberts |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-01 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights corporate-governance due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech freedom-of-speech jurisdictional-challenge oath-of-office standing |
Is the federal government's statutory law and corporate policies superior to the U.S. Constitution? |
| 22-5939 |
Nathaniel L. Wilson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim |
| 22-5945 |
Alex Adams v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings |
Whether the legal issues being raised |
| 22-393 |
NetChoice, LLC, dba NetChoice, et al. v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-26 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (6)Relisted (3) |
compelled-speech content-based content-based-restrictions editorial-discretion first-amendment free-speech tech-regulation viewpoint-discrimination zauderer |
Whether S.B. 7072 in its entirety, and its compelled disclosure provisions in particular, comply with the First Amendment |
| 22-5922 |
Andrew S. Andersen v. Jennifer Shaffer, Executive Director, California Board of Parole Hearings |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
beliefs-thoughts civil-rights due-process due-process-clause first-amendment free-speech government-benefit parole parole-regulations speech-suppression turner-test |
When a plaintiff alleges denial of a governmental benefit based on beliefs/thoughts and the benefit is conditioned on adopting government-approved bel… |
| 22-388 |
Rodney Keister v. Stuart Bell, in His Official Capacity as President of the University of Alabama, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-25 |
Denied |
Amici (6)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
expressive-activity first-amendment free-speech government-intent public-forum public-sidewalks sidewalk-access university |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in relying on the government's (or its delegee's) intent to regulate speech in determining that public sidewalks ad… |
| 22-379 |
Arkansas Times LP v. Mark Waldrip, as Trustee of the University of Arkansas Board of Trustees, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-10-24 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
boycott boycott-speech civil-rights constitutional-law content-discrimination first-amendment free-speech government-contractors viewpoint-discrimination |
Is a state law requiring government contractors to certify that they are not participating in, and will not participate in, boycotts of Israel or Isra… |
| 22-375 |
Word of God Fellowship, Inc., dba Daystar Television Network v. Vimeo, Inc., et al. |
New York |
2022-10-21 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights content-moderation contract-preemption first-amendment free-speech internet-immunity public-discourse section-230 viewpoint-discrimination |
Does Section 230 immunity extend to the removal of viewpoint-based speech on matters of public concern when the content of the speech is neither facia… |
| 22-365 |
Reform America, dba Created Equal, et al. v. City of Detroit, Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-10-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights first-amendment free-speech protest-rights public-forum security-justification strict-scrutiny viewpoint-discrimination |
Does the City's viewpoint-based restriction on protestors in a public forum satisfy strict scrutiny? |
| 22-5845 |
Skiboky Stora v. New York State Board of Elections |
New York |
2022-10-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-communication civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-communication judicial-conduct standing |
Did the communications between Respondents' Attorneys and the Chief Sweeny on the Judge's Personal Cell Phone violate the Due Process Clause of the Fo… |
| 22-5831 |
Charles Smith, Jr. v. Ronald King |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process free-speech government-compelled-speech standing takings |
Whether the First Amendment prohibits the government from compelling private entities to host and disseminate speech they disagree with |
| 22-324 |
Michelle O’Connor-Ratcliff, et al. v. Christopher Garnier, et ux. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-06 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (12)Relisted (3) |
blocking-access circuit-split civil-rights first-amendment free-speech public-official social-media standing state-action |
Whether a public official engages in state action subject to the First Amendment by blocking an individual from the official's personal social-media a… |
| 22-5737 |
Sharla Jenkins v. Helen Forbes Fields, as Administrator of the Estate of Elase Jenkins |
Ohio |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law equal-protection free-speech standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause |
| 22-5723 |
Jackie-DeVere Allen Cole v. Unknown El Paso County Sheriff's Office Records Clerk |
Colorado |
2022-09-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-review standing takings |
Whether the Colorado Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims related to the violation of his First Amendment rights |
| 22-305 |
Kevin O'Rourke, et al. v. Dominion Voting Systems, Inc., et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-09-29 |
Denied |
|
1983 article-iii civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-rights free-speech section-1983 standing state-action voting |
Whether citizens have standing to sue private persons engaged in state action for relief under § 1983 for deprivations of their right to vote for pres… |
| 22-293 |
Anthony Novak v. City of Parma, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-09-28 |
Denied |
Amici (5) |
circuit-split civil-rights first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement parody parody-speech police-misconduct qualified-immunity |
Whether an officer is entitled to qualified immunity for arresting an individual based solely on speech parodying the government, so long as no case h… |
| 22-301 |
Xiu Jian Sun v. Donald J. Trump, former President of the United States |
District of Columbia |
2022-09-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions divine-intervention due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-review legal-interpretation religious-doctrine religious-freedom spiritual-claims standing |
Whether the plaintiff has standing to bring claims against the defendants based on religious beliefs and divine revelations |
| 22-302 |
Brent Ristow v. Amanda Cunningham |
Minnesota |
2022-09-28 |
Denied |
|
absolute-immunity adversarial-proceeding civil-rights defamation ex-parte free-speech government-communication private-citizen |
Whether a private citizen who has submitted allegedly defamatory statements, to the government, ex parte, outside of any adversarial proceeding, about… |
| 22-5688 |
Michael G. Peters v. David Hittner, Judge, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-28 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
abortion civil-rights constitutional-rights declaratory-relief due-process free-speech injunctive-relief judicial-interpretation legal-standing procedural-law standing |
Whether the courts below erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for declaratory and injunctive relief against the enforcement of a state statute that… |
| 22-5699 |
In Re Thomas George Craaybeek |
|
2022-09-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment standing takings |
Whether the petitioner's Second Amendment rights were violated by the state's concealed carry restrictions |
| 22-5674 |
Chad M. Vice v. Lee County Sheriff Department, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-09-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
1st-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech individual-liberties political-expression public-forum |
Whether the Petitioner's constitutional rights under the First Amendment's Free Speech Clause and the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause were violat… |
| 22-5681 |
Towaki Komatsu v. City of New York, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-estoppel first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-bias judicial-misconduct procedural-infirmity standing |
Whether the Second Circuit and U.S. District Judge Lorna Schofield prejudicially and biasedly ignored key facts, violating the petitioner's First and … |
| 22-277 |
Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. v. NetChoice, LLC, dba NetChoice, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-23 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (10)Relisted (3) |
censorship content-moderation first-amendment free-speech social-media social-media-regulation state-law state-regulation third-party-communications time-place-manner |
Whether the First Amendment prohibits a State from requiring that social-media companies host third-party communications, and from regulating the time… |
| 22-278 |
City of Ocala, Florida v. Art Rojas, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (6) |
article-iii civil-rights establishment-clause free-speech observer-standing psychic-injury religious-event religious-expression standing |
Is psychic or emotional offense allegedly caused by observation of religious messages an injury sufficient to confer standing under Article III of the… |
| 22-5621 |
Cody Ray Leveke, aka Cody Meyer, aka Cody Ray Meyers v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-communication criminal-law first-amendment free-speech jury-instruction statutory-interpretation subjective-intent true-threat |
Whether a true threat requires the specific intent to threaten violence |
| 22-255 |
Scott Wilford, et al. v. National Education Association, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process fair-share-fees free-speech good-faith-defense janus-precedent public-sector-unions retroactive-effect retroactivity section-1983 |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in allowing public-sector unions to keep ill-gotten fair-share fees |
| 22-5601 |
Rosa Serrano v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process false-claims-act free-speech healthcare-liability medicaid-reimbursement ninth-circuit-review standing statutory-interpretation whistleblower whistleblower-provisions |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated |
| 22-5543 |
Larry A. Anderson v. General Motors LLC, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim |
| 22-212 |
Jonathan Savas, et al. v. California Statewide Law Enforcement Association, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-08 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
associational-rights compelled-speech constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech janus-v-afscme labor-rights speech-rights union-membership waiver |
Does it violate the First Amendment for a state and union to compel objecting employees to remain union members and to subsidize the union and its spe… |
| 22-204 |
Melissa Elaine Klein, et vir v. Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries |
Oregon |
2022-09-07 |
GVR |
Amici (13)Relisted (2) |
civil-rights custom-art due-process employment-division employment-division-v-smith first-amendment free-speech masterpiece-cakeshop religious-freedom religious-hostility |
Whether, under Masterpiece, the Oregon Court of Appeals should have entered judgment for Petitioners after finding that Respondent had demonstrated an… |
| 22-202 |
Leonardo Nuncio v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-09-06 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech harassment-statute obscenity obscenity-test overbreadth texas-penal-code vagueness |
Is Texas's obscene harassment statute unconstitutionally vague and overbroad? |
| 22-5509 |
Jaime Luevano v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-06 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing takings |
Whether the Petitioners' First Amendment rights were violated by the government's actions |
| 22-164 |
Mark Elliott Stuart v. Douglas Gerlach, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. |
Arizona |
2022-08-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech police-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment speedy-trial vindictive-prosecution |
Whether the State can punish an individual for refusing to obey an unconstitutional order or for peacefully exercising constitutional rights |
| 22-154 |
Siyu Yang, et al. v. Eastman School of Music, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-08-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the First Amendment's free speech protections |
| 22-156 |
David Douglas Fennell v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anti-SLAPP-law civil-rights constitutional-rights equal-protection federal-preemption free-speech jury-trial jury-trial-rights political-assembly right-to-assemble |
Is California's anti-SLAPP law constitutional? |
| 22-5367 |
Derrick Lee Hinton v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation federal-jurisdiction federal-power first-amendment free-speech government-criticism judicial-review legal-precedent native-american-rights sovereignty-doctrine tribal-sovereignty |
Whether the federal government's reliance on the tribal sovereignty doctrine violates the First Amendment's Free Speech Clause by restricting criticis… |
| 22-135 |
Heather Kokesch Del Castillo v. Joseph A. Ladapo, Secretary, Florida Department of Health |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-08-15 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech government-regulation occupational-licensing occupational-regulation professional-speech speech-restriction |
Whether a government prohibition on communicating a message is exempt from First Amendment scrutiny simply because that prohibition flows from a statu… |
| 22-144 |
Mahesh Khatri v. Ohio State University, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
academic-freedom biosafety-regulations bioterrorism-act civil-rights disability-discrimination employee-speech first-amendment free-speech garcetti-exception whistleblower |
Is petitioner's reporting of misuse of 'select infectious agents' in BSL-2 lab protected speech? |
| 22-137 |
BYD Company Ltd. v. Alliance for American Manufacturing, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-08-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-malice civil-rights defamation discovery first-amendment free-speech pleading-standard pleading-standards public-figure reckless-disregard |
Whether Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly and Ashcroft v. Iqbal sub silentio overturned the balance struck in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan and its prog… |
| 22-138 |
Billy Raymond Counterman v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2022-08-11 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (20)Relisted (5) |
first-amendment free-speech objective-standard reasonable-person speech-protection subjective-intent true-threats |
Whether the government must show subjective intent or objective 'reasonable person' standard to establish 'true threat' unprotected by First Amendment |
| 22-5335 |
Julius Wayne Baker v. Bryan K. Dobbs, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-investigation federal-jurisdiction free-speech incarceration legal-jurisdiction miranda-rights standing |
Did the 4th Circuit err in denying the petitioner's grounds for relief when the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by agents of the Fede… |
| 22-5340 |
Jonathan Wells v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech internet-access packingham-v-north-carolina sex-offenders supervised-release |
Whether the same First Amendment principles in Packingham apply to sex offenders on supervised release and prohibit untailored bans on internet use du… |
| 22-130 |
Lonnie Tofsrud v. City of Spokane, Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
chain-of-command civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech officer-misconduct pickering-garcetti-framework public-employee public-employee-speech supervisor-retaliation whistleblower whistleblower-protection |
Does a city police detective's complaint to a county attorney about officer misconduct meet the test for private speech? |
| 22-119 |
Christian Action League of Minnesota, et al., v. Mike Freeman, in His Official Capacity as Hennepin County Attorney |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
|
civil-action civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-prosecution due-process enforcement-authority free-speech pre-enforcement-challenge standing |
Whether, if a law authorizes both private and public enforcement, and a credible threat of private enforcement exists, a plaintiff may bring a pre-enf… |
| 22-5315 |
Ryan Rydell Bonner v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof censorship clear-and-present-danger constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech government-regulation statutory-vagueness |
Whether the First Amendment requires the government to regulate speech with narrow specificity, even when the speech is provocative and challenging bu… |
| 22-5322 |
Pernell Swahili El v. San Diego Unified School District |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the First Amendment's free speech protections |
| 22-5301 |
Michael G. Peters v. Lisa Benge Michalk |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-05 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim |
| 22-5302 |
Michael G. Peters v. Actual Innocent Clinic |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-05 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech public-access standing |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial extends to the public's right to access court records and proceedings in a criminal case |
| 22-104 |
Martin Rugamba v. CRST Inc., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-08-02 |
Denied |
|
cat's-paw-theory civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-reporting free-speech monell-liability municipal-custom municipal-liability police-retaliation retaliation standing |
Whether police retaliation against an individual who reports misconduct constitutes a Monell custom or practice |
| 22-95 |
Schuyler File v. Margaret Hickey, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-08-01 |
Denied |
Amici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
abood-v-detroit civil-rights compelled-membership due-process first-amendment free-speech janus-precedent mandatory-bar scrutiny-standard standing union-shop |
Whether membership in a mandatory state bar is subject to heightened scrutiny under the First Amendment |
| 22-5215 |
Graham Schiff v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2022-07-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
as-applied constitutional-rights content-based content-based-speech first-amendment free-speech public-concern right-to-counsel |
Whether the petitioner's speech, which is content-based, on a matter of public-concern, and made while exercising one's right to counsel, is protected… |
| 22-5197 |
Leonard Noble v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2022-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions |
| 22-5208 |
In Re Paul C. Bolin |
|
2022-07-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment administrative-rules civil-rights constitutional-authority court-filing due-process free-speech judicial-procedure legal-submissions ninth-circuit standing takings |
Does the SCOTUS petition raise a constitutional right to carry concealed firearms? |
| 22-67 |
Robert "Bob" King v. Specialty Hospital of Washington, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-07-26 |
Denied |
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anti-SLAPP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process expedited-hearing free-speech fundamental-rights pro-se-litigant procedural-rights special-motion-to-dismiss standing |
Whether the mandatory expedited hearing on a special motion to dismiss under an anti-SLAPP law is necessary to prevent a deprivation of fundamental pr… |
| 22-5169 |
Antoine Deshawn Barnes v. T.V. Nationwide Network, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-statute due-process free-speech legal-challenge mens-rea standing state-court statutory-construction takings |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 22-5178 |
Daniel K. Cleary v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-07-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause |
| 22-29 |
Richelle D. Wallace v. City of Hampton, Virginia, et al |
Virginia |
2022-07-11 |
Denied |
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actual-malice constitutional-interpretation curtis-publishing-co-v-butts defamation first-amendment free-speech libel-law new-york-times-v-sullivan public-figure |
Whether the actual-malice standard should be reconsidered for public-figure defamation cases |
| 22-28 |
Yi Tai Shao v. Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of California, et al. |
California |
2022-07-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech habeas-corpus prefiling-order standing |
Does May 17, 2022 Order of California Supreme Court violate the First Amendment, Fifth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment |
| 22-14 |
Brad Faver v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review burden-of-proof burden-shifting civil-rights district-court-finding due-process free-speech least-restrictive-means religious-accommodation sincerely-held-belief standing vendor-policy |
Whether the Appellate Court erred in failing to shift the burden to the Defendant's once Mr. Faver established a sincerely held belief that was burden… |
| 22-5001 |
Robert Carrasco Gamez v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2022-06-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Question not identified |
| 21-8275 |
James Lawrence v. Hearst Communications, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
arrest-reporting civil-rights criminal-characterization defamation due-process free-speech journalistic-ethics media-defamation media-law privacy substantial-truth warrant-interpretation |
Can a media organization repeatedly dox a past arrest insinuating conviction without clarifying if the arrest ever became a conviction? |
| 21-1585 |
Richard Arnold, et al. v. Carlos Del Toro, Secretary of the Navy, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-06-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-error constructive-discharge due-process free-speech judicial-review navy-chaplaincy promotion-procedures religious-speech res-judicata retaliation retaliation-claims |
Did the Court of Appeals commit constitutional error in holding that In re Navy Chaplaincy's denial of Petitioners' systemic challenges to the Navy pr… |
| 21-1580 |
MyPillow, Inc. v. US Dominion, Inc., et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-06-22 |
Denied |
|
actual-malice collateral-order-doctrine defamation first-amendment free-speech interlocutory-appeal jurisdictional-appeal new-york-times-standard |
Whether a critic of official conduct may immediately appeal under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 a district court's refusal to dismiss under New York Times Co. v. S… |
| 21-8194 |
Richard Reynolds, et al. v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction |
Second Circuit |
2022-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-agency administrative-law constitutional-review corrections due-process first-amendment free-speech prison-regulations sexually-explicit-materials turner-standard turner-v-safley |
Whether a state administrative agency can deny access to publications protected by the First Amendment based on incarceration status |
| 21-8122 |
Jeremiah Henderson v. Austin K. McClain |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-tort first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement probable-cause retaliatory-arrest retaliatory-prosecution section-1983 |
Does probable cause defeat a retaliatory prosecution claim |
| 21-1549 |
Isaac D. Koch v. Andela S. Koch, et al. |
Nebraska |
2022-06-10 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-protection-order civil-rights communication-restriction constitutional-rights due-process family-law free-speech injunction standing state-court-jurisdiction |
Shall any State, by her Legislature, heedlessly dictate with equity's injunction — that any one person is not protected by state and federal Constitut… |
| 21-1548 |
Courtney L. Rainey v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-investigation due-process false-information first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech witness-intimidation |
Whether a conviction under a state witness intimidation statute violates the First Amendment and Due Process Clause |
| 21-8112 |
Jaime Luevano v. Ivanka Trump, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims alleging violations of their constitutional rights under the First and Fourth Amen… |
| 21-1531 |
Korry L. Ardell v. Joshua Kaul, Attorney General of Wisconsin |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-06-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech habeas-corpus jury-instructions procedural-default stalking |
Did the jury instructions deny the defendant his constitutional right to a jury finding beyond a reasonable doubt of all facts necessary for convictio… |
| 21-1532 |
Brian Davison v. Deborah Rose, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-07 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-scrutiny due-process first-amendment free-speech government-action government-speech public-forum speech-restriction standing viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether a forum and scrutiny analysis are required when considering First Amendment infringement claims involving the government barring citizen speec… |
| 21-1520 |
Wismettac Asian Foods, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-procedure due-process employer-speech first-amendment free-speech labor-board labor-law national-labor-relations-act section-8c standing union-authorization |
Did the NLRB violate employer-free-speech, 1st-amendment, 8c-nlra, 8a1-nlra, employee-rights-to-refrain, circuit-split |
| 21-1502 |
Jeff Swanson v. Couy Griffin, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
|
civil-liberties first-amendment free-speech public-forum qualified-immunity social-media viewpoint-discrimination |
Did the Tenth Circuit err in reversing the decision of the District Court that Commissioner Couy Griffin was not entitled to qualified immunity after … |
| 21-1497 |
Scott Louis YoungBear v. Tom Miller, Attorney General of Iowa |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights content-discrimination first-amendment free-speech prior-restraint religious-speech viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether prior restraint, content-based or viewpoint discrimination was applied when religious speech in a civil complaint was censored per the 'forbid… |
| 21-1489 |
Andrew Ioannidis v. Tom Wolf, Governor of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2022-05-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-remedy due-process election-law electoral-count-act first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech mootness standing state-law-preemption |
Whether there is any remedy for violation(s) of the First and Fourteenth Amendment(s) to the United States Constitution |
| 21-7966 |
Michael G. Peters v. David Hittner, Judge |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-25 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
abuse-of-power civil-rights constitutional-rights cover-up due-process free-speech government-misconduct obstruction-of-justice political-cover-up |
Whether the government's cover-up of evidence and obstruction of justice to prevent the due process of science violates the Constitution |
| 21-7963 |
Steven Strong Bear Stevenson v. California |
California |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights content-neutrality free-speech government-regulation public-forum viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether the First Amendment protects the right of private citizens to participate in a public forum, even if their participation is deemed offensive o… |
| 21-1474 |
Candace Owens, et al. v. Lead Stories, LLC, et al. |
Delaware |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights contract contract-law defamation first-amendment free-speech marketplace-regulation tortious-interference |
Should the First Amendment provide a defense to claims of tortious interference and similar torts that involve speech? |
| 21-7945 |
Nathan B. Byerly v. Idaho, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Whether the legal issues being raised |
| 21-7901 |
Richard Coleman v. North Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
anti-pro-se-bias civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-overreach obstruction-of-justice pro-se-bias seventh-amendment |
Whether judges judging judges in cases in which one party is not represented results in pro se litigants being victims of judicial criminal acts |
| 21-7890 |
Michael E. Bargo, Jr. v. J. B. Pritzker, Governor of Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process free-speech legislative-procedure legislative-process legislative-rules representative-rights separation-of-powers standing voting-rights |
Whether the eight rules of the IL 102nd General Assembly cited in this case violate and nullify Petitioner Michael E. Bargo Jr's. right to have his el… |
| 21-7898 |
Emilio Evalio Arenas v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2022-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process free-speech mistrial prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct standing |
Whether the Supreme Court of Nevada erred when it concluded that the petitioner was not prejudiced by cumulative error after the district court abando… |
| 21-7885 |
Charles Deon Ladd v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2022-05-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech mcgirt-case oklahoma-jurisdiction procedural-rule retroactivity standing substantive-rule supreme-court takings |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights |
| 21-7847 |
Michael G. Peters v. Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-13 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights due-process free-speech public-trial standing |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial extends to the public's right to access court records and proceedings, and whether the government … |
| 21-1435 |
Martin H. Leaf v. Nike, Inc., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-05-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights consumer-protection deceptive-conduct deceptive-practices free-speech internet-content pleading-standards standing state-of-mind subliminal-advertising |
Whether Michigan citizens are required to make a payment to be protected under the Michigan Consumer Protection Act |
| 21-1429 |
Zhang Jingrong, et al. v. Chinese Anti-Cult World Alliance, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-05-10 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
civil-rights constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech legislative-history place-of-worship religious-discrimination religious-freedom statutory-interpretation |
Whether the statutory text and First Amendment permit FACEA's protections from violence at a 'place of religious worship' to apply only to places reli… |
| 21-7831 |
Gerry Ranson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2022-05-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Bénzeymin saratt of Vaan ~ Qafa a County, Pleryfa edev of Témy of Love Religlewy Grew Fur Hebvenc€5rael tes le gau 7 YAY that he 75 EloHe as c… |
| 21-7805 |
William Paul Burch v. Select Portfolio Servicing, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech frivolous-dismissal in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigant removal sanctions |
What is the complete legal definition of frivolous? |
| 21-7793 |
Leihinahina Sullivan v. United States District Court for the District of Hawaii |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-client-privilege civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech grand-jury-procedure pro-se-defendant prosecutorial-misconduct standing subpoena-abuse |
Question not identified |
| 21-7796 |
Ryan Stephen Ehrenreich v. Shirley N. Weber, California Secretary of State |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
ballot-access candidate-certification civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process election-law elections filing-fee filing-fees free-speech notarization write-in-voting |
Whether the State of California may condition the reporting of the results of write-in voting on the State's 'candidate certification' requirement tha… |
| 21-7772 |
Timothy R. Petrozzi v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing |
Question not identified |
| 21-1402 |
Outdoor One Communications LLC v. Charter Township of Canton, Michigan |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-05-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge content-based content-based-regulation first-amendment free-speech permit-requirement prior-restraint speech-restriction standing variance-scheme |
Whether a speaker must first engage in self-censorship to have standing to attack the constitutionality of a prior restraint on its speech |
| 21-1395 |
Thomas Few v. United Teachers Los Angeles, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process free-speech janus-v-afscme standing union-dues |
Whether a union can trap a public worker into paying dues without the 'affirmative consent' required by Janus v. AFSCME |
| 21-7755 |
Eric Ericson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-04-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights court-injunction due-process first-amendment free-speech injunction standing state-prosecution |
Must a citizen obey a court ordered injunction that deprives him of his constitutionally protected right to free speech under the First Amendment? |
| 21-7747 |
Michael G. Peters v. Kenneth M. Hoyt, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-28 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
citizen-rights civil-rights constitutional-violation corporate-cover-up due-process evidence-suppression free-speech government-action legal-dispute petition-clause standing takings |
Whether the First Amendment protects the right of citizens to petition the government for a redress of grievances, including the right to file lawsuit… |
| 21-1387 |
Erik Leckner v. General Dynamics Information Technology, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
2nd-amendment administrative-law brown-vs-board civil-rights cybersecurity-risk due-process free-speech retaliation-claim sarbanes-oxley standing whistleblower-protection |
Whether the court of appeals failed to recognize that SOX whistleblower protections does extend to cybersecurity risks and breaches |
| 21-1381 |
Enrique Vazquez-Quintana v. Jose Alberto Morales-Rodriguez, et al. |
First Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights court-ruling democratic-system due-process expert-testimony free-speech medical-decision medical-expertise scientific-evidence standing |
Can a court issue a ruling dismissing scientific facts? |
| 21-7708 |
Amit Patel v. Mark Rockwood |
Second Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech habeas-corpus in-custody |
When the District Court sua sponte dismissed a habeas corpus petition, was the petitioner's freedom of speech, right to petition the government, due p… |
| 21-7655 |
Bruce Committe v. Vickie Gentry |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
academic-freedom civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-procedure press-freedom standing |
What are the contours and principles of the First Amendment's free speech and freedom of the press protections (a/k/a Academic Freedom) in the academi… |
| 21-1350 |
Jack Jordan v. Department of Labor, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-04-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure-act agency-sanctions constitution constitutional-precedent free-speech freedom-of-speech judicial-review petition precedent strict-scrutiny |
Whether federal judges are free to flout and violate the APA, Constitution, and precedent |
| 21-7608 |
Rufus Lamar Savin Spearman v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-04-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech standing takings |
Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in holding that the Mandatory Vaccine Provision of the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional |
| 21-1343 |
Victor R. Marshall v. Supreme Court of New Mexico |
New Mexico |
2022-04-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-recusal lawyer-discipline legal-ethics professional-conduct standing |
Does the First Amendment permit a state to suspend a lawyer from practice indefinitely because it found statements in a motion, in which the lawyer so… |
| 21-7580 |
Amos Lamar Burch v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech post-conviction-relief qualified-immunity standing |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 21-7558 |
Vitaly Kolosha v. Luke Pettigrew, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-04-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-act due-process federal-law free-speech jurisdictional-conflict retroactive-application retroactivity standing state-jurisdiction treaty-interpretation |
When is a new religious word 190 years old treaty, law, prior ruling, or act of congress automatically retroactive, or does it apply to all cases as i… |
| 21-7564 |
Armstead Kieffer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-vagueness due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech patent sixth-amendment standing takings |
Whether the unconstitutionally vague language, struck down by the Court in 185 OG, violates 35 USC 112(b) |
| 21-7531 |
Michael G. Peters v. City of Houston, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-04 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
certiorari-petition civil-procedure civil-rights court-review due-process federal-tax-code free-speech legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation takings tax-liability |
Whether the court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims |
| 21-7520 |
Isaiah Wilson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 2nd-amendment burglary-statute career-offender civil-rights crime-of-violence due-process federal-sentencing free-speech sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the court should exercise its discretion under Romer v. Evans to resolve a circuit split amongst the sister circuits regarding New Jersey's th… |
| 21-7511 |
Kevin E. Herriott v. Charles Burton, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech government-regulation judicial-review |
Whether the South Carolina appellate court's ruling is constitutional and reasonable in content to further a legitimate governmental objective? |
| 21-1294 |
David H. Penny v. Nancy Pelosi, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-03-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-limits first-amendment free-speech impeachment impeachment-power justiciability legislative-standing political-question-doctrine standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Does a citizen constituent of a duly elected President have the possibility of filing a complaint with standing, subject matter jurisdiction, and just… |
| 21-7442 |
Aaron Matthew Oleston v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights disorderly-conduct due-process fighting-words first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement police-arrest police-discretion |
Does the First Amendment protect the right of the people to approach law enforcement and criticize police actions in an opprobrious manner? |
| 21-7362 |
Kyle Kurtz v. David W. Gray, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto free-speech habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt rules-of-court self-defense |
Are the rules promulgated by the United States Supreme Court being enforced? |
| 21-1229 |
Saved Magazine, et al. v. Spokane Police Department, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights content-based-censorship content-based-restrictions due-process dueling-protests first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech press-freedom public-forum qualified-immunity |
Are the expressive rights of freedom of speech and press in the context of dueling protests so well established and particularized that the shield of … |
| 21-1235 |
Robert Grundstein v. Supreme Court of Ohio |
Ohio |
2022-03-10 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-access due-process first-amendment free-speech standing statutory-interpretation vexatious-litigator |
Is the Ohio Vexatious Litigator Statute, ORC 2323.52, Unconstitutional on the basis of vagueness and insufficient standards? |
| 21-7285 |
Irina Collier v. University of California, Berkeley |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech online-communication school-discipline student-rights student-speech university-policies whistleblower-protections |
Whether the First Amendment's free speech protections apply to withdrawn students |
| 21-1209 |
Jennifer B. Miller v. The Bank of New York Mellon, Successor to JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure free-speech judicial-review motion-to-dismiss pleading-standards standing summary-judgment |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing certain counts under Rule 12(b)(6) |
| 21-7246 |
In Re Isaiah S. Harris, Sr. |
|
2022-03-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech mandamus standing ultra-vires |
Whether the willful disobedience or adoption of a deliberate policy in open defiance of the federal rules has allowed U.S. Supreme Court Case Analyst … |
| 21-7199 |
Bryan Matthew Brewer v. Oklahoma Bar Association |
Oklahoma |
2022-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-rules bar-association civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emolument-violation free-speech judicial-procedure oaths-and-emoluments remedies republican-form-of-government state-government |
Where does the law originate from? |
| 21-1171 |
Cadillac of Naperville, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board |
District of Columbia |
2022-02-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure comity employer-speech federalism first-amendment free-speech labor-dispute nlrb nlrb-procedure state-sovereignty |
Whether the Court of Appeal improperly narrowed the First Amendment protection owed employers in a labor dispute |
| 21-1152 |
Michael A. Deem v. Lorna M. DiMella-Deem |
New York |
2022-02-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
attorney-for-children constitutional-violation court-appointed-attorney court-appointed-counsel custody-dispute due-process free-speech parental-rights takings-clause |
Does appointment of an attorney for the children over a fit father's objection violate his right to parental-relations? |
| 21-1156 |
Rodric David v. Tony Kazal, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anti-stalking-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process extraterritorial-application first-amendment foreign-nationals free-speech ninth-circuit standing territorial-jurisdiction |
Did the Ninth Circuit impermissibly disregard this Court's holding in Agency for Int' Dev. v. All. for Open Soc'y Int'l, Inc. |
| 21-7166 |
Mustafa Ozsusamlar v. P. Adams, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-remedies civil-rights discrimination due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-prison free-speech habeas-corpus postal-service prisoner-litigation standing |
Whether the prison's practice of opening, reading, and forwarding legal mail to the warden or unit manager, which delays or destroys the mail, violate… |
| 21-7115 |
Robert Stahlnecker v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
communications-law constitutional-challenge criminal-law first-amendment free-speech political-speech statutory-interpretation telecommunications |
Does 47 U.S.C. § 223(a)(1)(C) violate the First Amendment when applied to political speech? |
| 21-7121 |
