medical-procedure
11 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5261 | Byron Black v. Frank Strada, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Corrections, et al. | Tennessee | 2025-08-01 | Denied | IFP | cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment execution-method injunctive-relief medical-procedure | 1. Where a state government facilitated the implantation of a cardiac defibrillator that has been shown to be very likely to result in severe pain dur… |
| 24-5321 | Terry M. Peterson, Jr. v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2024-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | bodily-integrity fourth-amendment medical-procedure probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search | Whether a warrantless search of a suspect's body during a medical procedure violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches |
| 24A48 | Kristin K. Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona v. Dennis McGrane, County Attorney of Yavapai County, Arizona, et al. | Arizona | 2024-07-16 | Presumed Complete | abortion-statute criminal-law individual-autonomy medical-procedure reproductive-rights state-constitution | Whether Arizona's recently enacted abortion statute, which criminalizes certain medical procedures, violates the state constitution's protection of in… | |
| 23-1254 | Stephen Ollar, et al. v. District of Columbia, et al. | District of Columbia | 2024-05-31 | Denied | Response Waived | bodily-integrity evidence-fabrication fabricated-evidence fifth-amendment fourth-amendment medical-procedure parental-consent parental-rights seizure state-action | Whether the Fourth Amendment assures parents that, painful-and-medically-unnecessary-procedures-of-their-child-will-not-be-undertaken-for-investigativ… |
| 23A954 | Frederick Ware-Newsome v. Southern Management Companies, LLC | Maryland | 2024-04-23 | Presumed Complete | extension-request medical-procedure personal-hardship pro-se supreme-court writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se litigant can obtain a 60-day extension for filing a petition for writ of certiorari based on personal hardship and medical procedures | |
| 23A470 | Idaho v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-11-27 | Presumed Complete | Amici (5) | abortion emergency-medical-treatment federal-preemption medical-procedure preliminary-injunction state-law | Whether a state may enforce a law restricting certain medical procedures related to abortion when such law conflicts with federal emergency medical tr… |
| 22-6524 | Barry L. Brookins v. Rajendra Dwivedi | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment medical-procedure state-law | Whether the plaintiff's 8th Amendment right against cruel and unusual punishment has been violated through an unlawful surgery performed without the p… |
| 20-798 | In Re Leonard Patti | 2020-12-11 | Denied | Response Waived | affidavit-of-merit civil-procedure civil-rights due-process informed-consent judicial-review medical-malpractice medical-procedure standing statute-of-limitations | Why was I denied my right to a trial by jury, or even a hearing on the case? | |
| 19-1135 | Dignity Health, dba Mercy San Juan Medical Center v. Evan Minton | California | 2020-03-17 | Denied | Amici (5)Relisted (7) | civil-rights employment-division-v-smith first-amendment free-association free-exercise free-expression medical-procedure medical-procedures religious-freedom religious-liberty state-law unruh-civil-rights-act | Does the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment bar a state-law claim that seeks to compel a religiously affiliated hospital to allow medical pro… |
| 18-837 | Scott Harris, in His Official Capacity as State Health Officer, et al. v. West Alabama Women's Center, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-03 | Denied | Amici (6)Relisted (11) | abortion abortion-ban abortion-rights constitutional-challenge dismemberment due-process gonzales-v-carhart medical-debate medical-procedure partial-birth-abortion reproductive-rights state-law state-regulation unborn-child | Whether a state ban on dismemberment abortions is unconstitutional where there is a reasonable medical debate that alternatives to the banned procedur… |
| 23A712 | Food and Drug Administration, et al. v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, et al. | Fifth Circuit | Presumed Complete | administrative-law chemical-abortion drug-safety fda-regulation medical-procedure reproductive-rights | Whether the FDA's regulatory framework for chemical abortion drugs satisfies the requirements of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and does not pose un… |