nominal-damages

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-152 Thomas Earl Dunn v. Elizabeth Post, Magistrate, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-accountability due-process eleventh-amendment nominal-damages public-trust sovereign-immunity state-actors state-public-trust Shall the lower Courts shield State Public Actors from Constitutional conflicts?
21-1010 Tracy Nix v. Advanced Urology Institute of Georgia, P.C. Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied affordable-care-act civil-rights discrimination-claim effective-communication intentional-discrimination nominal-damages rehabilitation-act spending-clause Whether a discrimination plaintiff who can prove a legal violation is entitled to an award of nominal damages under Spending Clause legislation
21-5966 Cecile Andrea Brown v. John C. Coughenour, Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii-standing civil-rights constitutional-rights damages due-process fundamental-rights government-accountability judicial-review mootness nominal-damages standing Whether nominal damages account for harms associated with past constitutional violations
20-1619 Expensify, Inc. v. Eddie White Ninth Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights declaratory-judgment dignitary-interests due-process free-speech mootness ninth-circuit nominal-damages standing Whether Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski merits summarily granting the petition, vacating the judgment, and remanding to determine whether the Ninth Circuit's…
20-538 Rentberry, Inc., et al. v. City of Seattle, Washington Ninth Circuit 2020-10-23 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived civil-rights first-amendment mootness nominal-damages section-1983 standing voluntary-cessation Whether government defendants are subject to the same voluntary-cessation standard as private defendants
19-1086 Robert E. Garcia v. Michael Falk, et al. Second Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights compensable-injury constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process legal-injury nominal-damages procedural-due-process section-1983 standing Whether it is an error of law to dismiss a constitutional claim brought under 42 U.S.C. 1983 on the grounds that the plaintiff has failed to establish…
19-968 Chike Uzuegbunam, et al. v. Stanley C. Preczewski, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-03 Judgment Issued Amici (32)Relisted (2) censorship civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-policy mootness nominal-damages standing Whether a government's post-filing change of an unconstitutional policy moots nominal-damages claims that vindicate the government's past, completed v…
19-6944 Bahman Khodayari v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights damages discovery due-process nominal-damages rule-26 rule-26(a)(1)(A)(ii) rule-37 rule-37(c)(1) rule-41 rule-41(b) sanctions section-1983 Does the Ninth Circuit's affirmance of the District Court's dismissal of a Petitioner's 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim under Fed.R.Civ.P. Rule 41(b) due to Ru…