Joseph Lamont Wilson v. Phoenix Police Department, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech judicial-review legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the First Amendment's free speech protections |
| 21-7108 |
Kevin Stephen Ryan v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2022-02-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
1st-amendment civil-rights content-based-restriction free-speech government-regulation prior-restraint |
Whether the government's restriction on the petitioner's speech violates the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech |
| 21-1120 |
Chad Thompson, et al. v. Richard Michael DeWine, Governor of Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
ballot-access civil-rights constitutional-challenge COVID-19-restrictions first-amendment free-speech government-regulation initiative-placement mootness standing |
Whether ever-changing and ongoing government-issued COVID-19 restrictions moot First Amendment challenges to ballot access restrictions |
| 21-1113 |
Brock Fredin v. Lindsey E. Middlecamp, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights district-court first-amendment free-speech inherent-judicial-powers inherent-powers injunctive-relief prior-restraint public-officials |
Did the District Court have the authority under its inherent powers to issue a wide-sweeping injunction to restrict speech for a period of five (5) ye… |
| 21-7095 |
Paul Anthony Darrah v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
enterprise enterprise-existence first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech jury-instruction jury-instructions necessity-requirement rico-conspiracy title-iii-wiretap wiretap-authorization |
Should the jury have been allowed to convict on the hypothetical existence of a RICO enterprise? |
| 21-1089 |
Jeff Garvin Smith, Cary Dale Vandiver, Patrick Michael McKeoun, David Randy Drozdowski, and Vincent John Witort v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-07 |
Denied |
|
Criminal-Procedure Due-Process First-Amendment Free-Speech hypothetical-elements jury-instruction Jury-Instructions RICO-Conspiracy sixth-circuit-precedent |
Should the jury have been allowed to convict the defendants on the hypothetical existence of all of the elements of a RICO Conspiracy? |
| 21-7045 |
Michael James Hoffman v. Arizona Department of Corrections |
Arizona |
2022-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process free-speech legal-mail mail-obstruction obstruction-of-mail prison-communication takings |
Did ADOC violate Petitioner's constitutional rights to free-speech, due-process, and access-to-courts by removing his documents from the authorized US… |
| 21-7042 |
Craig Nelsen v. Southern Poverty Law Center |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-malice constitutional-protection defamation diversity-jurisdiction first-amendment free-speech public-figure summary-judgment |
Whether the US Court for the 8th Circuit wrongly allowed the District Court's improper statement of a Missouri Supreme Court ruling |
| 21-1069 |
Merrilee Stewart v. RRL Holding Company of Ohio, LLC, et al. |
Ohio |
2022-02-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process free-speech judicial-misconduct legal-stay ohio standing vexatious-litigator whistleblower whistleblower-laws |
Does the Ohio Vexatious Litigator statute, as applied, violate the United States Constitution and/or Federal Whistleblower Laws |
| 21-1071 |
Stephen Lynch Murray v. Janelle Irwin Taylor, et al. |
Florida |
2022-02-02 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights cyberstalking-statute defamation due-process first-amendment free-speech government-retaliation judicial-discretion political-speech standing |
Can the government deputize private actors to attack political speech and thereby abridge political speech? |
| 21-1057 |
Oracle Corporation v. Hewlett-Packard Company |
California |
2022-01-31 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
appeal-rights civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights damages-award due-process first-amendment free-speech litigation-activity petition-clause standing |
Whether the Petition Clause protects litigants from damages awards attributable to litigation-related activity, including the announcement of an inten… |
| 21-6975 |
David James Lola v. Rick Ramsay, Sheriff, Monroe County, Florida |
Florida |
2022-01-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech incarceration legal-resources prisoner-access |
Does an innocent citizen representing themselves against criminal allegations, also known as pro se, and incarcerated prior to trial have a due proces… |
| 21-6953 |
Jaime Luevano v. Hillary R. Clinton, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
antitrust civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing |
Whether the Sham Commercial Lease Exception to the Noerr-Pennington doctrine applies to the facts of this case |
| 21-1024 |
Miriam Brysk v. Henry Herskovitz, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-01-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anti-semitism civil-rights emotional-distress first-amendment free-speech injunction standing |
Whether the use of anti-Semitic signs is protected by the First Amendment |
| 21-1030 |
Peter Brimelow v. The New York Times Company |
Second Circuit |
2022-01-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-malice civil-rights defamation due-process first-amendment free-speech government-policy media-entity media-liability new-york-times-standard race-intelligence-crime |
Whether the Sullivan Malice rule should be abandoned |
| 21-6935 |
Richard Roy Blake v. City of Northglenn, Colorado |
Colorado |
2022-01-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-assembly free-speech municipal-code vagueness |
Did the City of Northglenn, Colorado police department violate Petitioner's First Amendment rights to free-speech, free-assembly on January 4, 2020 wh… |
| 21-6916 |
Joachim Martillo v. Twitter, Inc., et al. |
First Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights common-carriage constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process free-speech internet-law public-accommodation section-230 |
Correct interpretation of 47 U.S. Code § 230 |
| 21-1007 |
Robert A. Hawkland v. Burke Hall, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
first-amendment free-speech governmental-agency internal-investigation official-duties public-employee retaliation speech-protection |
Whether statements made by a public employee during an internal investigation by a governmental agency regarding matters of public concern are within … |
| 21-6837 |
John Ragin v. Circuit Court of Virginia, City of Newport News |
Virginia |
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights free-speech government-speech public-forum social-media standing |
Whether the First Amendment protects the right of public officials to block users from their social media accounts |
| 21-997 |
Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. v. Arizona Attorneys for Criminal Justice, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-judgment federal-courts first-amendment free-speech injunctive-relief standing state-criminal-proceedings state-sovereignty younger-abstention |
Does Younger apply when a federal claim is derivative of a claim that could be brought in ongoing state court proceedings or does Younger also require… |
| 21-6827 |
Ryan Thomas Pick v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2022-01-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment electronic-surveillance fifth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech miranda-rights search-and-seizure sixth-amendment standing |
4th-amendment-rights,electronic-communication-privacy-act,5th-amendment-rights,6th-amendment-rights,8th-amendment-rights,sex-offender-registration |
| 21-974 |
Sylvia Borunda Firth, et al. v. Tony K. McDonald, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-06 |
Denied |
|
administrative-agency civil-rights first-amendment free-speech free-speech-clause government-speech judicial-department keller-v-state-bar overrule-precedent state-bar |
Whether the State Bar of Texas qualifies as a government agency for purposes of the government speech doctrine |
| 21-958 |
A. A. v. M. A. |
New Jersey |
2021-12-30 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-rule free-speech freedom-of-religion medical-exemption religious-exemption sincerity-test vaccination-mandate |
Whether Petitioner's fundamental right to freedom of religion, and exemption from vaccination, was violated when the trial Court applied a 'sincerity'… |
| 21-951 |
Rio Grande Foundation v. City of Santa Fe, New Mexico, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-29 |
Denied |
|
ballot-initiative chilling-effect civil-rights constitutional-challenge donor-disclosure first-amendment free-speech nonprofit-disclosure speech-rights standing standing-doctrine |
Did the Tenth Circuit err? |
| 21-953 |
Richard Leake, et al. v. James T. Drinkard, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Assistant City Administrator of the City of Alpharetta, GA, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-29 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech government-speech historical-context parade-participation public-forum |
Whether the government can limit private citizens' speech in government-sponsored parades |
| 21-943 |
Gerald G. Lundergan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-27 |
Denied |
|
campaign-finance civil-rights constitutional-law corporate-contributions family-corporation federal-ban first-amendment free-speech scrutiny-standard |
Whether the federal ban on corporate contributions is unconstitutional as applied to intrafamilial contributions from a closely held, family-run corpo… |
| 21-928 |
Alan Hutzel v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2021-12-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anonymous-speech anti-mask-law conduct-of-others constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech intent-to-intimidate rally-conduct |
Does finding of an intent to intimidate for the purpose of an anti-mask law conviction based solely on the conduct of others violate the First Amendme… |
| 21-929 |
Marie Henry v. The Florida Bar, et al. |
Florida |
2021-12-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bar-membership civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process first-amendment free-speech integrated-bar judicial-ethics keller-v-state-bar-of-california standing |
Whether the Florida Bar's compulsory membership and dues violate the First Amendment right to refrain from subsidizing the organization's political or… |
| 21-930 |
Xiu Jian Sun v. Barack Hussein Obama |
District of Columbia |
2021-12-23 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law divine-law due-process free-speech government-accountability judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus religious-petition standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights |
| 21-933 |
Vdare Foundation v. City of Colorado Springs, Colorado |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-23 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 civil-rights first-amendment free-speech government-action hate-speech municipal-services retaliation retaliation-claim section-1983 |
Whether a complaint based on a local government's public announcement that the plaintiff's speech may be illegal 'hate speech' and that, therefore, th… |
| 21-918 |
Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund, United Stockgrowers of America v. Thomas J. Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
compelled-subsidies constitutional constitutional-review first-amendment free-speech government-speech johanns-precedent johanns-v-livestock-marketing-association private-speech |
Whether otherwise unconstitutional compelled subsidies of private speech are 'government speech,' free from First Amendment review |
| 21-6683 |
David M. Vines v. City of Black Diamond, Washington, et al. |
Washington |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrest-without-warrant civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment free-speech police-misconduct warrantless-arrest warrantless-search whistleblower whistleblower-protection |
Whether the State of Washington and the police have decided an important question of Federal law, namely the Fourth Amendment, e.g. arrest without a W… |
| 21-6648 |
John Cornelius Montgomery v. David Hudson, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process free-speech standing |
Whether the government's indictment of the petitioner violated their constitutional rights |
| 21-6595 |
Ronnie Lee Hightower v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause |
| 21-6626 |
Ronald Dean Ehinger v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process free-speech government-action standing takings |
Whether the Petitioners' First Amendment rights were violated by the government's actions |
| 21-890 |
Gaspee Project, et al. v. Diane C. Mederos, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
campaign-finance commercial-speech compelled-speech constitutional-law disclosure-requirements donor-disclosure first-amendment free-speech issue-advocacy strict-scrutiny |
Does Rhode Island's on-advertisement donor disclaimer law impermissibly compel speech in violation of National Institute of Family & Life Advocates v.… |
| 21-6591 |
Daniel Spottsville v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process free-speech judicial-review jurisdictional-limits standing state-court-jurisdiction state-court-procedure takings |
Whether the State of Georgia's denial of Petitioner's request for a writ of certiorari violates the Petitioner's constitutional rights |
| 21-6576 |
Nicholas G. Peacock v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-conviction due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-review free-speech habeas-corpus marriage state-court statutory-law underage |
Do minors have a right to entice an individual for the purposes of marriage if similarly aged individuals are allowed to and being married in their re… |
| 21-866 |
Realgy, LLC v. Roberta Lindenbaum, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights content-based-speech due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-recusal recusal retroactive-liability severability standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the retroactive application of the severance of the government-debt exception in Barr v. AAPC violates the First Amendment by re-creating the … |
| 21-855 |
Paul M. Mahoney v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division Three |
California |
2021-12-09 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights contempt contempt-citation due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech judicial-proceedings petition-for-rehearing |
Whether the California Court of Appeal's contempt citation for statements made in a petition for rehearing violates the First Amendment and equal prot… |
| 21-839 |
Thomas H. Oehmke v. Patrick Andrew Guinan |
Michigan |
2021-12-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-malice civil-rights constitutional-protection defamation first-amendment free-speech malicious-reporting qualified-privilege |
Qualified Privilege for FBI Crime Tips |
| 21-844 |
Jim Carmack v. Mark Janny, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-07 |
Dismissed |
|
civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech housing-services parole parole-conditions religious-freedom state-action state-actor summary-judgment |
Whether the employee of a private, religious nonprofit may be held liable, as a state actor, for making pro bono housing and social services at the no… |
| 21-834 |
Libertarian Party of Minnesota, et al. v. Steve Simon, Minnesota Secretary of State |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process election-law elections first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech petition-rights political-parties political-party |
Whether a government can threaten criminal prosecution against voters who sign petitions supporting minor political party candidates without notice th… |
| 21-822 |
Donna Patrick, et al. v. The Alaska Public Offices Commission |
Alaska |
2021-12-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
campaign-finance certiorari constitutional-interpretation first-amendment free-speech independent-committees institutional-corruption originalism political-contributions standing |
Whether the original meaning of the First Amendment permits regulations against contributions to independent political action committees |
| 21-824 |
Cecelia F. Abadie v. Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board |
Louisiana |
2021-12-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-discipline civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech freedom-of-speech judicial-misconduct legal-paternity |
Whether suspending respondent for a year and a day, after ignoring evidence that supported her allegation, violated due-process, free-speech |
| 21-792 |
Michael Billioni v. Bruce Bryant, Sheriff, York County, South Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
|
chain-of-command civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech internal-investigation law-enforcement-misconduct pickering-balancing-test public-employee-speech whistleblower whistleblower-protection |
Whether a public employee's speech about serious law enforcement misconduct has limited weight in the Pickering First Amendment balancing analysis |
| 21-800 |
Tony K. McDonald, et al. v. Sylvia Borunda Firth, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
Amici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights compelled-speech due-process first-amendment free-speech ideological-speech legal-membership mandatory-bar political-activities political-activity standing state-bar-association |
Does the First Amendment prohibit a state from compelling attorneys to join and fund a state bar association that engages in extensive political and i… |
| 21-802 |
Coral Ridge Ministries Media, Inc., dba D. James Kennedy Ministries v. Southern Poverty Law Center |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (14) |
actual-malice common-law curtis-publishing-co-v-butts defamation first-amendment free-speech public-figure reputational-harm sullivan |
Whether the Court should reconsider the 'actual-malice' standard in defamation cases involving public figures |
| 21-786 |
James P. Crocker v. Steven Eric Beatty, Deputy Sheriff, Martin County, Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-29 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech police-activity public-recording public-space qualified-immunity recording-rights |
Whether a First Amendment right to record police activities in public has been clearly established |
| 21-791 |
Timothy H. Edgar, et al. v. Avril D. Haines, Director of National Intelligence, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-29 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-censorship national-security prepublication-review prior-restraint public-debate speech-licensing |
Whether Snepp should be overruled because it applied mere 'reasonableness' scrutiny to an agency's prepublication review regime, and failed to require… |
| 21-6415 |
Terril Kinchen v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights |
| 21-6423 |
Jermaine L. Cobbs v. Michael Stephan, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing |
Did the cows eat the apples without it being brownly and intelligently done? |
| 21-6381 |
Russell Tinsley v. Merrill Main, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech qualified-immunity retaliation standing |
Whether the New Jersey United States District Court denied Mr. Tinsley's First Amendment retaliation claim |
| 21-760 |
Laura Kelly, Governor of Kansas, et al. v. Animal Legal Defense Fund, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-11-22 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
animal-facilities constitutional-law criminal-statute first-amendment free-speech property-rights trespass viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether Kan. Stat. Ann. § 47-1827(b), (c), and (d) violate the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment |
| 21-6354 |
Erik Mishiyev v. Alphabet Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
1st-amendment censorship civil-rights content-moderation due-process first-amendment free-speech platform-liability standing youtube-censorship |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit order allowed YouTube to deprive the Petitioner of his Due Process rights under the 1… |
| 21-739 |
Mandeep Singh v. Haerim Won |
Washington |
2021-11-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
amendment-xiv civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fighting-words free-speech harassment interstate-jurisdiction protection-order true-threats |
Are Jan 27h, 2019 actions over texts carried out by Won rebuff or harassment of Singh? |
| 21-6302 |
Juan Alvarado-Gonzalez v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech government-action immigration language-access public-officials retaliation |
How long Person From Guatemala Central America Denied Motion to withdraw Guilty Plea and Vacated the Sentenced |
| 21-723 |
Mark Alan Staples v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
1st-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-law disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection ex-parte-communication free-speech social-security-law tax-law |
Whether the United States is allowed to reduce the income of a person and then tax the income reduction of that person without due process or equal pr… |
| 21-712 |
Derrick Tyrone Jenkins v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
clear-and-present-danger contempt contempt-of-court due-process extrajudicial-speech first-amendment free-speech habeas-review judicial-criticism political-speech |
Does the clear and present danger standard apply in contempt proceedings brought to sanction a litigant's extrajudicial criticism of an elected judge … |
| 21-716 |
David Sivella v. Township of Lyndhurst, New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
|
criminal-investigation employer-liability first-amendment free-speech protected-speech public-employment retaliation whistleblower |
Does the First Amendment bar a public employer from initiating a baseless criminal investigation in retaliation for a public employee engaging in prot… |
| 21-6261 |
Nathan B. Byerly v. Idaho, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that the petitioner lacked standing to challenge the government's actions |
| 21-6221 |
David Jackson v. Massachusetts Department of Correction |
Massachusetts |
2021-11-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech prisoner-rights protected-speech racial-discrimination solitary-confinement true-threat |
Whether petitioner's letter constitutes protected speech or a true threat |
| 21-6199 |
Robert M. Samson v. North Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights free-speech government-speech prior-restraint public-forum viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether the Director of the MCSB violated the First Amendment rights of the petitioner by denying his request to post a message on the MCSB's public f… |
| 21-677 |
Donald Burns v. Town of Palm Beach, Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-08 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
aesthetic-regulation architectural-design first-amendment free-speech individual-expression municipal-review residential-architecture takings zoning zoning-requirements |
Did the Town of Palm Beach violate Burns's First Amendment rights by denying his proposed home design based solely on aesthetics when the design met a… |
| 21-6204 |
Antonio A. Tankes v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment free-speech retroactive-application sentencing-enhancement standing |
Whether the petitioner should be prohibited from filing pro se pleadings |
| 21-673 |
Robert Allen Austin v. James McCann, Judge, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights defamation due-process free-speech judicial-procedure standing statutory-interpretation |
What statute grants federal and state judges the use of defamation 18 U.S.C. § 4101(1) to deprive a U.S. citizen of a protected right under the 14th A… |
| 21-657 |
Joseph Cecil Vandevere v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
conditional-speech constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech political-hyperbole political-speech public-concern true-threat |
Whether the speech at issue is entitled to special protection due to public concern |
| 21-659 |
Asociación de Periodistas de Puerto Rico v. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, et al. |
Puerto Rico |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
Amici (5) |
civil-procedure civil-rights court-closure domestic-violence due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-proceedings press-rights public-access standing |
Whether courts may summarily close judicial proceedings and deny access to the official recordings of those proceedings without determining whether th… |
| 21-649 |
Walder Vacuflo, Inc. v. Illinois Human Rights Commission, et al. |
Illinois |
2021-11-02 |
Denied |
|
access-to-courts circuit-split civil-rights discrimination due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech human-rights-commission religious-freedom standing |
Whether the Illinois Supreme Court and Appellate Court's refusal to consider this matter violates the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights of Petitio… |
| 21-629 |
Santa Fe Alliance for Public Health and Safety, et al. v. City of Santa Fe, New Mexico, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-10-29 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
access-to-courts constitutional-rights due-process free-speech preemption radio-frequency-radiation right-of-access-to-courts right-to-petition takings telecommunications telecommunications-act |
Whether the preemption by 47 U.S.C. § 332(c)(7)(B)(iv) of any State remedy for injury by telecommunications facilities without providing a substitute … |
| 21-6104 |
Christopher Michael Hitt v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2021-10-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech standing takings |
Whether the Commonwealth of Virginia's actions in this case violated the Petitioners' First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights? |
| 21-614 |
Brian Green v. Pierce County, Washington |
Washington |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
citizen-journalism citizen-journalist corporate-personhood first-amendment free-speech media-access press press-freedom public-records |
Whether barring individual citizen-journalists from accessing public records otherwise made available to news media, for lack of corporate personhood,… |
| 21-615 |
Christopher A. Woods, et al. v. Alaska State Employees Association, AFSCME Local 52, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
first-amendment free-speech public-sector state-action union-dues waiver |
Do government employers and unions need clear and compelling evidence that employees waived their First Amendment right to refrain from subsidizing un… |
| 21-620 |
Michael D. J. Eisenberg v. West Virginia Office of Disciplinary Counsel, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-agency free-speech legal-representation standing state-regulation supremacy-clause younger-abstention |
Whether the Younger abstention doctrine applies |
| 21-600 |
Wade Steven Gardner, et al. v. William Mutz, in His Capacity as Mayor of the City of Lakeland, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights first-amendment free-speech government-speech legacy-monuments legal-doctrine monument-display public-forum public-forums summum summum-precedent |
Should the government speech doctrine as recognized in Pleasant Grove City, Utah v. Summum be modified in cases involving legacy monuments already in … |
| 21-605 |
David Lynn Roberson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
|
bribery bribery-prosecution circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-programs first-amendment free-speech issue-advocacy official-action quid-pro-quo |
Whether the government must prove explicit link between issue-advocacy payments and official action in bribery prosecution |
| 21-606 |
Donald Shooter v. Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech legislative-immunity legislative-procedure qualified-immunity standing |
Does this case present an important question not previously decided by the Supreme Court in which an elected member of the Arizona Legislature engaged… |
| 21-6088 |
George Brass v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default standing state-court takings |
Whether reasonable jurists would find the rulings as to the issues related to the withdrawal of claims and related issues debatable of wrong |
| 21-609 |
Loriann Anderson, et al. v. Service Employees International Union Local 503, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech nonmember-employees public-employees state-action union-dues union-membership waiver |
Whether government employers and unions need clear and compelling evidence of employees' knowing, intelligent, and voluntary waiver of First Amendment… |
| 21-612 |
Isaac Wolf v. University Professional and Technical Employees, Communications Workers of America Local 9119, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
affirmative-consent civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech labor-law labor-rights public-workers standing supreme-court-precedent union-dues |
Whether a union can trap a public worker into paying dues without the 'affirmative consent' required by Janus v. AFSCME |
| 21-597 |
Patricia Grossman v. Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
affirmative-consent civil-rights free-speech janus-v-afscme public-sector union-dues |
Whether a union can trap a public worker into paying dues without the 'affirmative consent' required by Janus v. AFSCME |
| 21-571 |
Infowars, LLC, et al. v. Marcel Fontaine |
Texas |
2021-10-20 |
Denied |
|
class-action defamation first-amendment free-speech media-organization public-concern rosenblatt-test speech-rights sullivan-test tort-actions |
Whether the First Amendment bars tort actions seeking damages for speech on matters of public concern directed at a loosely associated, large class of… |
| 21-575 |
Freedom Foundation v. Washington Department of Ecology, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
civil-rights first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech public-employee-unions public-employees right-to-work state-action unions viewpoint-discrimination |
Does state action that supports speech by public employee unions to public employees advocating union membership and disfavors speech by right-to-work… |
| 21-567 |
Horizon Christian School, et al. v. Kate Brown, Governor of Oregon |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech injunctive-relief mootness-doctrine pandemic pandemic-restrictions religious-schools standing takings |
Whether a plaintiff must show a 'constant threat' of being closed again to obtain injunctive relief against a state governor during the pandemic and s… |
| 21-5981 |
Ray Sarabian v. Halliburton Logging Services |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
1st-amendment civil-rights due-process free-speech school-discipline student-rights |
Whether the First Amendment protects the right of a public school to discipline a student for off-campus speech |
| 21-5952 |
Robert Paul Rundo, Robert Boman, Tyler Laube, and Aaron Eason v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-13 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
18-usc-2101 anti-riot-act brandenburg-v-ohio civil-rights constitutional-interpretation first-amendment free-speech interstate-commerce overt-act riot speech-restriction |
Whether the Anti-Riot Act is facially unconstitutional |
| 21-5929 |
Jean Lynn Lillie v. Iowa |
Iowa |
2021-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech jury-trial repeat-offender sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standing takings |
Can a state violate the Constitution of the United States and arbitrarily trample on the constitutional rights of individual innocent American citizen… |
| 21-5914 |
Tony Joseph Tabor v. Vincent Coleman |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights discovery due-process free-speech retaliation standing |
Whether the petitioner's First Amendment rights were violated due to retaliation for his speech when the defendants used chemical agents against him |
| 21-509 |
James Lawrence v. Altice USA |
Second Circuit |
2021-10-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arrest-warrant civil-rights defamation due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-interpretation media-defamation media-reporting standing substantial-truth |
Can a media lawfully portray a ONE TIME One Count of Second Degree Breach of Peace arrest as 'ARRESTED FOR STALKING SEVERAL WOMEN? |
| 21-5919 |
Robert Arthur Moses v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-10-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause |
| 21-5870 |
Kirby Gant v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-principles due-process free-speech judicial-interpretation judicial-review legal-standard standing state-courts takings |
Does this Court's decisions in Greer and Gory override the government's and the court's duty to ensure the facts? |
| 21-497 |
T. E. L., a Minor v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-10-04 |
Granted |
Relisted (2) |
criminal-statute due-process elonis-v-united-states first-amendment free-speech intent-requirement speech-protection supreme-court-precedent virginia-v-black watts-v-united-states |
Whether Florida Statute § 790.162 violates the First Amendment |
| 21-5880 |
C. C. v. S. T. |
California |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-discretion public-space standing video-recording |
whether-video-cameras-in-public-are-protected-by-1st-amendment |
| 21-5881 |
In Re Marjorie Creamer |
|
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-review due-process employment free-speech jurisdictional-issues legal-procedure statutory-interpretation workplace-policies writ-of-certiorari |
SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND INDECENT, LEWD, OR VULGAR CONDUCT |
| 21-5814 |
Matthew David George v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-09-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights compelled-speech constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-mandate |
Is a court ordered apology letter in a criminal case a violation of the First Amendment's prohibition on compelled speech? |
| 21-476 |
303 Creative LLC, et al. v. Aubrey Elenis, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-09-28 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (90)Relisted (4) |
anti-discrimination-law compelled-speech content-based content-based-regulation free-exercise free-speech religious-beliefs religious-liberty viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether applying a law to compel an artist to speak or stay silent, contrary to the artist's sincerely held religious beliefs, violates the Free Speec… |
| 21-427 |
William Frederick Lamoureux v. Montana |
Montana |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-law content-based-restriction criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine speech-regulation |
Whether a statute that criminalizes speech intended to annoy or offend is unconstitutionally overbroad under the First Amendment |
| 21-419 |
Bob Lewis v. Google LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
47-usc-230 censorship civil-liability constitutionally-protected-speech first-amendment free-speech hate-speech packingham-v-north-carolina section-230 social-media |
Does this Court's holding in Packingham v. North Carolina override 47 U.S.C. § 230's civil liability indemnification for censorship of constitutionall… |
| 21-5698 |
Jasper Crook v. Ricardo Aguilar, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts access-to-justice case-closure civil-rights court-fees due-process free-speech judicial-procedure judicial-process legal-rights ninth-circuit |
Does the petitioner have a right to 'free justice and open courts' without paying a fee to have their case heard in the Ninth Circuit? |
| 21-5706 |
Susan Neal Matousek v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-09-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim |
| 21-418 |
Joseph A. Kennedy v. Bremerton School District |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-16 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (68)Relisted (2) |
constitutional-rights establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise free-speech public-employment public-school religious-expression |
Whether public-school-employee-speech-is-government-speech |
| 21-5677 |
Randolph Armstead v. Keith Deville, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review standing |
Did the state trial court, la. appellant, la. Supreme Court and US District Court, Eastern violate the petitioner's Constitutional Rights (1st Amendme… |
| 21-405 |
Emerald Home Care, Inc. v. Department of Unemployment Assistance |
Massachusetts |
2021-09-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech preemption speech-restriction supremacy-clause tax tax-law |
Whether assessing a tax but withholding notice of information fundamental and necessary for understanding the tax unless the taxpayer first executes a… |
| 21-5667 |
David Lockmiller v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion ashcroft-v-iqbal civil-rights constitutional-rights contingency-fee due-process federal-tort-claims-act first-amendment free-speech government-redress petition-clause |
Whether the Federal Tort Claims Act's limitation on contingency fees violates the First Amendment right to petition the government |
| 21-5673 |
Timothy Brandon Fredrickson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
child-pornography consensual-transmission constitutional-law constitutional-overbreadth criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech image-production statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 18 USC 2251 (a) is overbroad |
| 21-5674 |
In Re Gregory Scott Savoy |
|
2021-09-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech mandamus standing |
Is there no escape ever? |
| 21-5662 |
Bishop Ruben DeWayne v. United States, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
5th-amendment 7th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech |
Whether the lower court's denial of the Petitioner's constitutional rights departed from accepted judicial standards |
| 21-394 |
D. F. Pace v. Emily Baker-White, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-09-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-malice civil-rights defamation due-process first-amendment free-speech internet-speech new-york-times-sullivan standing technological-advances |
Whether the Court should revisit the 'actual malice' doctrine of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan |
| 21-398 |
Jesus Guerrero v. Diocese of Lubbock |
Texas |
2021-09-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-sexual-abuse defamation first-amendment free-speech religious-organization secular-audience tort-liability |
Whether the First Amendment shields a religious organization from tort liability for defamatory statements made to a secular audience regarding the se… |
| 21-375 |
Joshua Gray v. Maine Department of Public Safety |
Maine |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech good-moral-character occupational-licensing professional-license speech-content strict-scrutiny |
Whether an occupational licensing board, consistent with the First Amendment, may deny an occupational license because of the content of an applicant'… |
| 21-382 |
Moses Strauss, et al. v. Credit Lyonnais, S.A. |
Second Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
CVSGRelisted (2) |
aiding-and-abetting civil-liability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process foreign-terrorist-organization free-speech justice-against-sponsors-of-terrorism-act standing substantial-funds terrorism terrorist-organization |
Whether a person who knowingly transfers substantial funds to a designated foreign terrorist organization aids and abets that organization's terrorist… |
| 21-381 |
Tzvi Weiss, et al. v. National Westminster Bank, PLC |
Second Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (5)Relisted (2) |
18 U.S.C. § 2333(d)(2) aiding-abetting civil-liability civil-rights due-process foreign-terrorist-organizations free-speech material-support standing substantial-assistance terrorism terrorist-organizations |
Whether a person who knowingly transfers substantial funds to a designated FTO aids and abets that organization's terrorist acts for purposes of civil… |
| 21-5592 |
John H. Ramirez v. Bryan Collier, Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-07 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (17)IFP |
compelling-governmental-interest compelling-state-interest execution-protocol free-exercise free-exercise-clause free-speech least-restrictive-means pastoral-support religious-land-use-and-institutionalized-persons-a religious-rights rluipa |
Does the State's decision to restrict a pastor's religious practices during an execution substantially burden the free exercise of religion under the … |
| 21-5534 |
Omolara Makini, fka Mahogany J. Mignon, fka Timika Janelle Williams v. Michigan, et al. |
Michigan |
2021-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech police-misconduct standing |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims based on the evidence presented and whether the petitioner was denied a fair … |
| 21-5547 |
Yimoe Siddha v. Donald B. Sealing, II, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus standing |
Does Petitioner's conviction violate his constitutional rights? |
| 21-5521 |
Antonia W. Shields v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-accountability government-immunity petition-clause redress-of-grievances sovereign-immunity standing |
Whether the Government is sovereignly immune to duty under the First Amendment for the fair right of free U.S. citizens, rich and poor, to petition th… |
| 21-302 |
Arthur G. Jaros Jr. v. Village of Downers Grove, Illinois, et al. |
Illinois |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process first-amendment free-speech home-rule-powers liberty-interest library-trustee municipal-corporation public-office retaliation |
Did the Village of Downers Grove violate the petitioner's First Amendment right to free speech by removing him from his statutory term as public libra… |
| 21-5506 |
Michael G. Peters v. Dinah Huffman, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process free-speech privacy standing takings |
Whether the right to informational privacy is protected by the Constitution |
| 21-5510 |
Prayed v. Department of Labor, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech labor-management labor-management-relations lmrda lmrda-interpretation procedural-due-process standing union-representation |
Has the Petitioner's substantive rights been abridged, a violation of 28-USC-2072(b), by the Court rules and procedures effecting encroachment of an A… |
| 21-5472 |
Vincent Jones v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights |
| 21-5465 |
Kent Glen Williams v. Alan Stewart, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-claim due-process equal-protection free-speech petition pro-se-litigant procedural-requirements section-1983 standing |
Whether Rule 3.2 of the Idaho Department of Correction violates the First, Fourteenth, and Petition Clauses of the U.S. Constitution |
| 21-5416 |
Donnell Bledsoe v. Facebook, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights first-amendment free-speech petition-government social-media viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether the First Amendment protects the right of individuals to petition the government for redress of grievances against social media platforms that… |
| 21-227 |
Venus Y. Springs v. North Carolina State Bar |
North Carolina |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights corporate-litigation due-process evidence first-amendment free-speech judicial-discipline north-carolina standing |
