| 25-6797 |
Eshawn Jessica Scipio v. Finklea, Hendrick & Blake, LLC, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-02-12 |
Pending |
IFP |
circuit-conflict federal-questions fraud-upon-court judicial-records state-actors |
Question not identified. |
| 25A755 |
Adam David Clayman v. Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-31 |
Application |
|
appellate-review court-discretion emergency-relief judicial-records procedural-due-process sealing-motion |
Whether a federal appellate court can deny a motion to seal judicial records without providing a substantive explanation for its denial |
| 25A76 |
Stepup Funny, L.L.C., dba Stepup Funny, dba AA7 Days v. Newsweek Digital, L.L.C. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
confidentiality first-amendment improper-purposes judicial-records media-access privacy-interests |
Whether the First Amendment and Nixon v. Warner Communications precedent permit a media company to unseal confidential court records when the primary … |
| 24-6692 |
Barbara Kowal v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-03-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split evidence-admission freedom-of-information-act government-custody judicial-records public-access |
Whether a judicial record admitted into evidence as an unsealed exhibit at a public trial ceases to be a public record if the Government takes custody… |
| 23-7112 |
Christopher J. Barnett v. Doug Drummond, District Judge, District Court of Tulsa County, Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2024-04-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provision due-process elected-official freedom-of-information judicial-records legal-standing oklahoma-supreme-court public-record public-records |
Did the Tulsa County District Court err in sealing a public police report? |
| 23A360 |
Michael S. Barth v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-intervention first-amendment judicial-records public-access search-warrant special-counsel |
Whether the First Amendment and common law right of public access requires judicial review of search warrant proceedings involving a former president'… |
| 23-172 |
Cynthia L. Pollick v. Anthony P. Trozzolillo |
Pennsylvania |
2023-08-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-record-sealing judicial-records judicial-transparency speech-restraint standing |
Whether the complete sealing of a judicial record violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 23-129 |
Eddie Tardy v. Corrections Corporation of America, nka CoreCivic, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-10 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
civil-procedure court-records first-amendment intervention judicial-records judicial-standing public-access sealed-documents standing transparency transparency-rights |
Whether an intervenor's interest in transparency is sufficient to confer standing to seek access to sealed or protected judicial records |
| 22-7208 |
Sherry Rock v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2023-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-disclosure common-law common-law-access first-amendment judicial-records police-reports public-access public-access-to-judicial-records sealing-order standing standing-to-challenge-sealing-orders |
Whether petitioner lacks standing to bring First Amendment challenge to sealed police reports |
| 22-6877 |
Ramone Wright v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure clerk-authority criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury indictment-correction judicial-integrity judicial-process judicial-records prosecutorial-error public-confidence record-amendment |
Does the clerk of court have the authority to correct the record that was filed under oath and returned by the jurors concerning the indictment? |
| 20-6084 |
Laron J. Wainwright v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres-v-united-states armed-career-criminal-act judicial-records jury-trial modified-categorical-approach prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment permits a sentencing court to find that a defendant's prior convictions were committed on different occasions based on non… |
| 18-1014 |
In Re Rex E. Russo |
|
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment access-to-courts constitutional-right due-process equal-protection equal-rights florida-constitution judicial-administration judicial-records judicial-transparency mandamus public-records public-records-access |
public-records-access,judicial-transparency,equal-protection,due-process,mandamus,florida-constitution |
| 18-358 |
Richard Roe v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights contempt document-sealing due-process first-amendment-right free-speech judicial-records judicial-records-access lower-court-authority lower-court-orders public-access public-docketing redactions standing supervisory-power supreme-court-supervisory-power |
Whether the Second Circuit erred in ordering additional redactions beyond what the Supreme Court had approved and ordered public |