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26 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A817 | Dan McCaleb v. Michelle Long, Director, Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts | Sixth Circuit | 2026-01-14 | Application | advisory-body experience-and-logic first-amendment government-proceedings public-access richmond-newspapers | This case concerns whether, in determining whether the public has a right to access meetings of the Tennessee Judicial Advisory Commission, a court mu… | |
| 24-7382 | Issac Jermale Fisher v. Missouri | Missouri | 2025-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-significance courtroom-closure public-access structural-error trial-court-standards waller-v-georgia | When do intentional actions designed to restrict the public's entry to the courtroom constitute a closure of constitutional significance that, unless … |
| 24-6692 | Barbara Kowal v. Department of Justice, et al. | District of Columbia | 2025-03-04 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split evidence-admission freedom-of-information-act government-custody judicial-records public-access | Whether a judicial record admitted into evidence as an unsealed exhibit at a public trial ceases to be a public record if the Government takes custody… |
| 24A685 | Deandre Swain v. Martavious Kincaide, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-01-13 | Presumed Complete | cooperation-agreement criminal-proceeding first-amendment plea-supplement public-access right-of-access | Whether the First Amendment right of access applies to sealed plea supplements in federal criminal proceedings that categorically prohibit public disc… | |
| 24-338 | Troy A. Minter v. Alexander Falconi, et al. | Nevada | 2024-09-25 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-rights divorce-proceedings family-court first-amendment public-access strict-scrutiny | Whether a state statute permitting the closing of a hearing in a divorce case violates an implied First Amendment constitutional right of public acces… |
| 24A188 | Troy A. Minter v. Alexander Falconi, et al. | Nevada | 2024-08-21 | Presumed Complete | closure-rules constitutional-right court-proceedings family-law judicial-discretion public-access | Whether a state statute and local court rules that automatically close family court proceedings upon a party's request, without judicial discretion or… | |
| 23-7786 | Christine H. Scott v. Florida | Florida | 2024-06-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assembly-rights constitutional-rights contract first-amendment free-speech government-property petition-rights private-property public-access public-forum | Whether the right to petition, assemble and speak freely on government-owned property held open to the public exists when the publicly held land is co… |
| 23-6437 | In Re Tony Weems | 2024-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fifth-amendment just-compensation private-property public-access regulatory-takings takings-clause | Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits the government from requiring a property owner to provide public access to private propert… | |
| 23A575 | Elizabeth Stafford v. International Business Machines Corporation | Second Circuit | 2023-12-21 | Presumed Complete | age-discrimination arbitration-agreement confidentiality employment-law first-amendment public-access | Whether a contractual confidentiality provision in an arbitration agreement can override the First Amendment's presumption of public access to judicia… | |
| 23A360 | Michael S. Barth v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-10-23 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-intervention first-amendment judicial-records public-access search-warrant special-counsel | Whether the First Amendment and common law right of public access requires judicial review of search warrant proceedings involving a former president'… | |
| 23-129 | Eddie Tardy v. Corrections Corporation of America, nka CoreCivic, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-08-10 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | civil-procedure court-records first-amendment intervention judicial-records judicial-standing public-access sealed-documents standing transparency transparency-rights | Whether an intervenor's interest in transparency is sufficient to confer standing to seek access to sealed or protected judicial records |
| 22-7208 | Sherry Rock v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2023-04-04 | Denied | IFP | brady-disclosure common-law common-law-access first-amendment judicial-records police-reports public-access public-access-to-judicial-records sealing-order standing standing-to-challenge-sealing-orders | Whether petitioner lacks standing to bring First Amendment challenge to sealed police reports |
| 22-5650 | In Re Bobby D. Hathaway-Bey | 2022-09-22 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure first-amendment public-access public-trial sentencing sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth Amendment's right to a public trial and the First Amendment's right of public access to criminal trials apply to the sentencing phas… | |
| 22-5302 | Michael G. Peters v. Actual Innocent Clinic | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-05 | Dismissed | IFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech public-access standing | Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial extends to the public's right to access court records and proceedings in a criminal case |