Whether the posting of a deposition video to educate pro se litigants is protected by the First Amendment |
| 21-213 |
Nathaniel Borrell Dyer v. Atlanta Independent School System |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-08-13 |
Denied |
|
due-process first-amendment free-speech limited-public-forum protected-speech public-figures public-forum satirical-flyer satirical-speech viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether Atlanta Independent School System violated Mr. Dyer's First Amendment right to free-speech by categorically banning him from using protected-s… |
| 21-191 |
Sergei Vinkov v. United States District Court for the Central District of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-11 |
Denied |
|
case-or-controversy civil-rights constitutional-claims declaratory-judgment diversity-jurisdiction establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech insurance-coverage standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the District Court abused its discretion retaining jurisdiction over the Declaratory Judgment Act (28 USC § 2201(a)) in the insurance dispute |
| 21-5321 |
Jerome Kieffer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone-privacy civil-rights constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech government-seizure standing |
Whether the unconstitutionally vague language of 18 USC 1001 applies to 18 USC 1343(a)(1) |
| 21-5306 |
In Re Richard Arjun Kaul |
|
2021-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction free-speech standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of their constitutional rights under the First and Fourteenth Amen… |
| 21-153 |
Nagui Mankaruse v. Intel Corporation, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment amendment-violations bill-of-rights civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech |
Whether the United States Supreme Court must defend the Bill of Rights of our Great United States Constitution? |
| 21-164 |
Trustees of the New Life In Christ Church v. City of Fredericksburg, Virginia |
Virginia |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
Amici (6)Relisted (10) |
church-autonomy church-state-separation civil-authority civil-rights establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech ministerial-exception ministerial-exemption property-tax religious-doctrine religious-freedom |
Whether civil authorities violate the First Amendment when they engage in their own interpretation of church doctrine to overrule a church's determina… |
| 21-131 |
Blanche A. Brown v. Joseph Friel, Police Chief, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-07-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-victim-protection civil-rights constitutional-rights domestic-violence due-process free-speech patient-abuse probable-cause retaliation summary-judgment |
Right to report abuse and seek protection |
| 21-120 |
James Tracy v. Florida Atlantic University Board of Trustees, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
|
academic-freedom content-based content-based-restriction due-process first-amendment free-speech public-employment vagueness vagueness-doctrine viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether FAU's reporting policy is unconstitutionally vague, impermissibly chills speech, and may be facially challenged because it grants the public u… |
| 21-121 |
Christiana Tah, et al. v. Global Witness Publishing, Inc., et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
actual-malice civil-rights defamation first-amendment free-speech inference-of-intent pleading-standard pleading-standards public-figure public-plaintiff |
Whether a complaint by a public plaintiff alleging defamation sufficiently pleads actual-malice, in-the-absence-of-direct-evidence, by-presenting-deta… |
| 21-5199 |
Vincent Johnson v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions |
| 21-5215 |
Cameron Dean Bates v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-exercise free-speech standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights to free speech and free exercise of reli… |
| 21-5207 |
In Re David Martin |
|
2021-07-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech public-records standing |
Whether the State of Georgia's denial of Petitioner's request for records under the Georgia Open Records Act violated Petitioner's constitutional righ… |
| 21-97 |
Anne Georges Telasco v. The Florida Bar |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights criminal-procedure defamation due-process ex-parte-judgment false-criminal-report felony-conviction florida-bar free-speech sovereign-immunity standing |
Whether Sovereign Immunity is inapplicable to Telasco's Defamation Action |
| 21-5178 |
In Re Walter Drummond |
|
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights compelled-speech due-process first-amendment free-speech standing |
Whether the petitioner's First Amendment free speech rights were violated when he was ordered to 'Speak Up!' in violation of the First Amendment's pro… |
| 21-57 |
Levi Frasier v. Christopher L. Evans, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-15 |
Denied |
Amici (7) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement police-conduct police-recording public-conduct qualified-immunity |
Whether training or law enforcement policies can be relevant to whether a police officer is entitled to qualified immunity |
| 21-49 |
James Tolle v. Rockwell Collins Control Technologies, Inc., dba Rockwell Collins, Inc., dba United Technologies Corporation, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process factual-allegations free-speech judicial-review pleading-standards presumption-of-truth rule-12(b)(6) rule-12b6 standing summary-dismissal |
Did the District Court err in its Rule 12(b)(6) analysis and dismissal of the complaint? |
| 21-5090 |
Jason Alan Smith v. City of Bremerton, Washington |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accountability civil-rights due-process free-speech government-officials standing |
Whether individuals have a right to petition the government for a redress of grievances under the First Amendment |
| 21-45 |
Peter C. Benedith v. Cuyahoga County, Ohio, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attempted-murder civil-rights due-process electronic-harassment free-speech legal-system-integrity pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation right-to-life |
Question presented to the court |
| 21-40 |
Lumbsden A. Sangster v. Anthony Valencia |
California |
2021-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights defamation evidence evidence-tampering fair-report-privilege free-speech police-communication press-communication section-47 |
Whether the fair report privilege applies to a private communication between a police officer and a member of the press in a defamation case |
| 21-5059 |
Gregory A. Austin v. Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights divorce-industry due-process family-law free-speech marriage-licensing standing state-authority takings |
Who, in reality, owns the marriage— The State, or its individual United States citizens who freely associate and reside within it? |
| 21-15 |
Don Peterson, et al. v. Russ Jones, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech |
Is an order punishing a citizen's exercise of guaranteed constitutional freedoms patently unconstitutional and void, subject to mandatory relief under… |
| 20-8438 |
Michael A. Livingston v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2021-06-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech takings |
Whether the Petitioner's constitutional rights under the First, Second, Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments were violated |
| 20-8441 |
Thomas Kenneth Mills v. California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process free-speech religious-freedom standing takings |
whether-the-pharmacist's-refusal-to-fill-a-prescription-violates-the-patient's-constitutional-rights |
| 20-1800 |
Harold Shurtleff, et al. v. City of Boston, Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-06-24 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (24) |
content-discrimination establishment-clause first-amendment flag-display free-speech government-speech public-forum religious-expression religious-viewpoint viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether the First Amendment prohibits the City of Boston from denying a private religious organization's request to briefly display its flag on a city… |
| 20-1782 |
Regina Therese Drexler v. Theresa Spahn, et al. |
Colorado |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
|
2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-protection-order civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech prior-restraint section-1983 |
Whether the First Amendment permits the issuance of a civil protection order to (i) punish a 'pattern' of conduct where such conduct includes only pro… |
| 20-1786 |
JoAnne Troesch, et al. v. Chicago Teachers Union, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights employee-rights first-amendment free-speech government-restrictions janus-vs-afscme union-dues waiver waiver-doctrine |
Under the First Amendment, do governments and unions need clear and compelling evidence of a knowing, intelligent, and voluntary waiver to seize payme… |
| 20-1768 |
Ron Fenn v. City of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech government-accountability government-actor qualified-immunity standing supreme-court-precedent |
Did the lower courts err in dismissing Petitioners' case on the basis of Qualified-Immunity |
| 20-1770 |
Xiu Jian Sun v. Northwell Health, et al. |
New York |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights divine-intervention due-process free-speech judicial-relief legal-procedure mandamus-petition religious-doctrine religious-freedom separation-of-church-and-state standing |
Whether the plaintiff's claims regarding divine revelation and instructions from God are cognizable under the U.S. Constitution and federal law |
| 20-1731 |
Trista Oettle v. William J. Cadigan, Chairman, Illinois State Board of Elections, et al. |
Illinois |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ballot-selfie content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech political-expression political-speech public-forum viewpoint-neutral viewpoint-neutrality |
Whether a ballot selfie is a form of political expression |
| 20-8289 |
Cush Ajelya Wright-El, aka James Joseph Owens-El v. Mr. Thomas, Warden, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing |
Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims alleging violations of his constitutional rights under the Fir… |
| 20-8242 |
Tyrone Davis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Question not identified |
| 20-8249 |
Brittian Willie Young v. Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech judicial-ethics standing |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional and statutory rights were violated by the respondents' actions |
| 20-8233 |
Adam Paul Strege v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights competency-hearing constitutional-rights due-process false-imprisonment free-speech judicial-review pro-se-representation standing |
Question Presented on the legality of spreading the Plague and COVID-19 to exterminate all intelligent life |
| 20-1678 |
Daniel Z. Crowe, et al. v. Oregon State Bar, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
Amici (10)Response Waived |
attorney-regulation compelled-speech constitutional-scrutiny first-amendment free-speech keller-v-state-bar mandatory-dues political-speech public-sector-unions state-bar |
Is the statute that compels attorneys to subsidize Oregon State Bar's political and ideological speech subject to 'exacting' scrutiny? |
| 20-8172 |
Jorge Antonio Perez, aka Steven Mark Hamm v. Gavin Newsom, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-due-process constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-sentencing free-speech judicial-interpretation prior-conviction-doctrine standing state-secrets-doctrine |
Whether the circuit court erred in ruling against the petitioner and finding violations of the state-secrets-doctrine |
| 20-1647 |
Valerie Haney v. Church of Scientology International, et al. |
California |
2021-05-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
arbitration arbitration-procedure civil-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-religion religious-arbitration religious-freedom |
Whether a court may subject a person to religious arbitration under the First Amendment |
| 20-1635 |
Michael Anthony Casillas v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2021-05-24 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-amendment free-speech mens-rea nonconsensual-dissemination obscenity protected-speech strict-scrutiny |
Does the First Amendment allow a state to criminalize protected speech by means of a statute aimed at prohibiting the nonconsensual dissemination of s… |
| 20-8109 |
Walter Crayton v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2021-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment assigned-counsel child-pornography civil-rights criminal-appeals criminal-procedure due-process free-speech legal-representation post-conviction search-and-seizure trial-court |
Whether the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court erred in affirming the defendant's conviction for possession of child pornography, second offense, de… |
| 20-1623 |
David Paul Bohler v. City of Fairview, Tennessee |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech garcetti-rule public-employee retaliation whistleblower whistleblower-protection |
Whether a police officer has a First Amendment right to speak to a prosecutor about corruption in their department |
| 20-1627 |
S. S., et al. v. S. B. |
Pennsylvania |
2021-05-21 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
child-custody content-based content-based-restriction first-amendment free-press free-speech gag-order overbreadth prior-restraint vagueness |
Is such a 'gag order' an unconstitutionally vague and overbroad prior restraint and content-based restriction violating Petitioners' First Amendment f… |
| 20-1618 |
John Anthony Gentry v. Glen Casada, et al. |
Tennessee |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-duty legislative-procedure petition standing state-constitution |
Whether the state government has a duty to present a correct version of the Tennessee Constitution to the public |
| 20-1619 |
Expensify, Inc. v. Eddie White |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights declaratory-judgment dignitary-interests due-process free-speech mootness ninth-circuit nominal-damages standing |
Whether Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski merits summarily granting the petition, vacating the judgment, and remanding to determine whether the Ninth Circuit's… |
| 20-1620 |
Joy McShan Edwards v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-1513 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Sixth Circuit's denial of Petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability was unreasonable, where Petitioner has demonstrated a su… |
| 20-1588 |
Michael Konowicz, aka Michael Phillips, et al. v. Jonathan P. Carr, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
|
actual-malice commercial-speech constitutional-interpretation defamation first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech lanham-act |
Whether the Court should revisit the 'actual malice' doctrine of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan |
| 20-1598 |
Project Veritas Action Fund v. Rachael S. Rollins, in Her Official Capacity as District Attorney for Suffolk County, Massachusetts |
First Circuit |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights facial-overbreadth first-amendment free-speech newsgathering ripeness secret-recording speech-suppression standing |
Whether the First Amendment protects the right to secretly record oral communications |
| 20-8023 |
Walter Timothy Gause v. Eric A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-05-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process first-amendment free-speech standing |
whether-the-petitioner's-first-amendment-rights-were-violated |
| 20-8032 |
Phillip Scott Grigalanz v. Kristi Lynn Grigalanz |
Indiana |
2021-05-14 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing takings |
Whether the government's actions violated the petitioner's constitutional rights |
| 20-1580 |
Shenglin R. Chen, et al. v. Alvin Turner, et al. |
Maryland |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
|
1st-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emergency-access emergency-exit equal-protection equal-rights first-amendment free-speech judicial-misconduct |
Whether the First Amendment protects freedom of speech |
| 20-8006 |
Antonio Jose Cooks v. Dean Naylor, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing |
Do the plaintiffs have the right to have access to courts to litigate all matters? |
| 20-8010 |
James Logan Diez v. Google, Inc. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
47-usc-230 civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing |
Does H.R.S. § 230 immunity given to internet service providers violate the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment's Right to Petition, and Fourteenth Ame… |
| 20-7993 |
Eugene Korte v. California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process free-speech government-surveillance internet-service-providers standing |
Question not identified |
| 20-7948 |
Ernest H. Baker, III v. Oregon Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-action civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process free-speech judicial-review precedent religious-freedom standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 15 Supreme Court justices are the last line of defense for religious freedom and the free exercise thereof? |
| 20-7942 |
Darryl C. Daniels v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-05-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-commitment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights detention due-process florida-law free-speech habeas-corpus standing takings |
How can FLORIDA STATUTE 394.910 The Involuntary Civil Commitment of Sexually Violent Predators Act be constitutional when legislative acts are require… |
| 20-7880 |
Scott Peters v. MTGLQ Investors, LP |
Illinois |
2021-04-28 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Whether the Appellate Court erred in denying Appellant's claims that his constitutional rights were violated |
| 20-1510 |
Louis Tafuto v. Donald J. Trump for President, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights electoral-college equal-protection free-speech gerrymandering injury-in-fact standing vote-dilution voting-rights |
Is a diluted vote an injury-in-fact when Plaintiff is in a 'packed' Electoral College district (New York) in a U.S. federal election? |
| 20-1501 |
Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, et al. v. Shirin Emami, Acting Superintendent, New York Department of Financial Services, et al. |
New York |
2021-04-27 |
GVR |
Amici (6)Relisted (4) |
abortion abortion-mandate employment-division-smith first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause free-speech health-insurance religious-autonomy religious-exemption smith-v-oregon |
Is New York's abortion coverage mandate neutral and generally applicable under Smith and Lukumi? |
| 20-1457 |
Adrian Moon v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. |
California |
2021-04-16 |
Denied |
|
attorney-discipline bar-association civil-rights compelled-speech free-speech mandatory-bar |
Whether the California State Bar's mandatory bar membership and dues requirements violate the First Amendment rights of attorneys |
| 20-7769 |
James Hightower v. Ladonna H. Thompson, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech post-conviction-relief standing takings |
Whether the Sixth Circuit's decision violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment |
| 20-7776 |
Ismael Sanchez v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2021-04-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standards for determining standing and the merits of the petitioner's claims |
| 20-7780 |
James Plas Sams v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation content-based-regulation expressive-association first-amendment free-speech group-grievance retaliation |
Did California's actions violate the right of expressive-association and constitute content-based-discrimination? |
| 20-7719 |
Robert L. Tatum v. Thomas Trettin, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-04-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process free-speech in-forma-pauperis prison-litigation prisoner-litigation-reform-act standing three-strikes-rule |
Whether the Prisoner Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) 3-strike rule is unconstitutional |
| 20-1412 |
NetSoc, LLC v. Match Group, LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-04-08 |
Denied |
|
abstract-idea civil-rights computer-implemented-invention due-process free-speech patent patent-eligibility rating-system social-network standing takings technological-innovation |
Is the addition of a network computer implemented social network, with a novel and unconventional rating system, to a method of organizing human activ… |
| 20-1405 |
Tarek Farag v. Ali Waqas |
Illinois |
2021-04-07 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech injunctive-relief judicial-discretion legal-procedure religious-freedom religious-law |
Whether Sharia is contrary to our Constitution and laws? |
| 20-1384 |
Amy Everett v. Cobb County, Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-04-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cease-and-desist civil-rights constitutional-rights custom-and-practice due-process first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement-discretion malicious-prosecution qualified-immunity speech-protection |
Question not identified |
| 20-1379 |
Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority v. Center for Investigative Reporting |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-01 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
categorical-ban commercial-speech content-restriction first-amendment free-speech government-speech political-speech public-forum supreme-court-precedent transit-advertising transit-authority |
Whether this Court's decision in Mansky overruled or abrogated the Court's holding in Lehman that transit authorities have the discretion to categoric… |
| 20-7627 |
Khaled Shabani v. City of Madison, Wisconsin, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process federal-court free-speech judgment malicious-prosecution police-department qualified-immunity related-cases state-court |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the police and prosecutors |
| 20-7624 |
Jeremy Randolph Martin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ashcroft-v-free-speech-coalition constitutional-rights due-process electronic-devices fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech internet-monitoring supervised-release united-states-v-holena |
Do the conditions of petitioner's supervised release violate the First Amendment and Due Process? |
| 20-7584 |
In Re Terril Lee Graham |
|
2021-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-threats due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech public-defender |
Is California Penal Code 422, Criminal Threats, an invalid statute, prohibiting the exercise of 1st Amendment free speech rights? |
| 20-1360 |
Scottlynn J. Hubbard v. State Bar of California |
California |
2021-03-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
advocacy-speech false-speech first-amendment free-speech harmless-speech mandatory-bar |
Whether under the First Amendment a mandatory integrated state bar may punish advocacy speech it deems false but also expressly finds to be harmless? |
| 20-7552 |
Hugo Rufino Alvarez-Reyes v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection expert-testimony first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment standing witness-credibility |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause |
| 20-7530 |
Maurice Moore v. Dawn Bartram, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-court civil-rights due-process free-speech mail-interference standing |
Which court has jurisdiction to hear the issues presented in this petition for writ of certiorari? |
| 20-7537 |
Christopher D. Thieme v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cyber-harassment due-process free-speech libel obscenity overbreadth reasonable-person-standard scienter vagueness victim-impact-statements |
Is New Jersey's 'cyber-harassment' statute constitutionally invalid? |
| 20-7539 |
Schenvisky James v. Sherman Campbell, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment brown-vs-board civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process faretta-warning free-speech right-to-counsel self-representation standing waiver-of-counsel |
Whether the Michigan legislature's obligation and duty to create a Second Amendment Michigan statute violates the separation of powers principle and i… |
| 20-1331 |
Arthur J. Clemens, Jr. v. Local One Service Employees International Union, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights class-counsel constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection exhaustion-of-remedies first-amendment free-speech labor standing union union-governance |
Should 29 USC 481(c) be declared Unconstitutional |
| 20-7526 |
Todd Oliver Ameen v. Casey Hamilton, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-03-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights |
| 20-7488 |
William Douglas Hampton v. Mark Williams, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-waiver civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process electronic-fraud free-speech plea-agreement standing statutory-interpretation |
Does the specific wording of 18 USC § 2256(a) require that any 'visual depiction of such conduct' also require that the person knows or has reason to … |
| 20-7481 |
In Re Ravi S. Vaidyanathan |
|
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
bible-interpretation biblical-interpretation civil-rights due-process ecclesiastical-immunity episcopal-role free-speech health-safety-inspection religious-authority standing state-jurisdiction |
Is an ecclesiastical bishop a state-appointed health and safety inspector, and is the bishop exempt from ecclesiastical immunity? Can the Court in Cal… |
| 20-1294 |
Simon Campbell, et al. v. Pennsylvania School Boards Association, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
42-u-s-c-1983 civil-rights first-amendment free-speech petitioning petitioning-immunity retaliation retaliation-claim sham-litigation state-action state-actors |
Are state actors entitled to petitioning immunity for a First Amendment retaliation claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983? |
| 20-7441 |
Konstantin Rudenko v. Raymond Shanley, Superintendent, Coxsackie Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts free-speech standing |
Did the federal district court err in dismissing the petitioner's claims under the First Amendment and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendm… |
| 20-7377 |
Benjamin Drake Daley v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
anti-riot-act civil-rights civil-unrest criminal-prosecution due-process facial-constitutionality federal-statute first-amendment free-speech interstate-commerce overbreadth standing |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2101, the Anti-Riot Act, is facially invalid under the First Amendment |
| 20-7384 |
Samuel Rasheen Rymond Toliver v. K. Adner |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process exhaustion-of-remedies first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech solitary-confinement |
Was the treatment of the Petitioner on 5/30/17, being forced into Solitary Confinement for asserting his U.S.C.A. Const. First Amendment Unconstitutio… |
| 20-1241 |
Michael Paul Miselis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
anti-riot-act civil-rights constitutional-validity criminal-prosecution due-process federal-prosecution first-amendment free-speech overbreadth protest-rights standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2101, the Anti-Riot Act, is facially invalid under the First Amendment |
| 20-1249 |
Gary Victor Dubin v. Office of Disciplinary Counsel |
Hawaii |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech freedom-of-speech judicial-discretion license-revocation professional-licensing state-constitution |
Is it a violation of (1) Equal Protection, (2) Due Process and/or (3) Freedom of Speech |
| 20-7335 |
Raymond E. Carr v. Ed Gonzalez, Sheriff, Harris County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process free-speech government-action habeas-corpus retaliation standing |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the Texas state government retaliated against him for exercising his First Amendment… |
| 20-7266 |
Kevin L. Martin v. Cathleen Capron, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-03-01 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech standing |
Whether the court of appeals erred in rejecting a fundamental constitutional challenge to a statute |
| 20-1194 |
Arthur Lopez v. Corona Police Department, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing |
Whether the petitioners' First Amendment rights were violated by the respondents' denial of their request to participate in a public forum based on th… |
| 20-7261 |
Randell Joseph Redmond v. United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection free-speech just-compensation property-rights standing takings-clause tax-foreclosure |
Whether the court of appeals erred in denying a motion to dismiss a civil-rights, due-process, free-speech claim |
| 20-7243 |
David Linehan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law first-amendment free-speech interstate-commerce interstate-communication statutory-interpretation threat-transmission |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 875(c) requires the government to allege and the jury to find that the defendant threatened to injure a specific natural person |
| 20-1135 |
Alex Emric Jones, et al. v. Erica Lafferty, et al. |
Connecticut |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights contempt due-process free-speech judicial-authority party-presentation |
Whether a litigant's extra-judicial statements can be sanctioned when the First Amendment otherwise protects his speech and where there was no order p… |
| 20-1123 |
Lenwood Hamilton v. Lester Speight, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights commercial-speech first-amendment free-speech likeness-rights privacy privacy-rights property-rights right-of-publicity transformative-use video-game-law |
Whether the First Amendment right to free speech protects using a person's actual likeness without permission when weighed against that person's prope… |
| 20-7155 |
James Scott, Jr. v. Norm Robinson, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment administrative-law civil-rights compelled-speech constitutional-law content-moderation free-speech judicial-review legal-procedure social-media statutory-interpretation |
Whether the First Amendment prohibits the government from compelling private entities to host and disseminate speech they disagree with |
| 20-1092 |
Brandon Jones v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-02-11 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split civil-rights document-fraud due-process federal-criminal-law fraud free-speech government-securities legal-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. 514(a) prohibits the use of fake versions of actual, existing types of documents and instruments |
| 20-7103 |
Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. North Carolina, et al. |
North Carolina |
2021-02-10 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech grievance-mechanism petition-clause prisoner-rights standing |
Whether the petitioner retains the right to petition the government for redress of grievances and whether this is denied in violation of the Equal Pro… |
| 20-7105 |
Deyoe R. Harris v. University of Arizona Police Department, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their constitutional rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 20-7084 |
Mindy Hill v. Google LLC, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights closed-captioning digital-content due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech standing terms-of-service youtube-terms-of-service |
Whether the court should resolve the issues regarding Google's YouTube terms of service, safety concerns, and violation of Ms. Hill's first amendment … |
| 20-1078 |
Danyelle Bennett v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
constitutional-protection first-amendment free-speech hecklers-veto pickering-balancing-test political-speech public-employee rankin-v-mcpherson |
Whether a public employee's political debate on an issue of national importance may be silenced based solely on the speaker's use of an offensive word |
| 20-1081 |
Illinois Republican Party, et al. v. J. B. Pritzker, Governor of Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-02-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights content-based-restriction content-based-restrictions first-amendment free-speech pandemic-regulation political-speech religious-speech strict-scrutiny |
Does the Illinois governor's preference for religious speakers over political speakers survive strict scrutiny? |
| 20-1073 |
John Does 1-10 v. Debra Haaland, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights congressional-immunity constitutional-law due-process federal-immunity free-speech legislative-immunity legislative-privilege libel speech-and-debate-clause |
Is election to Congress a license to libel anyone, anywhere, anytime, even when the libel is not in response to a press inquiry, does not concern pend… |
| 20-1074 |
Sedfrey M. Linsangan v. Alice M. Taijeron, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-rights constitution constitutional-rights due-process election-law first-amendment free-speech guam-law legal-burden political-office standing |
Question not identified |
| 20-7051 |
Tomas Zavalidroga v. United States District Court for the Northern District of New York |
Second Circuit |
2021-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech iccpr pro-se-litigant standing vexatious-litigant |
Whether the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) pro… |
| 20-7023 |
Raevon Terrell Parker v. Apple Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-02-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
1st-amendment civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Whether the petitioner's First Amendment rights were violated when the respondent, Apple Inc., denied the petitioner access to the Saint Louis Galleri… |
| 20-1055 |
Anthony Tricoli v. Rob Watts, et al. |
Georgia |
2021-02-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-corruption government-retaliation retaliation sanctions sovereign-immunity |
May the State of Georgia impose punitive sanctions against an attorney petitioning the courts and speaking out in public to expose and redress state g… |
| 20-1052 |
In Re Christopher Gary Baylor |
|
2021-02-02 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigant section-1983 section-1983-claim |
Does a non-prisoner, indigent, pro se litigant to a Section 1983 claim who initially proceeds In Forma Pauperis but later pays for his appeal, lose th… |
| 20-1045 |
David G. Liebenguth v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2021-02-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fighting-words first-amendment free-speech hate-speech law-enforcement racial-epithet |
Whether Referring To A Law Enforcement Officer By A Racial Epithet While Protesting An Enforcement Action Constitutes Fighting Words Unprotected By Th… |
| 20-1049 |
City of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, et al. v. Calvin McCraw, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-02-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights content-neutral-regulation due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-interest narrow-tailoring pedestrian-rights public-safety |
Does the risk of death or serious bodily injury to a pedestrian on a median constitute a significant government interest? |
| 20-7002 |
Ryan C. Lander v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech government-seizure plea-bargaining search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Is it constitutional to prosecute citizens for cybercrime under the interstate-commerce clause |
| 20-7001 |
Aaron J. Bressi v. Jeffrey Brennen, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-01-29 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
amendment civil-procedure due-process federal-rules free-speech judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss pleading pleading-standards standing |
How does this Amended Complaint not comply with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure? |
| 20-1019 |
Jade Thompson v. Marietta Education Association, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights compelled-association first-amendment free-speech knight-v-minnesota labor-union labor-unions public-sector public-sector-employees representative-advocacy |
Whether it violates the First Amendment to designate a labor union to represent and speak for public-sector employees who object to its advocacy on th… |
| 20-1029 |
City of Austin, Texas v. Reagan National Advertising of Austin, LLC, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (21)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
billboard-regulation content-based content-based-regulation first-amendment free-speech metromedia municipal-law reed-v-town-of-gilbert sign-code strict-scrutiny |
Is the city code's distinction between on- and off-premise signs a facially unconstitutional content-based regulation under Reed? |
| 20-999 |
Lloyd Industries, Inc. v. Ronald Watson |
Third Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-scrutiny due-process free-speech punitive-damages ratio ratio-analysis reprehensibility title-vii |
Should this Court grant a Writ of Certiorari |
| 20-961 |
John Henry Ryskamp v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-i-section-8 constitutional-scrutiny due-process first-amendment free-speech general-welfare janus-precedent janus-v-afscme speech-component tax tax-system |
Does the U.S. tax system violate the First Amendment and the General Welfare Clause? |
| 20-969 |
Freedom Watch, Inc., et al. v. Google Inc., et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6) |
1st-amendment antitrust appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation first-amendment free-speech human-rights-act political-discrimination sherman-act standing |
Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit err by failing to find that the District of Columbia Human Rights Act's prohibition on political di… |
| 20-946 |
John J. Dierlam v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
1st-amendment affordable-care-act civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech religious-exemptions rfra |
Do one or more Constitutional violations exist in the ACA? |
| 20-950 |
H. Renee James v. City of Montgomery, Alabama |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
|
but-for-causation employment-discrimination first-amendment free-speech mcdonnell-douglas retaliation summary-judgment title-vii |
Whether the court deprives a plaintiff of her First Amendment right to free-speech, whether the court misapplies the but-for causation test in a Title… |
| 20-6868 |
Tim Sundy v. Friendship Pavilion Acquisition Company, LLC, et al. |
Georgia |
2021-01-13 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights constructive-custody due-process fraud-upon-court free-speech judicial-procedure legal-remedy standing state-accountability |
Whether the State of Georgia's use of constructive custody imposes unusual hardship and deprives the litigant of protections guaranteed by the First, … |
| 20-6833 |
Clorey Eugene France v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2021-01-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process federal-law free-speech standing state-court supreme-court-review |
Whether the appellate court has a constitutional duty to state its reasons for denying a petition for a writ of certiorari? |
| 20-920 |
Jeremy Collins v. Rebecca Putt, in Her Individual and Official Capacity, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
academic-freedom college-classroom college-speech constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech hazelwood-v-kuhlmeier tinker-standard tinker-v-des-moines viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether viewpoint discrimination in a college classroom is permissible under Hazelwood |
| 20-889 |
The Sherwin-Williams Company v. Delaware County, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii-standing chilled-speech civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-action standing |
Whether the Third Circuit violated clearly established precedent, in conflict with other Circuits, in denying Article III standing by considering the … |
| 20-893 |
Duane Ronald Belanus v. Lynn Guyer, Warden |
Montana |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
compelled-speech content-neutrality free-speech government-regulation private-entities public-forum |
Whether the First Amendment prohibits the government from compelling private entities to host and disseminate speech with which they disagree |
| 20-903 |
First Choice Chiropractic, LLC, et al. v. Mike DeWine, Governor of Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
central-hudson-test circuit-split commercial-speech content-based-regulation content-based-restrictions first-amendment free-speech heightened-scrutiny speaker-based-restrictions speaker-identity |
First Amendment challenge to Ohio statute restricting medical practitioner-patient communications |
| 20-6717 |
Jay S. Kravitz v. Kenneth Leis, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-12-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech grievance-procedure incarceration-rights prison-policy religious-freedom summary-judgment |
Whether Petitioner presented an underlying First Amendment Constitutional violation |
| 20-6650 |
Gregory Scott Sumner v. Brett Carter, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
ada ada-discrimination bivens-action civil-rights disability-rights due-process equal-access equal-protection free-speech public-services reasonable-accommodation |
Whether the public entity violated Title I of the ADA by excluding the plaintiff from participation in or denying the benefits of its programs and ser… |
| 20-824 |
Edward F. Taupier v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2020-12-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights criminal-prosecution due-process first-amendment free-speech free-speech-protection intent intent-standard reckless-speech recklessness true-threats virginia-v-black |
Whether the First Amendment prohibits a State from criminalizing threats to commit violence communicated in reckless disregard of the risk of placing … |
| 20-810 |
Mike Kelly, United States Congressman, et al. v. Pennsylvania, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
Amici (11)Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process election-law elections elections-clause first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech laches laches-doctrine standing |
Do the First and Fourteenth Amendments permit Pennsylvania to bar equitable relief for constitutional challenges to election laws? |
| 20-804 |
Houston Community College System v. David Buren Wilson |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-14 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (8)Relisted (2) |
censure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process first-amendment free-speech legislative-speech local-government member-conduct standing |
Does the First Amendment restrict the authority of an elected body to issue a censure resolution in response to a member's speech? |
| 20-6575 |
