government-immunity

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-5846 Andrey L. Bridges v. Patricia Blackmon, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-10-29 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-deprivation due-process eleventh-amendment government-immunity section-1983 Whether courts should resolve the longstanding conflict regarding the right to sue government officials in their individual or official capacity for d…
23-6540 Jennifer Agnes Lopez v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-immunity state-actors statute-of-limitations Whether the State actors can deprive the individual of a fair treatment which violates the guarantees of the Fifth Fourteenth Amendment
23-6268 Clifford A. Gooden, III v. United States, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-12-15 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment government-immunity judicial-activism judicial-immunity ku-klux-klan section-1983 Is the original scope and purpose of a section 1983 action to allow black citizens the right to sue racist government where it has been infiltrated by…
23-5381 David Lamar Harper v. William Patrick Adams, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-U.S.C-1983 42-usc-1983 case-law civil-rights government-immunity heck-v-humphrey Huphrey-v-Heck-512-U.S.-447-(1994) statute-of-limitations void-judgment How can a 42 U.S.C 1983 lawsuit, based on a void judgment, be barred by a statute-of-limitations, Huphrey-v-Heck-512-U.S.-447-(1994), and government-i…
22-6946 Clement Mosseri v. 7 West 21 LI LLC Second Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process government-immunity judicial-immunity legal-standing rule-of-law standing Judicial immunity and government immunity conflict with the Constitution
21-682 Mackie L. Shivers, Jr. v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied circuit-split civil-liability constitutional-violation discretionary-function-exception employee-liability federal-tort-claims-act government-immunity Whether the discretionary function exception to the Federal Tort Claims Act immunizes the United States from tort liability for acts taken by its empl…
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…
20-8159 Craig S. Robledo-Valdez v. Aramark Correctional Services, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied IFP civil-rights county-deputy due-process employment-status government-immunity law-enforcement legal-standing notice-of-intent qualified-immunity standing state-government state-law Does a county jail deputy qualify as a 'state employee'?
20-1280 Joseph Cotropia v. Mary Chapman Fifth Circuit 2021-03-15 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-law fair-warning fourth-amendment government-immunity per-se-unreasonable probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure warrantless-search warrantless-searches Whether the presumption that warrantless searches are per se unreasonable is so obvious a violation of the Fourth Amendment that the presumption gives…
20-5336 Matthew Jones v. Captain Alice Brumbley Delaware 2020-08-12 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-liability civil-procedure civil-prosecution civil-rights constitutional-protection criminal-law criminal-liability due-process government-immunity immunity legal-accountability official-misconduct Do government employees enjoy immunity from committed crimes and civil prosecution?
18-9668 Miguel Angel Arias v. Ashley B. Moody, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fraud fraud-abuse government-immunity government-misconduct judicial-ethics official-immunity official-misconduct qualified-immunity takings Does a government official maintain immunity after using their position to commit fraud and enrich themselves?
18-9448 Darren Brady v. Sandra St. Pierre, et al. New Hampshire 2019-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP city civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-denial due-process false-arrest government government-immunity impersonation-of-judges judicial-misconduct state-court-procedure state-law-officials witness-statements Whether impersonation of judges, government, city, state law officials is wrong and should not apply
18-8663 Donald E. Mallory v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Sixth Circuit 2019-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP cestui-que-trust civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-immunity incarceration judicial-review standing takings vested-property vested-property-rights Is a pre-1933 private U.S. citizen and cestui que trust who is not an enemy, ally of an enemy, or foreign national precluded from suing the U.S. gover…
18-6004 Matthew Jones v. Superior Court of Connecticut, et al. Second Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-prosecution civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-liability criminal-prosecution due-process government-employee government-immunity hiv-disclosure immunity statutory-interpretation yale-university Do government employees enjoy immunity from committed crimes and civil prosecution?
18-275 Patricia Smith, et al. v. Hillary Rodham Clinton, et al. District of Columbia 2018-09-04 Denied Response Waived benghazi civil-procedure civil-rights dc-circuit defamation federal-court-procedure federal-courts government-immunity hillary-clinton motion-to-dismiss sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction substitution substitution-of-defendant westfall-act Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit erred in affirming the substitution of the United States for Hillary Clinton an…
18-5749 Anna Maria Agolli v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law brown-vs-board civil-rights due-process government-immunity pro-se pro-se-plaintiff public-duty-doctrine statute-of-limitations When equal but separate was overturned, there was little or no precedent to support this