freedom-of-association

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6687 Herbert McDowell, Jr. v. South Carolina South Carolina 2026-02-02 Pending IFP contract-clause equal-protection first-amendment freedom-of-association habeas-corpus unauthorized-practice-law Did the Supreme Court of South Carolina Justifiably Disregard this Court's Holding in Johnson v. Avery by Refusing to Allow Certified Paralegal Patric…
25A626 Rajeh A. Saadeh v. New Jersey State Bar Association New Jersey 2025-11-26 Application bar-association diversity-quotas equal-protection first-amendment freedom-of-association status-based-discrimination Whether the First Amendment permits a professional association to use racial and status-based quotas for board membership under the guise of 'diversit…
24-160 Juan Dalmau Ramirez v. Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico Puerto Rico 2024-08-14 Denied Response Waived ballot-design constitutional-rights first-amendment freedom-of-association puerto-rico-status voting-rights Whether the 2024 Puerto Rico Plebiscite ballot violates constitutional rights by omitting a 'Commonwealth' voting option
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…
23-523 Board of Supervisors of San Bernardino County v. Lynna Monell, Clerk, Board of Supervisors of San Bernardino County, et al. California 2023-11-16 Denied Response Waived ballot-access candidate-restrictions civil-rights constitutional-scrutiny equal-protection freedom-of-association political-association term-limits voting-rights Does a term limit that bans incumbents from ever running for reelection merit heightened scrutiny?
23-5045 Evans Samuel Santos Diaz v. United States Third Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP associational-rights conditions-of-release constitutional-scrutiny criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment freedom-of-association individual-liberty supervised-release Does a condition of supervised release that prevents association between an individual and their fiancée for two years pass First Amendment scrutiny?
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…
22-498 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?
21-7436 Kevin D. Loggins, Sr. v. Jeff Zmuda, Secretary, Kansas Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-03-23 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-post-facto freedom-of-association miscarriage-of-justice section-1983 turner-v-safely Whether the U.S. District Court and U.S. Court of Appeals erred in finding plaintiff failed to state a claim regarding encroachment upon plaintiff's c…
21-6316 Clayton G. Walker v. Steve Barnett, South Dakota Secretary of State, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-11-17 Denied IFP ballot-access candidate-selection constitutional-rights election-law election-process equal-protection freedom-of-association independent-candidates major-parties third-party Should Walker as a Governor Candidate be able to choose from any party to join him in the nomination to be on the ballot just as the rights of Major P…
21-564 Diane Scott Haddock v. Tarrant County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-18 Denied Response Waived association-rights constitutional-rights elrod-branti-test first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-association freedom-of-petition government-employment pickering-connick-test strict-scrutiny Where public employees allege violations of First Amendment rights by their government employers
20-8437 Jan G. v. Scott Semple, et al. Connecticut 2021-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-association state-courts supremacy-clause Whether the Connecticut Department of Correction violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments by denying the plaintiff and his infirm mother visits wi…
20-1574 Joseph Ocol v. Chicago Teachers Union, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) compelled-speech constitutional-rights exclusive-bargaining exclusive-bargaining-representative first-amendment freedom-of-association janus-precedent janus-v-afscme public-employee public-sector-unions union-representation Should the Court overrule Knight and hold that the First Amendment prohibits States from forcing dissident public employees to accept a hostile union …
20-7108 Jan Gawlik v. Scott Semple, et al. Connecticut 2021-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-association freedom-of-expression freedom-of-speech religious-rights Where the Connecticut Department of Correction violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments, denying used books from publishers without inspection, de…
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?
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
19-1233 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
19-6214 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,…
19-6071 Demetrius Desean Morgan v. Michigan Michigan 2019-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-association impartial-jury ineffective-assistance insufficient-evidence physical-characteristics reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment surveillance-video video-surveillance Was the evidence of Petitioner's identity as the shooter sufficient to sustain the first-degree murder conviction?
19-281 Capital Associated Industries, Inc. v. Josh Stein, Attorney General of North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights content-based-restriction content-based-speech first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-association legal-assistance legal-services non-profit non-profit-organizations professional-licensing strict-scrutiny Do the North Carolina statutes prohibiting the Association's attorneys from providing legal assistance to its members violate the freedom of associati…
19-255 Thomas More Law Center v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California Ninth Circuit 2019-08-26 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (5) charitable-organizations circuit-split civil-rights disclosure-requirements donor-anonymity due-process exacting-scrutiny first-amendment freedom-of-association freedom-of-speech nonprofit strict-scrutiny Whether exacting scrutiny or strict scrutiny applies to disclosure requirements that burden non-electoral, expressive association rights
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…
18A1321 Capital Associated Industries, Inc. v. Josh Stein, Attorney General of North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-06-18 Presumed Complete first-amendment freedom-of-association intermediate-scrutiny professional-conduct trade-association unauthorized-practice-of-law Whether a state's unauthorized practice of law statute that prohibits a trade association from employing attorneys to provide legal services to its me…
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…
18-9012 Marc Anthony Lowell Endsley, aka Marc Endsley v. Edmund G. Brown, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-detention civil-rights due-process freedom-of-association fundamental-rights informed-consent privacy professional-judgment reproductive-choice youngberg-v-romeo Do civilly detained persons retain their fundamental rights to engage in voluntary sexual relations
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?