Ronald Jermaine Jackson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech government-accountability indigenous-rights jurisdiction land-management standing tribal-sovereignty |
Is the Constitution of the United States of America, its Articles, and Amendments valid and legal under the Supreme Law of the Land? |
| 20-6550 |
Kenneth H. Newkirk v. Jeffery Kiser, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech magistrate-judge school-discipline standing student-speech |
Whether the U.S. Magistrate Judge violated the petitioner's due process rights by acting like the lawyer for Warden Kiser et al. by responding to the … |
| 20-6505 |
Roosevelt Bigbee, Jr. v. Johnny Fitz, Warden |
Tennessee |
2020-12-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech habeas-corpus search-and-seizure |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights under the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments were violated |
| 20-751 |
Ashley Ann Krapacs v. The Florida Bar |
Florida |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
abstract-idea administrative-law bar-discipline civil-rights disbarment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech free-speech
20-7519" integrated-bar intellectual-property judicial-corruption patent-law political-speech professional-conduct state-action supreme-court-precedent Whether the Supreme Court will address alleged jud |
Whether the state action of disbarment violates the First Amendment as applied to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 20-746 |
South Bay United Pentecostal Church, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-30 |
GVR |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-review first-amendment free-exercise free-speech jacobson-v-massachusetts pandemic-restrictions religious-liberty strict-scrutiny |
Do Governor Newsom's lockdown orders and reopening restrictions under the 'Blueprint' framework, placing strict limitations, including closures, on al… |
| 20-6446 |
Yaira T. Cotto-Flores v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech standing |
Whether the First Circuit erred in affirming the District Court's dismissal of Petitioner's claims alleging violations of his constitutional rights un… |
| 20-6398 |
Richard Wesley Allen v. Marcus A. Pollard, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection First-Amendment Fourteenth-Amendment free-speech parole prisoner-rights religious-freedom |
Does it violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments when a state requires a prisoner to change his or her religion, or to commit acts that are against… |
| 20-6369 |
Ewing Redmond Samuels v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Question not identified |
| 20-691 |
Lih Bin Shih v. Nathan Brooks Parnell |
California |
2020-11-18 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights clean-hands-doctrine due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-petition petition-clause police-reports retaliation |
Whether the Court may deny Petitioner's First Amendment right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances |
| 20-6348 |
William J. O'Brien, III v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process free-speech law-enforcement procedural-error prosecution standing takings |
Whether the government's prosecution for a speech act violated the First Amendment's free speech protections |
| 20-677 |
John T. Laettner v. California Commission on Judicial Performance |
California |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-discipline judicial-performance notice rebuttal-evidence right-to-be-heard speech-restraint |
Whether it is constitutional under the 1st, 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendments for a judicial disciplinary commission to remove a judge based on the manner… |
| 20-671 |
In Re Atul C. Shah |
|
2020-11-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
bankruptcy-court civil-rights discrimination due-process eeoc-investigation employment-discrimination first-amendment free-speech judicial-procedure religion standing |
Whether the violation of First Amendment for practice of my Religion occurred |
| 20-6318 |
Abdul Azeem Mohammed v. Erin Anderson, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-litigation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech legal-procedure standing |
Whether a litigant has a First Amendment right to freedom of speech in civil litigation |
| 20-649 |
Level the Playing Field, et al. v. Federal Election Commission |
District of Columbia |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
candidate-endorsement civil-rights debate-staging debate-staging-organization election-regulations federal-commission federal-election-commission free-speech objective-criteria partisan-criteria political-activities standing |
Whether the partisan political activities of a debate-staging organization's decisionmakers bear upon whether the organization 'endorse|[s], support[s… |
| 20-6280 |
Deverick Scott v. Pamela Cook |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process first-amendment free-speech prisoner-grievance retaliation some-evidence some-evidence-standard |
Was inmate Scott's writing of a prisoner grievance an exercise of his constitutional right? |
| 20-6289 |
Catherine Denise Randolph v. United States District Court for the District of Maryland |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction obscenity public-forum |
Whether the First Amendment protects the right to distribute obscene material in public places |
| 20-6297 |
Kevin J. Barker v. Norm Robinson, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Whether the Second Amendment protects the right to carry firearms in public for self-defense |
| 20-655 |
Xiu Jian Sun v. R. Craig Lawrence, Assistant United States Attorney, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions divine-intervention due-process free-speech judicial-process legal-standing religious-doctrine religious-freedom standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified |
| 20-639 |
Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley v. Steve Sisolak, Governor of Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-10 |
Denied |
Amici (6)Relisted (2) |
covid-19 covid-19-restrictions equal-protection first-amendment free-assembly free-exercise free-exercise-clause free-speech religious-liberty strict-scrutiny |
Whether the Governor's favoring of secular over religious gatherings violates the Free Exercise Clause |
| 20-606 |
Tatyana E. Drevaleva v. California Department of Industrial Relations |
California |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law anti-SLAPP civil-procedure civil-rights first-amendment free-speech governmental-immunity labor-code labor-law libel |
Does Governmental Entity the California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) have a right to file a Special Motion to Strike my Complaint (an anti… |
| 20-6233 |
Krishna Mote v. James W. Murtin, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights |
| 20-594 |
Richard S. Berry v. State Bar of Arizona |
Arizona |
2020-11-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
antitrust civil-rights commercial-speech constitutional-challenge due-process first-amendment free-speech professional-regulation professional-services standing state-bar-regulation unauthorized-practice-of-law |
Is a court rule defining and prohibiting the unauthorized practice of law an unconstitutional abridgment of commercial speech? |
| 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? |
| 20-6168 |
Christopher J. Rahaim v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence fraud free-speech government-misconduct standing |
Whether clear contradictions between Universal Human Rights and State and Federal constitutional articles and amendments, which provide the non-denial… |
| 20-552 |
Jeremiah Paige Rice v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-10-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech healthcare medical-cannabis probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether the detectable odor of burnt cannabis alone, without any other indicators, is sufficient for law enforcement to form probable cause to subject… |
| 20-6111 |
Dorothy Moore v. Board of Review, New Jersey Department of Labor, et al. |
New Jersey |
2020-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process employment free-speech government-retaliation standing |
Whether the petitioner's unemployment benefits were denied based on the First Amendment right to free speech |
| 20-530 |
Harold H. Burbank, II v. Connecticut Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel |
Connecticut |
2020-10-21 |
Denied |
|
attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech petition petition-rights political-speech |
Did the First Amendment and Connecticut Constitution preclude Connecticut from reciprocal attorney discipline |
| 20-508 |
Brandon S. LaVergne v. Michael Vaughn, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech mail-restriction qualified-immunity religious-freedom solitary-confinement turner-test |
Can a prisoner's 1st amendment right to correspondence be totally revoked without a hearing or due process? |
| 20-6019 |
Greg P. Givens v. Clyde Yates, Jr., et al. |
Ohio |
2020-10-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
bankruptcy civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech immunity judicial-discretion petition-clause standing |
Does the lower court have the absolute right to wholly suspend the First Amendment rights of free speech and petition for redress of grievances? |
| 20-6008 |
Brian Evans v. Kaiali'i Kahele |
Hawaii |
2020-10-14 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
compelled-speech content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech government-regulation private-entities |
Whether the First Amendment prohibits the government from compelling private entities to host and disseminate speech they disagree with |
| 20-6013 |
Peter Patrick LaForte v. California |
California |
2020-10-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights |
| 20-470 |
Gladys Mendoza v. Inspira Health Network, Inc., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process free-speech seventh-amendment summary-judgment trial-by-jury |
Does the Decision in this case require a reaffirmation and clarification of Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. |
| 20-429 |
American Medical Association, et al. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Granted |
Relisted (3) |
administrative-law affordable-care-act arbitrary-and-capricious family-planning free-speech hhs-rule medical-ethics patient-communication reproductive-health title-x |
Whether the Title X family planning program rule is arbitrary and capricious, violates the Title X appropriations act, and violates the Affordable Car… |
| 20-5907 |
Joseph Peterson v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights computer-seizure constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech search-and-seizure trial-court written-materials |
Did the trial court violate Mr. Peterson's Due Process of Law when denying written materials seized from his computer when those materials were protec… |
| 20-5914 |
Clifton Robinson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech interstate-commerce regulatory-authority sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the lower courts erred in determining that the scheme involved in this case did not affect 'interstate commerce' as required by the Hobbs Act |
| 20-5849 |
Uzoma Igbonwa v. Facebook, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process facebook free-speech immunity-provision ninth-circuit section-230 terms-of-service |
Whether Facebook was should be protected by the immunity provision of Section 230 of the Communication and Decency Act when they clearly violated its … |
| 20-375 |
In Re E. Edward Zimmermann |
|
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause |
| 20-384 |
Penny Nichols Corn, et al. v. Mississippi Department of Public Safety, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech garcetti-precedent garcetti-v-ceballos lane-v-franks law-enforcement-misconduct misprision-of-felony public-employee-speech |
Whether public employees have First Amendment protection to report fraudulent conduct by state troopers |
| 20-5777 |
Leroy Banks v. Anthony Terry, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-law free-speech judicial-procedure standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals and the District Court erred in dismissing the Petitioner's claims and case, including the Petitioner's request for decla… |
| 20-5755 |
Joseph Lee Jones v. Google LLC |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights consumer-protection due-process first-amendment free-speech human-rights in-forma-pauperis legal-remedies three-strikes |
Whether the three strikes provision in 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g) violates the right of access to courts, as it is part of the right of petition protected by… |
| 20-358 |
Randy Henry v. J. Bret Johnson, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-employer government-employment public-concern public-employee retaliation |
When may a government employee be punished for speaking on a matter of public concern? |
| 20-345 |
Deborah Katz Pueschel v. Elaine L. Chao, Secretary of Transportation, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-09-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-service constitutional-rights disability-benefits first-amendment free-speech government-restrictions public-office standing |
Does the rule in U.S. Civil Service Comm'n v. Nat'l Ass'n of Letter Carriers, 413 U.S. 548 (1973), that the First Amendment does not prevent the feder… |
| 20-332 |
Maggy Hurchalla v. Lake Point Phase I, LLC, et al. |
Florida |
2020-09-14 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
first-amendment free-speech genuine-belief governmental-action petition-clause public-concern tort-award verifiable-assertion |
Whether a tort award against a speaker violates the Free Speech or Petition Clause when the statement could reasonably be construed as a verifiable an… |
| 20-5678 |
Charise L. Logan v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cia-testing civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech frivolous-law government-conspiracy jurisdictional-law standing systematic-oppression |
Did the lower courts fail to properly review the appellant's complaint and detect federal jurisdictional law violations? |
| 20-329 |
Julie M. Sowell, et al. v. Tinley, Renehan & Dost, LLP, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-actors |
Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine apply to interlocutory orders that are entered in state court proceedings that end after the federal court action is … |
| 20-5638 |
Stanley J. Caterbone v. Lancaster County Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-09-09 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-abuse due-process free-speech intelligence-agencies judicial-misconduct national-security nsa-operations standing |
Is there Judicial Misconduct and Abuse of Authority and are the courts attempting to hide the fact that there are abuses by the military and intellige… |
| 20-5597 |
Rory Swenson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law first-amendment free-speech intent intent-standard listener-perception speech-protection true-threat true-threats virginia-v-black |
Whether speech that does not contain any expression of an intent to commit an act of unlawful violence may be criminalized as a 'true threat' unprotec… |
| 20-264 |
Stephen S. Bona v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
|
criminal-threat elonis-v-united-states first-amendment free-speech intent-to-harm political-speech true-threat virginia-v-black |
Whether the First Amendment allows a state to criminalize a knowing threat of violence directed against a political official without a showing of an i… |
| 20-252 |
Gannett Co., Inc., et al. v. Ryan Larson |
Minnesota |
2020-09-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
defamation fair-report-privilege falsity-element first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement-statements media-reporting public-concern |
In a defamation case, where a jury finds that media defendants' reporting on what law enforcement said in a news release and news conference was subst… |
| 20-255 |
Mahanoy Area School District v. B. L., a Minor, By and Through Her Father, Lawrence Levy and Her Mother, Betty Lou Levy |
Third Circuit |
2020-09-01 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (36) |
circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech school-discipline school-regulation student-rights student-speech |
Whether Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District applies to off-campus student speech |
| 20-5553 |
Joseph E. Lawrence v. Montana |
Montana |
2020-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech government-accountability judicial-misconduct public-records standing state-accountability subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Are the Montana Supreme Court, Montana Attorney General and Montana's lower courts obligated to abide by the express provisions of the Montana Constit… |
| 20-5538 |
Michael Gerrell Boone v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2020-08-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech standing |
Whether the district court erred in finding that the plaintiffs failed to establish a reasonable likelihood of success on the merits of their claim th… |
| 20-247 |
Duane Ronald Belanus v. Leo Dutton, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim |
| 20-5459 |
Sean S. Earl v. Virginia |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its judgment |
| 20-5514 |
Daryl D. Nelson v. Mike Brown, Acting Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause |
| 20-5531 |
Cynthia Holmes v. James Y. Becker, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 7th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech seventh-amendment |
Whether the revised South Carolina Frivolous Proceedings Act (FPA), S.C. Code § 15-36-10, is unconstitutional |
| 20-225 |
John R. Muenster v. Disciplinary Board of the Washington State Bar Association |
Washington |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bar-association-resignation civil-rights compelled-speech constitutional-rights due-process free-speech lawyer-conduct professional-ethics standing state-bar-rules takings |
Whether petitioner has the right to permanently quit the state bar association without first obtaining the association's permission |
| 20-229 |
Michael Woolen v. California |
California |
2020-08-26 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-error mental-illness prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether petitioner, 1 of 60 million Americans with mental illness, was deprived of Bill of Rights protections of Amendment 1, V, VI-IX and XIV |
| 20-5480 |
Dennis Andrew Ball v. John Does 1-X, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-08-25 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech schools student-discipline |
Whether the First Amendment protects the right of a public school to discipline a student for off-campus speech that does not cause a substantial disr… |
| 20-193 |
Calvin McMillan v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2020-08-20 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights |
| 20-197 |
Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. v. Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-08-20 |
GVR |
Relisted (15) |
blocking first-amendment free-speech government-official personal-account public-forum social-media twitter-blocking |
Whether the First Amendment deprives a government official of his right to control his personal Twitter account by blocking third-party accounts if he… |
| 20-5410 |
Kevin Rene Aparicio-Leon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of the First Amendment and Due Process Clause |
| 20-178 |
Anne Prafada v. Mesa Unified School District |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy-to-defraud due-process educational-law equal-protection federal-preemption free-speech standing supplemental-jurisdiction |
Whether fraudulent misrepresentation and conspiracy-to-defraud are preempted |
| 20-180 |
Matthew William George v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2020-08-18 |
Denied |
|
5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech post-commitment probation-restrictions |
Does a Virginia Court have the authority to extinguish a defendant's post commitment First Amendment Rights? |
| 20-5375 |
Charles Michael Hall v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights |
| 20-149 |
Cheryl D. Uzamere v. New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
|
antitrust civil-rights court-corruption due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech genocide hobbs-act new-york-state-law |
Whether New York State Law S2942—A is unconstitutional |
| 20-5319 |
Juan Carlos Avila-Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights compelled-speech competence-to-waive counsel-investigation due-process fifth-circuit free-exercise free-speech ineffective-assistance medical-history public-accommodations |
Whether the First Amendment prohibits the government from requiring individuals to engage in speech that violates their sincerely held religious belie… |
| 20-5310 |
Benjamin Franklin v. Glenna S. Blair |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech freedom-of-association judicial-review presumption-of-intent presumption-of-reasonableness procedural-due-process standing |
Did the District Court abuse discretion in denying appeal of counsel but found several arguable claims under pre-RICO UTPA? |
| 20-130 |
Hung Dang v. Washington Department of Health, Medical Quality Assurance Commission |
Washington |
2020-08-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
duty-of-care first-amendment free-speech medical-licensing medical-quality-assurance physician-patient-relationship professional-speech statutory-interpretation |
Whether RCW 18.130.180(1) and (4), as construed and applied by the Washington Court of Appeals in the absence of a formal physician-patient relationsh… |
| 20-5281 |
Steven Robinson, aka Michael Moore v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2020-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech self-incrimination sixth-amendment standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause |
| 20-5193 |
Mollee M. McWhorter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole standing takings |
Whether the court below erred in dismissing petitioner's claims challenging the constitutionality of certain federal statutes and government actions |
| 20-5214 |
Ricardo A. Haynes v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2020-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-exercise free-speech standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights to free speech and free exercise of reli… |
| 20-5229 |
Arthur Lopez v. Costa Mesa Police Department, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-30 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process free-speech |
Should the obsence + Probable Guar onal Che absence f over beasonalte Ausp tion ino Warns tleay Mep f Petitioner, his dour Wino oh Adee, and vetiule B… |
| 20-91 |
Joseph H. Martin v. Department of Homeland Security |
Federal Circuit |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-employee-rights first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech hotel-privacy labor-management-relations standing union-speech |
Whether the 4th amendment protects speech in a rented hotel room |
| 20-5185 |
Joshua Jermaine Nelson v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-07-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-vagueness content-based-restriction due-process first-amendment free-speech mens-rea overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine vagueness |
Is a statute unconstitutional on its face when it is a content-based restriction that severely criminalizes a substantial amount of harmless speech be… |
| 20-70 |
Jagan Mahadevan v. Prem Bikkina |
California |
2020-07-24 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights defamation due-process federal-preemption first-amendment free-speech public-concern public-interest research-misconduct scientific-integrity standing |
Whether federal statutory and regulatory scheme for research misconduct preempted state law defamation claims |
| 20-64 |
David McMahon, et al. v. Jay Hartzell, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii-standing constitutional-rights federal-taxpayer-standing free-speech injury-in-fact municipal-funds public-charitable-trust taxpayer-standing |
Whether authors of protected speech must be the original authors or if interested individuals or groups can come into the speech |
| 20-5142 |
Glen Jones Ward v. Corizon |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment accommodations accommodative-diet amendment-violations civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process food-allergies food-intolerance free-speech medical-accommodation prisoner-treatment |
Whether the refusal to provide an accommodative diet or authorize food issues that address Ward's documented food allergies/intolerances violates his … |
| 20-5034 |
Donn Deveral Martin v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Whether the Second Amendment protects the right to carry firearms outside the home for self-defense |
| 20-5100 |
Steven Deon Turner, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Central District of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-decision civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process free-speech judicial-review procedural-due-process standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether the state's arrest of the plaintiff was frivolous |
| 20-5106 |
Antwon Gairrio Whitten v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
2020-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated based on the alleged denial of due process and free speech |
| 20-44 |
In Re David A. Golden |
|
2020-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
abuse-of-process civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process false-claims-act free-speech judicial-discretion rule-of-law standing |
Whether the 9th Circuit and Western Washington District Court have abused their discretion |
| 20-13 |
Brandon S. Lavergne v. Burl Cain, Warden, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-action due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech legal-correspondence prisoner-mail qualified-immunity standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause |
| 20-5044 |
Ilya Liviz v. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2020-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-obligations compelled-speech constitutional-procedure first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech government-compulsion search-and-seizure speech-rights subpoena subpoena-law warrant-requirement |
Can the Government compel speech without a warrant, nor a subpoena? |
| 20-5029 |
Richard Charles Lussy v. Henry Paumie Lussy |
Montana |
2020-07-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-constitution free-speech hearsay-impeachment jury-verdict ministerial-oath standing stare-decisis |
Whether to apply Federal Constitution: [A] bad speech to impeach hearsay-stare decisis with particularized legislated Montana Code Annotated (MCA) in-… |
| 20-5028 |
Richard Charles Lussy v. Wade J. Dahood |
Montana |
2020-07-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process free-speech jury-trial legal-procedure ministerial-oath oath-of-office standing stare-decisis |
Whether to apply Federal Constitution: [A] bad speech to impeach hearsay-stare decisis with particularized legislated Montana Code Annotated |
| 19-8891 |
Jeffery L. Howard v. Management and Training Corp., et al. |
Ohio |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-exhaustion due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech grievance-forms retaliation stare-decisis state-courts |
Is petitioner's First Amendment rights violated when private for-profit corporation denies access to grievance forms required by law |
| 19-1455 |
Leigh Ann Youngblood-West v. Aflac Incorporated, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech hush-agreement judicial-recusal prior-restraint rumery standing |
Whether the injunction enforcing the hush agreements and sealing the evidence of Aflac's and Dan Amos' cover-up of Dr. Amos' serial assaults upon wome… |
| 19-1438 |
George Abernathy v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment free-speech property-forfeiture standing summary-judgment takings |
Whether the Court has abandoned the principle that 'one constitutional right should not have to be surrendered in order to assert another' |
| 19-8856 |
Jason L. Brown v. Lisa M. Brown |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process fair-trial free-speech judicial-management prosecutorial-misconduct standing |
Does a document have to be real to have standing? Has the lower court chosen its power? |
| 19-1422 |
Nakisha Jackson v. Roy L. Brun, Judge, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
501(3)c appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech funding internet-communication jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge legal-records-access misrepresentation personal-jurisdiction pro-se-litigation secretary-of-state small-business-administration standing |
Is it considered 'misrepresentation' when an individual is not registered with the Secretary of State (SOS), in their state, to represent an entity, b… |
| 19-1415 |
John J. Dierlam v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
1st-amendment affordable-care-act civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association healthcare-mandate religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act rfra |
Whether the Affordable Care Act contains one or more constitutional violations |
| 19-1387 |
Waseem Daker v. Theodore Jackson, Sheriff, Fulton County, Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
|
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-challenge first-amendment free-speech in-forma-pauperis prison-litigation-reform-act religious-exercise three-strikes three-strikes-provision |
Whether the Prison Litigation Reform Act 'three-strikes' provision, 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g), is unconstitutional as applied to deny a prisoner access to c… |
| 19-8696 |
Frank DiTomasso v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial free-speech ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing standing |
Whether there was a conviction of production of child pornography when nothing was ever asked for, such as pictures or video, and there was not even a… |
| 19-1383 |
Michael Leidig, et al. v. BuzzFeed, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2020-06-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-of-proof civil-rights credibility evidence evidentiary-standard falsity first-amendment free-press free-speech freedom-of-the-press libel media-defendant summary-judgment |
Does the First Amendment alter the weight to be accorded a libel plaintiff's evidence, rendering the plaintiff unable, by his or her sworn statement o… |
| 19-8708 |
Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Presidio Bank |
Federal Circuit |
2020-06-15 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment brown-vs-board civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech judicial-ethics patent patent-rights stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court's duty to enforce its Governing Precedents |
| 19-1370 |
Kimberley Thames v. City of Westland, Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
|
abortions brandenburg-test criminal-threat first-amendment free-speech monell-claim municipal-liability naacp-v-claiborne-hardware qualified-immunity true-threats westland |
Did Petitioner's arrest and subsequent detention based on her speech violate her clearly established rights as set forth in Watts v. United States, Vi… |
| 19-8634 |
Tehib Mahiem El Bey, fka Tevan Jamall Brown v. Doughtery County State Court |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights de-jure-citizenship due-process federal-questions free-speech legal-jurisdiction natural-rights organic-constitution standing statutory-ordinance |
Can the De Jure American citizen be punished by fine or imprisonment for exercising a Constitutional right? |
| 19-8630 |
Richard Charles Lussy v. Henry Paumie Lussy, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech judicial-discretion ministerial-function pro-se standing writ-of-certiorari |
Whether conflicting free speech: superior Ray v. Blair does not' address constitution question allowing to decide for themselves ; opposite: Bell v T… |
| 19-8606 |
Robert D. Thorson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-power criminal-statute due-process first-amendment free-speech intimate-images privacy-rights standing takings |
Whether Congress may enact broad and sweeping statutes to prohibit the production and possession of personal images of intimate and lawful conduct in … |
| 19-1331 |
Xiu Jian Sun v. Charles F. Sanders, et al. |
New York |
2020-06-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-magistrate civil-procedure civil-rights conscience-rights divine-intervention due-process free-speech freedom-of-conscience freedom-of-religion judicial-procedure legal-petition religious-law standing takings |
Jehovah-god-of-host-messenger-spiritual-adam-law |
| 19-8507 |
Dominique R. Taylor v. Corporation Worldwide |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
commercial-speech compelled-speech content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech private-property |
whether-the-government-can-compel-a-private-party-to-host-speech-it-disagrees-with |
| 19-8495 |
Misbah Abdul-Kareem v. Vermont Department of Health |
Second Circuit |
2020-05-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech qualified-immunity standing |
Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim |
| 19-8477 |
Timothy Martin Kendrick v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech judicial-interpretation sixth-amendment standing |
Whether the petitioner's proceedings below violated his constitutional rights |
| 19-1284 |
Malwarebytes, Inc. v. Enigma Software Group USA, LLC |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-13 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Relisted (2) |
anticompetitive-animus antitrust blocking civil-liability civil-rights communications-decency-act computer-service-providers filtering free-speech immunity section-230 |
Whether federal courts can derive an implied exception to Section 230(c)(2)(B) immunity for blocking or filtering decisions when they are alleged to b… |
| 19-1272 |
Thomas Christopher Retzlaff v. Jason Lee Van Dyke |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-05-08 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
anti-slapp civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-courts federal-procedure free-speech litigation-strategy |
Whether state anti-SLAPP statutes apply in federal diversity cases |
| 19-1271 |
Toni Sharretts Collins v. William Zolnier |
Texas |
2020-05-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
absolute-privilege circuit-conflict civil-procedure communication-privilege defamation defamation-privilege first-amendment free-speech judicial-privilege legal-immunity procedural-exception tort tort-law |
Whether a party has absolute judicial privilege when a defamatory communication is made that has no logical relation to the proceeding |
| 19-8404 |
Jamaal Gittens v. Elizabeth Kelly, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Erie County, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause |
| 19-8394 |
Paul Anthony Hatton v. Douglas L. Combs, Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-enforcement standing state-court-rules state-supreme-court subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether federal courts have duty to hear 42-usc-1983 action challenging state-court rule |
| 19-8395 |
Peter Gakuba v. Charles O'Brien, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process equitable-relief federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-review standing statutory-protection |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for equitable relief under the Declaratory Judgment Act and the Administrative Proc… |
| 19-8402 |
John Pacchiana v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech jury-selection peremptory-strike racial-discrimination standing |
Whether this Court should grant a Writ of Certiorari to review the decision of the Florida Supreme Court finding that counsel failed to preserve an ob… |
| 19-1265 |
Friends of Danny DeVito, et al. v. Tom Wolf, Governor of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2020-05-05 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
assembly constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech police-powers takings |
Whether the Order exceeded the Governor's permissible scope of his police powers and as such violated Petitioners' rights guaranteed by the U.S. Const… |
| 19-8384 |
In Re Levon Spaulding |
|
2020-05-01 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-action due-process federal-action free-speech institutional-conditions legal-assistance prisoner-rights standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 19-1253 |
Kenneth Shelton v. Anthonee Patterson |
Pennsylvania |
2020-04-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
church-autonomy church-governance church-leadership civil-magistrate civil-rights first-amendment free-speech leadership-selection neutral-principles religious-freedom |
Whether a church's First Amendment rights are violated when, under the guise of 'neutral principles,' a civil magistrate selects the leadership of the… |
| 19-1247 |
Judson A. Lovingood v. Discovery Communications, Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-04-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-malice defamation entertainment entertainment-media first-amendment free-speech public-official sworn-testimony |
Whether the publication of totally false and fabricated testimony of a public official testifying under oath to produce an entertaining, dramatic effe… |
| 19-8365 |
Arthur Lopez v. California |
California |
2020-04-27 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review standing |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights under the First, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments were violated by the state court's denial of his peti… |
| 19-8349 |
Patrick J. Charest v. J. Clark Stankoski, Judge, Circuit Court of Alabama, Baldwin County |
Alabama |
2020-04-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Whether the Siateba lay Mos fou ke Sly 'AS. 257 (17%) — thes ues? frre a Costbbeoud / Lighr |
| 19-1244 |
Anthony J. Johnson v. Storix, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-23 |
Denied |
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attorney-fees civil-procedure copyright copyright-fees due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech ninth-circuit petition standing |
Whether the Ninth Circuit denied Petitioner's Fifth Amendment right to due process |
| 19-8316 |
Dervanna H. A. Troy-McKoy v. New York City Department of Parks and Recreation |
New York |
2020-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause |
| 19-8317 |
Mitchell Taebel v. Douglas A. Ducey, Governor of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
arbitrary-authority civil-rights due-process free-speech retaliation standing |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims for violation of their constitutional rights, including due process, free speec… |
| 19-1233 |
Robert Doyle v. Douglas Palmer, Clerk, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York |
Second Circuit |
2020-04-20 |
Denied |
|
bar-admission civil-rights delegation-of-power due-process federal-court federal-courts first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association freedom-of-conscience judicial-branch judicial-delegation legislative-power standing |
Whether Congress may delegate power to the Judicial Branch to enact federal-court bar-admission requirements |
| 19-1229 |
Edward Lee Mulcahy v. Aspen Skiing Company |
Colorado |
2020-04-18 |
Denied |
|
1st-amendment colorado-constitution constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech national-labor-relations-act public-lands retaliation ski-lift unionization |
Is the banning from ski lift operations on public lands during Plaintiff's distribution of a unionization flyer promoting a living wage a violation of… |
| 19-1225 |
Paul Hunt v. Board of Regents of the University of New Mexico, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-04-17 |
Denied |
Amici (8)Relisted (7) |
constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech off-campus-speech political-speech professional-conduct professional-norms public-university qualified-immunity student-speech university-policy |
Whether Respondents violated Mr. Hunt's clearly established rights as a private citizen under the First Amendment by punishing him for his off-campus,… |
| 19-1219 |
Respect Washington v. Burien Communities for Inclusion, et al. |
Washington |
2020-04-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ballot ballot-access civil-rights election-law first-amendment free-speech initiative initiative-process political-speech referendum voting voting-rights |
Whether the First Amendment protects the right of citizens to vote on an initiative that meets all time, place and manner requirements for the initiat… |
| 19-1217 |
Scottie A. Bagi, et al. v. City of Parma, Ohio |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-15 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1988 attorney-fees christiansburg-garment civil-rights discretionary-standard due-process first-amendment free-speech public-employee retaliation retaliation-claim summary-judgment |
Whether the District Court abused its discretion in its application of the standards set forth in Christiansburg Garment Co. v. EEOC, 434 U.S. 412 (19… |
| 19-8200 |
Don Farley v. Carl Parson |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-04-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-exclusion first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech witness-testimony |
Was Farley denied his First Amendment Right of Free Speech and Fourteenth Amendment of due process? |
| 19-8204 |
Arnold Eugene Fox, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering fourth-amendment free-speech ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct search-warrant standing statutory-interpretation |
Does federal statute 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) have an unconstitutionally vague residual clause? |
| 19-1184 |
Nikki Bruni, et al. v. City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-03-30 |
Denied |
Amici (10)Response RequestedRelisted (5) |
buffer-zone circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation content-neutrality due-process federalism first-amendment free-speech judicial-construction narrow-tailoring overbreadth standing state-law |
Whether federal courts have authority to save a state or local law from unconstitutionality by positing a limiting construction that has no state-law … |
| 19-1160 |
Robert J. Murphy v. Office of Disciplinary Counsel |
Pennsylvania |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-code pennsylvania-rules-of-professional-conduct pennsylvania-workers-compensation-act retroactive-application workers-compensation |
Whether petitioner had fair warning of disciplinary proceedings |
| 19-1150 |
Gary Kirchhoff v. United States, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process federal-suit fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech military-medical-privileges statute-of-limitations whistleblower whistleblower-rights |
Whether the court erred in affirming the lower court's decision that the statute of limitations was past for Gary Kirchhoff, M.D. to file a federal su… |
| 19-8028 |
Tyler Gore v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process free-speech jurisdiction reasons-for-granting-writ standing statement-of-case statutory-provisions |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions? |
