| 25-960 |
Oregon, et al. v. Paul Maney, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-13 |
Pending |
|
corrections-leadership covid-19-response cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment public-health-emergency qualified-immunity |
1. Whether the Eighth Amendment requires state corrections leadership to implement an overall "reasonable" statewide response to a public-health emerg… |
| 25-943 |
Antonio M. Smith v. John Kind, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2026-02-09 |
Pending |
|
clearly-established-law constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment government-official qualified-immunity |
When a government official acts in an obviously unconstitutional manner, is that sufficient for the violation to be clearly established, as this Court… |
| 25-933 |
Daniel N. Arbeeny, as the Administrator for the Estate of Norman Arbeeny, et al. v. Andrew M. Cuomo, former Governor of New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2026-02-06 |
Pending |
|
administrative-law constitutional-rights covid-directive nursing-home-deaths qualified-immunity state-actors |
1. How could the Second Circuit have reasonably concluded that the State Respondents Governor Cuomo and Ms. DeRosa, his Chief of Staff, could not have… |
| 25A859 |
Ulysses Lee Feagin v. Mansfield Police Department, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-30 |
Application |
|
excessive-force party-presentation qualified-immunity sixth-circuit summary-judgment taser-use |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6625 |
Roman V. Serpik v. Jill Weedon, former Judge, Second Judicial District Court of Oklahoma, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2026-01-20 |
Pending |
IFP |
access-to-courts due-process judicial-bias jurisdictional-threshold qualified-immunity sovereign-citizen |
1. Did the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals err by failing to address threshold State v. 'Roman Serpik LLC CROMAN SERPIK "), Beckham County Okla. Distri… |
| 25-859 |
Chelesy Eastep, as Surviving Spouse and Next of Kin of Landon Dwayne Eastep v. Steven Carrick, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-20 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor qualified-immunity reasonableness-standard |
1. Whether or how police officers' own creation of, or contribution to, a dangerous situation prior to the use of deadly force factors into the Fourth… |
| 25-838 |
Joseph Heid v. Mark Rutkoski, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-01-15 |
Pending |
|
brady-violation civil-rights evidence-suppression excessive-force franks-challenge qualified-immunity |
1. Whether Petitioner Heid's two grounds for
challenging the arresting officers' defense of qualified
immunity defense constitute a valid "Franks
chal… |
| 25-826 |
Lesly Pompy v. Lieutenant Marc Moore, MANTIS, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-13 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
bivens-action constitutional-tort fourth-amendment home-entry qualified-immunity warrantless-search |
1. Bivens and the Fourth Amendment— Whether a warrantless, post-warrant home entry—conducted hours after the original warrant was executed and without… |
| 25A769 |
Jeffrey L. Clemens v. W. Michael Stewart, et al. |
First Circuit |
2026-01-05 |
Application |
|
civil-rights clerk-magistrate harm-to-party nondiscretionary-actions qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Question not identified. |
| 25-760 |
Hamdi A. Mohamud v. Heather Weyker, St. Paul Police Officer |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Pending |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
bivens-action cross-deputization fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 state-action state-action-doctrine |
1. Whether a local police officer wielding both state and federal authority can act under color of state law for purposes of 42 U.S.C. 1983.
2. If no… |
| 25-738 |
Nick Kosmalski v. Sherrell King |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
excessive-force fourth-amendment handcuffing qualified-immunity reasonableness-standard traffic-stop |
Whether the Sixth Circuit's three-factor tight handcuffing test, a brightline rule as stated and as applied in this case to deny qualified immunity, f… |
| 25A696 |
Samantha Lee-Ann Sealey v. Arturo Mancias, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-15 |
Application |
|
bodyworn-camera excessive-force fourth-amendment qualified-immunity seizure use-of-force |
Whether the use of force against a handcuffed arrestee during a foot chase constitutes an objectively unreasonable seizure in violation of the Fourth … |
| 25-688 |
Veronica W. Ogunsula v. Michael Warrenfeltz |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-12 |
Pending |
|
law-enforcement pro-se-litigation probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion traffic-violation |
1. Does a police officer observing an undisputed legal act(s) or something that is not illegal, without more, provide probable cause or a reasonable i… |
| 25-6325 |
Steven R. DeWitt v. Ceressa Haney, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-U.S.C.-§-1983 clearly-established-right constitutional-rights first-amendment government-official-recording qualified-immunity |
1. Should the Court abolish or substantially reform qualified immunity?
2. If qualified immunity survives, what constitutes a clearly established rig… |
| 25A677 |
Evan Norman v. Lee Ingle, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-09 |
Application |
|
appellate-review excessive-force qualified-immunity scott-v-harris summary-judgment video-evidence |
Whether appellate courts may review the genuineness of factual disputes in qualified immunity appeals based solely on video evidence, or only when the… |
| 25-662 |
Erika Mabes, Individually and on Behalf of L. M., J. R. M., and J. A. M., Minor Children, et al. v. Shannon Thompson, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-12-08 |
Pending |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
child-protection civil-rights constitutional-violation investigative-errors qualified-immunity section-1983 |
This section 1983 civil rights case arises from the devastating consequences of medical and investigative errors in a child protection proceeding. Aft… |
| 25A661 |
Oregon, et al. v. Paul Maney, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-04 |
Application |
|
communicable-disease covid-19 deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment prison-conditions qualified-immunity |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits state prison officials from exposing inmates to heightened risks of serious communicable diseases during a pand… |
| 25-637 |
Mark Hanneman, Minneapolis Police Officer, et al. v. Karen Wells, as Co-Trustee for the Next of Kin of Amir Rahkare Locke, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-12-03 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
appellate-jurisdiction deadly-force fourth-amendment no-knock-warrant qualified-immunity use-of-force |
1. When the Respondents' own factual allegations, the facts assumed by the courts, and the undisputedly authentic video footage, show the officer was … |
| 25-623 |
Ronald Smith v. Bexar County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-02 |
Pending |
|
community-caretaking constitutional-seizure fourth-amendment law-enforcement mental-health-detention qualified-immunity |
Under the 4th Amendment, a warrantless emergency mental health detention constitutes a physical seizure. Police often misconstrue ordinary street enco… |
| 25A618 |
Antonio M. Smith v. John Kind, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-11-25 |
Application |
|
constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment excessive-force prison-conditions qualified-immunity |
Whether the Eighth Amendment precludes qualified immunity for corrections officers who deliberately subject a prisoner to extreme cold conditions with… |
| 25-604 |
Drew Craig, et al. v. John Krueger, Individually and as Co-Administrator of the Estate of Jeffery Krueger, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-11-24 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
civil-rights de-novo-review excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity |
This case involves an attempt by several law enforcement officers to detain and arrest Respondents' decedent Jeffery Krueger on July 1, 2019. On that … |
| 25-6224 |
Latoya K. Benton, Administrator of the Estate of Xzavier D. Hill, Deceased v. Seth W. Layton, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a State Trooper for the State of Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
excessive-force fourth-amendment police-conduct qualified-immunity racial-bias summary-judgment |
1. Whether the Fourth Amendment requires courts to apply a holistic, totality-of-the-circumstances analysis to excessive force claims, including all p… |
| 25-594 |
Elizabeth Crockett, et al. v. John Krueger, Individually and as Co-Administrator of the Estate of Jeffery Krueger, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-11-21 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
clearly-established-right excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity reasonable-officer |
On the evening of July 1, 2019, Wagoner County Lieutenant Elizabeth Crockett and Deputy Matthew Lott responded to a call from deputies requesting assi… |
| 25-572 |
James Stuart Faller, II v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-11-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
absolute-immunity due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pro-se-litigant qualified-immunity |
1. Whether persistent and categorical judicial bias
and procedural disregard toward pro se litigants,
resulting in dismissal despite detailed factual … |
| 25-564 |
Scott Meyer v. Gayla Rahn, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-11-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion qualified-immunity second-amendment sovereign-immunity |
1. Whether the grant of the motion to dismiss was
an abuse of discretion, not based upon the undisputed
facts presented, and supported by only the e… |
| 25-6032 |
Thomas E. Nidiffer, et al. v. Officer David Lovato, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-11-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
curtilage fourth-amendment knock-and-talk law-enforcement qualified-immunity warrant |
1. Whether a locked gate surrounding the curtilage of a home clearly revokes the implied
social license for law enforcement officers to enter the pro… |
| 25-538 |
City of Los Angeles, California, et al. v. Estate of Daniel Hernandez, By and Through Successors in Interest, Manuel Hernandez, Maria Hernandez, and M. L. H., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-11-03 |
Pending |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
body-camera excessive-force fourth-amendment moment-of-threat police-shooting qualified-immunity |
This case arises from a split-second police encounter in which an officer fired six shots in six seconds at a suspect armed with a knife who appeared … |
| 25-532 |
Diana Snow, et al. v. Dennis Wiertella, as Father and Administrator of the Estate of Randy Wiertella, Deceased |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-10-31 |
Pending |
|
constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference medical-care prison-liability qualified-immunity subjective-awareness |
1. Did the Sixth Circuit depart from this Court's decision in Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825 (1994) in denying qualified immunity to Petitioners, des… |
| 25-472 |
Angelic Salgado, as Personal Representative of the Wrongful Death Estate of Jonathan Molina v. Kevin Smith |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-10-17 |
Denied |
|
clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment police-shooting qualified-immunity use-of-force |
1. Second-volley rule. When an officer shoots a suspect once in the chest, steps back for cover to reload, six to eight seconds pass, and the suspect … |
| 25-427 |
Walid Abdelaziz, in His Individual Capacity as a Police Officer for the City of Oakland, California, et al. v. Estate of Decedent Lolomania Soakai, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-08 |
Pending |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
due-process fourteenth-amendment police-liability qualified-immunity state-created-danger substantive-due-process |
1. Whether bystanders injured when a fleeing criminal suspect lost control of his car and crashed into them have a Fourteenth Amendment substantive du… |
| 25A401 |
Steven R. DeWitt v. Ceressa Haney, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-07 |
Application |
|
constitutional-rights first-amendment government-office public-officials qualified-immunity recording-rights |
Whether the First Amendment protects the right to record public officials in a government office without prior permission and whether qualified immuni… |
| 25-403 |
Kenneth D. Anderson, et al. v. Crystal Estrada, Deputy, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-violation excessive-force fifth-circuit graham-factors qualified-immunity rule-12b6 |
The Fourth Amendment requires courts to evaluate excessive force claims based on the totality of the circumstances by sloshing through a "factbound mo… |
| 25-378 |
Donald Olsen v. Aaron Salter |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-09-30 |
Pending |
Amici (1) |
brady-violation exculpatory-evidence fair-trial-rights identification-procedure qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Is a police officer liable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for nondisclosure of material exculpatory evidence and for violating fair trial rights through sugge… |
| 25-297 |
Jacob P. Zorn v. Shela M. Linton |
Second Circuit |
2025-09-15 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) |
civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity specificity |
Whether the Second Circuit's qualified immunity analysis conflicts with this Court's repeated instruction that courts must define rights with specific… |
| 25A295 |
Lesly Pompy v. Lt. Marc Moore, MANTIS, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-09-15 |
Application |
|
bivens-remedy fourth-amendment joint-task-force qualified-immunity warrantless-search westfall-act |
Whether a Bivens remedy remains available for warrantless searches and seizures of property by federal officers in joint task-force operations when al… |
| 25A292 |
Larce Spikes v. Lesley Wheat, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-minimum deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-care prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires a substantive inquiry into the adequacy of medical treatment provided to prisoners, or if the mere provision of … |
| 25-277 |
Aden Rusfeldt v. Officer Cristian Morar, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-09-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
fighting-words first-amendment free-speech heckler's-veto public-forum qualified-immunity |
Under the First Amendment, does Snyder v. Phelps hold that fighting words are not shown by hurtful and personally directed speech within a traditional… |
| 25-267 |
Milton Green v. Christopher Tanner, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-09-09 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
constitutional-rights excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity reasonableness-standard summary-judgment |
Whether an officer's mistake of fact in using excessive force is a legal or factual question for determining reasonableness at summary judgment, and w… |
| 25-216 |
Mathew Grashorn v. Wendy Love, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
clearly-established-law imminent-danger jurisdiction objective-reasonableness qualified-immunity tenth-circuit |
Whether a reviewing court lacks jurisdiction over a district court's determination of imminent danger in a qualified immunity analysis, and whether th… |
| 25-186 |
Alejandro Estevis v. Ignacio Cantu, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment police-shooting qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether Officers Ignacio Cantu and Eduardo Guajardo should be denied qualified immunity before trial for shooting six times at Alejandro Estevis while… |
| 25-179 |
Officer Phillip Reinink, in His Individual and Official Capacity v. Sean Hart, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-08-14 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity seizure use-of-force |
Whether an officer's intended level of force and mistaken use of force impacts Fourth Amendment reasonableness and qualified immunity analysis in exce… |
| 25A119 |
Donald Olsen v. Aaron Salter |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-rights due-process eyewitness-testimony law-enforcement qualified-immunity show-up-identification |
Whether a police officer can be held liable for a due process violation when conducting a single-photo show-up identification procedure and whether qu… |
| 25-102 |
Jayne Swinford v. Officer Joshua Santos, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-07-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process jury-trial procedural-rules qualified-immunity seventh-amendment |
Whether the lower courts violated the Seventh Amendment's guarantee of a jury trial and the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause by dismissing Petitio… |
| 25-71 |
Matthew Farney, et al. v. Michael Rose, as Personal Representative for the Estate of Bradley Rose and on Behalf of all Statutory Beneficiaries of Bradley Rose, Deceased |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment police-encounter qualified-immunity summary-judgment |
Did the Ninth Circuit err in defining the qualified immunity right at issue too broadly by holding this was an 'obvious' case? |
| 25A41 |
Mathew Grashorn v. Wendy Love, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-07-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights domestic-disturbance excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether a law enforcement officer is entitled to qualified immunity when responding to a domestic disturbance involving potential use of force against… |
| 25-29 |
Priscilla Villarreal v. Isidro R. Alaniz, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-09 |
Pending |
Amici (11)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) |
arrest-without-cause civil-rights first-amendment free-speech government-officials qualified-immunity |
Whether it obviously violates the First Amendment to arrest someone for asking government officials questions and publishing the information they volu… |
| 25A3 |
Milton Green v. Christopher Tanner, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-07-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment qualified-immunity reasonable-officer second-amendment |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits an officer to use deadly force against an individual merely possessing a firearm without considering the totality… |
| 24-1310 |
David Engstrom, et al. v. James W. Denby |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment property-damage qualified-immunity warrant-execution |
Did the Ninth Circuit err in applying the Graham v. Connor reasonableness standard for excessive force to a destruction of property claim during warra… |
| 24-1229 |
Denise A. Canzoneri v. Prescott Unified School District, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-03 |
Denied |
|
clearly-established factual-allegations first-amendment light-most-favorable motion-to-dismiss qualified-immunity |
At the motion to dismiss stage, can a court disregard the 'light most favorable' standard and require the plaintiff to prove her rights were 'clearly … |
| 24-1214 |
Jared Cosper, in His Individual Capacity, et al. v. Perla Enriquez Baca, as Personal Representative of Amelia Baca, Deceased |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-05-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
deadly-force edged-weapon excessive-force qualified-immunity tenth-circuit use-of-force |
Whether the Tenth Circuit may establish a bright-line rule for an officer's use of deadly force against a suspect armed with an edged weapon, and whet… |
| 24A1119 |
Curtis Levar Wells, Jr. v. Javier Fuentes, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-05-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
consent fourth-amendment inventory-search probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits warrantless searches based on purported consent when the totality of circumstances suggests the consent was not v… |
| 24-1124 |
Christopher Thomas v. Tracy Pachote |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-05-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
fourth-amendment officer-assistance qualified-immunity split-second-decision supreme-court-precedent use-of-force |
Whether an officer can use force to assist another officer under the Fourth Amendment when making a split-second decision with incomplete information,… |
| 24-1099 |
Kyle Smith, et al. v. Rochelle Scott, Individually, and as Co-Special Administrator of the Estate of Roy Anthony Scott, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-22 |
Pending |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (13) |
bodily-pressure fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity restraint use-of-force |
Viewing the facts from the officers' perspective at the time, did the officers act reasonably under the Fourth Amendment by using bodyweight pressure … |
| 24-1091 |
Christopher Kiely, et al. v. Sherene Fagon, Administrator of the Estate of Zoe Dowdell |
Second Circuit |
2025-04-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction qualified-immunity second-circuit trial-court undisputed-facts |
Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in declining to exercise jurisdiction over Defendants' interlocutory appeal of the trial court's den… |
| 24-1079 |
Geoffrey Gray, et al. v. Washington State Department of Transportation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure ex-parte-young injunctive-relief qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity |
Should this Court grant certiorari to correct errors by the Court of Appeals regarding Ex Parte Young claims, complaint amendment opportunities, and c… |
| 24-1067 |
John Wetzel, et al. v. Roy L. Williams |
Third Circuit |
2025-04-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-rights death-row eighth-amendment mental-illness qualified-immunity solitary-confinement |
Was it clearly established for qualified immunity purposes that long-term solitary confinement for a death-row inmate with a mental illness violated t… |
| 24-1050 |
Estate of Te’Juan Johnson v. Amanda Rakes, Administrator of the Estate of Amylyn Slaymaker and Next Friend to the Minor Children G. C. and M. C. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-04-04 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment police-duty qualified-immunity state-created-danger |
Whether a theory of liability under the Fourteenth Amendment based on 'state-created danger' is incompatible with the purpose of the Due Process Claus… |
| 24-1051 |
Michael Nissen v. Javier Ambler, Sr., Individually and on Behalf of All Wrongful Death Beneficiaries of Javier Ambler, II, the Estate of Javier Ambler, II, and as Next Friend of J. R. A., minor child, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-04 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether a fact question on the 'deadliness' of force can impose a heightened deadly force standard that constrains the Fourth Amendment's objective te… |
| 24-1047 |
Ethel "Laverne" McVae, Individually and on Behalf of the Estate of Marcus McVae, Deceased, et al. v. Jesse Perez |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
deadly-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity totality-of-circumstances use-of-force |
Whether it is clearly established under the Fourth Amendment that a law enforcement officer may not use deadly force against an unarmed, fleeing perso… |
| 24-998 |
Officer Eddie Boyd, III, et al. v. Fred Watson |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-03-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
causation-standard clearly-established-law first-amendment qualified-immunity retaliatory-force section-1983 |
Whether the Eighth Circuit's decision violated 'clearly established' law directives and the objective reasonableness standard for First Amendment reta… |
| 24-980 |
William Jones, Jr., Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Police Officer for the Los Angeles Police Department v. Ymelda Elena, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
excessive-force law-enforcement ninth-circuit qualified-immunity summary-judgment video-evidence |
Whether a court's obligation to view evidence in the light most favorable to the plaintiff allows ignoring undisputed clear video evidence that would … |
| 24-919 |
Mike Miller v. Dillon Rock |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-canine qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying qualified immunity to a police canine officer for the duration of a canine bite during an arrest of an arme… |
| 24-887 |
Johnny Moats, Sheriff, Polk County, Georgia, et al. v. Stephen Jarrard |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-19 |
Denied |
|
first-amendment jail-ministry pickering-garcetti-framework qualified-immunity unbridled-discretion volunteer-religious-work |
Whether the Court's Pickering-Garcetti framework applies to a First Amendment claim by an applicant for volunteer religious work in a local jail's pro… |
| 24-891 |
Warren Balogh v. Chief Al Thomas, Jr., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-02-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights first-amendment government-violence monell-liability qualified-immunity speech-rights |
Whether the First Amendment protects speech amid violence left deliberately unchecked by local government |
| 24-886 |
Christopher Schurr v. Peter Lyoya, Personal Representative for the Estate of Patrick Lyoya, Deceased |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-02-18 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
deadly-force law-enforcement pleading-stage qualified-immunity summary-judgment video-evidence |
Whether Scott v. Harris permits courts to resolve qualified immunity at the pleading stage based on objective video evidence that demonstrates the imp… |
| 24-837 |
Anne Francisco, et al. v. Jason England, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-02-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
corrections-staff deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment mental-health qualified-immunity suicide-watch |
Whether evidence of violations of suicide intervention procedures constitutes deliberate indifference under the Eighth Amendment for denying prompt me… |
| 24-823 |
Benjamin Benfer v. City of Baytown, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment police-force qualified-immunity |
Whether the Fourth Amendment can countenance an extended bite by a police attack dog where no adequate warning was given, and the suspect was unarmed … |
| 24A752 |
Kyle Smith, et al. v. Rochelle Scott, Individually, and as Co-Special Administrator of the Estate of Roy Anthony Scott, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-31 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied constitutional standards in reviewing a law enforcement use of force claim involving pote… |
| 24A735 |
Latrisha Winder, as Next Friend of J. W., a Minor and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Stephen Wayne Winder, Deceased, et al. v. Joshua M. Gallardo, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
excessive-force fourth-amendment high-speed-pursuit qualified-immunity seizure use-of-force |
Whether a law enforcement officer's use of force during a high-speed pursuit constitutes an unreasonable seizure in violation of the Fourth Amendment |
| 24-6315 |
Eric St. George v. City of Lakewood, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-01-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process police-shooting qualified-immunity tenth-circuit |
Whether the Tenth Circuit's application of White v. Pauly to a 2016 shooting under Qualified Immunity constitutes a permissible legal interpretation o… |
| 24A693 |
Estate of Te’Juan Johnson v. Amanda Rakes, Administrator of the Estate of Amylyn Slaymaker and Next Friend to the Minor Children G. C. and M. C. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-01-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
deadline-extension petition-extension qualified-immunity substantive-due-process supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari in a case involving substantive due process an… |
| 24-6187 |
Joe Willie Cannon v. Michael Dehner, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court factual-findings interlocutory-appeal qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether reviewing courts deciding qualified immunity on interlocutory appeal are permitted to reconsider the factual findings of the District Court |
| 24-673 |
Randal M. Hall v. Travis Trochessett, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-20 |
Denied |
|
arrest-basis circuit-split first-amendment interference-statute qualified-immunity speech-protection |
Whether the First Amendment protects a husband's advice to his wife that leads to his arrest, and whether the Court should review the Fifth Circuit's … |
| 24-648 |
Officer Layau Eulizier v. Jose Vega-Colon, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Anthony Vega-Cruz, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-12-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review constitutional-violation law-enforcement material-facts objectively-reasonable-officer qualified-immunity |
Whether a court can deny qualified immunity when no material disputed facts exist and prior Supreme Court and Circuit Court decisions found no constit… |
| 24-618 |
Erin Wade, et al. v. City of Houston, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-05 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights fifth-circuit first-amendment mass-arrests pleading-standards qualified-immunity |
Whether the Supreme Court should correct the Fifth Circuit's departure from accepted judicial proceedings and pleading standards in civil rights cases… |
| 24-573 |
Coleman County, Texas v. Patsy K. Cope, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-11-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bell-v-wolfish detainee-suicide fifth-circuit monell-standard municipal-liability qualified-immunity |
Does a Bell v. Wolfish claim for detainee suicide allow a plaintiff to bypass the traditional Monell test for imposing municipal liability, and does s… |
| 24-570 |
Mary Dawes, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Decedent Genevive A. Dawes, et al. v. City of Dallas, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-11-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) |
body-camera-evidence officer-testimony qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment use-of-deadly-force |
Whether an officer's subjective belief of danger can negate objective video evidence showing no threat when determining qualified immunity on summary … |
| 24A506 |
Marc M. Susselman v. Washtenaw County Sheriff's Office, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-11-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights constitutional-violations law-enforcement municipal-liability qualified-immunity sixth-circuit |
Whether a county sheriff's office and local officials are entitled to qualified immunity when responding to a citizen's allegations of misconduct and … |
| 24-538 |
Donna Chisesi, Administratrix of the Estate of Jonathon Victor, Deceased v. Matthew Hunady, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-11-13 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights interlocutory-appeal law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment |
Whether a court of appeals can decide factual disputes on an interlocutory appeal of qualified immunity and whether qualified immunity should be abrog… |
| 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… |
| 24-504 |
Joseph M. Hoskins v. Jared Withers, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-11-04 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-retaliation due-process first-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity |
Whether qualified immunity shields government officials from liability when retaliating against a person for exercising a clearly established constitu… |
| 24-473 |
Karen Jimerson, et al. v. Mike Lewis |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-29 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (4) |
circuit-split constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity search-warrant |
Whether Maryland v. Garrison clearly established that officers violate the Fourth Amendment when they search the wrong house without checking the addr… |
| 24-5856 |
Anthony Shane Martin v. Erin Gaffney, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process first-amendment qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment |
Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing plaintiff's case through summary judgment, misapplying legal standards related to qualified immunity, due… |
| 24-463 |
Marta Sanchez, et al. v. Anthony Guzman, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-10-24 |
Denied |
|
affirmative-defense burden-of-proof civil-rights governmental-defendants legal-standard qualified-immunity |
Whether a civil rights plaintiff bears the burden of disproving the affirmative defense of qualified immunity for governmental defendants or whether g… |
| 24-406 |
Matthew Hunady v. Donna Chisesi, Administratrix of the Estate of Jonathon Victor, Deceased |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-court deadly-force interlocutory-review law-enforcement qualified-immunity standard-of-review |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision improperly applied a reasonable jury standard instead of a reasonable officer standard in a qualified immunity… |
| 24-383 |
For Our Rights, Inc., et al. v. David Y. Ige |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-U.S.C.-§-1983 constitutional-rights due-process emergency-powers qualified-immunity state-law-restrictions |
Does a state governor enjoy qualified immunity when imposing COVID-19 lockdowns and quarantines that allegedly violate citizens' clearly established c… |
| 24-378 |
Muzafar Babakr v. Jacob T. Fowles, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-10-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-shifting civil-procedure excusable-neglect pioneer-factors qualified-immunity summary-judgment |
Whether the Pioneer factors for excusable neglect are weighted unequally and whether summary judgment standards change when qualified immunity is rais… |
| 24A311 |
Donna Chisesi, Administratrix of the Estate of Jonathon Victor, Deceased v. Matthew Hunady, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
common-law-immunity excessive-force failure-to-train qualified-immunity reconstruction-era-law section-1983 |
Whether the doctrine of qualified immunity in Section 1983 cases should be reconsidered in light of historical evidence about the original understandi… |
| 24-266 |
Calisia Kelley and Johnnie Mae Kelley, Co-Administrators of the Estate of Bruce Kelley, Jr. v. Brian O'Malley and Dominic Rivotti, in Their Individual Capacities as Police Officers for the Allegheny County Port Authority |
Third Circuit |
2024-09-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
deadly-force factual-context graham-connor qualified-immunity tolan-cotton use-of-force |
Whether the Third Circuit improperly defined the factual context and eliminated the significant threat requirement in a deadly force case involving po… |
| 24A226 |
Corey Cunningham, on Behalf of Kodi Gaines, a Minor v. Baltimore County, Maryland, et al. |
Maryland |
2024-08-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause permits qualified immunity for law enforcement officers who use objectively unreasonable and egr… |
| 24-230 |
Kathleen Wright-Gottshall, et al. v. New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-08-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bodily-integrity fourth-amendment government-employment medical-testing mootness qualified-immunity |
Whether mandated weekly Covid-19 medical testing for government employees violates Fourth Amendment rights and whether such testing is a clearly estab… |
| 24-5416 |
Christopher Dominguez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-rights excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether the Ninth and Fourth Circuits apply different standards in evaluating qualified immunity for law enforcement officers' use of force claims |
| 24-193 |
Yoel Weisshaus v. Steve Coy Teichelman, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights law-enforcement material-fact qualified-immunity summary-judgment |
Whether an official may move for summary judgment on qualified immunity without a showing that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact? |
| 24-172 |
Marques A. Johnson v. James Dunn |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arrest circuit-split constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity |
Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits arresting a passenger in a car not suspected of any wrongdoing solely for failing to immediately provide identi… |
| 24-173 |
Malcolm Johnson, et al. v. Tina Kotek, Governor of Oregon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-16 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
due-process emergency-use-authorization experimental-vaccine fourteenth-amendment informed-consent qualified-immunity |
What is the proper standard of review for a Fourteenth Amendment Due Process challenge to a State official's order mandating experimental vaccine inje… |
| 24-152 |
Michael Pina v. Estate of Jacob Dominguez |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) |
armed-robbery excessive-force fourth-amendment investigative-stop police-use-of-force qualified-immunity |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in finding a Fourth Amendment violation when police fatally shot a suspect who failed to comply with commands during a… |
| 24A166 |
Tidera Harris v. Gregory Harvey |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether a law enforcement officer can assert qualified immunity when using deadly force against an unarmed suspect who does not pose an immediate thre… |
| 24A140 |
Christopher Harry West v. Mark Emig, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-08-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment mattress-removal mental-health prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Whether the Eighth Amendment permits the removal of a prisoner's mattress as a mental health intervention without violating constitutional protections… |
| 24-130 |
Desiree Martinez v. Channon High |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-06 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-violation domestic-violence due-process fair-warning police-conduct police-liability qualified-immunity |
Whether an officer can be fairly warned about the unconstitutionality of her conduct even when the facts of previous cases are not materially identica… |
| 24-132 |
Mark Bambach, et al. v. Gina Moegle, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-08-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure-jurisdiction constitutional-rights due-process johnson-v-jones jurisdiction qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton |
Whether the Sixth Circuit lacked jurisdiction under 28 USCS § 1291 and Johnson v. Jones and its progeny to hear Defendants' appeal |
| 24-5247 |
Eric Cruz v. Officer Domingo Cervantez |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment brady-rule brady-rule-of-evidence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment evidence evidence-exclusion qualified-immunity safe-prison-act |
Did the U.S. District courts' failure to allow relevant evidence into trial proceedings violate the Brady Rule of Evidence under Brady v. Maryland, 37… |
| 24-117 |
Todd Berman v. Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, dba Fedloan Servicing |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
affirmative-defense circuit-conflict federal-contractor federal-contractor-liability government-instructions merits-trial qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity |
Derivative-sovereign-immunity |
| 24-5174 |
Michael D. Carver v. City of Kalamazoo, Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
absolute-immunity fabricated-evidence false-arrest fourth-amendment franks-doctrine investigative-conduct malicious-prosecution probable-cause qualified-immunity |
Whether Franks applies to material omissions, and whether probable cause is vitiated for a particular offense where the omitted information is exculpa… |
| 24-73 |
Sherry L. Burt, et al. v. Jimmie Leon Gordon |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-07-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
constitutional-rights covid-19 pandemic-response precedent prison-conditions prison-officials qualified-immunity sixth-circuit |
Did the Sixth Circuit improperly deny qualified immunity to prison officials based on their response to the unprecedented COVID-19 global pandemic? |
| 24A74 |
Curtrina Martin, Individually and as Parent and Next Friend of G.W., a Minor, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
discretionary-function federal-tort-claims-act fourth-amendment qualified-immunity search-warrant supremacy-clause |
Whether the Supremacy Clause and the discretionary function exception of the Federal Tort Claims Act can immunize federal law enforcement from liabili… |
| 24A55 |
Karen Jimerson, et al. v. Mike Lewis |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
clearly-established-law fourth-amendment qualified-immunity reasonable-efforts search-warrant wrong-house-raid |
Whether an officer violates clearly established Fourth Amendment law when executing a search warrant at the wrong residence without taking reasonable … |
| 24A59 |
Kathleen Wright-Gottshall, et al. v. New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-07-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-search covid-19 fourth-amendment government-mandate medical-testing qualified-immunity |
Whether government-mandated COVID-19 medical testing of public workers constitutes an unreasonable search under the Fourth Amendment and whether quali… |
| 24-5056 |
Tyrone Stafford v. Arnold S. Zwicke, Executive Sheriff, Guadalupe County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement malicious-prosecution police-misconduct qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Question not identified. |
| 24-15 |
Paulette Smith, Individually and as Successor in Interest to Albert Dorsey, Deceased v. Edward Agdeppa |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
|
clearly-established excessive-force fourth-amendment police-shooting qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment use-of-force |
In a § 1983 action arising out of fatal police shooting involving disputed allegations of Fourth Amendment violations, did the Ninth Circuit err in gr… |
| 24A3 |
Darnell Anderson v. Aaron Fuson, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-07-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
Bivens eighth-amendment excessive-force federal-tort prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Whether the Supreme Court should extend the Bivens remedy to allow a federal prisoner to bring a monetary damages claim for alleged Eighth Amendment e… |
| 24A4 |
Joseph M. Hoskins v. Jared Withers, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-07-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity retaliation |
Whether a plaintiff must establish both that a constitutional right was clearly established and that the specific manner of retaliation was clearly un… |
| 23-1367 |
Pamela Quinlan v. Joseph P. Lopinto, III, Sheriff, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-02 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process fair-warning fifth-circuit malicious-prosecution qualified-immunity section-1983 thompson-v-clark |
Whether the United States Fifth Circuit cases of Guerra v. Castillo and Wallace v. Taylor, which stand for the proposition that qualified immunity req… |
| 23-1374 |
Keyvon Sellers v. Jerry Nelson, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Eddie Lee Nelson, Jr., Deceased, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-02 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-duty deliberate-indifference due-process equal-protection jail-intake procedural-guideposts procedure qualified-immunity racial-segregation |
Whether a jail intake officer had a clearly-established constitutional duty to inform others about an inmate's alleged racial animus in underlying cha… |
| 23-1333 |
Sami Azmi, et al. v. John Sylvester Penny |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-21 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights clearly-established excessive-force law-enforcement ninth-circuit qualified-immunity summary-judgment undisputed-evidence video-evidence |
Does a court's obligation to view the evidence in the light most favorable to the plaintiff allow it to ignore undisputed clear video evidence that wo… |
| 23-7770 |
Jerry A. Smith v. John Galipeau |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process excessive-force judicial-review legal-procedure qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified |
| 23-7723 |
Barbara Martin v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2024-06-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
change-of-venue civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-withholding prosecutorial-misconduct qualified-immunity standing witness-tampering |
Should a change of venue be granted in a civil rights case against a county prosecutor and county employees? |
| 23-1297 |
Michael Roane v. Tina Ray |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-12 |
Denied |
|
clearly-established-law fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-seizure objective-reasonableness personal-property qualified-immunity self-defense summary-judgment unreasonable-seizure |
Whether Roane's act had to be the 'necessary' or 'unavoidable' act, rather than within a range of objective reasonableness, to be considered an act of… |
| 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 … |
| 23-1285 |
Shawn T. Swindell v. Kenneth Bailey |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment civil-rights exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement-entry misdemeanor misdemeanor-arrest payton-rule payton-v-new-york probable-cause qualified-immunity |
Was the entry into the home to arrest the misdemeanant clearly established as unconstitutional? |
| 23-1257 |
Santos Argueta, et al. v. Derrick S. Jaradi |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-31 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights deadly-force factual-question qualified-immunity tennessee-v-garner use-of-force |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits police to shoot a fleeing suspect who might be holding a gun but exhibits no other signs of dangerousness |
| 23A1046 |
Desiree Martinez v. Channon High |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-rights domestic-violence due-process precedent-interpretation qualified-immunity state-created-danger |
Whether a government official can be denied qualified immunity when prior circuit court precedent suggests a constitutional violation, even if the fac… |
| 23-1232 |
Estate of Allan George, et al. v. City of Rifle, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-05-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights due-process factual-findings interlocutory-appeal jurisdictional-limits qualified-immunity scott-v-harris summary-judgment |
Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in expanding this Court's decision in Scott v. Harris to swallow the rule of limited jurisdiction on interlocutory app… |
| 23-7529 |
Reginald Andrew Paulk, Sr. v. L. Benson, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights counsel due-process federal-law judicial-review probable-cause qualified-immunity racial-animus sovereign-immunity standard-of-review |
Did the District Court and the Eleventh Circuit use the incorrect standard to review the issues and thus incorrectly apply the law? |
| 23-7538 |
Jose Luis Garcia v. Kyeong Park |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process judicial-discretion medical-care medical-malpractice qualified-immunity standard-of-care summary-judgment |
Did the Court of Appeals Erred in Affirming Summary Judgment When There Is Evidence of Deliberate Indifference of Dr. Park? |
| 23-1227 |
Rachael Eubanks, et al. v. Dennis O'Connor |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
abandoned-property civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process property-rights qualified-immunity state-action takings |
Does the former owner retain a constitutional right to accrued interest on abandoned property returned by the State? |
| 23A1023 |
Marques A. Johnson v. Chris Nocco, in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of Pasco County, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
fourth-amendment identification law-enforcement passenger-rights qualified-immunity traffic-stop |
Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits arresting a passenger in a vehicle for refusing to identify themselves when no reasonable suspicion of criminal… |
| 23A1005 |
Eric Cruz v. Officer Cervantez |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
cellmate-violence constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference pretrial-detainee qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether a law enforcement officer's deliberate indifference to an inmate's safety risks constitutes a violation of the inmate's constitutional rights … |
| 23-1204 |
Daniel Kinsinger v. Sherelle Thomas, Administrator of the Estate of Terelle Thomas, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
arrestee-rights civil-rights constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference due-process law-enforcement medical-care qualified-immunity summary-reversal |
Whether law enforcement officers' decision to transport an arrestee they believed had ingested drugs to a nearby prison with medical staff constituted… |
| 23A996 |
Yoel Weisshaus v. Steve Coy Teichelman, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split constitutional-rights qualified-immunity racial-profiling reasonable-suspicion summary-judgment |
Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly altered the summary judgment burden of proof in qualified immunity cases and created an unconstitutional circuit … |
| 23-1197 |
Damon Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-07 |
Granted |
CVSGAmici (37)Relisted (3) |
civil-rights constitutional-law damages government-official-liability individual-capacity-damages qualified-immunity religious-freedom religious-land-use spending-clause statutory-interpretation |
Whether an individual may sue a government official in his individual capacity for damages for violations of the Religious Land Use and Institutionali… |
| 23-1190 |
Alexsey Predybaylo v. Sacramento County, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-03 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process excessive-force municipal-liability pre-trial-detainee qualified-immunity strip-search |
Is an officer's intentional use of substantial and aggressive force against a pre-trial detainee in response to mere passive resistance to a strip sea… |
| 23-1155 |
Priscilla Villarreal v. Isidro R. Alaniz, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-24 |
GVR |
Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
arrest-without-cause civil-rights criminal-procedure first-amendment free-speech government-officials news-reporting public-officials qualified-immunity |
whether-it-obviously-violates-the-first-amendment-to-arrest-someone-for-asking-government-officials-questions-and-publishing-the-information-they-volu… |
| 23-1158 |
Ryan Morrison v. Alvaro Ramos, Individually and in His Official Capacity, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-24 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 civil-rights fourth-amendment home-privacy privacy-rights qualified-immunity search-and-seizure section-1983 unreasonable-search |
Whether a federal court can find that officers were entitled to qualified immunity for a civil rights claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 due to no clearly e… |
| 23A951 |
Keyvon Sellers v. Jerry Nelson, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Eddie Lee Nelson, Jr., Deceased, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
deliberate-indifference fourteenth-amendment inmate-safety jail-intake qualified-immunity racial-animus |
Whether a jail intake officer can be held liable under the Fourteenth Amendment for deliberate indifference when aware of potential racial animus that… |
| 23-7269 |
Willis Maxi v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 23-1131 |
Marcus Traylor v. Gideon Yorka |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-fabrication fabrication-of-evidence felony fourteenth-amendment misdemeanor qualified-immunity |
Whether fabrication of evidence for misdemeanor charges violates due process |
| 23-1102 |
Timothy Allen Davis, Sr. v. City of Apopka, Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process false-arrest immunity law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure section-1983 stand-your-ground |
Whether the federal court denied effect to the immunity provision of the state statute |
| 23-1108 |
Daril Foose, et al. v. Sherelle Thomas, Administrator of the Estate of Terelle Thomas, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-04-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights constitutional-violation custody drug-toxicity due-process fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement law-enforcement-custody medical-care qualified-immunity |
Whether the police officers' decision to transport a detainee who they suspected had ingested drugs to a nearby prison where he was evaluated by the p… |
| 23A882 |
Daniel Kinsinger v. Sherelle Thomas, as Administrator of the Estate of Terelle Thomas, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-04-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
deliberate-indifference drug-toxicity fourteenth-amendment medical-care qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether a law enforcement officer's decision to transport a potentially drug-intoxicated arrestee to a jail medical facility instead of a hospital con… |
| 23-7052 |
Shirron Jozette Gayles-Zanders v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2024-03-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction qualified-immunity standing |
Whether the federal courts erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of his constitutional rights |
| 23-7034 |
Michael Carter v. Megan Hayes, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-03-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process government-employee judicial-misconduct judicial-proceeding qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity witness-immunity |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's 42 U.S.C. 1983 civil rights claim on the basis of sovereign immunity |
| 23-1014 |
Diyonne L. McGraw v. Khanh-Lien Banko, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process qualified-immunity separation-of-powers state-officials supremacy-clause |
Whether the Supremacy Clause and the Separation of Powers doctrine preclude the federal judiciary from relying upon the federal common law defense of … |
| 23-6996 |
Brian Anderson v. Jeff Long, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation court-order due-process inmate-rights prison-warden qualified-immunity standing state-prisons |
If a State Prison Warden refuses to obey a Court Order & refuses to obey the Governor & refuses to obey the Executive Director Of Colorado Prisons, do… |
| 23-991 |
City of Long Beach, New York, et al. v. Ricky Joshua Benny |
Second Circuit |
2024-03-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-court civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process excessive-force law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity |
Whether the Second Circuit departed from this Court's precedents |
| 23-6844 |
In Re Deborah E. Gouch-Onassis |
|
2024-02-28 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in dismissing petitioner's civil rights claims for lack of standing |
| 23-6832 |
Willie Levens, II v. Louisiana Insurance Guaranty Association, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity racial-discrimination standing |
Whether an off-duty officer qualifies for qualified-immunity |
| 23-915 |
Pleasant View Baptist Church, et al. v. Andrew Beshear |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19-restrictions free-exercise free-exercise-clause qualified-immunity state-actor |
Whether qualified immunity applies to a state actor who violates the Free Exercise Clause |
| 23-896 |
Sean Garnand, et al. v. Greg Moore, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction jurisdictional-limitation legal-question qualified-immunity |
Can a Circuit Court of Appeals avoid deciding purely legal qualified immunity questions over which it has interlocutory appellate jurisdiction? |
| 23-872 |
Josh Patrick v. LaRhonda Dunlap Perez |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity taser taser-use |
Is there variance among federal judicial circuits regarding how they apply Fourth Amendment law in excessive force cases involving taser use? |
| 23-860 |
Brandon Holtan, et al. v. Mark Edward Nieters |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-09 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity unlawful-assembly warrantless-arrest |
Whether probable cause existed to arrest for unlawful assembly |
| 23-842 |
Patricia Polanco, et al. v. Ralph Diaz, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-07 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process government-liability immunity judicial-doctrine law-enforcement legal-standard qualified-immunity standing |
Whether the Court should reverse or recalibrate the doctrine of qualified immunity |
| 23-837 |
Casey Campbell v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
de-novo-review federal-employee first-amendment judicial-admissions qualified-immunity religious-discrimination title-vii workplace |
Are employer statements on religious discrimination binding judicial admissions in a Title VII de novo review? |
| 23-738 |
Leasa Marie Wright v. City of Ponca City, Oklahoma, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-01-09 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights civil-rights-violation discovery due-process emergency-medical-care medical-negligence municipal-liability qualified-immunity spinal-cord-injury substantive-due-process |
Is it a violation of substantive due process for state medical personnel to actively and affirmatively inflict injury on a patient? |
| 23-6414 |
In Re Joseph Raimondo |
|
2024-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice qualified-immunity |
Whether the United States Eastern District of MI Court erred in granting Respondents qualified immunity after voiding civil case No. 2:01-cv-71352, di… |
| 23-722 |
Ralph Diaz, et al. v. Patricia Polanco, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation covid-19 due-process ninth-circuit prison-conditions qualified-immunity substantive-due-process |
Whether the Ninth Circuit improperly denied qualified-immunity to prison-officials in these cases by defining the relevant-law at a high-level-of-gene… |
| 23-688 |
Travis Scott King, By and Through His Guardian ad Litem, Breanna Raymundo, et al. v. DeMichael Dews, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bodily-harm civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment excessive-force hudson-v-mcmillian prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Can the doctrine of qualified immunity ever apply when force is used maliciously and sadistically for the very purpose of causing harm in violation of… |
| 23-689 |
City of Los Angeles, California, et al. v. M. A. R., a Minor, By and Through His Guardian ad Litem, Elisabeth Barragan, Individually and as a Successor in Interest to Daniel Rivera, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights clearly-established excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity summary-judgment undisputed-evidence video-evidence |
Whether a court's obligation to view the evidence in the light most favorable to the plaintiff allows it to ignore undisputed clear video evidence tha… |
| 23-690 |
Brant Putnam, et al. v. Timothy Ryan |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 adverse-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech investigation medical-staff qualified-immunity standing |
Whether a retaliatory investigation may be a distinct adverse action under the First Amendment |
| 23-695 |
Samantha Taczak, et al. v. Nicolette Cremeans, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment qualified-immunity section-1983 state-court state-court-precedent u.s-constitution |
What sources of law constitute 'controlling authority' for the purposes of clearly establishing a right when analyzing Section 1983 qualified immunity… |
| 23-684 |
Andrew Knapp, et al. v. Janice Brown |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adverse-effects-for-police clearly-established-law constitutional-rights detention law-enforcement probable-cause probable-cause-determination qualified-immunity sixth-circuit warrantless-arrest |
Did the Sixth Circuit err in denying qualified immunity to four police officers? |
| 23-664 |
Ralph Harrison Benning v. Tyrone Oliver, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-20 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-U.S.C.-§-1983 civil-rights constitutional-safeguards correspondence correspondence-interception due-process email prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Whether the Due Process Clause requires notice and opportunity to be heard when a prisoner's outgoing emails are intercepted |
| 23-6287 |
Parnell R. May v. Kawhun Tims, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process excessive-force federal-procedure judicial-review qualified-immunity standing takings |
Whether the U.S. District Court erred in granting a Supplemental 1983 claim |
| 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 |
| 23-644 |
City of Charlotte, North Carolina, et al. v. Azucena Zamorano Aleman, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Rubin Galindo Chavez |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement precedent qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in the process it used to find a 'clearly established' Fourth Amendment right |
| 23-630 |
James E. Pietrangelo, II v. Christopher T. Sununu, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Governor of New Hampshire, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-12-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-policy equal-protection qualified-immunity race-discrimination racial-discrimination section-1983 standing standing-doctrine |
Whether the First Circuit's affirmance of the District Court's decision conflicts with this Court's precedent holding that 'persons who are personally… |
| 23-611 |
Adrian Martinez v. Sean Jenneiahn, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-07 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process excessive-force police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment use-of-force |
Whether the Court should reverse or recalibrate the doctrine of qualified immunity |
| 23-587 |
