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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-7576 Solomon A. Jones v. Georgia Department of Labor, et al. Georgia 2024-05-28 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process employment-law in-forma-pauperis minimum-wage pandemic service-of-process sovereign-immunity unemployment-benefits unemployment-insurance Can unemployment insurance benefits be denied to persons whose employment is terminated through no fault of their own?
23-6965 Armando Orozco-Barron v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP covid-19-pandemic criminal-procedure dismissal-without-prejudice due-process ends-of-justice individual-assessment judicial-discretion pandemic speedy-trial-act Whether a court may extend the Speedy Trial Act's deadlines by general order, without individually evaluating defendants' interests in a speedy trial
23-6886 Paul Francisco Torres, III v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial jury-trials pandemic pandemic-restrictions sixth-amendment speedy-trial Did prolonged jury-trial bans during the pandemic violate the Sixth Amendment's Speedy Trial Clause, especially as to those accused who were jailed du…
23-6349 Derrick Martin King v. Budget Car Mart, LLC Ohio 2023-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pandemic remote-depositions Whether the Supreme Court of Ohio's administrative orders necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic regarding the use of remote depositions violates a civ…
23-5344 Aaron Abadi v. City of New York, New York Second Circuit 2023-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process mootness mootness-doctrine pandemic pandemic-regulation standing standing-requirement vaccine-mandate Do the vaccine mandates instated by the City of New York exceed their authority and/or are they arbitrary and capricious?
23-5123 Aaron Abadi v. Target Corporation Third Circuit 2023-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-USC-1985 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process injunction intra-corporate-conspiracy mootness pandemic pandemic-mandate standing Whether a pandemic-related mandate case becomes moot when the mandate is lifted, or remains justiciable due to the ongoing pandemic and plaintiffs' la…
22-791 Haisam Elsharkawi v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-02-22 Denied Response Waived airport-security civil-rights concrete-plans due-process judicial-access pandemic prospective-relief standing travel travel-restrictions Do plaintiffs properly establish standing to bring claims for prospective relief?
22-6675 Barrett S. Tunsil v. Josh Shapiro, Governor of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied IFP civil-rights covid-19 due-process equal-protection free-exercise pandemic Whether the COVID-19 pandemic and related government orders violate the constitutional rights of the petitioner, including due process, equal protecti…
22-6324 Matthew Ruben Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion Bureau-of-Prisons civil-procedure discretionary-review extraordinary-and-compelling-reason medical-conditions pandemic pandemic-impact sentence-modification statutory-interpretation Sentence-modification-under-3582(c)(1)(A)
22-6102 Samuel Turner v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP bureau-of-prisons civil-procedure court-deadline covid-19-lockdown due-process equity excusable-neglect judicial-discretion pandemic prisoner-rights whether-certiorari-should-be-granted
21-1336 Jeffrey Olsen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-04-07 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived covid-pandemic criminal-procedure district-court district-court-authority due-process judicial-discretion jury-trial-suspension jury-trials pandemic prosecutorial-delay speedy-trial-act Whether a District Court may dismiss an indictment under the Speedy-Trial-Act where the District Court finds that it is possible to hold a jury trial …
21-567 Horizon Christian School, et al. v. Kate Brown, Governor of Oregon Ninth Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech injunctive-relief mootness-doctrine pandemic pandemic-restrictions religious-schools standing takings Whether a plaintiff must show a 'constant threat' of being closed again to obtain injunctive relief against a state governor during the pandemic and s…
20-23 Dale Hartkemeyer, et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-07-15 Denied free-exercise last-rites ministerial-duty pandemic pandemic-execution prisoner prisoner-rights religious-exercise religious-freedom RFRA Where a priest has a sacred religious duty to minister last rites to a prisoner under his pastoral care, does scheduling the prisoner's execution duri…