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25-6794 Robert Emert v. Andrea Schuck, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending IFP due-process ineffective-assistance plea-breach prosecutorial-misconduct santobello-precedent section-1983 Whether a court of appeals may dismiss as 'frivolous' a § 1983 plea-breach claim supported by recorded evidence and governed by Santobello v. New York
25-6781 Stacy Gene Hall v. Buddy Myotte, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending IFP due-process evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction rule-60b section-1983 Whether the Due Process Clause permits a lower court to refuse to consider a Rule 60(b) motion when a prior notice of appeal allegedly divests jurisdi…
25-6754 Kendrick Simpson v. Christe Quick, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2026-02-09 Denied IFP eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young federal-civil-rights rooker-feldman section-1983 state-procedural-rule Whether Rooker-Feldman and the Eleventh Amendment jurisdictionally bar a § 1983 challenge to a state procedural rule announced in a state court decisi…
25A895 Charles Kakembo Sessanga v. City of DeSoto Police Department, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-02-06 Application civil-rights criminal-prosecution malicious-prosecution pro-se-plaintiff probable-cause section-1983 Whether a plaintiff can successfully bring a malicious prosecution claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when acquitted of criminal charges and alleging lack o…
25A857 John Paul Gomez v. David Ryan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-01-30 Application civil-rights dismissal judicial-procedure pro-se section-1983 vexatious-litigant Whether a federal court can impose vexatious-litigant restrictions on a pro se plaintiff's future filings after dismissing a Section 1983 civil rights…
25A854 Piper Partridge, Individually and as Mother and Next of Kin to Keagan Schweikle and as Special Administratrix of the Estate of Keagan Schweikle, et al. v. City of Benton, Arkansas, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-01-30 Application constitutional-violation excessive-force jury-verdict municipal-liability section-1983 supervisory-liability Whether a municipality or supervisor can be held liable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the absence of an underlying constitutional violation by an individu…
25-894 Abiel Brathwaite v. Anthony Georgiades, Police Officer, Maryland Transportation Authority, et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending civil-rights fourth-amendment pleading-standards pro-se-litigation probable-cause section-1983 Whether a district court violates pleading standards by sua sponte inferring probable cause against a pro se plaintiff at the motion to dismiss stage
25-6632 Alveto Rivera v. Mark Gray Eighth Circuit 2026-01-21 Pending IFP attorney-misconduct civil-commitment civil-rights legal-malpractice section-1983 state-action Whether a plaintiff can sue his former attorney under the color of state law for actions during a civil commitment trial
25-6617 Naquea Elaine Johnson v. New Jersey, et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-01-20 Pending IFP due-process fundamental-rights in-forma-pauperis jurisdictional-challenge section-1983 state-actors Whether federal courts violate due process by denying in forma pauperis status when such denial prevents challenging jurisdictionally void state actor…
25-6603 David Martin v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2026-01-16 Pending Response WaivedIFP abstention-doctrine constitutional-rights due-process personal-jurisdiction section-1983 state-court Whether federal abstention doctrines bar § 1983 claims challenging a state court default judgment entered without constitutionally adequate notice and…
25-822 Thomas DeCola v. Indiana Indiana 2026-01-12 Pending Response Waived bill-of-rights constitutional-claims fourteenth-amendment legal-estoppel section-1983 state-liability Whether 42 U.S.C. § 1983 provides congressional consent for asserting individual rights acknowledged in the Bill of Rights and Fourteenth Amendment in…
25-6484 Donald N. S. Mortvedt v. Charles E. Clawson, III, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-01-06 Pending IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-liberty pro-se section-1983 sua-sponte Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment excludes equity from jurisdiction over deprivations of liberty, including parental liberty;…
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 Whether a clerk magistrate enjoys qualified immunity when his nondiscretionary and unrecorded actions lead to an identifiable harm to a party
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 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
25A745 Abiel Brathwaite v. Anthony Georgiades, Police Officer, Maryland Transportation Authority, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-12-23 Application circuit-split false-arrest fourth-amendment pro-se probable-cause section-1983 Whether the Fourth Amendment permits dismissal of a §1983 false arrest claim at the pleading stage when new exculpatory evidence potentially undermine…
25-696 Jennie V. Wright, on Behalf of Jawand Lyle and Brendon Burnett, et al. v. Louisville Metro Government, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-16 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived civil-rights federal-claims federal-remedy limitations-period section-1983 statute-of-limitations Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1658(a)'s uniform residual limitations period provides a suitable federal rule to govern federal claims brought under 42 U.S.C. § …
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 Did the Seventh Circuit lack jurisdiction to deny qualified immunity by rewriting the factual record and creating an emergency exception to investigat…
25-607 Miami Township Board of Trustees v. Roger Dean Gillispie, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-11-24 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived civil-rights indemnification local-government respondeat-superior section-1983 supremacy-clause Whether Ohio Revised Code § 2744.07(B) violates the Supremacy Clause by creating de facto respondeat superior liability forbidden by Section 1983
25A563 Rodney Vance Frith v. Kyle Smith Fourth Circuit 2025-11-14 Application cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment medical-indifference prisoner-rights section-1983 serious-medical-needs Whether a prison's alleged deliberate indifference to a prisoner's serious medical needs constitutes a violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition…
25-6029 Keith Baldwin, Jr. v. Jamey Fletcher, Captain, Maiden Police Department Fourth Circuit 2025-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmative-defenses civil-rights constitutional-violations discovery-rights rule-12b6 section-1983 Whether federal district courts must allow § 1983 plaintiffs reasonable discovery to develop facts regarding defendants' affirmative defenses before d…
25-5979 Hubert Arvie v. Cathedral of Faith Missionary Baptist Church, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process federal-intervention judicial-immunity section-1983 younger-abstention Whether federal courts must compel state courts to certify records and whether civil liability can be imposed on judges and attorneys for failing to r…
25-464 Philip G. Potter v. Incorporated Village of Ocean Beach, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-10-16 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process land-use section-1983 takings-claims Whether the accrual rule for takings claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 applies to procedural due process claims asserted in land-use disputes
25-5881 John Fakla v. Matthew Geist, Middlesex Borough Police Chief, Individually and in His Official Capacity, et al. Third Circuit 2025-10-15 Denied IFP civil-rights favorable-termination heck-doctrine judicial-procedure malicious-prosecution section-1983 Whether the district court and court of appeals erred by applying Heck v. Humphrey to bar petitioner's § 1983 malicious prosecution claim, despite the…
25-443 Ted Velleff v. Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff, Cook County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-10-10 Denied Response Waived due-process fourteenth-amendment governmental-policy property-rights section-1983 state-remedies Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment forbids the government from depriving individuals of personal property by applying a policy…
25-5826 Dover Davis, Jr. v. Officer Aaron Swann Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-court-conflict fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution material-facts section-1983 statute-of-limitations Whether there was a conflict between the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the Northern District Court of Georgia regarding the statute of limitat…
25-408 Tamara Baines v. City of Atlanta, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-06 Denied Response Waived employment-discrimination equal-protection hostile-work-environment section-1983 sexual-harassment title-vii Whether the 'some harm' standard applies to sexual harassment claims under the Equal Protection Clause and Title VII
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…
25-5753 Eddie Scott v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-29 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP anti-injunction-statute federal-rule-60b habeas-corpus mandate-rule section-1983 younger-doctrine Whether a federal judge can keep a case closed after a plaintiff's state trial acquittal and deny relief under Federal Rule 60(B) despite the Younger …
25-366 Lathfield Investments, LLC, et al. v. City of Lathrup Village, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2025-09-29 Denied Response Waived circuit-split constitutional-law contracts-clause lease-licensing property-rights section-1983 Whether 42 U.S.C. § 1983 provides a cause of action for a Contracts Clause claim
25A344 Jennie V. Wright, on Behalf of Jawand Lyle and Brendon Burnett, et al. v. Louisville Metro Government, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-09-25 Presumed Complete civil-rights federal-interests judicial-tolling relate-back section-1983 statute-of-limitations Whether the federal catchall statute of limitations in 28 U.S.C. § 1658 provides a more suitable limitations period for Section 1983 civil rights clai…
25-309 Kaeun Kim v. Mark Ali, et al. Third Circuit 2025-09-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights due-process fabricated-evidence prosecutorial-immunity section-1983 state-action Whether a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim that state officials fabricated evidence against the petitioner accrues only upon favorable termination of criminal p…
25-5604 Christopher J. Rahaim v. Nancy M. Ley, former Judge, Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-11 Denied IFP civil-prisoner-litigation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-immunity section-1983 stare-decisis Is the deprivation of due process rights in state criminal litigation exempt from the civil prisoner litigation clause 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g) in 42 U.S.C…
25-251 Hung Dang v. Kimberly Moore, M.D., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-04 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-challenges pleading-standards section-1981 section-1983 summary-judgment Does Federal Civil Procedure Rule 8(a) require only ordinary pleading standards for §1981 and §1983 claims post-Twombly/Iqbal, and must the Ninth Circ…
25A263 Christopher J. Rahaim v. Bruce Bartlett, Individually and in His Official Capacity as State Attorney for the Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-04 Presumed Complete actual-innocence civil-rights heck-doctrine judicial-review section-1983 wrongful-detention Whether a state court's dismissal of a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 based on the Heck doctrine improperly prevents an actually innocent …
25-253 Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, et al. v. Michael Howe, Secretary of State of North Dakota Eighth Circuit 2025-09-04 Pending Amici (12)Relisted (2) civil-rights implied-right-of-action private-plaintiffs section-1983 statutory-interpretation voting-rights Whether Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, 52 U.S.C. § 10301, is enforceable by private plaintiffs through 42 U.S.C. § 1983, an implied right of acti…
25-5511 Matthew Thomas Parkins, By and Through His Guardian ad Litem and Next Friend, Cecil Matt Parkins, et al. v. Henry Dargan McMaster, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process family-rights fourteenth-amendment intellectually-disabled section-1983 state-removal Whether the state's removal of an intellectually disabled adult from his home and family by application of a standard of proof lower than the preponde…
25-5487 Joseph W. Wade v. Walter T. Mosley, New York Secretary of State, et al. Second Circuit 2025-08-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-iii-standing compensatory-relief official-capacity race-conscious section-1983 sex-conscious Whether under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, Article III standing requires proof of different final outcomes or is differential treatment sufficient for state offi…
25A186 Charles Brooks, et al. v. Jeremy James Allen Eighth Circuit 2025-08-15 Presumed Complete amended-complaint eighth-amendment interlocutory-review plra-exhaustion prisoner-litigation section-1983 Whether the Prison Litigation Reform Act's exhaustion requirement applies to an amended complaint filed after a prisoner's release when the original c…
25-5314 Theodore Justice v. McAngus Goudelock & Courie LLC, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-08-08 Denied IFP access-to-courts constitutional-claims due-process judicial-admission procedural-limitations section-1983 Whether federal appellate courts may dismiss 42 U.S.C. § 1983 constitutional claims through procedural limitations when the underlying due process vio…
25A148 Harry Barnett v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-08-05 Presumed Complete fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause property-seizure section-1983 warrantless-arrest Whether a police officer's warrantless arrest based on probable cause arising from a good faith belief that property was stolen constitutes a valid Fo…
25A130 Philip G. Potter v. Incorporated Village of Ocean Beach, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-07-31 Presumed Complete certificate-of-occupancy federalism land-use procedural-due-process section-1983 statute-of-limitations Whether the statute of limitations for a procedural due process claim under 42 U.S.C. §1983 begins to run only after state proceedings challenging a p…
25-124 Theresa Maria Laws v. Borough of Lansdale, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2025-07-31 Denied Response Waived fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine malicious-prosecution monell-claim probable-cause section-1983 Whether lack of probable cause as an element of malicious prosecution under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 is a factual question for the jury; whether dismissal of …
25A106 Nelson Mickens, Jr. v. William Danforth Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-25 Presumed Complete administrative-remedies civil-rights exhaustion-requirement prison-litigation-reform-act pro-se-complaint section-1983 Whether the Prison Litigation Reform Act requires a prisoner to exhaust all available administrative remedies before filing a civil rights lawsuit und…
25-97 Susan M. Smith v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security Tenth Circuit 2025-07-24 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process judicial-immunity section-1983 Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's frivolous docket notice and whether a good faith defense shields defendants from dam…
25-73 Ali Al-Maqablh v. Crystal Heinz, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as County Attorney of Trimble County, Kentucky, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-07-22 Denied Response Waived district-court judicial-mandate malicious-prosecution section-1983 sixth-circuit thompson-case Whether the Sixth Circuit's decision should be vacated and the case remanded with instructions to enter judgment in Petitioner's favor under 42 U.S.C.…
25-5098 Elizabeth Nelson, et al. v. Service Towing, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process municipal-liability property-rights section-1983 towing-dispute Do pro'se appellants state a 42 USC Sec 1983 claim when city of Warren MI property and maintenance employees and Service Towing Inc. tow 4 plated, ins…
25-43 Freedom Foundation, a Washington Nonprofit Corporation v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 117, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-07-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights first-amendment janus-precedent section-1983 state-action union-dues Whether public-sector unions that invoke the aid of state officials to deduct union dues from a nonconsenting public-sector employee act 'under color …
25-5074 Michael Horton v. Captain Gilchrist, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP discovery-rights federal-rules prisoner-litigation pro-se-litigant section-1983 summary-judgment May federal courts implement an uncodified special report procedure that divests pro se prisoner litigants of discovery rights afforded them under the…
25-9 Keith M. Wilkins v. Steve Herron, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-07-02 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived emergency-use-authorization experimental-drugs food-drug-cosmetic-act informed-consent private-right-of-action section-1983 Whether an individual can bring a private right of action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violation of informed consent rights related to Emergency Use Aut…
24-7517 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. City of Miami, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-26 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion section-1983 Whether the 11th Circuit and Southern District of Florida erred in dismissing Petitioner's complaint against the City of Miami and violating Petitione…
24-1301 Calvin Allen, Sr., et al. v. Seth Gomez, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-06-24 Denied Response Waived dismissal-judgment public-accommodation race-discrimination section-1981 section-1983 section-1985 Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in affirming dismissal judgments for multiple respondents when the amended complaint allegedly pleads direct and circ…
24-1306 Terry Klee v. International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 501, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-24 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) first-amendment janus-decision section-1983 sovereign-immunity state-action union-dues Whether a public-sector union that invokes the aid of state officials to deduct union dues from a nonconsenting public-sector employee acts 'under col…
24-1274 R. Michael Cestaro v. Clarissa M. Rodriguez, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as Chair of the New York State Workers' Compensation Board, et al. Second Circuit 2025-06-13 Denied Response Waived first-amendment mt-healthy public-employee retaliation section-1983 subjective-intent Whether a public employee's First Amendment retaliation claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 requires proof of subjective intent and distinct 'other conduct' …
24A1223 Lathfield Investments, LLC, et al. v. City of Lathrup Village, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2025-06-12 Presumed Complete constitutional-claim contracts-clause federal-court-jurisdiction section-1983 sixth-circuit statutory-remedy Whether 42 U.S.C. § 1983 provides a viable federal court mechanism for bringing a Contracts Clause claim when no other clear statutory remedy exists
24-7256 John Douglas v. Wexford Health Sources, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discovery-sanction federal-procedure judicial-discretion pro-se section-1983 Whether a dismissal of a meritorious and complex de-consolidated Federal Section 1983 lawsuit is appropriate as a discovery sanction when delayed comp…
24-1146 Gilda Ryan, et al. v. County of Imperial, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights due-process judicial-supervision ninth-circuit pro-se-litigation section-1983 Whether the Ninth Circuit's sanctioning of the District Court's use of a pro-se §1983 civil action as on-the-job training constitutes a severe departu…
24-1138 Rafael Beltre v. Fit Guys Walk, LLC, dba Planet Fitness Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-07 Denied Relisted (2) case-management civil-rights dismissal-with-prejudice due-process jurisdiction section-1983 Whether the Middle District Court of Florida and the U.S. Court of Appeals of the Eleventh Circuit properly dismissed a case for failure to state a ca…
24-1110 Saint Anthony Hospital v. Elizabeth M. Whitehorn, Director, Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-04-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) federal-enforcement hospital-rights medicaid-law prompt-payment-rule section-1983 spending-clause In determining whether Saint Anthony Hospital has a right to sue to enforce the prompt payment rule, should the court of appeals have treated Wilder a…
24A923 Cecil Jerome Quinn, Jr. v. J. Mark Hayes, II, Judge, Circuit Court of South Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-03-26 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights magistrate-recommendation prisoner-litigation pro-se section-1983 summary-dismissal Whether a pro se prisoner's 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint alleging constitutional violations can survive sua sponte dismissal under 28 U.S.C. § 1915A wit…
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…
24-993 Gabriel Olivier v. City of Brandon, Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-03-18 Granted Amici (32)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment heck-v-humphrey prospective-relief section-1983 Whether Heck v. Humphrey bars § 1983 claims seeking purely prospective relief where the plaintiff has been punished under a law challenged as unconsti…
24-956 Los Angeles County, California, et al. v. Peter Woods Nyarecha, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-03-06 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived cell-check-policy constitutional-violation monell-doctrine municipal-liability section-1983 summary-judgment Whether video evidence from a single cell block on one night is sufficient to establish a municipal custom or practice under Monell liability
24-6568 Andrivia Frances Wells v. Mecklenburg County Clerk of Probate Estates, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-02-14 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-distribution probate-law section-1983 Can a court deny Equitable Distribution and violate Due Process Rights under the 5th and 14th Amendments?
