| 25-931 |
BAS, LLC v. Tommy Land, in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of State Lands for the State of Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2026-02-06 |
Pending |
|
fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment just-compensation property-rights sovereign-immunity takings-clause |
Does a state's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment obligation to pay just compensation waive sovereign immunity when it takes private property? |
| 25-6709 |
Gregory Ryan Webb v. Sandra Garrett, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-02-04 |
Pending |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 conspiracy-against-rights due-process election-crimes first-amendment sovereign-immunity |
1. Whether defendants have failed in their obligation to provide funds to
prevent further denial of effective assistance of counsel and
conspiracy w… |
| 25-783 |
Sonia Hernandez Caruso v. Texas Medical Board, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-05 |
Pending |
|
administrative-law due-process medical-licensing notice-requirements professional-discipline sovereign-immunity |
Congress through federal legislation created the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) which is overseen by the Health and Human Services (HHS). HHS-… |
| 25-6420 |
In Re Ryan D. Mumme |
|
2025-12-23 |
Pending |
IFP |
article-iii constitutional-jurisdiction federal-court government-liability judicial-power sovereign-immunity |
1. Whether the applicant has a right to the relief he demands;
2. If he has a right, and that right has been violated, whether the laws of his countr… |
| 25-744 |
Jose Duran, Individually and as Representative of a Class of Judgment Creditors of the Estate of Ferdinand E. Marcos v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-22 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure due-process foreign-judgment forfeiture in-rem-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity |
This proceeding was brought by the United States on behalf of the Republic of the Philippines, seeking recognition and enforcement of a Philippine for… |
| 25-653 |
Shannon McKinnon v. Genaro Hernandez |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-05 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response Waived |
appellate-review collateral-order-doctrine federal-jurisdiction final-judgment-rule sovereign-immunity state-law-immunity |
Whether an order denying a local official's claim of state-law immunity is immediately appealable in federal court under the collateral-order doctrine… |
| 25-647 |
Kevin Frymier v. Dianne Curvey, Individually, and as Judge, 280th Judicial District Court, Harris County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-04 |
Pending |
|
eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young first-amendment judicial-immunity pro-se-litigant sovereign-immunity |
1. Whether a federal appellate court may deem
constitutional arguments waived when a pro se
appellant, entitled to liberal construction under
Haines v… |
| 25-640 |
Randall Williams, as Personal Representative of the Estates of Shanice R. Dantzler-Williams and Miranda R. Dantzler-Williams, et al. v. Charleston County Sheriff’s Office, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-03 |
Pending |
|
arm-of-the-state county-office eleventh-amendment judgment-analysis sovereign-immunity state-liability |
When the State is not liable for a judgment against an entity, what weight should this fact be given in the arm-of-the-state immunity analysis of that… |
| 25-582 |
Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. v. Enbridge Energy, LP, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-11-17 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
ex-parte-young federal-court real-party-in-interest sovereign-immunity sovereign-lands state-officials |
Whether a State is the real party in interest, and therefore entitled to sovereign immunity, where a private plaintiff sues state officials in federal… |
| 25A554 |
BAS, LLC v. Tommy Land, in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of State Lands for the State of Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2025-11-13 |
Application |
|
civil-rights fifth-amendment just-compensation property-rights sovereign-immunity takings-clause |
Question not identified. |
| 25-564 |
Scott Meyer v. Gayla Rahn, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-11-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion qualified-immunity second-amendment sovereign-immunity |
1. Whether the grant of the motion to dismiss was
an abuse of discretion, not based upon the undisputed
facts presented, and supported by only the e… |
| 25A502 |
Floyd D. Johnson v. United States Congress |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-03 |
Application |
|
bill-of-attainder constitutional-challenge equal-protection judicial-review sovereign-immunity veterans-benefits |
Question not identified. |
| 25A498 |
Matthew Martorello v. Lula Williams, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-10-31 |
Application |
|
indian-commerce-clause internet-loans rico sovereign-immunity state-regulation tribal-lending |
Whether the tribal lending operation was an unlawful RICO enterprise or, instead, a legitimate economic development project by the Tribe, depends on w… |
| 25-491 |
Gillian Filyaw v. Steve Corsi, in His Official Capacity as Chief Executive Officer of the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-10-21 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
due-process ex-parte-young federal-law prospective-relief sovereign-immunity state-officials |
When a suit alleges that state officials are depriving a plaintiff of property in violation of due process, does the suit allege an ongoing violation … |
| 25-5742 |
Zachary C. Crouch v. University of Tennessee |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-09-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-law de-novo-review freedom-of-speech sovereign-immunity state-law |
The questions presented for review include whether state sovereign immunity can be and
should be applied to unofficial acts and the Constitutional ri… |
| 25A334 |
Amaplat Mauritius Ltd., et al. v. Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-09-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
arbitration enforcement-of-award foreign-sovereign-immunity new-york-convention sovereign-immunity waiver |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5350 |
Monica Curtis v. Justice Court of the North Las Vegas Township, Clark County, Nevada |
Nevada |
2025-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights employment-discrimination fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment sovereign-immunity |
If a state asserts sovereign immunity against a civil rights complaint, should the court accept the submission as the state, "Pleading the Fifth," and… |
| 25-5310 |
Maurice Bernard Moore v. Daniel L. Hebert, former District Judge, Saline County of Kansas, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights double-jeopardy habeas-corpus rooker-feldman sovereign-immunity |
1. Why the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruling conflicts with the Third Circuit on the Matter of Rooker-Feldman Provision not overrulin… |
| 25-5289 |
Michael Oliver v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
federal-court interstate-comity jurisdictional-challenge legal-recognition nation-state sovereign-immunity |
1. Is the immunity of foreign sovereigns in the courts of the United States a Common Law doctrine that has been recognized by the Supreme Court of the… |
| 25A133 |
Lynette Hathon, et al. v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2025-08-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
fifth-amendment just-compensation property-rights sovereign-immunity state-remedies takings-clause |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5245 |
Zachary C. Crouch v. Tennessee Department of Human Services |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation federal-law sovereign-immunity state-law supremacy-clause |
The questions presented for review include whether state sovereign immunity can be and should be applied to federal laws of fraud and theft. This is a… |
| 25-5161 |
Zachary C. Crouch v. Internal Revenue Service |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-proceedings constitutional-law de-novo-review federal-theft-laws sovereign-immunity supreme-law-of-land |
The questions presented for review include whether sovereign immunity is constitutional.
This is a question of law, de novo, because when sovereign i… |
| 25A12 |
City of Huntington Beach, California, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
arm-of-the-state federal-circuit-split municipal-standing political-subdivision sovereign-immunity state-law-analysis |
1. This case presents a question on which the Ninth Circuit has split with at least five other federal appellate courts. That question is whether a po… |
| 24-1314 |
Sberbank of Russia PJSC v. Thomas Schansman, Individually and as Surviving Parent of Quinn Lucas Schansman and as the Legal Guardian on Behalf of X.S., a Minor, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-06-25 |
Denied |
|
anti-terrorism-act commercial-activity-exception correspondent-accounts foreign-sovereign-immunities-act sovereign-immunity terrorist-attack |
Section 2333 of the Anti-Terrorism Act ("ATA") creates a private civil remedy for U.S. nationals injured by an "act of international terrorism," inclu… |
| 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… |
| 24-7441 |
In Re Amy R. Weissbrod Gurvey |
|
2025-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-jurisdiction due-process ex-parte federal-circuit patent-infringement sovereign-immunity |
The State of New York has a long history of retaliating and engaging in malicious prosecution and unprivileged defamation of individuals who pursue fe… |
| 24-7308 |
Zachary C. Crouch v. Braden Goddard, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation copyright-infringement due-process federal-law sovereign-immunity state-law |
The questions presented for review include whether state sovereign immunity can be and
should be applied to unofficial acts and federal laws of copyr… |
| 24-1161 |
RunItOneTime LLC, fka Maverick Gaming LLC v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-05-13 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
administrative-procedure-act circuit-conflict federal-agency-action judicial-review rule-19 sovereign-immunity |
Whether Rule 19 requires dismissal of APA suits challenging federal agency action whenever a nonparty who benefited from that action asserts sovereign… |
| 24-1117 |
Petroquímica de Venezuela, S.A. v. Isaac Industries, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-04-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
affirmative-defense foreign-sovereign-immunities-act responsive-pleading sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver-of-immunity |
Under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976, as amended, 28 U.S.C. 1330, 1441(d), 1602 et seq., a foreign state, including its agencies and ins… |
| 24-1113 |
New Jersey Transit Corporation, et al. v. Jeffrey Colt, et al. |
New York |
2025-04-28 |
Granted |
|
arm-of-state court-of-appeals financial-liability interstate-litigation sovereign-immunity state-entity |
States are entitled to sovereign immunity from
private suits in other States' courts, including state created entities that function as "arms of the S… |
| 24-7056 |
Andrew D. Anderson v. North Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-04-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
article-iii first-amendment judicial-immunity prosecutorial-immunity res-judicata sovereign-immunity |
As applied in petitioner's case, are the applications of judicial and prosecutorial immunities consistent and compliant with Art. III. Sec. 2. "The ju… |
| 24-1079 |
Geoffrey Gray, et al. v. Washington State Department of Transportation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure ex-parte-young injunctive-relief qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity |
1. Should this Court grant certiorari to correct the error of the Court of Appeals below, where the Court of Appeals, contrary to binding authority of… |
| 24-1064 |
John Doe v. Tennessee, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-04-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ada-title-ii civil-rights disability-discrimination parent-child-rights sovereign-immunity state-court-proceedings |
1) Does Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act prohibit disability discrimination in state court proceedings?
