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… |