24-857 Brian Estrada v. Jacob Smart Tenth Circuit 2025-02-11 Denied administrative-exhaustion civil-rights excessive-force jury-trial section-1983 seventh-amendment Whether the Seventh Amendment's right to a trial by jury extends to issues of fact related to the exhaustion of administrative remedies
24-852 Alan Rodemaker v. City of Valdosta Board of Education, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-11 Denied civil-rights claim-preclusion res-judicata section-1983 title-vii workplace-discrimination Does the Panel's ruling improperly apply res judicata to bar a Title VII claim against a school board when the claim had not yet accrued at the time o…
24A749 Frederick Luehring v. Los Angeles County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-31 Presumed Complete civil-rights court-order dismissal pro-se section-1983 service-of-process Whether a pro se plaintiff's failure to serve a complaint and comply with court orders warrants dismissal under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(b)
24-802 Aleksandr J. Stoyanov v. Howard County, Maryland, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-01-28 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment fraud-upon-court malicious-prosecution section-1983 Whether the Court of Appeals abused its discretion by using Ashcroft to improperly affirm the district court's dismissal order of a §1983 malicious pr…
24A717 Gabriel Olivier v. City of Brandon, Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-21 Presumed Complete circuit-split constitutional-rights first-amendment heck-doctrine injunctive-relief section-1983 Whether Heck v. Humphrey precludes a § 1983 plaintiff from seeking prospective injunctive relief challenging a law under which they were previously co…
24-6252 Rebecca Wu v. Gina Carreon, et al. California 2025-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process government-tort-claims preemption section-1983 whistleblower-protection Whether California Code of Civil Procedure 1714.10 preempts or violates federal civil rights statutes and constitutional protections when applied to S…
24-703 Ryan Haygood, et al. v. Camp Morrison, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-02 Denied attorney-fees civil-rights due-process frivolity section-1983 time-bar Whether a § 1983 civil rights claim can be deemed frivolous and time-barred solely based on an uncertain analogous tort, justifying prevailing defenda…
24A624 Molly Vogt, as Trustee for the Heirs and Next of Kin of Joshua Vogt, Deceased v. CO Robert Anderson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-12-26 Presumed Complete adverse-inference civil-rights jury-trial section-1983 spoliation summary-judgment Whether a district court may grant summary judgment after imposing an adverse-inference sanction for intentional spoliation of evidence, thereby effec…
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
24-672 Erma Wilson v. Midland County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-12-20 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus section-1983 statutory-interpretation If a person never had access to § 2254 to impugn the constitutionality of her state criminal proceeding, is § 1983 presumptively available (as in six …
24A579 City of Los Angeles, California v. Jesus Pimentel, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-13 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-violation law-enforcement municipal-liability ninth-circuit section-1983 Whether a municipality can be held liable for constitutional violations arising from law enforcement policies or practices that allegedly result in sy…
24-597 Jonathan Eugene Brunson v. Joshua H. Stein, Attorney General of North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied circuit-split heck-dismissal in-forma-pauperis prison-litigation-reform-act section-1983 three-strikes-rule Whether dismissals under Heck v. Humphrey categorically constitute strikes under the Prison Litigation Reform Act's three-strikes rule
24-6017 Hanoi Hormachea v. Haridas Bhadja, in His Official Capacity as Chief Medical Officer at Okeechobee Correctional Institution Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-exhaustion civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment section-1983 Whether the Eleventh Circuit improperly dismissed an appeal when the petitioner had exhausted administrative remedies under Florida administrative reg…
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 …
24A502 Robert R. Turner v. Sharon W. Jordan, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-20 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-claim eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction pro-bono-representation section-1983 Whether the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments permit a constitutional claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the underlying case involving Turner v. Jo…
24A503 Latausha Simmons v. City of Southfield, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-11-20 Presumed Complete civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-litigant property-deprivation section-1983 Whether the Fourteenth Amendment permits dismissal of a pro se civil rights action based on procedural deficiencies when the plaintiff is an indigent …
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…
24-5954 In Re Tony Gooch 2024-11-12 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel monell-liability section-1983 writ-of-mandamus Whether a local government can be held liable under 42 U.S.C.S. 1983 for implementing unconstitutional policies that violate a defendant's constitutio…
24-521 Bethany Farber v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-07 Denied Response Waived fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment section-1983 substantive-due-process unreasonable-seizures wrongful-detention Whether the right against wrongful detention falls under the Fourth Amendment's proscription against unreasonable seizures or the Fourteenth Amendment…
24-513 Darryl Carter, et al. v. James E. Stewart, Sr., in his Official Capacity as District Attorney of Caddo Parish, Louisiana Fifth Circuit 2024-11-05 Denied civil-rights jury-discrimination peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias section-1983 Does a prospective juror who alleges they were struck as the result of a policy, custom, or usage of racial discrimination have a cause of action unde…
24-5845 Jackie Robinson v. Jerry Spatny, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-10-29 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation federal-statute judicial-interpretation remedies section-1983 Whether the lower court's interpretation of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 improperly limits civil rights remedies for constitutional violations
24-5846 Andrey L. Bridges v. Patricia Blackmon, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-10-29 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-deprivation due-process eleventh-amendment government-immunity section-1983 Whether courts should resolve the longstanding conflict regarding the right to sue government officials in their individual or official capacity for d…
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…
24-5833 Douglas Fauconier v. Virginia Fourth Circuit 2024-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment parole-eligibility section-1983 strict-scrutiny Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments' Due Process Clauses require strict scrutiny review of a state statute amendment affecting parole eligibil…
24A395 Onyinye Jideani v. Robert R. Rigsby, Judge, District of Columbia Superior Court District of Columbia 2024-10-23 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-violation federal-jurisdiction judicial-capacity judicial-immunity section-1983 Whether 42 U.S.C. § 1983 permits civil rights claims against judicial officers who allegedly act outside their judicial capacity or breach judicial ob…
24-398 Jantzen Verastique, et al. v. City of Dallas, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-09 Denied Response Waived constitutional-violations deliberate-indifference governmental-entity legal-precedent pattern-requirement section-1983 Whether Leatherman v. Tarrant County precedent applies to deliberate indifference claims under § 1983 and whether pattern of constitutional violations…
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…
24-313 Christine A. Arakelian v. City of Falls Church, Virginia, et al. Virginia 2024-09-19 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment comity-doctrine due-process jurisdictional-challenge section-1983 tax-injunction-act Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia erred in dismissing Petitioner's appeal for procedural reasons despite alleged constitutional due process violat…
24-5518 Mark E. Brown v. Unified School District No. 501 Tenth Circuit 2024-09-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP burden-shifting-analysis civil-rights employment-discrimination retaliation section-1981 section-1983 Whether a plaintiff was required to file a Section 1981 claim instead of a Section 1983 claim in an employment discrimination case
24-5444 Delano Medina v. Jennifer Murphy, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-09-04 Dismissed IFP detention-challenge habeas-corpus judicial-remedy parole-eligibility section-1983 sentence-miscalculation Whether a prisoner challenging parole eligibility procedures and sentence miscalculation must pursue relief through habeas corpus or 42 U.S.C. § 1983
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…
24-5395 Daniel Luke Meier v. Allstate Property & Casualty Insurance Company Sixth Circuit 2024-08-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process insurance-claim judicial-misconduct section-1983 Did the lower courts and Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals commit fraud, tyranny, and oppression in a car accident injury claim by violating 42 U.S.C.§19…
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
24A92 Christine A. Arakelian v. City of Falls Church, Virginia, et al. Virginia 2024-07-25 Presumed Complete board-of-equalization due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment property-tax section-1983 Whether a local government's Board of Equalization can systematically deny due process rights to property owners through procedural rules that allow u…
24-70 Ilya Kovalchuk v. City of Decherd, Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2024-07-23 Denied civil-rights discovery-standard due-process fourth-amendment monell-claim monell-liability municipal-liability plausibility-standard section-1983 twombly-iqbal Whether the Sixth Circuit's rejection of the 'plausibility' of Petitioner's Monell claim is erroneous, given its departure from the Twombly standard a…
24-5099 Brandan C. Bellamy v. Chanse Houghton, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-07-17 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process hipaa hipaa-privacy malicious-prosecution privacy section-1983 standing summary-dismissal Whether Petitioner should be given another chance to make another amended complaint
24A32 Marino Scafidi v. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-11 Presumed Complete appellate-review civil-rights ninth-circuit pro-se section-1983 summary-judgment Whether a pro se civil rights plaintiff can challenge a district court's summary judgment dismissal under 42 U.S.C. §1983 after a Ninth Circuit panel …
24-5038 Larry D. Ford v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-07-10 Denied IFP assisted-suicide emtala emtala-rights-1983 federal-rights fnhra medical-rights nursing-home-care nursing-home-reform-act section-1983 social-security-act spending-clause Whether the The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) gives rise to federal rights under § 1983?
24-14 James R. Zuegel v. Marco Garcia, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-claim conviction conviction-challenge probation section-1983 spencer-v-kemna standing Does this Court's opinion in Spencer v. Kemna, 523 U.S. 1 (1998), permit an individual, who has completed his probation, to pursue a 42 U.S.C. section…
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…
24-16 Anthony Monroe v. Terry Conner, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-claims federal-interests owens-v-okure personal-injury section-1983 state-law-borrowing statute-of-limitations Whether applying a state's one-year statute of limitations to Section 1983 claims is inconsistent with the federal statutory scheme and the interests …
24-2 Camille Bourque v. Engineers and Architects Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-03 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech government-employer janus-v-afscme labor-unions public-sector section-1983 union-dues wage-deduction Is the First Amendment violated when a union causes a government employer to seize full union dues from the wages of a nonconsenting employee?
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…
23-1372 Dave Wayne Erlanson, Sr. v. Environmental Protection Agency Ninth Circuit 2024-07-02 Denied Response Waived 9th-amendment bill-of-rights cause-of-action civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process environmental-protection-agency federal-mining-claim ninth-amendment section-1983 Can 42 U.S.C. § 1983 be considered a tort-claim-action
23-1375 Anthony Italo Provitola v. Dennis L. Comer, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-02 Denied Response Waived color-of-state-law constitutional-rights federal-jurisdiction litigation-privilege rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 Whether the lower courts' decisions should be vacated and the case remanded for reconsideration in light of Supreme Court precedents regarding jurisdi…
23-1332 Jarius Brown v. Javarrea Pouncy, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-06-21 Denied Amici (4) 28-usc-1658 civil-rights civil-rights-claims federal-interests owens-v-okure personal-injury section-1983 state-law statute-of-limitations Is a one-year state statute of limitations period consistent with federal interests underlying Section 1983?