Mark Jakob, et al. v. Clara Cheeks |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-12-01 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process evading-arrest medical-care police-apprehension qualified-immunity |
Whether a fleeing suspect has a clearly established right under the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause to medical care where there is no eviden… |
| 23-6132 |
Chamone Ranell Russell v. Stark County Job and Family Services, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 23-572 |
Dustin Williams, et al. v. Randall McElhaney |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split civil-rights extracurricular-activities first-amendment free-speech parent-speech-rights qualified-immunity school-rules |
Whether a school employee violates a parent's First Amendment rights by suspending the parent from attending games for one week for violation of team … |
| 23A481 |
Pleasant View Baptist Church, et al. v. Andrew Beshear |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
covid-19-restrictions first-amendment free-exercise hybrid-rights qualified-immunity religious-schools |
Whether qualified immunity should be limited for executive branch officials who imposed COVID-19 restrictions that discriminatorily impacted religious… |
| 23-541 |
Michael Donnellon, Deputy, et al. v. John Jordan |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-11-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
arrest civil-rights excessive-force first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity |
Whether the Tenth Circuit's use of Hill's First Amendment analysis negated the objective Fourth Amendment standard of Maryland v. Pringle |
| 23-530 |
Terrence R. Yoast v. Pottstown Borough, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
|
excessive-bail false-arrest false-imprisonment fourth-amendment heck-doctrine malicious-prosecution probable-cause qualified-immunity section-1983 warrantless-arrest warrantless-entry |
Fourth-Amendment-in-presence-requirement |
| 23-514 |
Kim Jackson v. Chris Dutra, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-16 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-law due-process judicial-system qualified-immunity standing stare-decisis |
Whether the Court should reverse or recalibrate the doctrine of qualified immunity |
| 23-521 |
Denise Fisher v. Jodi M. Moore, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment qualified-immunity state-action state-created-danger |
Whether the Due Process Clause prohibits state officials from knowingly placing a person at unjustifiably high risk of harm |
| 23-513 |
Randy Smith, Sheriff, et al. v. Jerry Rogers, Jr. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-U.S.C.-§-1983 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights discretionary-functions government-officials harlow-v-fitzgerald legal-doctrine qualified-immunity statutory-rights |
What does it mean for a statutory or constitutional right to be 'clearly established,' beyond debate for purposes of § 1983 qualified immunity? |
| 23-5953 |
Michael Muthee Munywe v. Julie Dier, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether the district court's decision was erroneous |
| 23-459 |
Mark Sami Ibrahim v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2023-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-procedure federal-law-enforcement federal-officer interlocutory-appeal law-enforcement-immunity motion-to-dismiss qualified-immunity regulation statute statutory-interpretation |
Whether DEA Special Agent Mark Sami Ibrahim raised a colorable claim of a legislated immunity in the text of the statute and regulation granting Feder… |
| 23-5931 |
Donald Lee Kissner v. Joseph Michael Orr, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-01 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony judicial-error medical-care ninth-circuit pretrial-detention qualified-immunity |
Did the Sixth Circuit United States Court of Appeals commit clear error when it stated that Mr. Kissner did not show deliberate indifference to seriou… |
| 23-447 |
Jeremy Johnson v. Andre D. Boyd |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-court-precedent civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights fifth-circuit legal-standard qualified-immunity split-second-use-of-force use-of-force |
Whether circuit court precedent can clearly establish the law for the purpose of qualified immunity analysis, and, if so, under what circumstances can… |
| 23-433 |
Joyce Daniels, as the Administrator of the Estate of Mark Daniels, Deceased v. City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-10-26 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process judicial-procedure law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment unsworn-testimony wrongful-death |
Whether the trial court should have relied on the officer's unsworn interview in a wrongful death action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 |
| 23A376 |
Ralph Harrison Benning v. Tyrone Oliver, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
due-process email-censorship first-amendment prisoner-rights procedural-safeguards qualified-immunity |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires prison officials to provide notice and an opportunity to challenge the censorship … |
| 23A368 |
Adrian Martinez v. Sean Jenneiahn, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-10-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-canine qualified-immunity |
Whether the use of a police canine to bite a motionless, unarmed suspect in a closed storage closet constitutes excessive force in violation of the Fo… |
| 23A357 |
Brant Putnam, et al. v. Timothy Ryan |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
adverse-employment-action clearly-established-law first-amendment peer-review qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether a physician serving on a medical staff peer review committee can be held liable for an adverse employment action under 42 U.S.C. §1983 based o… |
| 23-400 |
Travis Palmer Curran, et al. v. Janet Turner O'Kelley, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-17 |
Dismissed |
Response Waived |
civil-rights curtilage due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment objective-reasonableness qualified-immunity seizure |
Whether the Fourth Amendment objective reasonableness standard for exigency, and the availability of qualified immunity itself, remain questions of la… |
| 23-385 |
Clayton R. Hulbert, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Jeffrey W. Hulbert, et al. v. Brian T. Pope |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
1983 civil-rights civil-rights-act first-amendment notwithstanding-clause police-accountability police-activity qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether qualified immunity is abrogated by the Notwithstanding Clause of the Civil Rights Act of 1871 |
| 23-387 |
Taylor Carlisle, Individually and as Representative Member of a Class, et al. v. Joseph P. Lopinto, III, Sheriff, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights drug-court due-process habeas heck-doctrine over-detention preiser-doctrine qualified-immunity |
Whether minute entries documenting incarceration without judicial proceedings are 'orders' and 'convictions or sentences' under Heck and Preiser |
| 23-377 |
Chris Dutra, et al. v. Kim Jackson |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
|
circuit-court-precedent clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment ninth-circuit police-conduct qualified-immunity supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court's precedents are the only source of clearly established law for purposes of qualified immunity |
| 23A310 |
Casondra Pollreis, on Behalf of Herself and Her Minor Children, W.Y. and S.Y. v. Lamont Marzolf, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-10-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
dashcam-footage excessive-force qualified-immunity scott-v-harris summary-judgment taser-threat |
Whether Scott v. Harris's narrow exception to the summary judgment standard—permitting courts to resolve disputed facts when video evidence is blatant… |
| 23-331 |
James Doe v. Gladys Pisani, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-09-29 |
Denied |
|
abuse-of-discretion disputed-facts interlocutory-appeal jury-trial material-facts probable-cause qualified-immunity summary-judgment |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding that 'arguable probable cause' can support a claim for qualified-immunity,summary-judgment,interlocut… |
| 23-324 |
Gerald L. Ferreyra, et al. v. Nathaniel Hicks |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-28 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
bivens circuit-split federal-officers fourth-amendment qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether a Bivens cause of action exists for Fourth Amendment claims against federal officers operating under a different legal mandate or not involvin… |
| 23-274 |
William Felkner v. John Nazarian, et al. |
Rhode Island |
2023-09-21 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights clearly-established-law first-amendment free-speech legal-standard policy qualified-immunity section-1983 supreme-court |
Whether the judge-made 'clearly established law' qualified immunity standard should be abolished or limited |
| 23-276 |
Dijon Sharpe v. Winterville Police Department, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-21 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement-interaction police-accountability police-filming public-recording qualified-immunity |
Whether filming police officers in public is First Amendment protected activity |
| 23-5625 |
Gale L. Davis v. Chester James Walker, Jr., Father |
Second Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 23A255 |
Denise Fisher v. Jodi M. Moore, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
clearly-established-law deliberate-indifference fourteenth-amendment qualified-immunity section-1983 state-created-danger-doctrine |
Whether the state-created danger doctrine, unanimously recognized by ten federal circuits, constitutes a clearly established right under the Fourteent… |
| 23-259 |
Lewis County, Kentucky, et al. v. Julie Helphenstine, Administratrix of the Estate of Christopher Dale Helphenstine and Guardian of B. D. H., the Minor Son of Christopher Dale Helphenstine |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-18 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment objective-knowledge pretrial-detainee prison-officials qualified-immunity separation-of-powers |
Whether a pretrial detainee alleging deliberate-indifference must prove the defendant actually-knew of a significant-risk-of-harm, or instead must pro… |
| 23-227 |
Sarah K. Molina, et al. v. Daniel Book, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-09-12 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
circuit-split civil-rights clothing-expression first-amendment free-speech particularized-message police-observation qualified-immunity speech-rights |
whether-words-on-clothing-are-protected-speech |
| 23-5470 |
Cedric Adams v. Nick Diamond, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force governmental-tort-liability qualified-immunity standing |
Should a local government be dismissed from acceptance of claims and the very beginning of a suit with prejudice giving absolute immunity without allo… |
| 23A167 |
Erik Carrasco v. Terry Henkell |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
affidavit exculpatory-information fourth-amendment omission qualified-immunity search-warrant |
Whether a law enforcement officer violates the Fourth Amendment by submitting an affidavit for a search warrant that omits material exculpatory inform… |
| 23A133 |
Gerald L. Ferreyra, et al. v. Nathaniel Hicks |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
bivens-action circuit-split damages-remedy fourth-amendment qualified-immunity warrantless-search |
Whether a Bivens action is available to remedy Fourth Amendment violations occurring outside the context of a warrantless home search or against offic… |
| 23-93 |
Kevion Rogers v. Jeffrey Jarrett, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
civil-rights codification common-law-immunity congressional-intent due-process qualified-immunity section-1983 statutory-interpretation traditional-common-law |
Whether the qualified-immunity doctrine is irreconcilable with the text of Section 1983 as Congress originally enacted it in 1871 |
| 23A94 |
Michael Boresky v. Jeremy Graber |
Third Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
bivens-claim collateral-order-doctrine false-arrest fourth-amendment qualified-immunity separation-of-powers |
Whether the collateral order doctrine permits immediate appellate review of district court rulings denying motions to dismiss based on the non-cogniza… |
| 23-5204 |
Larry David Davis v. Anna Catherine Cargile, Prosecutor, Pulaski County Prosecutor's Office, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-07-26 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-filing criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-document petition police-misconduct qualified-immunity search-and-seizure statutory-provisions |
Whether the district court erred in denying the petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment |
| 23A61 |
Chris Dutra, et al. v. Kim Jackson |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity second-story-railing summary-judgment use-of-force |
Whether qualified immunity protects law enforcement officers from liability for excessive force claims when officers use force to prevent a suspect fr… |
| 23A42 |
Sarah K. Molina, et al. v. City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-07-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
clearly-established first-amendment legal-observers qualified-immunity retaliation section-1983 |
Whether the First Amendment protects individuals from government retaliation for wearing identifying apparel as legal observers and for unobtrusively … |
| 23-37 |
Kyle Cardenas v. Josiah Saladen, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 unlawful-arrest |
Regularizing qualified immunity |
| 23-7 |
Lynn Hamlet v. Officer Hoxie |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-rights conditions-of-confinement cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment prison-conditions procunier-v-navarette qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether the Eighth Amendment bars a prison official from forcing a person with diabetes and open wounds to endure prolonged and unnecessary exposure t… |
| 22-7887 |
Kevin W. Dunigan v. Raybon C. Johnson, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-28 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing takings |
Whether the 6th Circuit abused its discretion in denying the plaintiffs' request for preliminary injunctive relief |
| 22-1223 |
Gwendolyn D. Gabriel, et al. v. Merry Outlaw, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process obstruction-of-justice predicate-acts public-corruption qualified-immunity racketeering rico-statute witness-tampering |
Whether RICO statute provides attorneys qualified immunity from RICO lawsuits when evidence shows they committed predicate acts/crimes |
| 22-7726 |
Gary Leon Webster v. John Thurston, Arkansas Secretary of State |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were violated |
| 22-1171 |
James LeBlanc, et al. v. Jessie Crittindon, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment overdetention prisoner-rights qualified-immunity section-1983 state-officials supervisory-liability |
Do high-ranking state prison officials violate a prisoner's constitutional rights by failing to promulgate policies cajoling independent, locally-elec… |
| 22-1163 |
Charles Anthony Dread v. Maryland State Police |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-hearing civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process malicious-intention qualified-immunity racial-discrimination summary-judgment |
Was the Trial Court's denial of the Petitioner's Motion for Summary Judgment and Request for Hearing without granting the Petitioner a Hearing he requ… |
| 22-1166 |
D. K. Williams, Warden, et al. v. Rafiq Sabir, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-06-01 |
Dismissed |
|
civil-rights constitutional-precedent due-process group-prayer inmate-rights prison-policy qualified-immunity religious-freedom-restoration-act |
Whether RFRA claims are exempt from the requirement not to define clearly established law at a high level of generality |
| 22-1151 |
City of Arlington, Texas v. De'On Crane, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
arrest-warrant fourth-amendment municipal-liability qualified-immunity reasonable-officer-standard traffic-stop use-of-force whren-v-united-states |
Where a suspect with an outstanding felony arrest warrant refuses repeated commands to turn off his car and exit the vehicle, would a reasonable offic… |
| 22-1157 |
Craig Roper v. De'On Crane, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment civil-rights deadly-force excessive-force objective-reasonableness officer-safety police-conduct police-intervention qualified-immunity use-of-force vehicle-stop |
Whether an objective police officer could have believed it reasonable to shoot a person who had warrants for his arrest, had locked the doors and rais… |
| 22-7614 |
Lisa A. Biron v. Jody Upton, Warden, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
christian-faith constitutional-rights federal-inmate first-amendment legitimate-penological-interests prison-regulations qualified-immunity religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act substantial-burden |
Does the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) apply to protect a federal inmate's religious liberties when she has adequately pleaded a substantia… |
| 22-7602 |
James Franklin Snyder v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2023-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process judicial-review police-misconduct property-seizure qualified-immunity standing state-court-jurisdiction |
Whether officers can lie about probable cause to obtain a warrant and search a vehicle without consent |
| 22-1107 |
Officer Matthew Gregory, et al. v. Elise Brown |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law constitutional-rights department-policies excessive-force law-enforcement police-procedure police-training qualified-immunity |
Whether the law was clearly established that following department policies and training would result in individual officer liability |
| 22-1092 |
Onoyom Ukpong v. International Leadership of Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-09 |
Denied |
|
employment-discrimination federal-laws final-pretrial-judgment qualified-immunity section-1981 statute-of-limitations summary-judgment supremacy-clause title-vii |
Did the Fifth Circuit deviate from paramountcy of Supremacy-Clause, federal-laws, final-pretrial-judgment, qualified-immunity, summary-judgment |
| 22-1062 |
Hinkle Family Fun Center, LLC, et al. v. Michelle Lujan Grisham, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-05-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-servitude inverse-condemnation property-rights qualified-immunity section-1983 taking takings |
Did the Tenth Circuit err in providing qualified immunity to Respondents for their actions to inversely condemn the property of the Petitioners to shu… |
| 22-1041 |
Kevin Brunner v. Megan Marie McMurry, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment child-welfare children civil-rights due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement protective-custody qualified-immunity |
Whether a child left alone in a residence without adult supervision constitutes an exigent circumstance under the Fourth Amendment? |
| 22-1025 |
Sylvia Gonzalez v. Edward Trevino, II, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-24 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (23)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
arrest circuit-split civil-rights first-amendment free-speech government-record probable-cause qualified-immunity retaliation retaliatory-arrest standing |
Whether the Nieves probable cause exception can be satisfied by objective evidence other than specific examples of arrests that never happened |
| 22-1005 |
Cornelius L. Emily, et al. v. Christopher Welters |
Minnesota |
2023-04-17 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement law-generality legal-standard precedent qualified-immunity supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Minnesota Supreme Court depart from this Court's decisions in qualified immunity cases? |
| 22-1003 |
Mucio Ramirez v. Christopher Martin |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-standard graham-v-connor police-brutality police-misconduct qualified-immunity reasonable-force use-of-force |
Whether Petitioner's initial non-compliance followed by surrender permitted Respondent to reject the then-existing circumstances and slam Petitioner's… |
| 22-959 |
Gwendolyn Carswell, Individually and as Dependent Administrator of and on Behalf of the Estate of Gary Valdez Lynch, III and Gary Valdez Lynch, III's Heirs at Law v. George A. Camp, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights discovery immediate-appeal interlocutory-appeal motion-to-dismiss procedural-law qualified-immunity standing |
Whether a district court can defer ruling on qualified immunity at the motion-to-dismiss stage without triggering an immediate appeal |
| 22-949 |
Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Diana Hagen, Justice, Supreme Court of Utah, et al. |
Utah |
2023-03-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process forum human-trafficking judicial-misconduct qualified-immunity recusal sexual-harassment standing statute-of-limitations |
If Mr. Howell's mom knows the Court, is that a fair forum for Petitioner? |
| 22-933 |
Jean Henderson, as Next Friend and Guardian of Christopher Henderson v. Harris County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment police-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 unreasonable-force |
Does qualified immunity shield an officer who uses unreasonable force against a fleeing misdemeanor suspect who complies with an officer's order to st… |
| 22-7081 |
Tamir Abdullah v. Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction qualified-immunity standing |
Whether petitioner has a right to have his allegations disputed by respondents |
| 22-921 |
Dan Cherner v. Westchester Jewish Community Services, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-03-21 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights court-appointed court-immunity custody-proceeding due-process family-court forensic-evaluator judicial-immunity qualified-immunity state-action state-actor |
Are respondents state actors? |
| 22-848 |
James Douglas Fox v. Mark Campbell, et ux. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
county-of-sacramento-v-lewis excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment graham-v-connor law-enforcement qualified-immunity seizure self-defense unreasonable-force |
Whether the Fourth Amendment standard for evaluating unreasonable force claims or the Fourteenth Amendment standard applies when law enforcement shoot… |
| 22-793 |
Paul Donald Davis, et al. v. Paul Waller, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split civil-rights deadly-force due-process hostage law-enforcement non-suspect-seizure qualified-immunity seizure use-of-force |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit misapplied the test for the constitutional use of deadly force set forth by this Court in Tennessee v. Garner |
| 22-756 |
Lannette Linthicum, et al. v. Robin Wayne Smith |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit medical-needs qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment summary-reversal |
Whether the Fifth Circuit manifestly departed from this Court's precedent by holding that authority that postdates the defendant's alleged acts can cl… |
| 22-735 |
Kori Anderson, et al. v. Tristen Calder, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Coby Lee Paugh |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-02-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
alcohol-withdrawal civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-violation due-process law-enforcement medical-needs qualified-immunity |
Whether qualified immunity was wrongfully denied to Petitioners in an alcohol withdrawal case based on a general determination that ignoring serious m… |
| 22-728 |
Daniel Cameron Wilkey, et al. v. William Eugene Klaver |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights clearly-established-law clearly-established-right fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop |
Whether the Sixth Circuit defined the right at too high a level of generality |
| 22-696 |
Reginald L. Gundy v. City of Jacksonville, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-01-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights first-amendment free-exercise free-speech government-speech qualified-immunity retaliation |
Whether Petitioner's invited invocation before the City Council was private speech or government speech |
| 22-675 |
Vicki Jo Lewis, et vir, Individually and as Co-Personal Representatives of the Estate of Isaiah Mark Lewis, Deceased v. City of Edmond, Oklahoma, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-01-20 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-reversal |
Whether the doctrine of qualified immunity should be reconsidered |
| 22-640 |
David Wellington v. Fernando Daza, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-01-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
1st-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights content-seizure first-amendment fourth-amendment overbreadth qualified-immunity search-warrant tax-code |
Is a search warrant that authorizes a search for violations of the entire federal tax code (26 U.S.C. §7201), plus any other numerous codes and laws f… |
| 22-625 |
W.A. Griffin v. Blue Cross Blue Shield Healthcare Plan of Georgia, Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 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… |
| 22-610 |
Warren Adam Taylor v. Augusta-Richmond County Consolidated Commissioners, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
|
case-controversy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss public-interest qualified-immunity standing statute-of-limitations |
Question not identified |
| 22-6455 |
Michael Joseph DeMarco, Jr. v. Jeremy J. Bynum |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech government-accountability prison-grievance prisoners-rights property-destruction qualified-immunity retaliation |
Does the Plaintiff's First Amendment right to redress in the form of a prison grievance exposing corruption and illegal acts give the government emplo… |
| 22-589 |
Daryl Holloway v. City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-12-27 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification identification-procedure law-enforcement lineup qualified-immunity |
Whether the Court should address ambiguity among the circuits on whether an unduly suggestive identification procedure violated the Due Process Clause |
| 22-564 |
Juan Carlos Salazar v. Juan Rene Molina |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-20 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment circuit-split excessive-force graham-v-connor law-enforcement qualified-immunity reasonableness-of-force surrender-protocol use-of-force |
Whether a suspect's dangerous past flight, without more, authorizes officers to doubt the sincerity of a subsequent surrender |
| 22-6352 |
Anson Paape v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-liability qualified-immunity |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause provides government officials with qualified immunity from liability for violating an individual… |
| 22-556 |
N. S., Only Child of Decedent, Ryan Stokes, By and Through Her Natural Mother and Next Friend, Brittany Lee, et al. v. Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-12-19 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (12) |
42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement legal-precedent qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether qualified immunity insulates a law enforcement officer from liability under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 |
| 22-533 |
Ifrah Yassin v. Heather Weyker |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-12-09 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 bivens-action civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights federal-cross-deputization qualified-immunity section-1983 task-force |
Whether state and local police officers are immune from suit under 42 U.S.C. 1983 whenever they are federally cross-deputized as members of joint stat… |
| 22-509 |
J. T. H., et al. v. Spring Cook |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-30 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment hartman-v-moore law-enforcement qualified-immunity retaliatory-investigation retaliatory-investigations |
Whether investigations—even when they lack probable cause—are so categorically different from other retaliatory acts that they cannot be the basis for… |
| 22-510 |
Jody Lombardo, et al. v. City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-30 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights detainee-death due-process excessive-force law-enforcement police-misconduct police-restraint qualified-immunity |
Whether officers are entitled to qualified immunity when they put a handcuffed and shackled person face-down on the floor and push into his back until… |
| 22-6146 |
In Re Maria Navarro-Martin |
|
2022-11-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing state-action |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's civil rights claims against state officials for lack of standing |
| 22-6131 |
Andrew Guy Moret v. Poornima Ranganathan, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process government-standard legal-procedure malpractice-standard medical-malpractice medical-professionals mental-health professional-liability qualified-immunity state-standards |
Whether the standard for mental-health professionals to receive qualified immunity is higher, lower, or the same as other medical professionals? |
| 22-6118 |
Wilbert Glover v. Matt Bostrom, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection inmate-treatment prison-conditions qualified-immunity racial-discrimination |
Whether the petitioner's claims of severe racial harassment and discrimination by prison officers and sergeants at the Ramsey County Jail were imprope… |
| 22-474 |
Laddie Huffman, et al. v. Rachel Harris |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-duties criminal-procedure detention due-process fifth-circuit mental-health qualified-immunity schizophrenic-inmate section-1983 |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in finding that the Due Process Clause imposes an obligation on county sheriffs to release a violently dangerous schiz… |
| 22-438 |
Glow In One Mini Golf, L.L.C., et al. v. Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-10 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
5th-amendment constitutional-rights covid-19 covid-19-shutdown emergency-powers equal-protection equal-protection-clause fifth-amendment qualified-immunity takings-clause |
Whether Minnesota's Governor has qualified immunity against Petitioners' Fifth Amendment Takings Clause claims |
| 22-5954 |
David Florence v. S. Frauenheim, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts amending-complaint civil-rights complaint-amendment court-retaliation due-process grievance-filing legal-procedure qualified-immunity retaliation |
Whether respondent can intentionally falsify their report to the court to obtain qualified immunity |
| 22-373 |
David Schaszberger, et al. v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Council 13 |
Third Circuit |
2022-10-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights damages-liability due-process good-faith good-faith-defense qualified-immunity retroactivity state-action |
