government-disclosure

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-875 Fort Bend Independent School District v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas Texas 2026-01-22 Pending cell-phone-logs confidential-records fourth-amendment government-disclosure privacy-rights public-records The Fourth Amendment protects "the right of the people to be secure in their . . . papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures." U…
25-5240 Jason Shortridge v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography computer-evidence expert-witness-disclosure government-disclosure sixth-amendment trial-continuance I. Whether a district court abuses its discretion by continuing a case following the Government's late disclosure of an expert witness whose testimony…
25-39 John Does 1-2, et al. v. Seattle Police Department, et al. Washington 2025-07-10 Dismissed anonymous-expression first-amendment government-disclosure political-association privacy-rights public-records (1) Whether compelled public disclosure of politically sensitive information, including compelled statements regarding political beliefs, motivations,…
21-6412 Rebecca Stampe v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-11-24 GVR IFP brady-disclosure criminal-procedure due-process evidence-review government-disclosure in-camera-review materiality materiality-standard prosecutorial-discretion Can the district court, consistent with Brady and its progeny, refuse in camera review of evidence that is plausibly subject to disclosure under Brady…
21-5428 Crystal V. L. Rivers v. United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia Fourth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights crime-victims-rights-act criminal-procedure federal-investigation government-disclosure government-misconduct ongoing-investigation rico victim-notification Whether the Crime Victims' Rights Act (CVRA) requires the government to inform a victim of her rights under the CVRA and the status of the investigati…
21-72 Khalid M. Turaani v. Christopher Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-07-20 Denied Response Waived adverse-effect constitutional-rights government-disclosure privacy-act reputation second-amendment sixth-circuit-review standing standing-doctrine traceability Whether the standing analysis for Privacy Act improper disclosure claims requires determining if the plaintiff sufficiently alleged an 'adverse effect…
20-1824 Vincent Lucas v. Tricia Moore, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-07-01 Denied balancing-test driver's-privacy-protection-act government-disclosure government-use-exception highly-restricted-personal-information litigation-use-exception motor-vehicle-record personal-information social-security-number statutory-exception Is the scope of the disclosure relevant?
19-5642 John Emmett Brown, Jr., and Derrick Louis Carter v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-materiality brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure due-process duress-defense exculpatory-evidence government-disclosure materiality prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony In the context of a duress defense, is the government's untimely disclosure of exculpatory evidence material under Brady v. Maryland?
18-8720 Rodney Reep v. Department of Justice, et al. District of Columbia 2019-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-records agency-referrals civil-procedure exemption-7(c) exemption-interpretation foia foia-request government-disclosure government-misconduct grand-jury improper-conduct judicial-procedure statute-of-limitations Does 28 U.S.C. §2401(a) apply to FOIA?
18-8481 Ricky Thompson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy-evidence criminal-procedure discovery discovery-rules due-process government-disclosure government-investigation materiality sealed-affidavit sealed-records Did requiring the assertion of detail known only to the government to show 'materiality' impermissibly raise the threshold?