23-1301 Ben Brinkmann, et al. v. Town of Southold, New York Second Circuit 2024-06-13 Denied Amici (5)Relisted (3) bad-faith bad-faith-taking constitutional-protection pretext property-rights public-use section-1983 state-federal-split takings-clause Whether the Takings Clause is violated when a property is taken for a public amenity as a pretext for defeating an owner's plans for another use
23-1302 Kevin Hardaway v. Dwight Hamilton, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-13 Denied 42-usc-1983 eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-rights eleventh-amendment-immunity monell-claim monell-v-department-of-social-services official-capacity section-1983 use-of-force Whether existing Eleventh Circuit precedent of Manders v. Lee, 338 F.3d 1304 (11th Cir. 2003), holding that a Georgia sheriff is an 'arm of the state'…
23A1108 Stacy Williams, on Behalf of Her Minor Grandson, J.J. v. Andrew Williams, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-06-12 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights due-process emergency-medical-care municipal-liability paramedic-duty section-1983 Whether a municipal paramedic's refusal to administer emergency medical care to a minor constitutes a violation of the minor's constitutional rights u…
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 …
23A1098 Douglas Fauconier v. Virginia Fourth Circuit 2024-06-07 Presumed Complete access-to-courts civil-rights legal-research prisoner-rights pro-se section-1983 Whether a pro se prisoner's inability to access legal research resources due to technical failures constitutes a violation of his constitutional right…
23-1273 Catherine Brennan v. Cass County Health, Human and Veteran Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-06-05 Denied Response Waived civil-commitment civil-rights due-process heck-precedent heck-v-humphrey psychotropic-drugs section-1983 willful-indifference Is Heck v. Humphrey precedent to require persons subject to civil commitment proceedings not related to a criminal proceeding to vacate the commitment…
23-1275 Eunice Medina, Director, South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-06-05 Judgment Issued Amici (48)Relisted (9) circuit-split medicaid-act o'bannon-v-town-court private-right provider-choice section-1983 statutory-interpretation unambiguous-right Whether the Medicaid Act's provision unambiguously confers a private right upon a Medicaid beneficiary to choose a specific provider
23-1260 Douglas Bruce v. Ogden City Corporation, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-06-03 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process municipal-action property-rights section-1983 standing statute-of-limitations takings takings-claim Whether the statute of limitations for a Section 1983 takings claim for the unconstitutional deprivation of private property can begin to run before t…
23A1077 Anthony Monroe v. Terry Conner, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-31 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-protections federal-interests section-1983 state-law-borrowing statute-of-limitations Whether a state's one-year statute of limitations for civil rights claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 impermissibly undermines the federal interests of com…
23A1017 James LeBlanc v. Brian McNeal Fifth Circuit 2024-05-16 Presumed Complete federal-remedies habeas-corpus judicial-precedent prisoner-rights section-1983 wrongful-detention Whether a prisoner who could have sought habeas relief but did not can subsequently sue for damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for alleged wrongful detent…
23A1013 Jean Coulter v. James P. Coulter, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-15 Presumed Complete administrative-judge conspiracy due-process judicial-immunity property-rights section-1983 Whether a federal district court judge's actions in assigning cases and allegedly conspiring to influence property ownership constitute a violation of…
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 …
23A995 Tina Gerlach v. Todd Rokita, Attorney General of Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-05-08 Presumed Complete eleventh-amendment individual-capacity just-compensation section-1983 sovereign-immunity takings-clause Whether state officials can be sued in their individual capacities for alleged violations of the Takings Clause under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and whether sta…
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…
23-1138 Angela Williams, et al. v. Joseph Lombardo, Governor of Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied Response Waived 13th-amendment article-iii-standing causation civil-procedure civil-rights government-liability section-1983 standing thirteenth-amendment trafficking-victims-protection-act Whether codefendants in a lawsuit can be treated as independent third parties not before the court for purposes of Article III standing traceability
23A937 Azariah M. Ellington v. Mary Thornton House, Judge, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-18 Presumed Complete de-novo-review en-banc-petition judicial-misconduct ninth-circuit section-1983 trust-litigation Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly denied en banc review and violated petitioners' statutory right to de novo review in a case invo…
23-1116 Daniel Creger v. Andrew Tucker, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-04-15 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution material-misrepresentation probable-cause section-1983 warrant-affidavit Whether state law citations showing lack of evidence for criminal charges is sufficient to establish lack of probable cause for a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 mal…
23-1107 Joan Ghougoian, et al. v. Lamarr Monson Sixth Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-standard devenpeck fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution manuel pre-trial-detention probable-cause section-1983 Whether the Fourth Amendment's objective standard applies to all claims arising thereunder, such that there is no violation so long as probable cause …
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
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…
23A873 Jose Luis Garcia v. Kyeong Park Ninth Circuit 2024-04-01 Presumed Complete deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-needs prison-conditions section-1983 summary-judgment Whether a prison official's medical treatment of an inmate's foot condition constitutes deliberate indifference to serious medical needs under the Eig…
23-7041 Willie James Pye v. Tyrone Oliver, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-20 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection preliminary-injunction procedural-defense res-judicata section-1983 stay-of-execution sua-sponte Whether a federal court may raise a procedural affirmative defense sua sponte in the absence of any special circumstances, and, if so, whether it may …
23A855 Willie James Pye v. Tyrone Oliver, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-20 Denied due-process equal-protection preliminary-injunction res-judicata section-1983 sua-sponte Whether a federal court may sua sponte raise a procedural affirmative defense to deny preliminary injunctive relief without considering the movant's l…
23A848 Carlos Vega v. Terence B. Tekoh Ninth Circuit 2024-03-19 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-violation evidence-admissibility law-enforcement miranda-rights section-1983 Whether a violation of Miranda rights precludes the admission of a defendant's statement as evidence in a civil rights lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983
23-6940 Michael Marrara, et al. v. Philip D. Murphy, et al. Third Circuit 2024-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge habeas-corpus preiser-doctrine preiser-v-rodriguez section-1983 time-credits unconstitutional-legislation Does Preiser's holding that the restoration of time credits were not cognizable in a § 1983 action persist when there is a direct civil rights challen…
23-941 In Re First Choice Women's Resource Centers, Inc. 2024-02-28 Denied Amici (4) civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech investigatory-demand pre-litigation-challenge ripeness section-1983 standing state-official Whether a section 1983 suit to enjoin an unlawful investigatory demand by a state official is ripe only after a state court has enforced the demand
23A795 Atishma Kant, et al. v. Service Employees International Union Local 721, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-27 Presumed Complete collective-bargaining first-amendment janus-precedent section-1983 state-action union-dues Whether a public sector labor union acts as a 'state actor' under Section 1983 when collecting union dues through a collective bargaining agreement wi…
23A775 Tanishia Hubbard v. Service Employees International Union Local 2015, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-26 Presumed Complete compelled-speech first-amendment janus-precedent section-1983 state-action union-dues Whether a public employee can seek relief under Section 1983 for nonconsensual union dues deductions that violate First Amendment free speech protecti…
23A778 Kristy L. Jimenez v. Service Employees International Union Local 775, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-26 Presumed Complete compelled-speech first-amendment janus-precedent section-1983 state-action union-dues Whether public employees can seek relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for nonconsensual union dues deductions that compel political speech without affirmati…
23A771 Boston Parent Coalition for Academic Excellence Corp. v. The School Committee for the City of Boston, et al. First Circuit 2024-02-23 Presumed Complete civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment race-discrimination school-admissions section-1983 Whether race-conscious admissions policies in K-12 public schools violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
23A773 Carolyn Crouthamel, et al. v. Walla Walla Public Schools, a Washington Public School District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-23 Presumed Complete first-amendment janus-precedent payroll-deduction section-1983 state-action union-dues Whether a public sector union acts 'under color of law' for purposes of Section 1983 when compelling non-union public employees to pay dues through go…
23-881 Douglas Bruce v. City of Miamisburg, Ohio Sixth Circuit 2024-02-15 Denied Response Waived constitutional-deprivation due-process municipal-action notice property-rights section-1983 statute-of-limitations takings Whether due process allows statute of limitations on Section 1983 claim to begin without actual notice of property deprivation
23-6683 Antoine Poteat v. Gerald Lydon, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Pennsylvania State Police, et al. Third Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-process civil-rights fabrication-of-evidence legal-standard malicious-prosecution pro-se pro-se-pleading section-1983 speedy-trial Whether the Third Circuit's decision should be vacated and remanded for reconsideration in light of Thompson and McDonough?
23A728 John Doe v. University of Iowa, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-02-06 Presumed Complete mixed-motives procedural-due-process section-1983 sex-discrimination summary-judgment title-ix Whether a university's sexual misconduct proceeding can constitute sex discrimination under Title IX when mixed motives are present and procedural due…
23-821 Michelle Smith v. Peter B. Krupp, Judge, Superior Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk County, et al. First Circuit 2024-01-30 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fraud fraud-of-court jurisdiction rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 state-court-proceedings title-42 usurpation-of-power Whether the Rooker Feldman Doctrine was intended to shield Defendants in a Title 42 section 1983 claim, in immunity for their actions of fraudulently …
23-756 Angela Robinson, et al. v. Midland County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-01-12 Denied Response Waived actual-knowledge civil-rights civil-rights-violation constructive-knowledge county-liability monell monell-claim municipal-liability section-1983 Whether county policymakers' actual or constructive knowledge of contractor's misconduct is required for Monell claim
23A634 Mary A. Harris v. Monroe County Public Library Board of Trustees, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-09 Presumed Complete circuit-split constitutional-rights discrimination equal-protection retaliation section-1983 Whether a retaliation claim based on objecting to a discriminatory event can be brought under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth 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…
23-6324 Louis Bonanno, Sr. v. Virginia, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-12-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada americans-with-disabilities civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination section-1981 section-1983 title-vii Did the Virginia (Defendant's) violated the requirements of the U.S. Constitution under the Americans with Disabilities, Title VII, 1964, 1990. And, S…
23-6268 Clifford A. Gooden, III v. United States, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-12-15 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment government-immunity judicial-activism judicial-immunity ku-klux-klan section-1983 Is the original scope and purpose of a section 1983 action to allow black citizens the right to sue racist government where it has been infiltrated by…
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
23-630 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…
23-6144 Susanne Aspley v. Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights color-of-law covid-pandemic due-process emergency-orders fourteenth-amendment nursing-home-deaths right-to-life section-1983 Whether the 14th Amendment right to life was violated by the Minnesota Governor and Health Department Commissioner's actions that resulted in the deat…
23-540 Laura Covington v. City of Madisonville, Texas Fifth Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights municipal-liability official-policy police-chief policymaker section-1983 state-law Whether a plaintiff must overcome a presumption that a police chief is not an official policymaker to prove the municipality delegated policymaking au…
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
23-480 Richard Stogsdill, et al. v. South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Fourth Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied americans-with-disabilities-act due-process fundamental-alteration medicaid-act olmstead-v-l-c-by-zimring olmstead-v-lc rehabilitation-act section-1983 Whether the lower court's orders dismissing claims alleging violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act conflict with…
23-481 Temple of 1001 Buddhas, et al. v. City of Fremont, California Ninth Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights disparate-treatment first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause municipal-liability searching-review section-1983 Whether a state municipality can be held liable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when decision rights and associated impingements on free exercise are distribut…
23A404 Lisa Price v. Montgomery County, Kentucky, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-03 Presumed Complete circuit-split court-order exculpatory-evidence judicial-process prosecutorial-immunity section-1983 Whether absolute prosecutorial immunity under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 extends to a prosecutor's knowing destruction of exculpatory evidence and defiance of a…
23A393 Alexzandria Orta v. Mark E. Repp, Judge, Tiffin-Fostoria Municipal Court, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-01 Presumed Complete circuit-split constitutional-violation contempt-order judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct section-1983 Whether a judge's unconstitutional detention and contempt order can still be shielded by judicial immunity under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when the actions are…
23A392 Brenda Dawson Battle v. Atty Creel, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-10-31 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-violation dismissal judicial-immunity pro-se section-1983 Whether a pro se litigant's civil rights complaint against multiple judicial and law enforcement officials can survive dismissal when alleging potenti…
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
23-440 S. B., on Behalf of Her Minor Daughter, S. B. v. Jefferson Parish School Board, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied Amici (1) 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-scrutiny corporal-punishment due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment section-1983 Is unconstitutionally excessive corporal punishment by a public-school employee cognizable under § 1983?
23-429 Brett C. Kimberlin v. Department of Justice, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-10-25 Denied Response Waived civil-rights dna-evidence fraud-based-discovery heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey official-corruption section-1983 statute-of-limitations Whether Heck v. Humphrey bars a civil rights suit against officials who corruptly concealed evidence until time for appeal expired
23-426 Ralph Lisby, as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Ashlynn Lisby, Deceased v. Jonathan Henderson, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Police Officer, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-10-23 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-claim discovery discovery-rights judgment-on-pleadings pleadings police-misconduct procedural-posture section-1983 summary-judgment Whether the Petitioner pled sufficient facts to support his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim against Respondent Jonathan Henderson
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…
23-410 Estate of Gabriel Strickland, et al. v. Nevada County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-19 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights deadly-force graham-factors graham-v-connor objective-reasonableness section-1983 totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances use-of-force Whether the reasonableness of an officer's use of deadly force should be evaluated solely upon the circumstances of the final moment or upon the 'tota…
23-409 Henri N. Beaulieu, Jr. v. Samuel Powell, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a State Trooper for the State of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment pleading-requirements pleading-standards section-1983 shotgun-pleading twombly-iqbal Whether the Eleventh Circuit's application of the 'shotgun pleading' standard conflicts with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Supreme Court pr…
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
23-336 Keith Allen Kiefer v. Isanti County, Minnesota Eighth Circuit 2023-09-29 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment mens-rea postconviction-incarceration section-1983 unreasonable-seizure Whether the analytical home for § 1983 unreasonable seizure claims involving only postconviction incarceration for 'violating' an inapplicable law is …
23-304 Thomas Neilsen v. John Kellner, in His Official Capacity as District Attorney, et al. Colorado 2023-09-26 Denied Response Waived black-letter-law brady-rule civil-rights declaratory-relief due-process heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey mooney-v-holohan prosecutorial-misconduct section-1983 supreme-court-precedent Does 'Heck' or any other procedural issue bar a section 1983 petition asking for declaratory and injunctive relief when a prosecutor defiantly fails t…
23A267 Patricia L. Harrison v. South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-26 Presumed Complete americans-with-disabilities-act medicaid-act retaliation-claims section-1983 statute-of-limitations title-ii-ada Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act's statute of limitations for Title II retaliation claims is one year or three years, and whether a distric…
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
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…
23-260 Daniel Erwin v. Karla Howell, as Administratrix of the Estate of Cornelius Pierre Howell Sixth Circuit 2023-09-18 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-standard deliberate-indifference due-process farmer-v-brennan fourteenth-amendment kingsley-v-hendrickson medical-need pretrial-detainee section-1983 Whether Kingsley v. Hendrickson applies to deliberate-indifference claims by pretrial-detainees
23-5582 Juan Manuel Reyes v. Washington County, Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment accrual-of-discovery civil-rights constitutional-rights constructive-notice due-process fourth-amendment governmental-action section-1983 statute-of-limitations Does a Fourth Amendment or any other United States Constitutional Amendment violation have a federal expiration date or time limitation other than the…
23-229 Bronson McClelland v. Katy Independent School District, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation final-policymaking-authority first-amendment monell-liability public-school-district public-school-speech section-1983 true-threat Does Monell liability exist for a public school district when an official with final policymaking authority relied on a policy to cause a constitution…
23-5529 Abdalla Elehamir Mousa v. Christina Greve, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1997e administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies civil-rights due-process eighth-circuit-rule equal-protection prison-grievance prison-officials section-1983 Whether an Applicant for Relief Under 42 U.S.C. §1983 is Required to Exhaust Administrative Remedies Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1997e(a) If the Prison Off…
23A216 Brett Kimberlin v. Department of Justice, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-09-06 Presumed Complete civil-rights-action declaratory-relief DNA-testing heck-bar innocence-claim section-1983 Whether the Heck v. Humphrey bar to civil rights actions under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 applies when a plaintiff seeks declaratory relief and DNA testing to p…
23-186 Nevada Department of Corrections, et al. v. Philip Roy Galanti Ninth Circuit 2023-08-29 Denied Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-claim custody ex-prisoner-plaintiff favorable-termination-rule habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey section-1983 Is there an exception to the Heck v. Humphrey rule for plaintiffs who are no longer in custody?
