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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-1043 Edward Plummer, Jr. v. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, et al. California 2025-04-01 Denied court-notification judicial-system leave-to-amend litigant-rights pro-se substantive-due-process Does our judicial system deny pro se litigants substantive due process when the courts are remise in ensuring that such litigants are timely and prope…
24A267 Kelsey Cascadia Rose Juliana, et al. v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-16 Presumed Complete article-iii-standing declaratory-judgment fifth-amendment leave-to-amend ninth-circuit redressability Whether the Ninth Circuit improperly restricted Article III standing requirements by imposing additional barriers to declaratory relief beyond the Sup…
21-8222 Abdur-Rashid Muhammad v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts fifth-amendment judicial-discretion leave-to-amend pro-se pro-se-litigants standards-of-practice standing Whether the Fifth Amendment prohibits federal courts from holding pro se litigants to the same stringent standards as attorneys
21-6913 Timothy Dewayne Littlejohn v. Sergeant Bowman, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP cell-phone-data complaint-amendment digital-privacy district-court-discretion fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence judicial-error leave-to-amend privacy pro-se-pleading procedural-due-process search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
21-6153 Suran Wije v. David A. Burns, et al. Texas 2021-11-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-liberties due-process equal-protection equal-rights fourteenth-amendment immunity leave-to-amend liberty nondisclosure qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity Do the interests of 'justice so require' a leave to amend, when purposeful obfuscation, legal trickery, and nondisclosed affirmative defenses like imm…
20-8274 RaySean D. Barber v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-06-10 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-deficiencies district-court due-process equal-protection indigent-claims leave-to-amend meaningful-review prisoner-claims standing Whether the district court's finding with regard to Mr. Barber's equal-protection-claim conflicted with this-Court's-governing-determinations
20-1572 Ramon D. Johnson, II v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) brand-name-liability brand-name-manufacturer FDA-approval generic-drug generic-drug-liability label-defect leave-to-amend preemption product-liability state-law-claims texas-presumption-of-no-liability unapproved-indication Whether a brand name drug manufacturer can be held liable for the defective label of a generic drug product
20-208 Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Company v. Ethan Volungis, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) amendment civil-procedure district-court federal-rules-of-civil-procedure leave-to-amend motion-to-dismiss represented-plaintiff rule-15 sua-sponte Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 15(a) requires district courts to grant plaintiffs represented by counsel leave to amend their complaint sua s…
19-8827 David Fowler v. Indymac Bank, FSB, et al. New York 2020-06-26 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-estoppel complaint-dismissal court-of-appeals due-process judicial-review leave-to-amend motion-for-leave state-court-jurisdiction Whether the State of New York Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner's motion for leave to appeal without detailed reasoning
19-8526 Quintez Talley v. Timothy Mazzocca, et al. Third Circuit 2020-05-22 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights failure-to-state-claim judicial-discretion leave-to-amend mail-fraud pro-se-plaintiff racketeer-influenced-and-corrupt-organizations-act screening-phase standing supplemental-jurisdiction wire-fraud Does the inability to show concrete financial loss deprive a plaintiff of standing when bringing a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RIC…
19-562 Brian Burke v. New York City Transit Authority, et al. Second Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 ada civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation defamation due-process fair-labor-standards-act first-amendment leave-to-amend pleading-standards pro-se pro-se-litigation standing state-statute title-vii unconstitutionality Pleading standards for pro se parties in Title VII, 42 U.S.C. 1983, and ADA cases
19-6324 Taeng Yang v. Michael McNeill, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights conviction-vacatur due-process heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey leave-to-amend section-1983 statute-of-limitations wallace-v-kato Whether Yang's § 1983 claims begins to accrue on the date his conviction was 'vacated and overturned' in light of Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477, 486-…
19-425 Veronica W. Ogunsula v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis leave-to-amend notice notice-requirement pleading-standards procedural-dismissal standing statutory-interpretation What is the meaning of 28-U.S.C.-Section-1915-(e)-(2)-(b)-(ii)
19-5040 Jennifer Lu v. Stanford University Ninth Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-procedure-amendment complaint-amendment dismissal district-court-procedure due-process judicial-guidance leave-to-amend legal-notice pleading pleading-deficiencies pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-fairness Whether when granting a pro se litigant leave to amend the complaint, a district court must identify the complaint deficiencies so that the pro se lit…
18-782 William C. Bond v. United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied amendment circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process leave-to-amend pleading pleading-deficiencies pro-se pro-se-litigant standing Whether a district court must provide a reason for denying a pro se litigant leave to amend the complaint
18-780 Lisa Marie Kerr v. Marshall University Board of Governors, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response Waived 12(b)(6)-motion academic-deference civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process first-amended-complaint first-amendment leave-to-amend savings-statute sex-discrimination sexual-orientation sexual-orientation-discrimination Is sexual orientation discrimination unlawful under the Civil Rights Act?