monell-liability

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-891 Warren Balogh v. Chief Al Thomas, Jr., et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-02-19 Denied Response Waived civil-rights first-amendment government-violence monell-liability qualified-immunity speech-rights Whether the First Amendment protects speech amid violence left deliberately unchecked by local government
24-5954 In Re Tony Gooch 2024-11-12 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel monell-liability section-1983 writ-of-mandamus Whether a local government can be held liable under 42 U.S.C.S. 1983 for implementing unconstitutional policies that violate a defendant's constitutio…
24-70 Ilya Kovalchuk v. City of Decherd, Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2024-07-23 Denied civil-rights discovery-standard due-process fourth-amendment monell-claim monell-liability municipal-liability plausibility-standard section-1983 twombly-iqbal Whether the Sixth Circuit's rejection of the 'plausibility' of Petitioner's Monell claim is erroneous, given its departure from the Twombly standard a…
23-389 Colleen Reilly, et al. v. City of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) content-based content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech monell monell-liability rule-30b6-testimony speech-restriction standing viewpoint-based viewpoint-discrimination whether-the-test-for-content-neutrality-should-be-overruled
23-229 Bronson McClelland v. Katy Independent School District, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation final-policymaking-authority first-amendment monell-liability public-school-district public-school-speech section-1983 true-threat Does Monell liability exist for a public school district when an official with final policymaking authority relied on a policy to cause a constitution…
23-165 Bob Johnson, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of Santa Rosa County, Florida v. Jessica N. Rogers, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Jose F. Escano-Reyes and as Parent and Natural Guardian of Y. C., a Minor Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-21 Denied Amici (1) 42-usc-1983 city-of-los-angeles-v-heller civil-rights constitutional-harm deliberate-indifference jury-finding monell-liability monell-v-new-york-city municipal-liability section-1983 Where a jury exonerates jail deputies of all 42 U.S.C. §1983 claims for deliberate indifference to risk of an inmate's suicide, does the jury's findin…
22-104 Martin Rugamba v. CRST Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied cat's-paw-theory civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-reporting free-speech monell-liability municipal-custom municipal-liability police-retaliation retaliation standing Whether police retaliation against an individual who reports misconduct constitutes a Monell custom or practice
20-427 Polk County, Wisconsin v. J. K. J., et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-10-02 Denied Amici (3) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violations failure-to-train monell-liability municipal-liability section-1983 single-incident-theory Whether the 'single-incident' theory of Monell liability may be used to hold a municipality liable under §1983 on the theory that its failure to do mo…
19-593 City of Camden, New Jersey v. Alanda Forrest Third Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process legal-standard monell-doctrine monell-liability monell-v-department-of-social-services municipal-liability policy-custom policy-or-custom policymaker-notice untrained-or-unsupervised-employees What constitutes a pattern of similar constitutional violations by untrained and/or unsupervised employees under Monell v. Dep't of Soc. Servs.?
19-553 Moussa Diarra v. City of New York, New York Second Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process judicial-bias monell-claim monell-liability police-procedure probable-cause substantive-due-process summary-judgment Is the Second Circuit's refusal to apply the 'totality of circumstances' test for probable cause in a Monell suit constitutional?
19-6148 Cornelius Lorenzo Wilson v. Dennis Grimes, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment medical-care monell-doctrine monell-liability municipal-jail municipal-liability prison-conditions prisoner-rights serious-medical-need systemic-underfunding Does systemic underfunding and understaffing of a municipal jail that knowingly causes significant delays for prisoners receiving access to outside me…
19-5496 Salvatore Moretti v. Michael Mordaga Third Circuit 2019-08-08 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process high-profile-case monell-liability patent standing takings Has Appellant Moretti Proven Monell Liability in the Respondent, Michael Mordaga, Given the High-Profile Case Which Was Briefed by Deborah Poritz, the…
18-1466 County of Sonoma, California, et al. v. Rafael Mateos Sandoval, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment constitutional-rights continued-detention detention due-process fourth-amendment lawful-seizure monell-liability municipal-liability property-rights property-seizure public-safety section-1983 seizure vehicle-impound Whether the Fourth Amendment can be violated by the government's mere continued detention of property even though its full-blown seizure satisfied the…
18-7530 Tonya Udoh, et vir v. Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-01-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 1983-claims 1985-claims 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights davis-v-monroe-county-board due-process emotional-distress false-arrest fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment haines-v-kerner minor-children miranda-rights monell-liability municipal-liability parental-rights pro-se-litigant qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing unconstitutional-statutes Whether pro se litigants are held to the same legal standards as counseled litigants
18-854 George Alvarez v. City of Brownsville, Texas Fifth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence monell-liability municipal-liability plea-agreement plea-bargaining united-states-v-ruiz Whether due process requires the government to disclose exculpatory evidence before entering a plea agreement with a criminal defendant
18-498 Maricopa County, Arizona v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process issue-preclusion law-enforcement monell-doctrine monell-liability policymaker-liability sovereign-immunity title-vi violent-crime-control-act Whether Arizona sheriffs are policymakers for counties in law enforcement, whether policymaker liability can be applied to Title VI and § 12601, wheth…
18-342 City of Maplewood, Missouri v. Cecelia Roberts Webb, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied Response Waived arm-of-the-state constitutional-deprivation legal-definition mcmillian-v-monroe-county monell-liability monell-v-dept-of-soc-serv municipal-corporation-liability municipal-corporations municipal-court-divisions municipal-liability policy-custom real-party-in-interest sovereign-immunity state-entity unified-court-system Whether sovereign immunity bars a lawsuit against a municipal corporation that is defined to include a legally-distinct state entity, such that the re…