petition-rights
25 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6253 | Sharon Johnson v. David Danon | California | 2025-11-26 | Pending | IFP | constitutional-rights first-amendment government-redress judicial-review petition-rights vexatious-statutes | Whether vexatious statutory schemes used in state and federal courts overreach and violate First Amendment rights of victims to petition the courts an… |
| 25A182 | Morgan Joseph Langan v. Chip Davis, et al. | Arizona | 2025-08-13 | Application | constitutional-protections due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines petition-rights republican-form-of-government | Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits local governments from imposing excessive fines that violate constitutional protections and deny citizens' righ… | |
| 24-1070 | Conghua Yan v. Mark A. Taylor, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Criminal District Office Investigator, Tarrant County, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-04-11 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure district-attorney first-amendment government-policy petition-rights | Whether a criminal District Attorney office policy that bars individuals from filing perjury complaints without judicial request violates First Amendm… |
| 24-6133 | Kyle Wolfe v. Jill Krowinski | Vermont | 2024-12-13 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-scrutiny first-amendment free-speech petition-rights second-amendment state-law | Whether Vermont State Statutes 15 V.S.A. 5133(e) and 12 V.S.A. § 5131(3) are constitutional under the First and Second Amendments, and whether Order N… |
| 24A332 | Martin Akerman v. United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit | Federal Circuit | 2024-10-07 | Presumed Complete | administrative-procedure civil-service due-process first-amendment judicial-review petition-rights | Whether the First Amendment and due process rights of a petitioner are violated when a federal appellate court clerk improperly recharacterizes legal … | |
| 24-216 | Advance Colorado, et al. v. Jena Griswold, Colorado Secretary of State | Tenth Circuit | 2024-08-28 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | ballot-measures first-amendment government-speech legislative-interference petition-rights tax-reduction | Does the government-speech doctrine immunize state efforts to compel false and pejorative language on ballot initiative petitions that undermine tax r… |
| 23-7786 | Christine H. Scott v. Florida | Florida | 2024-06-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assembly-rights constitutional-rights contract first-amendment free-speech government-property petition-rights private-property public-access public-forum | Whether the right to petition, assemble and speak freely on government-owned property held open to the public exists when the publicly held land is co… |
| 23-6607 | Harry William Lott v. Ohio Job and Family Services Department | Washington | 2024-01-29 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights court-access due-process first-amendment legal-restrictions ohio-statute petition petition-rights standing vexatious-litigator | Does the state of Ohio have the ability to stop access to the court by using the Vexatious Litigator OH, Rev, cod, § 2323.52 or does the First amendme… |
| 23-672 | Alessandra Nicole Rogers v. Stanton Riggs, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-12-21 | Denied | civil-rights concerted-speech first-amendment free-speech garcetti-pickering group-speech petition-rights public-employees summary-judgment | Is a petition written, signed and circulated outside of work by 45 current and former county employees and delivered to their elected officials, a mat… | |
| 23-5308 | James Renwick Manship v. Susan Beals, Commissioner | Virginia | 2023-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights election-integrity electronic-voting first-amendment free-speech grand-jury petition petition-rights voting-machines voting-rights | QUESTIONS PRESENTED RELATED TO FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS OF HONEST VOTE (FREE SPEECH) & PETITION FOR REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES TO A GRAND JURY |
| 22-699 | Council for Education and Research on Toxics v. California Chamber of Commerce | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | federal-preemption first-amendment petition-rights preliminary-injunction prior-restraint public-interest-lawsuit public-interest-lawsuits state-court | Does a preliminary injunction enjoining public interest lawsuits constitute an unlawful prior restraint on First Amendment petition rights? |
| 21-8186 | In Re Douglas Cornell Jackson | 2022-06-21 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-authority district-court due-process filing-refusal habeas-corpus petition-rights pro-se standing | Whether the United States District Court Clerk was constitutionally authorized to refuse to file a pro se litigant's petition for habeas corpus | |
| 21-7143 | Johnny Brett Gregory v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-02-17 | Dismissed | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-1651 constitutional-rights coram-nobis criminal-procedure judicial-review legal-challenge petition-rights post-conviction-relief supervised-release writ-of-certiorari | Does a person serving a term of supervised release have a constitutional right to avail themselves of a writ of coram nobis under 28 U.S.C. § 1651(a) … |