2) What is the definition of "… |
| 24-6921 |
Benjamin Kohn v. State Bar of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
dismissal-with-prejudice federal-procedure jurisdictional-challenge rule-12b1 sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction |
In Wis. Dep't of Corr. v. Schacht, 524 U.S. 381, 391 (1998), this Court noted it hasn't yet decided whether sovereign immunity implicates subject matt… |
| 24-1021 |
Cedric Galette v. New Jersey Transit Corporation |
Pennsylvania |
2025-03-25 |
Granted |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
arm-of-state constitutional-law federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce sovereign-immunity state-agency |
Whether the New Jersey Transit Corporation is entitled to inter state sovereign immunity under the Federal Constitution, as held by the highest court … |
| 24-992 |
Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority v. Jeffrey Good, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-03-18 |
Pending |
Amici (3)Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
corporate-status eleventh-amendment higher-education public-instrumentality sovereign-immunity state-arm |
Under Missouri law, the Higher Education Loan Authority of the State of Missouri (MOHELA) is a "public instrumentality of the State" serving the "esse… |
| 24-964 |
John O'Bannon, Chairman of the State Board of Elections for the Commonwealth of Virginia, et al. v. Tati Abu King, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-03-07 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-war-reconstruction ex-parte-young judicial-enforcement private-parties readmission-acts sovereign-immunity |
In the aftermath of the Civil War, Congress enacted a series of "Readmission Acts"—largely identical statutes that imposed restrictions on former Conf… |
| 24-6707 |
Eddie Turner v. Department of Justice, Office of Administration, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts filing-fees judicial-review mandamus procedural-technicalities sovereign-immunity |
PETTIANER. YAS CLEP SUFEILIENT FAC, THAT PROVES' B (LERY PRESENT BND MINIGrE TAL puTy Owen To THE PET Toner Ufan THE RESCONDENTS PUES MCLEAN PRESENT A… |
| 24-940 |
Timothy L. Blixseth v. Montana Department of Revenue |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
bankruptcy-law circuit-split congressional-power eleventh-amendment involuntary-bankruptcy sovereign-immunity |
Whether the Eleventh Amendment prevents Congress from authorizing citizens to collect damages against states that force citizens into bankruptcy with … |
| 24-906 |
Lexington Insurance Company, a Delaware Corporation v. Martin A. Mueller, Judge, Cabazon Reservation Court, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-24 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure jurisdictional-limits nonmember-rights off-reservation-conduct sovereign-immunity tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether a tribal court can exercise jurisdiction over nonmembers of the tribe based on off-reservation conduct. |
| 24A750 |
Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority v. Jeffrey Good, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-01-31 |
Presumed Complete |
|
arm-of-the-state circuit-split eleventh-amendment federal-courts sovereign-immunity state-instrumentality |
Question not identified. |
| 24A738 |
Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. aka Halkbank v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-01-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-prosecution executive-power foreign-sovereign-instrumentality international-law separation-of-powers sovereign-immunity |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6364 |
Cedric Cromwell v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-01-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-liability extortion hobbs-act indian-tribes official-right sovereign-immunity |
Prior to the case at bar, there had never been a single appellate decision in the Hobbs Act's 78-year history, published or unpublished, extending cri… |
| 24-758 |
The GEO Group, Inc. v. Alejandro Menocal, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-01-16 |
Granted |
Amici (20)Relisted (2) |
28-USC-1291 appellate-jurisdiction collateral-order final-judgment government-contractor sovereign-immunity |
Under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, the courts of appeals "have jurisdiction of appeals from all final decisions of the district courts." This Court has held that… |
| 24A692 |
Edward Moses, Jr. v. U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for the RMAC Trust, Series 2018 G-CTT |
Louisiana |
2025-01-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
banking-law constitutional-challenge foreclosure pro-se property-rights sovereign-immunity |
Question not identified. |
| 24-729 |
Forrest L. Geist v. Kansas State University Foundation, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-01-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights intellectual-property property-protection safe-harbor sovereign-immunity takings-clause |
Q: May a natural person, whose IP is taken by state gov't w/o payment, seek fair redress under the self-executing Takings Clause if that state's legis… |
| 24A673 |
Dessie Andrews v. Alma Adams, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
article-iii congressional-power due-process sovereign-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Question not identified. |
| 24-717 |
In Re Jona B |
|
2025-01-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
child-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process school-district sovereign-immunity |
What made the school, School District, School Board, magistrate Court, CYS, Cops misuse their power to cite & file cases unlawfully & unconstitutional… |
| 24-714 |
T. W. v. New York State Board of Law Examiners, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-01-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
disability-discrimination ex-parte-young federal-law injunctive-relief ongoing-violation sovereign-immunity |
Whether a plaintiff who suffers ongoing harm caused by a state official's prior unlawful conduct is subject to an "ongoing violation" of federal law, … |
| 24-683 |
Energetic Tank, Inc., as Owner of the M/V Alnic MC v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-12-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
admiralty-law federal-jurisdiction military-liability sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation tort-claims |
The Federal Tort Claims Act waives the immunity of the United States for money-damages claims based on the negligence or wrongdoing of its employees a… |
| 24-652 |
David Cassirer, et al. v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-17 |
GVR |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
choice-of-law federal-preemption holocaust-art-restitution international-law nazi-looted-art sovereign-immunity |
In 2022, the Court in this case held that in an action under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, a federal court must apply the forum state's choice… |
| 24A551 |
Agudas Chasidei Chabad of United States v. Russian Federation, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-12-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
commercial-activity expropriation-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act property-rights sovereign-immunity u-s-nexus |
This case presents two important questions regarding the application of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's (""FSIA") expropriation exception, 28 U… |
| 24-6043 |
Patrick Michael Hackett v. Iowa |
Iowa |
2024-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process evidence-admission misdemeanor-appeal public-safety sovereign-immunity |
Such as an inferior cement mixer as shown during trial, are there circumstances
that necessitate appeals of simple misdemeanors?:
To safeguard Constit… |
| 24-509 |
Kathlyn Moore v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-11-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-remedies disability-accommodation due-process pro-se-litigation sovereign-immunity tax-collection |
QUESTION 1: Does this Court agree that Petitioner's case was wrongly dismissed as a sanction for her inability to attend a deposition without accommod… |
| 24-532 |
Federal Republic of Nigeria v. Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment Co. Ltd. |
District of Columbia |
2024-11-12 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
arbitration-agreement extratextual-context international-law new-york-convention sovereign-immunity treaty-interpretation |
(1) Whether, for interpreting the intentions of the treaty parties regarding a word like "person," extratextual information such as historical context… |
| 24-5942 |
Garry Wayne Wilson v. Carrie Bridges, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-interpretation declaratory-relief federal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity state-official tribal-rights |
If the filer enrolled freedyipm rf (Ihero^ nUilsn Tribe Is (LOMldereJl. an JT^duu'i iO;f£m ?£> fhedMT^ of t&s (kwh adr^ Co^fTro -fjuork, 5^7 US (2a^i)… |
| 24-510 |
Kevin Abbey, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-11-05 |
Denied |
|
federal-tort-claims-act misrepresentation negligence-claims sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction toxic-exposure |
Whether Petitioners' negligence claims "aris[ e] out of
… misrepresentation," and thus are barred by section
2680(h) of the FTCA , even though Petitio… |
| 24A445 |
Timothy L. Blixseth v. Montana Department of Revenue |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-11-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
bankruptcy-code damages-claim eleventh-amendment involuntary-petition jurisdiction-waiver sovereign-immunity |
1. The vast majority of cases under the Bankruptcy Code are commenced voluntarily by the debtor. However, Section 303 of the Bankruptcy Code alternati… |
| 24-5887 |
Christian Romero v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2024-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus local-court-rule sovereign-immunity writ-of-certiorari |
The Supreme Court has held that the Due Process Clause under the 14th Amendment "incorporates" rights from Romero's first 8 Amendment rights, while Se… |
| 24-5866 |
Edward Moses v. United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
attorney-sanctions clearly-erroneous-standard constitutional-challenge federal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity tribal-recognition |
On March 15, 2024, the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal held that, Edward Moses, Jr., a lawyer who has proclaimed himself "Emperor of the A… |
| 24-447 |
Mei Wong, et al. v. Shemia Fagan, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process election-fraud election-integrity equal-protection judicial-review sovereign-immunity |
1) This petition presents related issues of Exceptional Importance to the American Public, due process, election integrity, discrimination, and the in… |
| 24A351 |
Energetic Tank, Inc., as Owner of the M/V Alnic MC v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-10-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
counterclaim feres-doctrine maritime-law public-vessels-act sovereign-immunity suits-in-admiralty-act |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5749 |
Noel Vincent Thomas v. North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-11 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review failure-to-state-claim federal-rules res-judicata sovereign-immunity trial-court |
1) WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT ERRED AS A MATTER OF LAW BY AFFIRMING THE LOWER COURT DECISION BASED ON THE ASSERTIONS OF FAILURE TO STATE A CLAIM, FAILURE… |
| 24-5727 |
Jose Angel Herrera v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2024-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions federal-law judicial-review sovereign-immunity |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5724 |
Victor Guyton, II v. Golden Donuts, LLC |
Georgia |
2024-10-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law equal-protection insurance-policy sovereign-immunity state-rights |
Does it give a state the right to violate its constitution to violate the U.S. constitution in efforts to waive sovereign immunity? How can third part… |
| 24A330 |
Exxon Mobil Corporation v. Corporación Cimex, S.A. (Cuba), et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-10-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
cause-of-action foreign-sovereign-immunities-act helms-burton-act property-expropriation sovereign-immunity trafficking |
Question not identified. |
| 24-377 |
South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism v. Google LLC |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split federalism sovereign-immunity state-agency state-law waiver-doctrine |
Whether state law can limit the power of one state agency to waive the sovereign immunity of another. |
| 24-362 |
Curtrina Martin, Individually and as Parent and Next Friend of G. W., a Minor, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-01 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (13)Relisted (3) |
federal-tort-claims-act law-enforcement-proviso negligent-act sovereign-immunity supremacy-clause wrong-house-raid |
1. Whether the Constitution's Supremacy Clause bars claims under the FTCA—a federal statute enacted by Congress—when the negligent or wrongful acts of… |
| 24-359 |
Adriana Alvarez v. Texas Workforce Commission |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-01 |
Denied |
|
due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection religious-accommodation sovereign-immunity title-vii |
1. Whether TWC's employees may avail themselves of sovereign immunity as a bar to a claim for damages under Title VII, the First Amendment and Fourtee… |
| 24-351 |
United States Postal Service, et al. v. Lebene Konan |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-27 |
Granted |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
federal-tort-claims-act intentional-non-delivery mail-delivery postal-service sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation |
Whether a plaintiff's claim that she and her tenants did not receive mail because Postal Service employees intentionally did not deliver it to a desig… |
| 24-5531 |
Frederick Foster v. Joel H. Slomsky, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction postal-accountability procedural-law sovereign-immunity |
Whether 39 U.S.C. §409(d) & (e) waive any doctrine of sovereign immunity from judicial officers, Federal agencies, and employees acting on the behalf … |
| 24A231 |
OCA-Greater Houston, et al. v. Kim Ogg |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
election-law ex-parte-young first-amendment fourteenth-amendment sovereign-immunity voting-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 24-204 |
Raynu Clark, Mother of Tyler M. Gergler, et al. v. Carlos Del Toro, Secretary of the Navy, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-08-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
discretionary-function-exception federal-tort-claims-act government-liability negligence policy-judgment sovereign-immunity |
Whether the discretionary-function exception to the waiver of the United States' sovereign immunity in the Federal Tort Claims Act immunizes from suit… |
| 24A200 |
United States Postal Service, et al. v. Lebene Konan |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
discrimination federal-tort-claims-act intentional-tort mail-delivery postal-matter-exception sovereign-immunity |
Question not identified. |
| 24-158 |
Allison Cole-Kelly v. Malia M. Cohen, in Her Official Capacity as State Controller of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
due-process just-compensation property-rights sovereign-immunity takings-clause unclaimed-property |
The State of California, pursuant to its unclaimed property laws, regularly seizes possession of owners' unclaimed personal property, holds it in cust… |
| 24-5249 |
Farid Fata v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies berkovitz-gaubert-test circuit-split discretionary-function discretionary-function-exception federal-tort-claims-act jurisdictional-requirement sovereign-immunity |
Q 1 - Given the Supreme Court case law Precedents since after "Arbaugh v. Y&H. Corp., 546 U.S. 500, 515-16 (2006)", and amid a Circuit Split, is exhau… |
| 24-117 |
Todd Berman v. Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, dba Fedloan Servicing |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
affirmative-defense circuit-conflict federal-contractor federal-contractor-liability government-instructions merits-trial qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity |
Whether derivative sovereign immunity is an affirmative defense to be proven on the merits at trial.
Whether the court of appeals erred in holding th… |
| 24-5167 |
John Stancu v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. |
Texas |
2024-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process jury-trial seventh-amendment sovereign-immunity standing state-power texas |
1. Did the State of Texas Courts involved in this case wrongly denied Petitioner Stancu's Seventh Amendment right to the United States Constitution by… |
| 24-5134 |
Diana Ingrid Reismann Sexton v. Fort Bend County, Texas, et al. |
Texas |
2024-07-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
alien-tort-statute civil-rights-violations convention-against-torture dual-citizenship due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction international-law international-treaties sovereign-immunity torture torture-prevention |
1) May a case demanding relief to a dual citizen with dominant nationality as an alien and her child, injured by US naturals who committed tortures, f… |
| 24-65 |
Tony Ping Yew, as Executor of the Estate of John Y. Wei v. Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-07-19 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60b en-banc-review federal-jurisdiction judicial-immunity procedural-defect rooker-feldman-doctrine sovereign-immunity summary-judgment void-judgment |
The very act of invoking judicial, sovereign immunity and Rooker-Feldman to dismiss may have violated Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b)(4) where a void judgment m… |
| 24-51 |
Randall Bock v. Candace Lapidus Sloane, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-07-17 |
Denied |
|
judicial-immunity licensing-board market-participants professional-licensing quasi-judicial-immunity sherman-act sovereign-immunity state-action-doctrine state-action-immunity supreme-court-precedent |
This petition concerns the studied, repeated defiance over the past nine years by the United States Court of Appeals for First Circuit of this Court's… |
| 24-5046 |
Kyle Greene, et ux. v. Meeker County Department of Human Services |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-07-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
americans-with-disabilities-act article-iii-judge civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment judicial-transparency legal-standing sovereign-immunity standing |
1. Does the Eleventh Amendment Apply to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
2. Are American Citizens entitled to know whether their case was a… |
| 24-21 |
Tina Gerlach v. Todd Rokita, Attorney General of Indiana, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-u.s.c-1983 42-usc-1983 constitutional-violation federal-conflict just-compensation personal-capacity personal-capacity-suit sovereign-immunity takings-clause |
1. Whether a state's constitutional obligation to pay just compensation when taking property waives its sovereign immunity from a claim seeking damage… |
| 23-1317 |
Jean Dufort Baptichon v. Department of Education, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-06-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights federal-courts federal-jurisdiction forum-non-conveniens personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction transfer venue venue-transfer |
This writ certainly raises the questions of Personal jurisdiction versus forum non conveniens, venue, transfer and sovereign immunity In Piper Aircraf… |
| 23-1281 |
Ryan G. Carter, et al. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) |
federal-tort-claims-act feres-doctrine judicial-precedent medical-malpractice military-medical-malpractice military-service-members service-member-rights sovereign-immunity tort-claims |
1. Should the Feres doctrine be limited and not bar tort claims brought by service members alleging medical malpractice where the service member was u… |
| 23-7648 |
Jennifer Dupree, et al. v. Pamela Owens, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-amendment ada congress-abrogation congressional-power eleventh-amendment retaliation sovereign-immunity title-v |
1. Did the Eleventh Circuit err in holding that the 11th Amendment precluded Petitioners' retaliation claims under Title V of the ADA? |
| 23-7618 |
Jesse A. Reynolds v. Titus County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection fair-housing fair-housing-act judicial-immunity prosecutorial-immunity sovereign-immunity statute-of-limitations takings |
1. Is the Statute of Limitations tolled for being considered under the age of 18 or of
unsound mind, because of fraud; relevant to the opinion of the … |
| 23-7611 |
Steve Van Horne, et al. v. Central Appraisal District of Taylor County |
Texas |
2024-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process government government-authority religious-freedom sovereign-immunity standing tax taxation |