23-191 Nancy Williams, et al. v. Greg Reed, Secretary, Alabama Department of Workforce Alabama 2023-08-29 Judgment Issued Amici (8)Relisted (2) administrative-exhaustion administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-remedies section-1983 standing state-court state-courts statutory-interpretation Whether exhaustion of state administrative remedies is required to bring claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in state court
23-5433 Kingsley Azubuike Ononuju v. Virginia Housing Development Authority, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 agency-regulation constitutional-rights fourth-circuit improper-eviction rule-12b6 rule-60(b)(4) rule-60b4 section-1983 tila tila-claim void-judgment Did the Fourth Circuit err in affirming the district court's rulings
23A166 Richard Stogsdill, et al. v. South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Fourth Circuit 2023-08-23 Presumed Complete americans-with-disabilities-act due-process fair-hearing-procedures home-and-community-based-services medicaid-act section-1983 Whether Section 1983 provides a private right of action to enforce substantive due process rights and statutory entitlements under the Medicaid Act, a…
23-165 Bob Johnson, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of Santa Rosa County, Florida v. Jessica N. Rogers, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Jose F. Escano-Reyes and as Parent and Natural Guardian of Y. C., a Minor Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-21 Denied Amici (1) 42-usc-1983 city-of-los-angeles-v-heller civil-rights constitutional-harm deliberate-indifference jury-finding monell-liability monell-v-new-york-city municipal-liability section-1983 Where a jury exonerates jail deputies of all 42 U.S.C. §1983 claims for deliberate indifference to risk of an inmate's suicide, does the jury's findin…
23-5401 Rayshawn J. Christmas v. Unknown Wedd, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure magistrate-judge pro-se pro-se-litigation section-1983 standing Why did the court deny Mr. Christmas at least one chance to amend, if it is possible to fix what court thank is wrong with Mr. Christmas's complaint
23-5335 Young Bok Song v. Tony Parker, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-08-10 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights claim-interpretation constitutional-rights court-of-appeals district-court due-process section-1983 standing tax-fraud Whether the TN U.S. District Court and U.S. Court of Appeals are incorrect in reading Scholl v. Mnuchi
23A114 Jillian Ostrewich v. Clifford Tatum, in His Official Capacity as the Harris County Elections Administrator, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-08 Presumed Complete electioneering-statutes first-amendment polling-places section-1983 unreviewable-discretion voter-apparel Whether Texas's electioneering statutes violate the First Amendment by granting election workers unreviewable discretion to prohibit voter apparel at …
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
23A74 Nevada Department of Corrections, et al. v. Philip Roy Galanti Ninth Circuit 2023-07-25 Presumed Complete civil-rights-damages former-inmate habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey section-1983 sentence-reduction-credits Whether the Heck v. Humphrey bar to § 1983 actions applies when a plaintiff seeks damages for the denial of sentence-reduction credits but can no long…
23-50 Jascha Chiaverini, et al. v. City of Napoleon, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-07-20 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 any-crime-rule charge-specific-rule circuit-split criminal-charges fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause section-1983 Whether Fourth Amendment malicious prosecution claims are governed by the charge-specific rule or the any-crime rule
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 …
23-5108 Cassandra McGuire v. Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-07-14 Denied IFP abuse-of-process civil-rights court-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts federal-question injunctive-relief judicial-misconduct judicial-orders section-1983 standing state-agencies Did the Appeals Courts err by Affirming the District Court in complete disregard for the Supreme Court rulings regarding State agencies can be sued fo…
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
23-25 Michael Charles Ward v. James V. Chafin, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-07 Denied absolute-immunity appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct section-1983 Whether the Eleventh Circuit overextended the holding of Ashcroft v. Iqbal such that § 1983 plaintiffs are unjustly deprived of an opportunity to cond…
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…
23-5007 Alexis Carberry Benson, on Behalf of Minor Child K.C., Jr., et al. v. Fort Mill Schools/York County District 4, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-justice ada district-court-jurisdiction idea idea-law in-forma-pauperis individual-immunity pro-se right-to-counsel section-1983 Should Plaintiffs/Parents filing a Federal Complaint through IDEA Section 504 or ADA, be accorded the right to counsel when filing pro se' and/or in f…
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…
22-7522 William Sim Spencer v. Joseph M. Gasper, Director, Michigan State Police Sixth Circuit 2023-05-11 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey judicial-proceedings section-1983 sex-offender-registration sixth-circuit supervisory-power supreme-court-review Does the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals extension of the § 1983 favorable habeas corpus termination rule announced in Heck v Humphrey, 512 US 477 (199…
22-1084 Ernest J. Walker, et al. v. Dominion Voting Systems, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-05-08 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees attorney-sanctions civil-rights due-process inherent-authority sanctions section-1983 standing tenth-circuit voter-standing Whether Petitioners were properly sanctioned
22-1080 City of Stockton, California, et al. v. Francisco Duarte Ninth Circuit 2023-05-05 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-claim criminal-procedure due-process heck-bar heck-v-humphrey nolo-contendere plea-bargaining plea-deal pretrial-diversion section-1983 Whether the 'Heck Bar' bars a 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 claim where the plaintiff pled nolo contendere as part of a plea deal
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…
22-1050 Cedric Epple v. Albany Unified School District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-28 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 administrative-actions civil-rights due-process exhaustion federal-court judicial-exhaustion ninth-circuit section-1983 state-court-remedies summary-reversal Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in requiring exhaustion of state court remedies for a Section 1983 claim
22-1045 Robert R. Snyder v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-27 Denied Response Waived 12(b)(6) civil-procedure dismissal due-process pleading-standards pleadings prisoner-rights rule-12 section-1983 standing Does Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 12 permit a defendant to file successive, pre-answer Rule 12(b)(6) motion(s) to dismiss—each towards a sepa…
22-7198 Richard Roy Blake v. Liliane Hong, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-04-04 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-assembly free-speech municipal-ordinance section-1983 void-for-vagueness Did the City of Northglenn, Colorado police department violate Petitioner's First Amendment rights to free-speech, free-assembly, 42-usc-1983
22-7093 Walter Harris v. Neil Turner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights culer-v-adams due-process interstate-agreement-on-detainers prison-litigation-reform-act pro-se-litigant procedural-fairness section-1983 standing Whether the petitioner's 42 USC 1983 complaint was improperly dismissed for failing to cite specific statutes and case law on the PLRA complaint form,…
22-7099 Dana Simmons v. Andrew Beshear, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 advisory-opinion civil-rights color-of-state-law constitutional-challenge due-process injunctive-relief section-1983 standing state-law summary-judgment Whether lower federal courts may transpose a prima facie §1983 claim into a constitutional challenge not presented by the plaintiff's complaint
22-7107 In Re Jeffrey L. G. Johnson, et al. 2023-03-24 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ministerial-duty missouri-supreme-court res-judicata section-1983 standing state-actor Whether the state's highest court's denial of mandamus relief based on an unconstitutional unwritten policy violated the petitioner's civil rights
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…
22-895 Murphy Creek, LLC, et al. v. Murphy Creek Metropolitan District No. 3 Colorado 2023-03-16 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 attorneys-fees civil-rights common-nucleus common-nucleus-of-operative-fact judicial-relief prevailing-party section-1983 substantial-claim substantiality Whether the Colorado Courts erred in holding that the Petitioners were not 'prevailing parties' on their 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983 claim
22-7018 Michael Wright v. Contra Costa County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process federal-court-denial heck-v-humphrey jackson-v-virginia Jackson-v-Virginia-standard section-1983 state-court-invalidation state-tribunal unlawful-conviction Heck-v-Humphrey-standard-for-1983-civil-actions
22-857 Paulette H. Foster, et al. v. Michael Wearry Fifth Circuit 2023-03-08 Denied absolute-immunity buckley-v-fitzsimmons civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process functional-approach judicial-phase prosecutorial-immunity section-1983 witness-preparation Whether preparing witnesses to bolster existing evidence intended for use at the criminal trial, after probable cause has been determined, is a functi…
22-836 Hiram I. Perez Soto v. Maite D. Oronoz-Rodriguez, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, et al. First Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied Response Waived civil-rights declaratory-judgment disbarment due-process ethical-complaints injunction judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct section-1983 standing Whether a Federal Court in a claim filed under Section 1983 can void a disbarment judgment of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico in which the disbarred …
22-6883 Fairly W. Earls v. Kari Buske, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-claim constitutional-claim due-process jurisdiction screening section-1367 section-1983 standing supplemental-jurisdiction Whether the District Court and Court of Appeals abused their discretion on jurisdiction and erroneous application of 28-usc-1367(c)(3) on constitution…
22-770 Ross M. Jackson v. Glenn Cowan, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-16 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 1983 civil-rights civil-rights-conspiracy equal-protection first-amendment-speech internal-policies probable-cause public-forum retroactive-application retroactivity section-1983 Whether the Supreme Court's recent decisions in Nieves v. Bartlett and Lozman v. Riviera Beach apply retroactively
22-766 Edward Pinkney v. Berrien County, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-02-15 Denied civil-rights criminal-proceedings due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause section-1983 unlawful-prosecution Whether Petitioner's § 1983 claim based on his prosecution, pretrial-criminal-proceedings, trial, conviction, and incarceration for an act the law doe…
22-723 Jonathan VanLoan v. Nation of Islam, et al. Third Circuit 2023-02-02 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights clearly-baseless-standard denton-v-hernandez dismissal-standard factual-allegations frivolous neitzke-v-williams section-1983 subject-matter-jurisdiction Is the legal standard for dismissal of a plaintiff's 42 U.S.C. § 1983 case, for factual allegations deemed 'fantastical' by the court, the 'clearly ba…
22-724 San Juan County, Utah v. Rosalie Chilcoat Tenth Circuit 2023-02-02 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process monell monell-doctrine municipal-liability section-1983 state-action state-actor unconstitutional-action Whether a municipality may be exposed to liability under Section 1983 and Monell v. Dep't of Soc. Servs. of City of New York, 436 U.S. 658 (1978), if …
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
22-677 Eric Miller v. City of Albuquerque Personnel Board New Mexico 2023-01-20 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-termination judicial-review nmsa-1978-30-16-10 section-1983 standing title-42-usc-1983 Whether the courts of New Mexico have so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings
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…
22-6454 Christine Chang v. Ezery Beauchamp, Captain and Commander for California Highway Patrol, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 abuse-of-discretion civil-rights dismissal dismissal-with-prejudice due-process fourteenth-amendment ninth-circuit pro-se section-1983 Whether the Ninth Circuit violates Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process rights
22-576 Cindy Ellen Ochoa v. Public Consulting Group, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 42-usc-1983 compelled-speech constitutional-violation due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment public-employee-rights public-sector-unions section-1983 union-dues Does a challenge to a statutory system alleging failure to provide due process under the Fourteenth Amendment and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 require an injured …
22-567 Gary Mattos, et al. v. AFSCME Council 3 Fourth Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 agency-fees civil-rights constitutional-rights damages first-amendment good-faith good-faith-defense section-1983 state-law state-law-immunity Does defendant's good-faith reliance on a state law before it was held unconstitutional shield it from damages liability for taking agency fees from P…
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
22-6330 Billy Ray Jackson v. Bryan Daniel, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-review civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment individual-capacity liberty property section-1983 sovereign-immunity state-action unemployment-benefits Whether petitioner Billy Ray Jackson's 42 U.S.C. 1983 complaint states a claim against the respondent state officials under color of state law
22-539 Juliet Anilao, et al. v. Thomas J. Spota, III, Individually and as District Attorney of Suffolk County, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2022-12-13 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation first-amendment prosecutorial-immunity section-1983 state-action thirteenth-amendment Whether a prosecutor can be sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for bringing charges that violate the First and Thirteenth Amendments
22-6295 Jamisi Jermaine Calloway v. M. Martel, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-13 Denied IFP access-to-courts ada-discrimination civil-rights constitutional-rights continuing-violation-doctrine disability-rights due-process indigent-prisoner-rights legal-assistance pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation section-1983 When should a total disabled incarcerated indigent prisoner be appointed legal assistant in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 case?
