private-citizen
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-5917 | Myrna De Jesus v. Dignity Health Corporation | Ninth Circuit | 2024-11-05 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | actual-malice defamation private-citizen publication qualified-immunity slander-per-se | Whether the concepts of actual malice and excessive publication are required elements of defamation slander per se for a private citizen to prove that… |
| 22-302 | Brent Ristow v. Amanda Cunningham | Minnesota | 2022-09-28 | Denied | absolute-immunity adversarial-proceeding civil-rights defamation ex-parte free-speech government-communication private-citizen | Whether a private citizen who has submitted allegedly defamatory statements, to the government, ex parte, outside of any adversarial proceeding, about… | |
| 21-5163 | Gregory Scott Stephen v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-procedure eighth-circuit fourth-amendment government-agent private-citizen search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing-guidelines standing | Was the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit's conclusion that a private citizen can never be established as a government agent absen… |
| 19-126 | Gary A. Oram, Jr. v. City of Dillon, Montana, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-26 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1985 civil-procedure civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial judicial-resolution liability magistrate-jurisdiction private-citizen section-1985 standing | Are the Courts able to find a judicial resolution in a §1985(3) claim against one private citizen, after all other individuals in the action are relea… |