government-policy

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5833 Braun Thompson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights government-policy judicial-review legal-access prisoners-rights procedural-protections 1. Do Citizens have a Constitutional right to clarity of the law, and thus access to the Courts? 2. May prisoners issue the right/as violated by the …
24-1070 Conghua Yan v. Mark A. Taylor, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Criminal District Office Investigator, Tarrant County, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-04-11 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure district-attorney first-amendment government-policy petition-rights Whether a criminal District Attorney office policy that bars individuals from filing perjury complaints without judicial request violates First Amendm…
24-6005 Aaron Abadi v. Joseph R. Biden, President of the United States, et al. Second Circuit 2024-11-20 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP concrete-injury constitutional-injury government-policy judicial-review pro-se-litigant standing Does a plaintiff have standing when they allege personal, concrete injuries stemming from government policies, even when such policies cause widely sh…
22-1201 Captain Mariella Creaghan v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense, et al. District of Columbia 2023-06-12 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process government-policy judicial-review legal-standard mootness-doctrine standing voluntary-cessation Whether under the voluntary cessation exception to mootness the government must satisfy the 'absolutely clear' standard if it maintains the authority …
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
20-5101 Timothy Visage v. R. E. Woodall, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment arbitrary-action arbitrary-and-abusive-conduct civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process fourteenth-amendment government-liability government-policy state-created-danger state-custody Whether the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment imposes upon the State an affirmative duty of care and protection to connected persons in S…
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…
19-726 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
19-6598 Robert Hercenberger v. Gary A. Martin Oregon 2019-11-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-policy legal-equality state-government state-jurisdiction Where Equal Protection of the laws definition apply for all
19-5396 Vincent Anzalone v. United States First Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-41(b) federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-faith-exception government-policy judicial-authority jurisdiction procedural-violation warrant warrant-application Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule is categorically applicable to a warrant issued in violation of Federal Rule of Criminal Pro…
18-9545 Robert Hercenberger v. Kathy Proctor Oregon 2019-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-policy legal-equality state-action state-jurisdiction Where Equal Protection of the laws definition apply for all
18-963 Terrence Hill v. City of Jackson, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) demolition demolition-notice due-process government-action government-policy municipal-liability notice opportunity-for-hearing parratt-v-taylor procedural-fairness property-rights Does due process require the City of Jackson and Jackson County to provide notice and opportunity for hearing appropriate to the nature of the case?