| 19-8006 |
John P. Greiner v. Macomb County, Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
administrative-hearing administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech labor-relations obstruction-of-justice perjury retaliation wrongful-termination |
Whether the termination of a public employee in retaliation for exercising First Amendment rights and the failure to provide due process in administra… |
| 19-7989 |
Roger Bryner v. Clearfield City, Utah, et al. |
Utah |
2020-03-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech judicial-bias rule-of-law standing summary-judgment utah-rule-of-civil-procedure-83 |
Issues being raised |
| 19-7990 |
Gabriel L. Roman v. Sarah H. Kim, et al. |
California |
2020-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
california-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-access standing vexatious-litigant |
Whether the California Vexatious Litigant Statute is Unconstitutional |
| 19-7907 |
David Allen Olsen v. Kaylee Ann Francois |
Wisconsin |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights court-communication due-process emergency ex-parte ex-parte-proceeding free-speech imminent-threat involuntary-default irreparable-harm original-writings-rule pro-se-respondent quasi-criminal quasi-criminal-matter standing |
Does asking someone for help constitute an emergency, threat of danger, or irreparable harm? |
| 19-7937 |
Michelle Stopyra Yaney and Peter DeBellis v. Rebecca Mason, et al. |
California |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
association civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination discrimination-claim due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment free-speech freedom-of-expression religious-neutrality state-power |
Did the California Supreme Court have a duty to protect petitioners' individual constitutional rights for a claim of discrimination on how the associa… |
| 19-1108 |
DeRay Mckesson v. John Doe |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
GVR |
Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) |
civil-rights demonstration-law due-process first-amendment free-speech naacp-v-claiborne-hardware negligence negligence-action personal-liability protest protest-demonstration protest-liability standing tort-liability |
Do the First Amendment and this Court's decision in NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co. foreclose a state law negligence action? |
| 19-7805 |
Shavis Holloman v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction patent standing takings |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the lower court's decision |
| 19-7909 |
Sidney P. Kilmartin v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assisted-suicide causation civil-rights due-process first-circuit free-speech legal-reasoning mail-fraud mailing-an-injurious-article mailing-injurious-article statutory-interpretation |
Whether the First Circuit's reasoning on causation issues attendant to assisted suicide is at odds with this Court's case-law and the states' view of … |
| 19-7900 |
Tanino Emon Miller v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2020-03-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure sentencing standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the evidence sufficiently proves the facts necessary for the petitioner's conviction |
| 19-7902 |
In Re Darnell W. Moon |
|
2020-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct qualified-immunity standing takings |
Whether the 11th Circuit erred in dismissing petitioner's civil rights claims |
| 19-7882 |
Brandy V. Harris v. Britney May, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech public-disorder resisting-arrest standing trespassing wrongful-conviction |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the respondent's actions |
| 19-1089 |
Lisa Gindi v. New York City Department of Education, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process education eeoc-procedures employment employment-discrimination free-speech school-safety special-education standing student-discipline title-vii workplace-retaliation |
Whether a failure to recognize the current IEP which allow the coddling of the very dangerous kids who are a threat to teachers and other students? |
| 19-1091 |
Steve Ray Evans v. Sandy City, Utah, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
expressive-conduct first-amendment free-speech government-burden government-regulation less-restrictive-alternatives public-forum roadway-medians speech-restriction traffic-safety |
Whether a government may ban expressive conduct without first trying to advance its interests using less speech-restrictive measures |
| 19-7865 |
Clifford Laverne Mecham, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-circuit 8th-circuit child-pornography circuit-split constitutional-law eighth-circuit first-amendment free-speech morphed-images second-circuit sexually-explicit-conduct |
Whether the First Amendment protects morphed child pornography created without any child's involvement in sexually explicit conduct |
| 19-7837 |
Francine Slavin v. Residential Rentals, Trustee |
New Hampshire |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction due-process free-speech judicial-intervention judicial-misconduct judicial-proceedings jurisdiction standing trial-procedure whistleblower |
Whether the New Hampshire supreme court unconstitutionally intervened in the low court's trial of this case by assigning one of its own justices to po… |
| 19-7846 |
Cemaludin Veseli, II v. Carla Hacker-Agnew, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing statutory-interpretation takings |
When Ke Shee Gurte dove Cote 0 tiga & Arma |
| 19-7795 |
Robert Alan Foster v. Willis Chapman, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights discovery-violation due-process equal-protection fair-trial first-amendment free-speech ineffective-assistance jury-instruction prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination school-desegregation sixth-amendment standing voting-rights |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause |
| 19-7784 |
Darren Lee Jenkins v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions |
| 19-1051 |
Kansas v. Timothy C. Boettger |
Kansas |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (3) |
civil-rights constitutional-protection criminal-law criminal-threats due-process first-amendment free-speech reckless-disregard standing state-law threat |
Does the First Amendment prohibit a State from criminalizing threats to commit violence communicated in reckless disregard of the risk of placing anot… |
| 19-1029 |
Bethany Austin v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
content-based first-amendment free-speech non-consensual-dissemination privacy revenge-porn strict-scrutiny technology |
Whether strict First Amendment scrutiny applies to a criminal law that prohibits nonconsensual dissemination of non-obscene nude or sexually-oriented … |
| 19-7691 |
In Re Wilbert Norwood Starks |
|
2020-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure-standing civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection free-speech patent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant civil-rights statutes and constitutional provisions |
| 19-999 |
Lewis Alan Dugan v. Wyoming |
Wyoming |
2020-02-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-instruction obscenity overbreadth speech-conduct stalking-statute |
Whether a trial court should instruct a jury on the legal definition of 'obscene' in a prosecution for writing obscene letters |
| 19-7586 |
Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Civil Service Commission |
Pennsylvania |
2020-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law case-or-controversy civil-procedure civil-rights civil-service due-process employment-law free-speech mootness public-employment ripeness standing statutory-interpretation veterans-rights voluntary-cessation |
Is the underlying case moot? |
| 19-988 |
Living Essentials, LLC, et al. v. Washington |
Washington |
2020-02-06 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
central-hudson commercial-speech consumer-protection false-advertising federal-trade-commission first-amendment free-speech prior-substantiation substantiation-doctrine washington-state-law |
Whether the prior substantiation doctrine violates the First Amendment |
| 19-7551 |
Donald Arthur Herrington v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-Amendment case-management case-management-system civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech public-trial separation-of-powers sixth-amendment |
Was Petitioner's conviction a result of a procedure that violates 1st-Amendment, civil-rights, free-speech, public-trial, due-process |
| 19-7559 |
Elijah Jackson, Jr. v. Department of Housing and Urban Development, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech school-discipline standing statutory-interpretation student-rights |
DOES the First Amendment protect the right of a public school to discipline a student for off-campus speech that does not cause a substantial disrupti… |
| 19-983 |
Colleen Reilly, et al. v. City of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
article-iii-court constitutional-avoidance content-based content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech hill-v-colorado less-restrictive-alternatives reed-v-gilbert speech-restriction standing |
Whether Reed v. Town of Gilbert overruled Hill v. Colorado |
| 19-7544 |
Robert M. Waggy v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-04 |
Denied |
Amici (2)IFP |
constitutional-law content-based content-based-restrictions criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech public-concern speech-regulation telephone-harassment |
Whether a statute that prohibits telephone harassment may, consistent with the First Amendment, prohibit speech on matters of public concern or impose… |
| 19-974 |
William T. Schmitt, et al. v. Frank LaRose, Ohio Secretary of State |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-04 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
ballot-initiative ballot-initiatives civil-rights constitutional-law election-law first-amendment free-speech strict-scrutiny subject-matter-restriction subject-matter-restrictions voting-rights |
Whether the First Amendment and strict scrutiny apply to subject matter restrictions on ballot initiatives |
| 19-976 |
Jovanna Edge, et al. v. City of Everett, Washington |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
body-confidence civil-rights commercial-speech dress-code expressive-conduct first-amendment free-speech message-communication particularized-message workplace-attire |
Whether First Amendment protection extends to expressive-conduct |
| 19-968 |
Chike Uzuegbunam, et al. v. Stanley C. Preczewski, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-03 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (32)Relisted (2) |
censorship civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-policy mootness nominal-damages standing |
Whether a government's post-filing change of an unconstitutional policy moots nominal-damages claims that vindicate the government's past, completed v… |
| 19-7521 |
Elisha Paul Harley v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-admission free-speech judicial-discretion law-of-case law-of-the-case legal-review magistrate-judge magistrate-procedure racist-comments review standing |
Whether the magistrate judge erred in admitting evidence of racist comments attributed to the petitioner, in violation of the law of the case doctrine |
| 19-7502 |
Scott Peters v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing takings |
Whether the state's actions violated the petitioner's constitutional rights |
| 19-947 |
Xiu Jian Sun v. Robert N. Chatigny |
Second Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights divine-intervention due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-complaint parable-interpretation religious-doctrine religious-freedom spiritual-adam standing unjust-judge |
Whether the plaintiff has standing to bring claims based on alleged divine revelations and religious doctrines |
| 19-7397 |
Bert Hudson v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole |
Pennsylvania |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-mandate due-process equal-protection free-speech life-without-parole sentencing separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted |
| 19-7402 |
Andrea Lee Sanders v. Hennepin County Human Service and Public Health Department Child Support, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech property-rights standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their constitutional rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 19-7362 |
John Alfred Regalado v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-authority civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-investigation due-process federal-investigation free-speech government-conspiracy government-misconduct government-overreach judicial-identity-protection national-security presidential-misconduct standing witness-protection |
Whether the President and federal government have engaged in unconstitutional conduct, including abuse of authority and violations of civil rights and… |
| 19-7378 |
Octavio Diaz v. San Bernardino County, California, et al. |
California |
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment brady-v-maryland brady-violation circuit-conflict civil-rights civil-rights-violation discriminatory-arrest due-process free-speech manuel-v-city-of-joliet probable-cause second-amendment self-defense |
Was the California Court of Appeal in conflict with other circuits on the issue of probable cause and Second Amendment rights? |
| 19-7344 |
John L. Williams v. Jackson County, Missouri |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech standing summary-judgment turner-factors |
Should the District Court apply the Turner Factors to the summary judgment analysis? |
| 19-893 |
Shimon Waronker v. Hempstead Union Free School District, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights corruption due-process employment-retaliation first-amendment free-speech government-corruption public-employee public-official speech-protection whistleblower |
Whether the First Amendment protects the speech by a public official that is required by law and that reports and exposes corruption |
| 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… |
| 19-7302 |
Latefah Shampine v. Sarver's Realty, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-and-witnesses forced-drugging forced-medication free-speech hearsay hearsay-evidence involuntary-treatment judicial-misconduct jurisdiction-dispute racial-discrimination standing |
How could Petitioner retain an attorney when she was forced to plead guilty? |
| 19-7262 |
Danilo Mallari v. Tracy Vessigault, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
11th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-amendment first-amendment free-speech standing state-immunity |
Whether the petitioner has standing to bring the case |
| 19-7230 |
In Re Arthur Lopez |
|
2020-01-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing takings |
Whether Mold a Biobyical ond Prasrnad Male, US Bert Gitlin, Gonr Povely Minn Chilaan Be slaiele 4 afforded the Uncted Bhectex (mot tictione Gil Qykt i… |
| 19-7210 |
Calvin Ray Cash v. John Rupert, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing |
| 19-7195 |
Matthew Davonn Weatherspoon v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2020-01-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
cell-phone-tracking civil-rights colorado-statute criminal-law due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement privacy-rights search-and-seizure sex-trafficking standing statutory-interpretation warrant-requirement |
Whether the Colorado statute on complicity in sex trafficking violates the First Amendment and due process rights of the defendant by criminalizing sp… |
| 19-7199 |
Paul Tooly v. John F. Schwaller |
Second Circuit |
2020-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process employee-rights first-amendment free-speech qualified-immunity retaliation standing university-administration workplace-violence |
Whether the then President of SUNY Potsdam, John Schaller, should be denied qualified immunity for retaliating against an employee for reporting workp… |
| 19-7179 |
Roxanne Ari v. California |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitution due-process equal-protection free-speech standing takings |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated |
| 19-847 |
Jonathan Reisman v. Associated Faculties of the University of Maine, et al. |
First Circuit |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
Amici (11)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
associational-freedoms compelled-association constitutional-scrutiny exclusive-representation first-amendment free-speech labor-union labor-unions public-sector public-sector-employees |
Whether it violates the First Amendment to designate a labor union to represent and speak for public-sector employees who object to its advocacy on th… |
| 19-849 |
Kristanalea Dyroff, Individually and on Behalf of the Estate of Wesley Greer v. Ultimate Software Group, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights communications-decency-act content-moderation editorial-function editorial-functions free-speech immunity information-provider internet-immunity publisher publisher-liability section-230 |
Does Section 230(c)(1) provide broad immunity or limit the definition of a publisher? |
| 19-7141 |
Fernando Oliveros v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-guarantee criminal-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto free-speech legislative-intent lenity standing statutory-ambiguity statutory-construction |
When the legislature has not spoken in language that is clear and definite and has affixed the punishment for an offense, can a state court limit the … |
| 19-7151 |
Erick David Lopez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence evidence-admission fifth-amendment free-speech ninth-circuit prejudice rap-poem sixth-amendment |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's sanctioning of the admission of a vile and obscenity-laced rap poem found inside the purse of a 16-year-old girl and not w… |
| 19-7158 |
Isaac Montanez v. McDean, LLC |
Second Circuit |
2020-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights discrimination due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection free-speech retaliation voting-rights wrongful-termination |
Whether the defendant was discriminated against on the basis of race in the denial of their right to vote |
| 19-837 |
Jerome Kunkel, et al. v. Northern Kentucky Independent Health District, et al. |
Kentucky |
2020-01-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech religious-freedom retaliation substantive-due-process |
Does a Health Department and its employees violate the United States Constitution when they disparately treat and target private Catholic Elementary a… |
| 19-808 |
Leibundguth Storage & Van Service, Inc. v. Village of Downers Grove, Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
|
commercial-speech content-based content-based-speech first-amendment free-speech government-restriction reed-v-gilbert reed-v-town-of-gilbert strict-scrutiny |
Should strict scrutiny review apply to government restrictions on commercial speech that do not apply to non-commercial speech? |
| 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 |
| 19-7058 |
In Re Ramsey Randall |
|
2019-12-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 1st-amendment 35-usc-101 civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech patent-eligibility standing |
Whether the 35 U.S.C. 101 patent eligibility restrictions unconstitutionally violate the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights of the petitioner |
| 19-803 |
Xiu Jian Sun v. Michael P. Kelly, et al. |
New York |
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights divine-intervention due-process free-speech freedom-of-conscience freedom-of-speech judicial-review legal-filing mandamus religious-freedom religious-petition separation-of-church-and-state standing state-court takings |
Petition for writ of certiorari |
| 19-7026 |
James W. Guy v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-material civil-procedure civil-rights continuance discovery-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial first-amendment free-speech self-representation self-representing-defendant standing untimely-discovery |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights |
| 19-792 |
Vugo, Inc. v. City of New York, New York |
Second Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
central-hudson civil-rights commercial-speech content-based-restrictions content-based-speech first-amendment free-speech reed-v-gilbert reed-v-town-of-gilbert strict-scrutiny |
Whether strict scrutiny review should apply to government restrictions on commercial speech that do not apply to non-commercial speech |
| 19-793 |
Institute for Free Speech v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
GVR |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
civil-rights compelled-disclosure donor-disclosure exacting-scrutiny first-amendment free-speech nonprofit nonprofit-association standing state-action strict-scrutiny |
Whether a state official's demand for all significant donors to a nonprofit organization, as a precondition to engaging in constitutionally-protected … |
| 19-6986 |
Jarvis H. Neely v. John R. Baldwin, Director, Illinois Department of Corrections, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment circuit-court-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process eminent-domain federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-review jurisdiction pension-regulations property-rights standing statutory-analysis takings |
Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits the government from requiring a property owner to dedicate a portion of their property for… |
| 19-781 |
Frank Condez v. Massachusetts Civil Service Commission, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights civil-service constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech massachusetts-appeals-court petition-for-certiorari standing |
Does the Massachusetts Appeals Court decision constitute a forbidden intrusion of the petitioner's First-Amendment rights? |
| 19-767 |
National Association for Gun Rights, Inc. v. Jeff Mangan, in His Official Capacity as the Commissioner of Political Practices for the State of Montana, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-16 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
campaign-finance circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights express-advocacy first-amendment free-speech political-committee political-committee-regulations |
Whether the First Amendment permits imposing burdensome political-committee regulations upon groups that do not engage in any express advocacy for or … |
| 19-771 |
Gerald Sensabaugh v. Kimberly Halliburton, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights common-law due-process first-amendment free-speech personnel-file protected-speech public-employee qualified-immunity retaliation standing takings |
Whether the Court should reconsider its qualified-immunity jurisprudence to accord with the official's burden of establishing immunity entitlement at … |
| 19-758 |
Kamal Anwiya Youkhanna, et al. v. City of Sterling Heights, Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights consent-decree establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech local-government municipal-law public-forum religion religious-freedom zoning zoning-law |
Does a city council rule prohibiting private citizens from making disparaging comments about religion when speaking during the public comment period o… |
| 19-6936 |
Pedro Vigio-Aponte v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech rico standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the text of the RICO statute, this Court's case law, case law from other Courts of Appeal, the First Circuit's case law, and the importance of… |
| 19-729 |
Scott Howard Meyer v. Emily Peterson |
Minnesota |
2019-12-10 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights custody-dispute due-process family-law first-amendment free-speech harassment-order parental-rights prior-restraint |
Does one parent have a First Amendment right to criticize the other parent's parenting style and threaten litigation without risk of arrest, prosecuti… |
| 19-730 |
DeRay McKesson v. John Doe |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-10 |
Dismissed |
Amici (1) |
civil-rights demonstration-law first-amendment free-speech NAACP-v-claiborne-hardware negligence negligence-action protest protest-leader protest-liability standing state-law unidentified-perpetrator |
Whether the First Amendment and NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co. foreclose a state law negligence action against a protest leader for injuries caused b… |
| 19-725 |
JonMichael Guy v. Robert O. Lampert, Director, Wyoming Department of Corrections, et al. |
Wyoming |
2019-12-09 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights clearly-established due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-interpretation qualified-immunity religion-clauses religious-discrimination sincere-belief standing |
When a government official discriminates against a belief that is sincere and religious to the victim, and is therefore protected by the Religion Clau… |
| 19-726 |
Mallory Jones, et al. v. Ramone Lamkin, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Marshal of the Civil and Magistrate Court of Richmond County, Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-09 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
branti-finkel branti-v-finkel civil-rights confidential-employee due-process elrod-burns elrod-v-burns employment employment-law first-amendment free-speech government-policy policy-maker policymaker public-employee public-employees public-sector |
Whether the exception to First Amendment protections for public employees applies based on the actual work performed or the written job description |
| 19-727 |
Keepers, Inc. v. City of Milford, Connecticut |
Second Circuit |
2019-12-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights content-based content-based-speech first-amendment free-speech reed-v-gilbert reed-v-town-of-gilbert rule-60(b) rule-60b strict-scrutiny summary-judgment |
Whether the district court erred in refusing to grant Petitioner relief from summary judgment |
| 19-728 |
Brian Davison v. Facebook, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
censorship civil-rights delegation-of-authority due-process first-amendment free-speech government-delegation private-forum public-forum standing standing-to-sue |
Whether a person has standing to sue the government for a delegation of censorship authority to a private party when his speech on a topic of public i… |
| 19-6870 |
Kenny Brown v. Mental Health Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech habeas-corpus standing |
Did the Petitioner's First Amendment rights get violated by the repeated refusal to address his critical remarks, thus prejudicing the Petitioner's ca… |
| 19-698 |
Wendy Alison Nora v. Minnesota Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility |
Minnesota |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law civil-procedure disciplinary-proceedings due-process federal-courts first-amendment free-speech interpretation lower-court political-speech regulation standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the First Amendment's free speech protections as applied to the regulation of political speech |
| 19-6779 |
Mitchell Stevens v. Darrell Vannoy, Warden, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction free-speech procedural-standards retaliation standing |
Did the district court err in dismissing the petitioner's claims, and did the appeals court err in overlooking key facts? |
| 19-681 |
Andrew W. Shalaby v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
|
attorney-discipline bar-admission civil-procedure civil-rights disbarment due-process free-speech judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics judicial-recusal professional-conduct recusal standing |
Whether a Federal Court can deny an attorney admission to the bar for allegedly impugning the integrity of a judge in violation of ABA Model Rule 8.2(… |
| 19-6723 |
T. B. v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography due-process first-amendment free-speech sexting sexual-exploitation teen-sexting teenager-rights |
Does Colorado's interpretation of what constitutes child pornography violate a teenager's First Amendment right to protected speech and conflict with … |
| 19-6728 |
Jose Anthony Heredia v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the lower court's decision |
| 19-653 |
Theresa Ortloff v. Dave Trimmer, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
connick-v-myers due-process first-amendment first-amendment-speech-public-interest-connick-v-m free-speech procedural-due-process public-employee public-employee-speech public-interest speech whistleblower-protection |
Must the entire record, including motives, main thrust of the speech, and all instances of speech be reviewed under Connick v. Myers, 461 U.S. 1388 (1… |
| 19-631 |
William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. v. American Association of Political Consultants, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-15 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (19) |
automated-call-restriction constitutional-remedy first-amendment free-speech government-debt-exception political-speech severability statutory-interpretation tcpa telephone-consumer-protection-act |
Whether the government-debt exception to the TCPA's automated-call restriction violates the First Amendment, and whether the proper remedy for any con… |
| 19-6631 |
Tatyana E. Drevaleva v. Appellate Division of the Superior Court of California, San Mateo County, et al. |
California |
2019-11-14 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
anti-SLAPP civil-procedure civil-rights first-amendment free-speech limited-civil-case standing tenant-rights unlawful-detainer |
Can a Tenant who was being evicted by a Landlord for expressing a First Amendment right for a free speech file an anti-SLAPP Motion pursuant to the Ca… |
| 19-6642 |
Michael Allen Channel v. Benjamin Marquez, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech privacy search-and-seizure standing technology |
Whether the warrantless search and seizure of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and … |
| 19-6593 |
Deshay D. Ford v. Timothy P. White, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
42-usc-1981 access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech racial-discrimination |
Violation of the Petitioner's Constitutional and Civil Rights to prevent the Petitioner from filing a lawsuit against the Respondent(s) |
| 19-6609 |
Chad Michael Stoner v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-875c 18-usc-876c criminal-law due-process federal-crime first-amendment-speech free-speech internet interstate-threat interstate-transmission private-correspondence statutory-interpretation threat video-reposting |
Whether a person may be convicted of the federal crime of interstate transmission of a threat for reposting video of a threatening incident on the ind… |
| 19-6622 |
Helene Tonique Williams v. Toni Preckwinkle, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-discretion patent procedural-dismissal standing state-court-procedure takings |
Whether the District Court erred in dismissing the case against Pliner Porgue A Mhams, et al. |
| 19-608 |
Mark Elster, et al. v. City of Seattle, Washington |
Washington |
2019-11-12 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
campaign-finance civil-rights compelled-subsidy constitutional-review first-amendment free-speech property-levy rational-basis speech-funding standing |
Whether a levy that forces property owners to fund other individuals' campaign donations implicates the First Amendment's compelled-subsidy doctrine |
| 19-599 |
Samuel C. Mohorne v. Beal Bank, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection foreclosure free-speech homestead-property property-rights standing state-court statutory-interpretation writ |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause |
| 19-600 |
Jon Krakauer v. Clayton T. Christian, Montana Commissioner of Higher Education |
Montana |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
civil-rights due-process ferpa free-speech gonzaga-v-doe higher-education judicial-discretion privacy privacy-rights public-interest public-records student-privacy student-records university-athlete |
Does FERPA confer an individual right to privacy sufficient to block a court from ordering the release of personally identifiable information about a … |
| 19-6513 |
Deyoe R. Harris v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-review controlled-substances criminal-justice drug-policy due-process federal-law federalism free-speech sentencing-disparity standing takings |
Whether the federal prohibition on certain substances has resulted in more crime and violence, and whether it is best to regulate or decriminalize the… |
| 19-590 |
Michael Anthony Deem v. John P. Colangelo, et al. |
New York |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
|
child-custody child-custody-rights custody-dispute due-process equal-protection family-law first-amendment forensic-evaluator free-speech parental-rights right-to-privacy |
Whether a court appointed FE's examination of a fit parent's children over that fit parent's objection violates that fit parent's right to control the… |
| 19-6480 |
Dario Rodriguez v. Rick Scott, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-review legal-dismissal procedural-fairness qualified-immunity retaliation standing |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights to free speech, due process, and equal protection were violated |
| 19-6450 |
Sherif Sayed Mahmoud v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutionality content-based-restriction due-process first-amendment free-speech penal-code standard-of-review standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions texas-penal-code |
Whether Section 33.021 of the Texas Penal Code is a content-based restriction |
| 19-6442 |
William Conrad Yeager, II v. National Public Radio, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights defamation defamation-law first-amendment free-speech libel libel-standards media-access newsworthiness public-controversy public-figure public-figure-doctrine public-interest |
Whether the petitioner, an unknown musician and independent filmmaker, who fails to meet the requirements for a limited purpose public figure under Ge… |
| 19-6302 |
James Philip Douglas v. Margaret Gilbert, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection free-speech jurisdiction standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions |
| 19-6281 |
Donald R. Sanders v. Barack Hussein Obama, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure. civil-rights constitution due-process free-speech standing administrative-law agency-discretion border-policy civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech immigration-enforcement standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its ruling on the constitutional issues raised in the petition |
| 19-6274 |
Sergei Kovalev v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employee-immunity first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-information freedom-of-speech government-accountability government-liability municipal-liability public-access qualified-immunity |
Whether the First Amendment guarantees the right to enter public offices and seek information or petition the government |
| 19-474 |
Respect Washington v. Global Neighborhood, et al. |
Washington |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
agenda-setting ballot ballot-access civil-rights first-amendment free-speech initiative initiative-process injunction sanctuary-city standing voting voting-rights |
Whether the First Amendment protects citizens' interests in voting on an initiative that has met all time, place and manner requirements for an initia… |
| 19-481 |
In Re R. C. "Rick" Lussy |
|
2019-10-10 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process election-code elections extraordinary-circumstances free-speech judicial-procedure misconduct non-delegation-doctrine public-office standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the government's actions regarding his candidacy in the 2016 and 2020-2024 elections |
| 19-6244 |
Eugene Williams v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law discovery due-process evidence free-speech judicial-review legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the U.S. District Court abused its discretion in dismissing the case, in violation of the petitioners' civil-rights, due-process, and free-spe… |
| 19-6214 |
Luis Fuquen v. Trina Everitt |
Maryland |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
best-interest-of-the-child child-custody divorce due-process family-privacy family-privacy-rights family-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association freedom-of-religion parent-child-rights parental-rights |
Whether Luis and his children are entitled to due process protections for their individual intimate and expressive, close family, parent-child speech,… |
| 19-6222 |
Clarence Leonard Hearns, Jr. v. K. Harrington, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights court-errors due-process extraordinary-circumstances free-speech judicial-oversight mandate-recall pro-se-prisoner public-policy standing |
Whether pro-se prisoner can be denied First Amendment right based on court errors? |
| 19-458 |
John Schickel, et al. v. George C. Troutman, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
|
campaign-finance campaign-speech civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech legislative-ethics standing strict-scrutiny |
Whether incumbents and candidates for political office have standing to assert First and Fourteenth Amendment claims |
| 19-6182 |
Stan J. Caterbone v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Whether the legal court system has a responsibility to protect the American people and their lives by sending a message to the next mass shooter befor… |
| 19-6130 |
George W. Fisher v. John Gregory Mermelstein, et al |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
1st-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment disability due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection free-speech media-access medical-treatment prison prisoner-rights state-liability |
Whether the denial of media treatment at a state prison violates the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of the press |
| 19-6133 |
Jeremy S. Cochran v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights conviction convictions criminal-procedure due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing |
Did the court of appeals of Maryland err in denying petitioner's appeal? |
| 19-6158 |
William A. White v. Todd Sloop, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process first-amendment free-speech hate-speech judicial-circuit-split judicial-interpretation prison prison-regulations religion |
Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in ruling that the statement that Judaism is a 'doctrine of hate' is equivalent to 'violence and murder' such that l… |
| 19-6159 |
Rodney Jerome Womack v. J. Windsor, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Whether the law prohibiting the sale of certain firearms is unconstitutional |
| 19-6083 |
Michael M. Molinaro v. Bertha A. Molinaro |
California |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-vagueness content-based-restriction domestic-violence-prevention-act due-process family-law first-amendment free-speech overbroad separation-of-powers vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Is California's Domestic Violence Prevention Act's (DVPA's) severable residual clause defining 'abuse' (Family Code (F.C.) § 6203(a)(4)) unconstitutio… |
| 19-6100 |
Melvyn Perry Sprowson, Jr. v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
ashcroft-v-free-speech-coalition child-pornography constitutional-limits facial-challenge first-amendment free-speech new-york-v-ferber obscenity obscenity-standards overbreadth sexual-abuse state-regulation |
Whether a state regulation of child pornography that fails to satisfy all four requirements set forth in Ferber and that criminalizes conduct that is … |
| 19-417 |
EMW Women's Surgical Center, P.S.C., et al. v. Adam Meier |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-27 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
abortion circuit-conflict circuit-split compelled-speech constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech informed-consent medical-consent physician-autonomy ultrasound ultrasound-law |
Whether compulsory display-and-describe ultrasound laws abridge physicians' freedom of speech in violation of the First Amendment |
| 19-405 |
Nicholas Schiano, dba HotWireMedia.com, et al. v. Matt Friedman, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-law defamation due-process eleventh-circuit federal-law first-amendment free-speech legal-defense motives substantial-truth |
Whether substantial truth is a complete defense to defamation under the First Amendment, regardless of the motives of the speaker? |
| 19-383 |
Joseph Raimondo v. Denise Page Hood, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech government-action political-affiliation political-discrimination taxation |
Can the United States Federal Government single out citizens and demand taxation and then deprive the citizens of Constitutional Equal Protections bec… |
| 19-343 |
New York Republican State Committee v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
District of Columbia |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law first-amendment free-association free-speech investment-advisers political-contributions sec sec-rule-2030 |
Whether Rule 2030 of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, which imposes a two-year ban on political contributions by investment advis… |
| 19-348 |
St. James School v. Darryl Biel, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Kristen Biel |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (4) |
civil-courts civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise free-speech hosanna-tabor ministerial-exception religion-clauses |
Whether the Religion Clauses prevent civil courts from adjudicating employment discrimination claims brought by an employee against her religious empl… |
| 19-350 |
Stephen Busch, et al. v. Shari Guertin, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment bodily-integrity civil-rights due-process free-speech qualified-immunity regulatory-action standing |
Whether the 14th Amendment's constitutional right to 'bodily integrity' extends to a right to be protected from foreseeable harm in public drinking wa… |
| 19-5952 |
Keith A. Gordon v. Cenedra D. Lee, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the issues presented in the petition are properly raised and preserved for review |
| 19-342 |
Mark F. McCaffrey v. Michael L. Chapman, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-09-16 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech free-speech-balancing law-enforcement law-enforcement-discretion partisan-politics patronage-termination pickering-connick political-retaliation public-employee public-employee-speech public-employment |
Does the investigation of violent crimes and other essential law enforcement tasks that require professional judgment and discretion so involve partis… |
| 19-5937 |
Raymond Johnson v. Credit One Bank, et al. |
Maryland |
2019-09-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-admissibility free-speech judicial-discretion patent standing takings trial-procedure |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 19-333 |
Arlene's Flowers, Inc., dba Arlene's Flowers and Gifts, et al. v. Washington, et al. |
Washington |
2019-09-12 |
Rehearing |
Amici (10)Relisted (13) |