Is there a 'good faith' defense under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that shields a defendant from damages liability for depriving citizens of their constitutional … |
| 22-5766 |
Clifford Benjamin Kinkade v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their civil rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 |
| 22-5745 |
Deron Devaughn Mahone v. Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment material-omission probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-application |
Whether a reasonable officer would have known that Officer Stewart's warrant affidavit failed to establish probable cause and that he should not have … |
| 22-293 |
Anthony Novak v. City of Parma, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-09-28 |
Denied |
Amici (5) |
circuit-split civil-rights first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement parody parody-speech police-misconduct qualified-immunity |
Whether an officer is entitled to qualified immunity for arresting an individual based solely on speech parodying the government, so long as no case h… |
| 22-5646 |
Fred Freeman v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-09-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights classification-error court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion procedural-review qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing |
Did Court of Appeals err in ruling on disability claims under the ADA and Rehabilitation Act? |
| 22-5583 |
John Doe v. Harris County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 22-223 |
County of Riverside, California, et al. v. Estate of Clemente Najera-Aguirre, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
9th-circuit clearly-established-law constitutional-rights deadly-force excessive-force law-enforcement ninth-circuit particularized-consideration qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Did the Ninth Circuit's panel decision denying qualified immunity contravene this Court's mandate that courts should not hold officers to a standard o… |
| 22-224 |
Brent Stroman, et al. v. John Wilson, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights false-arrest franks-v-delaware franks-violation grand-jury law-enforcement pleading-standards qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Questions Presented |
| 22-183 |
Bryan Cowan, et al. v. Masa Nathaniel Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
1983-action civil-rights criminal-plea excessive-force heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey judicial-estoppel qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether a §1983 claim is barred under Heck when the plaintiff must disprove part of the factual basis for his criminal conviction to succeed |
| 22-5274 |
Joseph Covell Brown v. Marcus Porter, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process higher-education ministerial-tasks procedural-due-process qualified-immunity |
Whether the right to procedural due process in disciplinary proceedings involving suspension, expulsion or loss of housing in publicly funded institut… |
| 22-80 |
Frank Napolitano, et al. v. Laurence Washington |
Second Circuit |
2022-07-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split credibility criminal-investigation law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity subjective-intent warrant-application |
Whether the investigating officers are entitled to qualified immunity |
| 22-5144 |
Khaled Shabani v. Tony Evers, Governor of Wisconsin, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-07-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction qualified-immunity standing |
Whether the petitioner has the right to prosecute a civil rights claim against federal officials for violating the petitioner's constitutional rights |
| 22-5121 |
Barbara Marie Frantz v. Kansas, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-07-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process medical-care qualified-immunity |
Whether Petitioner, Ms. Franz, has stated a claim for Respondents' deprived deliberate indifference to her serious medical needs |
| 22-5124 |
Michael Jerrial Ibenyenwa v. Elroddrock B. Wells, Sr., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process frivolous frivolous-claims in-forma-pauperis pleadings prisoner-plaintiff qualified-immunity twombly |
Whether a defendant sufficiently and properly invokes a qualified immunity defense in a 42 U.S.C. 1983 civil rights action lawsuit through broad and g… |
| 22-5011 |
Randolph Mays v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-liability law-enforcement qualified-immunity |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standard for qualified immunity |
| 22-7 |
Joe Carollo v. William O. Fuller, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-07-01 |
Denied |
|
discretionary-function eleventh-circuit legislative-immunity mitchell-v-forsyth municipal-elected-official municipal-official policy-making qualified-immunity scott-v-harris |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals' narrow application of the legislative-immunity doctrine to a municipal-elected-official departs-from-an… |
| 22-8 |
Anthony Momphard, Jr., Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Deputy Sheriff of the Macon County Sheriff's Department, et al. v. Melissa B. Knibbs, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Michael Scott Knibbs |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-force due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-use-of-force qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in finding that a reasonable officer in Deputy Momphard's position would not have perceived a danger that justified l… |
| 21-8283 |
Sushila Gaur v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-force police-misconduct qualified-immunity |
Whether the police's use of a chokehold on an individual during an arrest violated the individual's constitutional rights |
| 21-8241 |
Randy Lassiter v. Gerald Jenkins, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment |
Whether the US Court of Appeals erred in granting respondents' motion for summary judgment in favor of defendants |
| 21-1559 |
Sharon Powell, as Executrix of the Estate of William David Powell, et al. v. Jennifer Snook, as Executrix for the Estate of Patrick Snook |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-force due-process fair-notice fourth-amendment qualified-immunity totality-of-the-circumstances use-of-force |
When the unconstitutionality of an officer's conduct is obvious, must the court, in addressing the 'clearly established law' prong of a qualified immu… |
| 21-1552 |
Central Specialties, Inc. v. Jonathan Large |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-06-10 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-official legal-standard qualified-immunity scope-of-authority standing traffic-stops |
Whether courts must determine that a government official was acting within the scope of his authority before proceeding to the qualified-immunity anal… |
| 21-1540 |
Nita Gordon, Personal Representative of the Estate of Antonio Gordon v. Keith Bierenga |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-06-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation excessive-force fourth-amendment police-misconduct police-use-of-force precedent qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether qualified immunity protects government officials when no prior precedent exists recognizing the unconstitutionality of a fact pattern exactly … |
| 21-1522 |
Wayne Torcivia v. Suffolk County, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-06-03 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-entry qualified-immunity special-needs-exception state-actors warrant-requirement |
Whether a 'special-needs exception' allows warrantless entry into a home |
| 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? |
| 21-1502 |
Jeff Swanson v. Couy Griffin, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
|
civil-liberties first-amendment free-speech public-forum qualified-immunity social-media viewpoint-discrimination |
Did the Tenth Circuit err in reversing the decision of the District Court that Commissioner Couy Griffin was not entitled to qualified immunity after … |
| 21-1495 |
Jimmy Baldea v. City of New York License Division of the NYPD |
New York |
2022-05-31 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
2nd-amendment administrative-procedure civil-rights concealed-carry due-process handgun-regulation law-enforcement licensing-rights police-officer police-powers qualified-immunity |
Is License Division empowered to deny an unrestricted concealed carry license to a qualified police officer, as defined by 18 U.S.C. § 926B (2017), wh… |
| 21-1501 |
Orrilyln Maxwell Stallworth v. Rodney W. Hurst, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-31 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity section-1983 standing |
Whether the Court should recalibrate or reverse the doctrine of qualified immunity |
| 21-1492 |
Anas Elhady v. Blake Bradley |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-05-27 |
Denied |
|
bivens bivens-remedy border-enforcement civil-rights collateral-order-doctrine due-process federal-law-enforcement interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction qualified-immunity |
Whether a court of appeals has jurisdiction to decide Bivens issue in interlocutory appeal on qualified immunity |
| 21-1466 |
Lenard Johnson v. Richard Winfrey, Jr., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-20 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment affidavit civil-rights damages-claim franks-v-delaware law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity section-1983 warrant-affidavit |
Whether a law enforcement officer violates clearly established law under Franks v. Delaware if the officer does not include information in an affidavi… |
| 21-7926 |
Jonathan D. Stephen, Jr. v. Palestine Police Department, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation covid-19 due-process eleventh-amendment federal-jurisdiction qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing state-officials |
Whether the plaintiffs' claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for deprivation of their constitutional rights were improperly dismissed |
| 21-7899 |
Francis Paul Sicola v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 21-1422 |
Brett Ferris v. Chrystal Scism, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Joshua Scism |
Second Circuit |
2022-05-05 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
2nd-amendment civil-rights deadly-force due-process fourth-amendment lethal-force police-procedure qualified-immunity self-defense standing use-of-force |
Does the doctrine of qualified immunity shield a police officer from suit |
| 21-1403 |
Travis Morse, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Police Officer for the Town of Orono, Maine, et al. v. Christopher French |
First Circuit |
2022-05-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
circuit-court civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process knock-and-talk law-enforcement qualified-immunity warrant-requirement |
Did the First Circuit depart from this Court's qualified immunity precedent? |
| 21-1396 |
Dustin Dillard, et al. v. Vicki Timpa, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Anthony Timpa, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment bystander-liability civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement-liability mental-health-intervention qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether the Fifth Circuit misapplied the Court's qualified-immunity jurisprudence |
| 21-7580 |
Amos Lamar Burch v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech post-conviction-relief qualified-immunity standing |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 21-7571 |
Anton F. Liverpool v. Reggie Cleveland, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-04-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process excessive-force habeas-corpus judicial-review qualified-immunity standing |
Question not identified |
| 21-1242 |
Chad Chronister, Sheriff, Hillsborough County, Florida, et al. v. Andrew Joseph, Jr., as Natural Father, Next Friend, and Personal Representative of the Estate of Andrew Joseph, III, Deceased |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-14 |
Denied |
|
article-iii article-iii-standing case-or-controversy circuit-court circuit-court-precedent probable-cause qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing supreme-court-precedent |
Should the Supreme Court require the Eleventh Circuit to follow Supreme Court precedent and resolve challenges to Article III standing before resolvin… |
| 21-1229 |
Saved Magazine, et al. v. Spokane Police Department, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights content-based-censorship content-based-restrictions due-process dueling-protests first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech press-freedom public-forum qualified-immunity |
Are the expressive rights of freedom of speech and press in the context of dueling protests so well established and particularized that the shield of … |
| 21-1225 |
The Estate of Dillon Taylor, et al. v. Salt Lake City, Utah, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-03-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights excessive-force jury law-enforcement material-dispute qualified-immunity summary-judgment tenth-circuit |
qualified-immunity |
| 21-1220 |
County of Sacramento, California, et al. v. Kenard Thomas |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-violation due-process fact-determination law-enforcement qualified-immunity reviewing-standard section-1983 |
Whether a reviewing court should limit the facts considered when determining qualified immunity |
| 21-7311 |
Linda Baldwin v. Office of Injured Employee Counsel |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process federal-statute qualified-immunity reckless-conduct section-1983 |
Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, is a public official liable for reckless conduct that proximately injured another, even with qualified immunity? |
| 21-7313 |
Domonick Deshay Wright v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Whether the lower courts have sanctioned a dangerous expansion of qualified immunity that shields police officers from liability for violating clearly… |
| 21-1204 |
City of Chico, California, et al. v. Estate of Tyler S. Rushing, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-03 |
Denied |
|
arrest-procedure civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Does the Fourth Amendment prevent law enforcement officers from deploying a Taser to safely arrest a suspect who violently attacked the officers but w… |
| 21-7232 |
Lance Reberger v. Michael Koehn, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protections cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-treatment prison prison-medical-care prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Whether the Nevada Department of Corrections officials violated the Eighth Amendment by failing to provide adequate medical care to a prisoner during … |
| 21-1163 |
Carolyn L. Baburka v. Township of Hazlet, New Jersey, et al. |
New Jersey |
2022-02-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1988 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-amendments federal-law qualified-immunity search-and-seizure state-law |
Did the courts below commit error by failing to recognize federal law? |
| 21-1141 |
Charles Wade v. Gordon Lewis |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-violation due-process fair-warning medical-treatment prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Whether qualified-immunity-doctrine-demands-identical-fact-pattern |
| 21-1125 |
Matthew Schantz v. Benny Deloach |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights deadly-force fourth-amendment objective-reasonableness police-pursuit qualified-immunity summary-judgment traffic-stop use-of-force |
Does the Fourth Amendment allow police to use deadly force to prevent the escape of a joyriding motorcyclist? |
| 21-1128 |
John Turnure v. Latrent Redrick |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-15 |
Dismissed |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process excessive-force qualified-immunity scott-v-harris sixth-circuit summary-judgment use-of-force |
Did the Sixth Circuit contravene Scott v. Harris, 550 U.S. 372 (2007) by ignoring record admissions, videos, and photographs to credit to Redrick with… |
| 21-1104 |
John Davis v. City of Andrews, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-09 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-statements law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in upholding the doctrine of qualified immunity for a police officer who utilized known false statements to ensure the… |
| 21-1075 |
Mandy England, in Her Individual Capacity v. Annissa Colson |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights correctional-officer due-process eighth-amendment inmate-treatment medical-determination medical-treatment qualified-immunity |
Whether a correctional officer violated a constitutional right of an inmate for not requesting further treatment for a injury to the inmate's knee whe… |
| 21-6983 |
Shahid L. A. Majid, aka Arthur Moseley v. RN Richards, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-01-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process excessive-force municipal-liability qualified-immunity |
Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing petitioner's civil rights claims against the City of Chicago and individual police of… |
| 21-6947 |
Rayshawn J. Christmas, aka Rayshaun J. Christmas v. Jeff Jackson, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-law fifth-circuit jurisdiction mandamus qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying the appellants writ of mandamus |
| 21-6904 |
Michel Thomas v. Stafflink, Inc., dba Link Staffing Services, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 21-1014 |
T. O., a Child, et al. v. Fort Bend Independent School District, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment pedagogical-purpose public-school qualified-immunity school-officials |
Whether a public school student is barred from bringing an excessive-force claim alleging a violation of his federal constitutional rights whenever th… |
| 21-6878 |
Ronald Cox v. Benjie Nobles, Deputy Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment prea-regulations prison-rape-elimination-act qualified-immunity transgender transgender-vulnerability |
Should the requirements of the Prison Rape Elimination Act be followed to protect the vulnerability of the transgender Petitioner in determining wheth… |
| 21-6778 |
In Re Mark Thomas Garrett |
|
2022-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights court-discretion due-process equal-protection exceptional-circumstances extraordinary-relief legal-remedy qualified-immunity standing writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their civil rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 |
| 21-973 |
John Colangelo, et al. v. Nicole Chase |
Second Circuit |
2022-01-06 |
Dismissed |
Response Requested |
civil-rights criminal-charges due-process false-statement malicious-prosecution police-investigation procedural-grounds qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether the officers were entitled to qualified immunity where the law was not clearly established that a charge of making a false statement could be … |
| 21-6756 |
Tracy Clare Micks-Harm v. William Paul Nichols, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
absolute-immunity administrative-function civil-rights constitutional-rights HIPAA hipaa-immunity judicial-immunity proprietary-functions qualified-immunity retaliation search-and-seizure third-party-doctrine |
Whether rie, retaliation, deliberate indifference to the violation of civil-rights, acts committed within the scope of administrative-function, acts c… |
| 21-947 |
Tettus Davis, et ux. v. Jonathon Hodgkiss |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights fourth-amendment franks-challenge interlocutory-appeal probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant section-1983 summary-judgment |
Franks-v-Delaware-violation |
| 21-860 |
Jane Doe v. Timothy White, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-09 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
due-process fourteenth-amendment goss-standard goss-v-lopez higher-education liberty-interest procedural-due-process property-interest qualified-immunity |
Whether students at public colleges and universities have a liberty and property interest when facing suspension or expulsion |
| 21-837 |
Robert Bohanon, et al. v. Jacqueline Lawrence, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure district-court federal-courts interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction qualified-immunity summary-judgment |
Whether a federal court of appeals has jurisdiction over an immediate appeal from a denial of qualified immunity |
| 21-6488 |
Bertram S. Mann v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-12-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing petitioners' claims for lack of standing |
| 21-786 |
James P. Crocker v. Steven Eric Beatty, Deputy Sheriff, Martin County, Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-29 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech police-activity public-recording public-space qualified-immunity recording-rights |
Whether a First Amendment right to record police activities in public has been clearly established |
| 21-789 |
Casey Benton v. Mary Bradley, as Administrator of the Estate of Troy Robinson, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-29 |
Denied |
|
clearly-established-law constitutional-rights deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity taser-deployment tennessee-v-garner |
Whether a police officer is entitled to qualified immunity for deploying a taser to stop a fleeing person on top of an eight-foot wall |
| 21-770 |
Shelby Hawkins v. Johnny Banks, III |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights eighth-circuit excessive-force fourth-amendment police-conduct probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-force use-of-force |
Whether the use of force was reasonable |
| 21-774 |
Michelle Munger, et al. v. Brenda Davis, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights federal-rights inmate-rights inmate-services prison private-contractor qualified-immunity |
Can an employee of a private contractor providing services to inmates in a county jail or state prison facility assert qualified immunity in response … |
| 21-778 |
Selina Marie Ramirez, et al. v. Jeremias Guadarrama, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (16) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force mental-health-crisis motion-to-dismiss police-conduct qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment |
Whether plaintiffs must plead an available alternative that 'would have' avoided harm to defeat a motion to dismiss in a Section 1983 excessive-force … |
| 21-783 |
Patsy K. Cope, et al. v. Leslie W. Cogdill, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (13) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process inadequate-medical-care jail-official pretrial-detainee pretrial-detainees qualified-immunity suicide-prevention suicide-risk |
Whether jail officials who are subjectively aware of a substantial risk that a pretrial detainee will attempt suicide and respond to the harm unreason… |
| 21-6381 |
Russell Tinsley v. Merrill Main, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech qualified-immunity retaliation standing |
Whether the New Jersey United States District Court denied Mr. Tinsley's First Amendment retaliation claim |
| 21-709 |
Jacob Clark, et ux. v. Bernadette Stone, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment burden-of-proof child-protective-services civil-rights home-invasion home-privacy qualified-immunity warrantless-search warrantless-searches |
Whether qualified immunity applies to shield from liability child protective services case workers who repeatedly conduct warrantless searches of a ho… |
| 21-6153 |
Suran Wije v. David A. Burns, et al. |
Texas |
2021-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-liberties due-process equal-protection equal-rights fourteenth-amendment immunity leave-to-amend liberty nondisclosure qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity |
Do the interests of 'justice so require' a leave to amend, when purposeful obfuscation, legal trickery, and nondisclosed affirmative defenses like imm… |
| 21-6075 |
James Frei v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment |
Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in its judgment |
| 21-617 |
Christopher N. Payne v. Jahal Taslimi, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment inmate-privacy medical-confidentiality penological-interests prejudice privacy qualified-immunity |
Do inmates have a constitutional right to privacy in their HIV status? |
| 21-606 |
Donald Shooter v. Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech legislative-immunity legislative-procedure qualified-immunity standing |
Does this case present an important question not previously decided by the Supreme Court in which an elected member of the Arizona Legislature engaged… |
| 21-6013 |
Zachary Scott Reed v. Michael Dixon, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights clear-error due-process judicial-fairness pro-se-plaintiff qualified-immunity standing |
Whether the failure of the district court and the appellate court to ensure an earlier legal decision is fair and just and subsequent disregard of a p… |
| 21-569 |
Gregory V. Tucker v. City of Shreveport, Louisiana, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights excessive-force fair-warning qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether police officers are entitled to qualified immunity when there is no prior caselaw declaring their actions unconstitutional in an identical fac… |
| 21-6016 |
Zelda Ware v. City of Atlanta, Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity search-warrant state-agency |
Whether a court order directing a state agency to pick up a child is the functional equivalent of a search warrant |
| 21-549 |
Nicole Hutcheson, et al. v. Dallas County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights discovery discovery-standard municipal-liability plausibility-pleading qualified-immunity summary-judgment training |
To what extent should discovery be allowed from third-party eyewitnesses when the only evidence in support of 'what actually happened' is a soundless … |
| 21-533 |
Brad Martin, Individually and as an Employee of the Arizona Department of Public Safety, et al. v. Carlos Castro |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
clearly-established-law fourth-amendment k9-deployment law-enforcement qualified-immunity reasonable-force totality-of-circumstances use-of-force violent-crime |
when-law-enforcement-officer-deploys-k9-to-restrain-fleeing-suspect |
| 21-5885 |
Michael Alan Webb v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment arbitration-award civil-rights district-court due-process federal-law legal-precedent manifest-disregard motion-to-vacate qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing |
Whether the lower courts erred in denying the petitioner's Fourth Amendment claims regarding an allegedly unconstitutional search and seizure |
| 21-5733 |
Eric Westry v. Victor Leon |
Second Circuit |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
brady-violation civil-rights due-process excessive-force police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment |
How is it proper and legal for the court to state there were undisputed facts of physical-assault, threatening-behavior, physical-resistance, false-na… |
| 21-423 |
Jason Cunningham, Individually and as Administrator ad Litem and Personal Representative of the Estate of Nancy Jane Lewellyn, Deceased v. Robert Paschal, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-09-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights due-process excessive-force material-fact qualified-immunity summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton use-of-force |
Does the ruling in this case violate Rule 56 and Supreme Court precedent? |
| 21-314 |
Ed Reynolds, et al. v. Karri Dalton, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Nikki Bascom, and Next Friend to M. B., a Minor Child and A. C.. a Minor Child |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-08-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
10th-circuit civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights domestic-violence equal-protection police-duty police-protection qualified-immunity Question not identified. section-1983
21-313" section-1983
21-313" |
Did the Tenth Circuit err in denying Petitioners qualified immunity on Dalton's Equal Protection claim |
| 21-317 |
Dean Koch v. Ohio Department of Natural Resources, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11th-amendment 42-usc-1983 bostock-v-clayton-county civil-rights-act civil-rights-act-of-1871 constitutional-interpretation eleventh-amendment judicial-doctrine qualified-immunity statutory-construction |
Does the Decision of the Sixth Circuit herein violate the canons of statutory construction |
| 21-264 |
San Diego County, California, et al. v. Ana Sandoval, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established-rights deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-care medical-needs pretrial-detainee qualified-immunity |
Whether a pretrial detainee must show subjective awareness of medical needs or only objective unreasonableness |
| 21-5417 |
Alfred E. Caraffa v. Tempe Police Department, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process official-capacity pleading-standards qualified-immunity standing |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the plaintiff's civil rights claims against the defendants |
| 21-217 |
Marcy Britton v. Tim Keller, Mayor of the City of Albuquerque, New Mexico, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-08-16 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process inverse-condemnation penn-central-test property-rights qualified-immunity regulatory-taking regulatory-takings takings takings-clause |
Did the lower courts err in dismissing Petitioner's Federal Takings claim and claim for inverse condemnation against Defendants with prejudice at the … |
| 21-187 |
Hamdi Mohamud v. Heather Weyker |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-10 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
bivens bivens-remedy circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-violation fourth-amendment law-enforcement-overreach qualified-immunity ziglar-v-abbasi |
Whether a constitutional remedy is available against federal officers for individual instances of law enforcement overreach in violation of the Fourth… |
| 21-152 |
Estate of Madison Jody Jensen, by Her Personal Representative Jared Jensen v. Kennon Tubbs |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights correctional-facilities due-process medical-personnel mental-health mental-health-facilities qualified-immunity |
Whether private medical personnel working in correctional or mental-health facilities can assert qualified immunity |
| 21-149 |
Rodolfo Rivera, Jr. v. John Granillo |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-08-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process judicial-proceedings legal-standard material-facts probable-cause qualified-immunity |
Whether the lower court has departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, misrepresenting and ignoring material facts of the ca… |
| 21-5267 |
Robert Drawn, IV v. Robert Neuschmid, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-claims district-court-assessment due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-standard qualified-immunity reasonable-jurists summary-judgment writ-of-certiorari |