1. Does the Central Appraisal District of Taylor County have standing to sue Petitioners?
2. Do the Petitioners have a natural, indefeasible, and ina… |
| 23-7576 |
Solomon A. Jones v. Georgia Department of Labor, et al. |
Georgia |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process employment-law in-forma-pauperis minimum-wage pandemic service-of-process sovereign-immunity unemployment-benefits unemployment-insurance |
Can unemployment insurance benefits be denied to persons whose employment is terminated through no fault of their own, whether or not they meet some m… |
| 23-7529 |
Reginald Andrew Paulk, Sr. v. L. Benson, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights counsel due-process federal-law judicial-review probable-cause qualified-immunity racial-animus sovereign-immunity standard-of-review |
Did the District Court and the Eleventh Circuit use the incorrect standard to review the issues and thus incorrectly apply the law under Tolau v. Cott… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7353 |
Noel Vincent Thomas v. North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure failure-to-state-a-claim failure-to-state-claim federal-rules in-forma-pauperis motion-to-dismiss res-judicata sovereign-immunity |
1) WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT ERRED AS A MATTER OF LAW
BY DISMISSING THE COMPLAINT BASED UPON THE CLAIMS
THAT THE PETITIONER FAILED TO STATE A CLAIM, FA… |
| 23-1172 |
Kristen Lovell, et al. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State, et al. |
Georgia |
2024-05-01 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
constitutional-rights critical-infrastructure election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment georgia-constitution ninth-amendment official-immunity official-misconduct sovereign-immunity voting-rights |
The case before this Honorable Court concerns the misapplication of the grant of sovereign immunity for elections officials in Georgia that have faile… |
| 23-1167 |
Dennis O'Connor v. Rachel Eubanks, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-30 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
42-U.S.C.-§-1983 42-usc-1983 constitutional-history constitutional-taking federal-conflict personal-capacity personal-capacity-suit property-rights sovereign-immunity takings-clause |
1. Whether a state's constitutional obligation to
pay just compensation when taking property waives
its sovereign immunity from a claim seeking damage… |
| 23-7177 |
In Re Terrance McCauley |
|
2024-04-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
act-of-state-doctrine color-of-law constitutional-rights foreign-state foreign-state-citizenship free-exercise-of-religion peaceable-assembly sovereign-immunity |
Whether the judgment of conviction against Terrance A. McCauley, which imposed burdens of
the State of Wisconsin upon a citizen of the Moorish America… |
| 23-1086 |
Megan Marie Teter v. United States Trustee |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-action equal-access-to-justice-act remedial-statute sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation |
Whether a contested matter initiated by the
United States in a bankruptcy case is a "civil action"
within the ambit of the Equal Access to Justice Act… |
| 23-7139 |
Eugenia Woodard v. Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers' Compensation, et al. |
Texas |
2024-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appeals civil-procedure due-process final-decision final-order jurisdiction jurisdictional-review procedural-error sovereign-immunity standing statutory-interpretation |
1. How does U.S. Supreme Court address final decision/order of lower courts when dates are in questioned?
2. How does the court apply WHO issued Admi… |
| 23-7111 |
Noel Vincent Thomas v. Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, Driver License Division, et al. |
Alabama |
2024-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-burden pleading pleading-standards res-judicata sovereign-immunity statute-of-limitations trial-court-dismissal |
1) Whether the Trial Court' erred as a matter of law by dismissing
Petitioner 's case based upon the Lower Court 's decision that
Petitioner, failed… |
| 23-7104 |
In Re Tonya Knowles |
|
2024-03-29 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-liability civil-rights disqualifications fair-credit-reporting-act insurrection rebellion sovereign-immunity |
1. In Case No. 22-846, The Department of Agriculture Rural Development, Rural Housing Service, Does the civil-liability provisions of the Fair Credit … |
| 23-7034 |
Michael Carter v. Megan Hayes, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-03-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process government-employee judicial-misconduct judicial-proceeding qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity witness-immunity |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1042 |
Sean Gaskin, et al. v. Stephen May, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-03-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
common-law-powers district-court-powers district-of-columbia-court-reorganization-act federal-actors federal-tort-claims-act sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation westfall-amendment |
1. Whether FTCA's 1988 "Westfall" amendment created immunity that did not previously exist, thus displacing non-FTCA actions that do not rely on the F… |
| 23-6922 |
Benjamin Kohn v. State Bar of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law arms-of-the-state bar-admission civil-rights eleventh-amendment en-banc judicial-review ninth-circuit pro-bono-counsel sovereign-immunity state-university |
Question not identified. |
| 23-968 |
Steven Dakota Knezovich, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-03-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-court-split circuit-split discretionary-function-exception federal-tort-claims-act government-liability negligence sovereign-immunity tort-liability wildland-fire wildland-fire-response |
In Rayonier, infra, this Court held that the Federal Tort Claim Act (FTCA) "makes the United States liable (with certain exceptions which are not rele… |
| 23-6875 |
Aaron Obeginski v. Glenn Johnson |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitution court-procedure due-process federal-law filing-requirements legal-document official-immunity petition sovereign-immunity supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23-903 |
David E. Stone, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure-act bundled-mortgages executive-branch executive-branch-discretion income-tax internal-revenue-code mortgage-taxation sovereign-immunity tax-collection |
Whether the Commissioner, as an arm of the executive branch, has absolute discretion and sovereign immunity under the Administrative Procedure Act to … |
| 23-6651 |
Falastin Martin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction government-accountability judicial-review legal-immunity sovereign-immunity whistleblower-protection |
Will the courts recognize that individuals that
work for the U.S. Government are not above
U.S. law? Will the courts realize that it's of
national … |
| 23-824 |
United States v. David L. Miller |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-01-31 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6)Relisted (2) |
appropriations-clause bankruptcy bankruptcy-trustee fraudulent-transfer section-544 sovereign-immunity supremacy-clause tax |
Whether a bankruptcy trustee may avoid a debtor's tax payment to the United States under Section 544(b) when no actual creditor could have obtained re… |
| 23-798 |
EEE Minerals, LLC, et al. v. North Dakota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-24 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights common-law constitutional-rights due-process eighth-circuit just-compensation property-taking sovereign-immunity takings |
Whether sovereign immunity bars a claim asserting the constitutional right to just compensation for a taking of property by a state? |
| 23-790 |
Matthew Flinders v. State Bar of California |
California |
2024-01-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11th-amendment age-discrimination bar-admission due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection privileges-and-immunities sovereign-immunity state-sovereign-immunity |
(1) Whether the State Supreme Court and State
Bar's denial of admission based on age violated
Petitioner's rights to due process, equal protection,
an… |
| 23-751 |
0.12 Acres of Land, More or Less, in Washington County, Maryland, et al. v. Columbia Gas Transmission, LLC |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
citizen-suit eleventh-amendment eminent-domain federal-jurisdiction judicial-power natural-gas-act sovereign-immunity state-sovereign-immunity |
Does the Eleventh Amendment's statement that "[t]he Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend" to suits "commenced or prose… |
| 23A607 |
Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-02 |
Presumed Complete |
Amici (1) |
border-patrol federal-preemption immigration-enforcement sovereign-immunity state-tort-law supremacy-clause |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6398 |
Imre Kifor v. Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection executive-order federal-funding separation-of-powers sovereign-immunity |
1) The "Sec. 8. Affirmatively Advancing Civil Rights ... to prevent and address discrimination and advance equity for all" clause of the 2/16/2023 Pre… |
| 23-6188 |
Otis Blaxton v. Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equitable-tolling false-imprisonment fourteenth-amendment post-conviction-relief sovereign-immunity |
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| 23-598 |
Chester Noel Abing, et al. v. James F. Evers, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights civil-rights-laws discrimination due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment property-rights sovereign-immunity |
Does the Fourteenth Amendment (1868) amend the Eleventh Amendment (1798)? (If so, then the Eleventh Amendment cannot provide "sovereign immunity " fro… |
| 23A445 |
United States v. David L. Miller |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-11-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
bankruptcy-code fraudulent-transfer section-106(a) section-544(b) sovereign-immunity trustee-action |
Whether Section 106(a) of the Bankruptcy Code abrogates the United States' sovereign immunity with respect to the underlying state-law cause of action… |
| 23-512 |
Steven M. Greenbaum, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Judith (Shoshana) Lillian Greenbaum, Deceased, et al. v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2023-11-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
asset-freezing asset-seizure blocked-assets federal-law federal-sovereign-immunity judgment-enforcement sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation terrorism-based-judgments terrorism-risk-insurance-act |
The Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1610 (note), provides that "blocked assets"—assets that have been "seized or frozen by the United States… |
| 23-5900 |
Gus Massey, Jr. v. El Paso City Attorney's Office |
Texas |
2023-10-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process jurisdiction justice-courts procedural-error sovereign-immunity standing texas-constitution texas-tort-claims-act tort-claims-act |
1. Whether Texas 'Justice Courts ' should be submitted to the rules, precedents,
and guidelines 'Outside of it's Texas Statutory Guidelines.
2. A. W… |
| 23-5874 |
In Re L. E. Pauli Coffey |
|
2023-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment mandamus sovereign-immunity standing timely-response |
Question 1.) Do the Federal Laws of Civil Procedure (Fed R. Civ. P 12) and the Federal Laws of Appellate Procedure (31) set a time limit for a respond… |
| 23A369 |
Grupo Unidos Por El Canal S.A., et al. v. Autoridad Del Canal De Panama |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
construction-contract contract-dispute eleventh-circuit foreign-jurisdiction international-arbitration sovereign-immunity |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5854 |
In Re Terrance A. McCauley |
|
2023-10-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection free-speech judicial-review petition-for-review sovereign-immunity standing |
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| 23-379 |
John S. Barth v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
checks-and-balances civil-rights due-process executive-discretion grand-jury political-corruption racketeering rico sovereign-immunity |
1. Do federal agencies have discretion to collude in racketeering crime?
2. Do federal agencies have "sovereign immunity " in racketeering crime?
3.… |
| 23-5720 |
In Re Terrance A. McCauley |
|
2023-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-proceedings legal-procedure peaceable-assembly sovereign-immunity standing state-court |
Question not identified. |
| 23-338 |
Byron V. Bush, et ux. v. Reliant Bank, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
breach-of-contract civil-rights due-process fdic-bank fraud-upon-the-court judicial-defendants rooker-feldman-doctrine sovereign-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether or not the Sixth Circuit erred in determining that relevant and material facts given by ONE Party only [Respondents], are sufficient for a Sta… |
| 23A279 |
Steven M. Greenbaum, on Behalf of Himself Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Judith (Shoshana) Lillian Greenbaum, Deceased, et al. v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2023-09-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
judgment-execution section-1610 sovereign-immunity statutory-waiver terrorism-risk-insurance-act terrorist-assets |
Question not identified. |
| 23-262 |
Vinodh Raghubir v. Bonnie Jean Parrish, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-09-18 |
Denied |
|
1985 1986 civil-rights civil-rights-conspiracy conspiracy government-official-liability immunity judicial-immunity section-1985 section-1986 sovereign-immunity |
1. Do immunity statutes ,whether state or federal ,protect , a state who has waived sovereign immunity, judiciary ,officers of the court ,or any other… |
| 23-5534 |
Fred Zelkowitz v. District Court of Texas, Harris County, et al. |
Texas |
2023-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process governmental-liability judicial-accountability legal-redress ministerial-acts sovereign-immunity tort-limitations ultra-vires |
This case is a civil matter where governmental entities in the State of Texas violated the law and caused significant monetary and personal harm. Thes… |
| 23-190 |
Probir K. Bondyopadhyay v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2023-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment government-liability jurisdictional-conflict patent patent-claim perjury sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation takings |
A serious legal conflict has developed between the
USCFC and U.S. District Court involving Title 28
U.S.C. Section 1338(a) and Title 28 U.S.C. Section… |
| 23-182 |
James W. Tindall v. Department of Labor, Administrative Review Board |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
1st-amendment administrative-procedure article-iii constitutional-review federal-sovereign-immunity first-amendment judicial-power judicial-review sovereign-immunity standing strict-scrutiny us-constitution |
1. ) Whether the doctrine of federal sovereign immun
ity has any basis in the U.S. Constitution or is pre
cluded by the U.S. Const., Art. Ill, Sec. 2… |
| 23A165 |
Arun Kumar Bhattacharya v. State Bank of India |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-08-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split commercial-activity-exception direct-effect foreign-relations foreign-sovereign-immunities-act sovereign-immunity |
Question not identified. |
| 23-157 |
Samuel O. Jacobs v. Kent Jacobs, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-08-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11th-amendment 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-amendment federal-procedure rooker-feldman-doctrine sovereign-immunity |
1. Can a State Court use the 11th Amendment,
Soverign Immunity, and the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine
to justify or allow it to violate the 14th, 8th, 5th… |
| 23-149 |
Sabine River Authority, Louisiana v. Perry Bonin, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11th-amendment civil-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment federal-court louisiana-civil-law sovereign-immunity state-agency subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Subject matter jurisdiction, a threshold issue, cannot exist in federal court where Louisiana has conditionally waived its sovereign immunity to al… |
| 23-128 |
Curtis Jason Wendt-West v. Hawaii Department of Education, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abrogation civil-rights civil-rights-act eleventh-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigation sovereign-immunity title-vii |
1. Whether the States, in private suits involving
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as
amended, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq., retain their
El… |
| 23-104 |
Granville S. Watson v. Connecticut, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-08-03 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-242 civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discretionary-function-exception federal-tort-claims-act fraudulent-concealment sovereign-immunity wrongful-incarceration |
Federal Tort Claims Act's (F.T.C.A.) discretionary function exception does not immunize the government from liability for actions proscribed by federa… |