civil-rights compelled-speech content-based first-amendment free-exercise free-speech public-accommodation religious-freedom religious-hostility same-sex-marriage state-action strict-scrutiny |
Whether the State violates a floral designer's First Amendment rights to free exercise and free speech by forcing her to take part in and create custo… |
| 19-5906 |
Mitchell Taebel v. Douglas A. Ducey, Governor of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-11 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 19-5916 |
Juan Matias Torres v. Ralph M. Diaz, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process free-speech habeas-corpus intellectual-disability patent standing takings |
Whether the 8th and 14th Amendments prohibit the execution of a prisoner who was intellectually disabled at the time of the offense |
| 19-5884 |
Kevin Carson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-vagueness due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth pornography pornography-prohibition supervised-release vagueness |
Whether the lifetime supervised release condition prohibiting Kevin Carson from possessing or having under his control any matter that is pornographic… |
| 19-5864 |
Brandon Jones v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment free-speech incorporation standing takings |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause |
| 19-5876 |
Joachim Dressler v. Circuit Court of Wisconsin, Racine County |
Wisconsin |
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
censorship civil-rights content-seizure criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence first-amendment free-speech freedman-v-maryland judicial-review prior-restraint procedural-safeguards southeastern-promotions-ltd-v-conrad |
Do this Court's First Amendment 'prior restraint' holdings that command 'strict procedural safeguards' designed to obviate the dangers of a freewheeli… |
| 19-309 |
John C. Carney, Governor of Delaware v. James R. Adams |
Third Circuit |
2019-09-06 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (20)Relisted (4) |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-appointments judicial-independence judicial-qualifications judicial-selection party-affiliation political-balance political-party standing state-constitution state-sovereignty |
Does the First Amendment invalidate a longstanding state constitutional provision that limits judges affiliated with any one political party to no mor… |
| 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 |
Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals make the right decision in dismissing Plaintiff Thomas' appeal and affirming the dismissal of the District Cour… |
| 19-5826 |
Jerry Perez, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction patent standing takings |
Whether the 5 Great Lobsters of Spect on é a flab ed, (flee OitteS- ad Ggee table a og | tp iotees daw , a het si ance Ge She Syihan - wating Cnn YS c… |
| 19-5803 |
Robert H. Johnson v. Drew Stanley, Superintendent, Warren Correctional Institution |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction patent standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the 'effective compromise' doctrine |
| 19-5805 |
Mahmoud Aldissi, et ux. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-intent due-process federal-contracts fraud free-speech mail-fraud property-interest property-rights restitution-calculation right-to-control wire-fraud |
Is a mail or wire fraud conviction based on a sufficient property interest when a victim receives the full financial benefit of its bargain but, throu… |
| 19-5808 |
Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech labor-anti-injunction-act retaliation retaliatory-prosecution second-amendment selective-prosecution standing takings |
Whether the actions described in the email are protected by the US Second Amendment |
| 19-285 |
Jerud Butler v. Board of County Commissioners for San Miguel County, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Amici (5) |
such that it is entitled to protection under the civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-speech judicial-proceeding judicial-system judicial-testimony public-concern public-employee speech-protection |
Whether a government employee's truthful testimony at a judicial hearing qualifies as speech on a matter of public concern, such that it is entitled t… |
| 19-5776 |
Benjamin R. Schwarz v. Erwin Meinberg, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affidavit assets bivens-claim civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment federal-inmate financial-disclosure free-speech in-forma-pauperis liabilities prison-conditions standing takings ziglar-precedent |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in dismissing petitioner's civil rights claims for lack of standing |
| 19-5783 |
Monica Nicole Townsend v. Erik Allen Vasquez |
Texas |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection family-code fourteenth-amendment free-speech parties proceeding standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the First Amendment's free speech protections |
| 19-5797 |
Richard Joseph Martin v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
association civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-association free-expression free-speech standing |
Whether the First Amendment's free speech, free expression, and free association rights were violated when the petitioners were denied the opportunity… |
| 19-274 |
Teresa Buchanan v. F. King Alexander, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
academic-freedom constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth public-university sexual-harassment tenure title-ix vagueness |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by foreclosing Petitioner's ability to challenge the constitutional validity of a public university's speech regulatio… |
| 19-276 |
Jose Luis Garza, et al. v. City of Donna, Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights detainee-mistreatment due-process episodic-act-or-omission evidentiary-standard fact-question free-speech legal-interpretation municipal-liability municipal-policy qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment |
Did the panel err in determining that the signs posted by Respondent were too 'inexact' and 'nebulous' in meaning to constitute municipal policy for §… |
| 19-5764 |
Ola D. Dickens v. Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech judicial-procedure jurisdiction seventh-amendment standing surveillance |
Whether circuit court made a mistake on order filed 12/04/2017, finding no basis in documents or records filed 11/07/2017, to conclude that any of Pla… |
| 19-5771 |
Eric Allen Haensgen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2252a age-of-consent child-pornography constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-amendment free-speech statutory-interpretation unconstitutional |
Whether amendments to the child pornography law set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(2)(A) have rendered the current version of the statute unconstitutio… |
| 19-267 |
Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Agnes Morrissey-Berru |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (9)Relisted (2) |
civil-court-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination first-amendment first-amendment-religion-clauses free-speech hosanna-tabor hosanna-tabor-precedent ministerial-exception religious-employer religious-employment religious-freedom religious-functions standing |
Whether the Religion Clauses prevent civil courts from adjudicating employment discrimination claims brought by an employee against her religious empl… |
| 19-5736 |
Khalida Jalaly Ahadzadah v. Superior Court of California, Contra Costa County |
California |
2019-08-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech police-conduct police-misconduct standing unlawful-arrest |
Whether the Concord Police Dept. violated the petitioner's constitutional rights by not providing proof of the alleged violations |
| 19-251 |
Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-26 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (14)Relisted (5) |
association civil-rights constitutional-rights donor-privacy due-process exacting-scrutiny first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association freedom-of-speech law-enforcement-interest naacp-v-alabama narrow-tailoring nonprofit nonprofit-association nonprofit-organizations standing |
Whether the exacting scrutiny this Court has long required of laws that abridge the freedoms of speech and association outside the election context ca… |
| 19-245 |
GEFT Outdoor L.L.C. v. City of Westfield, Hamilton County, Indiana |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process facial-unconstitutionality first-amendment free-speech injunction ordinance-validity prior-restraint speech-rights standing |
Whether a citizen who seeks to exercise core First Amendment rights must first seek and obtain an order from a court of competent jurisdiction invalid… |
| 19-234 |
Libertarian National Committee, Inc. v. Federal Election Commission |
District of Columbia |
2019-08-22 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
campaign-finance content-based-restrictions deceased-donor federal-election-commission first-amendment first-amendment-rights free-speech political-contributions political-parties testamentary-bequest testamentary-bequests |
Whether limiting the size of a deceased donor's uncoordinated testamentary bequest to a political party violates the party's First Amendment right to … |
| 19-5666 |
Roger Charles Day, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing takings |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the lower court dismissed the case on standing grounds |
| 19-5680 |
Kenneth Taylor Curry v. Vancouver Housing Authority, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech goldberg-hearing hearsay housing-authority housing-choice-voucher reasonable-accommodation standing subject-matter-jurisdiction violence-threat |
Whether a Vancouver Housing Authority Hearings Officer without original subject matter jurisdiction is ultra vires and failed to provide a Goldberg pr… |
| 19-5626 |
In Re Vinodh Raghubir |
|
2019-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech patent standing takings |
Whether the Petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the lower courts' rulings |
| 19-202 |
Solomon McLemore v. City of Shoreline, Washington |
Washington |
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment civil-rights community-caretaking due-process fourth-amendment free-speech obstruction obstruction-of-justice probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-entry warrantless-search |
Whether it is a violation of the Fourth Amendment for States to charge and convict a person of obstruction for passively refusing to open the door to … |
| 19-5552 |
Kevin Devon Sutton v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection free-speech judicial-review legal-rights sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions |
Whether Section 5 actually violates the First Amendment? |
| 19-5562 |
Sekou Kouyate v. United States Customs and Border Protection |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing takings |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the lower court denied his claims of ineffective assistance of counsel and due proce… |
| 19-5577 |
Spencer Salcedo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
community-standards constitutional-protection due-process first-amendment free-speech hard-core-sexual-conduct obscenity obscenity-standard pornography sexual-content |
Whether a still image of an erect penis portrays the kind of 'patently offensive,' 'hard core sexual conduct' that qualifies as constitutionally unpro… |
| 19-5533 |
Juliet Baird Alexander Aubain de Sabrevois v. Alan J. Perry, et al. |
First Circuit |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-district free-speech judicial-conduct legal-issue libel libel-law maine maine-jurisdiction standing |
Has judicial conduct in the federal district of Maine reached a cellarage to be gazed at only across the barriers of libel law? |
| 19-177 |
Agency for International Development, et al. v. Alliance for Open Society International, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6) |
civil-rights federal-funding first-amendment foreign-policy free-speech funding-conditions hiv-aids overseas-affiliates prostitution speech-restriction standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the First Amendment bars enforcement of Congress's directive that respondents 'have a policy explicitly opposing prostitution and sex traffick… |
| 19-5503 |
Patricia Gill v. Mercy College, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bad-faith civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech harassment judicial-misconduct pro-se-representation standing state-court-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the prosecutions undertaken by state officials were in bad faith with the intent to harass the defendant/Plaintiff and discourage her from exe… |
| 19-5507 |
David Fennell v. Charles Munger, et al. |
California |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
1st-amendment assembly civil-rights due-process election-interference first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech freedom-of-assembly petition-for-redress political-speech |
Does arresting Republican opponents and banning Republicans from running for office or attending Republican political events for life in California vi… |
| 19-5454 |
Melinda Scott v. Andrew Carlson, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech information-disclosure online-publication privacy privacy-act standing state-action state-actor |
Are private citizens, who take over functions normally left to the state, by publishing information, on the Internet, about others from (a) courts not… |
| 19-168 |
Remington Arms Co., LLC, et al. v. Donna L. Soto, Administratrix of the Estate of Victoria L. Soto, et al. |
Connecticut |
2019-08-05 |
Denied |
Amici (6) |
2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights commerce-clause due-process firearms-immunity firearms-industry-regulation free-speech plcaa plcaa-immunity predicate-exception statutory-interpretation unfair-trade-practices |
Whether the PLCAA's predicate exception encompasses alleged violations of broad, generally applicable state statutes |
| 19-5424 |
Terry James Sullivan v. City of Missoula, Montana |
Montana |
2019-08-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction disorderly-conduct due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech |
Does Petitioner's conviction for disorderly conduct by allegedly uttering the word 'effing' violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments? |
| 19-5403 |
Randy Charriez-Rolon v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-ineffectiveness criminal-procedure defendant-silence due-process due-process,self-incrimination,plain-error,ineffec first-circuit-review free-speech plain-error prosecutorial-commentary rule-29-motion silence |
Whether the First Circuit's op/order affirming Petitioner's sentence and conviction finding no plain error when the United States commented on Petitio… |
| 19-5418 |
Walter Lee Brown v. James Deal, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment free-speech jurisdiction land-use-regulation property-rights regulatory-takings standing takings-clause |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment does not prohibit the government from requi… |
| 19-5397 |
Charles Donelson v. Q. Tanner, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
audit-standard circuit-split civil-rights class-action criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence fraud fraud-on-the-market free-speech securities-law standing supreme-court-precedent takings |
Whether the Seventh Circuit's application of the 'dark web' doctrine creates a circuit split |
| 19-5302 |
Bryant Keith Williams v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment damages due-process free-speech habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct standing |
Whether the State of Florida can impose a life sentence on an individual despite a jury's recommendation of a lesser sentence |
| 19-5327 |
Quitissica Y. Howell v. Social Security Administration |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions |
| 19-115 |
Frank J. Lawrence, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
Abuse-of-discretion Admission-to-practice bar-admission constitutional-rights Criticism-of-officials due-process expressive-activities First-Amendment free-speech judicial-discretion judicial-review law-practice-admission sixth-circuit standing uniformity-of-decisions |
Whether the Sixth Circuit's decision conflicts with its own recent declaration that the petitioner is 'duly qualified' to practice law, and whether th… |
| 19-5273 |
Wendolyn Lee v. Amy P. Weirich, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech patent sentencing standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its ruling on the legal issues involved in this case |
| 19-5248 |
Garry Randall West v. Jason Bryant, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
child-pornography double-jeopardy due-process fourth-amendment free-speech miranda-rights miranda-warnings right-to-privacy search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence |
Question not identified |
| 19-5242 |
Charles Clary v. Lynn Guyer, Warden |
Montana |
2019-07-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection free-speech standing takings |
Whether the District Court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 19-90 |
Lexington H-L Services, Inc., dba Lexington Herald Leader v. Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-17 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
civil-rights driveway-delivery first-amendment free-press free-speech municipal-ordinance news-distribution print-news time-place-manner time-place-manner-restriction |
Whether a municipal ordinance flatly prohibiting driveway delivery of a community newspaper but specifying alternative methods of hand delivery repres… |
| 19-5190 |
Steven Williams v. National Railroad Passenger Corporation, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of his civil-rights, due-process, and free-sp… |
| 19-5158 |
John Higgins, Jr. v. Federal National Mortgage Association |
First Circuit |
2019-07-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process free-speech jurisdiction patent standing statement-of-case statutory-provisions takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its decision |
| 19-64 |
Heidi C. Lilley, Kia Sinclair, and Ginger M. Pierro v. New Hampshire |
New Hampshire |
2019-07-12 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment free-speech gender-discrimination intermediate-scrutiny public-exposure public-nudity |
Does an ordinance expressly punishing only women, but not men, for identical conduct—being topless in public, classify on the basis of gender? |
| 19-67 |
United States v. Evelyn Sineneng-Smith |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-12 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (11) |
civil-rights commercial-activity constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute facial-challenge financial-gain first-amendment free-speech immigration immigration-law ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
Whether the federal criminal prohibition against encouraging or inducing illegal immigration for commercial advantage or private financial gain, in vi… |
| 19-71 |
FNU Tanzin, et al. v. Muhammad Tanvir, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-12 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (15)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights damages damages-liability due-process federal-employees free-speech religious-freedom rfra standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1998, 42 U.S.C. 2000bb et seqg., permits suits seeking money damages against individual federal emplo… |
| 19-5140 |
Vinodh Raghubir v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's complaint for lack of standing and failure to state a claim under the First Amendment, Fif… |
| 19-5142 |
Charles Anthony Ball v. Mike Slagle |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-appeal federal-rule free-speech judicial-conflict meloy standing statutory-interpretation |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err on an important federal question by entering its decision/judgment, which is in conf… |
| 19-5147 |
Flordeliza A. Hawkins v. SunTrust Bank, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech public-forum standing |
Whether the petitioner's First Amendment right to free speech was violated when the respondent restricted the petitioner's ability to post comments on… |
| 19-5149 |
Luis Rojas-Marceleno v. Kansas |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment case-statement civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issue legal-review sentencing standing statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioners' claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim |
| 19-5156 |
Theresa A. Logan v. Town of Windsor, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-11 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
1st-amendment civil-rights conclusion constitutional-provisions content-discrimination free-speech jurisdiction public-forum reasons-for-granting statement-of-case statutory-provisions viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether the First Amendment protects the right of a public access television channel to exclude a speaker based on the content of their speech |
| 19-62 |
Michelle Carter v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2019-07-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
arbitrary-enforcement assisted-suicide common-law criminal-conviction due-process first-amendment free-speech involuntary-manslaughter suicide-encouragement |
Whether Carter's conviction for involuntary manslaughter, based on words alone, violated the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment |
| 19-5121 |
Ricky Daniel Wagoner v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction patent standing takings |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated |
| 19-51 |
Ben Branch, et al. v. Massachusetts Department of Labor Relations, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2019-07-08 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
bargaining-representative civil-rights compelled-speech constitutional-rights due-process exclusive-representation first-amendment free-speech political-activity political-autonomy public-employee state-action union-representation |
Whether a public employee union's use of its government-granted authority as exclusive bargaining representative to compel employees to choose between… |
| 19-5084 |
Antoaneta Iotova, et al. v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing takings |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the lower court's decision |
| 19-5052 |
John P. Greiner v. Macomb County, Michigan, et al. |
Michigan |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process fraud-on-the-court retaliation administrative-hearing civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment first-amendment fraud-on-the-court free-speech labor-law wrongful-termination |
Whether the termination of the plaintiff violated his First Amendment rights, given the alleged pretext, perjury, and fraud on the court involved in t… |
| 19-17 |
Alexander Collin Baker v. Clara Veseliza Baker |
California |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights domestic-violence-prevention-act due-process federal-supremacy first-amendment free-speech prior-restraint right-to-petition separation-of-powers strict-scrutiny vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the DVPA's residual clause definition of 'abuse' is unconstitutionally vague and/or overbroad |
| 18-9813 |
Levar Brown v. California |
California |
2019-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy discovery due-process forma-pauperis free-speech indigency legal-correspondence patent petition standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Did the Supreme Court abuse its discretion by denying the right of the petitioners to discovery further and to rebut a conspiracy which infringes thei… |
| 18-1580 |
Craig Ross, et al. v. Board of Trustees of California State University |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights damages due-process duplicative-actions eeoc-investigation free-speech individual-capacity-suit preliminary-injunction sovereign-immunity standing title-vii |
Can an earlier-commenced Title VII case against the State of California be foreclosed as duplicative of a later-commenced 42 USC §1981 / 42 USC §1983 … |
| 18-1576 |
Adriano Kruel Budri v. Daniel M. Humphreys |
Texas |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights defamation due-process employment-dispute free-speech legislative-interpretation private-communication private-employment-dispute snyder-v-phelps statutory-construction texas-citizens-participation-act |
Does the TCPA apply to a private employment dispute involving allegedly defamatory statements in a private intended audience and location? |
| 18-9801 |
RaShawn Long v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech political-speech retaliation standing takings |
Whether the petitioner's First Amendment free speech rights were violated by the respondents' suppression of his political speech and expression |
| 18-9753 |
Jason Brooks v. Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-access-to-courts,first-amendment,four court-access due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech lewis-v-casey pleading-standard prisoners-rights section-1983 standing |
Whether a federal district court's 30-page limit on unrepresented prisoners' § 1983 complaints violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 18-1563 |
Ronald Bias v. Tangipahoa Parish School Board |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-law chapter-13 chapter-13-bankruptcy constitutional-amendments constitutional-rights debtor-standing disclosure-requirements due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-estoppel post-confirmation-claims standing |
Does the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal's precedent that all Chapter 13 debtors have a continuing duty to disclose all post-confirmation claims offend … |
| 18-1555 |
Scott A. Boyler v. City of Lackawanna, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
aggravated-harassment constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech free-speech,civil-rights,retaliation,qualified-imm malicious-prosecution qualified-immunity retaliation social-media summary-judgment |
Whether retaliation chilled free speech under an objective or subjective test |
| 18-1558 |
Marshall Spiegel v. Corrine McClintic, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-06-20 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-expression law-enforcement-liability municipal-liability public-photography qualified-immunity standing |
Does the First Amendment protect a person's right to photograph or videotape in public? |
| 18-9702 |
Cathrin Funk-Vaughn v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services |
Tennessee |
2019-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
agency-overreach child-custody child-jurisdiction child-removal diversion-plea document-fraud due-process evidence-suppression federal-funding first-amendment food-recall free-speech interstate-custody jurisdiction kidnapping law-enforcement parental-rights rescission unreasonable-search |
Does the Department of Children Services have the legal right to remove a child from a parent/legal guardian while the parent/legal guardian was on va… |
| 18-9671 |
In Re Frank J. Ashley |
|
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech patent standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its decision regarding the petitioner's constitutional rights |
| 18-1537 |
Youras Ziankovich v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
choice-of-law civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceeding due-process federal-agency federal-agency-practice federal-preemption free-speech interstate-practice legal-ethics license-suspension preemption professional-conduct professional-misconduct standing state-licensing supremacy-clause |
Whether Colorado violated the petitioner's constitutional rights by suspending his New York law license for alleged violations of Colorado's professio… |
| 18-9638 |
Jose Luis Barboza, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-tampering free-speech gang-membership patent prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-guidelines standing trial-fairness |
Whether the defendant was improperly called a 'n****r lover' by the victim's attorney, resulting in a violation of due-process, free-speech, civil-rig… |
| 18-9598 |
James W. Guy v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech jury-bias jury-selection prejudice religion religious-discrimination religious-freedom sixth-amendment |
Did the trial court violate a Muslim defendant's Constitutional Rights under the First, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitut… |
| 18-9605 |
Don Ferguson v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
7th-amendment compelled-speech content-neutrality criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial first-amendment free-speech government-regulation jury-instructions private-entities |
Whether the First Amendment prohibits the government from requiring private entities to host speech they disagree with |
| 18-9610 |
Keith Wromas, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-law data-protection due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech privacy standing |
Whether the petitioner's alleged unlimited access to any and all modal and personal data under Florida law violates federal constitutional rights |
| 18-9619 |
Henry James Lagi v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech government-power liberty-interest standing takings |
Whether the government is allowed to interfere with acts of its citizens that are protected by the Constitution |
| 18-9629 |
Matthew Hale v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process first-amendment free-exercise-clause free-speech religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act standing |
whether the Tenth Circuit's usage of a factor-driven test for determining whether a particular belief system qualifies as a 'religious' group for purp… |
| 18-1517 |
Mehrdad Hosseini v. Kevin McAleenan, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-06-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure administrative-procedures-act civil-rights first-amendment free-speech immigration immigration-law material-support national-security overbreadth political-advocacy standing terrorism tier-iii-terrorist-organization |
Whether independent, non-violent political advocacy constitutes material support for terrorism under the Immigration and Nationality Act |
| 18-1523 |
Michael Gannon v. City of Eugene, Oregon |
Oregon |
2019-06-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
1st-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment free-speech liberty-interest proportionality public-forum public-university |
Do the First Amendment's protections to public streets as the archetype of a traditional public forum extend to city and state public streets and publ… |
| 18-1524 |
Michelle MacDonald Shimota, et vir v. Bob Wegner, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech probable-cause retaliation retaliatory-arrest retaliatory-prosecution |
Does the district court's dismissal of claims, including First Amendment retaliatory-arrest and prosecution under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 based on probable c… |
| 18-1516 |
Veronica Price, et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-06-06 |
Denied |
Amici (8)Relisted (2) |
abortion abortion-clinic buffer-zone civil-rights content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech narrow-tailoring precedent speech-restriction |
Whether the Court should reconsider Hill v. Colorado in light of Reed v. Town of Gilbert and McCullen v. Coakley |
| 18-1518 |
Save Tacoma Water v. Port of Tacoma, et al. |
Washington |
2019-06-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ballot-access content-based content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech initiative-power judicial-veto political-speech prior-restraint vagueness |
Whether the First Amendment prohibits a state court from enjoining a qualified initiative from appearing on the ballot because the court believes that… |
| 18-9528 |
Edward Faye Parks v. Bruno Stolc, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-05 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure-standing-due-process-takings-pate civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its decision |
| 18-1502 |
Brian Mark Burmaster v. Eli Lilly and Company |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-06-03 |
Denied |
|
6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights drug-marketing due-process free-speech government-action government-intervention government-overreach government-regulation medical-ethics pharmaceutical pharmaceutical-liability pharmaceutical-litigation sixth-amendment |
If a company's manufactured and marketed product is cited by the US Government as a 'miracle drug' to restore a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment r… |
| 18-9498 |
Mark Alan Lane v. Cynthia Swain, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights disciplinary-code due-process first-amendment free-speech inmate-communication ninth-circuit prison-regulation prison-regulations procunier-test procunier-v-martinez standing |
Is Section 203's prohibition against threatening another with any offense a close fit to a legitimate penological interest? |
| 18-9435 |
Steven Jacob Seibert v. Antoine Caldwell, Warden |
Georgia |
2019-05-29 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel interstate-communication jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge restraining-order retroactivity. stalking-statute standing |
Whether the petitioner's conviction for aggravated stalking was unconstitutional due to lack of jurisdiction, ineffective assistance of counsel, and r… |
| 18-1492 |
Katherine Miller v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
associational-freedom childcare-providers civil-rights compulsory-representation due-process exclusive-representation first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association labor-relations mandatory-representation public-policy state-mandated-representation state-policy union-representation |
Whether Washington's compelling nonmember providers to accept a private organization as their exclusive representative for dealing with the State over… |
| 18-1477 |
Competitive Enterprise Institute, et al. v. Michael E. Mann |
District of Columbia |
2019-05-28 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) |
constitutional-law defamation first-amendment free-speech opinion provably-false public-concern public-figure question-of-law-or-fact subjective-commentary |
Whether the First Amendment permits defamation liability for subjective commentary on true facts concerning a matter of public concern |
| 18-9388 |
In Re Ramsey Randall |
|
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process federal-remedy free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review standing statutory-provisions |
Whether the federal abstention doctrine restricts federal courts from providing relief to state criminal defendants who seek to challenge their convic… |
| 18-9404 |
Devon Lona Lunn v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech jurisdiction standing takings |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the respondent's actions |
| 18-1455 |
Archdiocese of Washington v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-05-22 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (5) |
civil-rights content-discrimination establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech government-speech public-forum religious-freedom viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether WMATA's policy of refusing to accept advertisements that promote or oppose religion or reflect a religious perspective violates the First Amen… |
| 18-1451 |
National Review, Inc. v. Michael E. Mann |
District of Columbia |
2019-05-21 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) |
defamation first-amendment free-speech matter-of-public-concern opinion-speech provably-false provably-false-factual-connotation public-concern public-policy-debate scientific-controversy scientific-misconduct subjective-opinion |
Whether a statement contains a 'provably false' factual connotation is a question of law for the court, not a question of fact for the jury |
| 18-9355 |
Sheila Robinson v. Rental Maintenance, Inc. |
Maryland |
2019-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the First Amendment's free speech protections |
| 18-9374 |
Bruce Duane Walton v. Tracy Ray, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings |
Was the Tor of inlentonad, mbeteverce won Ale Greece with oreurzalment oP MONET |
| 18-1445 |
Theresa Seeberger v. Davenport Civil Rights Commission, et al. |
Iowa |
2019-05-20 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-law civil-rights-ordinance commercial-speech content-discrimination discrimination due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech landlord-tenant viewpoint-discrimination |
Was the imposition of liability for the landlord's speech a violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution? |
| 18-1441 |
Presbyterian Church U.S.A. v. Brian Edwards, Judge, Jefferson Circuit Court, et al. |
Kentucky |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
church-autonomy church-constitution civil-rights defamation ecclesiastical-abstention first-amendment free-speech ministerial-role religious-doctrine supremacy-clause |
Whether the First Amendment requires state courts to dismiss suits immediately upon a showing that the claim turns upon the interpretation or applicat… |
| 18-1443 |
Nicholas Young v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-activity constitutional-rights criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure due-process entrapment entrapment-defense free-speech material-support predisposition predisposition-evidence prior-activity similar-crime terrorist-organization thought-crime white-nationalism |
Whether evidence of a criminal defendant's prior, constitutionally protected activity may be admitted to prove the predisposition element of the entra… |
| 18-9341 |
Antwon G. Whitten v. William A. Gunter, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment free-speech standing takings |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause |
| 18-9342 |
Thomas Tiner v. Danella Cockrell, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process free-speech jurisdiction reasons-for-granting-writ standing statement-of-case statutory-provisions takings |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the respondent's actions |
| 18-9285 |
Dean A. Schwartzmiller v. California |
California |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment free-speech overbreadth penal-code sixth-amendment vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Is California Penal Code § 288 void for vagueness and overbreadth and contrary to the First, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 18-9312 |
Travis Jermaine Wright v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions |
| 18-1438 |
Caleigh Wood v. Evelyn Arnold, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
1st-amendment compelled-speech curriculum establishment-clause First-Amendment free-speech Lemon-Test lemon-v-kurtzman preferential-treatment public-school Public-School-Curriculum public-schools religion Religious-Freedom religious-practices |
Whether public schools may require students to assert religious beliefs and recite prayers that offend their religious convictions |
| 18-1435 |
Matthew Wayne Minard, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Taylor Police Officer v. Debra Lee Cruise-Gulyas |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights discretion discretionary-action discretionary-enforcement due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement qualified-immunity retaliation retaliatory-arrest traffic-stop |
Whether a police officer can immediately initiate a second traffic stop in response to a driver's offensive speech to change the original discretionar… |
| 18-9237 |
James Barksdale v. United States Executive Branch |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9179 |
Tony B. Thomas v. C. Blake, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech standing |
Why did the UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT overlook petitioner arguments pertaining to First-Amendment, Fourth-Amendment, Eighth… |
| 18-1406 |
Kristin Roebuck Bethell v. Bryan Stephens, et al. |
Arizona |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure attorney-client-relationship attorney-ethics attorney-sanctions civil-rights client-advocacy client-representation conflict-of-laws due-process free-speech judicial-discretion judicial-procedure judicial-sanctions legal-ethics legal-ethics-and-professional-responsibility professional-conduct sanctions standing writ-of-certiorari |
Whether counsel Roebuck Bethell's Petition for Writ of Certiorari should be granted after she was sanctioned by the Arizona courts for: (1) believing … |
| 18-9068 |
Dennis Rydbom v. Lisa Boggs, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-information catalog-ban censorship civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech mail-censorship penological-objectives prisoner-rights |
Is the ban against West Virginia prisoners' receipt of catalogs and of internet documents excessive and overly broad under the First Amendment's free … |
| 18-9083 |
Ken Gryder v. Laura Rudy, et al. |
Virginia |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights county-taxation defamation-claim dmv-registration due-process employment-damages free-speech malicious-prosecution patent prosecutorial-misconduct sovereign-immunity standing takings unlawful-eviction |
Whether the issues raised in the SCOTUS petition for writ of certiorari are properly presented |
| 18-9087 |
Donald Durrant Farrow v. Erik A. Hooks, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech government-overreach jurisdiction standing |
Was the Perini & Denim Menswear denied access to the courts when Perini was described as a 'Domestic Terrorist'? |
| 18-9112 |
Daniel Bronson v. Wanza Jackson-Mitchell, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner's appeal |
| 18-1375 |
Douglas Walter Greene v. Independent Pilots Association, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
|
abuse-of-discretion civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fraud free-speech freedom-of-religion freedom-of-speech judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct jury-trial rule-of-law |
Whether federal district and appellate courts may render decisions abridging First Amendment rights based on overwhelming fraud in the record, while a… |
| 18-9041 |
Peter Gakuba v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule free-speech search-and-seizure standing takings |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional and statutory rights were violated when the state court denied his motion to suppress evidence obtained throug… |
| 18-1365 |
Mogul Media, Inc., et al. v. City of New York, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-04-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
commercial-speech content-based-restriction content-based-restrictions equal-protection first-amendment free-speech government-speech municipal-government public-forum public-property zoning-resolution |
Does the First Amendment prohibit the City of New York from preferring the commercial speech of its tenants over private landowners' commercial and no… |
| 18-8981 |
John Bowling v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal civil-procedure civil-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency free-speech jury-instructions standing |
Any ERRONEOUS INSTRUCTION on force WMS Ofer to the funy |
| 18-8950 |