Did petitioner demonstrate that reasonable jurists would find the district court's assessment of the constitutional claims debatable or wrong? |
| 21-57 |
Levi Frasier v. Christopher L. Evans, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-15 |
Denied |
Amici (7) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement police-conduct police-recording public-conduct qualified-immunity |
Whether training or law enforcement policies can be relevant to whether a police officer is entitled to qualified immunity |
| 21-5079 |
Donnell Bledsoe v. Richard J. Guiliani, Judge, Superior Court of California, San Joaquin County, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights color-of-law criminal-procedure due-process qualified-immunity |
Whether Section 242 of Title 18 of the United States Code provides a remedy for the deprivation of constitutional rights under color of law |
| 21-5033 |
Relonzo Phillips v. Melody M. Maddox, Sheriff, Dekalb County, Georgia |
Georgia |
2021-07-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-economy malicious-prosecution patent pendent-jurisdiction qualified-immunity standing state-law-claims summary-judgment takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standards for standing, due-process, civil-rights, takings, patent, civil-procedure |
| 21-5051 |
Shangia Washington v. Cedric Taylor, Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit precedent prison prison-conditions qualified-immunity risk-of-harm subjective-knowledge |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit is following its precedent prior to Hope v. Pelzer to require a prior case on all … |
| 21-5038 |
Donnell Bledsoe v. Stockton Police Department, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process excessive-force exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment police-misconduct qualified-immunity search-and-seizure section-1983 |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 prohibit law enforcement officers from using excessive force against individuals who are handcuf… |
| 20-1806 |
Kim R. Helper v. Patrick H. Stockdale, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-06-25 |
Denied |
|
absolute-immunity civil-rights first-amendment giglio-disclosure giglio-v-united-states law-enforcement qualified-immunity retaliation |
Did the Sixth Circuit err in granting qualified immunity to the state district attorney and in denying her absolute immunity for communicating to the … |
| 20-1796 |
Justin Strolis v. Lucas Heise |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-24 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights co-defendant-identification fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause qualified-immunity summary-judgment witness-identification |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in applying a presumption of credibility to a co-defendant's identification of the plaintiff in a malicious prosecu… |
| 20-1768 |
Ron Fenn v. City of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech government-accountability government-actor qualified-immunity standing supreme-court-precedent |
Did the lower courts err in dismissing Petitioners' case on the basis of Qualified-Immunity |
| 20-1752 |
Devar Hurd v. Stacey Fredenburgh |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
civil-rights constitutional-deprivation due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest prolonged-incarceration qualified-immunity |
Whether prolonged incarceration past a release date is an objectively serious deprivation under clearly established Eighth Amendment law |
| 20-1696 |
Jeriel Edwards v. Steven Harmon, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-06-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bodycam-evidence bodycam-video civil-rights civil-rights
20-1695" civil-rights-litigation de-novo-standard excessive-force fifth-circuit-review frcp-60b4-motion inherent-court-powers jurisdictional-requirements qualified-immunity rule-54-attorney-fees section-1983 summary-judgment Whether the Fifth Circuit can refuse to review the |
Does Scott v. Harris alter or merely implement traditional summary-judgment |
| 20-1690 |
Ramon Cortesluna v. Daniel Rivas-Villegas, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights due-process excessive-force graham-factors material-facts police-shooting qualified-immunity scott-v-harris summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton video-evidence |
Did the Ninth Circuit depart from longstanding procedure and precedent and fail to view video and other evidence in the light most favorable to the pl… |
| 20-1685 |
Scott Fulford, et al. v. George Wingate |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-04 |
Denied |
|
civil-liability fourth-amendment law-enforcement-training qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion terry-stop totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances |
Whether the Fourth Amendment requires that seemingly innocent factors be eliminated from the totality of the circumstances analysis for a Terry stop, … |
| 20-1668 |
City of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, et al. v. Austin P. Bond, as Special Administrator of the Estate of Dominic F. Rollice, Deceased |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-06-01 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6)Relisted (4) |
deadly-force fourth-amendment intoxicated-individual officer-safety police-conduct qualified-immunity seizure use-of-force |
Whether use-of-force that is reasonable can nonetheless violate the Fourth-Amendment |
| 20-8159 |
Craig S. Robledo-Valdez v. Aramark Correctional Services, LLC, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-05-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights county-deputy due-process employment-status government-immunity law-enforcement legal-standing notice-of-intent qualified-immunity standing state-government state-law |
Does a county jail deputy qualify as a 'state employee'? |
| 20-1632 |
Patrick H. Stockdale, et al. v. Kim R. Helper |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-24 |
Denied |
|
absolute-immunity clearly-established constitutional-rights first-amendment petition-clause public-employee qualified-immunity retaliation |
Whether the decisional law regarding retaliation under the Petition Clause of the First Amendment was clearly established to place a public official o… |
| 20-1629 |
George Wingate v. Scott Fulford, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-arrest due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing |
Whether the Court should permit the qualified immunity defense to extend to a court-invented, hypothetical and demonstrably counter-factual justificat… |
| 20-8089 |
Emem Ufot Udoh v. Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights davis-v-monroe-county-board due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment haines-v-kerner municipal-liability pro-se-litigation qualified-immunity standing |
Whether pro-se-litigants are held to the same legal standards as counseled-litigants |
| 20-1591 |
Ashwin Khobragade v. Covidien LP |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment employment-law federal-rules fraud qualified-immunity rico stare-decisis white-collar-litigation |
Is the Defendant Covidien LP entitled to the absolute qualified immunity? |
| 20-1592 |
Caitlin McCann, et al. v. Sheila Garcia, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process legal-principles precedent qualified-immunity social-workers standing |
Whether a plaintiff satisfies the 'clearly established law' prong of qualified-immunity |
| 20-1578 |
William A. Graven v. Arizona |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11th-amendment civil-rights criminal-acts due-process qualified-immunity respondeat-superior service-of-process sovereign-immunity state-official-immunity state-officials |
Whether state officials can be sued in their individual capacities for alleged criminal acts under Ex Parte Young |
| 20-1539 |
Daniel Rivas-Villegas v. Ramon Cortesluna |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-05 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
civil-rights constitutional-violation excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor law-enforcement ninth-circuit plumhoff-v-rickard qualified-immunity supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Ninth Circuit depart from this Court's decisions in Graham v. Connor and Plumhoff v. Rickard in denying qualified immunity to petitioner based… |
| 20-1540 |
Victor J. Edney v. Eondra Lamone Hines, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights court-jurisdiction default-judgment government-liability governmental-immunity legal-action motion-for-default qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity |
Why should the petitioners' motion of frivolous-claims be granted by this court? |
| 20-1524 |
Advantageous Community Services, LLC, et al. v. Gary King, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-05-03 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process hope-v-pelzer legal-immunity medicaid-fraud qualified-immunity state-employees |
Should the doctrine of qualified immunity be limited or abolished? |
| 20-7906 |
Gerald J. Silva v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the government's actions |
| 20-1519 |
Ismael Rivera v. Glennis Gelabert-De-Peguero, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-04-29 |
Dismissed |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process judicial-doctrine police-conduct police-officer qualified-immunity standing |
Whether Police Officer Ismael Rivera was correctly denied his entitlement to qualified-immunity |
| 20-1471 |
Jonathan Lozada, Deputy Sheriff, in His Individual Capacity v. Dudley Teel, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Susan Teel |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-04-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-factors law-enforcement obvious-factual-clarity-rule qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether the Graham factors apply to a law enforcement officer's use of force during a call for service that does not involve commission of a crime |
| 20-7799 |
Susan W. Vaughan v. Shannon Foltz, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process familial-association family-law fourth-amendment liberty-deprivation qualified-immunity standing state-statute |
Is Troxel v Granville correctly applied to a case that has nothing to do with grandparents' visitation requests, but is used, nevertheless, as grounds… |
| 20-1461 |
Jairo Acosta, Police Officer for the City of Los Banos v. Tan Lam, as Successor-in-Interest to Decedent Sonny Lam, aka Son Tung Lam |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights due-process evidence officer-credibility plain-error police-use-of-force ptsd ptsd-evidence qualified-immunity reasonable-officer threat-assessment use-of-force |
Is it plain error to admit evidence of a police officer's remote PTSD diagnosis to challenge the officer's credibility and prove he was more likely to… |
| 20-1438 |
Tina Cates v. Bruce D. Stroud, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-law courts-of-appeals due-process fourth-amendment legal-doctrine precedent qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing |
Whether the unanimous conclusion of multiple other courts of appeals suffices to clearly establish the law for purposes of qualified immunity |
| 20-7698 |
Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. Town of Cary Police Department, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-09 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity standing |
Whether the issue of action as frivolous and/or for failure to state a claim against the Town of Cary's Police Department and Police Chief Tom Decurti… |
| 20-7704 |
Daghrib Shaheed, et al. v. Stephan Kroski, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-entry-order civil-rights family-court fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure new-york-state probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant |
Is a civil New York State Family Court Investigation Entry Order the equivalent of a search warrant? |
| 20-1402 |
Stephen Hammonds v. Robert Theakston, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-04-07 |
Denied |
|
11th-circuit 8th-amendment appellate-precedent civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process medical-care qualified-immunity section-1983 |
When the unconstitutionality of an officials' conduct is reasonably obvious, does that suffice to render the violation of those constitutional rights … |
| 20-1392 |
Jason Fowler, et al. v. Brittany Irish, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-04-05 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (3) |
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-duty due-process law-enforcement qualified-immunity state-created-danger |
Did the First Circuit err in denying qualified immunity to Petitioners? |
| 20-1384 |
Amy Everett v. Cobb County, Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-04-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cease-and-desist civil-rights constitutional-rights custom-and-practice due-process first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement-discretion malicious-prosecution qualified-immunity speech-protection |
Question not identified |
| 20-7627 |
Khaled Shabani v. City of Madison, Wisconsin, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process federal-court free-speech judgment malicious-prosecution police-department qualified-immunity related-cases state-court |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the police and prosecutors |
| 20-1362 |
Davdrin Goffin v. Robbie K. Ashcraft, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-30 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment police-shooting probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure tennessee-v-garner use-of-force |
Is an officer entitled to qualified immunity for shooting an unarmed fleeing suspect? |
| 20-1336 |
Denis Quinette v. Dilmus Reed, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process fourth-amendment inmate-abuse qualified-immunity supervisory-liability |
Whether jail command supervisors are entitled to qualified immunity for repeated supervisory failures resulting in a foreseeable, inevitable, and unco… |
| 20-1324 |
Charles McManemy v. Bruce Tierney, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-23 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process eighth-circuit excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement-conduct qualified-immunity standing |
Is the test for clearly established law being properly applied within the Eighth Circuit? |
| 20-1318 |
Vincent W. Shack v. NBC Universal Media, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-22 |
Denied |
|
bivens-action civil-rights civil-rights-violation constitutional-rights due-process federal-agents governmental-immunity qualified-immunity |
Does the law afford the means to prevent and redress alleged civil rights abuse by public officers and agencies? |
| 20-7490 |
Martin Stanley Ivie v. Washington |
Washington |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights commerce-clause due-process excessive-force false-charges interstate-commerce medical-cannabis police-misconduct qualified-immunity regulatory-burden state-licensing |
Whether it is legally permissible for police to use excessive force against a U.S. citizen committing no crimes, including shooting the person in the … |
| 20-1276 |
Stephen B. McKinney v. Felicia Harkness Dean, Guardian and Conservator for and on Behalf of Janel Harkness, an Incapacitated Adult |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
|
circuit-court-of-appeals clearly-established-law deliberate-indifference due-process intent-to-harm parratt-hudson parratt-hudson-doctrine qualified-immunity substantive-due-process |
Did the Circuit Court of Appeals err in failing to apply the Parratt-Hudson doctrine to the Respondent's substantive due process claim? |
| 20-1280 |
Joseph Cotropia v. Mary Chapman |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-law fair-warning fourth-amendment government-immunity per-se-unreasonable probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure warrantless-search warrantless-searches |
Whether the presumption that warrantless searches are per se unreasonable is so obvious a violation of the Fourth Amendment that the presumption gives… |
| 20-1269 |
Amanda Kay Renfroe, et al. v. Robert Denver Parker, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-doctrine qualified-immunity separation-of-powers standing |
Qualified-immunity-violates-separation-of-powers |
| 20-7355 |
Cleophus Reed, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 20-7332 |
Justin Laster v. Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-amendment civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity standing takings unidentified-issue |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing Petitioner's civil rights claims against the State of Georgia … |
| 20-1172 |
George Ponik, et al. v. Jamie Williams, Individually and as Administratrix ad Prosequendum of the Estate of Peter Lee Williams, Deceased, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-force law-enforcement objective-reasonableness qualified-immunity summary-judgment |
May a Court refuse to engage in the requisite two step qualified-immunity analysis |
| 20-1128 |
Ralph Clay Walsh, Jr. v. Lisa Hodge, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law cross-examination due-process qualified-immunity title-ix |
Does the mere presence of a circuit split necessarily foreclose a finding that the law is 'clearly established' for qualified immunity purposes? |
| 20-1082 |
Raymond Gardner v. Matthew T. Mglej |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-02-08 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search identification identification-statute law-enforcement qualified-immunity terry-stop |
Whether it was clearly established in 2011 that an arrest under Utah Code Section 76-8-301.5() for refusal to hand over an identification document vio… |
| 20-1066 |
Ashlyn Hoggard v. Ron Rhodes, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Amici (6)Relisted (8) |
case-precedent circuit-split constitutional-rights factual-similarity first-amendment higher-standard legal-standard public-university qualified-immunity |
Whether qualified immunity shields public-university officials from liability |
| 20-1006 |
City of Hayward, California, et al. v. Jessie Lee Jetmore Stoddard-Nunez |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-27 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment qualified-immunity section-1983 seizure use-of-force |
Whether an accelerating fleeing driver's sudden turn deprives a threatened shooting officer of qualified-immunity |
| 20-1002 |
Cody William Cox v. Don Wilson |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process fair-notice fair-warning government-official legal-standard precedent-comparison qualified-immunity |
Whether a court may uphold a qualified immunity claim on the ground that qualified immunity had been granted in a prior case in which the 'impropriety… |
| 20-997 |
Arlane James, et al. v. Noah Bartelt |
Third Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) |
civil-procedure civil-rights deadly-force johnson-v-jones law-enforcement officer-involved-shooting qualified-immunity self-defense summary-judgment third-circuit use-of-force |
Whether the Third Circuit's decision to exercise jurisdiction over an appeal of the District Court's denial of qualified immunity on a motion for summ… |
| 20-951 |
Mary Stewart, as Administrator of the Estate of Luke O. Stewart, Sr., Deceased v. City of Euclid, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-15 |
Denied |
Amici (6) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference fourth-amendment municipal-liability qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Where a municipal employee has violated the Constitution, must a plaintiff point to 'clearly established law' (such as would overcome a defense of qua… |
| 20-896 |
Teresa M. Graham v. Shannon L. Barnette, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-01-07 |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split community-caretaking fourth-amendment home-entry home-search qualified-immunity search-and-seizure warrant-requirement |
whether-the-community-caretaking-exception-extends-to-the-home |
| 20-6763 |
Arnold Maurice Mathis v. Zulaika Zoe Vizcarrondo |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compensatory-damages false-arrest fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment qualified-immunity statute-of-limitations warrantless-search |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit correctly dismissed Petitioners Counts ILand IIL of the Original Complaint for false arrest on t… |
| 20-879 |
Arthur Lopez v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-torts federal-officials federal-tort-claims-act qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity |
Whether the Westfall Act provides personal immunity for federal officials for constitutional torts |
| 20-870 |
John W. Orem, et ux. v. Matthew Gillmore, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights fourth-amendment medical-privacy probable-cause qualified-immunity search search-and-seizure |
Whether the Respondent State Trooper's lack of probable cause to search was sufficiently clear, when all reasonable inferences are made in Petitioner'… |
| 20-872 |
Shane Davis v. Mike Carroll, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process factual-reasonableness judicial-interpretation legal-standard qualified-immunity |
Whether qualified immunity absolves a defendant of § 1983 liability, despite knowledge of clearly established law, unless the plaintiff shows the viol… |
| 20-875 |
Sok Kong, Trustee for Next of Kin of Map Kong, Decedent v. City of Burnsville, Minnesota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review circuit-split district-court genuine-issue-of-material-fact interlocutory-appeal material-fact qualified-immunity standard-of-review summary-judgment |
Whether, on interlocutory review of a denial of qualified-immunity, an appellate court may reject a district court's determination of a genuine-issue-… |
| 20-876 |
Jeanine Liberti, et vir v. City of Scottsdale, Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights common-law constitutional-rights due-process legal-doctrine police-liability police-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Should the qualified-immunity doctrine be abolished? |
| 20-877 |
Trinell King v. Ricky Pridmore, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights clearly-established excessive-force hope-v-peltzer police-misconduct qualified-immunity racial-bias summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit disregarded the summary judgment standard in Trinell King's case and improperly weighed the evidence in favor of the Whit… |
| 20-6716 |
Mack Calvin Martin v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether the petitioner's alleged pretrial bias against him violated his due process rights |
| 20-825 |
Christopher Brewer v. Teresa Hooks, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-18 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment causal-connection fourth-amendment informant informant-testimony probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant section-1983 |
Whether probable cause or arguable probable cause exists to seek a search warrant where an officer relies upon an informant who turns himself in, admi… |
| 20-811 |
Kathy Contreras, on Behalf of Her Minor Child A. L. v. Dona Ana County Board of County Commissioners, dba Dona Ana County Detention Center, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process monell-claim monell-claims qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether the law was clearly established |
| 20-6614 |
Derek Jarvis v. Isiah Leggett, et al. |
Maryland |
2020-12-11 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights county-liability due-process government-liability legal-precedent malicious-conduct malicious-prosecution official-immunity qualified-immunity stare-decisis venue-transfer |
Whether the Maryland Court of Appeals erred in holding that Isiah Leggett was not liable for malicious acts by his county officials Michael Subin and … |
| 20-6573 |
Ellis Keyes v. Matt Wilson, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
11th-circuit civil-rights deadly-force due-process judicial-intervention municipal-liability order-to-show-cause police-restraint police-use-of-force qualified-immunity standing |
Whether the 11th Circuit erred in denying the motion for order to show cause why defendant police should not be restrained from using deadly force |
| 20-741 |
Tacara Anderson, on Behalf of Minor Child M. A. v. Officer Jonathan Vazquez |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment bodily-injury civil-rights due-process excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Are federal courts required to afford qualified immunity to a law enforcement officer who released a K9 on a child causing serious bodily injury? |
| 20-744 |
Michael Wigginton, Jr. v. The University of Mississippi, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established-right due-process fifth-circuit hope-v-pelzer qualified-immunity state-actors supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's grant of qualified immunity to the state actors named in the instant matter was violative of Supreme Court precedent estab… |
| 20-738 |
Donald Grochowski, as Administrator of the Estate of Kenneth Grochowski, Deceased, et al. v. Clayton County, Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cell-design civil-rights detainee-safety due-process inadequate-staffing jail-conditions legislative-immunity objective-reasonableness qualified-immunity substantial-risk |
Whether the trial court and panel erred in failing to draw inferences in Grochowski's favor and find that the conditions and systems created a substan… |
| 20-6431 |
John L. Howell v. David Adler, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
article-iii-powers bankruptcy barton-injunctions civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-immunity non-core-claims qualified-immunity quasi-judicial-immunity |
To deny a plaintiff's constitutional right to due process and prohibit suit against a particular set of defendants who it wishes to shield from liabil… |
| 20-726 |
In Re Stephanie Michael |
|
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act forum-non-conveniens judicial-review mandamus qualified-immunity res-judicata va-benefits veterans-claims veterans-judicial-review-act |
Whether agency actions affecting the provision of VA benefits under applicable law may be reviewed by any other official or by any court of competent … |
| 20-6416 |
Devon M. Byrd v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity standing takings-clause |
Whether the court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims under the Takings Clause and Due Process Clause |
| 20-676 |
J. P., By and Through His Guardian Ad Litem, Shannon Villanueva v. Alameda County, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emotional-harm fair-notice first-amendment foster-care fourteenth-amendment qualified-immunity |
Whether emotional harm alone triggers 42 U.S.C. §1983 liability |
| 20-670 |
Jill Dillard, et al. v. Kathy O'Kelley, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-11-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split constitutional-right constitutional-rights digital-age informational-privacy precedent-analysis qualified-immunity sexual-abuse supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Court's opinion in National Aeronautics and Space Administrator, et al. v. Nelson diverged from its previous holdings in Whalen v. Roe and… |
| 20-636 |
Shase Howse v. Thomas Hodous, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-10 |
Denied |
|
and strike him in the neck when he poses no threa and whether a Fourth Amendment malicious prosecut tackle him circuit-split civil-rights excessive-force false-arrest fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution qualified-immunity unlawful-arrest |
Whether the law is clearly established that an officer cannot arrest a person whom the officer has no reason to believe committed a crime, tackle him … |
| 20-605 |
Kiernan Wholean, et al. v. CSEA SEIU Local 2001, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights damages-liability good-faith-defense qualified-immunity unconstitutional |
Is there a 'good faith defense' to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that shields a defendant from damages liability for depriving citizens of their constitutional rig… |
| 20-600 |
Anthony Sevy v. Philip Barach |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-04 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights excessive-force first-amendment free-speech government-official qualified-immunity retaliation retaliatory-force symbolic-protest |
Does the First Amendment prohibit government officials from using retaliatory force against an individual exercising protected speech? |
| 20-582 |
Shadreck Kifayatuthelezi v. South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights compensation eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment incarceration qualified-immunity release-date seventh-amendment state-law |
Whether the Eighth Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment, and/or state law provide a source of compensation when an inmate is incarcerated past his lawf… |
| 20-585 |
Greg Vasquez, et al. v. Maritza Amador, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Gilbert Flores and as Next Friend of Minor R. M. F., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights deadly-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-intervention police-use-of-force qualified-immunity reasonableness-standard suicide-by-cop use-of-force |
Reasonableness-of-force-under-4th-Amendment |
| 20-578 |
Sergeant Gary Hedger, et al. v. Ronald Graves |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (7) |
deadly-force fourth-amendment homicidal-suspect law-enforcement perceived-threat qualified-immunity taser-deployment use-of-force violent-suspect |
Did the Sixth Circuit misapply or disregard this Court's precedent by holding that a law enforcement officer violates the Fourth Amendment and clearly… |
| 20-6177 |
John Leo Davis v. Goodyear Police Department, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process law-enforcement prisoner-rights qualified-immunity retaliation sexual-abuse standing |
Whether it is proper for a district court to dismiss a case before first allowing discovery and an evidentiary hearing on the contention that the case… |
| 20-498 |
Sonia Garcia, et vir v. Wesley Blevins, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights deadly-force fourth-amendment qualified-immunity stare-decisis unpublished-decisions unpublished-opinions |
Whether a person holding a gun has a Fourth Amendment right to be free from deadly force |
| 20-508 |
Brandon S. LaVergne v. Michael Vaughn, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech mail-restriction qualified-immunity religious-freedom solitary-confinement turner-test |
Can a prisoner's 1st amendment right to correspondence be totally revoked without a hearing or due process? |
| 20-476 |
Rafael Martinez, et al. v. Bryheim Jamar Baskin |
New Jersey |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
|
42-u.s.c.a.-§-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process law-enforcement municipal-liability police-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Is the petitioner/Police Detective Rafael Martinez protected by qualified immunity in this action brought under 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983? |
| 20-477 |
Shanika Day, et al. v. Franklin Wooten, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