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…
22-534 Theresa Eagleson, Director, Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services v. St. Anthony Hospital, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-12-09 GVR Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 42-usc-1983 contract-enforcement managed-care medicaid private-rights section-1983 spending-clause statutory-duty timely-payment Whether Spending Clause legislation, including Section u-2(f), can impliedly create private rights enforceable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983
22-522 Applied Underwriters, Inc., et al. v. Ricardo Lara, Commissioner, California Department of Insurance, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-05 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 abstention abstention-doctrine civil-rights constitutional-violations in-personam in-rem in-rem-jurisdiction prior-exclusive-jurisdiction section-1983 state-executive-officers Does the prior exclusive jurisdiction doctrine require a federal court to abstain in an action against state executive officers under 42 U.S.C. § 1983…
22-513 Hyrum James Geddes v. Weber County, Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-12-02 Denied civil-rights detention-facility due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment objective-reasonableness section-1983 Whether the test of objective reasonableness for excessive force claims under the Fourteenth Amendment is the same as the test under the Fourth Amendm…
22-6175 Nancy Abbie Tallent v. Phillip Knight, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-exclusion judicial-bias pro-se pro-se-litigation section-1983 supervisory-power supreme-court-intervention Where officers violated the Petitioner rights afforded by the Constitution of the United States, under 42 U.S. Code § 1983, after exhausting all known…
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…
22-475 Binyamin I. Efreom, et al. v. Daniel McKee, Governor of Rhode Island, et al. First Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Response Waived civil-rights contract-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment pension-reform procedural-due-process rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 taking-without-compensation takings Whether Petitioners' procedural due-process, takings, contract-rights were violated by deprivation of federal-remedy
22-6069 Rufus Spearman v. Mary Parson, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violations district-court dolan-v-city-of-tigard due-process endangered-species-act federal-procedure judicial-dismissal nollan-v-california-coastal-commission section-1983 takings Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision in Wimbleton v. Ospn, 210 F.3d 1088 (9th Cir. 2000), which held that the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment do…
22-6044 Jerlard Derek Rembert v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1983 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment federal-jurisdiction heck-doctrine section-1983 statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the plaintiff's 1983 civil-rights complaint for failure to show cause as to why the court should not dismi…
22-5957 Calvin Kelsick Wilson v. Tampa Police Department Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-dismissal due-process frivolous-claim habeas-corpus prisoner-claim section-1983 standing statute-of-limitations Whether the petitioner can bring a claim against the government under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for an allegedly unconstitutional criminal prosecution, despite…
22-394 Eric Brown, et al. v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 5, AFL-CIO, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-10-27 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 agency-fees civil-rights constitutional-rights damages-liability first-amendment good-faith good-faith-defense section-1983 Does defendants' good-faith reliance on a state law before it was held unconstitutional shield them from damages liability for taking agency fees from…
22-376 Louisville-Jefferson County, Kentucky Metropolitan Government, et al. v. Johnetta Carr Sixth Circuit 2022-10-21 Denied Amici (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-action conviction criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey pardon section-1983 May a convicted offender, subsequently pardoned, bring a § 1983 action where the pardon fails to expunge the underlying criminal conviction or call it…
22-366 County of Sonoma, California, et al. v. Gabbi Lemos Ninth Circuit 2022-10-19 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights comity conviction excessive-force heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey judicial-preclusion section-1983 Does Heck's 'necessarily imply' standard bar a § 1983 suit only if success would 'necessarily require' plaintiff to negate the underlying conviction, …
22-363 Candice Hinton, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Rodrin Hinton and as Parent and Natural Guardian of Her Minor Children R. H. and C. H. and Next Friend of I. H. and K. H., et al. v. Harris County, Texas Fifth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference farmer-v-brennan governmental-liability medical-policy policymaker section-1983 Whether the Court's analysis in a 42 U.S. Code § 1983 Civil action for deprivation of rights policy case should be restricted to a finding of delibera…
22-305 Kevin O'Rourke, et al. v. Dominion Voting Systems, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-09-29 Denied 1983 article-iii civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-rights free-speech section-1983 standing state-action voting Whether citizens have standing to sue private persons engaged in state action for relief under § 1983 for deprivations of their right to vote for pres…
22-255 Scott Wilford, et al. v. National Education Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-19 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process fair-share-fees free-speech good-faith-defense janus-precedent public-sector-unions retroactive-effect retroactivity section-1983 Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in allowing public-sector unions to keep ill-gotten fair-share fees
22-248 Larry Tawney, Jr. v. Portage County, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-09-15 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights eighth-amendment intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress monell-claim section-1983 summary-judgment Whether a trial court properly dismisses a plaintiff's complaint seeking compensation under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for Eighth Amendment violations, a Monell…
22-222 Abelino "Abel" Reyna, et al. v. John Wilson, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 criminal-procedure due-process franks-rule franks-v-delaware grand-jury judicial-procedure probable-cause search-warrant section-1983 Whether Franks authorizes federal courts to disregard a finding of probable cause made by a properly constituted state grand jury
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
22-5525 Terron Gerhard Dizzley v. Melvin Garrett Fourth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 accrual appellate-review civil-rights district-court federal-courts federal-law section-1983 statute-of-limitations supreme-court Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit's affirmance of the District Court's order that state law determines the time of acc…
22-187 County of Orange, California, et al. v. Kathy Craig, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-08-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights damages due-process federal-court section-1983 state-law survival-claim survival-claims Must a federal court apply a state law prohibition on 'loss of life' damages in survival claims pursued via 42 U.S.C. § 1983?
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
22-141 Michelle McDonald-Witherspoon, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Kenyada Jones v. Amber Browne, et al. Third Circuit 2022-08-15 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights disability due-process equal-protection mental-disability mental-health probation-officer section-1983 Whether a probation officer's actions violate the disabled person's rights under the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment, giving rise to a c…
21-1598 City of Anaheim, California, et al. v. Fermin Vincent Valenzuela, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied Amici (2) 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1988 circuit-split civil-rights federal-court hedonic-damages robertson-v-wegmann section-1983 state-law survivorship-claim wrongful-death Whether state law prohibitions on hedonic damages apply to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 survival claims
21-1569 SouthPointe Partners, LLC v. Louisville Metro Government, et al. Kentucky 2022-06-16 Denied 42-usc-1983 administrative-law administrative-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exclusive-remedy federal-claims section-1983 state-statute Can a state statute providing a right of appeal from an administrative decision serve as an 'exclusive remedy' to bar separate federal claims under 42…
21-8122 Jeremiah Henderson v. Austin K. McClain Fourth Circuit 2022-06-10 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-tort first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement probable-cause retaliatory-arrest retaliatory-prosecution section-1983 Does probable cause defeat a retaliatory prosecution claim
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 …
21-8049 Thomas Tate Tunstall v. Hope Daigle, fka Hope D. Theriot Fifth Circuit 2022-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection ex-parte-young fourth-amendment section-1983 statute-of-limitations Whether the doctrine of Ex parte Young allows a federal court to exercise jurisdiction over a claim seeking return of illegally seized property
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?
21-1501 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
21-7946 Jesse Manuel Skinner v. GPCH-GP, Inc., et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-05-23 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure injunctive-relief pro-se section-1983 standing without-prejudice whether-pro-se-plaintiff-has-right-to-withdraw-complaint-without-prejudice
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…
21-1431 Robert M. Kerr, Director, South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-05-11 GVR Amici (6)Relisted (3) circuit-split civil-rights due-process medicaid medicaid-act private-right-of-action privately-enforceable-rights section-1983 spending-clause standing statutory-interpretation Whether Spending Clause statutes give rise to privately enforceable rights under § 1983
21-1425 Darvin Castro Santos v. Craig White, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-05-05 Denied Response Waived civil-rights correctional-officers due-process excessive-force heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey prison-disciplinary-proceedings prisoner-rights section-1983 Whether Heck v. Humphrey bars a prisoner's excessive-force claim against correctional officers for damages under § 1983 where the claim does not direc…
21-1419 Hong Tang v. Kurt L. Schmoke, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-05-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling federal-procedure jurisdictional-dismissal maryland-law saving-statute section-1983 statute-of-limitations Whether federal equitable tolling rather than borrowed Maryland state limitations and tolling rules should apply to the subsequently re-filed 42 U.S.C…
21-1399 Ali Al-Maqablh v. Crystal L. Heinz, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-05-02 GVR 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process favorable-termination legal-remedy malicious-prosecution section-1983 sixth-circuit standing thompson-v-clark Whether the Sixth Circuit's decision should be vacated and remanded for reconsideration in light of Thompson v. Clark
21-1407 Symon Mandawala v. Northeast Baptist Hospital, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-05-02 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights conflict-of-interest conspiracy due-process judge judicial-bias lawyer section-1983 sixth-amendment Whether a judge's conspiracy with a private lawyer to obtain an out-of-time motion to dismiss violates due process
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
21-7689 Deverick Scott v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-04-25 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discovery due-process eighth-amendment failure-to-protect prisoner-rights retaliation screening-process section-1983 Did Defendants violate Scott's right to be protected from assault by another inmate?
21-1362 Timothy Gray v. Craig White, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-04-22 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-rights correctional-officers due-process excessive-force heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey prison-disciplinary-proceedings prisoner-rights section-1983 Whether Heck v. Humphrey bars a prisoner's excessive-force claim against correctional officers for damages under § 1983 where the claim does not direc…
21-1324 John Zarba, et ux. v. Town of Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2022-04-04 Denied appellate civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process hearing municipal-liability rule-12b6 section-1983 standing Should Rule 12(b)(6) motions be modified?
21-1300 Mark Gabriele, et al. v. Service Employees International Union, Local 1000, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-share-fees good-faith-defense janus-vs-afscme restitution retroactivity section-1983 union-fees Whether this Court's application of a rule of federal law to the parties before it requires every court to give retroactive effect to that decision
21-7436 Kevin D. Loggins, Sr. v. Jeff Zmuda, Secretary, Kansas Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-03-23 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-post-facto freedom-of-association miscarriage-of-justice section-1983 turner-v-safely Whether the U.S. District Court and U.S. Court of Appeals erred in finding plaintiff failed to state a claim regarding encroachment upon plaintiff's c…
21-1268 Joe Clarence Smith, Jr. v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-18 Denied 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty death-row eighth-amendment habeas-relief method-of-execution section-1983 Whether Mr. Smith's method-of-execution challenge is cognizable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983
21-7397 Mario Derrell Jones v. Great Southern National Bank, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 administrative-decision administrative-law civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment section-1983 whether-the-united-states-court-of-appeals-for-the-fifth-circuit-has-decided-an-important-federal-question-in-a-way-that-conflicts-with-relevant-decis…
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?
21-1159 Balubhai Patel, et al. v. Julie A. Su, et al. California 2022-02-22 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights declaratory-relief federal-courts-improvement-act injunctive-relief judicial-immunity quasi-judicial-officers section-1983 Whether 42 U.S.C. § 1983 extends quasi-judicial immunity to claims for injunctive relief
21-7104 Jeffrey Ryan Simmermaker v. Cedar County Sheriff's Department, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights confidential-informant due-process fourth-amendment heck-bar heck-barr probable-cause search-warrant section-1983 standing Did the court err in its HECK BARR determination?
21-1004 Leon Cody, et ux. v. Superior Court of California, Trinity County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment fair-trial fourteenth-amendment injunctive-relief section-1983 state-law Whether a State has an Eleventh Amendment right to arbitrarily enforce or not enforce a State Law having significant interest to federal Fourteenth Am…
21-988 Marla Crawford v. Henrico County Public School Board, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-01-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process en-banc-review governmental-immunity procedural-severance rehearing-en-banc section-1983 severance standing supplemental-jurisdiction Did the Appeals Court of the Fourth Circuit error by refusal to pole the rehearing en bac and affirming the US District Court not to sever to Dr. Marl…
21-6794 John W. Winningham, Jr. v. City of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma Tenth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-rights federal-action federal-civil-rights-act kidnapping kidnapping-robbery property-rights robbery section-1983 Whether kidnapping and robbery can be considered legal under Title 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 Federal Protected Civil Rights, Liberties, Property and Empl…
21-981 Lan Tu Trinh v. David Fineman Third Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied 12(b)(6) 12b6-motion appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-immunity pro-se-action quasi-judicial-immunity receiver-appointment section-1983 standing Did the district court err by granting the receiver's motion to dismiss on immunity grounds under Rule 12(b)(6)?
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 …
21-947 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
21-933 Vdare Foundation v. City of Colorado Springs, Colorado Tenth Circuit 2021-12-23 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights first-amendment free-speech government-action hate-speech municipal-services retaliation retaliation-claim section-1983 Whether a complaint based on a local government's public announcement that the plaintiff's speech may be illegal 'hate speech' and that, therefore, th…
21-878 Carl Michael Seibert v. Jeremy McIntire, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 state-court-judgments subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Eleventh Circuit's purported 'inextricably intertwined' standard for evaluating jurisdictional claims under Rooker-Feldman arbitrarily and…
21-6535 Jennifer Smith v. William Paul Nichols, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment bivens bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-injury due-process extraterritorial-warrant fourth-amendment monell search-and-seizure search-warrant section-1983 Does forgery, drug distribution, perjured affidavits, defective extraterritorial search warrants, improper execution of search warrants, coupled with …
21-806 Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County, et al. v. Ivanka Talevski, Personal Representative of the Estate of Gorgi Talevski, Deceased Seventh Circuit 2021-12-01 Judgment Issued Amici (32)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction medicaid medical-malpractice nursing-home-amendments nursing-homes private-rights section-1983 spending-clause statutory-interpretation third-party-beneficiaries Whether Spending Clause statutes give rise to privately enforceable rights under Section 1983
21-810 Luis Lorenzo Vargas v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-civil-litigation federal-civil-procedure heck-v-humphrey mcdononugh-v-smith preclusion preclusive-effect section-1983 state-criminal-conviction vacated-judgment Whether a wrongful state criminal conviction retains preclusive effect in a later federal action under 42-U.S.C-§1983 challenging the constitutionalit…
21-6430 Michael Cardora Roberson v. Joe Morgan, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-11-29 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process section-1983 serious-medical-needs under-color-of-state-law Whether the defendants' deliberate indifference to the plaintiff's serious medical needs violated the plaintiff's rights and constituted cruel and unu…
21-790 Bradford Disney Lund v. David J. Cowan, Judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-29 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 ada civil-rights declaratory-relief judicial-immunity ninth-circuit respondeat-superior section-1983 title-ii-ada Whether judicial immunity applies to Title II ADA claims
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 …
21-737 David Saxon Bagley, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Jeremiah Ray Bagley v. Ramona Rogers, M.D., et al. Texas 2021-11-18 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights dismissal-with-prejudice excessive-force expert-report mandatory-dismissal medical-liability preemption section-1983 state-healthcare state-healthcare-institutions Whether the Texas Medical Liability Act's expert report and mandatory sanction of dismissal with prejudice for failure to serve an expert report provi…
21-593 Priscilla Everette-Oates v. Beth Wood, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-10-22 Denied Response Waived civil-rights civil-rights-action conspiracy due-process evidence-concealment immunity municipal-immunity municipal-liability prosecutorial-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment Can municipal defendants win summary judgment solely on the basis that one defendant has prosecutorial immunity and was otherwise deemed not liable un…
21-569 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…
21-534 Roman Andy Janiec, et al. v. City of Glendora, California Ninth Circuit 2021-10-12 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights class-of-one monell monell-doctrine municipal-liability section-1983 selective-enforcement Can a municipality be held liable under 42 U.S.C. §1983 for a 'custom or practice' of selective enforcement against a 'class of one'?