Jesus Manuel Moran v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted |
| 18-8966 |
Eric Drake, aka E. V. Drake v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection free-speech pro-se-litigation standing vexatious-litigant |
Whether the denial of a pro se litigant's right to access the courts through vexatious litigant laws and rulings violates the petitioner's constitutio… |
| 18-8908 |
Preston G. Demouchet, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction patent standing takings |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim |
| 18-8884 |
Jimmy Wayne Brown v. California |
California |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction property-rights standing takings |
Whether the court erred in denying the petitioner's right to use leased property |
| 18-8859 |
LaShunda Borden v. Cheaha Regional Mental Health Center, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-perjury criminal-procedure due-process employment-law first-amendment fraud free-speech freedom-of-speech legal-ethics perjury standing |
Is it legal for a company to commit perjury to win a lawsuit? |
| 18-1299 |
Marie Gillispie v. Regionalcare Hospital Partners, Inc., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
anti-retaliation at-will-employment circuit-court-interpretation circuit-court-ruling civil-rights common-law due-process employment-law emtala emtala-statute free-speech medical-malpractice preemption public-policy-exception retaliation statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent whistleblower whistleblower-protection |
Does the precedential ruling by the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals directly contradict Supreme Court precedent and the intent of Congress regarding the … |
| 18-1293 |
Evergreen Freedom Foundation, dba Freedom Foundation v. Washington |
Washington |
2019-04-12 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
ballot-initiative ballot-initiatives campaign-finance constitutional-vagueness due-process fair-campaign-practices-act first-amendment free-speech vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether Washington's campaign finance statutes violate due process by being unconstitutionally vague as applied to legal services for ballot initiativ… |
| 18-1295 |
Dale De Steno, et al. v. Kelly Services, Inc. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review attorneys-fees civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-issue constitutional-rights due-process free-speech jury-trial precedent seventh-amendment sixth-circuit standing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred by denying the Petitioners' request for a jury trial pursuant to the Seventh Am… |
| 18-8817 |
Michael Clark v. United States District Court for the Northern District of New York |
Second Circuit |
2019-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bradley-v-fisher civil-rights color-of-law common-law-rights due-process federal-procedure federalism first-amendment first-amendment-rights free-speech judicial-immunity nixon-v-warner standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Did the Northern District and Second Circuit Courts violate the Clark Family First Amendment and Common Law Rights related to the two fraudulent court… |
| 18-8768 |
Darryl A. Robinson v. Unknown Mawer, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction public-forum standing takings |
Was my right to protest on U.S. government property infringed? |
| 18-8770 |
Martin Rugamba v. Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor of New York |
Second Circuit |
2019-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights custom-law due-process free-speech misconduct police-misconduct retaliation standing |
Whether the municipal police in General, and other Security agencies violate Constitutional rights in retaliation for reporting their misconduct to FB… |
| 18-8752 |
Kulwant Singh Sandhu v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law circuit-split criminal-law criminal-speech first-amendment free-speech harassment public-policy statutory-interpretation telecommunications telephone-harassment |
Does 47 U.S.C. subsection 223(a)(1)(D) prohibit only the harassment caused by repeatedly ringing a telephone or does it also prohibit repeated verbal … |
| 18-8764 |
Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-hearing calfresh-benefits civil-procedure civil-rights compelled-speech county-notice establishment-clause first-amendment food-stamps free-speech hearing-rights notice public-assistance state-hearing utility-allowance wedding-services welfare-assistance |
Whether the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment prohibits the government from requiring a private business to create custom wedding invitation… |
| 18-8622 |
In Re Mark Garrett |
|
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights court-jurisdiction due-process free-speech judicial-review legal-remedy mandamus-petition opinions-below patent reason-for-granting-the-petition rules-involved standing takings writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant legal principles |
| 18-8635 |
Benny L. Willis v. Kenneth Ross, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing civil-rights due-process free-speech preliminary-injunction standing state-law |
Whether the district court erred in denying petitioner's motion for a preliminary injunction to prevent the enforcement of a state law that allegedly … |
| 18-8595 |
Charles Kenneth Wallace, Sr. v. Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections |
Louisiana |
2019-03-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights court-rules due-process filing-deadline free-speech legal-procedure mailbox-rule petition-timing standing takings |
Did the 5th Circuit deny certiorari as untimely, when under mailbox rule is timely filed? |
| 18-8553 |
Amy M. Hicks v. Dallas County Community Colleges |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination employment-law free-speech labor-rights protected-activity retaliation workplace-harassment wrongful-termination |
Whether the employer's actions in dismissing the petitioner violated the petitioner's constitutional rights and employment protections under federal a… |
| 18-8579 |
In Re John Weter, Jr. |
|
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Whether the FISA program was intended and authorized by the FISA Court for a legitimate purpose by the Obama Administration, but was instead used to i… |
| 18-1244 |
David Pickup, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abrogation civil-rights content-based content-based-regulation content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech irreparable-harm mandate-recall recall-mandate supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred when it refused to recall its mandate after this Court explicitly abrogated its opinion by name |
| 18-1232 |
Al Zeiny v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process emotional-distress fbi-investigation federal-tort-claims-act free-speech government-misconduct intelligence-agency intelligence-agency-misconduct mental-health pro-se pro-se-litigant standing |
Whether Zeiny's rights would prevail over the CIA's power |
| 18-1235 |
Joe Ribakoff v. City of Long Beach, California, et al. |
California |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
|
1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights content-based-regulation content-based-speech expert-testimony first-amendment free-speech government-speech public-forum speech-restriction |
Is a rule abridging speech by members of the public at an open public meeting of a city government a presumptively unconstitutional content-based spee… |
| 18-1231 |
Xiu Jain Sun v. Philip O. Ohene, et al. |
New York |
2019-03-21 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights divine-intervention due-process free-speech judicial-interpretation judicial-remedy jurisdictional-challenge legal-authority legal-confrontation mandamus mandamus-request mandarin-chinese-interpreter religious-doctrine religious-freedom separation-of-powers spiritual-petition standing statutory-interpretation |
Issue being raised |
| 18-1216 |
R. C. "Rick" Lussy v. Florida Elections Commission, et al. |
Florida |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
anti-trust civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process election-dispute elections emolument emolument-manipulation free-speech judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation property-appraisal standing stare-decisis |
Retaliation against pro se respondents, emolument manipulation, falsification of facts, lack of due process, election irregularities, anti-American bi… |
| 18-1227 |
Alvin S. Kanofsky v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-process civil-procedure civil-rights conservatorship due-process free-speech government-corruption judicial-bias judicial-misconduct municipal-fraud municipal-liability property-rights standing takings |
Whether the City of Bethlehem improperly seized Kanofsky's property through abuse of process and collusion with the courts |
| 18-8479 |
Alexander A. Fels v. Mitch McConnell, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-healthcare free-speech healthcare healthcare-policy insurance-regulation legislative-claims obamacare standing statutory-interpretation |
Were the claims by President Trump, former Speaker Paul Ryan, Senator Mitch McConnell and others, that Obamacare is bankrupting our healthcare industr… |
| 18-8497 |
Leslie Roy Lynch v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether the Petitioners are entitled to be heard in open court to challenge the constitutionality of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) of t… |
| 18-8457 |
John Garrett Smith v. Washington |
Washington |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing takings us-v-will |
Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims due to lack of jurisdiction and failure to state a claim under the U.S. Constitution |
| 18-1212 |
Anthony Pappas v. Joseph Lorintz, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Supreme Court Judge of New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
campaign-funds civil-procedure civil-rights divorce-court divorce-court-seizure due-process federal-campaign-finance federal-election federal-election-law free-speech judicial-error prior-restraint standing writ-of-mandamus |
Did the Second Circuit Court of Appeals commit reversible error when it denied a Writ of Mandamus sought by Petitioner as a candidate for Congress to … |
| 18-1182 |
Scott Ogle v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights content-based-regulation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process electronic-communication electronic-communications first-amendment free-speech intent-standard overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine |
Does a statute criminalizing electronically communicated speech that is both intended and reasonably likely to annoy, alarm, or embarrass another pers… |
| 18-8382 |
Guy Ennis Smith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment fourth-circuit free-speech military military-medals ninth-circuit speech-restrictions standing stolen-valor-act supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court's decision in United States v. Alvarez has any effect on the subsection that criminalized the unauthorized wearing of military meda… |
| 18-8398 |
Wiliam Oneal Watters v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing |
Was Me. Weathers Constobonal Rights becky ? |
| 18-8278 |
Timothy M. Schieve v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process false-testimony free-speech judicial-instructions jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-reduction standing |
Why was the testimony of a 'mean person' who provided false testimonies to obtain a sentence reduction permissible? |
| 18-8335 |
Lamar C. Chapman, III v. Barack Hussein Obama |
District of Columbia |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
ballot-access civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-districts due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech religious-freedom signature-requirements standing takings voting-rights |
Whether the lower courts erred in violating Appellant's right to the free exercise of religion |
| 18-1159 |
The Universal Church, Inc. v. Calvin Toellner, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
archaic-religious-texts circuit-split civil-rights contemporary-public-perception free-speech generic-marks generic-term legal-standard public-perception religious-freedom religious-organizations standing technical-theological-usages theological-usages trademark trademark-law trademark-protection |
Whether religious organizations' names like The Universal Church' and 'Universal Church' can be deemed generic as a matter of law regardless of eviden… |
| 18-8215 |
Blake Sandlain v. C. Johnson, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech maritime standing state-statutes takings |
Does the right of maritime states implicate the validity of the Assente Amendment for the purpose of banning certain cases, or was the validity of mar… |
| 18-8260 |
Kenton Deon Harrell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant legal principles |
| 18-8184 |
Daryl Sharp v. Timothy Dolan |
District of Columbia |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeal civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence free-speech jurisdiction jury-instructions standard-of-review standing |
Whether the evidence presented at trial was sufficient to support the conviction |
| 18-8149 |
Michael Achilles Fries v. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial free-speech fundamental-fairness judicial-review legal-precedent standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court's order denying the petitioner's request for a fair review of court and jury proceedings violated the petitioner's constitutio… |
| 18-1120 |
Theresa Riffey, et al. v. J. B. Pritzker, Governor of Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights class-action constitutional-rights damages due-process first-amendment free-speech harris-precedent janus-precedent janus-v-afscme standing subjective-opposition union-fees |
First Amendment injury to individuals from whom union fees were seized without consent |
| 18-1113 |
Jeffrey Gray Thomas v. Laurie Zelon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-complaint district-court-dismissal due-process federal-circuit-court federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-precedent rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the dismissal of the federal civil rights complaint under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine |
| 18-8128 |
Cynthia E. Collie v. South Carolina Commission on Lawyer Conduct |
South Carolina |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech frivolous-proceedings seventh-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights |
| 18-8142 |
Michael Williamson v. Karen Slusher, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech jurisdiction official-misconduct prisoner-lawsuit standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions governing the case |
| 18-8088 |
Steve Lee Menius v. Michael Stephan, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts administrative-law administrative-response civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights corrections-system due-process free-speech grievance-procedure grievance-process inmate-rights prison-litigation-reform-act retaliation standing |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's civil rights claims due to failure to exhaust administrative remedies under the Prison… |
| 18-1096 |
Charles G. Kinney v. Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
|
as-applied-challenge civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process facial-challenge first-amendment free-speech judicial-discretion pro-se-litigation retaliation standing vexatious-litigant |
Is California's vexatious litigant law unconstitutionally vague? |
| 18-1098 |
Daniel E. Witte v. Jayden H. Huynh, nka Jayden Scacco |
Utah |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment civil-litigation civil-rights constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process faretta-v-california first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech pro-se-representation self-representation strict-scrutiny |
Is a pro se civil litigant's right of self-representation in state court protected as a fundamental federal constitutional right subject to the strict… |
| 18-1082 |
Marianne Guzall v. City of Romulus, Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-court circuit-court-split civil-rights due-process evidence federal-rules-evidence free-speech hearsay motive-intent party-opponent sixth-circuit whistleblower-retaliation |
Does the Sixth Circuit Court's split decision determining a statement by a party opponent to be hearsay directly contradict other Circuit Court decisi… |
| 18-1092 |
Associated Builders and Contractors of California Cooperation Committee, Inc. v. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights collective-bargaining first-amendment free-speech government-speech legislative-amendment private-donation private-speech proxy subsidy viewpoint-discrimination |
Does a plausible allegation of viewpoint-discrimination-by-proxy state a valid First Amendment claim? |
| 18-8071 |
Stephen Silas Thomas v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings |
Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 18-8080 |
In Re Charlette Dufray Johnson |
|
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim |
| 18-8011 |
Kevin Kerr v. William P. Barr, Attorney General |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1988 6th-amendment civil-rights competency criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech pardon pro-se-appearance psychological-evidence self-representation sixth-amendment standing |
Does 42 U.S.C. § 1988(a) confer jurisdiction on the respondent, the United States District Court, and the United States Court of Appeals conveying to … |
| 18-1073 |
Tara King, et al. v. Phil Murphy, Governor of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-02-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights content-based-regulation content-based-restriction due-process extraordinary-circumstances first-amendment free-speech irreparable-harm mandate-recall standing supreme-court-precedent takings |
Whether a lower court mandate should be recalled when the Supreme Court expressly abrogates the ruling by name and the lower court opinion continues t… |
| 18-7977 |
James Mowery v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit first-amendment free-speech internet-access internet-restrictions packingham-precedent packingham-v-north-carolina social-media-access standing supervised-release |
Whether the Fifth Circuit has failed to apply the Supreme Court's ruling in Packingham v. North Carolina to supervised release Internet restrictions, … |
| 18-7942 |
Shannon Lancaster v. James Ruane |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process homeland-security standing takings civil-rights compelled-speech due-process first-amendment free-speech religious-freedom |
Whether the First Amendment prohibits the government from compelling private individuals to engage in speech that violates their sincerely held religi… |
| 18-7946 |
Robert Hawkins v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise free-speech separation-of-church-and-state standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution |
| 18-7931 |
Michael Keith Henley v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure compelled-speech content-neutrality due-process fraudulent-plea-agreement free-speech government-regulation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice private-property public-forum standing |
Whether the First Amendment prohibits the government from requiring private entities to host speech they disagree with |
| 18-7824 |
John C. Killingbeck v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights computer-search digital-privacy due-process first-amendment free-speech government-search internet-forums internet-speech interstate-commerce prosecution search-and-seizure standing title-28-usc |
Whether the government can investigate and search a private citizen's computer and storage devices for allegedly illegal speech content obtained throu… |
| 18-7844 |
Malcolm Jarrel Hartley v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in dismissing petitioner's claims challenging the constitutionality of the fed… |
| 18-7775 |
Joseph F. Olivares v. Michigan Workers' Compensation Agency, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing statute-of-limitations takings workers-compensation |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions? |
| 18-7718 |
Joseph Gant v. Gloria Peterson |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Whether the appellate court erred in upholding a city ordinance or state/federal statute as constitutional |
| 18-1001 |
Casey Brandon Sibley v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-law criminal-prosecution first-amendment free-speech overbreadth-vagueness strict-scrutiny subjective-intent true-threat |
Whether the First Amendment requires proof of a speaker's subjective wrongful intent in order for speech to be deemed a 'true threat' subject to crimi… |
| 18-1000 |
American Freedom Defense Initiative, et al. v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech government-censorship government-speech public-forum speech-restriction transit-advertising transit-authority viewpoint-discrimination |
Is the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority's advertising space a public forum for Petitioner's Support Free Speech' ads such that Responden… |
| 18-7617 |
Talbert Hinton v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech sentencing standing takings |
Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 18-7629 |
Calvin E. Barnett v. Joe M. Allbaugh, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process property-rights standing takings civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its ruling on the legal issues involved in this case |
| 18-7605 |
Daniel Diaz v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Whether the First Amendment prohibits the government from compelling speech |
| 18-7606 |
Samuel Davis v. Sergeant Florence, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment free-speech incorporation standing takings |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause |
| 18-7613 |
David Ackell v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-challenge speech-regulation stalking-statute united-states-v-stevens |
Whether the First Circuit erred in upholding 18 U.S.C. § 2261A(2)(B) (2013) against a First Amendment challenge |
| 18-975 |
Mark Stuart v. Jim Lane, et al. |
Arizona |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
|
due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech petition petition-rights rule-68 |
Whether sanctioning a petitioner under Rule 68 for pursuing a meritorious public interest lawsuit violates the First Amendment right to petition for r… |
| 18-964 |
Father John Gallagher v. Diocese of Palm Beach, Inc. |
Florida |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
church-doctrine civil-rights defamation first-amendment free-speech legal-immunity public-safety religious-speech standing |
Whether the priest is barred by the First Amendment from bringing a defamation action against a church |
| 18-7509 |
Antonio Lee Mixon v. Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights copyright due-process free-speech mail-censorship standing takings |
Whether prisoners have a First Amendment right to receive copyrighted materials in prison |
| 18-7559 |
Shomari Daley v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the government's actions against him |
| 18-955 |
Alberto Fernandez v. School Board of Miami-Dade County, Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech garcetti-standard garcetti-v-ceballos public-employee restatement-of-agency scope-of-employment |
Whether scope of employment is a threshold question for public employee free speech under the First Amendment |
| 18-7492 |
Lorenzo Gerald Ferebee, Jr. v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
2019-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Whether the Second Amendment protects the right to carry firearms outside the home for self-defense |
| 18-7513 |
Nelson Cobas v. Kevin Lindsey, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts free-speech sentencing standing state-courts statutory-interpretation |
Whether the petitioner's conviction under 18 U.S.C. sections 2545 and 2544 violates his constitutional rights |
| 18-949 |
Jamal Knox v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-01-22 |
Denied |
Amici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
criminal-threat first-amendment free-speech reasonable-person speech-protection subjective-intent terroristic-threats true-threat true-threats |
Whether a 'reasonable person' standard or a 'subjective intent' standard should apply to determine if a statement is a 'true threat' unprotected by th… |
| 18-7456 |
Jonathan Sebert v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process erotica first-amendment free-speech free-speech
18-7455" overbreadth overbroad overbroad-condition Question not identified. supervised-release vague vagueness |
Whether the special condition of supervised release imposed upon Mr. Sebert, which (for example) would prevent him from shopping at Wal-Mart because i… |
| 18-932 |
James A. Osburn, et al. v. Matthew Loeb, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
|
association due-process due-process-rights free-speech labor-management-relations labor-management-reporting-and-disclosure-act membership-rights patronage trusteeship union-leadership |
Whether stifling robust dissent without a true indicia of due process is tolerable |
| 18-7438 |
Armando A. Villa v. Robert J. Kowalski |
Illinois |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-power appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights defamation due-process free-speech judicial-misconduct legal-procedure legal-profession rule-of-law standing unclean-hands |
Why would the United States Supreme Court refuse to hear the Appeal of a case in which an individual, who as an 'Honorable' member of the legal profes… |
| 18-7452 |
Herminio Garcia-Carillo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process due-process,equal-protection,immigration,prejudice equal-protection fair-trial free-speech immigration immigration-bias impartiality jury-selection prejudice voir-dire |
Whether a judge must allow voir dire into prejudice against Mexican immigrants when a Mexican immigrant faces trial for illegal reentry after a presid… |
| 18-918 |
John Copeland, et al. v. Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law due-process facial-challenge free-speech johnson-v-united-states salerno-rule sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether a plaintiff need show that a law is vague in all of its applications to succeed in a facial vagueness challenge |
| 18-921 |
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Juan, Puerto Rico v. Yali Acevedo Feliciano, et al. |
Puerto Rico |
2019-01-16 |
GVR |
CVSGAmici (5)Relisted (16) |
church-autonomy church-hierarchy church-structure civil-courts civil-rights ecclesiastical-rights ecclesiastical-structure establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech religious-organization |
Whether the First Amendment empowers courts to override the chosen legal structure of a religious organization and declare all of its constituent part… |
| 18-7401 |
Robert Shapiro v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights commerce-clause due-process federalism free-speech general-welfare standing takings taxation |
Whether Congress has the power to levy and collect taxes, imposts, and excises to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare… |
| 18-7413 |
Billy Dean Smith v. Robert Corcoran, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
alaska-statute brown-vs-board civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-statute disciplinary-actions due-process free-speech prison-discipline prison-regulations state-action state-law vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Does the Fell Faith and Credit Clause apply to the Bradshaw v. Ash case involving disciplinary actions against a prisoner? |
| 18-7397 |
Jackie Breeden, Jr. v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Arkansas |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-exercise free-speech racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights to free speech and free exercise of reli… |
| 18-7404 |
John Laake v. Turning Stone Resort Casino |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violation first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-religion indian-land jurisdiction religious-freedom tribal-sovereign-immunity tribal-sovereignty |
Whether the established clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution as it pertains to Free Speech and Freedom of Religion effectiv… |
| 18-906 |
Charles G. Kinney v. Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
|
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-discretion separation-of-powers standing vexatious-litigant |
Whether the vexatious litigant laws are being used to punish and compel the silence of a property owner in violation of their constitutional rights |
| 18-907 |
Charles G. Kinney v. Three Arch Bay Community Services District, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights clean-water-act due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-discretion property-rights separation-of-powers standing vexatious-litigant |
Whether vexatious-litigant laws are being used to punish an attorney who was not a party, pro se plaintiff who ultimately prevailed, defendant, or lis… |
| 18-908 |
Charles G. Kinney v. Frances Rothschild, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ada-violations civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts first-amendment free-speech judicial-misconduct separation-of-powers standing takings vexatious-litigant whistleblower |
Will this Court stop these ongoing violations of both state and federal law? |
| 18-910 |
City of San Diego, California v. Public Employment Relations Board |
California |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
citizens-initiative civil-rights content-based content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech government-code pension-reform preemption prior-restraint public-official viewpoint-based |
Whether California Government Code section 3505 can preempt an elected public official's First Amendment right to participate in a citizens' initiativ… |
| 18-7372 |
Santos Cuevas v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Prison |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech grand-jury jurisdiction presumption-of-innocence standing |
Whether the district courts retained jurisdiction to entertain claims that the trial court directing a grand jury and judges to deliberate with statut… |
| 18-896 |
Missouri Ethics Commission, et al. v. Free and Fair Election Fund, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
campaign-finance constitutional-law contribution-caps corruption first-amendment free-speech political-action-committee political-action-committees state-regulation transparency |
May a state prohibit political action committees from transferring money to other political action committees? |
| 18-7286 |
Johnathan Masters v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution criminal-statute first-amendment free-speech good-order-and-discipline school-speech vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Does criminalizing the content of free speech based solely on how a person who heard the content reacted, or interpreted the content, violate this Cou… |
| 18-7253 |
Eugene E. Forte v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-disobedience civil-rights collateral-bar-rule constitutional-order criminal-enforcement due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-precedent unconstitutional-orders walker-v-birmingham |
Should this Court reverse Walker v. City of Birmingham |
| 18-858 |
James McCullars v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
advertisement advertising-statute communication-privacy criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-interpretation notice notice-and-advertisement private-communications statutory-interpretation trial-evidence |
Whether the proof at trial which established that petitioner was only engaged in private, closed communications — either one-to-one, or among a small … |
| 18-860 |
Larry Edward Parrish v. Board of Professional Responsibility |
Tennessee |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitrary-punishment civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech lawyer-sanctions professional-conduct recusal-motion sanctions standing |
Should the judgment of the Tennessee Supreme Court below be reversed |
| 18-864 |
John Tatum, et ux. v. The Dallas Morning News, Inc., et al. |
Texas |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-protection defamation first-amendment free-speech milkovich-precedent milkovich-v-lorain omnicare-v-laborers opinion opinion-piece opinion-speech |
Whether an otherwise verifiable accusation of dishonesty should be considered Constitutionally protected opinion under the First Amendment because suc… |
| 18-7244 |
Vidal Licea Morales v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech jurisdiction racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing voting-rights |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the First Amendment's free speech protections |
| 18-857 |
Patrick Boyd v. Mississippi Department of Public Safety, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-law first-amendment free-speech government-employment government-overreach governmental-supervision law-enforcement public-concern |
Whether law enforcement and governmental supervisors, by mere announcement of some collective fear, without any factual basis whatsoever, may override… |
| 18-841 |
Michale Anthony Hoffman v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-01-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
airport aviation-authority civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment forum-analysis free-speech non-public-forum public-forum public-sidewalk public-street standing |
Whether the shoulder of a public street should be treated as an airport or a public forum for First Amendment purposes |
| 18-7218 |
Samuel Berhe v. Johnson Oleseha |
District of Columbia |
2019-01-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 18-822 |
Steven G. Cohen v. Grievance Administrator, Attorney Grievance Commission of Michigan |
Michigan |
2018-12-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-discipline civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech free-speech-petition judicial-corruption judicial-misconduct petition petition-clause professional-ethics professional-misconduct rosa-parks-estate |
Whether the arbitrary, contradictory and fact-free proceedings conducted by the Michigan Attorney Discipline Board violated Petitioner's rights under … |
| 18-7175 |
Christopher Lipsey, Jr. v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts california-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing takings |
Whether the ALLS role complies with the First Amendment and due process rights of individuals seeking access to the courts |
| 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 |
| 18-7162 |
Muna Osman Jama v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process first-amendment foreign-terrorist-organization free-speech freedom-of-speech material-support peaceable-assembly terrorism vagueness |
Does section, 18 USC § 2339B(a) [material support of foreign terrorist organization(s)] impose an unconstitutionally vague provision in times of peace… |
| 18-773 |
Daniel Sullivan v. City of Frederick, Maryland, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 assembly civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech monell monell-doctrine municipal-immunity retaliation |
Did the court below err in affirming that a six-month criminal investigation of police officer Dan Sullivan, for his off-duty activity of raising mone… |
| 18-7085 |
Larry A. McGhee v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
affirmative-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-constitution free-speech jurisdiction public-education standing state-constitution |
Whether the Michigan Constitution's prohibition on affirmative action in public education violates the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitutio… |
| 18-7093 |
Deidre Holmes Clark v. Allen & Overy, LLP |
New York |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emotional-stability first-amendment free-speech psychiatric-evaluation sexual-harassment standing |
Whether a sexual harassment motion can be dismissed, solely on the basis of her right to free speech |
| 18-761 |
D. Dahne v. Thomas W. S. Richey |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (4) |
civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech grievance inmate-rights ninth-circuit prison prison-grievance qualified-immunity |
Do prison inmates have a First Amendment right to include threatening, abusive, and irrelevant language in grievances? |
| 18-7015 |
Joe Ann West v. Richard V. Spencer, Secretary of the Navy |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-employment-opportunity federal-employee federal-employee-discrimination free-speech judicial-misconduct standing |
Was petitioner a Federal Employee denied United States Citizen's Constitutional 1st Amendment Rights when denied by the judge the right to be speak, s… |
| 18-7001 |
In Re Michael Kennedy |
|
2018-12-12 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction free-speech habeas-corpus pleadings standing |
Whether the lower federal courts erred in dismissing petitioner's claims without allowing him to file any pleadings |
| 18-752 |
Edward Taupier v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2018-12-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure criminal-law free-speech mens-rea negligence objective-standard recklessness scienter speech-act state-of-mind true-threats |
Whether in a prosecution for speech under the 'true threats' doctrine an objective standard of mere recklessness is sufficient to meet the scienter re… |
| 18-741 |
Emily M. Odermatt v. Amy Way, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech government-benefits pickering pickering-test public-employment public-service public-services |
Whether, consistent with the First Amendment and Pickering, the government's ability to remove a valuable financial benefit on the basis of the benefi… |
| 18-733 |
1A Auto, Inc., et al. v. Michael Sullivan, Director, Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance |
Massachusetts |
2018-12-10 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
association campaign-finance contribution-limits equal-protection first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association freedom-of-speech intermediate-scrutiny political-contributions strict-scrutiny |
Should Beaumont be overruled? |
| 18-6932 |
Asia Johnson v. German Aerospace Center |
Third Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process environmental-protection free-speech housing-crisis pro-se-petition public-health standing sunlight-access takings |
Whether the dismissal of the complaint for failure to state a claim was proper |
| 18-720 |
Ronald Duhe, et al. v. City of Little Rock, Arkansas, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-vagueness detention-policy disorderly-conduct due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-precedent overbreadth probable-cause vagueness |
Whether precedent by this Court together with the Eighth Circuit, other circuits and state courts of last resort had clearly established the vagueness… |
| 18-719 |
Kathleen Uradnik v. Inter Faculty Organization, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-04 |
Denied |
Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
association associational-freedoms compelled-association constitutional-scrutiny exclusive-representation first-amendment free-speech labor-union labor-unions public-sector public-sector-employees |
Whether it violates the First Amendment to appoint a labor union to represent and speak for public-sector employees who have declined to join the unio… |
| 18-704 |
Ross Abbott, et al. v. Harris Pastides, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-29 |
Denied |
Amici (6) |
campus-speech civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth qualified-immunity standing vagueness |
Whether students have standing to challenge university speech regulations |
| 18-696 |
Center for Medical Progress, et al. v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
anti-SLAPP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-procedure federalism first-amendment free-speech heightened-pleading investigative-journalism protected-speech |
Should the Ninth Circuit have applied the anti-SLAPP statutes? |
| 18-6814 |
Patricia Ann Gerald, et al. v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence free-speech police-misconduct standing |
Whether the officer's actions in refusing to allow the petitioners to view the video recording of the incident and denying their request for legal cou… |
| 18-6780 |
Joan E. Farr v. Daryl Davis, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech homeowners-association retaliation section-1983 |
Whether the Huckleberry Homeowners Association and its individual members denied Joan Farr her rights under 42 USC 1983 and retaliated against her to … |
| 18-6743 |
Robert J. Kulick v. Leisure Village Association, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial free-speech hoa-governance legal-malpractice perjury rooker-feldman-doctrine standing |
Is the Rooker-Feldman doctrine constitutional when it fails to protect individual rights under the Constitution and the purpose of the U.S. Supreme Co… |
| 18-6715 |
Cortney John Edstrom v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment apartment-dwellers apartment-search circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights curtilage drug-detection-dog drug-detection-dogs due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech reasonable-expectation-of-privacy standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights |
| 18-6736 |
James E. Whitney v. Cindy Glover, Clerk, Circuit Court of Lincoln County, Arkansas, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech religious-freedom standing |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing petitioner's civil rights claims against respondents for lack of standing and failure … |
| 18-630 |
Charles Allen Richards v. City of Des Moines Police Department, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-11-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-clinic police-department retaliation standing |
Did Charles Richards exercise a right protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States when he approached the legal clinic op… |
| 18-6684 |
Arika Matelyan v. Fox 11 |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-15 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
access-to-justice civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection free-speech standing |
Why don't the highest courts in the land put a copy of it to the side when the older Black woman is not heard? |
| 18-6596 |
Matthew James Dury v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights commerce-clause district-court-jurisdiction document-processing due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech jurisdiction legal-filing procedural-due-process standing |
Whether the district court lacked jurisdiction under Article III, Section 8, Clause 3 to deny petitioner's challenge to the Interstate Commerce Act, r… |
| 18-6617 |
James L. Rudzavice v. D. J. Harmon, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitution constitutional-challenge due-process free-speech freedom-of-speech habeas-corpus judicial-oath judicial-review separation-of-powers standing supreme-law |
How can a constitutional challenge be frivolous? |
| 18-6634 |