asphyxiation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement positional-asphyxiation qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Does an arrestee have a clearly established right to have his difficulty breathing considered by officers in their handcuff and adverse body position,… |
| 20-5955 |
Charles Lynch Pettis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable sear… |
| 20-5946 |
Roberto Antoine Darden v. Barbara Von Blanckensee, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights disciplinary-notice district-court due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus liberty-interest prisoner-rights procedural-grounds qualified-immunity |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision that due process was satisfied because the officer's act was 'above the norm' conflicts with other appellate cour… |
| 20-445 |
Matthew Anderson v. John Bonnewell, et al. |
Delaware |
2020-10-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment civil-rights correctional-officers due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force intent prison-conditions qualified-immunity summary-judgment |
Whether a trial court can disregard the Whitley-factors in an Eighth-Amendment-excessive-force case |
| 20-5911 |
Josh Albritton v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 20-422 |
Sarah R. Lee v. Ohio Education Association, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights good-faith-defense private-entities qualified-immunity restitution restitutionary-remedies retroactivity section-1983 |
Does 42 U.S.C. § 1983 provide a 'good-faith defense' to private entities who violate another's constitutional rights before the courts have clearly es… |
| 20-5846 |
Anthony C. Green v. Kelly Lake, Sheriff, Carlton County, Minnesota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
8th-circuit civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-standard due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment objective-reasonableness qualified-immunity |
Whether the 8th Circuit's decision is contrary to Kingsley |
| 20-391 |
Jody Lombardo, et al. v. City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (21) |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity reasonable-jury |
Whether a reasonable jury could find that officers used excessive force when they put a handcuffed and shackled person face-down on the ground and pre… |
| 20-381 |
Hamilton County Job and Family Services, et al. v. Joseph Siefert, et ux. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 child-services circuit-conflict civil-rights due-process medical-care qualified-immunity state-action state-actor |
Did the Sixth Circuit err in its qualified-immunity analysis? |
| 20-5789 |
Gerard Nguedi v. Brian Caulfield, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity |
Are police officers entitled to qualified immunity even if they use substantial force against non-threatening suspected misdemeanants? |
| 20-5745 |
Bradley William Monical v. Christina Towers, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process government-employees governmental-powers judicial-review legal-standards park-county-orders qualified-immunity statutory-provisions |
Whether government employees' aid in violating clearly established park county orders and administrative law amounts to a due process violation |
| 20-353 |
J. H., By Conservator, Betty Harris v. Williamson County, Tennessee, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-16 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-warning hope-v-pelzer qualified-immunity reasonable-standard state-actor |
Is Hope v. Pelzer dead in the Court's analysis of qualified-immunity? |
| 20-346 |
D. Ashley Pennington v. Beattie I. Butler |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-termination first-amendment fourth-circuit public-defender qualified-immunity scott-v-harris standing |
Whether the Fourth Circuit should have exercised jurisdiction and considered evidence regarding qualified immunity |
| 20-283 |
Austin J. Bass v. Patrick M. Greve, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) |
4th-amendment arrest arrest-justification civil-rights criminal-intent due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement-discretion probable-cause qualified-immunity |
Whether Officer Bass had probable cause to arrest under the Fourth Amendment |
| 20-263 |
Nanette Blanchard-Daigle, Representative of the Estate of Lyle Blanchard v. Shane Geers, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fifth-circuit law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by overlooking precedent in determining whether an officer enjoys qualified immunity after applying deadly excessive f… |
| 20-5573 |
In Re Abdul Mahhadie Underwood |
|
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection exhaustion-of-remedies qualified-immunity standing |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's civil rights claims without addressing the merits |
| 20-253 |
Christopher Castagna, et al. v. Harry Jean, et al. |
First Circuit |
2020-09-01 |
Denied |
|
community-caretaking fourth-amendment home-sanctity police-intrusion qualified-immunity sanctity-of-home search-and-seizure warrantless-entry |
Whether the community caretaking exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement applies to warrantless, unconsented-to entries by police offi… |
| 20-245 |
Patricia Nelson v. Esteban Rivera |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-31 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights excessive-force eyewitness-testimony qualified-immunity summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton |
Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in granting qualified immunity despite evidence supporting the plaintiff's position |
| 20-5550 |
Robert Kelvin Lindbloom v. Manatee County, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights false-evidence legal-procedure motion-to-dismiss perjury qualified-immunity standing |
Do specific and particular allegations of perjury and submitting false evidence overcome a presumption of qualified immunity in a Motion to Dismiss? |
| 20-5526 |
Norman Paul Blanco v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process municipal-liability qualified-immunity supervisory-liability |
Can a public official be held liable for the constitutional violations of their subordinates? |
| 20-226 |
Kenneth Ratliff v. Aransas County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-force municipal-liability pleading-standard qualified-immunity summary-judgment |
Should lower federal courts demand a heightened pleading standard for municipal liability claims? |
| 20-5504 |
Kevin L. Martin v. Cathleen Capron, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights court-discretion due-process equal-protection federal-pleading jurisdictional-review pleading-standards procedural-standards qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding that the Petitioner's due process and equal protection claims were correctly dismissed by the distric… |
| 20-202 |
Robert Massie v. Basilea Mena |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights clearly-established-law detention excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether Officer Massie's actions constituted excessive force in violation of the Fourth Amendment |
| 20-182 |
Rita Stanback, et al. v. Ginny Humphrey, as Parent and Legal Guardian of Minor Child, O. H., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process law-enforcement police-investigation qualified-immunity sexual-misconduct sixth-circuit supervisory-liability takings |
Whether the Sixth Circuit contradicted a fundamental principle of this Court's qualified immunity precedent |
| 20-183 |
Billy D. Stair, III v. Charles Jackson |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
|
excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor law-enforcement plumhoff-v-rickard qualified-immunity reasonableness-standard totality-of-the-circumstances use-of-force |
Did the Eighth Circuit depart from this Court's decisions in Graham v. Connor and Plumhoff v. Rickard in denying qualified immunity to petitioner base… |
| 20-5400 |
Gary Allen Kachina v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 20-5350 |
Jordan Duke Venable v. City of Phoenix, Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts administrative-remedies civil-rights due-process prison-mail qualified-immunity |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's dismissal of petitioner's claims that prison officials violated his constitutiona… |
| 20-5353 |
Ramone L. Wright v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-precedent qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation |
whether-the-court-erred-in-dismissing-the-petitioner's-claims-on-the-basis-of-lack-of-standing |
| 20-5230 |
Arthur Lopez v. Newport Beach Police Department, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-30 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether the seizure and warrantless search of a vehicle and its contents, including a cell phone, violates the Fourth Amendment rights of the vehicle'… |
| 20-83 |
Jacob Jones, et al. v. Wayne Duke Kalbaugh |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement objective-reasonableness police-conduct qualified-immunity tenth-circuit |
Did the Tenth Circuit improperly focus on the knowledge and intentions of the suspect, rather than the facts knowable to the officers, in reversing th… |
| 20-5140 |
Wilfredo Torres v. City of New York, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process judicial-procedure petition-for-certiorari qualified-immunity standing warrantless-raids warrantless-search |
Whether the U.S. District Court-Southern District of New York and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner'… |
| 20-50 |
Monica Voss v. Gregory G. Goode |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-21 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-right due-process fourth-amendment qualified-immunity section-1983 standing sua-sponte |
Whether an appellate court may impute third-party actions to a § 1983 claimant as the basis for qualified immunity |
| 20-43 |
Amanda N. Reich, et al. v. City of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-17 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process police-shooting qualified-immunity section-1983 sham-affidavit summary-judgment |
Whether the Sixth Circuit's extreme approach to the 'sham-affidavit' rule should be overturned in favor of the more flexible standards prevailing in o… |
| 20-31 |
Prince McCoy, Sr. v. Tajudeen Alamu |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-16 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights eighth-amendment excessive-force hudson-factors prison-conditions prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Whether a prison official is entitled to qualified immunity for an unprovoked assault on a prisoner even when not every Hudson factor favors the plain… |
| 20-21 |
Billy Duane Card Fleshner v. Matthew Tiedt, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-07-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process excessive-force law-enforcement police-accountability police-misconduct qualified-immunity |
Can Peace Officers use excessive force when the force is objectively unreasonable and it violates well established case law and department policies? |
| 20-13 |
Brandon S. Lavergne v. Burl Cain, Warden, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-action due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech legal-correspondence prisoner-mail qualified-immunity standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause |
| 19-8930 |
Reginald L. Dunahue v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review prison-conditions qualified-immunity standing |
Whether the U.S. Supreme Court should review the discretion of the U.S. District Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals in dismissing the petitioner's cl… |
| 19-1466 |
Tammy Korthals v. Bradley Strozeski |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process hope-v-pelzer non-decisional-evidence police police-liability qualified-immunity standing |
Whether non-decisional evidence must be considered when determining the protections of qualified-immunity |
| 19-1430 |
Richard Polidi v. Michelle K. Lee, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
absolute-immunity brady-v-maryland civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ethics-prosecution exculpatory-evidence federal-circuit-jurisdiction fifth-amendment immunity qualified-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Fifth Amendment provides a remedy for ethics violations |
| 19-1416 |
Mateusz Fijalkowski v. M. Wheeler, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-doctrine law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing takings western-political-theory |
Whether the Court should revisit its qualified immunity doctrine |
| 19-8785 |
Brandon Williams v. Roy Cooper, Governor of North Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
bill-of-rights civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-ethics qualified-immunity standing |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit exceed its enumerated powers and violate basic principles of federalism |
| 19-1379 |
Andrew McKinley v. Christopher Lee-Murray Bey |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-16 |
Dismissed |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights equal-protection fourth-amendment investigation investigatory-detention law-enforcement pre-contact qualified-immunity race race-discrimination |
Does the Equal Protection clause require an officer who initiated a pre-contact investigation for non-race related reasons to break off the investigat… |
| 19-8699 |
Jeremy P. Spencer v. Lieutenant Minter, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force qualified-immunity unlawful-arrest |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the use of excessive force and unlawful arrest by law enforcement officers |
| 19-1370 |
Kimberley Thames v. City of Westland, Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
|
abortions brandenburg-test criminal-threat first-amendment free-speech monell-claim municipal-liability naacp-v-claiborne-hardware qualified-immunity true-threats westland |
Did Petitioner's arrest and subsequent detention based on her speech violate her clearly established rights as set forth in Watts v. United States, Vi… |
| 19-8613 |
Abdul Shabazz Wiggins v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2020-06-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
anderson-v-creighton civil-rights due-process graham-v-connor hope-v-pelzer hudson-v-mcmillian qualified-immunity strickland-v-washington supreme-court-precedent use-of-force |
Whether the General District and Circuit Courts of Suffolk ignored the defendant's right to Qualified-Immunity |
| 19-8511 |
Herbert W. Morrison, Jr. v. Andrew J. Hale |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-action collateral-estoppel fourth-amendment heck-doctrine Heck-v-Humphrey illegal-search-and-seizure qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether 42 U.S.C. §1983 civil-rights claims based on 4th-amendment illegal-search-and-seizure are barred under Heck-v-Humphrey, collateral-estoppel, o… |
| 19-8512 |
Alexander P. Mhlanga v. Jennifer Hicks |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights damages due-process qualified-immunity |
Whether the defendant violated the plaintiff's constitutional rights under the Fourth Amendment and Equal Protection Clause |
| 19-8506 |
David James Ward v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 19-8495 |
Misbah Abdul-Kareem v. Vermont Department of Health |
Second Circuit |
2020-05-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech qualified-immunity standing |
Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim |
| 19-1291 |
Charles Hamner v. Danny Burls, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-14 |
Denied |
Amici (7) |
affirmative-defense circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-prong due-process federal-appellate-courts qualified-immunity standing state-actors sua-sponte |
Is qualified immunity an affirmative defense that state actors must assert, as nine circuits hold, or may federal appellate courts raise the defense s… |
| 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 (… |
| 19-1266 |
H. B., a Minor, Individually and as Successor in Interest to Michelle Lee Shirley, By and Through His Guardian ad Litem, Ronnie Shirley v. City of Torrance, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment objective-reasonableness police-conduct qualified-immunity scott-v-harris summary-judgment use-of-force |
In a 42 USC § 1983 action where videos capturing the claimed use of excessive force are open to multiple interpretations as to whether the use of leth… |
| 19-1261 |
Trent Michael Taylor v. Robert Riojas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-04-30 |
GVR |
Amici (2)Relisted (4) |
42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment government-officials obvious-violation prisoner-rights qualified-immunity section-1983 standing |
Whether the unconstitutionality of government officials' conduct is clearly established even absent binding precedent directly on point |
| 19-1225 |
Paul Hunt v. Board of Regents of the University of New Mexico, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-04-17 |
Denied |
Amici (8)Relisted (7) |
constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech off-campus-speech political-speech professional-conduct professional-norms public-university qualified-immunity student-speech university-policy |
Whether Respondents violated Mr. Hunt's clearly established rights as a private citizen under the First Amendment by punishing him for his off-campus,… |
| 19-8265 |
Jerry Wilson Hartley v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation damages due-process judicial-review legal-scope procedural-rights qualified-immunity standing state-actor |
Are the actions of a district court in denying a motion to dismiss a civil rights claim for damages against a state actor constitutional? |
| 19-8224 |
James William Neuman v. Nathan Callahan, et al. |
Iowa |
2020-04-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights clerk-conspiracy court-records document-tampering due-process fraud fraud-allegations judicial-misconduct qualified-immunity retaliation theft |
Do the Black Hawk County Clerks have qualified immunity when they conspired to delete or erase a payment and not follow court orders |
| 19-8083 |
Antwune Washington v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity standing takings |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in concluding that the petitioner's claims were barred by qualified immunity |
| 19-1130 |
Dale Danielson, et al. v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (9) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 constitutional-rights court-ruling good-faith-defense private-entities qualified-immunity restitution retroactivity takings |
Does 42 U.S.C. § 1983 provide a 'good-faith defense' to private entities who violate another's constitutional rights before the courts have clearly es… |
| 19-1126 |
Stacey Mooney v. Illinois Education Association, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-03-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (9) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 constitutional-rights good-faith-defense private-entities qualified-immunity restitution restitutionary-remedies retroactivity section-1983 takings |
Does 42 U.S.C. § 1983 provide a 'good-faith defense' to private entities who violate another's constitutional rights before the courts have clearly es… |
| 19-7902 |
In Re Darnell W. Moon |
|
2020-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct qualified-immunity standing takings |
Whether the 11th Circuit erred in dismissing petitioner's civil rights claims |
| 19-1093 |
Aleashia Clarkston, et al. v. John White |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit government-officials legal-standard qualified-immunity section-1983 standing takings |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in holding that there is a second type of qualified immunity—that government officials are also entitled to qualified immuni… |
| 19-1083 |
Jeffrey A. Clouser v. Kim Doherty, et al. |
Delaware |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection official-misconduct qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity state-tort-claims state-tort-claims-act whistleblower-protection |
Whether the Delaware Supreme Court's application of sovereign immunity unconstitutionally places state financial interests above individual rights |
| 19-1085 |
Shannon Deasey, et al. v. Daniella Slater, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
7th-circuit 9th-circuit civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law closely-analogous constitutional-rights due-process legal-precedent ninth-circuit qualified-immunity seventh-circuit sufficiently-analogous |
Whether a 'sufficiently analogous' case is enough to show that the law is 'clearly established' for purposes of qualified immunity, or if something mo… |
| 19-1067 |
Neal N. Browder, et al. v. S. R. Nehad, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-28 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights deadly-force due-process emergency-response fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct police-shooting qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Did the Ninth Circuit err in denying qualified immunity to a police officer who responded to a midnight emergency call about a suspect threatening oth… |
| 19-7790 |
Brenda Mason, Individually and on Behalf of Quamaine Dwayne Mason, et vir v. Martin Faul |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (6)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fifth-circuit objective-reasonableness police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing use-of-force |
Whether a finding of 'objectively unreasonable excessive force' can be squared with a finding of qualified immunity |
| 19-1042 |
Euince J. Winzer, Individually and on Behalf of the Statutory Beneficiaries of Gabriel A. Winzer v. Kaufman County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fifth-circuit law-enforcement qualified-immunity |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's qualified immunity analysis sets a dangerous precedent for the Civil Rights Act, exposing flaws in the Supreme Court's qua… |
| 19-1033 |
Daniel Enrique Cantú v. James M. Moody, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
|
bivens bivens-claim civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process evidence-fabrication fabricated-evidence federal-officer qualified-immunity standing |
Whether a plaintiff may pursue a claim under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 (1971), alleging that… |
| 19-7709 |
John A. Toth v. Peter Antonacci, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance qualified-immunity treaty |
Whether the violation of any State or Federal Courts, Treaties, Rights or Privileges by any and all State and/or Federal Agents and individuals, both … |
| 19-1021 |
Micah Jessop, et al. v. City of Fresno, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-18 |
Denied |
Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct property-rights property-seizure qualified-immunity search-and-seizure search-warrant seizure |
Whether it is clearly established that the Fourth Amendment prohibits police officers from stealing property listed in a search warrant |
| 19-7657 |
Marion L. Sherrod v. Sidney D. Harkelroad, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity seizure seizure-disorder standing warrantless-search |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals committed a reversible error in dismissing Mr. Sherrod's pro se claims |
| 19-7619 |
Therian Cornelia Wimbush v. R. L. Conway, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-10 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-liability law-enforcement qualified-immunity |
Question not identified. |
| 19-1001 |
Noble Cooper, et al. v. Officer Oliver Flaig, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (7) |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force law-enforcement police-accountability qualified-immunity |
Should the Court eliminate or significantly revise the judicially created doctrine of qualified immunity to protect the people's core constitutional r… |
| 19-7554 |
Roger Hillygus v. Frances Doherty, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983,false-arrest,due-process, due-process false-arrest guardianship-fraud judicial-procedure qualified-immunity standing |
Did the trial court err when it dismissed with prejudice all of Plaintiffs' claims under 42 USC § 1983 when Plaintiff Roger Hillygus has suffered fals… |
| 19-7565 |
Tyree Wright v. S. Alvarez, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference diagnostic-imaging due-process eighth-amendment inmate-rights medical-care medical-records prison-healthcare qualified-immunity |
When an inmate notifies medical of his prior head injury/medical history & asks them to retrieve his medical records, is that adequate to his medical … |
| 19-7508 |
Jeffrey D. Leiser v. Karen Kloth, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-01-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
by triggering PTSD symptoms rise to a level that is cognizable under the Eigh that caused psychological harm civil-rights correctional-officer correctional-officer-duties due-process eighth-amendment emotional-distress inmate-rights intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress psychological-harm ptsd qualified-immunity |
Does the intentional infliction of severe emotional distress, by triggering PTSD symptoms, that caused psychological harm, rise to a level that is cog… |
| 19-956 |
Donald E. Craig, et al. v. Janet Turner O'Kelley, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of John Harley Turner, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-30 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process government-officers harlow-standard harlow-v-fitzgerald moore-v-pederson panel-decision qualified-immunity timing-circumstance |
Whether timing constitutes an extraordinary circumstance for qualified immunity |
| 19-7444 |
Ameen Abdullah Muhammad v. John Kozelski, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the respondents' actions |
| 19-7452 |
Jeffrey R. Golin, et ux. v. San Andreas Regional Center, et al. |
California |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 constitutional-violation developmental-disability due-process government-officials governmental-duties governmental-immunity harmless-error jury-determination qualified-immunity standing |
Whether persons who are not government officials and not performing governmental duties can claim qualified immunity from suit in a civil rights actio… |
| 19-7453 |
Nancy Delaney v. San Andreas Regional Center, et al. |
California |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 constitutional-violation developmental-disability due-process government-officials governmental-duties harmless-error involuntary-confinement jury-determination qualified-immunity standing |
Whether persons who are not government officials and not performing governmental duties can claim qualified immunity |
| 19-926 |
Kim Davis v. David Ermold, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) |
ashcroft-v-al-kidd civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process obergefell-v-hodges qualified-immunity religious-freedom same-sex-marriage sixth-circuit zablocki-v-redhail |
Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in its analysis of the right-to-marry for same-sex couples |
| 19-7366 |
In Re Andrew J. Johnston |
|
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing takings |
Whether the court of appeals erred in dismissing petitioner's civil rights claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim |
| 19-899 |
Shaniz West v. Doug Winfield, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-21 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (6) |
4th-amendment civil-rights consent due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement property-damage property-rights qualified-immunity |
Whether an officer who has consent to 'get inside' a house but instead destroys it from the outside is entitled to qualified immunity in the absence o… |
| 19-7319 |
Thomas Bradford Waters v. John Stewart, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process evidentiary-standards excessive-force free-speech judicial-interpretation legal-procedure procedural-review qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment takings |
Whether the district court erred by granting summary judgment in favor of the defendant, despite the plaintiff's claims that there were genuine issues… |
| 19-889 |
Kaufman County, Texas, et al. v. Eunice J. Winzer, Individually and on Behalf of the Statutory Beneficiaries of Gabriel A. Winzer, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity summary-judgment use-of-force |
Did the Fifth Circuit panel majority err in reversing Kaufman County's summary judgment after concluding Officer Hinds did not violate clearly establi… |
| 19-868 |
Aaron Miner, et al. v. Steven L. Picatti |
Idaho |
2020-01-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
42-U.S.C.-1983 42-usc-1983 civil-rights clearly-established-rights constitutional-rights excessive-force factual-disputes qualified-immunity summary-judgment |
May a court decline to address qualified-immunity argument based on factual disputes? |
| 19-872 |
Matthew Reid Hinson v. R. A. Bias, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure collateral-order district-court factual-review factual-sufficiency qualified-immunity summary-judgment surveillance-video |
Did the Eleventh Circuit exceed its limited jurisdiction when, on appeal from a denial of summary judgment in a qualified-immunity case, it vacated th… |
| 19-7226 |
Tony Robinson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
35-usc-101 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment patent qualified-immunity standing takings |
Whether the Illinois Appellate Court erred in dismissing petitioner's civil rights claim |
| 19-7252 |
Clarence Joseph Jason v. Robert Tanner, Warden, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process excessive-force inmate-safety prison-conditions qualified-immunity |
Whether a prison's 'control policy' that allows inmates to attack other inmates violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punis… |
| 19-7199 |
Paul Tooly v. John F. Schwaller |
Second Circuit |
2020-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process employee-rights first-amendment free-speech qualified-immunity retaliation standing university-administration workplace-violence |
Whether the then President of SUNY Potsdam, John Schaller, should be denied qualified immunity for retaliating against an employee for reporting workp… |
| 19-842 |
Mark J. Schwartz v. Clark County, Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-03 |
Denied |
|
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-discretion federal-jurisdiction judicial-bias qualified-immunity section-1983 seniority-manipulation state-law supplemental-jurisdiction |
Does the district court abuse its discretion when it fails to differentiate between federal and state law claims under 28 U.S.C. §1367? |
| 19-811 |
Christine Almas Rose, Individually and as Mother of Jessie Lee Rose, et al. v. City of Utica, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force free-speech mental-health-intervention police-procedure qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Did the Second Circuit commit legal error when it granted qualified immunity to the police officer |
| 19-800 |
Carlin Robinson, Individually, as Guardian and Next Friend of I. Y., M. Y., and A. Y., and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Veronica Williams, Deceased, et al. v. Daniel A. Lioi, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights deshhaney due-process fourth-amendment police-liability qualified-immunity state-created-danger |