| 23-5182 |
In Re Richard Charles Lussy |
|
2023-07-24 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-writ due-process evidence-code forfeiture non-delegation-doctrine public-office sovereign-immunity standing |
1.) Issue To Decide : "to compel his standing due to unavailability: 'forfeiture of public office for wrong doing.' From: Incompetent Abraham Skinner … |
| 23-19 |
Bird Industries, Inc., et al. v. The Tribal Business Council of the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-07-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration arbitration-clause civil-procedure contract contract-interpretation federal-jurisdiction indian-law indian-tribe jurisdictional-waiver sovereign-immunity tribal-law |
1. Does inclusion of a mandatory arbitration clause in an Agreement with an Indian Tribe waive the Tribe's sovereign immunity? |
| 22-7887 |
Kevin W. Dunigan v. Raybon C. Johnson, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-28 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7856 |
Annice Hale v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure discretionary-function-exception federal-tort-claims-act government-liability sovereign-immunity standing statutory-interpretation tort-claims |
1. Whether Plaintiff-Appellant's assertion of violations as are asserted herein against the Defendant-Appellee(s) are waivers of sovereign immunity pu… |
| 22-7718 |
Donnell Bledsoe v. Pearlie Townes |
California |
2023-06-06 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
cherokee-nation civil-rights constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eastern-state-court jurisdiction life-sentence second-generation-offender sovereign-immunity |
Question not identified. |
| 22-1161 |
Steve Cooley, et al. v. National Abortion Federation |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-injunction civil-rights contempt contempt-sanction criminal-defense due-process fair-ground-of-doubt sovereign-immunity younger-abstention |
The constitutional issue addressed here is whether the District Court can punish two criminal attorneys for contempt and sanction them $200,000 for us… |
| 22-1116 |
Klamath Irrigation District v. United States Bureau of Reclamation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-15 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure federal-agency federal-government native-american-tribes sovereign-immunity state-adjudication water-rights |
Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 19 requires dismissal of an action challenging a federal agency's use of water subject to state-adjudicated wa… |
| 22-983 |
Remingtyn A. Williams, et al. v. Lamar A. Davis, Superintendent, Louisiana State Police |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
collateral-order eleventh-amendment interlocutory-appeal interlocutory-review judicial-process pendent-appellate-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity standing |
May a court of appeals exercise pendent appellate jurisdiction to consider an issue, such as standing, that "significantly overlaps" with an immediate… |
| 22-7017 |
In Re Ronald Williams-El |
|
2023-03-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus international-law jurisdictional-challenge legal-remedy property-rights sovereign-immunity standing |
Should this Court's power to vote writ of Habeas Corpus be a warrant American sovereign man who has no other available means to raise his concerns of … |
| 22-846 |
Department of Agriculture Rural Development Rural Housing Service v. Reginald Kirtz |
Third Circuit |
2023-03-07 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2)Relisted (3) |
civil-liability civil-procedure fair-credit-reporting-act federal-jurisdiction federal-law sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation waiver |
Whether the civil-liability provisions of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. 1681 et seq., unequivocally and unambiguously waive the sovereign i… |
| 22-829 |
Marla Faith Crawford v. Richmond City School Board |
Virginia |
2023-03-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-court civil-procedure due-process idea-regulations jurisdiction pretrial-motion reversible-error sovereign-immunity standard-of-review subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-of-virginia |
1. Did the Supreme Court of Va. error in determining that the Circuit Court for Richmond City nonruling on a pretrial motion filed on April 2, 2019 wa… |
| 22-826 |
Sohail N. Butt v. John Brigham Zimmerman, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Executive Director, Georgia Composite Board for Professional Counselors, Social Workers, and Marriage and Family Therapists, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-03-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection licensing professional-licensing sovereign-immunity state-board statute-of-limitations |
Petitioner Sohail N. Butt sought license to practice mental health counseling in the State of Georgia in 2014. Respondents at their board meeting eval… |
| 22-6887 |
Steve Audette v. United States, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
11th-amendment civil-rights federal-jurisdiction prospective-relief sovereign-immunity standing |
Sleven Audett, had an active, on tine, nonfuirleres, ptogesseng Janagan, in the U.S djdited the Hoable u Soie Case5:17-CTH2 Distid, Easten Distict of … |
| 22-6841 |
Bharani Padmanabhan v. Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine |
Massachusetts |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
antitrust antitrust-law civil-rights due-process economic-freedom free-enterprise licensing-board market-participants sovereign-immunity |
1. Does Massachusetts ' grant of blanket sovereign immunity to the medical licensing
board - knowing that by law it shall not be supervised by the Go… |
| 22-787 |
Troy University, et al. v. Sharell Farmer |
North Carolina |
2023-02-21 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
11th-amendment constitutional-precedent corporate-registration sovereign-immunity state-courts state-sovereign-immunity sue-and-be-sued sue-and-be-sued-clause waiver-of-immunity |
Whether a State waives its sovereign immunity from private suit in the courts of another State by operating in the State under a corporate registratio… |
| 22-627 |
Harold L. Wilborn v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-claims due-process procedural-due-process sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction title-vii |
The following Questions are to provide notice of the grounds Petitioner seeks certiorari and resolve questions of particular importance.
1. Whether p… |
| 22-6369 |
In Re Tiyon T. Brown-Bey |
|
2022-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-disenfranchisement due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus racial-discrimination sovereign-immunity standing |
Should this court use its power to grant A writ of habeas Corpus to A Moorish American Sovereign Man who has No Available Forum to raise his compellin… |
| 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 allegations in his 42 U.S.C. 1983 complaint brought against the respondent(s) state official(s) of the Texas Wo… |
| 22-548 |
Randall E. Rollins v. Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-jurisdiction justice-courts pro-se pro-se-litigant sovereign-immunity |
1. Did the court below err in not considering the
issue that pro se litigants in Texas justice courts are
treated unequally from all litigants in no… |
| 22-463 |
Aenergy, S.A., et al. v. Republic of Angola, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure federal-courts foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity forum-non-conveniens jurisdiction jurisdictional-exception sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in suits against foreign sovereign defendants under the FSIA, courts may dismiss on forum non conveniens grounds when a statutory exception t… |
| 22-372 |
Skatemore, Inc., dba Roll Haven Skating Center, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-10-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process eleventh-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment just-compensation sovereign-immunity takings-clause |
Does the Fifth Amendment's requirement of "just compensation," as incorporated by the Fourteenth Amendment, waive Eleventh Amendment Sovereign Immunit… |
| 22-5646 |
Fred Freeman v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-09-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights classification-error court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion procedural-review qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5573 |
Anne P. Mulligan v. Alaska, et al. |
Alaska |
2022-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights corruption criminal-investigation due-process hipaa hipaa-violation hospital-records medical-privacy privacy sovereign-immunity |
(1) Why did the Respondent conduct their own investigation regarding the Petitioner?
(2) How did the Respondent conclude that the Petitioner committe… |
| 22-227 |
Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, et al. v. Brian W. Coughlin |
First Circuit |
2022-09-12 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (9)Relisted (2) |
abrogation bankruptcy-code circuit-split indian-tribes sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation tribal-sovereignty |
Whether the Bankruptcy Code expresses unequivocally Congress's intent to abrogate the sovereign immunity of Indian tribes. |
| 22-149 |
Rosalie Weisfeld, et al. v. John Scott, Texas Secretary of State, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-challenge election-law enforcement-authority ex-parte-young federal-jurisdiction federalism sovereign-immunity standing state-official |
Under Ex parte Young's exception to state sovereign immunity, a state official is suable in an action for prospective relief from enforcement of an al… |
| 22-152 |
Thomas Earl Dunn v. Elizabeth Post, Magistrate, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-accountability due-process eleventh-amendment nominal-damages public-trust sovereign-immunity state-actors state-public-trust |
1. Shall the lower Courts, District Court followed by
the Appellate Court, deliberately stand a Constitutional
conflict in law, by judicially shield… |
| 22-5351 |
Gary Lee Johnson v. Minnesota |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-court federalism legal-standing sovereign-immunity standing state-procedure takings |
When is a state's Sovereignty allowed to override a U.S. citizen's fits 1 unalienable Right?
IF a "beyond Ridiculous" to Challenge State procedure an… |
| 22-103 |
Gavin Clarkson v. Board of Regents of New Mexico State University, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-08-02 |
Denied |
|
§1983-claim administrative-law administrative-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure contract-interpretation due-process sovereign-immunity summary-judgment |
This petition presents one or more questions of exceptional importance. In particular, the Tenth Circuit conflicts with authoritative decisions of the… |
| 22-96 |
Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, Inc. |
First Circuit |
2022-08-01 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (11) |
abrogation circuit-split federal-jurisdiction financial-oversight-and-management-board puerto-rico puerto-rico-oversight sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation |
It is a bedrock principle of federalism that a statute does not abrogate sovereign immunity unless Congress's intent to abrogate is "unmistakably clea… |
| 22-91 |
Stephanie Logsdon Smith, et al. v. Kentucky |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
13th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation involuntary-servitude private-right-of-action probation-officer sexual-slavery slavery sovereign-immunity state-action thirteenth-amendment |
Borrowing the form of Justice Alito's framing of the question presented in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, No. 19-1392 (June 24, 2022), … |
| 22-5224 |
In Re Alfred Lane-Bey |
|
2022-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus human-rights jurisdictional-challenge moorish-american native-american-rights sovereign-citizen sovereign-immunity standing |
1. Should this Court use its power to grant Writ of Habeas Corpus to a MOOR American SOVEREIGN MAN who was not on international laws jurisdiction and … |
| 22-82 |
Charles Johnson v. TheHuffingtonPost.com, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure data-harvesting Did the Supreme Court of Virginia err in determini educational-evaluations forum-selection
22-829" jurisdictional-error libel personal-jurisdiction pretrial-motions procedural-error revenue-generation sovereign-immunity specific-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-review targeted-marketing website-data-collection website-liability Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia erred in det |
Whether the panel majority of the Fifth Circuit correctly held that a national news organization's website that harvests visitor location data to shar… |
| 22-5081 |
Palani Karupaiyan, et al. v. Township of Woodbridge, New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
11th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-procedure foreign-sovereign-immunities-act jurisdictional-challenge racial-discrimination sovereign-immunity standing |
a)When USCA does not have jurisdiction to Constitutional challenges, US Supreme Court has (Original) Jurisdiction for the [following] reliefs petition… |
| 21-8208 |
Homer Jones v. Luke Pettigrew, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-06-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus interstate-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity sovereign-nation treaty |
Is a treaty between Sovereign Nations over an individual States Laws ?
Does the United States have jurisdiction over a Sovereign Nation it is NOT at … |
| 21-1583 |
Jerry Bird v. Oregon Commission for the Blind, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11th-amendment administrative-procedures-act arbitration-process blind-vendor-rights commercial-contract eleventh-amendment federal-arbitration federal-statute sovereign-immunity vending-services |
1. Does a State by necessity waive its sovereign immunity from money damages in federal court when it voluntarily enters into a commercial vending ser… |
| 21-1544 |
Cynthia Lopez v. Eric Quaempts, et al. |
California |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights employee-ratification lewis-v-clarke ratification sovereign-immunity state-court-remedies state-tort-law tort-claims tribal-sovereign-immunity tribal-sovereignty vicarious-liability |
In an attempt to immunize a tribe and its employees from liability, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation ("the Tribe") ratified … |
| 21-8095 |
Dennis Ray Davis, Jr. v. Commissioner, Caddo Parish, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process federalism preemption sovereign-immunity standing |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7926 |
Jonathan D. Stephen, Jr. v. Palestine Police Department, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation covid-19 due-process eleventh-amendment federal-jurisdiction qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing state-officials |
Why did Ashton Rodriguez $ Zachary smith ofte Palestine Police Dept. aCt Under color ofstate law, custom, or usAge, subjeets qnother to the depriation… |
| 21-1450 |
Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S., aka Halkbank v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-05-17 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (9) |
18-usc-3231 28-usc-1330 28-usc-1602-1611 criminal-prosecution district-court-jurisdiction foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunity sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether U.S. district courts may exercise subject-matter jurisdiction over criminal prosecutions against foreign sovereigns and their instrumentalitie… |
| 21-1443 |
Edward Ronny Arnold v. Bob Oglesby, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of General Services |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-05-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment sovereign-immunity state-authority wage-withholding warn-act |
1. The Eleventh Amendment requires the Defendant, as Commissioner of the State of Tennessee Department of General Services, to be acting on the author… |
| 21-7877 |
James Adeyemi v. Maryland, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights discrimination-claim due-process eleventh-amendment public-safety-department retaliation-claim sovereign-immunity state-employees state-sovereign-immunity |
1. Does the ELEVETH amendment of the US Constitution bars the claim of retaliation or discrimination under the title of the Americans with Disabilitie… |
| 21-1378 |
Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-04-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
compulsory-process due-process extradition-treaty pretrial-restraints right-to-counsel sovereign-immunity standing standing-doctrine |
1. Whether under this Court's precedent in United States v. Rauscher supra, 119 U.S. 407, 430 (1886), individuals have standing to assert violations o… |
| 21-7491 |
Cassandra Bonita Charles v. Office of Personnel Management, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-action civil-rights civil-rights-violation due-process eleventh-amendment false-claims-act federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction judicial-immunity sovereign-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Does Eleventh Amendment immunity apply when an officer of the court violates 31 U.S. Code 3729?
