official-immunity

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-1213 In Re Bahig Bishay 2025-05-29 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-violations declaratory-relief individual-capacity judicial-immunity official-immunity Whether government employees classified as judicial officers are absolutely immune from prosecution for declaratory relief when sued in individual cap…
24-962 Autumn Adams v. Kevin Gugliano, Individually and in His Official Capacity as an Officer of the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-03-07 Denied bodily-injury civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment official-immunity police-misconduct Whether officers who pull a compliant citizen to the ground causing serious injury violate the Fourth Amendment and whether such malicious actions are…
24A39 Mark Bochra v. Department of Education, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-07-12 Presumed Complete appeal-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-misconduct official-immunity seventh-circuit Whether the Seventh Circuit improperly dismissed a civil rights appeal without a full panel review and in violation of procedural due process protecti…
23-1172 Kristen Lovell, et al. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State, et al. Georgia 2024-05-01 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived constitutional-rights critical-infrastructure election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment georgia-constitution ninth-amendment official-immunity official-misconduct sovereign-immunity voting-rights Whether the granting of the defense of sovereign or official immunity for employees or officials that are acting outside of the authority of their off…
23-6875 Aaron Obeginski v. Glenn Johnson Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitution court-procedure due-process federal-law filing-requirements legal-document official-immunity petition sovereign-immunity supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Whether the petitioners' claims of sovereign immunity and official immunity should be recognized, despite the petitioners' alleged violations of feder…
22-7865 Tiffany Recinos v. Mike Kreidler, et al. Washington 2023-06-26 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights disclosure-requirements due-process government-accountability government-liability government-transparency official-immunity public-records public-records-exemption vicarious-liability Whether laws exist without documents when public disclosure is exempted
22-1152 Najam Azmat v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 28-usc-535 criminal-activity criminal-liability department-of-justice equal-justice immunity misprision-of-felony official-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct Does the Department of Justice have an obligation to charge prosecutors and Federal Agents for criminal activity during investigations or prosecutions…
20-6614 Derek Jarvis v. Isiah Leggett, et al. Maryland 2020-12-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights county-liability due-process government-liability legal-precedent malicious-conduct malicious-prosecution official-immunity qualified-immunity stare-decisis venue-transfer Whether the Maryland Court of Appeals erred in holding that Isiah Leggett was not liable for malicious acts by his county officials Michael Subin and …
18-9668 Miguel Angel Arias v. Ashley B. Moody, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fraud fraud-abuse government-immunity government-misconduct judicial-ethics official-immunity official-misconduct qualified-immunity takings Does a government official maintain immunity after using their position to commit fraud and enrich themselves?
18-1389 Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Andalusian Global Designated Activity Company, et al. First Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bankruptcy civil-rights commercial-law constitutional-violations debtor-name due-process law-enforcement-misconduct official-immunity perfection property-rights public-record registered-organization secured-lending secured-transactions uniform-commercial-code Whether public officials can maintain immunity des Whether the court below erred by inventing an exception to Article 9's requirement that the name of a debtor for perfection purposes is 'the name that…