| 25-309 |
Kaeun Kim v. Mark Ali, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights due-process fabricated-evidence prosecutorial-immunity section-1983 state-action |
Whether a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim that state officials fabricated evidence against the petitioner accrues only upon favorable termination of criminal p… |
| 25-226 |
Easton Murray v. Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
agent-principal-doctrine constitutional-violation oath-of-office prosecutorial-immunity public-trust separation-of-powers |
Whether a prosecutor, as a trustee of the public trust charged with upholding the law, can be held liable for unlawful actions that violate their oath… |
| 25-5045 |
Raymond Dean Ordoukhanian v. Leah Wommack Chaney, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-07-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation due-process evidence-fabrication habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-immunity |
Whether prosecutors who intentionally alter facts and evidence with bad faith should be immune from legal consequences when exculpatory evidence is di… |
| 24-7056 |
Andrew D. Anderson v. North Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-04-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
article-iii first-amendment judicial-immunity prosecutorial-immunity res-judicata sovereign-immunity |
Whether judicial and prosecutorial immunities are consistent with Article III judicial power and constitutional due process |
| 24-6845 |
David C. Lettieri v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-03-25 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-transfer due-process false-evidence notice-clause plaintiff-amendment prosecutorial-immunity |
Does a plaintiff have a right to amend a case, and does a prosecutor have absolute immunity to create false evidence? |
| 24-901 |
Kaeun Kim v. United States District Court for the District of New Jersey |
Third Circuit |
2025-02-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-limits due-process judicial-bias mandamus obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-immunity |
Whether the Third Circuit erred in denying the Petition for Writ of Mandamus despite compelling evidence of judicial bias, obstruction of justice, and… |
| 24-5796 |
Deandre Arnold v. Chad Chronister, Sheriff, Hillsborough County, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias prosecutorial-immunity standing |
Whether a petitioner lacks standing to sue a Sheriff's Office for alleged First and Fourteenth Amendment rights violations and whether a conspiracy to… |
| 23-1282 |
John C. Baer v. Larry Trent Roberts, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
buckley-v-fitzsimmons circuit-conflict civil-rights due-process evidence-marshaling prosecutorial-immunity qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether prosecutors are always absolutely immune from 42 U.S.C. § 1983 liability for (1) post-charge acts (2) taken to marshal evidence to present at … |
| 23-7618 |
Jesse A. Reynolds v. Titus County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection fair-housing fair-housing-act judicial-immunity prosecutorial-immunity sovereign-immunity statute-of-limitations takings |
Question not identified. |
| 23A928 |
John C. Baer v. Larry Trent Roberts, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-04-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
absolute-immunity civil-rights fourteenth-amendment investigative-function prosecutorial-immunity witness-interview |
Whether a prosecutor's pre-trial witness interview and identification constitutes an investigative function precluding absolute prosecutorial immunity… |
| 23-849 |
Louis Wayne Ratfield v. Ellen L. Cohen, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment authority biven's-claim civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-prosecution fraud prosecutorial-immunity statute-of-limitations |
Can each individual federal prosecutor present their written authority to prosecute? |
| 23-649 |
Lisa Price, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Nickie Miller v. Montgomery County, Kentucky, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (13) |
42-usc-1983 brady-v-maryland civil-rights court-order due-process exculpatory-evidence legal-discretion prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether absolute immunity extends to a prosecutor's knowing destruction of exculpatory evidence |
| 23A404 |
Lisa Price v. Montgomery County, Kentucky, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split court-order exculpatory-evidence judicial-process prosecutorial-immunity section-1983 |
Whether absolute prosecutorial immunity under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 extends to a prosecutor's knowing destruction of exculpatory evidence and defiance of a… |
| 23-105 |
Joe Thorpe v. Township of Salisbury, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-08-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
absolute-immunity civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment fourteenth-amendment harris-v-harvey immunity judicial-immunity prosecutorial-immunity |