2. Dose a Judge have Immunity for their judicial a… |
| 21-1265 |
Clarence Lowe v. Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District |
Indiana |
2022-03-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
federal-employers-liability-act indiana-tort-claims-act municipal-corporation notice-of-claim-statute political-subdivision sovereign-immunity state-procedural-law tort-claims-act |
The Federal Employers Liability Act ("FELA") provides injured railroad workers with a federal cause of action to obtain redress for their injuries res… |
| 21-1242 |
Chad Chronister, Sheriff, Hillsborough County, Florida, et al. v. Andrew Joseph, Jr., as Natural Father, Next Friend, and Personal Representative of the Estate of Andrew Joseph, III, Deceased |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-14 |
Denied |
|
article-iii article-iii-standing case-or-controversy circuit-court circuit-court-precedent probable-cause qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing supreme-court-precedent |
(1) This Court and several Circuit Courts of Appeals have held that federal courts should not reach the merits of a case, including issues such as sov… |
| 21-1232 |
Paul C. Nordberg v. The Massachusetts Teachers' Retirement System |
First Circuit |
2022-03-10 |
Denied |
|
11th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law due-process hans-v-louisiana judicial-interpretation legal-precedent sovereign-immunity standing state-immunity |
1. Should the clear and unambiguous words of the
11th Amendment to the United States
Constitution be the basis for judicial
determinations relating to… |
| 21-7210 |
James Thomas Webb v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
double-jeopardy due-process fair-play federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction settlement-agreement sovereign-immunity takings |
Did the relitigation of the CLOSED Florida Federal District Court case United States Securities and Exchange Commission v. James Thomas Webb (Case 07-… |
| 21-7140 |
Taquan Rashe Gullett-El v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-court federal-jurisdiction international-law jurisdiction-challenge pro-se-petition sovereign-immunity standing |
Question not identified. |
| 21-1138 |
Sherry Treppa, et al. v. George Hengle, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-02-16 |
Dismissed |
|
arbitration-agreement arbitration-clause choice-of-law delegation-clause official-capacity sovereign-immunity state-law tribal-government tribal-officials |
1. Whether a court can invalidate an agreement to
have an arbitrator resolve questions of arbitrability (a
"delegation clause") based on the court's i… |
| 21-1127 |
Samish Indian Nation v. Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
dismissal-grounds federal-jurisdiction issue-preclusion ruhrgas-ag-v-marathon sinochem-int-l-co-v-malaysia sovereign-immunity steel-co-v-citizens subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-immunity tribal-law |
1. Whether Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity and tribal sovereign immunity deprived the lower courts of subject-matter jurisdiction over the Snoqu… |
| 21-7098 |
Thomas G. Landreth v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights indian-law land-use navigable-waters property-rights redress-of-grievances sovereign-immunity treaty-interpretation treaty-rights tribal-sovereignty |
1. Whether 25 U.S.C. @ 1302 preserves the sovereign immunity claimed by the Quinault Indian Tribe/Nation when citizens have or seek redress for grieva… |
| 21-1048 |
Cesar Caballero, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
equal-protection first-amendment native-american-land-rights native-american-lands political-question-doctrine quiet-title right-to-access-courts sovereign-immunity |
1. Whether the Trial Court and the Court of Appeals committed prejudicial error in barring/blocking a Native American tribe from pursuing in rem / qui… |
| 21-6947 |
Rayshawn J. Christmas, aka Rayshaun J. Christmas v. Jeff Jackson, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-law fifth-circuit jurisdiction mandamus qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing |
1) Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying die appellants writ of mandamus.
2) Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in dismissing… |
| 21-999 |
Joe Blessett v. Texas Office of the Attorney General, Galveston County Child Support Enforcement Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-rights clearfield-trust-doctrine commerce-clause contract-clause cooperate-federalism due-process sovereign-immunity state-agency title-iv-d |
Does the State Title IV-D Agency operate as a business-to-business enterprise for a profit with the United States under Cooperate Federalism to be sub… |
| 21-995 |
Budha Jam, et al. v. International Finance Corporation |
District of Columbia |
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
civil-procedure commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-organization international-organizations jurisdictional-exception sovereign-immunity standing treaty-interpretation waiver-of-immunity |
1. Whether the commercial activity exception to immunity allows suit where the alleged acts of the defendant that give rise to its liability constitut… |
| 21-813 |
Michael Peck v. Department of Labor, Administrative Review Board, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights congressional-intent energy-reorganization-act nrc-employment nuclear-regulatory-commission sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation whistleblower whistleblower-protection |
In 2005, Congress amended the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 ("ERA") to expressly include the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ("NRC") as an employer … |
| 21-801 |
Barry McCabe v. Fairfax County, Virginia, et al. |
Virginia |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights contract-clause contracting due-process iqbal-twombly product-liability sovereign-immunity tort-claims uniform-commercial-code |
Do animal "adoption " laws conflict with the
Constitution 's Contract Clause and the general
principles of contracting?
2. Did the court flout this… |
| 21-685 |
Alexander Khochinsky v. Republic of Poland |
District of Columbia |
2021-11-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bad-faith bad-faith-litigation civil-rights diplomatic-immunity extradition foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity personal-property religion-ethnicity sovereign-immunity |
Whether a foreign state that seeks to resolve title to moveable personal property because it is owned by an individual of a particular religion or eth… |
| 21-674 |
North Carolina State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees v. Maxwell Kadel, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-05 |
Denied |
|
11th-amendment civil-rights discrimination-waiver eleventh-amendment federal-financial-assistance rehabilitation-act sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation |
Section 1003 of the Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1986 provides that a State "shall not be immune under the Eleventh Amendment . . . from suit in F… |
| 21-6153 |
Suran Wije v. David A. Burns, et al. |
Texas |
2021-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-liberties due-process equal-protection equal-rights fourteenth-amendment immunity leave-to-amend liberty nondisclosure qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity |
Despite the freedoms and privileges of U.S. citizenship, for over 17 years, petitioner has been imprisoned within an illiberal democracy 1, having los… |
| 21-611 |
Gertrude Coretta Fennell Hamilton v. United States, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection pro-se-litigation retaliation sovereign-immunity whistleblower |
Whether a Pattern and/or Practice of Discrimination took place in Charleston S.C. District Court, depriving Pro Se Petitioner of Constitutional Rights… |
| 21-588 |
United States v. Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-22 |
Dismissed |
Amici (20) |
abortion-rights civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process judicial-review preemption preliminary-injunction sovereign-immunity standing state-law supreme-court-precedent |
Question not identified. |
| 21-547 |
Kevin Tung v. Superior Court of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-10-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-ethics civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection ex-parte-young federal-law judiciary sovereign-immunity |
The Third Circuit affirmed the New Jersey District Court's decision that dismissed the Petitioner Kevin Tung, Esq.'s violation of the constitutional d… |
| 21-542 |
Michael Zito, et ux. v. North Carolina Coastal Resources Commission |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-10-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment due-process federal-claims federal-takings-claims fourteenth-amendment just-compensation just-compensation-clause sovereign-immunity state-immunity state-sovereign-immunity takings takings-clause |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's incorporation of the "self-executing" Just Compensation Clause abrogates state sovereign immunity from federal taki… |
| 21-477 |
Jason Self, et al. v. Cher-Ae Heights Indian Community of the Trinidad Rancheria |
California |
2021-09-29 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure immovable-property immovable-property-rule jurisdiction jurisdictional-immunity legal-exception property-exception sovereign-immunity standing tribal-immunity |
Whether the immovable-property exception applies to tribal sovereign immunity. |
| 21-463 |
Whole Woman's Health, et al. v. Austin Reeve Jackson, Judge, District Court of Texas, 114th District, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
Amici (9) |
abortion abortion-law civil-enforcement civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-court-review sovereign-immunity standing state-legislation |
The question presented is whether a State can insulate from federal-court review a law that prohibits the exercise of a constitutional right by delega… |
| 21-5680 |
Heather Matthews v. California State University |
Nevada |
2021-09-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights criminal-activity due-process first-amendment sovereign-immunity state-jurisdiction |
Does a large public entity or state university or government agency have the right to claim sovereign immunity when committing criminal activities aft… |
| 21-5663 |
Justin Michael Rossi v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
2021-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation declaration-of-independence declaratory-relief due-process executive-power government-formation international-law pro-se-petition revolution sovereign-immunity sovereignty |
1. The declaration of Independence says that United States Citizens have the right, the duty, and the privilidge to alter, and abolish laws 'and to fo… |
| 21-311 |
Carrie S. Willis, Individually and as Trustee of the Trust of James C. and Norma D. Willis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-31 |
Denied |
|
discretionary-function-exception federal-tort-claims-act government-agent government-liability mandatory-duty sovereign-immunity state-law-tort-claims tort-claims |
1. Whether the discretionary-function exception shields the Government from suit whenever a government agent fails to fulfill a mandatory duty that ap… |
| 21-5521 |
Antonia W. Shields v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-accountability government-immunity petition-clause redress-of-grievances sovereign-immunity standing |
Under U. S. Constitution Article III, section 2
and U. S. Constitution Article VI.,
is the Government sovereignly immune to duty
in U. S. Constitution… |
| 21-291 |
Barbara Silva v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-tort-claims-act personal-information privacy-act privacy-act-1974 social-security-number sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1) Under Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, 5 U.S.C § 552a.
(2)(c)(d),(6), (9), (10).
a) Is the Agency required to maintain accurate information on
each… |
| 21-109 |
California State Lands Commission v. Eugene Davis, Liquidating Trustee of the Venoco Liquidating Trust, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-07-27 |
Denied |
|
11th-amendment bankruptcy bankruptcy-jurisdiction inverse-condemnation liquidating-trust post-confirmation-claim sovereign-immunity state-agency state-lands state-treasury |
1. Whether the States' consent to suit in the bankruptcy courts, found to exist in Katz, reaches a suit brought against a State, after the effective d… |
| 21-97 |
Anne Georges Telasco v. The Florida Bar |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights criminal-procedure defamation due-process ex-parte-judgment false-criminal-report felony-conviction florida-bar free-speech sovereign-immunity standing |
Whether Sovereign Immunity as deployed by Welch v. Texas Dep't of Highways & Pub. Transp., 483 U.S. 468, 472 (1987) and its progeny, are inapplicable … |
| 21-90 |
Abel Belmonte v. City of Dallas, Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment civil-rights discrimination due-process judicial-review race-discrimination sovereign-immunity title-vii |
1. Whether under the 14th amendment and in addition to title 7 and 42 U.S.C.§200e-16(a) (race, color, religion, sex or national origin) a claim on, an… |
| 21-19 |
Christopher Sullivan v. Texas A&M University System |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
eleventh-amendment federal-funding federal-funds fifth-circuit human-rights-act sovereign-immunity state-entity state-immunity texas-commission-on-human-rights-act texas-labor-code-chapter-21 waiver-of-immunity |
Whether the Fifth Circuit correctly interpreted
that a State Entity who receives Federal funds waives
its Eleventh Amendment Immunity from the Texas
C… |
| 20-8148 |
Mike Vigil v. Department of Housing and Urban Development |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
7th-amendment civil-rights due-process fair-hearing federal-tort-claims-act motion-to-dismiss open-court-hearing pleading-defects rule-15-amendment sovereign-immunity standing summary-affirmance |
Is this Document that I TRUSTWORTHY ??
My Question is the Below STATUTE Valid and Firm ??
My Question is the Amendments SUMMONS CONSTITUTION FEDERAL… |
| 20-1578 |
William A. Graven v. Arizona |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11th-amendment civil-rights criminal-acts due-process qualified-immunity respondeat-superior service-of-process sovereign-immunity state-official-immunity state-officials |
It is long settled that a Complaint against State Officials is not a Complaint against the State, but that it is in-fact against the Officials, e.g., … |
| 20-1540 |
Victor J. Edney v. Eondra Lamone Hines, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights court-jurisdiction default-judgment government-liability governmental-immunity legal-action motion-for-default qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity |
Why should the petitioners ' motion of frivolous claims be granted by this court?
Why did the petitioner not negate the respondents qualified immunit… |
| 20-1508 |
Susan Pierson v. Hudson Insurance Company, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
25-usc-5321-c-8-a collateral-estoppel insurance-liability issue-preclusion privity public-policy recovery sovereign-immunity tort tort-claim |
Issue 1. Did the resolution of the tort claim against
Thorne in Pearson v. Thorne decide the same issue or
claim that plaintiff raises in the presen… |
| 20-7844 |
Paul Patrick Jolivette, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion sovereign-immunity |
Did the United States Court of Appeals For The Ninth Circuit Order in " DENIAL " of a writ of mandate to enforce a judgment Registeered and entered in… |
| 20-7814 |
Brandon Bowie v. Hamilton County Juvenile Court, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-amendment 14th-amendment americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights court-access disability-discrimination due-process rehabilitation-act sovereign-immunity |
Did the Americans with Disability Act violate the sovereign immunity doctrine of the 11th Amendment when, based on Congress's 14th Amendment enforceme… |
| 20-1454 |
Vekuii Rukoro, et al. v. Federal Republic of Germany |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act gravamen international-law property-rights second-circuit sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation takings-exception |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7568 |
L. E. Pauli Coffey v. South Carolina |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-03-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection privacy sovereign-immunity standing |
Do Americans have the inalienable 14th Amendment right to Due Process?
Do American women have the inalienable 14th Amendment Right to Due Process?
