individual-capacity

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6517 Ammon Ra Sumrall v. Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-08 Pending IFP damages government-official individual-capacity religious-freedom rluipa statutory-interpretation The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA), 42 U.S.C. 2000cc et seq., like the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 199…
25-5639 Fathiree Uddin Ali v. Stephen E. Adamson, Chaplain, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-09-16 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP first-amendment individual-capacity injunctive-relief mootness religious-freedom rluipa Whether RLUIPA authorizes monetary damages against state officials in their individual capacities and whether claims for injunctive relief become moot…
24-1213 In Re Bahig Bishay 2025-05-29 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-violations declaratory-relief individual-capacity judicial-immunity official-immunity Whether government employees classified as judicial officers are absolutely immune from prosecution for declaratory relief when sued in individual cap…
24-229 Sanjay Tripathy v. Jeff McKoy, Deputy Commissioner, New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, et al. Second Circuit 2024-08-29 Pending Relisted (3) constitutional-law damages-remedy government-official individual-capacity religious-freedom statutory-interpretation Whether an individual may sue a government official in his individual capacity for damages for violations of RLUIPA
23A995 Tina Gerlach v. Todd Rokita, Attorney General of Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-05-08 Presumed Complete eleventh-amendment individual-capacity just-compensation section-1983 sovereign-immunity takings-clause Whether state officials can be sued in their individual capacities for alleged violations of the Takings Clause under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and whether sta…
22-1245 Brent A. Ristow v. Douglas R. Peterson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-06-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-law bad-faith civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process individual-capacity prosecutorial-immunity standing Whether state civil administrative agency staff, in prosecuting an application to their agency for a license, are acting in the character of the crimi…
22-6330 Billy Ray Jackson v. Bryan Daniel, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-review civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment individual-capacity liberty property section-1983 sovereign-immunity state-action unemployment-benefits Whether petitioner Billy Ray Jackson's 42 U.S.C. 1983 complaint states a claim against the respondent state officials under color of state law
20-7848 Astarte Davis v. Joseph Wilson, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Judge, Superior Court of California, Marin County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-26 Denied IFP 5th-amendment civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process extrinsic-fraud individual-capacity judicial-jurisdiction non-judicial-acts official-capacity Is non-judicial acts by judges and clerk in their official capacity under color of law, and in their individual capacity for non-judicial acts subject…
20-24 Great Lakes Minerals, LLC v. Ohio, et al. Kentucky 2020-07-15 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure comity declaratory-relief individual-capacity injunctive-relief minimum-contacts sovereign-immunity state-jurisdiction state-sovereign-immunity Whether the Court's decision in Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt extends a state's sovereign-immunity to declaratory-and-injunctive-relief a…
19-736 Andrew Clarke v. Russell R. McMurray, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Transportation Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights civil-suit due-process government-official individual-capacity legal-standing official-capacity pleading-defect sovereign-immunity standing state-immunity Whether the named defendant, Russell R. McMurry, can be sued in his individual capacity or if this suit is equivalent to suing the State of Georgia
18A1228 Kalev Mutond, et al. v. Darryl Lewis District of Columbia 2019-05-29 Presumed Complete diplomatic-immunity foreign-official-immunity human-rights individual-capacity official-capacity torture-victim-protection-act Whether the Torture Victim Protection Act abrogates common-law foreign-official immunity for high-ranking government officials sued for alleged human …
18-544 Teresita A. Canuto v. Department of Defense, et al. District of Columbia 2018-10-25 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1604 28-usc-1605 acting-official foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity foreign-state government-liability individual-capacity individual-liability official-capacity service-of-process sovereign-immunity state-immunity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a foreign state's immunity from suit under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act extends to an individual for acts taken in the individual's fo…