police-shooting
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-538 | City of Los Angeles, California, et al. v. Estate of Daniel Hernandez, By and Through Successors in Interest, Manuel Hernandez, Maria Hernandez, and M. L. H., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-11-03 | Pending | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived | body-camera excessive-force fourth-amendment moment-of-threat police-shooting qualified-immunity | This case arises from a split-second police encounter in which an officer fired six shots in six seconds at a suspect armed with a knife who appeared … |
| 25-472 | Angelic Salgado, as Personal Representative of the Wrongful Death Estate of Jonathan Molina v. Kevin Smith | Tenth Circuit | 2025-10-17 | Denied | clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment police-shooting qualified-immunity use-of-force | 1. Second-volley rule. When an officer shoots a suspect once in the chest, steps back for cover to reload, six to eight seconds pass, and the suspect … | |
| 25-186 | Alejandro Estevis v. Ignacio Cantu, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-15 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment police-shooting qualified-immunity use-of-force | Whether Officers Ignacio Cantu and Eduardo Guajardo should be denied qualified immunity before trial for shooting six times at Alejandro Estevis while… |
| 24-6315 | Eric St. George v. City of Lakewood, Colorado, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-01-15 | Denied | IFP | clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process police-shooting qualified-immunity tenth-circuit | Whether the Tenth Circuit's application of White v. Pauly to a 2016 shooting under Qualified Immunity constitutes a permissible legal interpretation o… |
| 24-15 | Paulette Smith, Individually and as Successor in Interest to Albert Dorsey, Deceased v. Edward Agdeppa | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-09 | Denied | clearly-established excessive-force fourth-amendment police-shooting qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment use-of-force | In a § 1983 action arising out of fatal police shooting involving disputed allegations of Fourth Amendment violations, did the Ninth Circuit err in gr… | |
| 22-615 | Estate of Eric Jack Logan v. City of South Bend, Indiana, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2023-01-05 | Denied | circuit-split civil-rights credibility credibility-challenge due-process legal-procedure police-shooting summary-judgment witness witness-testimony | Whether a party may successfully oppose summary judgment by challenging the credibility of the movant, especially when the movant is the only living w… | |
| 20-1690 | Ramon Cortesluna v. Daniel Rivas-Villegas, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-06-07 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3) | civil-rights due-process excessive-force graham-factors material-facts police-shooting qualified-immunity scott-v-harris summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton video-evidence | Did the Ninth Circuit depart from longstanding procedure and precedent and fail to view video and other evidence in the light most favorable to the pl… |
| 20-1362 | Davdrin Goffin v. Robbie K. Ashcraft, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-03-30 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment police-shooting probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure tennessee-v-garner use-of-force | Is an officer entitled to qualified immunity for shooting an unarmed fleeing suspect? |
| 20-43 | Amanda N. Reich, et al. v. City of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2020-07-17 | Denied | civil-rights due-process police-shooting qualified-immunity section-1983 sham-affidavit summary-judgment | Whether the Sixth Circuit's extreme approach to the 'sham-affidavit' rule should be overturned in favor of the more flexible standards prevailing in o… | |
| 19-1067 | Neal N. Browder, et al. v. S. R. Nehad, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-28 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights deadly-force due-process emergency-response fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct police-shooting qualified-immunity use-of-force | Did the Ninth Circuit err in denying qualified immunity to a police officer who responded to a midnight emergency call about a suspect threatening oth… |
| 19-6223 | Kermit B. Harris v. Charmaine Bracy, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-10-09 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment charging-offense constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody-without-charge due-process equal-protection finality finality-of-sentence fourteenth-amendment police-officer police-shooting | Can a state trial court disregard a defendant's constitutional right to due process of law under the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution,… |