D… |
| 20-1288 |
Craig Geness v. Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-03-16 |
Denied |
|
administrative-agency americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-violation constitutional-violations due-process sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation statutory-violations third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit erred in granting the collateral appeal of Defendant, Administrative Offices of Pennsylvania Courts (hereinafter "AOPC"), wh… |
| 20-1055 |
Anthony Tricoli v. Rob Watts, et al. |
Georgia |
2021-02-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-corruption government-retaliation retaliation sanctions sovereign-immunity |
1. May the State of Georgia impose punitive sanctions, against an attorney petitioning the courts and speaking out in public to expose and redress sta… |
| 20-1047 |
Alabama, et al. v. Alabama State Conference of the NAACP, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-02 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review circuit-court-procedure civil-rights interlocutory-appeal mootness sovereign-immunity vacatur voting-rights-act |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's unreviewed and unreviewable decision should be vacated. |
| 20-945 |
Samuel T. Russell v. Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-13 |
Denied |
|
11th-amendment bill-of-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process eleventh-amendment federal-jurisdiction jury-trial right-to-petition search-and-seizure sovereign-immunity |
When the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (" Court) said they reviewed "an Eleventh Amendment immunity determination de novo, " di… |
| 20-879 |
Arthur Lopez v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-torts federal-officials federal-tort-claims-act qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity |
Should the United States of America be subject to Liability under the Federal Tort Claims act for 1946 C Personal ligenions sustained by United States… |
| 20-818 |
Bruce A. Norvell v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
26-usc-7623 administrative-procedures-act agency-action irs-inaction irs-whistleblower-office sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction whistleblower-claim |
Airbnb —a prominent tech company —did not report to the defendant IRS its 2017 payments of $4 billion to its USA hosts, and I informed the IRS Whistle… |
| 20-6642 |
Kevin W. Dunigan v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-17 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process sovereign-immunity standing takings |
Should all of plain' ewwil and punidne comp4nsatone be atbibuted ty Kevin \el Oungan
it. Tohovah, Ratag Javytah while all equa sted
atto/nay's fxs fur… |
| 20-772 |
Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor v. Phil Murphy, Governor of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
congressional-approval ex-parte-young interstate-compact interstate-compacts preemption sovereign-immunity state-officials |
Whether, under the doctrine of Ex parte Young, 209 U.S. 123 (1908), an interstate compact agency may sue a state official to prevent that official fro… |
| 20-6520 |
Paul Viriyapanthu v. State Bar of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment ada americans-with-disabilities-act arbitration-immunity noerr-pennington sovereign-immunity spending-clause title-ii u.s.-v.-georgia |
1. Where Congress conditioned the Americans with Disabilities Act to the states ' receipt of funding under Title IV of the Social Security Act pursuan… |
| 20-6455 |
Patricia A. Wade v. Trustees of Indiana University, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process employer-liability judicial-review monetary-damages sovereign-immunity standing state-sovereign-immunity takings |
Unlike employees of local governments and private entities, employees of state entities are excluded
from recovering monetary relief when injured by t… |
| 20-6355 |
Randall Thomas McArty v. Asa Hutchinson, Governor of Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ada ada-violations civil-action civil-rights declaratory-relief ex-parte-young injunctive-relief sovereign-immunity state-court |
1. Does the opinion of the Supreme Court of Arkansas in a State Court Civil Action for violations of A.D.A. make an exception in opposition to this Co… |
| 20-603 |
Le Roy Torres v. Texas Department of Public Safety |
Texas |
2020-11-05 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (17)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process military-employment sovereign-immunity standing state-immunity state-sovereign-immunity uniformed-services-employment-and-reemployment-rig userra war-powers |
In the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA), Congress gave the over 19 million military servicemembers—including… |
| 20-587 |
Hope Angelic White, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Myron Pollard v. United States, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
|
bivens bivens-action civil-procedure civil-rights federal-tort-claims-act judgment-bar personal-representative sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation |
The Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), 28 U.S.C. 1346(b), 2671 et seq., waives the sovereign immunity of the United States and creates a cause of action … |
| 20-559 |
Jane Doe v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-10-29 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
circuit-split federal-tort-claims-act feres-doctrine military-service service-academy sexual-assault sexual-harassment sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation |
1. Was Feres wrongly decided and should it be overruled?
2. Alternatively, should Feres be limited so as not to bar tort claims brought by servicemem… |
| 20-494 |
The Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College v. Stephen M. Gruver, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-i-spending-power article-one-powers civil-damages civil-rights-remedies-equalization-act eleventh-amendment federal-funds sovereign-immunity spending-power title-ix |
1. Can Congress, in the exercise of Article I Spending Power, unilaterally expand federal judicial power for private civil damages actions asserted ag… |
| 20-462 |
Jesse Louis Kaiser v. Anthony R. Morfitt, Assistant United States Attorney |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process foreign-state personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunities sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction |
The Court lacks subject matter and personal jurisdiction for the reasons below.
1. This Court, and all public offices, is defined under FRCP Rule 40)… |
| 20-426 |
William L. Huntress, et al. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-10-02 |
Rehearing |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
abuse-of-process discretionary-function discretionary-function-exception federal-tort-claims-act law-enforcement-proviso malicious-prosecution sovereign-immunity |
In 2006, this Court rejected the EPA's Clean Water Act jurisdiction over a wetland that does not abut navigable-in-fact waters. Sackett v. E.P.A., 566… |
| 20-5703 |
James L. Miller v. Virginia A. Phillips, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
11th-amendment civil-rights due-process federal-courts sovereign-immunity standing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5621 |
Gregory Simmons-Bey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure due-process federal-courts jurisdiction sovereign-immunity standing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-307 |
Shahrokh Mireskandari v. Barrington Mayne, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-09 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
common-law-immunity foreign-agents foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity governmental-organ jurisdictional-immunity sovereign-immunity state-department tort-liability tortious-conduct uk-government |
1. Whether the LSE and SRA are entitled to sovereign immunity as "organs" of a foreign government under the FSIA and the relevant test for such determ… |
| 20-215 |
Richard Bernholz v. Internal Revenue Service |
Second Circuit |
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
federal-tort-claims-act government-liability immunity internal-revenue-service sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation tax-assessment tax-collection |
The question presented is whether any conduct by the Internal Revenue Service which may broadly be construed as a mechanism for the assessment and col… |
| 20-85 |
Shirley Dimps v. Taconic Correctional Facility, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-07-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 7th-amendment administrative-exhaustion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process jury-trial sovereign-immunity standing |
1. The District Court did not allow petitioner to have a trial by jury why not? Petitioner paid the fee to file the complaint and indicated on the com… |
| 20-46 |
Port of Corpus Christi Authority of Nueces County, Texas v. Sherwin Alumina Company, LLC, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-jurisdiction debtor-rights due-process in-rem-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity state-property state-property-rights takings |
whether a bankruptcy court's in rem jurisdiction over a debtor's property allows it to exercise in rem jurisdiction over the separate property of an a… |
| 20-35 |
Joshua E. Frankel v. United States, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process federal-courts feres-doctrine fourth-circuit incident-to-service insurance-law military-tort separation-of-powers sovereign-immunity |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in applying an unduly restrictive "situs and status test" for the determination of whether the acts at issue were "in… |
| 20-24 |
Great Lakes Minerals, LLC v. Ohio, et al. |
Kentucky |
2020-07-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure comity declaratory-relief individual-capacity injunctive-relief minimum-contacts sovereign-immunity state-jurisdiction state-sovereign-immunity |
I. Whether the Court's decision in Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt, 139 S.Ct. 1485 (2019) extends a state's sovereign immunity to declarato… |
| 20-5047 |
In Re Daniel H. Jones |
|
2020-07-13 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus prohibition sovereign-immunity standing state-law writ-of-prohibition |
I.
WOULD THE ISSUANCE OF A WRIT OF PROHIBITION
AND/OR MANDAMUS BE JUSTIFIED WHERE THE
PETITIONER 'S CIRCUMSTANCES COULD AID THIS
COURT IN SUPERVISI… |
| 20-5046 |
In Re Daniel H. Jones |
|
2020-07-13 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure extraordinary-writs judicial-review mandamus prohibition sovereign-immunity state-law supervisory-power writ-of-prohibition |
I.
WOULD THE ISSUANCE OF A, WRIT OF PROHIBITION
AND/OR MANDAMUS BE JUSTIFIED WHERE THE
PETITIONER' S CIRCUMSTANCES COULD AID THIS
COURT IN SUPERVIS… |
| 19-1413 |
Armin Abazari v. Department of Education, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules complaint dismissal due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-civil-procedure first-amendment objections procedural-due-process sovereign-immunity standing |
1. Whether the District Court must A.
consider an opportunity to present objections
under F.R.C.P. §72(b)(2) prior to a ruling on a
dismissal of a Com… |
| 19-1315 |
Nevada, et al. v. Donald Walden, Jr., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
11th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-law court-jurisdiction due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-removal judicial-procedure removal sovereign-immunity state-courts state-immunity |
Whether a state remains immune from suit after voluntarily removing a federal claim to federal court when the state is immune from such claims in its … |
| 19-1297 |
James K. Collins, et ux. v. D.R. Horton-Texas, Ltd. |
Texas |
2020-05-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment due-process federal-judgment fourteenth-amendment personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity state-rights takings tenth-amendment void-judgment |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment allows a state to enforce a void federal judgment obtained without personal jurisdiction over and notice to the defen… |
| 19-1162 |
Addison Thompson v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-claim administrative-settlement civil-rights copyright-act copyright-law due-process exhaustion-of-claims federal-agency federal-government federal-statute sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation vara visual-artists-rights-act |
In 2014, a photographic mural project was destroyed during the relocation of the Peter Stuyvesant United States Postal Service (USPS), New York. The U… |
| 19-1122 |
Hong Tang v. University of Baltimore, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-13 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-injunctive-relief declaratory-relief due-process eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young jurisdictional-grounds official-capacity pro-se-litigant service-of-process sovereign-immunity standing |
1. Whether the lower courts should have liberally construed the pro se litigant's claims against the state officials' offices (the University of Balti… |
| 19-1110 |
Board of Regents of the University of Texas System, et al. v. Boston Scientific Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge due-process federal-court federal-patent-statute federal-statute patent-infringement patent-venue personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity sovereign-rights state-rights state-sovereign state-sovereignty |
Whether a state's sovereign right to try its causes within its borders when there is personal jurisdiction over the defendant renders unconstitutional… |
| 19-1101 |
Canada v. Cynthia L. Merlini |
First Circuit |
2020-03-09 |
Denied |
|
commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception consular-employees consular-employment consular-independence consular-sovereignty employment-conditions employment-terms foreign-sovereign-immunities-act legislative-decision sovereign-immunity state-law workers-compensation |
1. Whether the court of appeals erred in treating Canada's legislative decision to compensate its consular employees for workplace injuries exclusivel… |
| 19-1082 |
Stephen Linder v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights-tort-claims-act-discretionary-functio constitutional-violation constitutional-violations discretionary-function-exception federal-tort-claims-act intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress law-enforcement malicious-prosecution sovereign-immunity |
1. Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in concluding, contrary to five other circuits, that the discretionary function exception of the Federal Tort Cla… |
| 19-1083 |
Jeffrey A. Clouser v. Kim Doherty, et al. |
Delaware |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection official-misconduct qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity state-tort-claims state-tort-claims-act whistleblower-protection |
I. A Delaware Department of Education official, sued in his official and individual-capacities, knowingly disregarded available results of a State Pol… |
| 19-1049 |
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, et al. v. Crystallex International Corporation |
Third Circuit |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
|
alter-ego alter-ego-doctrine attachment exceptional-importance foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity fsia instrumentality international-law judgment-enforcement pdvsa sovereign-immunity third-circuit |
1. Whether a judgment-enforcement action against a foreign sovereign and its instrumentality must be predicated on applicable exceptions to the immuni… |
| 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 |
1. An interlocutory appeal lies from a denial of sovereign immunity to protect the sovereign's dignitary interests. Under Fed.R.Civ.P. 19, a case may … |
| 19-971 |
Angela James, et al. v. JW Gaming Development, LLC, a California Limited Liability Company |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights congress federal-courts individual-liability legal-standing official-capacity sovereign-immunity state-courts tribal-governance tribal-sovereignty |
Whether an Indian tribe's governing body can be stripped of its sovereign immunity from suit for actions taken by its members in their official capaci… |
| 19-970 |
Retail Ready Career Center, Inc. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
5th-amendment civil-forfeiture constitutional-counterclaims due-process fifth-amendment in-rem in-rem-proceeding seizure-of-funds sovereign-immunity |
1. Does the United States have complete immunity from constitutional counterclaims asserted in an in rem civil forfeiture case initiated by the United… |
| 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 |
1.)Is Petitioner's request for Compensatory damages barred by U.S.C.1997e (e)? Punitive damages because He alleges no facts whatsoever establishing th… |
| 19-7233 |
Jameice Nash v. James Kenney, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Article III-right civil-rights due-process federalism Heck-doctrine Prison Litigation Reform Act prison-litigation-reform-act prosecutorial-immunity Racially-tainted procedural-violations Sovereign state-police powers sovereign-immunity statute-of-limitations Tenth Amendment-principles Tenth Amendment-rights tenth-amendment |
i. Procedurally, did the lower courts violate Petitioner's Fifth Amendment Due Process rights and Tenth Amendment rights by adhering to procedures/ su… |
| 19-856 |
Los Angeles County, California v. Trina Ray, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law due-process fair-labor-standards-act federal-preemption labor-law non-enforcement-policy overtime-wages sovereign-immunity state-action state-agency |
Respondents, on behalf of themselves and other similarly situated home care workers in the State of California's In-Home Supportive Services ("IHSS") … |
| 19-798 |
Bay Point Properties, Incorporated v. Mississippi Transportation Commission, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process eleventh-amendment just-compensation just-compensation-clause property-rights sovereign-immunity state-immunity state-liability takings takings-clause |
Whether the "self -executing" Just Compensation Clause abrogates a State's Eleventh Amendment immunity, allowing a property owner to sue the State for… |
| 19-743 |
Curtis T. Hill, Jr., Attorney General of Indiana, et al. v. Whole Woman's Health Alliance, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
14th-amendment abortion abortion-clinic-licensing civil-rights due-process federal-injunction fourteenth-amendment hypothetical-patient-rights licensing rooker-feldman sovereign-immunity standing state-agency-review third-party-standing undue-burden |
When Respondent Whole Woman's Health applied for a license to open a new abortion clinic in South Bend but refused to supply documentation of past com… |
| 19-736 |
Andrew Clarke v. Russell R. McMurray, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Transportation |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights civil-suit due-process government-official individual-capacity legal-standing official-capacity pleading-defect sovereign-immunity standing state-immunity |
Government officials may be sued in their individual capacity. Such a suit does not represent a suit against the government entity for which he is ass… |
| 19-6716 |
Israel C. Isbell v. Steven Merlak, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law administrative-mistake civil-rights consecutive-sentence due-process federal-government federal-jurisdiction interstate-transfer jurisdiction pardon primary-jurisdiction prisoner-custody prisoner-transfer sentencing-procedure sixth-circuit-precedent sovereign-immunity state-custody |
Does one sovereign - specifically the federal government - lose or surrender its primary jurisdiction when they release an inmate who is serving their… |
| 19-648 |
CACI Premier Technology, Inc. v. Suhail Najim Abdulla Al Shimari, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (3) |
alien-tort-statute appellate-jurisdiction civil-immunity civil-rights collateral-order collateral-order-doctrine derivative-sovereign-immunity due-process federal-contractor government-contractors jus-cogens military-operations sovereign-immunity |
Under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, the courts of appeals "have jurisdiction of appeals from all final decisions of the district courts." This Court has held that… |
| 19-634 |
Republic of Sudan, et al. v. James Owens, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-11-18 |
Denied |
|
chevron-oil circuit-court due-process foreign-sovereigns foreign-sovereigns-immunity,terrorism-exception,su landgraf retroactive-application sovereign-immunity substantive-liability terrorism-exception |
Whether the D.C. Circuit applied an unconstitutional rule of substantive liability created by the D.C. Court of Appeals — the highest local court of t… |
| 19-6607 |
Robert Allen Stanford v. Jay Clayton |
District of Columbia |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights discretionary-function due-process extraterritorial extraterritorial-jurisdiction fourth-amendment search-and-seizure sec-enforcement securities sovereign-immunity |
This case involves an extraordinary, extra-statutory overreach of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC); a civil enforcement action taken by th… |
| 19-606 |
Ukraine v. Pao Tatneft |
District of Columbia |
2019-11-12 |
Denied |
|
arbitration-agreement arbitration-enforcement arbitration-exception foreign-sovereign-immunity international-arbitration new-york-convention sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver-exception |
Whether the D.C. Circuit correctly held that: (1) all 160 signatories to the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards … |
| 19-598 |
Joy Spurr v. Melissa L. Pope, Chief Judge, Tribal Court of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction non-tribal-member personal-protection-order sovereign-immunity tribal-sovereignty violence-against-women violence-against-women-act |
1. Suppose a nontribal member is sued in a court of an Indian Tribe, and later sues in federal court claiming that the tribal court lacked jurisdictio… |
| 19-565 |
Antonio Passaro, Jr. v. Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-30 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure federal-court federal-jurisdiction lapides-v-board-of-regents litigation removal sovereign-immunity state-court waiver |
Whether, in the context of a federal claim brought in state court where the state would enjoy sovereign immunity, a state's voluntary removal to feder… |
| 19-546 |
Douglas Brownback, et al. v. James King |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-28 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6)Relisted (2) |
bivens-claim bivens-claims civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-tort-claims-act government-liability judgment-bar sovereign-immunity state-tort-law |
Whether a final judgment in favor of the United States in an action brought under Section 1346(b)(1), on the ground that a private person would not be… |
| 19-512 |
Anthony Robinson v. Department of Education |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (3) |
civil-procedure civil-suit consumer-protection fair-credit-reporting-act federal-agency federal-government-liability sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation statutory-liability |
Whether the Fair Credit Reporting Act authorizes consumers to file civil suits against federal governmental agencies under 15 U.S.C. § 1681n and §1681… |
| 19-429 |
Charles R. Hunter v. United States, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2410a asset-depletion circuit-split federal-statute federal-tax-lien governmental-abuse quiet-title sovereign-immunity tax-lien taxpayer-interest third-party-agreement |
1. Whether a quiet title action brought against the government pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2410(a) requires the taxpayer to retain a legal interest in the… |
| 19-365 |
John Barth v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-09-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights compensation constitutional-rights copyright copyright-law due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction seizure sovereign-immunity takings takings-clause |
1. Violation of Constitutional Rights
Did acts of a federal court in publishing sealed documents of investigation rather
than returning them, violate… |
| 19-5984 |
Daniel H. Jones v. Claudia C. Bonnyman, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-18 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis sovereign-immunity standing |
I.