Which of the widely divergent approaches amongst the circuit courts of appeal, if any, appropriately applies the doctrine arising from this Court's pr… |
| 19-7028 |
Jess Lee Green v. Joe Errington |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction qualified-immunity standing statutory-provisions |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in dismissing petitioner's civil rights claims for lack of standing |
| 19-7036 |
Jeremy L. Dale v. Anthony Agresta, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-damages cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process excessive-force federal-tort-claims habeas-corpus medical-care prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment was violated by the defendants' alleged deliberate indifference to the plai… |
| 19-794 |
Daniel Macias, et al. v. Raymond Nichols, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split civil-dispute civil-procedure civil-rights district-of-columbia-v-wesby fourth-amendment law-enforcement ninth-circuit probable-cause qualified-immunity section-1983 wesby |
Whether the Ninth Circuit departed from this Court's qualified immunity decisions |
| 19-6985 |
Boaz Pleasant-Bey v. Shelby County, Tennessee, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appropriate-relief circuit-court-conflict first-amendment-free-exercise inmate-led-religious-services inmate-rights qualified-immunity rluipa rluipa-appropriate-relief-clause sixth-circuit trial-on-merits trial-on-the-merits |
Whether RLUIPA's 'appropriate relief' clause encompasses the requested relief of a trial on the merits |
| 19-6982 |
Ernest Collins v. Barnes & Thornburg LLP, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
1983-civil-rights-act case-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment incorporation judicial-discretion qualified-immunity section-1691 standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states under the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause |
| 19-771 |
Gerald Sensabaugh v. Kimberly Halliburton, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights common-law due-process first-amendment free-speech personnel-file protected-speech public-employee qualified-immunity retaliation standing takings |
Whether the Court should reconsider its qualified-immunity jurisprudence to accord with the official's burden of establishing immunity entitlement at … |
| 19-753 |
Michael Hunter, et al. v. Randy Cole, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) |
civil-rights clearly-established-law deadly-force deadly-weapon due-process dynamic-encounter excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment police-use-of-force qualified-immunity shooting-encounter use-of-force |
Whether police officers can use deadly force when a person armed with a firearm moves the weapon toward the officer, even if the officer has not shout… |
| 19-725 |
JonMichael Guy v. Robert O. Lampert, Director, Wyoming Department of Corrections, et al. |
Wyoming |
2019-12-09 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights clearly-established due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-interpretation qualified-immunity religion-clauses religious-discrimination sincere-belief standing |
When a government official discriminates against a belief that is sincere and religious to the victim, and is therefore protected by the Religion Clau… |
| 19-701 |
Lloyd N. Johnson v. Karen Rimmer, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process immunity institutional-care medical-care medical-negligence mental-health professional-judgment qualified-immunity standing youngberg |
Whether the 'professional judgment standard' articulated in Youngberg can be reduced to 'whether the worst doctor in America would say ok' |
| 19-6776 |
William Dawson v. Bryan K. Wells |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process excessive-force good-faith habeas-corpus jurisdiction police-misconduct qualified-immunity sentencing voluntary-manslaughter writ |
Whether the petitioner is entitled to a remand of the case with instructions for the district court to reduce his or her sentence to time served and o… |
| 19-676 |
Joseph A. Zadeh, et al. v. Mari Robinson, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-liability judicial-precedent law-enforcement legal-doctrine qualified-immunity section-1983 standing |
Whether the Court should recalibrate or reverse the doctrine of qualified immunity |
| 19-679 |
Amy Corbitt v. Michael Vickers |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) |
burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force interlocutory-appeal law-enforcement pleading-requirement pleading-standards police-use-of-force qualified-immunity section-1983 use-of-force |
Whether qualified immunity is an affirmative defense or a pleading requirement |
| 19-680 |
Kenneth Sealey, et al. v. J. Duane Gilliam, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process summary-judgment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process fourth-circuit legal-analysis qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment |
Did the Fourth Circuit err in holding that District Courts are not required to properly apply the qualified immunity analysis as to each officer and e… |
| 19-682 |
Melanie Kelsay v. Matt Ernst |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment non-compliance police-misconduct qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Are police officers entitled to qualified immunity as a matter of law even if they use substantial force against non-threatening suspected misdemeanan… |
| 19-661 |
Mynor Abdiel Tun-Cos, et al. v. B. Perrotte, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment bivens bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-law-enforcement federal-tort-claims-act immigration-enforcement law-enforcement qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether victims of an unconstitutional search and seizure may bring a civil action against rogue agents under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of th… |
| 19-656 |
William Anderson v. City of Minneapolis, Minnesota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) |
circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emergency-responders first-responders hypothermia hypothermia-treatment qualified-immunity state-created-danger |
Whether the burden of persuasion in qualified immunity cases should be on the plaintiff or the defendant |
| 19-657 |
Virgil Brewer v. Kristina Myers |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-11-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force graham-factors law-enforcement police-use-of-force qualified-immunity summary-judgment use-of-force |
Whether there is a clearly established right not to be shot with a less than lethal beanbag projectile at close range |
| 19-649 |
N. E. L., et al. v. Monica Gildner, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment child-custody civil-rights decisional-law due-process fourth-amendment jurisdiction post-removal-hearing post-seizure-hearing qualified-immunity uccjea |
Were Colorado's UCCJEA requirements detailed enough to defeat qualified immunity in a Fourth Amendment claim arising from the denial of a post-seizure… |
| 19-624 |
Mark Graf, et al. v. Hyung Seok Koh, et ux. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-11-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights coercive-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment interlocutory-appeal johnson-v-jones qualified-immunity seventh-circuit |
Whether the Seventh Circuit's renouncement of jurisdiction over Petitioners' interlocutory appeal misapplied Johnson v. Jones |
| 19-626 |
Robert Huff, et al. v. Michele Choate |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-11-15 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor pre-seizure-conduct qualified-immunity reckless-creation |
Whether the Tenth Circuit's 'reckless creation' theory, which imposes liability for the creation of the need to use force, should be barred because it… |
| 19-614 |
Cesar Vizcarra, et al. v. Monica Ortiz, Individually and as Co-Successor in Interest to Decedent Christian Pena, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anderson-v-liberty-lobby armed-suspect civil-rights excessive-force interlocutory-appeal johnson-v-jones law-enforcement mitchell-v-forsyth qualified-immunity summary-judgment taser use-of-force |
Whether qualified immunity bars liability for officers' use of force against an armed, combative suspect |
| 19-6625 |
Samuel R. Jones v. Erica Huss |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity question-not-identified search-and-seizure standing takings |
Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's dismissal of petitioner's claims under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 19-609 |
Erin J. Shepherd, et al. v. Angela Studdard |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (3) |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity sixth-circuit summary-judgment use-of-force |
Whether police officers are entitled to qualified immunity for shooting a knife-wielding suspect on open ground based on a case involving a shooting-t… |
| 19-6512 |
Michael Allen Channel, Sr. v. John Brinker, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process excessive-force judicial-review legal-precedent qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the defendants' warrantless seizure and search of the plaintiffs' home violated the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches an… |
| 19-580 |
Jun Xiao v. Regents of the University of Minnesota, et al. |
Minnesota |
2019-11-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process Fourteenth Amendment equal-protection qualified-immunity civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-rights qualified-immunity section-1983 standing takings |
Whether the state district court erred in dismissing Petitioner's 42 U.S.C. § 1983, Fourteenth Amendment equal protection claim for failure to state a… |
| 19-6480 |
Dario Rodriguez v. Rick Scott, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-review legal-dismissal procedural-fairness qualified-immunity retaliation standing |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights to free speech, due process, and equal protection were violated |
| 19-6371 |
Wesley Jefferson v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1505 18-usc-1515 18-usc-1519 civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery documentary-evidence due-process federal-procedure obstruction-of-justice qualified-immunity summary-judgment |
Would a United States Federal Court be in error, if it granted qualified immunity to a Defendant in a case, where video and/or documentary evidence, c… |
| 19-523 |
Victor Bernard Williams v. Baptist Health, dba Baptist Health Medical Center, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
2014 revocation of a medical license by the Arkan adverse-negative-reports adverse-reports civil-action civil-rights federal-cause-of-action federal-claims medical-license medical-license-revocation qualified-immunity res-judicata state-board |
Whether the April 8, 2014 revocation of Plaintiffs Arkansas medical license gave rise to a new federal cause of action not barred by res judicata |
| 19-529 |
Robert Sanchez Turner v. Al Thomas, Jr., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-knowledge-of-danger affirmative-act civil-rights constitutional-rights cut-off-all-avenues-of-recourse due-process law-enforcement public-safety qualified-immunity racial-violence shock-the-conscience specific-individual-or-public state-created-danger |
What analytical framework applies to the state-created danger doctrine? |
| 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 |
| 19-6273 |
Henry Cyrus Lucas v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-10-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process liberty qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 19-486 |
Donnett M. Taffe, Personal Representative of the Estate of Steven Jerold Thompson, Deceased v. Gerald E. Wengert, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-rights due-process federal-claims findings-of-fact interlocutory-appeal interlocutory-ruling material-facts pendent-jurisdiction qualified-immunity qualified-immunity,civil-rights,civil-procedure,ap standard-of-review summary-judgment |
Whether an appellate court may review disputed material facts and substitute its own findings when deciding qualified immunity |
| 19-466 |
Zachery Pittman v. Herman Harris |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established excessive-force fourth-amendment qualified-immunity scott-v-harris section-1983 summary-judgment use-of-force |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in deviating from other circuit holdings and announcing that Scott v. Harris directs the lower courts to examine whet… |
| 19-409 |
City of Cleveland, Ohio, et al. v. Ricky Jackson, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 42-usc-1988 brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 federal-law municipal-liability personal-injury personal-injury-claims qualified-immunity section-1983 section-1988 state-law state-law-survival-rule survival |
Whether §1988 requires the survival of §1983 claims to be determined using the state-law survival rule for the most closely analogous state cause of a… |
| 19-6028 |
Adam Lane v. Adam Nading, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation fourth-amendment knock-and-announce parole-search parole-searches qualified-immunity |
Whether qualified immunity applies to § 1983 actions for failure to knock-and-announce in parole searches |
| 19-5991 |
Howard Lee White v. Romeo Aranas, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection judgment lower-court-decisions qualified-immunity standard-of-review standing summary-judgment |
Did the lower courts err in granting summary judgment to the defendant? |
| 19-5966 |
Delbert Heard v. Andrew Tilden, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process electronic-evidence medical-care medical-malpractice medical-negligence negligence ostrich-defense prison-conditions prisoner-rights qualified-immunity surgical-delay |
Whether prison doctor can evade culpability for 8th Amendment violation for delay of prisoner's hernia surgery |
| 19-350 |
Stephen Busch, et al. v. Shari Guertin, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment bodily-integrity civil-rights due-process free-speech qualified-immunity regulatory-action standing |
Whether the 14th Amendment's constitutional right to 'bodily integrity' extends to a right to be protected from foreseeable harm in public drinking wa… |
| 19-326 |
Melinda Mitchell, et al. v. City of New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights fourth-amendment malice material-facts objective-reasonableness perjury police-misconduct qualified-immunity trespass wrongful-seizure |
Did the Second Circuit err in applying District of Columbia v. Wesby to grant qualified immunity to the police defendants who arrested the plaintiff p… |
| 19-308 |
Blanca Arizmendi v. Patrick Gabbert |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-representation fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware hicks-v-oklahoma law-enforcement qualified-immunity texas-code-of-criminal-procedure warrant-affidavit warrantless-arrest |
Was the officer's arrest of Petitioner with a warrant based on clearly established law? |
| 19-289 |
County of San Diego, California, et al. v. James Soler |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
arrest arrest-procedure civil-rights due-process extradition-warrant fourteenth-amendment jail-staff mistaken-identity procedural-due-process qualified-immunity |
When a prisoner is held under authority of a facially valid warrant, do individual jail staff members have a duty under the Fourteenth Amendment to in… |
| 19-276 |
Jose Luis Garza, et al. v. City of Donna, Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights detainee-mistreatment due-process episodic-act-or-omission evidentiary-standard fact-question free-speech legal-interpretation municipal-liability municipal-policy qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment |
Did the panel err in determining that the signs posted by Respondent were too 'inexact' and 'nebulous' in meaning to constitute municipal policy for §… |
| 19-263 |
Cody Ross v. Johnnie Rochell, Jr. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-28 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment 8th-circuit assault-weapon civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-violation eighth-circuit excessive-force kisela-v-hughes law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Did the Eighth Circuit depart from this Court's decision in Kisela v. Hughes, __ U.S. _, 188 S. Ct. 1148 (2018) (per curiam) and numerous other cases … |
| 19-215 |
Darrel Conell Nevels v. Piggly Wiggly Corporation, et al. |
Alabama |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process gross-negligence interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction premises-liability qualified-immunity |
In qualified liability cases, whether an Appellate court has jurisdiction to hear a Rights to Due Process, Gross Negligence, and Premises Liability in… |
| 19-222 |
Paul Anthony Valderas v. City of Lubbock, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-force due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct police-use-of-force qualified-immunity reasonable-force reasonable-inference use-of-force |
Whether an officer on the scene constrained by what he observes to use any force creates a reasonable inference that deadly force is excessive? |
| 19-188 |
Ikechukwu Hyginus Okorie v. Virginia M. Crawford, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
|
administrative-search arrest arrest-without-probable-cause detention detention-standards fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation law-enforcement-conduct probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant standard-of-review tolan-v-cotton |
Whether the allegations establish a Fourth Amendment violation and qualified immunity defense |
| 19-5564 |
Montye Benjamin v. Lynn Thomas |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights disputed-facts due-process federal-court federal-courts law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 standing summary-judgment |
Whether a defense of qualified immunity raised by a law enforcement officer in a § 1983 action is a valid basis for a Federal court to resolve dispute… |
| 19-5502 |
David Anderson v. Jackie T. Strode, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force inmate-rights law-enforcement prison-conditions prisoner-treatment qualified-immunity restraint-chair tasing-in-restraints |
Why was I tased in a restraint chair with only one arm loose out of the restraints? |
| 19-174 |
Jeri Lynn Rich, Representative for Gavrila Covaci Dupuis-Mays, an Incapacitated Person v. Michael Palko, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-rights clearly-established collateral-order collateral-order-doctrine excessive-force fourth-amendment material-facts qualified-immunity seizure |
When courts are deciding qualified immunity in Fourth Amendment cases, shouldn't they recite the trial court's identification of the disputed issues o… |
| 19-5475 |
Mitchell Taebel v. Maricopa County Attorney's Office, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing unreasonable-seizure |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated |
| 19-155 |
Lenard Johnson v. Megan Winfrey |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-01 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware immunity-analysis law-enforcement qualified-immunity |
When a claim is brought under Franks v. Delaware, does the Fourth Amendment alone fully define the dimensions of a law enforcement officer's qualified… |
| 19-5385 |
Darlene Rodgers v. Taura McDaniel, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
calumnious-decision civil-monetary-penalties civil-rights civil-rights,qualified-immunity,civil-procedure,du compensatory-settlement court-errors due-process judicial-misconduct legal-procedure miscarriage-of-justice qualified-immunity vicarious-liability |
Whether 8th Circuit Court is vicariously liable |
| 19-5338 |
Anna Maria Agolli v. District of Columbia, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-misconduct due-process false-imprisonment government-liability government-misconduct immunity-defense qualified-immunity statute-of-limitations |
Should Courts allow qualified immunity to protect governments and their employees in spite of evidence? |
| 19-5245 |
Michelle Renee Lamb v. Joe Norwood, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims for violation of their civil rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 |
| 19-76 |
Martin Marquardt, Deputy Sheriff v. William Fletcher |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
|
circuit-precedent civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process excessive-force ninth-circuit pretrial-detainee qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether the use of force by a correctional officer against a pretrial detainee was reasonable |
| 19-56 |
Mark Milner, et al. v. Vincent Mares, Executive Director, New Mexico Racing Commission, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-U.S.C.-§-1983 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-accountability harlow-v-fitzgerald new-mexico qualified-immunity |
Did the lower courts err in dismissing Petitioners' cases on the basis of Qualified Immunity in the face of US Supreme Court precedent and New Mexico … |
| 18-1590 |
Corey Lamar Smith, et al. v. Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Governor of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment civil-rights clearly-established-test danger due-process helling-v-mckinney incident-rate-statistics ninth-circuit plata-receiver prison-conditions qualified-immunity standing state-officials |
Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied the clearly established test's generality principles by analyzing the issue too specifically, whether the Ninth C… |
| 18-1555 |
Scott A. Boyler v. City of Lackawanna, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
aggravated-harassment constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech free-speech,civil-rights,retaliation,qualified-imm malicious-prosecution qualified-immunity retaliation social-media summary-judgment |
Whether retaliation chilled free speech under an objective or subjective test |
| 18-1558 |
Marshall Spiegel v. Corrine McClintic, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-06-20 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-expression law-enforcement-liability municipal-liability public-photography qualified-immunity standing |
Does the First Amendment protect a person's right to photograph or videotape in public? |
| 18-1553 |
Cheri Marie Hanson, as Trustee for the Next of Kin of Andrew Derek Layton v. Daniel Best, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process excessive-force excited-delirium fourth-amendment police-practices police-restraint police-training positional-asphyxia qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Was the use of prolonged prone restraint with compressive force on an individual who was already handcuffed and hobble-tied a clearly established cons… |
| 18-9714 |
John Stephen Routt v. Latanya Howard, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights conditions-of-confinement constitutional-rights disciplinary-segregation due-process eighth-amendment elder-v-holloway pretrial-detention qualified-immunity standing |
Is a Defendant entitled to qualified immunity when a Petitioner cites the 'squarely governing' case through a quote of a case with similar facts? |
| 18-9675 |
Tommy Dean Bullcoming v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights credibility-determination de-novo-review due-process evidence law-enforcement-testimony qualified-immunity scott-v-harris standard-of-review summary-judgment video-evidence |
Should a video recording of the actual events that clearly contradicts the sworn testimony of an officer support de novo review of the district court'… |
| 18-9668 |
Miguel Angel Arias v. Ashley B. Moody, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fraud fraud-abuse government-immunity government-misconduct judicial-ethics official-immunity official-misconduct qualified-immunity takings |
Does a government official maintain immunity after using their position to commit fraud and enrich themselves? |
| 18A1308 |
Liane Shekter-Smith, et al. v. Shari Guertin, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-06-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
bodily-integrity constitutional-rights drinking-water qualified-immunity state-regulators substantive-due-process |
Whether state regulators can be held liable under substantive due process for failing to protect citizens from foreseeable risks of harm in public dri… |
| 18A1286 |
Paul Tooly v. John F. Schwaller |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-rights due-process hostile-work-environment qualified-immunity second-circuit workplace-violence |
Whether a state university official is entitled to qualified immunity when allegations of workplace violence and hostile work environment are raised i… |
| 18-9553 |
Marvin Eugene Jones v. California |
California |
2019-06-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing statutory-provisions |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 18-1510 |
Fredesvindo Rodriguez-Garcia v. Fior Pichardo de Veloz, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-04 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights detention-facility due-process forfeiture gender-identification gender-identity medical-examination medical-treatment procedural-error qualified-immunity |
Whether the court of appeals erred in denying qualified immunity to Dr. Rodriguez-Garcia without identifying precedent clearly establishing the violat… |
| 18-9508 |
Floyd Dewaine Scott v. I. Jimenez |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment appeals civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process internal-bleeding medical-care medical-indifference ninth-circuit qualified-immunity summary-judgment triable-issues |
Deliberate-indifference-to-medical-needs |
| 18A1251 |
City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. v. Maurice Lewis |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-06-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
accrual-of-claim false-arrest fourth-amendment legal-process qualified-immunity wrongful-detention |
Whether a Fourth Amendment claim for wrongful pretrial detention accrues when the detention ends or at a different point in time |
| 18-9391 |
Josephine McGowan v. Walmart Stores |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction qualified-immunity standing takings |
Whether the petitioner was treated in an unconstitutional manner by various officials |
| 18-1458 |
Charles J. Vernier v. Debra Gallegos |
New Mexico |
2019-05-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-search burden-of-proof circuit-precedent circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law consent consent-burden fourth-amendment implied-consent qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Did the state appellate court err in failing to apply the standards set forth in federal case law regarding 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the qualified immunit… |
| 18-1435 |
Matthew Wayne Minard, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Taylor Police Officer v. Debra Lee Cruise-Gulyas |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights discretion discretionary-action discretionary-enforcement due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement qualified-immunity retaliation retaliatory-arrest traffic-stop |
Whether a police officer can immediately initiate a second traffic stop in response to a driver's offensive speech to change the original discretionar… |
| 18-9254 |
Larry B. Rubin v. Hector Sanchez, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment qualified-immunity standing |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner's civil rights claims |
| 18-9140 |
Michael Ray Ingram v. Frank Clements, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment injunctive-relief qualified-immunity standing supervisory-liability |
Whether dismissal of claims for injunctive relief requiring state officials to obey the Eighth Amendment pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1983 was error? |
| 18-1388 |
Susan Lloyd v. City of Streetsboro, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-power civil-rights due-process government-misconduct property-damage qualified-immunity retaliation trespass wiretapping |
Are public officials allowed to show a repeated pattern of abuse and dereliction of duties and still maintain immunity towards a private citizen? |
| 18-9096 |
Douglas A. Glaser v. City and County of Denver, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment jurisdiction qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 18-9102 |
Michael Bazan v. Robert Whitfield, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process evidence excessive-force qualified-immunity standing |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner's Excessive-Force claim |
| 18-1366 |
Estate of Adriano Roman, Jr. v. City of Newark, New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-30 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights fourth-amendment joint-and-several-liability joint-several-liability pleading qualified-immunity section-1983 standing tort-law warrantless-search |
Whether joint and several liability applies under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, where a plaintiff alleges unconstitutional search by multiple officers |
| 18-1350 |
Maria S., as Next Friend for E. H. F. and S. H. F., Minors, and A. S. G. v. Ramiro Garza |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
bivens border-protection civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-tort immigration qualified-immunity retaliation standing wrongful-death |
Whether a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent is entitled to qualified immunity for allegedly coercing a mother into departing the U.S., where sh… |
| 18-1357 |
Randy Cummings, et al. v. Celina Bussey, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 clearly-established-law discretionary-function federal-court-interpretation federal-court-review ministerial-exception property-rights qualified-immunity state-law state-law-interpretation state-supreme-court-precedent statutory-interpretation |
Whether a federal court interpreting a state statute can conclude that it grants the state agency discretion such that the 'ministerial exception' to … |
| 18-1358 |
Douglas Echols v. Spencer Lawton |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-violation due-process first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation libel-per-se presumption-of-innocence qualified-immunity retaliation substantive-due-process |
Whether a prosecutor's use of libel per se to retaliate against a wrongfully convicted person seeking compensation through legislative means violates … |
| 18-8926 |
Donald C. Jackson v. Priye T. Mukoro, et al. |
Texas |
2019-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights de-minimis due-process first-amendment qualified-immunity retaliation retaliation-claim summary-judgment |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the First District Texas reversibly erred when it reversed the Judgment of the trial court and rendered judgment gran… |
| 18-1326 |
Justin Shultz, et al. v. Jason Cole |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process first-amendment individual-assessment law-enforcement legal-standard police-conduct qualified-immunity retaliation summary-judgment |
When multiple police officers seek qualified immunity on a summary judgment motion, their entitlement to qualified immunity should be evaluated indivi… |
