police-accountability

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-1245 Masika Brown Ray v. Anthony Boone, Chief, Longview Police Department, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-06-05 Denied Response Waived constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection police-accountability selective-enforcement wrongful-detention Did the Fifth Circuit err in affirming the district court's dismissal where substantial constitutional violations under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amend…
23-385 Clayton R. Hulbert, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Jeffrey W. Hulbert, et al. v. Brian T. Pope Fourth Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) 1983 civil-rights civil-rights-act first-amendment notwithstanding-clause police-accountability police-activity qualified-immunity section-1983 Whether qualified immunity is abrogated by the Notwithstanding Clause of the Civil Rights Act of 1871
23-319 Evelyn Newey v. Orange County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-27 Denied Response Waived 1983-claims civil-rights decertification due-process heck-doctrine judicial-conduct judicial-policy law-enforcement police-accountability sb-2 Should police be held accountable for decisions under all circumstances?
23-276 Dijon Sharpe v. Winterville Police Department, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-21 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement-interaction police-accountability police-filming public-recording qualified-immunity Whether filming police officers in public is First Amendment protected activity
22-116 Connecticut State Police Union v. James Rovella, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection Second Circuit 2022-08-08 Denied Response Waived collective-bargaining contracts-clause freedom-of-information police-accountability police-misconduct public-accountability public-sector retroactive-legislation Whether Connecticut Public Act 20-1 violates the Contracts Clause
20-1022 Jean Coulter v. Jamsan Hotel Management, Inc., et al. Massachusetts 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) bias civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review legal-procedure massachusetts-police-accountability police-accountability standing Was Coulter denied Due Process because of Bias?
20-21 Billy Duane Card Fleshner v. Matthew Tiedt, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-07-14 Denied Response Waived 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process excessive-force law-enforcement police-accountability police-misconduct qualified-immunity Can Peace Officers use excessive force when the force is objectively unreasonable and it violates well established case law and department policies?
19-1001 Noble Cooper, et al. v. Officer Oliver Flaig, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (7) civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force law-enforcement police-accountability qualified-immunity Should the Court eliminate or significantly revise the judicially created doctrine of qualified immunity to protect the people's core constitutional r…
18-348 Robert Weisler, III v. Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights Devenpeck-v-Alford fourth-amendment heck-v-humphrey police-accountability qualified-immunity warrantless-arrest Whether Devenpeck v. Alford, which protects officers who either incompetently or maliciously arrest a person for a crime the arrestee did not commit, …