DID THE U.S. SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT
OF APPEALS ERR IN DENYING THE
PETITIONER 'S ABSOLUTE RIGHT IN
FILING AS WELL AS TO APPEAL HIS
CIVIL ACTION IN … |
| 19-337 |
Regents of the University of Minnesota v. LSI Corporation, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-09-12 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
administrative-proceeding civil-procedure federal-agency federal-circuit inter-partes-review patent patent-validity sovereign-immunity state-university university |
Whether the inter partes review proceedings brought by private respondents against the University of Minnesota in this case are barred by sovereign im… |
| 19-301 |
Republic of Kazakhstan v. Anatolie Stati, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration civil-procedure confirmation-proceeding due-process foreign-arbitral-award foreign-arbitral-awards foreign-sovereign-immunity fraud fraud-defense new-york-convention public-policy sovereign-immunity |
Exercising a right guaranteed to it by the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, th e Republic of Kazakhs… |
| 19-5735 |
Yolanda M. Williams v. Shawna L. Reagin |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights compensation constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution demand-letter deprivation-claim due-process immunity judgment judgment-enforcement procedural-process sovereign-immunity standing |
Whether the defendant forfeited her immunity: failed to comply with elementary principles of procedural process and rendered an in just judgment enfor… |
| 19-5567 |
Delores Neely v. Georgia Department of Human Resources |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 amendment-xiv-section-5 civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1871 congressional-power constitutional-immunity constitutional-provisions eleventh-amendment federal-courts fourteenth-amendment sovereign-immunity state-sovereignty |
1. Can Congress abrogate a State 's immunity from being sued in Federal
court without its consent, under authority granted to Congress by the
Fourte… |
| 19-191 |
Ashley Wilcox Page v. Todd L. Hicks, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
11th-amendment civil-procedure eleventh-amendment federal-court federal-jurisdiction lapides-v-board-of-regents removal sovereign-immunity state-court state-removal waiver waiver-by-removal |
In Lapides v. Board of Regents of University System of Georgia, 535 U.S. 613 (2002), the Court held that when a State voluntarily removes a case from … |
| 19-5479 |
Gregory Waddell Hayes v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federalism fifth-amendment precedent separate-sovereigns sovereign-immunity |
Whether this Court should overrule the separate sovereigns exception to
Double Jeopardy. |
| 19-5405 |
Steven Talbert Williams v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights dismissal-order due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-review mandamus pro-se-litigation sanctions sovereign-immunity standing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-96 |
Lincoln Rymer v. Robert Lemaster, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure appellate-review certiorari civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct sovereign-immunity standing void-judgments |
Circuit Judge Andrew Kleinfeld considers it to be capital punishment when teachers destroy students' career prospects as punishment for the students' … |
| 19-26 |
Darlene Collins, et al. v. Charles W. Daniels, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
bail-reform constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment judicial-immunity legislative-immunity new-mexico-constitution sovereign-immunity |
Well before New Mexico's history as a territory and a state, wherein money bail or bail by sufficient sureties was the primary and for a long period t… |
| 18-1580 |
Craig Ross, et al. v. Board of Trustees of California State University |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights damages due-process duplicative-actions eeoc-investigation free-speech individual-capacity-suit preliminary-injunction sovereign-immunity standing title-vii |
Can an earlier-commenced Title VII case against the State of California, initiated with a request for a preliminary injunction during the pendency of … |
| 18A1276 |
Karen Khan v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2019-06-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split civil-rights equal-protection fifth-amendment money-mandating sovereign-immunity |
Federal Circuit's Application of the Plausibility Standard to Weigh Evidence Against Plaintiff Conflicts With This Court's Precedent In Twombly and Ig… |
| 18-9532 |
Lemuel Clayton Bray v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection feres-doctrine military-compensation retaliation sovereign-immunity veterans-affairs veterans-rights |
Are U.S. War Veterans and active duty military separate and unequal citizens under the Constitution, Article I, Section 8, Paragraph 14, despite the 1… |
| 18-9507 |
Theon Smith v. Charleston County Domestic Relations, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law child-support-enforcement civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-government parental-rights sovereign-immunity standing title-iv-d |
Does the United States unequivocally wave its sovereign immunity when it does business with its citizens?
Is the office of Child Support Enforcement … |
| 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… |
| 18-9401 |
Daniel H. Jones v. Kentucky, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure clearly-erroneous-findings injunctive-relief judicial-discretion jurisdictional-review legal-standards procedural-error sovereign-immunity wrong-legal-standards |
DID THE U.S. SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERR IN ALLOWING THE [U.S.] DISTRICT COURT TO ABUSE ITS DISCRETION WHEN RELYING ON CLEARLY ERRONEOUS FINDIN… |
| 18-1412 |
Lewis-Jay Porter v. Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-state personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
The Court lacks subject matter and personal jurisdiction for the reasons below.
This Court, and all public offices, is defined under FRCP Rule 46) as… |
| 18-1414 |
Giuliano Stefano Giovanni Wildhaber v. EFV, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-10 |
Denied |
|
aliens-tort-claim-act aliens-tort-claims-act constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling jurisdiction property-rights sovereign-immunity statute-of-limitation |
The special facts and procedural posture of this case render it ideal for resolving whether the ATS/ATCA allows liability under a hundred percent (100… |
| 18-1400 |
E. V. v. Eugene H. Robinson, Jr., Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Marine Corps, in His Capacity as Military Judge |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
|
article-6b due-process inferior-tribunals inferior-tribunals-clause judicial-review military-justice military-sexual-assault military-tribunals psychotherapist-privilege sovereign-immunity ucmj uniform-code-of-military-justice victims-rights |
Congress gave certain rights to victims of military
sexual assault. 10 U.S.C. § 806b, Rights of Victims
("Article 6b"). Congress and the President gav… |
| 18-9083 |
Ken Gryder v. Laura Rudy, et al. |
Virginia |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights county-taxation defamation-claim dmv-registration due-process employment-damages free-speech malicious-prosecution patent prosecutorial-misconduct sovereign-immunity standing takings unlawful-eviction |
Does a county have the right to collect taxes with no court judgment using the DMV to stop tag renewal and registration after having knowingly engaged… |
| 18-9021 |
Valerie Arroyo v. Daniel J. Zamora, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
bill-of-rights civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-conduct deprivation-of-rights due-process federal-court federal-questions judicial-interference sovereign-immunity state-agencies state-court |
Did the lower tribunal, federal or state court, federal or state agencies, or employees' actions, conduct or interference were unconstitutional throug… |
| 18-8901 |
Daniel H. Jones v. James F. Goodwin, Judge, Criminal Court for Sullivan County, Tennessee |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-review sovereign-immunity standing statutory-interpretation |
DID THE U.S. SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT
OF APPEALS ERR IN DENYING THE
PETITIONER'S ABSOLUTE RIGHT IN
FILING AS WELL AS TO APPEAL HIS
CIVIL ACTION IN FORMA PA… |
| 18-8836 |
Frizzell Carrell Woodson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
sovereign-immunity-waiver 28-usc-2106 appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process federal-tort-claims-act judicial-process judicial-recusal judicial-review recusal sovereign-immunity standing |
Whether the Supreme Court or any other court of appellate jurisdiction may affirm, modify, vacate, set aside or reverse any lower court judgment, decr… |
| 18-8840 |
Frizzell Carrell Woodson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-tort-claims-act impartiality judicial-discretion judicial-review jurisdictional-threshold sovereign-immunity standing tort-claims |
Whether the invoked appellate court adjudicative jurisdiction should acknowledged the particularism of any trial court judge's non - judicial palpable… |
| 18-8839 |
Frizzell Carrell Woodson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-standing due-process federal-tort-claims-act frivolous-claims in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion pro-se-litigant sovereign-immunity standing |
Whether or not the Supreme Court has clearly established uniformity precedent to all lower courts that all procedure due rights of pro - se litigants … |
| 18-8838 |
Frizzell Carrell Woodson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-standing due-process due-process-clauses federal-tort-claims-act in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigant sovereign-immunity standing |
Whether, When, and to What extent raised therefor, a civil action is commenced by the first pleading taken on its face to maintain a property right ef… |
| 18-8837 |
Frizzell Carrell Woodson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-standing due-process federal-tort-claims-act judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct notice pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process sovereign-immunity standing sua-sponte-dismissal |
Whether a trial court should render a sua sponte decision to dismiss an informa pauperis pro se litigant first pleaded affidavit to commenced civil ac… |
| 18-8671 |
Glynndeavin Von Fox v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2019-04-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-interpretation federal-consent federal-preemption federal-questions international-law judicial-access judicial-review medical-access senate-ratification separation-of-powers sovereign-immunity sovereign-immunity-doctrine state-court-jurisdiction treaty-power us-constitution |
Can a State Court answer federal questions of an International Country in Japan, regarding judicial access to documents, or medical access to document… |
| 18-1218 |
Buchwald Capital Advisors LLC, Litigation Trustee to the Greektown Litigation Trust v. Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Dismissed |
|
bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-law indian-tribes sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation tribal-law |
Whether the Bankruptcy Code abrogates the sovereign immunity of Indian tribes. |
| 18-8412 |
Lamar Perryman v. Georgia, et al. |
Georgia |
2019-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-amendment cherokee-nation-v-georgia civil-rights constitutional-interpretation eleventh-amendment johnson-v-mcintosh native-american-rights non-intercourse-act sovereign-immunity treaty-law worcester-v-georgia |
1. Does Title 25 U. S. C. Section 177 (Non-Intercourse Act) and this Court's decisions in Johnson v. MIntosh, Cherokee Nation v. Georgia and Worcestor… |
| 18-1200 |
Fluid Dynamics, LLC v. JEA, fka Jacksonville Electric Authority |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
|
certification certification-to-state-court civil-procedure discovery erie-doctrine erie-v-tomkins erie-v-tompkins fact-specific florida-law sovereign-immunity summary-judgment tenth-amendment |
This case involves the granting of summary judgment as a matter of Florida law by the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida … |
| 18-8305 |
Nausheen Zainulabeddin v. University of South Florida Board of Trustees |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
commerce-clause disability-discrimination diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-preemption fourteenth-amendment property-rights regulatory-taking sovereign-immunity |
Did the lower court violate Commerce Clause of the constitution of Article 1, section 8, Clause 3; when it denied principal's interest to maintain uni… |
| 18-1146 |
Johanna Ong, et al. v. Hudson County Superior Court, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment bodily-harm civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations damages due-process eighth-amendment sovereign-immunity standing statute-of-limitations |
1. Did the lower courts repeatedly violate the
Petitioners' Constitutional protections, including Fifth/
Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Rights and E… |
| 18-8137 |
Tanya Steele v. John Pedro, Jr., et al. |
First Circuit |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anti-harassment civil-rights due-process fair-housing-act jurisdiction sovereign-immunity standing sua-sponte |
U.S. District Court Judge Mark Mastroianni removed John Pedro Junior's default judgment with a sua sponte order. A sua sponte order is a decision made… |
| 18-1057 |
Marei von Saher v. Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
act-of-state-doctrine art-restitution civil-rights due-process foreign-policy holocaust-assets looted-art nazi-looted-art property-rights sovereign-immunity sovereign-interest |
Where artworks were forcibly confiscated from their
Jewish owner by Nazi Reichsmarschall Hermann
Goring, then recovered by the Dutch government after
… |
| 18-7911 |
Albert Miklos Kun v. State Bar of California |
California |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
11th-amendment 14th-amendment bankruptcy-clause bankruptcy-discharge bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-preemption federalism fourteenth-amendment sovereign-immunity standing state-bar Whether petitioner's right to protection by the Eq Whether petitioner's rights protected by the Due P Whether the California Supreme Court may order pay |
Whether California waived its sovereign immunity to the Bankruptcy Clause.