| 21-764 | Patrick Huff v. Florida | Florida | 2021-11-23 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | constitutional-rights courtroom-closure criminal-procedure first-amendment public-access sixth-amendment trial-procedure waller-analysis waller-v-georgia | Whether trial courts may close a courtroom pursuant to a closure statute without undertaking the Waller analysis |
| 21-659 | Asociación de Periodistas de Puerto Rico v. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, et al. | Puerto Rico | 2021-11-03 | Denied | Amici (5) | civil-procedure civil-rights court-closure domestic-violence due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-proceedings press-rights public-access standing | Whether courts may summarily close judicial proceedings and deny access to the official recordings of those proceedings without determining whether th… |
| 20-1499 | American Civil Liberties Union v. United States | Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court | 2021-04-27 | Denied | Amici (7)Relisted (3) | article-iii-court article-iii-courts constitutional-law first-amendment foreign-intelligence-surveillance-court judicial-jurisdiction public-access statutory-interpretation | Whether the FISC has jurisdiction to consider a motion asserting a qualified public right of access to its significant opinions |
| 20-6069 | Jeff Howell v. Indiana | Indiana | 2020-10-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-rule civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-discretion due-process indiana-statute information-access juror-access juror-deliberation public-access trial-procedure trial-proceedings | Whether the lower courts erred by denying Howell's right to access of information on jurors who deliberated at his trial |
| 19-7826 | Marlon R. Miller v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-03-02 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure document-sealing due-process first-amendment judicial-transparency law-enforcement-misconduct public-access public-access-to-courts right-to-fair-trial sealed-records | Whether the district court correctly sealed an entire category of information from public access, including preventing Mr. Miller from having meaningf… |
| 19-890 | Tom Jensen v. Hannah Blumenstiel, Judge, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-17 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-misconduct bankruptcy-court declaratory-relief due-process injunctive-relief judicial-immunity public-access | Is a Bankruptcy Court judge absolutely immune from a complaint for injunctive and declaratory relief for denial of public access to the court? |
| 19-874 | William Alan Pesnell, et al. v. Jill Sessions, et al. | Louisiana | 2020-01-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | constitutional-access criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights public-access public-records sixth-amendment trial-recording | Whether La. R.S. 44:4(47) and the local rule of the 26 Judicial District Court in and for Bossier Parish can bar public access to the digital recordin… |
| 19-630 | Kyle Ray Hurst, Personal Representative of the Estate of Andrew James Hurst and on Behalf of the Estate of Andrew James Hurst Deceased and the Statutory Wrongful Death Survivor of Andrew James Hurst v. United States, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-15 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights commercial-area commercial-use due-process eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction federal-jurisprudence federal-lands-management fee-charged liability public-access standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment takings | Whether the Eleventh Circuit wrongfully absolved Respondent of liability when it determined that Moore Lake was not an 'area' where a fee was charged,… |
| 19-6274 | Sergei Kovalev v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employee-immunity first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-information freedom-of-speech government-accountability government-liability municipal-liability public-access qualified-immunity | Whether the First Amendment guarantees the right to enter public offices and seek information or petition the government |
| 18-1428 | Gatehouse Media New York Holdings, Inc., et al. v. New York, et al. | New York | 2019-05-15 | Denied | criminal-procedure first-amendment press press-access press-rights public public-access public-right standing voir-dire | Whether the failure of state criminal procedural rules to authorize standing for the press to assert the public's First Amendment right of access to v… | |
| 18-404 | The Colorado Independent v. District Court for the Eighteenth Judicial District of Colorado, et al. | Colorado | 2018-09-28 | Denied | Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | capital-murder court-records criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment first-amendment-access judicial-proceedings press-enterprise press-enterprise-co-v-superior-court press-enterprise-doctrine public-access qualified-right | Does the public's qualified First Amendment right of access apply to the substantive motion papers, hearing transcripts and court orders filed in a ca… |
| 18-358 | Richard Roe v. United States, et al. | Second Circuit | 2018-09-19 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights contempt document-sealing due-process first-amendment-right free-speech judicial-records judicial-records-access lower-court-authority lower-court-orders public-access public-docketing redactions standing supervisory-power supreme-court-supervisory-power | Whether the Second Circuit erred in ordering additional redactions beyond what the Supreme Court had approved and ordered public |