| 21-834 | Libertarian Party of Minnesota, et al. v. Steve Simon, Minnesota Secretary of State | Eighth Circuit | 2021-12-06 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process election-law elections first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech petition-rights political-parties political-party | Whether a government can threaten criminal prosecution against voters who sign petitions supporting minor political party candidates without notice th… |
| 20-705 | Chris Jaye v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2020-11-23 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts first-amendment judicial-discretion judicial-immunity petition-rights pleading-standards standing | Has the US Court of Federal Claims and US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit acting in opposition to controlling law (Erickson vu. Pardus, Johns… |
| 20-573 | James M. Kerven v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-10-30 | Denied | Response Waived | article-iii-standing bill-of-rights brandeis-arithmetic civil-rights constitutional-standing due-process particularized-injury petition-for-redress petition-rights prudential-discretion standing | Do you think Justice Louis Brandeis using his Brandeis-Arithmetic could get standing before the court without a particularized-injury? |
| 20-530 | Harold H. Burbank, II v. Connecticut Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel | Connecticut | 2020-10-21 | Denied | attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech petition petition-rights political-speech | Did the First Amendment and Connecticut Constitution preclude Connecticut from reciprocal attorney discipline | |
| 19-8590 | Timothy A. Marr v. Joshua E. Doyle | Florida | 2020-06-02 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-oath due-process equal-protection fraud fraud-allegations judicial-conduct oath-of-office petition-rights right-to-petition | Whether Florida's Code of Judicial Conduct permits fraud on or by judges and officers of a state's courts |
| 19-1128 | Jose Mendes Da Costa v. City of Mount Vernon Police Officer Pereira, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-03-13 | Denied | 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-violation claim-preclusion constitutional-amendments due-process petition-rights res-judicata | Whether the right to petition the government for redress of grievances is violated by the claim preclusion Res Judicata, Bar Order | |
| 19-381 | Rainbow Ridge Resort, LLC, et al. v. Branch Banking and Trust Company | Tennessee | 2019-09-20 | Denied | Response Waived | affirmative-defense civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process examination-limitations first-amendment petition petition-rights pleading standing statutory-interpretation takings | Is Tennessee Code Annotated Sec. 35-5-118 unconstitutional as applied? |
| 18-8105 | Alicja Herriott v. Paul Herriott | California | 2019-02-22 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | access-to-court access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-overbreadth discrimination due-process first-amendment first-amendment-right-to-petition overbreadth petition-rights privileges-immunities standing vexatious-litigant vexatious-litigant-statute | Is the statutory law prohibiting the arbitrary selected litigants petition to court discriminatory under Be & K Constr. Co. v. NLRB (2002) 536 U.S. 51… |
| 18-7743 | Kevin Daniel Driscoll v. Josie Gastelo, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-04 | Denied | IFP | aedpa anti-terrorism antiterrorism-act civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process government-petition habeas-corpus petition-clause petition-rights procedural-rights statutory-interpretation | Whether the Anti-ferrorist and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) of 1996 vitiates citizens' 1) Privilege to the Writ of Habeas Corpus, 2) Right to p… |
| 18-975 | Mark Stuart v. Jim Lane, et al. | Arizona | 2019-01-28 | Denied | due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech petition petition-rights rule-68 | Whether sanctioning a petitioner under Rule 68 for pursuing a meritorious public interest lawsuit violates the First Amendment right to petition for r… | |
| 18-7524 | Roger L. Harrison, Jr., et al. v. Charlotte H. Huggins, et al. | Illinois | 2019-01-23 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-procedure due-process government-seizure indigent-rights necessary-parties petition-clause petition-for-redress petition-rights recusal seizure-of-property standing takings trust-property | Whether due process allows the denial of the right to petition the government for redress of grievances due to lack of funds to pay court costs and fe… |
| 18-538 | Wendy A. Nora v. Wisconsin Office of Lawyer Regulation | Wisconsin | 2018-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | due-process due-process-clause exculpatory-evidence fair-hearing first-amendment fourteenth-amendment lawyer-discipline petition-for-redress petition-rights procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct | Whether a lawyer can be disciplined based on evidence known by the state to be false and when the state suppresses exculpatory evidence |