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…