Did the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals violate the rule announced in Harris v. Harvey, 605 F.2d 330 (7th Cir.… |
| 23-25 |
Michael Charles Ward v. James V. Chafin, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-07 |
Denied |
|
absolute-immunity appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct section-1983 |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit overextended the holding of Ashcroft v. Iqbal such that § 1983 plaintiffs are unjustly deprived of an opportunity to cond… |
| 22-1245 |
Brent A. Ristow v. Douglas R. Peterson, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
administrative-law bad-faith civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process individual-capacity prosecutorial-immunity standing |
Whether state civil administrative agency staff, in prosecuting an application to their agency for a license, are acting in the character of the crimi… |
| 22-857 |
Paulette H. Foster, et al. v. Michael Wearry |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-08 |
Denied |
|
absolute-immunity buckley-v-fitzsimmons civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process functional-approach judicial-phase prosecutorial-immunity section-1983 witness-preparation |
Whether preparing witnesses to bolster existing evidence intended for use at the criminal trial, after probable cause has been determined, is a functi… |
| 22-6773 |
Ernest Adimora-Nweke v. Steven C. McCraw, in His Official Capacity as Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights class-action due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-immunity probable-cause prosecutorial-immunity standing |
Whether Petitioner's in forma pauperis status from state court applies post removal to Federal Court |
| 22-632 |
Anthony Haworth v. City of Walla Walla, Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 absolute-immunity brady-violation civil-rights civil-rights-act common-law ku-klux-klan-act prosecutorial-immunity qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether this Court should overrule a halfcentury of precedent that has inaccurately interpreted the intent and purpose of Section 1983 by affirming im… |
| 22-539 |
Juliet Anilao, et al. v. Thomas J. Spota, III, Individually and as District Attorney of Suffolk County, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-12-13 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation first-amendment prosecutorial-immunity section-1983 state-action thirteenth-amendment |
Whether a prosecutor can be sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for bringing charges that violate the First and Thirteenth Amendments |
| 22-153 |
Wanda Bowling v. Lester John Dahlheimer, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fifth-circuit gubernatorial-liability immunity-invocation judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct jurisdictional-overreach prosecutorial-immunity res-judicata standing |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court error by issuing a boiler plate opinion omitting any language addressing Petitioner's caselaw nullifying immunity invocati… |
| 22-24 |
Vincent Gabriel v. El Paso Combined Courts, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-07-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights dismissal due-process judicial-immunity motion-to-dismiss prejudice prosecutorial-immunity standing |
Is it appropriate for a trial court to dismiss a complaint with prejudice prior to allowing an individual at least one opportunity to amend the compla… |
| 21-8040 |
Dominique Brown v. Burgess McCowan, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-tort due-process prosecutorial-immunity qualified-immunity section-1983 standing state-action |
Can government attorneys be sued under Section 1983 for violating constitutional rights? |
| 21-1480 |
James Acres v. Lester Marston, et al. |
California |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
absolute-immunity california-common-law civil-litigation commercial-enterprise federal-law personal-immunity prosecutorial-immunity state-law tribal-immunity tribal-officials |
What personal immunities are available to tribal officials? |
| 21-7396 |
Hung M. Nguyen v. Yolo County District Attorney |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-deprivation due-process equal-protection immunity negligence policy-maker prosecutorial-immunity public-entity |
Does Yolo County District Attorney Office as Public Entity have any liabilities or qualify for prosecutory immunity due to negligence or reckless rela… |
| 21-593 |
Priscilla Everette-Oates v. Beth Wood, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-10-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights civil-rights-action conspiracy due-process evidence-concealment immunity municipal-immunity municipal-liability prosecutorial-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment |
Can municipal defendants win summary judgment solely on the basis that one defendant has prosecutorial immunity and was otherwise deemed not liable un… |
| 21-188 |
Eddison Ramsaran v. Candace Lapidus Sloane, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2021-08-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
