prospective-relief

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-491 Gillian Filyaw v. Steve Corsi, in His Official Capacity as Chief Executive Officer of the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-10-21 Denied Amici (2) due-process ex-parte-young federal-law prospective-relief sovereign-immunity state-officials When a suit alleges that state officials are depriving a plaintiff of property in violation of due process, does the suit allege an ongoing violation …
24-1022 Susan Hutson v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) civil-procedure judicial-jurisdiction motion-to-terminate prison-litigation-reform-act prospective-relief statutory-interpretation Whether a State or local official who moves to terminate prospective relief under 18 U.S.C. § 3626(b)(1)(A) bears any affirmative burden beyond demons…
24-993 Gabriel Olivier v. City of Brandon, Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-03-18 Granted Amici (32)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment heck-v-humphrey prospective-relief section-1983 Whether Heck v. Humphrey bars § 1983 claims seeking purely prospective relief where the plaintiff has been punished under a law challenged as unconsti…
24-45 Dwight Russell, et al. v. Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-harm effectual-relief mootness prospective-relief standing Whether legislation enacted during a lawsuit renders asserted claims for prospective relief moot if the legislation does not cure all of the constitut…
22-6887 Steve Audette v. United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied IFP 11th-amendment civil-rights federal-jurisdiction prospective-relief sovereign-immunity standing Whether the Eleventh Amendment bars a federal court from exercising jurisdiction over a state official in his official capacity when the plaintiff see…
22-791 Haisam Elsharkawi v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-02-22 Denied Response Waived airport-security civil-rights concrete-plans due-process judicial-access pandemic prospective-relief standing travel travel-restrictions Do plaintiffs properly establish standing to bring claims for prospective relief?
21-727 Robert R. Snyder v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied access-to-courts active-interference civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process law-library-access plausibility-standard prisoner-rights procedural-due-process prospective-relief standing Did the lower court incorrectly apply Christopher-v-Harbury
20-192 Mary Louise Serafine v. Karin Crump, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-immunity prospective-relief section-1983 standing state-court-proceeding Whether City of Los Angeles v. Lyons may be expanded to bar Article III standing under Section 1983 in a suit for prospective relief against state jud…
18-1547 Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. v. Shawn Jensen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied 28-usc-636 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-litigation constitutional-violation federal-court-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-rights magistrate-judge magistrate-judge-selection magistrate-jurisdiction prison-litigation-reform-act prospective-relief statutory-interpretation Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in allowing parties to choose their own magistrate judge and in permitting prospective relief in a prisoner case witho…
18-1056 Mitzi Johanknecht, Sheriff, King County, Washington v. Eva Moore, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young monell municipal-liability official-capacity prospective-relief section-1983 separation-of-powers standing state-court-orders Whether Ex parte Young establishes a novel and unprecedented judge-made cause of action, separate from § 1983, that can be used through an official ca…
18-923 Carol Coghlan Carter, Next Friend of A. D., C. C., L. G., and C. R., et al. v. Tara Katuk Mac Lean Sweeney, Assistant Secretary of Bureau of Indian Affairs, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response Waived civil-rights civil-rights-act damages declaratory-relief due-process mootness prospective-relief retrospective-relief standing title-vi Whether claims for declaratory and damages relief to redress past injuries under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 are moot when no prospective…
18-162 Elzie Ball, et al. v. James M. LeBlanc, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-08-06 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse Waived air-conditioning constitutional-remedies constitutional-remedy eighth-amendment heat-index judicial-relief plra plra-restrictions prison-conditions prospective-relief remedies Whether the PLRA's tailoring requirement prohibits a district court from ordering a prison to maintain a maximum heat index to remedy a constitutional…
18-5099 Lennie Williams v. Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation declaratory-relief due-process fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court monell-v-department-of-social-services municipal-immunity officer-of-court perjury prospective-relief standing Whether a municipality engaged in an ongoing violation of the Constitution is immune from declaratory and other prospective relief in an action under …