| 18-8849 |
Keith Andre Robinson v. H. White, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing warrantless-search |
Did the District Court err in finding that no exigent circumstances were present to justify the warrantless search and seizure of Petitioner's home an… |
| 18-1287 |
Alexander L. Baxter v. Brad Bracey, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (11) |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force police-misconduct police-use-of-force qualified-immunity search-and-seizure seizure |
Whether the use of a police dog to apprehend a suspect who has surrendered by sitting on the ground with his hands up violates the Fourth Amendment |
| 18-8696 |
Cody R. Brown v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 18-8596 |
Jose Bernazard v. Joseph Koch |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appeals-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies judicial-review legal-procedure procedural-error qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Did The Coork of Appeals not granting Ped, boner Access to Enter Appeal WAS ow Abvse of dixre lion by diswuss: |
| 18-8548 |
Marvin Belser v. Jeffrey Woods, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process grievances qualified-immunity standing |
Whether the grievances were properly brought under 42 U.S.C. §1983 and were wrongly dismissed |
| 18-8488 |
Ronald E. Mitchell v. Anne L. Precythe, Director, Missouri Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights damages due-process eighth-amendment false-arrest liberty-interest missouri-corrections missouri-statute qualified-immunity wrongful-imprisonment |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claim for wrongful imprisonment despite evidence that the conduct violation was later … |
| 18-8505 |
William L. Burrell, Jr. v. Patrick Loungo, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-03-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violations convict-leasing human-trafficking judicial-immunity judicial-immunity-doctrine qualified-immunity section-1983 slavery |
Should judges be liable under section 1983 for intentional conduct characterized as judicial acts but prohibited by statute, caselaw, or criminal stat… |
| 18-8474 |
John Henneberry v. County of Alameda, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment bench-warrant civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment mail-fraud qualified-immunity rico-statute service-of-process |
When can a court allow faulty and fabricated service-by-mail of a criminal summons instead of personal service-by-sworn-officer? |
| 18-1191 |
Carter Davenport v. Estate of Marquette F. Cummings, Jr. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-13 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights davis-v-scherer due-process legal-authority money-damages qualified-immunity standing state-law state-law-authority state-official takings |
Whether a state official's qualified immunity defense to a claim for money damages necessarily fails if he cannot first prove that he had authority un… |
| 18-8418 |
Marvin Waddleton, III v. Bernadette Rodriguez, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights cross-examination due-process force-application good-faith qualified-immunity summary-judgment |
Whether the District Court erred in resolving the issue of qualified immunity without a trial to cross-examine witnesses on the application of force i… |
| 18-1173 |
I. B. and Jane Doe v. April Woodard, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
Amici (7) |
child-abuse child-protection circuit-split constitutional-rights fourth-amendment qualified-immunity strip-search warrant warrant-requirement |
Whether the Fourth Amendment requires a caseworker to obtain a warrant to strip-search a child |
| 18-1176 |
Eric Wenzel, et al. v. Carl Storm |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anderson-v-liberty-lobby civil-rights dash-camera-evidence dash-camera-video excessive-force fourth-amendment lytle-v-bexar-county police-use-of-force qualified-immunity scott-v-harris seizure-intrusive seizure-standard summary-judgment unarmed-suspect |
Did the Eighth Circuit err in holding that Officer Storm was entitled to qualified immunity for the fatal shooting of Mr. Wenzel under the Fourth Amen… |
| 18-8377 |
Walter D. Booker v. T. Johnson, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-11 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment investigative-detention probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion section-1983 seizure |
Whether the officers had reasonable suspicion to seize Mr. Booker Shabazzallah? |
| 18-1162 |
P. Swaney, et al. v. Hector Lopez |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights correctional-officers deliberate-indifference due-process medical-care prisoners-rights qualified-immunity |
Denial of qualified immunity to correctional officers for alleged deliberate indifference to prisoners' medical needs |
| 18-1128 |
Curtis Minchuk v. Craig Strand |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split deadly-force deadly-force-justification excessive-force fourth-amendment police-use-of-force qualified-immunity self-defense totality-of-the-circumstances use-of-force |
Whether evidence of a dangerous and violent suspect's sudden and unexpected gesture of surrender immediately and objectively terminates the deadly thr… |
| 18-8204 |
Eduardo Molina Bracero v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection exhaustion-of-remedies patent qualified-immunity standing takings |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the respondent's actions |
| 18-1121 |
Captain James Linlor v. Michael Polson |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment bivens bivens-action civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment police-powers qualified-immunity sexual-battery tsa tsa-screener tsa-screening |
Whether the attested-as-intentional excessive and unreasonable force striking of a cooperative passenger's genitals by a TSA screener not meeting mand… |
| 18-8092 |
Azaniah Blankumsee v. Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment |
Did the lower court err in granting the defendant's summary judgment? |
| 18-8034 |
Jesse Brewer v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-02-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure due-process eminent-domain property-rights standing takings 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 18-1063 |
John Cottam v. Douglas Pelton |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emotional-distress fabricated-evidence false-arrest law-enforcement-fabrication malicious-prosecution probable-cause qualified-immunity rule-56 summary-judgment |
Whether law enforcement fabrication of a felony charge against an innocent citizen precludes summary judgment on a false arrest claim |
| 18-7889 |
Ramon Romero v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-force police-misconduct qualified-immunity |
Whether the police officers' use of force against the petitioner was reasonable under the Fourth Amendment |
| 18-1045 |
Nathaniel Brent, et al. v. Wayne County Department of Human Services, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment administrative-policy civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte-orders judicial-oversight qualified-immunity rooker-feldman-doctrine standing |
Plaintiffs' constitutional rights violated by administrative policy allowing probation officer to approve non-appealable, non-final, ex-parte orders w… |
| 18-1024 |
Lenard Johnson v. Richard Winfrey, Jr. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment accrual-of-claim civil-rights false-statements fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure franks-analysis franks-v-delaware law-enforcement-misconduct legal-accrual material-omission probable-cause qualified-immunity warrant-application |
Franks v. Delaware analysis of omitted information material to probable cause |
| 18-7648 |
William R. Stevenson v. R. Cordova, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights civil-rights-violation-obvious-standard constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference directed-verdict-standard due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-deliberate-indifference judicial-bias perjured-testimony prison-conditions qualified-immunity summary-judgment summary-judgment-qualified-immunity |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding the law was not clearly established as to the conduct of Defendants Espinoza and Williams and in conc… |
| 18-986 |
Sara Huckaby, et al. v. Frank Halley, as Next Friend of J. H., a Minor Child |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-abuse child-welfare civil-rights due-process forensic-interview law-enforcement-procedure prosecutor-directives qualified-immunity search-and-seizure state-statute statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in determining that the Petitioners did not act in an objectively reasonable manner in relying on a state statute, … |
| 18-7589 |
William Lee Judy v. Kathy Williams, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment government-liability qualified-immunity administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process federal-officials government-liability medical-regulations ministerial-duties qualified-immunity |
Whether the government, its agencies, and employees are entitled to the exception under 28 U.S.C. § 2680(a) and qualified immunity when they fail to a… |
| 18-7530 |
Tonya Udoh, et vir v. Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 1983-claims 1985-claims 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights davis-v-monroe-county-board due-process emotional-distress false-arrest fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment haines-v-kerner minor-children miranda-rights monell-liability municipal-liability parental-rights pro-se-litigant qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing unconstitutional-statutes |
Whether pro se litigants are held to the same legal standards as counseled litigants |
| 18-7425 |
Jovan Cooper v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure due-process equal-protection standing 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the 4th Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 18-915 |
Gregory T. Christian v. K. A. Payne, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment audio-evidence coercion consent evidence-suppression fourth-amendment procedural-irregularities qualified-immunity search-and-seizure section-1983 suppression-of-evidence warrantless-search |
Whether producing identification without being requested justifies search for weapons several minutes later |
| 18-913 |
Joshua Brennan v. James Dawson, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (9) |
civil-liability civil-procedure civil-rights common-law constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement liability police-conduct qualified-immunity reasonable-reliance |
Whether a police officer may reasonably rely on a narrow exception to a specific and clearly established right to shield him from civil liability when… |
| 18-7246 |
Harold Shawgnessy Sims v. King, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process sentencing civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-force federal-law-enforcement qualified-immunity |
What constitutional and statutory protections apply to individuals who are assaulted by federal law enforcement officers? |
| 18-7251 |
Consuelo Jordan v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process exclusionary-rule jurisdiction probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 18-862 |
Michael J. Daugherty, et al. v. Alain H. Sheer, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process motion-to-dismiss pleading pleading-standard qualified-immunity rule-12(b)(6) standing |
May a court dismiss a complaint under Rule 12(b)(6) for failing to plead facts needed to overcome an anticipated qualified-immunity defense? |
| 18-840 |
Steven Leon Banks v. Vincent Myron Gore, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process medical-negligence personal-involvement pro-se-plaintiff pro-se-pleadings qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment supervisory-liability |
Whether supervisors can be liable for constitutional violations of subordinates even without direct personal involvement |
| 18-825 |
Peggy Shumpert, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Antwun Shumpert, Sr., et al. v. City of Tupelo, Mississippi, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
canine-force civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-force due-process federal-appeals-conflict police-misconduct qualified-immunity state-created-danger use-of-force whether-the-court-of-appeals-erred-in-concluding-t whether-the-court-of-appeals-erred-in-finding-that |
Whether the state-created danger doctrine is clearly established law |
| 18-810 |
John Maguire, et al. v. Anika Edrei, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-12-26 |
Denied |
|
acoustic-device civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement lrad police-tactics protest-control qualified-immunity |
Did the Second Circuit err in finding a potential constitutional violation for excessive force and denying the officers qualified immunity |
| 18-7163 |
Kent Mayfield, et ux. v. Harvey County Sheriff's Department, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights dog-seizure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement personal-property pet-dog property-rights qualified-immunity search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Did the defendants violate the plaintiffs' Fourth Amendment rights? |
| 18-775 |
Andrew Chien v. LeClairRyan, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-error civil-rights collateral-estoppel color-of-state-act due-process false-imprisonment fourth-amendment qualified-immunity res-judicata subject-matter-jurisdiction territorial-jurisdiction |
Whether the order is void due to administrative error and lack of jurisdiction |
| 18-7063 |
In Re Charles A. Dread |
|
2018-12-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing official-responsibility qualified-immunity racial-discrimination standing summary-judgment |
Was the Trial Court's denial of the Appellant's Motion for Summary Judgment and the Request for Hearing without granting the Appellant a Hearing he re… |
| 18-760 |
Oberist Lee Saunders v. Wayne Ivey, Sheriff, Brevard County, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights conditions-of-confinement constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment hutto-v-finney kingsley-v-hendrickson pretrial-detention qualified-immunity rhodes-v-chapman sanitation-standards |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment conditions-of-confinement claim should be evaluated under an objective or subjective standard |
| 18-761 |
D. Dahne v. Thomas W. S. Richey |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (4) |
civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech grievance inmate-rights ninth-circuit prison prison-grievance qualified-immunity |
Do prison inmates have a First Amendment right to include threatening, abusive, and irrelevant language in grievances? |
| 18-730 |
Moses McCormick, et al. v. Kim A. Browne, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 amendment amendment-futility civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process fourteenth-amendment injunctive-relief municipal-liability qualified-immunity section-1983 standing |
Whether leave to amend the plaintiff's complaint should be considered futile if the municipality with no immunity can be added as a defendant and held… |
| 18-724 |
City of Sandpoint, Idaho, et al. v. Dana Maddox, on Behalf of Minor Children D. M. and D. M., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process interlocutory-appeal ninth-circuit qualified-immunity summary-judgment waiver-and-forfeiture |
Does the Ninth Circuit Panel's refusal to hear these petitioning police officers' interlocutory appeal on their claim of qualified immunity deny them … |
| 18-6908 |
Livingston Manners v. Ronald Cannella, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-U.S.C.-1983 Excessive-Force fleeing-and-eluding fourth-amendment Fourth-Amendment-Violation probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop |
Is there a violation of the fourth amendment where the arrest of a civilian stems from an illegal traffic stop |
| 18-704 |
Ross Abbott, et al. v. Harris Pastides, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-29 |
Denied |
Amici (6) |
campus-speech civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth qualified-immunity standing vagueness |
Whether students have standing to challenge university speech regulations |
| 18-695 |
Christopher Chung, et al. v. Gulstan E. Silva, Jr., as Personal Representative of the Estate of Sheldon Paul Haleck, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
civil-rights clearly-established-law community-caretaking due-process excessive-force law-enforcement ninth-circuit qualified-immunity reasonableness use-of-force |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying the officers qualified immunity |
| 18-684 |
Patti Stevens-Rucker, Administrator of the Estate of Jason White, Deceased v. John Frenz, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment arrest-procedure circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-obligations due-process eighth-amendment police-duty-of-care police-use-of-force qualified-immunity tenth-amendment |
Are there circumstances in which police officers are constitutionally obligated to help a person injured during arrest, as the Eighth and Tenth Circui… |
| 18-643 |
Janette Dunkle v. Jennifer Dale, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment child-seizure circuit-court-precedent circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment qualified-immunity warrantless-seizure |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in applying the narrow approach from Kirkpatrick, and whether Circuit-level opinions stating that an emergency is requ… |
| 18-645 |
Marcella Winn v. Susan Mellen, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Dismissed |
Response Waived |
42-U.S.C-1983 42-usc-1983 bad-faith brady-v-maryland brady-violation circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process police-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Do claims against a police officer under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for failure to disclose material evidence under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) requir… |
| 18-648 |
Burdette Searcey, et al. v. James L. Dean, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
1989 civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-investigation criminal-trial due-process evidence false-evidence false-evidence-manufacture law-enforcement-liability manufacture-of-false-evidence municipal-liability qualified-immunity reckless-evidence-gathering substantive-due-process voluntary-plea |
Whether a law enforcement officer violated substantive-due-process rights by recklessly gathering unreliable evidence |
| 18-623 |
Katrina Walker v. Carl Weatherspoon, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment illinois-v-gates informant informant-tip probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant section-1983 seventh-circuit |
May a police officer, who secures a search warrant on the uncorroborated tip of a first-time informant by withholding from the issuing judge facts tha… |
| 18-591 |
Gary Dressler v. Bradford Rice, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
2nd-amendment civil-rights conspiracy fourth-amendment open-carry probable-cause qualified-immunity second-amendment |
Is an individual's Second Amendment right to bear arms violated? |
| 18-6402 |
Elroy William Robinson v. California |
California |
2018-10-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection jurisdiction qualified-immunity standing statutory-provisions |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of his civil rights and due process rights |
| 18-503 |
N. E. L., et al. v. Douglas County, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process familial-association full-faith-and-credit interstate-agreement procedural-due-process qualified-immunity right-to-travel |
Whether petitioners' summary removal from Colorado to Kansas violated clearly established rights to procedural due process, a warrant or valid court o… |
| 18-511 |
Austin Gates v. Hassan Khokhar, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
|
arrest-standard civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech probable-cause qualified-immunity standing state-law supreme-court |
Whether a court, in determining whether arguable probable cause exists to arrest for a state-law crime, must consider any narrowing decisions by the s… |
| 18-368 |
Cedrick Thomas v. Jeffrey Cozzi |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights detective-thomas district-of-columbia-v-wesby eleventh-circuit false-arrest fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the denial of probable cause and qualified immunity for Detective Thomas |
| 18-348 |
Robert Weisler, III v. Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-17 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights Devenpeck-v-Alford fourth-amendment heck-v-humphrey police-accountability qualified-immunity warrantless-arrest |
Whether Devenpeck v. Alford, which protects officers who either incompetently or maliciously arrest a person for a crime the arrestee did not commit, … |
| 18-337 |
County of Orange, California, et al. v. Mary Gordon, Individually and as Successor in Interest to Matthew Shawn Gordon, Deceased |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-standard due-process eighth-amendment fourth-amendment medical-care objective-reasonableness pretrial-detainee qualified-immunity section-1983 standard-of-care |
Whether a pretrial detainee's 'inadequate medical care' claim pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 requires a showing of a jail professional's subjective inte… |
| 18-5987 |
Ajohntae Hammond v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment circuit-split fourth-amendment officer-safety police-discretion pretext probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances warrantless-search |
Whether a police officer's fear for safety justified a warrantless search |
| 18-5963 |
Steve Kassab v. S. Skinner, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process excessive-force law-enforcement-misconduct new-trial qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment trial-procedure |
Whether the district court's dismissal of all but 2 defendants caused prejudice to petitioner |
| 18-5974 |
Levon Spaulding v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
2018-09-13 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech qualified-immunity standing |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of their civil rights, due process, and free speech rights |
| 18-309 |
Lonnie Swartz v. Araceli Rodriguez, Individually and as the Surviving Mother and Personal Representative of J. A. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-11 |
GVR |
CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (4) |
bivens bivens-remedy bivens-v-six-unknown-named-agents border-security cross-border-shooting extraterritorial-application foreign-relations fourth-amendment qualified-immunity separation-of-powers |
Whether the panel's decision to create an implied remedy for damages under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of the Fed. Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S… |
| 18-282 |
Kelly H. Tucker v. Patrick Atwater, Jr., et al. |
Georgia |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-interests Pickering-balancing-test pickering-test public-employee-speech public-employment public-interest qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether Pickering and its progeny apply to off-duty public employees speaking on matters of public interest unrelated to their employment, and the app… |
| 18-5856 |
David Gerard Jeep v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-04 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process eighth-circuit judicial-act judicial-immunity probable-cause qualified-immunity rico-act standing xiv-amendment |
Is the issuance, and support on appeal, of a court order without a 'reasonable probable cause' a judicial act? |
| 18-257 |
Monty Bauch, Individually and as Father and Next Friend of O. B., a Minor, et al. v. Richland County Children Services, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
|
child-removal civil-rights complaining-witness due-process due-process-rights ex-parte ex-parte-order magistrate-testimony qualified-immunity removal-order social-worker social-worker-immunity standing witness-immunity |
Whether a social worker is entitled to absolute immunity when she makes false statements and omits highly relevant information as a complaining witnes… |
| 18-259 |
City of East Cleveland, Ohio, et al. v. Derrick Wheatt, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-deadline due-process indemnification motion-to-amend qualified-immunity settlement-agreement standing state-actors wrongful-conviction |
Whether the Court abused its discretion in denying Petitioner City Defendants Qualified Immunity defense |
| 18-5817 |
Jermaine Moorer v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-courts habeas-corpus qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's dismissal of petitioner's claims alleging violations of his constitutional rights |
| 18-5783 |
Robert A. Cotton v. County of San Bernardino, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-evidence brady-v-maryland brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process issue-preclusion judicial-immunity jury-trial manuel-v-city-of-joliet ninth-circuit preliminary-hearing qualified-immunity self-defense |
Was the Ninth Circuit's affirmance of the dismissal based on issue preclusion in violation of Manuel v. City of Joliet? |
| 18-236 |
Paul Weddle v. Alan Nutzman, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity seizure standing use-of-force |
Whether there was clearly established precedent that the officers' use of force against Weddle, who had surrendered and posed no immediate threat, vio… |
| 18-218 |
Trey Beam v. Robert F. Abercrombie, Jr. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
|
11th-circuit civil-rights due-process investigation misdemeanor probable-cause qualified-immunity willful-failure |
Whether an officer may lose qualified immunity based upon the allegation of willful' failure to investigate even when the officer has established at l… |
| 18-5584 |
Lawrence L. Thompson v. Pete Copeland, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-14 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment 8th-amendment arrest-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force failure-to-supervise fourth-amendment qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether Deputy Copeland's arrest of Mr. Thompson was unconstitutional and warranted the denial of qualified immunity |
| 18-5485 |
William N. Washington v. Eric Arnold, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-case civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process false-arrest habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey judicial-review malicious-prosecution parole qualified-immunity standing washington-v-diamond |
Whether a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right has been made by the petitioner, in light of the recent factual finding by the U… |
| 18-150 |
Phil Plummer, et al. v. David M. Hopper, Special Administrator of the Estate of Robert Andrew Richardson, Sr. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment civil-rights clearly-established-right deliberate-indifference detainee-rights due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement medical-intervention qualified-immunity |
Whether the Sixth Circuit defined the constitutional rights in question at too high a level of generality contrary to this Court's teachings on qualif… |
| 18-122 |
Michael Sinegal v. Dawn Polk |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
1st-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-law employment-retaliation first-amendment free-speech political-candidacy qualified-immunity standing |
Whether candidacy for political office, standing alone, is a protected right under the First Amendment |
| 18-114 |
G. Russell Rollyson, Jr., in His Official and Individual Capacity v. Jeffrey O'Neal, et ux. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-26 |
Dismissed |
|
constitutional-duty due-process notice notice-requirements property-rights qualified-immunity service-of-notice state-auditor statutory-interpretation tax-deed tax-lien tax-lien-purchaser |
Whether a Deputy State Auditor is entitled to qualified immunity because no previous court had interpreted the State's statutory scheme as imposing th… |
| 18-110 |
Andrew Burningham, et al. v. John Morrison Raines, III, Guardian of the Estate of John Morrison Raines, IV |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
8th-circuit anderson-v-liberty-lobby civil-rights clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment interlocutory-appeal johnson-v-jones mitchell-v-forsyth qualified-immunity summary-judgment use-of-force |
Whether qualified immunity should be denied where the underlying evidentiary fact is undisputed but different inferences may be drawn from it |
| 18-99 |
Johnny Barnes v. Joseph Gerhart, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights confidential-informant drug-surveillance due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement law-enforcement-action police-misconduct qualified-immunity search-and-seizure unreasonable-search |
Did the Fifth Circuit wrongly hold that Officer Barnes' mistake was 'unreasonable' under the Fourth Amendment? |
| 18-5279 |
Jonathan Hayhoe v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement-conduct magistrate-powers qualified-immunity search-and-seizure suppression suppression-of-evidence void-ab-initio warrant-validity |
Whether conduct by law enforcement in securing a void in initio warrant was grossly negligent, thereby precluding application of good-faith exception |
| 18-46 |
City of Middletown, Connecticut, et al. v. William McKinney |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
4th-amendment active-resistance civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights detainee-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity reasonable-officer use-of-force |
Did the Second Circuit Court of Appeals improperly find a constitutional violation in failing to consider the reasonableness of the use of force from … |
| 18-5130 |
Marlon L. Watford v. Erik Fossum, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent qualified-immunity standing takings |
Whether the 14th Amendment's due process clause protects against arbitrary government action |
| 18-5131 |
Tu My Tong v. New Mexico, et al. |
New Mexico |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-action qualified-immunity standing state-action |
Whether plaintiffs can bring civil rights claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for alleged violations of their constitutional rights by state defendants |
| 18-7 |
Choctaw County, Mississippi, et al. v. Jessica Jauch |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (4) |
14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 capias county-liability due-process fourteenth-amendment pretrial-detention procedural-due-process qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether a pretrial detainee's procedural due process rights were violated |
| 24A1078 |
Mike Miller v. Dillon Rock |
Ninth Circuit |
|
Presumed Complete |
|
canine-deployment excessive-force fourth-amendment irreparable-harm qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits a police officer to deploy a canine to apprehend a suspect and, if deployment is justified, whether the duration … |