21-492 Edeline Julmisse Prosper, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Junior Prosper v. Anthony Martin Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Response Waived civil-rights excessive-force scott-v-harris section-1983 summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton use-of-force video-evidence Whether courts must implement the traditional summary judgment requirement to consider all evidence in the light most favorable to the nonmovant when …
21-499 Carlos Vega v. Terence B. Tekoh Ninth Circuit 2021-10-04 Judgment Issued Amici (14)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-act fifth-amendment law-enforcement miranda-v-arizona miranda-warnings police-liability section-1983 self-incrimination Whether a plaintiff may state a claim for relief against a law enforcement officer under Section 1983 based on the officer's failure to provide Mirand…
21-439 Michael Nance v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-22 Judgment Issued Amici (7)Relisted (2) alternative-execution civil-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus lethal-injection method-of-execution ripeness section-1983 successive-petition Whether an inmate's as-applied method-of-execution challenge must be raised in a habeas petition instead of through a § 1983 action if the inmate plea…
21-442 Rodney Reed v. Bryan Goertz Fifth Circuit 2021-09-22 Judgment Issued Amici (13)Relisted (8) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights dna-testing due-process postconviction-claim section-1983 state-court-litigation statute-of-limitations Whether the statute of limitations for a § 1983 claim seeking DNA testing of crime-scene evidence begins to run at the end of state-court litigation d…
21-5730 Shikeb Saddozai v. Kristen Esterheld, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction judicial-review section-1983 standing Whether plaintiff's claims are cognizable under 42-U.S.C.S-1983-1985-1986-1988
21-414 First Midwest Bank, as Guardian of the Estate of Michael D. LaPorta v. City of Chicago, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights legal-causation municipal-liability off-duty off-duty-conduct official-policy section-1983 Can municipalities evade liability under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for unlawful acts that their official municipal policies undisputedly caused if the municipa…
21-342 Hong Tang v. RuthAnne Visnauskas, Commissioner, New York Division of Housing and Community Renewal, et al. Second Circuit 2021-09-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 appellate-preservation bolling-v-sharpe due-process equal-protection liberty-interest motion-for-reconsideration pro-se-litigation section-1983 substantive-due-process Whether a liberty interest claim was properly preserved for appeal
21-292 Robert H. Healy v. Ledura Watkins Sixth Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-tort due-process fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution section-1983 statute-of-limitations Whether malicious prosecution is a cognizable tort for § 1983 suit
21-5465 Kent Glen Williams v. Alan Stewart, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied IFP civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-claim due-process equal-protection free-speech petition pro-se-litigant procedural-requirements section-1983 standing Whether Rule 3.2 of the Idaho Department of Correction violates the First, Fourteenth, and Petition Clauses of the U.S. Constitution
21-5469 Ziahonna Teagan v. City of McDonough, Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process heck-doctrine judicial-authority judicial-power municipal-liability policy-practice-procedure-custom section-1983 state-law state-law-offense Can a Georgia Municipality be held liable for an official, agent, or entity actions that makes a deliberate choice to follow an internal official poli…
21-5345 Leonard Thurman v. Medical Transportation Management, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2021-08-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-regulation chevron-deference circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-regulations federal-right medicaid medicaid-act section-1983 statutory-interpretation Whether an administrative regulation may establish a federal right enforceable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983
21-185 Scott Solomon v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, District Council 37, AFL-CIO Second Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied agency-fees civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment good-faith-defense janus-v-afscme restitution section-1983 state-law Whether there is a categorical good-faith defense to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that shields a defendant from damages liability for depriving citizens of their …
21-179 Nehemiah Rolle, Jr. v. Norman St. George Second Circuit 2021-08-06 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process equity equity-lawsuit federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jury-trial section-1983 Whether the petitioner's equity lawsuit under 42 USC § 1983 seeking declaratory judgment against the respondent is barred by statute
21-96 Paul Daniels, et al. v. County of Alameda, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied Response Waived civil-rights federal-law malicious-prosecution probable-cause retaliation section-1983 state-law Where absence of probable cause to prosecute is an element of a federal section 1983 civil-rights claim
21-87 Jeffrey Angelo Campbell v. Sylvia Betta-Cole, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment child-custody civil-rights due-process family-law federal-jurisdiction parental-rights section-1983 state-court-jurisdiction state-courts Whether a parent has a right to visitation and a case plan when there is no proof of life-threatening issues
21-71 Washington County, Utah v. Martin Crowson Tenth Circuit 2021-07-20 Denied Response Waived deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment inmate-medical-care municipal-liability section-1983 supreme-court-precedents Whether a municipal government can be liable under the Eighth Amendment for denial of inmate medical care under § 1983
21-5131 Paul Noel Negrito, fka Paul A. E. Noel v. James Buonaugurio Second Circuit 2021-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process false-arrest personal-service personal-use-vehicle probable-cause section-1983 traffic-infraction traffic-infractions Whether a user of a 'Personal Use Vehicle' has a right to maintain a section 1983 claim for false arrest
21-65 Yvonne Bowers, Sr. v. Lynx Asset Services, LLC New Jersey 2021-07-16 Denied Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process equal-protection fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court section-1983 state-action state-actions Whether violations of due process and equal protection of law by state actions present a constitutional challenge and violates Petitioner's civil righ…
21-5084 Donald H. Kimball v. Altoona Police Department, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment abuse-of-discretion civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process party-presentation second-amendment section-1983 Whether the Eighth Circuit departed from the principle of party presentation, introduced clearly erroneous evidence, and conflicted with Supreme Court…
21-29 Blake Leitch, et al. v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Council 31, AFL-CIO Seventh Circuit 2021-07-09 Denied 42-usc-1983 agency-fees civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment good-faith-defense janus-v-afscme section-1983 state-law wyatt-v-cole Whether there is a 'good faith defense' to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that shields a defendant from damages liability for depriving citizens of their constituti…
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…
20-1782 Regina Therese Drexler v. Theresa Spahn, et al. Colorado 2021-06-23 Denied 2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-protection-order civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech prior-restraint section-1983 Whether the First Amendment permits the issuance of a civil protection order to (i) punish a 'pattern' of conduct where such conduct includes only pro…
20-1788 City of New York, New York, et al. v. Jarrett Frost Second Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-fabrication fourth-amendment pretrial-detention probable-cause section-1983 Whether a § 1983 plaintiff may pursue a due process-based claim challenging a pretrial detention supported by probable cause, independent of the dispu…
20-1734 Waseem Daker v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process filing-fees intervention joinder prison-litigation-reform-act section-1983 standing Whether the Prison Litigation Reform Act requires each prisoner filing a lawsuit to pay a separate filing fee
20-8303 Dong Sheng Huang v. Jalea Joechelle Hill, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights false-imprisonment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution section-1983 warrantless-arrest Whether fourth amendment and fourteenth amendment claims were dismissed wrongly at Rule 12(b)(6) motion stage
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
20-1667 City of East Cleveland, Ohio, et al. v. Arnold Black Ohio 2021-06-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights discovery-sanctions due-process exemplary-damages municipal-liability police-misconduct section-1983 vicarious-liability Whether the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals committed plain error and the Ohio Supreme Court abused its discretion in denying review of this cas…
20-1534 Patrick Doughty, et al. v. State Employees’ Association of New Hampshire, SEIU Local 1984, CTW, CLC First Circuit 2021-05-04 Denied Amici (1) 42-usc-1983 agency-fees compelled-association compelled-speech damages first-amendment restitution section-1983 Does a First Amendment compelled speech and association claim for damages or restitution brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 require a plaintiff to prove m…
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 …
20-1383 Arthur Diamond, et al. v. Pennsylvania State Education Association, et al. Third Circuit 2021-04-02 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights damages damages-liability first-amendment good-faith-defense retroactivity section-1983 union-fees 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 right…
20-1351 Phillip W. Hurd, et al. v. Joy Laskar Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process favorable-termination heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey legal-termination malicious-prosecution section-1983 termination-of-prosecution Whether a plaintiff alleging malicious prosecution under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 must show that the broader prosecution against him was terminated in a manne…
20-7351 Sheena Shaw v. Sacramento County Sheriff's Department, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1988 circuit-court civil-rights federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation section-1983 statute-of-limitations statutes-of-limitations tolling-rules May the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ignore the goals of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when interpreting and applying state statutes of limitations and the coord…
20-1222 Julie Dalessio v. University of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights comprehensive-remedial-scheme due-process judicial-review ninth-circuit remedial-scheme section-1983 statutory-interpretation statutory-rights Does a comprehensive remedial scheme for the enforcement of a statutory right under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) foreclose resort to a 42…
20-1120 Melissa Belgau, et al. v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 collective-bargaining color-of-law employee-rights first-amendment public-employees section-1983 union-dues Whether it violates the First Amendment for a state and union to seize union dues or fees from employees' wages without proof the employees waived the…
20-7054 Paul E. Weber v. Amy Arnott Quinlan, et al. Third Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-U.S.C-§1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief postconviction-remedy section-1983 state-action Is the refusal of state officials to afford a defendant existing postconviction remedies actionable under 42-U.S.C-§1983?
20-1067 Maria M. Rosas v. Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation, dba Advocate Christ Medical Center, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-02-04 Denied Response Waived civil-rights damages disability equitable-tolling fourth-amendment section-1983 statute-of-limitations Whether the statute of limitations on a § 1983 claim seeking damages under the Fourth Amendment for deprivation of liberty can be equitably tolled whe…
20-1052 In Re Christopher Gary Baylor 2021-02-02 Denied civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigant section-1983 section-1983-claim Does a non-prisoner, indigent, pro se litigant to a Section 1983 claim who initially proceeds In Forma Pauperis but later pays for his appeal, lose th…
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
20-1005 Sara Dees v. San Diego County, California Ninth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 child-seizure civil-rights due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty-interest parental-rights section-1983 Is a parent's Fourteenth Amendment liberty interest in the care, custody, control, and management of their child violated when government authorities …
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…
20-6847 Christopher Bryan Torres v. Brad Livingston, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-01-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 13th-amendment civil-rights involuntary-servitude legal-rights prison-labor pro-se pro-se-complaint section-1983 thirteenth-amendment Do 13th Amendment slaves, or those under involuntary servitude, have legal rights when filing pro se § 1983 complaints for serious injuries received f…
20-910 Anthony M. Lee v. Heath Parshall Seventh Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion jury jury-selection racial-bias section-1983 standing voir-dire Whether the district court's refusal to probe potential jurors for bias or prejudice was an abuse of discretion under Rule 47(a)
20-6797 Kevin Sembrat v. Heather Stanton, fka Heather Sembrat New Jersey 2021-01-07 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-conduct judicial-impartiality property-rights section-1983 Whether Petitioner was unconstitutionally deprived of property without due process
20-906 Thomas Charles Horne, et al. v. Sheila Sullivan Polk Ninth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights due-process heck-rule property-rights section-1983 statute-of-limitations whether-the-heck-rule-should-apply-to-administrative-cases
20-881 Huong L. Tran, et al. v. City of Holmes Beach, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 administrative-remedies civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-access equal-protection finality-requirement section-1983 shotgun-pleading Whether strict shotgun pleading rules are permissible to dispose of complaints and deprive litigants equal access to federal courts
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?
20-851 Roger Hawes v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-12-28 Denied 42-usc-1983 commingled-funds disability-benefits due-process inmate-trust-fund preemption section-1983 section-5301 statutory-protection veterans-benefits Whether veterans' disability benefits deposited in an inmate trust fund account are protected from being used for a state-mandated medical co-payment …
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
20-816 In Re Coreco Ja'Qan Pearson, et al. 2020-12-15 Dismissed Response Waived due-process election-fraud electoral-college equal-protection fraud illegality presidential-election section-1983 standing standing-doctrine Do presidential electors have standing to challenge the outcome of a presidential election?
20-711 City of Fairbanks, Alaska, et al. v. Marvin Roberts, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-23 Denied Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights conviction-vacatur criminal-conviction due-process favorable-termination habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey section-1983 Whether vacatur of a conviction by settlement qualifies as a favorable termination under Heck v. Humphrey when the vacatur was merely the ministerial …
20-651 Cook Children's Medical Center v. T. L., a Minor, et al. Texas 2020-11-13 Denied Amici (1) civil-liability civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process hospital-review internal-review-process medical-ethics section-1983 state-action texas-advance-directives-act Whether private doctors who discontinue private care for a private patient at a private hospital are state actors for invoking a state law's internal-…
20-659 Larry Thompson v. Pagiel Clark, et al. Second Circuit 2020-11-13 Judgment Issued Amici (17)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exigent-circumstances favorable-termination fourth-amendment section-1983 standing warrantless-entry Whether the rule that a plaintiff must await favorable termination before bringing a Section 1983 action alleging unreasonable seizure pursuant to leg…
20-634 Felicia Robinson v. Webster County, Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-claim constitutional-violation due-process government-liability private-actor-injury section-1983 standing state-created-danger Whether a person injured by a private actor can state a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against a state or local government actor who created the danger …
20-538 Rentberry, Inc., et al. v. City of Seattle, Washington Ninth Circuit 2020-10-23 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived civil-rights first-amendment mootness nominal-damages section-1983 standing voluntary-cessation Whether government defendants are subject to the same voluntary-cessation standard as private defendants
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,…
20-465 Young County, Texas, et al. v. Nichole Sanchez, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-10-09 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 42-usc-1983 bell-v-wolfish civil-rights conditions-of-confinement judicial-management monell-v-dept-of-soc-servs municipal-liability pretrial-detainee respondeat-superior section-1983 Has the Fifth Circuit violated the dictates of Monell and its progeny by exposing Young County to liability based on a theory of respondeat superior?
20-427 Polk County, Wisconsin v. J. K. J., et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-10-02 Denied Amici (3) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violations failure-to-train monell-liability municipal-liability section-1983 single-incident-theory Whether the 'single-incident' theory of Monell liability may be used to hold a municipality liable under §1983 on the theory that its failure to do mo…
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…
20-372 Richard Louis Arnold Phillips v. Kevin Chappell, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights conviction-challenge due-process heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey partial-reversal section-1983 standing Does a plaintiff remain 'Heck barred' from seeking §1983 relief when their conviction is partially reversed, vacating the only sentence imposed, but p…
20-351 Norris Paul Carey, Jr. v. Joanne Throwe, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) concealed-carry concealed-weapon first-amendment law-enforcement-officer-safety-act law-enforcement-safety-act public-employee public-employee-speech qualified-retired-law-enforcement-officer section-1983 social-media-posts Does a qualified retired law enforcement officer have an enforceable right under LEOSA?
20-198 Tamatrice Williams v. City of Sherwood, Arkansas Eighth Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied Response Waived arkansas-supreme-court civil-rights court-reorganization legal-jurisdiction municipal-courts municipal-liability rehearing section-1983 state-actor state-court state-law Should the opinion below be vacated, and this case remanded, for reconsideration in light of City of Little Rock v. Nelson?
