governmental-defendants

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-463 Marta Sanchez, et al. v. Anthony Guzman, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-10-24 Denied affirmative-defense burden-of-proof civil-rights governmental-defendants legal-standard qualified-immunity Whether a civil rights plaintiff bears the burden of disproving the affirmative defense of qualified immunity for governmental defendants or whether g…
21-5334 Cecile A. Brown v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-defendants governmental-defendants judicial-review legal-presumption presumption standing supreme-court-doctrine voluntary-cessation Whether the doctrine of voluntary cessation applies less stringently to governmental defendants than to private ones?