absolute-immunity administrative-investigation buckley-standard buckley-v-fitzsimmons evidence-fabrication fabricated-evidence medical-licensing medical-licensing-board pre-adjudicatory-investigation pre-adjudicatory-proceedings prosecutorial-function prosecutorial-immunity |
Whether non-attorney administrative officials are entitled to absolute immunity for fabricating evidence during a pre-adjudicatory investigation of a … |
| 21-34 |
George Boutros v. Cory Hony, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-12 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights district-attorney-immunity due-process equal-protection judicial-review prosecutorial-immunity retaliation retaliatory-prosecution standing |
Did the district court err in finding the district attorney absolutely immune? |
| 20-309 |
John E. Reardon v. New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-09-09 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-attack common-law-mandates due-process judicial-immunity jurisdictional-challenge prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct standing void-proceedings |
Whether Judges, Prosecutors and other officials can be held liable for either Equity and/or Legal relief |
| 19-1277 |
David Thorpe v. Dexter Dumas, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 absolute-immunity administrative-acts civil-rights due-process investigative-acts probable-cause prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether a supervising Deputy District Attorney who assigned three (4) District Attorneys over a two-year period to a case that lacked probable cause (… |
| 19-7233 |
Jameice Nash v. James Kenney, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Article III-right civil-rights due-process federalism Heck-doctrine Prison Litigation Reform Act prison-litigation-reform-act prosecutorial-immunity Racially-tainted procedural-violations Sovereign state-police powers sovereign-immunity statute-of-limitations Tenth Amendment-principles Tenth Amendment-rights tenth-amendment |
Did the lower courts violate Petitioner's Fifth Amendment due process rights and Tenth Amendment rights |
| 19-88 |
Wadith Stockinger Nader, et ux. v. City of Papillion, Nebraska, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-07-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
absolute-immunity eighth-circuit fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause prosecutorial-immunity search-and-seizure totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances |
Can an unverified tip constitute probable cause for arrest? |
| 18-1193 |
Brandon Lee Moon v. County of El Paso, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
absolute-immunity brady-violation circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process imbler-v-pachtman judicial-proceedings post-conviction post-conviction-DNA-testing prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct |
Prosecutorial misconduct in post-conviction DNA testing |
| 18-8308 |
Leonard Burton Jones v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights congressional-privileges constitutional-boundaries constitutional-law due-process in-personam judicial-immunity judicial-mechanics judicial-review privileges-and-restrictions prosecutorial-immunity separation-of-powers ultra-vires |
What is the Jurisprudence of the intra vires constitutional boundaries within the applied mechanics of exercising the judicial law of prosecutorial ab… |
| 18-931 |
David Christopher Hesse v. Jason Kane Howell |
Texas |
2019-01-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 abuse-of-process civil-rights civil-rights-violation color-of-law due-process false-arrest legal-procedure prosecutorial-immunity state-law-immunity texas-civil-practices-and-remedies-code wrongful-incarceration |
Are acting as a witness by swearing to facts, abusing process and committing crimes, acts that are foreign to the duties of a prosecutor? If so, is th… |
| 18-765 |
James H. Brady v. New York, et al. |
New York |
2018-12-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights discretionary-action due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment immunity legal-fees obstruction-of-justice property-rights prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct quid-pro-quo sanctions standing takings |
Did the Appellate Division, First Department err in finding Respondents immune pursuant to Imbler v. Pachtman, 424 U.S. 409 (1976)? |
| 18-6509 |
John Tedesco v. Monroe County, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-10-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process heck-v-humphrey prosecutorial-immunity rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 standing younger-abstention |
Did Mr. Tedesco's complaint get dismissed with prejudice? |
| 18-440 |
Edward Michael Nero, et al. v. Marilyn J. Mosby |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
absolute-immunity advocacy-function civil-procedure civil-rights due-process investigation investigatory-materials law-enforcement legal-advice probable-cause prosecutor prosecutor-investigation prosecutorial-immunity standing |
Whether a prosecutor is acting as an 'advocate' and is entitled to absolute immunity when the prosecutor performs an investigation and provides those … |