20-192 Mary Louise Serafine v. Karin Crump, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-immunity prospective-relief section-1983 standing state-court-proceeding Whether City of Los Angeles v. Lyons may be expanded to bar Article III standing under Section 1983 in a suit for prospective relief against state jud…
20-161 City of Sacramento, California, et al. v. Robert Mann, Sr., et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment intimate-association section-1983 sibling-relationship sibling-relationships standing Whether the First Amendment protects intimate associations absent expressive activity
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…
19-1436 Denise DeMartini v. Town of Gulf Stream, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-30 Denied 42-usc-1983 causation civil-lawsuit civil-litigation civil-rights first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation municipal-liability probable-cause retaliation section-1983 Did the Eleventh Circuit err in importing a 'lack of probable cause' requirement for a First Amendment retaliation claim under 42 U.S.C § 1983 arising…
19-8869 Robert Wade v. Monroe County District Attorney, et al. Third Circuit 2020-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-action District-Attorney's-Office-for-the-Third-Judicial- district-court-order due-process rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 Skinner-v-Switzer standing supreme-court-precedent Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine was properly applied
19-8852 Madhu Sameer v. Sameer Khera California 2020-06-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights document-access due-process judicial-misconduct section-1983 standing transcript transcript-denial Whether dismissal of appeal for refusal of the lower courts to provide designated records and transcripts for appeal constitutes deprivation of civil-…
19-1380 Terry Lynn Olson v. Janis Amatuzio, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-06-16 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey incarceration incarceration-challenge section-1983 Whether a petitioner who has no available remedy in habeas, through no lack of diligence on his part, is barred by Heck from pursuing a Section 1983 c…
19-1367 Vernon Lee Havens, II v. Maureen O'Connor, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-guarantees due-process equal-protection equal-treatment federal-law judicial-immunity jurisdiction rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 section-1988 superior-courts Do Mireles v. Waco, Brookings v. Clunk, and associated case law combine to grant absolute judicial immunity to all other regulation, Section 1988 suit…
19-1360 William Cannon, Sr., as Special Representative for Charles Cannon, et al. v. Johnnie Lee Savory Seventh Circuit 2020-06-11 Denied Amici (1) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights custody favorable-termination habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey preclusion-doctrines section-1983 statute-of-limitations statutes-of-limitations Does the limitations period for a §1983 claim that necessarily implicates a criminal conviction accrue when a prisoner is released from custody, as fo…
19-1326 E. Thomas Scarborough, III v. Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Northampton County, et al. Third Circuit 2020-06-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) access-to-court civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-crimes parental-rights rooker-feldman section-1983 standing Whether District Court has jurisdiction over state deprivation of federal rights, under the color of state law
19-8533 Michael A. Lajeunesse v. Megan Anne Chambers, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-05-23 Denied IFP brady-violation civil-rights civil-rights-statute constitutional-rights due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence judicial-notice prosecutorial-misconduct section-1983 standing Whether the petitioner can seek relief under 42 USC §1983, 1985, or 1986 for alleged conspiracy to withhold exculpatory evidence
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…
19-1277 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 (…
19-1261 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
19-1223 Demetrias Taylor, as Representative of the Estate of Iretha Jean Lilly, Deceased, et al. v. McLennan County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-04-16 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process medical-care municipal-liability municipal-policy myocardial-infarction policy pre-trial-detainee procedure section-1983 summary-judgment Does the provision of three EKGs, an aspirin, and a nitroglycerin pill over the course of three hours to a pre-trial detainee (who then died from an o…
19-1169 Jonas Ybarra, Jr. v. Texas Health and Human Services Commission, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-03-26 Denied Response Waived administrative-remedy bivens-claim civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-remedy retaliatory-conduct section-1983 section-1985 sex-discrimination standing Whether Mr. Ybarra's Bivens claim has no administrative remedy and should not be construed to preclude a judicial remedy
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…
19-1086 Robert E. Garcia v. Michael Falk, et al. Second Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights compensable-injury constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process legal-injury nominal-damages procedural-due-process section-1983 standing Whether it is an error of law to dismiss a constitutional claim brought under 42 U.S.C. 1983 on the grounds that the plaintiff has failed to establish…
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…
19-1076 John L. Corrigan, Jr. v. City of Savage, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response Waived 1983-claim 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights custody due-process favorable-termination habeas habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey incarceration judicial-precedent section-1983 spencer-v-kemna standing Whether the court below erroneously held that the favorable termination rule applies even if an individual is no longer incarcerated, and therefore in…
19-1025 City of Ferguson, Missouri v. Keilee Fant, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-02-18 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure interlocutory-appeal required-entity rule-19 section-1983 sovereign-immunity standing state-law Whether an interlocutory appeal lies from a refusal to dismiss for failure to join a required-entity sovereign
19-7634 Aimee Hankins v. Tim Lowe Seventh Circuit 2020-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey judicial-remedy section-1983 state-federal-proceedings unlawful-detention When habeous corpus relief is unavailable to an inmate or parolee who has been held beyond their lawful release or termination date, does this Court's…
19-7441 Anthony Earl Ridley v. Board of County Commissioners of Sedgwick County, Kansas, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation damages due-process exhaustion-of-remedies section-1983 sovereign-immunity standing state-employee Whether Petitioner's request for compensatory damages is barred by 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(e)
19-7357 Chris Fordham v. Corrections Officer Manzola, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-remedies fourth-circuit judicial-procedure procedural-dismissal section-1983 standing Whether the USDC-EDAO erred in deciding that Plaintiff-Petitioner failed to exhaust and dismissing without prejudice Petitioner's § 1982 Complaint aft…
19-7342 Ray Turner v. Veronica Cadney, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied IFP 1983-complaint 4th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-act-1983 dismissal due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment section-1983 standing temporary-restraining-order Did the U.S. District Court error by not applying the Fourth Amendment equal protection to the petitioner's case when he applied for a temporary restr…
19-885 Jamie Swartz, et ux. v. Heartland Equine Rescue, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment livestock livestock-seizure post-seizure-hearing pre-seizure-hearing rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 seizure subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the 7th Circuit err by finding the Rooker-Feldman doctrine applied?
19-7311 Alphonso Vernell Frazier, II v. City of Omaha Police Department, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights color-of-law due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment search-and-seizure section-1983 unreasonable-search unreasonable-search-and-seizure Whether the authorities of the Municipal Government of the City of Omaha failed to properly train their officials and employees
19-862 William Castro v. R. Fred Lewis, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process due-process-rights federal-constitutional-claims federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 state-court-judgment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars subject-matter jurisdiction in a federal district court over federal constitutional claims filed pursuant to …
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?
19-810 Avtar S. Badwal v. Ramandeep Badwal, et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-27 Denied Response Waived civil-rights divorce due-process judicial-bias judicial-complaint matrimonial matrimonial-law section-1983 Can the Petitioner request and receive a new trial from the Matrimonial Judge in a Divorce case whom acted against him with bias because he filed a ju…
19-797 City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. v. Mary R. Meier Eighth Circuit 2019-12-23 Denied 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment municipal-liability probable-cause section-1983 seizure wanted-bulletin warrantless-seizure Whether a municipality can be held liable under 42 U.S.C. §1983 for a warrantless seizure of an automobile based on probable cause
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
19-7019 Alvin Washington v. Justin Boder, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment procedural-due-process property-rights section-1983 standing takings unlawful-eviction unreasonable-search-and-seizure Whether the extraordinary circumstances of a person being lawfully evicted by PFA order by the court one day after his unlawful eviction by state empl…
19-6981 Vladik Bykov v. Steven G. Rosen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 absolute-immunity ada-title-ii americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights compensatory-damages declaratory-relief discriminatory-motive Does Title II of the Americans with Disabilities A section-1983 standing Is absolute immunity a bar to declaratory relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983?
19-6944 Bahman Khodayari v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights damages discovery due-process nominal-damages rule-26 rule-26(a)(1)(A)(ii) rule-37 rule-37(c)(1) rule-41 rule-41(b) sanctions section-1983 Does the Ninth Circuit's affirmance of the District Court's dismissal of a Petitioner's 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim under Fed.R.Civ.P. Rule 41(b) due to Ru…
19-718 James King v. Douglas Brownback, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-12-06 Denied Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 bivens civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law due-process federal-law law-enforcement section-1983 state-law task-force Does a law enforcement officer's membership in a joint state-federal police task force managed, in part, by a federal agency preclude him or her from …
19-6741 Jose Joaquin Ramirez v. Jeffrey C. Bloom, et al. Second Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction incompetence incompetency incompetency-determination judicial-discretion mental-health section-1983 standing state-action title-42-usc-1983 Is a Governmental Paid - Governmental Mandated Lawyer that is forced upon an individual against will without consent acting as a Governmental Agent?
19-686 Snodgrass-King Pediatric Dental Associates, P.C., et al. v. DentaQuest USA Insurance Co., Inc. Sixth Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied Response Waived 1st-amendment 42-usc-1983 blum-v-yaretsky civil-rights first-amendment government-contractor government-directive private-contractor section-1983 significant-encouragement state-action Whether a government directive made to a private contractor while the contractor is bidding on a lucrative and admittedly important government contrac…
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
19-6690 Molly Ann Mahany v. City of Buffalo Police Department, et al. Second Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process false-evidence favorable-termination section-1983 statute-of-limitations Whether the statute of limitations for a Section 1983 false-evidence claim begins to run upon the favorable termination of the ensuing proceedings or …
19-6635 Matthew Paul Borowski v. Kimberly Bechelli, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process due-process-clause fifth-amendment judicial-remedial-structure judicial-remedies section-1983 section-2 standing ziglar-v-abbasi Is the judicial remedial structure created in Ziglar v. Abbasi constitutional under Article III, Section 2?
19-6570 Ray Jefferson Cromartie v. Bradfield Shealy, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process habeas-corpus procedural-history section-1983 standing state-statute stay-of-execution What standards should a district court apply in determining whether to grant relief on a claim under Skinner v. Switzer?
19-6545 Bradly M. Cunningham v. Washington County, Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-07 Dismissed IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus illegal-sentence parole-board section-1983 sentencing torture Issues being raised
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…
19-6338 Gerald Nelson v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Second Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arbitration arbitration-award back-pay back-pay-settlement civil-rights due-process gross-income gross-income-taxation section-1983 tax tax-law tax-liability unemployment unemployment-benefits Whether gross income includes back pay settlements that deduct taxpayer's Unemployment Benefits in an Arbitration Award, and who is the taxpayer - the…
19-6324 Taeng Yang v. Michael McNeill, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights conviction-vacatur due-process heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey leave-to-amend section-1983 statute-of-limitations wallace-v-kato Whether Yang's § 1983 claims begins to accrue on the date his conviction was 'vacated and overturned' in light of Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477, 486-…
19-485 Juan Perez, et al. v. City of Sweetwater, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-15 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 city-of-canton-v-harris civil-procedure civil-rights due-process municipal-liability police-misconduct reeves-v-sanderson reeves-v-sanderson-plumbing section-1983 seventh-amendment single-occurrence-rule Whether the Petitioner's Seventh Amendment rights were violated
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…
19-276 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 §…
19-266 Seantrey Morris v. Joseph Mekdessie, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-attack due-process heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey judicial-estoppel pretrial-diversion section-1983 Whether Heck v. Humphrey bars a § 1983 claim when criminal charges were dismissed through a pretrial diversion program
19-235 Richard Jordan, et al. v. Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied burden-of-proof civil-rights corrections-department death-penalty discovery discovery-rights due-process eighth-amendment glossip-standard glossip-v-gross lethal-injection method-of-execution section-1983 standing Whether the burden of proof demanded by Glossip in method-of-execution challenges requires commensurately broad discovery rights to provide plaintiffs…
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…
19-5561 Stephen Michael West v. Tony Parker, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-08-12 Denied IFP 8th-amendment bucklew-standard bucklew-v-precythe civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment lethal-injection method-of-execution res-judicata section-1983 standing When an inmate's § 1983 challenge to a state's method of execution meets the timeliness and pleading requirements of this Court's decision in Bucklew,…
19-5265 Benjamin E. Schreiber v. Nick Ludwick, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law administrative-remedies appeals bivens-action civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation dismissal due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-courts parties section-1983 standing Did the Court of Appeals violate Petitioner's Due Process Rights when it 'ADDED' extra Defendants not in the original lawsuit and in which the U.S. Di…
19-65 Jonna Corporation, dba Premier Recycling Company v. City of Sunnyvale, California Ninth Circuit 2019-07-12 Denied 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pleading pleading-standards property-rights section-1983 standing Did Petitioner Premier Recycling adequately plead its Declaratory Judgment claim alleging a violation of 42 U.S.C. Section 1983, pursuant to FCRP 8?
19-47 Jeryme Morgan v. Minh Schott, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-07-08 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights criminal-sentence disciplinary-proceedings due-process edwards-v-balisok heck-bar heck-v-humphrey mixed-sanctions non-durational-sanctions section-1983 Whether Heck bars § 1983 claims for damages in mixed-sanctions cases where the inmate challenges only the non-durational elements of the sanction, exp…
19-5021 Oliver M. Boling v. United States Parole Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2019-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-rights district-of-columbia due-process equal-protection federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure personal-capacity preclusion section-1983 Whether the United States Court of Appeal for the District of Columbia is in conflict with the circuit courts on the issue of preclusion
18-9753 Jason Brooks v. Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-access-to-courts,first-amendment,four court-access due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech lewis-v-casey pleading-standard prisoners-rights section-1983 standing Whether a federal district court's 30-page limit on unrepresented prisoners' § 1983 complaints violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments
18-9697 Dennis Gordon v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1983-action 28-usc-2254 civil-rights civil-rights-action due-process ex-post-facto federal-court-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ninth-circuit parole parole-hearing parole-release-hearings section-1983 section-2254 Does Dennis Gordon's ex post facto challenge to the eight-year increase in the interval between his parole release hearings fall within the Federal Co…
18-1533 William Henry Starrett, Jr. v. City of Richardson, Texas Fifth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 civil-rights-42-usc-1985 civil-rights-statute conspiracy conspiracy-claims due-process federal-jurisdiction municipal-liability pleading-standards pleading-sufficiency pleadings section-1983 texas-tort-claims-act Whether allegations are sufficient to support claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and 42 U.S.C. §§ 1985(2)-(3)
18A1296 Ameer Xenos Flippin v. DC Board of Elections & Ethics, et al. District of Columbia 2019-06-11 Presumed Complete candidate-exclusion civil-rights election-law municipal-election section-1983 write-in-candidate Whether a local election board's exclusion of a candidate from a mayoral ballot constitutes a violation of civil rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983
18A1284 Ameer Xenos Flippin v. DC Metropolitan Police Department, et al. District of Columbia 2019-06-07 Presumed Complete abuse-of-discretion civil-rights constitutional-rights judicial-review police-misconduct section-1983 Whether a municipality can dismiss a civil rights complaint alleging police misconduct and constitutional rights violations without providing substant…
18-1483 Gene N. Barry v. Scott M. Freshour, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment administrative-law administrative-search civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment medical-records privacy privacy-interest property-rights section-1983 standing Must doctors have an ownership interest in their medical practices in order to have cognizable privacy or property interests in medical records that (…
18-1461 Dawn Marie Delebreau v. Cristina Danforth, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 bivens civil-rights constitutional-equality domestic-dependent-nations due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction native-american-rights section-1983 sovereign-immunity territorial-jurisdiction tribal-law tribal-sovereignty Are tribal laws considered territorial laws under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 such that Native Americans must also have an equal § 1983 remedy when Indians are c…
18-1466 County of Sonoma, California, et al. v. Rafael Mateos Sandoval, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment constitutional-rights continued-detention detention due-process fourth-amendment lawful-seizure monell-liability municipal-liability property-rights property-seizure public-safety section-1983 seizure vehicle-impound Whether the Fourth Amendment can be violated by the government's mere continued detention of property even though its full-blown seizure satisfied the…
18-9396 Bobby Joe Long v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment lethal-injection res-judicata section-1983 stay Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that Mr. Long was not entitled to a stay because of inexcusable delay in bringing his l…
18-9351 Craig Bassett v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-act court-rule due-process federal-courts federal-law respondeat-superior section-1983 separation-of-powers standing state-law statutory-interpretation Can a rule of court contradict an act of congress without violating due process?