Leandro Leonel Gonzalez v. F. Armenta, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights correctional-officers due-process evidence first-amendment free-speech Is there a right to have-a-witness in the Due-Proc mail-communication prisoner-rights witness-testimony |
Is there a right to outgoing mail in the First Amendment? |
| 18-607 |
Jon Roozbeh Vazeen, aka Hassan Vazin v. Michelle Smith Vazin |
Tennessee |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
|
asset-dissipation civil-rights due-process evidence-tampering fair-trial free-speech galileo-style-prosecution national-science-foundation patent property-rights scientific-prosecution standing takings trial-court-overreach |
Does a trial court have the right to prosecute a scientist for forward-thinking science? |
| 18-6603 |
David Johnson v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech patent standing takings voting-rights |
Whether the Indiana Supreme Court erred in upholding the constitutionality of Indiana's Voter ID law under the First and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 18-6606 |
Anthony James Merrick v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process establishment-clause free-speech religious-freedom standing |
Does the lack of a workable test for determination of religious sincerity create arbitrary decisions based on bias that effectively violate the Establ… |
| 18-6607 |
Scott Peters v. John Baldwin |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment 38-usc-1331 circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-violations disability-discrimination due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-tort-claims free-speech habeas-corpus Is the Eleventh Circuit's interpretation of 28-U.S medical-mistreatment retroactivity savings-clause statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs |
Whether the district court erred in denying plaintiff's claims against the Department of Veterans Affairs, its directors, the hospital staff, the stat… |
| 18-583 |
Kenneth Mayle v. United States, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
compelled-speech compelling-governmental-interest equal-protection free-exercise free-speech government-burden least-restrictive-means minority-rights religious-beliefs religious-freedom-restoration-act sincerely-held-religious-beliefs standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court's ruling violates the Supreme Court's precedents by improperly substituting its own view that carrying currency bearing a reli… |
| 18-584 |
Angela Engle Horne v. WTVR, LLC, dba CBS6 |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-malice civil-rights constitutional-standard defamation first-amendment free-speech media-law public-figure public-official sullivan |
Whether this Court should overrule New York Times v. Sullivan |
| 18-6562 |
Jason Pierce v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2018-11-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing |
Question not identified |
| 18-6522 |
Robert Prunty v. DeSoto County School Board, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-interpretation civil-procedure civil-rights due-process education educational-rights federal-regulations first-amendment free-speech standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Does the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals three judge panel have the right to create conflicts amongst the circuits when it unilaterally changed the Supr… |
| 18-6528 |
Shaheen Cabbagestalk v. Bryan P. Sterling, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection free-speech habeas-corpus standing takings |
Whether the courts properly addressed the petitioner's claims regarding his constitutional rights and the danger he faced? |
| 18-6452 |
Alan Bartlett v. State Bar of California, et al. |
California |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts attorney-discipline bar-association civil-rights compelled-speech due-process free-speech mandatory-bar professional-conduct standing |
Whether the State Bar of California deprived the petitioner of due process by failing to investigate his complaints against attorneys |
| 18-6453 |
Celestine G. Thompson v. Kirstjen Nielson, Secretary of Homeland Security |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech immigration retaliation standing whistleblower |
Were DHS-ICE officials in Plan to Criminalize Appellants |
| 18-6458 |
Eddie Williams, Jr. v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process free-speech standing state-action takings |
Whether the Tennessee Supreme Court erred in determining that the petitioner's claims under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitut… |
| 18-547 |
Melissa Elaine Klein, et vir v. Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries |
Oregon |
2018-10-26 |
GVR |
Amici (10)Relisted (13) |
commercial-art compelled-speech employment-division-v-smith expressive-conduct first-amendment free-exercise free-speech hybrid-rights public-accommodations religious-liberty |
Whether Oregon violated the Free Speech and Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment by compelling the Kleins to design and create a custom weddin… |
| 18-6444 |
James E. Whitney v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-and-statutory-provisions due-process federal-and-state-cases free-speech issues-presented jurisdiction opinion standing statement-of-the-case table-of-contents takings |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the respondents' actions |
| 18-537 |
Booth James v. Montgomery Regional Airport Authority, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-24 |
Denied |
|
administrative-remedies civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery-violations employment-termination evidence-substitution fraud free-speech proximate-cause whistleblower-protection whistleblower-retaliation |
Whether a reasonable jury could have found that the petitioner's termination was in retaliation for whistleblowing |
| 18-527 |
Frank Straub v. City of Spokane, Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
at-will-employment at-will-termination constitutional-rights due-process employment free-speech government-employee government-employment internet-publication liberty-interest liberty-interests reputation stigma stigma-damage |
Whether a government must provide notice and an opportunity to respond before publishing professionally crippling charges against an employee during a… |
| 18-516 |
Charles G. Kinney v. Philip Gutierrez, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process federal-procedure free-speech judicial-discretion professional-speech retaliation section-1983 vexatious-litigant |
Whether the 3-judge panel abused its discretion in dismissing 8 of Kinney's pending appeals, which allegedly covered up acts by Justice Gutierrez and … |
| 18-517 |
Charles G. Kinney v. Philip Gutierrez |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-19 |
Denied |
|
abuse-of-discretion bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process free-speech judicial-discretion professional-speech section-1983 vexatious-litigant |
issues-being-raised |
| 18-518 |
Charles G. Kinney v. Clerk, Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division Three, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-19 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 civil-rights clean-water-act color-of-law due-process federal-clean-water-act free-speech hobbs-act honest-services judicial-discretion professional-speech state-nuisance-law |
Whether the Ninth Circuit abused its discretion in dismissing Kinney's appeals, violating his First Amendment rights and depriving him of due process,… |
| 18-522 |
Michael Ishee v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2018-10-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-pornography civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech mens-rea scienter separation-of-powers void-ab-initio |
Whether a statute proscribing the mere possession of child pornography is facially unconstitutional if it contains no element of scienter |
| 18-6376 |
Adem Albra v. Board of Trustees of Miami Dade College, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2018-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights disability disability-discrimination disability-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence free-speech higher-education retaliation standing |
Did the Public College take away the Petitioner's right to earn a living in whatever vocation he chooses, indirectly, by expelling him, twice, for bei… |
| 18-6392 |
Mohsen Khoshmood v. Eastern Market Management |
District of Columbia |
2018-10-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights damages disability-discrimination due-process false-arrest free-speech government-misconduct law-enforcement police-misconduct standing |
Whether the petitioner is entitled to $100 million in damages for violations of their constitutional rights, including due process, equal protection, … |
| 18-6379 |
Ramess Nakhleh v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech postal-regulations public-forum vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Is a regulation criminalizing the creation of a 'loud and unusual noise' unconstitutionally vague? |
| 18-508 |
Charles G. Kinney v. Tyson Takeuchi, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process false-statements federal-procedure free-speech judicial-discretion professional-speech |
Issue being raised |
| 18-509 |
Charles G. Kinney v. State Bar of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anti-trust civil-rights civil-rights-violations color-of-authority due-process first-amendment free-speech interstate-commerce judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct professional-speech standing state-bar-regulation vexatious-litigant |
Whether the Ninth Circuit abused its discretion in dismissing multiple appeals by the petitioner and using 'vexatious litigant' and 'puppet' labels to… |
| 18-510 |
Charles G. Kinney v. Michele R. Clark, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
|
bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process federal-law free-speech hobbs-act judicial-discretion professional-speech state-court-proceedings vexatious-litigant |
Whether the dismissal of multiple appeals was an abuse of discretion to cover up violations of federal law and civil rights |
| 18-511 |
Austin Gates v. Hassan Khokhar, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
|
arrest-standard civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech probable-cause qualified-immunity standing state-law supreme-court |
Whether a court, in determining whether arguable probable cause exists to arrest for a state-law crime, must consider any narrowing decisions by the s… |
| 18-515 |
Charles G. Kinney v. Michele R. Clark, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
|
abuse-of-discretion bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process federal-procedure free-speech judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct professional-speech |
Dismissal of pro se litigant's appeals for alleged professional speech violations, cover-up of bankruptcy law violations, and abuse of discretion by a… |
| 18-6339 |
Michael T. Willan v. Petitioner |
Wisconsin |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights clear-and-present-danger constitutional-rights domestic-abuse due-process first-amendment free-speech injunction mens-rea notice |
Whether the Wisconsin sec. 813.12 Domestic Abuse statute requires Mens Rea |
| 18-6348 |
Eric M. Pence v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-prosecution criminal-statute disorderly-conduct due-process electronic-communication fighting-words first-amendment free-speech true-threat true-threats |
Whether a message stating 'Hey, long time no talk, how have you been?' can be criminally prosecuted under a disorderly conduct statute as 'fighting wo… |
| 18-479 |
Marc Schenkel v. Xyngular Corporation, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
case-management civil-procedure civil-rights district-court district-court-authority due-process free-speech inherent-authority judicial-discretion pre-litigation-conduct prelitigation-conduct sanctions standing |
Whether a district court's inherent authority to manage the disposition of cases, including by imposing sanctions on a party, does not extend to condu… |
| 18-480 |
R. S. Raghavendra v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York |
Second Circuit |
2018-10-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration arbitration-act civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-opportunity federal-arbitration-act first-amendment free-speech judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice recusal-law standing |
Whether the Appeals Court erred in denying the Writ of Mandamus petition to reverse the permanent injunction issued by non-recusing District Court Jud… |
| 18-453 |
Olivia de Havilland v. FX Networks, LLC, et al. |
California |
2018-10-11 |
Denied |
|
artistic-license civil-rights defamation docudrama false-statements first-amendment free-speech pleading-stage public-figure right-of-publicity |
Are reckless or knowing false statements about a living public figure, published in docudrama format, entitled to absolute First Amendment protection … |
| 18-6296 |
Alexander Robert Jacome v. California |
California |
2018-10-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 9th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law Constitutional-Rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment Fourth-Amendment free-speech ninth-amendment Parole-Conditions |
Will this Court reverse the lower Courts substantial violations of the Fourteenth Amendment's substantive Due Process clause, or allow the unprecedent… |
| 18-6272 |
Gregory Steshenko v. Thomas McKay, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
academic-expulsion civil-procedure civil-rights disciplinary-expulsion due-process education employment fourteenth-amendment free-speech mixed-motive mixed-motive-defense protected-speech spoliation-of-evidence standing |
Whether the mixed-motive defense doctrine of Mt. Healthy City Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ. v. Doyle, 429 U.S. 274, 287 (1977) in employment terminations fo… |
| 18-6209 |
Kenneth Edward Werbach v. University of Arkansas, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Was the conduct of the Deuba government a violation of the Constitution? |
| 18-6191 |
Quordalis V. Sanders v. Carlo Esqueda, Dane County Clerk of Court |
Wisconsin |
2018-10-03 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process felon-in-possession free-speech mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states standing |
Whether the Wisconsin Supreme Court erred in upholding the conviction of Quovadis Sanders for violating the Wisconsin statute prohibiting the possessi… |
| 18-6170 |
Tommie Lee Henderson v. VIP Taxi LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings |
Whether the District Court erred in dismissing the complaint for lack of standing |
| 18-6154 |
Donald Lee Easley v. Oregon |
Oregon |
2018-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitution due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech lack-of-counsel lack-of-evidence life-liberty |
Whether the petitioner's due process, equal protection, and First Amendment rights were violated |
| 18-400 |
Christopher Hoskins v. Perry Fuchs |
Texas |
2018-09-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
absolute-privilege civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-petition due-process equal-opportunity free-speech immunity standing tcpa-statute texas-civil-practice university-complaint |
Whether the confidential complaint filed by Petitioner with the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) Equal Opportunity Services (EOS) office is abso… |
| 18-6127 |
Timothy Warren Vallier v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anonymous-speech civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech jurisdiction online-speech patent standing takings |
Does the First Amendment protect the right to engage in anonymous online speech? |
| 18-6080 |
Abraham J. Bonowitz, Douglas A. Pagitt, Lisa S. Harper, Suezann K. Bosler, Arthur J. Laffin, Randy Gardner, Derrick W. Jamison, Thomas W. Muther, Jr., Shane A. Claiborne, Sam R. Sheppard, and John M. Travers v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
40-usc-6135 assembly constitutional-law display first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine public-forum statutory-interpretation |
Is the open-air, public space surrounding the Supreme Court a traditional public forum? |
| 18-6101 |
Jean-Gespere Pierre v. FJC Security Services, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2018-09-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment free-speech government-overreach retaliation search-and-seizure standing |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights under the First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, and Fourteenth Amendment were violated by the respondents'… |
| 18-383 |
Jesse J. Davis, Jr., et ux. v. JPMorgan Chase Bank National Association |
Connecticut |
2018-09-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process Due-process-of-law,fifth-amendment,fourteenth-amen equal-protection Equal-protection-of-the-laws,fourteenth-amendment Excessive-fines,foreclosure free-speech impartial-court petition-clause Right-to-impartial-court,sixth-amendment,seventh-a right-to-petition Right-to-petition-government,first-amendment right-to-public-trial Right-to-public-trial,right-to-information,sixth-a sanctions |
Whether the sanctions imposed by the Connecticut Appellate Court violate the petitioners' constitutional rights, including their rights to due process… |
| 18-377 |
Montanans for Community Development v. Jeffrey A. Mangan, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
buckley-test buckley-v-valeo campaign-finance circuit-split citizens-united-v-fec entity-based-burdens first-amendment first-amendment-free-speech free-speech major-purpose ninth-circuit-split nonprecedential-decisions political-committee political-committees |
Whether states are barred by the First Amendment from imposing PAC-status and resulting entity-based burdens on groups lacking Buckley's 'major purpos… |
| 18-379 |
Ellis Keyes v. Edison G. Banks, II |
Kentucky |
2018-09-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bill-of-rights bona-fides civil-rights due-process elections free-speech good-faith literacy-test voting-rights |
Whether a state's right-to-work law can subject a candidate to a mandatory literacy test as a condition of ballot access, abridging voting rights |
| 18-364 |
Morris County Board of Chosen Freeholders, et al. v. Freedom From Religion Foundation, et al. |
New Jersey |
2018-09-20 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (6) |
civil-rights establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause free-speech government-funding historic-preservation public-funding religious-status status-based-discrimination trinity-lutheran trinity-lutheran-precedent |
Whether using generally available historic preservation funds to repair or restore a house of worship constitutes a religious use' that falls outside … |
| 18-365 |
The Presbyterian Church in Morristown, et al. v. Freedom From Religion Foundation, et al. |
New Jersey |
2018-09-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (6) |
church-state-separation constitutional-rights establishment-clause free-exercise free-exercise-clause free-speech government-funding government-grants historic-preservation religious-discrimination religious-neutrality standing status-use-distinction |
Does the categorical exclusion of active houses of worship from a competitive government grant program advancing the secular interest of historic pres… |
| 18-355 |
Prison Legal News v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
Amici (9) |
1st-amendment censorship civil-rights content-restriction corrections-policy due-process first-amendment free-speech media-rights prior-restraint prison prison-censorship |
Whether the Florida Department of Corrections' blanket ban of Prison Legal News violates Petitioner's First Amendment right to free speech and a free … |
| 18-356 |
Robert Edward Orth v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-regulation all-inclusive-terms citizen-definition citizenship-definition constitutional-claims due-process free-speech impermissible-expansion passport-privileges procedural-due-process statutory-construction tax-law taxpayer-rights |
Whether the statutory definition of 'citizen' in 26 U.S.C. § 1402(b) includes the petitioner, and whether the regulations at 26 C.F.R. 1.1 impermissib… |
| 18-358 |
Richard Roe v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights contempt document-sealing due-process first-amendment-right free-speech judicial-records judicial-records-access lower-court-authority lower-court-orders public-access public-docketing redactions standing supervisory-power supreme-court-supervisory-power |
Whether the Second Circuit erred in ordering additional redactions beyond what the Supreme Court had approved and ordered public |
| 18-345 |
Xiu Jian Sun v. Jon O. Newman, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-09-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
book-of-doctrine-and-covenants civil-procedure civil-rights divine-intervention doctrine-and-covenants due-process free-speech jehovah legal-complaint parable-of-the-woman-and-the-unjust-judge pharisees religious-freedom spiritual-adam standing unjust-judge widow widow-parable |
Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing the plaintiff's complaint alleging violations of religious-freedom, civil-rights, due-process, free-speec… |
| 18-340 |
In-N-Out Burger, Incorporated v. National Labor Relations Board |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law compelled-speech constitutional-rights-free-speech employer-rights first-amendment free-speech janus-v-afscme labor-relations national-institute-of-family-and-life-advocates-v- nlrb-doctrine special-circumstances special-circumstances-doctrine |
Whether the NLRB's order compelling speech of a private employer violates the First Amendment |
| 18-5962 |
Theadene Mattis v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process free-speech legal-conflict national-importance standing supreme-court-review takings |
Whether the Florida 4th District Court of Appeal erred in its decisions in this case, which conflict with relevant decisions of the Supreme Court |
| 18-5974 |
Levon Spaulding v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
2018-09-13 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech qualified-immunity standing |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of their civil rights, due process, and free speech rights |
| 18-5941 |
Robert Earl Tippens, Jr. v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment free-speech just-compensation property-rights regulatory-takings standing takings takings-clause |
Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits the government from requiring a property owner to dedicate a portion of their private prop… |
| 18-5952 |
In Re Samuel H. Williams |
|
2018-09-12 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection free-speech jurisdiction standing takings |
Whether the petitioner's First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated |
| 18-5955 |
In Re Steven D. Turner, Jr. |
|
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings |
Whether the Petitioner has standing to bring this case under Article III of the U.S. Constitution |
| 18-5921 |
Jeffrey Allen Stevens v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights civil-unrest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-trial law-enforcement-misconduct standing |
Are Predictions of Civil Unrest or Violent Revolt Protected Speech under the First Amendment? |
| 18-302 |
Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, Patent and Trademark Office v. Erik Brunetti |
Federal Circuit |
2018-09-07 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (11) |
commercial-speech first-amendment free-speech government-speech immoral immoral-marks lanham-act scandalous scandalous-marks trademark trademark-registration |
Whether Section 1052(a)'s prohibition on the federal registration of immoral' or 'scandalous' marks is facially invalid under the Free Speech Clause o… |
| 18-5844 |
Rocco Tinoco v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-875 civil-rights criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation |
Whether a mental state of recklessness absent subjective intent to threaten is sufficient to support a conviction under 18 U.S.C. 875(c) and any other… |
| 18-5906 |
Gregory D. Kilpatrick v. David Weiss |
Second Circuit |
2018-09-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech medical-records patent standing subpoena takings |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 18-5907 |
Gregory D. Kilpatrick v. Mary Ellen Elia, Commissioner, Office of Professional Discipline, Board of Regents, Education |
Second Circuit |
2018-09-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech retaliation standing |
Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of due-process, civil-rights, free-speech, and retaliation |
| 18-282 |
Kelly H. Tucker v. Patrick Atwater, Jr., et al. |
Georgia |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-interests Pickering-balancing-test pickering-test public-employee-speech public-employment public-interest qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether Pickering and its progeny apply to off-duty public employees speaking on matters of public interest unrelated to their employment, and the app… |
| 18-5870 |
Matthew Prow v. Tom Roy, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment art-censorship civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech prison prison-policies prison-restrictions reasonable-relationship-standard standing turner-analysis turner-standard |
Proper methodology for applying Turner standard for constitutional infringements in prison context |
| 18-5851 |
Martin Salinas v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-08-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the First Amendment's free speech protections |
| 18-262 |
Xiu Jian Sun v. Stephen Mullkoff |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
|
civil-complaint civil-procedure civil-rights divine-directive divine-intervention doctrine-and-covenants due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-interpretation legal-action legal-standing religious-doctrine religious-freedom spiritual-claim spiritual-messenger standing widow-parable |
Whether the plaintiff's claims based on divine revelation and instructions from God are cognizable under the U.S. Constitution and federal law |
| 18-5818 |
Gregory D. Kilpatrick v. Harika Kondaveeti |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech patent standing takings |
Why did the court not grant the petitioner's request for a preliminary injunction? |
| 18-5819 |
Gregory D. Kilpatrick v. Jessie Fields |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights diagnostic-procedure due-process free-speech infectious-disease laboratory-methods lysate-contamination medical-device medical-testing patent sample-analysis standing takings |
Whether the state of Missouri's disposal of a defective and contaminated COVID-19 vaccine violated the plaintiff's constitutional rights |
| 18-5829 |
Arika Matelyan v. Atlantic Records WMG, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights copyright due-process free-speech patent privacy standing takings |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its decision regarding the issues presented under 18 U.S.C. 2257 |
| 18-5830 |
A. L., the Father v. Florida Department of Children and Families |
Florida |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment brown-vs-board civil-procedure civil-procedure-due-process civil-rights due-process free-speech parental-rights shaken-baby-syndrome standing |
Whether per curiam affirm decision without reaching merits of the case violated due-process |
| 18-249 |
Madeleine Connor v. Eric Castro, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process federal-procedure free-speech government-retaliation lugar-v-edmondson rule-15-supplementation section-1983 standing state-action twombly-iqbal |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's denial of Petitioner's request to supplement her pleading under Fed. R. Civ. P. 1… |
| 18-251 |
Sheldon Schwartz v. HRI Hospital, Inc., et al. |
Massachusetts |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional constitutional-law due-process employment employment-rights equal-protection free-speech retaliation state-law whistleblower |
Whether the Massachusetts courts erred in refusing to consider the Supreme Court's proscription of post-employment retaliation in any profession |
| 18-254 |
Xiu Jian Sun v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law biblical-reference civil-procedure civil-rights divine-revelation due-process free-speech judicial-interpretation legal-metaphor legal-parable presidential-names presidential-powers presidential-reference prophetic-message religious-freedom religious-text separation-of-church-and-state standing |
Whether the President of the United States has the authority to disregard the religious beliefs and revelations of the spiritual Adam, Xiu Jian Sun, a… |
| 18-5792 |
Marlon Watford v. Thomas LaFond, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
1st-amendment 42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing Petitioner's claims under 42 U.S.C. §1983 alleging violations of his constitutional rights under the Fi… |
| 18-245 |
Marlon Penn v. New York Methodist Hospital, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-27 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights employment-discrimination first-amendment free-speech hosanna-tabor ministerial-exception religious-institution title-vii |
Whether the ministerial exception applies to an avowedly secular hospital that employs an ecumenical chaplain |
| 18-5781 |
Larry Dean Dusenbery v. Ronnie R. Holt, Warden |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights compelled-speech due-process federal-prisoner free-speech habeas-corpus religious-freedom section-2241 sentencing-issue standing |
Does the First Amendment prohibit the government from requiring individuals to engage in speech that violates their sincerely held religious beliefs? |
| 18-5750 |
Santos Cuevas v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary |
Oregon |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto free-speech sex-offender-registration standing |
Whether the United States Constitution's Ex Post Facto Clause prohibits a state from convicting a defendant for a statutory sexual offense based on pa… |
| 18-226 |
Eric G. Zahnd v. Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel, Supreme Court of Missouri |
Missouri |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
attorney-discipline attorney-ethics criminal-case due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-transparency professional-conduct prosecutorial-speech public-record public-records |
Whether an attorney may be disciplined for telling the truth about information in the public record in a news release after a criminal case has been a… |
| 18-5591 |
Valerie Mason v. Dan A. Polster, Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
42-usc-1983 chambers-conduct civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process federal-courts free-speech judicial-conduct judicial-misconduct photography recusal standing |
Whether a judge's refusal to recuse himself after being photographed in his chambers violates the petitioner's civil rights under 42 USC 1983 |
| 18-5529 |
Dewey Steven Terry v. Phillip Earley, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process employment employment-retaliation first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech Question not identified. question-not-identified retaliation settlement-negotiations |
Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in concluding that the petitioner's First and Fourteenth Amendment rights were not violated during settleme… |
| 18-5454 |
In Re Deborah Elizabeth Gouch-Onassis |
|
2018-08-06 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech standing takings |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's complaint for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted under Rule 12(b)(6… |
| 18-5473 |
Justin Michael Credico v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-instructions sentencing subjective-intent" |
Whether the jury instructions on subjective intent for 18 USC § 875(c) were proper in light of the Elonis case |
| 18-155 |
James H. Brady v. Associated Press Telecom, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
accountability civil-procedure civil-rights contract-interference due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-misconduct media media-liability press-freedom standing takings |
Whether news agencies have a First Amendment right to hide crimes of those in power and avoid holding them accountable |
| 18-149 |
Doug Lair, et al. v. Jeff Mangan, in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of Political Practices, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-02 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
campaign-finance campaign-finance-regulation civil-rights constitutional-rights contribution-limits election-law first-amendment free-speech political-contributions political-parties political-speech quid-pro-quo-corruption randall-v-sorrell standing |
Whether Montana's base candidate contribution limits on individual and political committees are unconstitutional under the First Amendment |
| 18-5428 |
Restituto D. Barraquias v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2018-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing takings |
Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated when the court failed to consider his claim of ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 18-137 |
Ernest Hunter v. District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law dc-government due-process employment-dispute employment-rights free-speech government-agency government-employment personnel-rules retaliation whistleblower whistleblower-act whistleblower-protection |
Whether the application of the District of Columbia's personnel rules, including the Abolishment and DC Whistleblower Acts, by the District's Office o… |
| 18-140 |
In Re Cliven Bundy |
|
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-admission civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process free-speech judicial-error legal-admission mootness ninth-circuit pro-hac-vice prosecutorial-misconduct sanctions standing |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in failing to vacate the erroneous denial of Mr. Larry Klayman's admission pro hac vice despite the fact that it is no… |
| 18-122 |
Michael Sinegal v. Dawn Polk |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
1st-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-law employment-retaliation first-amendment free-speech political-candidacy qualified-immunity standing |
Whether candidacy for political office, standing alone, is a protected right under the First Amendment |
| 18-5381 |
Aslam Handy v. Johnson & Johnson, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights discrimination due-process eeoc federal-reserve financial-crisis financial-misconduct free-speech job-discrimination sovereign-immunity whistle-blower |
Why has the Federal Reserve still not been asked to open its books? |
| 18-5367 |
Edward David Jones, Jr. v. Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Governor of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing takings civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-review free-speech habeas-corpus ninth-circuit patent standing state-court-conviction takings |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim |
| 18-112 |
Vance D. Day, Judge, Circuit Court of Oregon, Third Judicial District v. Oregon Commission on Judicial Fitness and Disability |
Oregon |
2018-07-25 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
14th-amendment constitutional-defenses due-process first-amendment free-exercise free-speech judicial-ethics oregon-supreme-court original-jurisdiction procedural-due-process |
Whether it is a Due Process violation for a court of original jurisdiction to refuse to consider, or to reject without sufficient analysis, substantia… |
| 18-5342 |
Roger Wilson v. Delta Airlines, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech judicial-delay judicial-misconduct jurisdiction standing |
whether-the-year-long-delay-in-the-court-issuing-a-decision-on-petitioner's-case-violated-due-process |
| 18-5343 |
Roger Wilson v. McKeesport Police Department, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction standing takings |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the lower courts refused to consider evidence of his innocence and denied his reques… |
| 18-5345 |
Roger Wilson v. United States, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process equal-protection fabricated-court-order free-speech standing |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's case based on a fabricated court order, in violation of due process and equal protection r… |
| 18-5346 |
Roger Wilson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-bail free-speech pretrial-detention speedy-trial standing |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive bail and cruel and unusual punishment was violated when the petitioner was detained for 10 mon… |
| 18-5320 |
James MacDonald v. Martin Dori Singer, et al. |
California |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-client-rules attorney-misconduct civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fraud-on-the-court free-speech organized-crime professional-conduct right-to-fair-trial right-to-petition slapp slapp-law standing unequal-protection |
Whether California's SLAPP law is unconstitutional for protecting unlawful petitioning activities, denying due process and the right to a fair trial, … |
| 18-86 |
The Sherwin-Williams Company v. California |
California |
2018-07-18 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
causation civil-rights consumer-protection due-process first-amendment free-speech product-promotion public-nuisance retroactive-liability |
Whether the First Amendment permits imposing tort liability for truthfully promoting a lawful product later deemed hazardous |
| 18-89 |
AmeriCulture, Inc., et al. v. Los Lobos Renewable Power, LLC, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-07-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
anti-SLAPP attorneys-fees circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal-motion expedited-motions federal-court federal-procedure fee-shifting free-speech public-participation |
Whether state anti-SLAPP fee-shifting provisions apply in federal court |
| 18-5253 |
Dennis DeCiancio v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure disclosure-duty due-process duty-to-disclose evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence free-speech materiality prior-convictions rule-10b-5 securities securities-fraud |
Whether evidence of unrelated prior convictions is admissible in securities fraud cases as direct proof of a fraud under Rule 10b-5, even though there… |
| 18-70 |
William H. Cosby, Jr. v. Janice Dickinson |
California |
2018-07-12 |
Denied |
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attorney-client attorney-speech attorney-statements california-court-of-appeal client-representation constitutional-protection defamation first-amendment first-amendment-protection free-speech milkovich public-accusations public-figure third-circuit |
Whether an attorney's statement denying wrongdoing on behalf of a client who has been publicly accused of serious misconduct enjoys constitutional pro… |
| 18-63 |
Steve K. Wilson Briggs v. Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights copyright copyright-claims copyright-law court-procedure due-process free-speech intellectual-property internet-guidelines legal-precedent patent precedent standing |
Whether by failing to clarify and update internet-access-guidelines, U.S. courts imperil the rights of U.S. intellectual-property-owners |
| 18-60 |
Amira Olivia Gunn v. North Dakota |
North Dakota |
2018-07-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech speech-protection |
Whether Gunn was convicted of speech protected by the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment, applicable to the States under the Due Process Clause… |
| 18-41 |
Micheline Baptiste v. Shrusan Gray |
Florida |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
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access-to-courts bodily-injuries civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process florida-supreme-court free-speech government-redress judicial-review jurisdiction petition-clause petition-for-redress pro-se-petition standing state-court-jurisdiction |
Whether Florida Supreme Court has authority to dismiss petition by unrepresented party to review orders and impede sought relief for bodily injuries, … |
| 18-17 |
Rodney Keister v. Stuart Bell, in His Official Capacity as President of the University of Alabama, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
1st-amendment campus-speech civil-rights college-campus constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech public-forum public-sidewalk public-street sidewalk sidewalk-access sidewalk-restrictions |
Does the presence of adjacent college campus buildings negate the First Amendment public forum status of a sidewalk running along a public street? |
| 18-18 |
Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission v. American Humanist Association, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-03 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (5)Relisted (5) |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech government-speech monument public-display reasonable-observer religious-symbol standing war-memorial |
Whether the Establishment Clause requires the removal or destruction of a 93-year-old memorial to American servicemen who died in World War I solely b… |
| 18-12 |
Joseph A. Kennedy v. Bremerton School District |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-02 |
Denied |
Amici (7)Relisted (12) |
coaches constitutional-rights employment-rights establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech public-employment public-forum public-school religious-expression school-speech teachers tinker-v-des-moines |
Whether public school teachers and coaches retain any First Amendment rights when at work and in the general presence of' students |
| 18-5055 |
Mitchell Stevens v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-exercise free-speech prison-policy religious-accommodation standing takings |
Whether the petitioner's free exercise rights were violated when prison officials refused to accommodate his religious dietary requirements |
| 18-5087 |
Peter Wilson v. Daniel Paramo, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law free-speech habeas-corpus standing state-prisoners statute-of-limitations |
Whether the one-year statute of limitations under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) violates due process by depriving state pr… |
| 18-5023 |
Glenn Edwards v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence probable-cause search-warrant staleness standing takings |
Whether the district court abused its discretion in denying petitioner's motion to suppress evidence used to obtain a search warrant, violating the pe… |
| 18-5025 |
In Re Derek Wardlaw |
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2018-06-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the government's actions |
| 24A542 |
Free Speech Coalition, Inc., et al. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
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Presumed Complete |
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constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech online-expression sexual-content state-regulation |
Whether the First Amendment protects online speech and content related to sexual expression against state regulatory restrictions |