18-1411 Jeffrey Isaacs v. Trustees of Dartmouth College, et al. First Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion administrative-law due-process evidence evidence-spoliation medical-license medical-licensing protected-conduct rehabilitation-act retaliation section-1983 title-ix Whether the NH District Court abused its discretion in dismissing a Rehabilitation Act retaliation claim, failing to hold Dartmouth accountable for de…
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
18-1333 Ronald Jones, et al. v. Michael Keitz, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 ashcroft-v-iqbal civil-rights county-liability heightened-pleading iqbal-standard malicious-prosecution monell-claim municipal-liability pleading-standard section-1983 sheriff-liability What facts must a plaintiff allege to state a claim for malicious prosecution against a California county and its sheriff under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, espe…
18-1268 Paras Jhokke v. City of Los Angeles, California California 2019-04-03 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-violation domestic-violence due-process equal-protection gender-bias gender-discrimination hate-crime police-misconduct section-1983 Whether States, Cities or its Police Officers knowingly or unknowingly Commit Hate Crime Acts motivated by Gender Bias while Enforcing Domestic Violen…
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:
18-8505 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…
18-1205 Phillip B. Leiser, et al. v. Donald W. Lemon, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-relief due-process federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 standing state-court-judgment state-court-judgments subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Rooker-Feldman abstention doctrine applies to deprive the lower federal courts of subject matter jurisdiction when a state-court loser, se…
18-1208 William M. Turner v. Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights continuing-wrong continuing-wrong-doctrine due-process heck-v-humphrey malicious-prosecution section-1983 statute-of-limitations tenth-circuit younger-abstention Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in finding that Appellant's 1983 and 1985 claims are barred by the Statute of Limitations
18-1186 Anthony Johnson v. Edward Winstead, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied Relisted (2) 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings due-process fifth-amendment heck-v-humphrey inculpatory-statement section-1983 statute-of-limitations unconstitutional-evidence unconstitutional-statement Whether the statute of limitations for a Section 1983 claim based on the use of an unconstitutional inculpatory statement begins to run when criminal …
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?
18-8283 Terry A. Burlison v. Pam Angus, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as a Marion County, Florida Court Deputy Clerk Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 absolute-immunity civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process immunity official-liability pre-seizure-conduct property-loss property-rights section-1983 seizure Whether a public official is protected by absolute immunity under 42 U.S.C. 1983 when their pre-seizure conduct violates clearly established law and c…
18-8248 Hersy Jones, Jr. v. Supreme Court of Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights default-judgment disbarment due-process judicial-review recusal rooker-feldman section-1983 standing Does Rooker Feldman bar a disbarred attorney from seeking damages and equitable relief under Sec. 1983
18-1093 City of Joliet, Illinois, et al. v. Elijah Manuel Seventh Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 accrual accrual-rule civil-rights fourth-amendment judicial-procedure manuel-v-city-of-joliet pretrial-detention section-1983 Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in holding that a Fourth Amendment claim for unlawful post-process, pretrial detention brought pursuant to §1983 is …
18-7959 Paul David Maze v. Renea Terrell, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 12(b)(6) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion plra prisoner-rights pro-se-litigant section-1983 standing Does a prisoner's §1983 civil matter require a remand if a District Court wrongly equate the standard for frivolousness of a complaint under §1915(d) …
18-7962 Al-Rashid Muhammad Abdullah v. Plant City Police Department, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty-rights property-rights section-1983 takings Whether the Due Process Clause requires an opportunity for a post-deprivation hearing for a property right/interest § 1983 claim
18-1056 Mitzi Johanknecht, Sheriff, King County, Washington v. Eva Moore, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young monell municipal-liability official-capacity prospective-relief section-1983 separation-of-powers standing state-court-orders Whether Ex parte Young establishes a novel and unprecedented judge-made cause of action, separate from § 1983, that can be used through an official ca…
18-7853 John Patrick Fletcher v. Celia Schwartz, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied IFP 28-usc-1915 42-U.S.C-1983 7th-amendment abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure due-process prisoner-complaint pro-se section-1915 section-1983 section-242 seventh-amendment standing takings Whether the Seventh Amendment allows an action to be dismissed under 28 U.S.C. § 1915 — without a finding of factual error — six months after the issu…
18-1013 Edward Winstead, et al. v. Anthony Johnson Seventh Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) accrual accrual-rules circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-trial due-process heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey section-1983 self-incrimination self-incrimination-claims wallace-v-kato Whether the Seventh Circuit's holding that accrual of self-incrimination claims based on statements used at a criminal trial is deferred under Heck v.…
18-7742 Luis A. Serna v. County of Hennepin, Minnesota Eighth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment civil-rights due-process foucha-v-louisiana future-dangerous-behavior heck-doctrine kingsley-v-hendrickson presumption-of-innocence section-1983 speculation state-speculation Is the 'Petitioner' entitled to [a] defense of [the] 'presumption of innocence' upon a State's assertion of 'future dangerous behavior' via pure 'spec…
18-7620 Emmanuel Adeyinka v. Harris County Jail, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights competency criminal-conviction cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment eleventh-amendment immunity mental-illness monetary-damages personal-involvement rational-understanding section-1983 standing Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who has a severe mental illness that …
18-7472 Cynthia M. Yoder v. Good Will Steam Fire Engine Company No. 1, et al. Third Circuit 2019-01-17 Denied IFP civil-procedure contract-breach elder-abuse fair-debt-collections-act fraud procedural-violations section-1983 unjust-enrichment Has FRAUD been committed on the Court leading to numerous clear legal errors for unjust enrichment of Appellee?
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
18-7411 David H. Jacob v. Rosalyn Cotton, Chairperson, Nebraska Board of Parole, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 allen-v-mccurry civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-claims due-process failure-to-state-a-claim federal-petition haines-v-kerner parole-board section-1983 Can the U.S. District Court, after first finding the Federal Petition does in fact allege federal constitutional claims, summarily dismiss the Federal…
18-7375 Wayne Nicolaison v. County of Hennepin, Minnesota Eighth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment civil-rights clear-and-convincing-evidence constitutional-violation due-process foucha-standard foucha-v-louisiana indefinite-commitment presumption-of-innocence section-1983 Is the 'Petitioner' entitled to [a] defense of [the] 'presumption of innocence' upon a State's assertion of 'future dangerous behavior' by purely mere…
18-7357 David T. Frazier v. Stephen Crump, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied IFP 1983-suit civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,civil-procedure,standing, due-process equal-protection favorable-termination heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey pro-se-litigant section-1983 time-bar Is petitioners claims Time Barred Under The Favorable Termination Rule Founded under Heck V. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994) When he brought the 1983 su…
18-7221 Kevin Abdul Gilbert v. Washington Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 assault-and-battery circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-litigation constitutional-claims constitutional-grounds due-process heck-doctrine section-1983 unlawful-arrest unlawful-imprisonment Whether the Ninth Circuit of Appeals erred in affirming the Western U.S. District Court's ruling barring the Petitioner's 42 U.S.C. §1983 claims
18-746 County of Los Angeles, California, et al. v. Angel Mendez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment causation circuit-review civil-rights clearly-erroneous fourth-amendment intervening-event proximate-causation proximate-cause reasonable-force remand search-warrant section-1983 standard-of-review use-of-force warrantless-search Whether a plaintiff's injuries resulting from a police officer's use of force may be proximately caused by the officer's failure to secure a search wa…
18-6921 Stevie J. Stevenson v. Craig Richman, Judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP discovery-materials discovery-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus liberty-interest post-conviction postconviction-relief postconviction-writ section-1983 statutory-interpretation Does California Penal Code Section §1054.9 create a Liberty Interest under Kentucky v. Thompson, 490 U.S. 454, 460-63 (1989)?
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…
18-689 Mariano Moya, et al. v. Robert Garcia, Sheriff, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied 42-usc-1983 arraignment causation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights detention due-process section-1983 standing state-court When a jailer detains a person for an extended period with no access to a court hearing for arraignment and bail review, in violation of his or her Du…
18-6780 Joan E. Farr v. Daryl Davis, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-11-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech homeowners-association retaliation section-1983 Whether the Huckleberry Homeowners Association and its individual members denied Joan Farr her rights under 42 USC 1983 and retaliated against her to …
18-655 Craig J. Spitzer v. Trisha A. Aljoe, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion attorney-misconduct barton-doctrine civil-procedure civil-procedure-discovery-sanctions-public-entity- discovery discovery-sanctions discretionary-review frcp-26 public-entity sanctions section-1983 state-court-receiver Does a district court have a duty under FRCP 26(g)(3) to sanction public entities and their attorneys for improper withholding of documents requested …
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…
18-647 Pulte Homes of New York LLC v. Town of Carmel, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights continuing-violation land-development-fees municipal-government municipal-liability section-1983 statute-of-limitations Whether a civil rights claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 accrues by a continuing violation theory
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…
18-625 City of Miami, Florida v. Taiwan Smart Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-14 Dismissed burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations custom-or-practice due-process municipal-liability non-state-actors section-1983 witness-testimony Whether the isolated alleged incidents of constitutional violations in Plaintiff's § 1983 claims, which are founded on the actions of non-state actors…
18-6503 Thomas P. Richard, Sr. v. District Attorney of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2018-10-31 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus prohibited-punishment section-1983 standing structural-error Did the Courts below commit structural error by usurping Law to improperly re-characterize a Class Action §1983 Complaint as Habeas Corpus
18-6509 John Tedesco v. Monroe County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process heck-v-humphrey prosecutorial-immunity rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 standing younger-abstention Did Mr. Tedesco's complaint get dismissed with prejudice?
18-6426 Jonathan Eugene Brunson v. North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-access exhaustion-requirement heck-v-humphrey muhammad-v-close pennsylvania-v-ritchie section-1983 state-prisoners Whether the Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477, 486-87 (1994) requirement for state prisoners to exhaust the state court remedy when applying to a section…
18-6407 Ong Vue v. Frank X. Henke, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection judicial-review parole parole-procedures section-1983 standing Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that Petitioner Vue failed to state a claim' is in contrary to the holding of Wilkinson v. Dotson
18-516 Charles G. Kinney v. Philip Gutierrez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-19 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process federal-procedure free-speech judicial-discretion professional-speech retaliation section-1983 vexatious-litigant Whether the 3-judge panel abused its discretion in dismissing 8 of Kinney's pending appeals, which allegedly covered up acts by Justice Gutierrez and …
18-517 Charles G. Kinney v. Philip Gutierrez Ninth Circuit 2018-10-19 Denied abuse-of-discretion bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process free-speech judicial-discretion professional-speech section-1983 vexatious-litigant issues-being-raised
18-504 Charles G. Kinney v. Roger W. Boren, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment Hobbs-Act Janus judicial-misconduct NIFLA professional-speech section-1983 vexatious-litigant Issue being raised
18-485 Edward G. McDonough v. Youel Smith, Individually and as Special District Attorney for the County of Rensselaer, New York, aka Trey Smith Second Circuit 2018-10-16 Judgment Issued Amici (14)Relisted (2) 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-proceedings due-process fabrication-of-evidence section-1983 statute-of-limitations When does the statute of limitations begin to run on a Section 1983 claim based on fabrication of evidence in criminal proceedings?
18-476 Cowlitz County, Washington, et al. v. Jule Crowell, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-care monell monell-doctrine municipal-liability objective-reasonableness section-1983 serious-medical-needs subjective-intent Whether a pretrial detainee alleging Fourteenth Amendment claims of deliberate indifference to serious medical needs must show subjective intent or ob…
18-6239 Sean P. Reilly v. Guelsy M. Herrera, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey limitations-period prisoner-rights section-1983 Whether a Section 1983 Plaintiff can proceed with an action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when Heck v. Humphrey requirements are met but § 2254 Federal Habea…
18-6263 Ilich Vargas v. John McMahon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-rights civil-rights-complaint constitutional-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct pleading pro-se-litigant recusal screening section-1983 standing Whether a district court judge and a magistrate conducting a 28 U.S.C. § 1915 IFP screening acted on an excess of discretion and beyond the limits of …
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…
18-331 Rafael Pabon Ortega v. Isabel Llompart Zeno, et al. First Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-stay civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-law ex-parte-young first-amendment insular-cases promesa puerto-rico section-1983 Whether the automatic stay provisions of the Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C. §§ 362, 922, as incorporated into PROMESA are unconstitutional as applied by t…
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…
18-249 Madeleine Connor v. Eric Castro, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process federal-procedure free-speech government-retaliation lugar-v-edmondson rule-15-supplementation section-1983 standing state-action twombly-iqbal Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's denial of Petitioner's request to supplement her pleading under Fed. R. Civ. P. 1…
18-171 Robert R. Snyder v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights color-of-state-law constitutional-rights Cruel-and-unusual-punishment Due-process Eighth-amendment First-amendment immunity law-library-access Preliminary-injunction prisoner-rights retaliation section-1983 Does a person or entity have immunity from prosecution under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when rights secured by the U.S. Constitution have been violated by said …
18-73 Scott Carpenter v. Douglas Jordan Sixth Circuit 2018-07-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 brady-violation brady-vs-maryland civil-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence favorable-termination heck-doctrine heck-vs-humphrey invalidation section-1983 statute-of-limitations wrongful-conviction Does a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 wrongful conviction claim for unconstitutionally withholding exculpatory evidence accrue when a conviction is invalidated or w…
18-76 Tracey E. George, et al. v. Tre Hargett, Tennessee Secretary of State, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-07-16 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 declaratory-judgment due-process equal-protection federal-action section-1983 state-actors Whether state actor defendants may defend and foreclose a federal action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by suing civil-rights plaintiffs in a subseque…
18-5219 Anthony Tyrone Campbell v. J. Mendez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-exhaustion administrative-procedure administrative-remedies circuit-court-of-appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-force exhaustion-of-remedies judicial-review litigation-reform prison-litigation-reform-act section-1983 standing statutory-interpretation Whether the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals decision conflicted with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision on the issue of whether the plaintiff sub…
18-67 James Thomas Hurst, II v. James Caldwell, et al. Kentucky 2018-07-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-act deshaney deshaney-doctrine due-process government-liability police-misconduct section-1983 special-relationship special-relationship-rule state-actor-liability state-created-danger Does the special relationship rule articulated by this Court in DeShaney apply to shield a state actor from liability under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when the …
18-57 Gerald E. Vallejos v. Lovelace Medical Center, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure honest-services-fraud judicial-immunity misprision-of-felony obstruction-of-justice section-1983 standing statutory-standing Whether 42 U.S.C. § 1983 provides statutory standing for a District State Judge, a US District Court Justice, and Three Justices of the 10th Circuit C…
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 …