Whether the California Supreme Court may order payment of a debt that has … |
| 18-997 |
Oliver Williams, et al. v. The National Gallery, London, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
expropriation-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law jurisdiction property-rights sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction takings wrongful-possession |
Is a sovereign's, or its instrumentality's, refusal to return property wrongfully held a taking of rights in property in violation of international la… |
| 18-970 |
Thomas Mitchell, et al. v. Tulalip Tribes of Washington |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
allotment declaratory-judgment jurisdictional-challenge non-indian-fee-land regulatory-authority sovereign-immunity treaty treaty-rights tribal-authority tribal-taxation |
Does sovereign immunity bar the federal courts' consideration of a declaratory judgment action to determine whether Respondent Tribes can exercise reg… |
| 18-7552 |
Leroy Hayes v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity standing state-courts |
(1) DONS A COI BAUS tO LURIT A HABAAS-CORUS PAFiTTONR tO COURT FOR AN INQUIRY ?
(2) WHIZT FRDRAL AUUNU IS AUAILMBL tO A 5n PRISONER, WhITN hA'S FIMK … |
| 18-948 |
In Re Grand Jury Subpoena |
District of Columbia |
2019-01-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (4) |
18-usc-3231 28-usc-1330 28-usc-1604 contempt-sanctions criminal-jurisdiction foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity fsia jurisdictional-exceptions sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Does the FSIA grant foreign states sovereign immunity from American criminal jurisdiction?
2. Is 28 U.S.C. § 1330(a) the exclusive basis for subje… |
| 18-899 |
Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, et al. v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-01-11 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law administrative-proceeding federal-circuit indian-tribe inter-partes-review patent-challenge patent-law patent-office patent-trial-and-appeal-board sovereign-immunity tribal-sovereign-immunity |
Whether inter partes review before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board is the type of proceeding in which tribal sovereign immunity may be asserted. |
| 18-894 |
Harold McNeal, et ux. v. Navajo Nation, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
congressional-policy contract-negotiation federal-indian-law federal-jurisdiction gaming-enterprise indian-gaming-regulatory-act sovereign-immunity state-court state-court-jurisdiction tort-claim tort-claims tribal-sovereignty |
Whether the Tenth Circuit panel violated the current jurisprudence of this Court and the Congressional policy underlying IGRA by precluding the Nation… |
| 18-877 |
Frederick L. Allen, et al. v. Roy A. Cooper, III, Governor of North Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (20)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
14th-amendment article-i-power congress congressional-power constitutional-law copyright copyright-infringement copyright-remedy-clarification-act federal-power federal-remedies federal-statute intellectual-property sovereign-immunity state-sovereign-immunity |
Whether Congress validly abrogated state sovereign immunity via the Copyright Remedy Clarification Act, Pub. L. No. 101-553, 104 Stat. 2749 (1990), in… |
| 18-850 |
David Altstatt, Sr. v. Melinda Fruendt, Executive Director, Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration blind-vendors compensatory-damages eleventh-amendment randolph-sheppard-act sovereign-immunity |
When States voluntarily choose to participate under the Randolph Sheppard Act, and consent to arbitration of blind vendors' grievances, do the states … |
| 18-835 |
Mario R. Lozano v. Superior Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk County, et al. |
First Circuit |
2019-01-03 |
Denied |
|
11th-amendment 14th-amendment 14th-amendment-enforcement-clause 42-usc-1985-conspiracy 7th-amendment-jury-trial civil-rights congress due-process enforcement-clause fraud rooker-feldman-doctrine sovereign-immunity |
Suffolk Superior Court and Transcription Services are claiming 11th Amendment Sovereign State Immunity as though it is an absolute bar from a civil ac… |
| 18-806 |
Jodi C. Hohman, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure federal-court financial-privacy-act fourth-amendment john-doe-summons jurisdictional-discovery limited-liability-company right-to-financial-privacy-act sovereign-immunity |
The questions presented are i) whether at least some types of limited liability companies may be considered a "person" and thus a "customer" under the… |
| 18-7108 |
Timothy Gene Pryer v. Thomas Gardner, III |
Mississippi |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-limits criminal-acts due-process judicial-discretion judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct sovereign-immunity standing takings |
Does the Constitution grant judges jurisdiction to commit criminal acts by way of judicial decisions?
Does the Constitution support absolute immunity… |
| 18-683 |
Bradley Christopher Stark v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
5th-amendment burden-of-proof civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-amendment motion-to-dismiss notice-pleading sovereign-immunity |
1. Whether, on a motion to dismiss raising a defense of sovereign immunity, a plaintiff possesses a burden to do more than allege an unequivocal waive… |
| 18-681 |
Chinyere U. Nwoke v. Consulate of Nigeria |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-23 |
Denied |
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28-usc-1603 28-usc-1605 commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception diplomatic-immunity foreign-service fsia fsia-28-usc-1603 fsia-28-usc-1605(a)(2) missing-passports passport-issuance proper-service-28-usc-1608 service-of-process sovereign-immunity |
Whether the practice of Respondent, CONSULATE
OF NIGERIA, NY, that requires consulate officials
to leave the New York Consulate office to advertise
an… |
| 18-619 |
Gamada A. Hussein v. Matthew G. Whitaker, Acting Attorney General, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bodily-integrity civil-rights dna-testing due-process faith-based-discrimination false-imprisonment fourth-amendment fourth-amendment,false-imprisonment,due-process,wa sovereign-immunity surveillance warrantless-monitoring |
Whether implanting chips in Petitioner's body and monitoring the Petitioner and Petitioner's family life activities for a decade without warrant and d… |
| 18-581 |
Argentine Republic v. Petersen Energia Inversora S.A.U., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-02 |
Denied |
CVSGRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception expropriation foreign-policy foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law legal-exception sovereign-act sovereign-immunity |
Whether the "commercial activity" exception to sovereign immunity in the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1605(a)(2), is inapplicable to … |
| 18-575 |
YPF S.A. v. Petersen Energia Inversora S.A.U., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-01 |
Denied |
CVSGRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception expropriation federal-jurisdiction foreign-sovereign-immunities-act jurisdictional-challenge legal-exception sovereign-immunity |
Whether the "commercial activity" exception to sovereign immunity in the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C. 1605(a)(2), is inapplicable to su… |
| 18-571 |
James Lee Williams v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11th-amendment 14th-amendment 1964-supreme-court-decree civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-agencies fraud sovereign-immunity statute-of-limitations water-rights yuma-reclamation-project |
The Statute of Limitations protects against frivolous lawsuits. However, the Statute of Limitations was not established to conceal wrongdoings by fede… |
| 18-544 |
Teresita A. Canuto v. Department of Defense, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1604 28-usc-1605 acting-official foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity foreign-state government-liability individual-capacity individual-liability official-capacity service-of-process sovereign-immunity state-immunity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether a foreign state's immunity from suit under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1604 extends to an individual for acts taken in t… |
| 18-6420 |
Gregory P. Nesselrode v. Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amount-in-controversy due-process federal-tort-claims-act jurisdiction sovereign-immunity student-loans tucker-act |
WHETHER THE "TUCKER ACT" AND UNDER 20 § 1082(a)(2) OVERRULES THE "FEDERAL TORT CLAIMS ACT GRANTS JURISDICTION FOR PETITIONER TO SUE RESPONDENT WITHOUT… |
| 18-498 |
Maricopa County, Arizona v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-17 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process issue-preclusion law-enforcement monell-doctrine monell-liability policymaker-liability sovereign-immunity title-vi violent-crime-control-act |
In McMillian v. Monroe County, Alabama, 520 U.S. 781 (1997), this Court held that counties cannot be liable in actions brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 … |
| 18-470 |
Brandi K. Stokes v. Christopher Lance Corsbie, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights geneva-conventions international-law jurisdiction sovereign-immunity treaty-interpretation war-crimes |
Whether the United States has sovereign immunity for claims involving grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions.
Whether the United States has jurisdi… |
| 18-397 |
William G. Clowdis, Jr. v. Virginia Board of Medicine |
Virginia |
2018-09-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law double-jeopardy due-process full-faith-and-credit medical-licensing modes-of-procedure sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction ultra-vires |
1) Did the Court of Appeals of Virginia err in holding moot and failing to rule substantively on Clowdis' claim that the Virginia Board of Medicine vi… |
| 18-6089 |
Marie Therese Assa'ad-Faltas v. City of Columbia, South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2018-09-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-expenses due-process equal-protection indigent-criminal-defendant indigent-defense pro-se pro-se-defense sovereign-immunity takings |
Does South Carolina's Defense of Indigents Act, SC Code of laws 17-3-5 et seq., without rational basis, deny equal protection between criminal defenda… |
| 18-346 |
Estate of Jason Allen Smallwood v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2018-09-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction implied-contract implied-in-fact-contract jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar scheuer-v-rhodes sovereign-immunity standing statutory-interpretation tucker-act veterans-benefits |
1. In the face of Scheuer v. Rhodes, whether the trial court could have properly determined that the Estate's complaint must fail?
2. Whether 38 U.S.… |
| 18-342 |
City of Maplewood, Missouri v. Cecelia Roberts Webb, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arm-of-the-state constitutional-deprivation legal-definition mcmillian-v-monroe-county monell-liability monell-v-dept-of-soc-serv municipal-corporation-liability municipal-corporations municipal-court-divisions municipal-liability policy-custom real-party-in-interest sovereign-immunity state-entity unified-court-system |
I
Sovereign immunity bars a lawsuit to the extent the
relief sought would operate against the State, even if
the State is not a formally-named defenda… |
| 18-332 |
Kevin Singson v. Sean Reyes, Attorney General of Utah |
Utah |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure administrative-procedures civil-rights debt-collection due-process extraordinary-writ governmental-power sovereign-immunity standing state-action state-agency state-courts unfair-collection |
The Utah State Courts in this case evaluated Petitioner Kevin Singson's claim that the Utah Office of State Debt Collections collected a wage claim wh… |
| 18-5951 |
David Dwayne Cassady v. Steven D. Hall |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-damages due-process ex-contractu ex-contractu-actions garnishment indemnity indemnity-proceeds jurisdiction sovereign-immunity state-liability |
Does the United States District Court have jurisdiction under 42 USC §1983 to enforce its judgement by garnishment of indemnity proceeds of the Georgi… |
| 18-316 |
Brian Arthur Weese v. Maryland |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
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civil-procedure-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process facial-challenge federal-jurisdiction federal-rules jurisdictional-challenge material-allegations nonmoving-party personal-jurisdiction pleading-requirements sovereign-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction sufficiency-of-pleadings |
The Court lacks subject matter and personal jurisdiction for the reasons below.
The Complaint presents a detailed recitation of Plaintiffs' assertion… |
| 18-297 |
Eric White, et al. v. Barbara D. Underwood, Attorney General of New York, et al. |
New York |
2018-09-07 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
canons-of-construction federal-indian-law indian-law indian-rights indian-treaty-rights native-american-rights new-york-indians seneca-nation sovereign-immunity state-taxation statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tax-assessment treaty-interpretation tribal-sovereignty |
The decision below ruled that New York's promise to the Seneca Nation of Indians to refrain from assessing taxes "for any purpose whatever, upon any I… |
| 18-275 |
Patricia Smith, et al. v. Hillary Rodham Clinton, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2018-09-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
benghazi civil-procedure civil-rights dc-circuit defamation federal-court-procedure federal-courts government-immunity hillary-clinton motion-to-dismiss sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction substitution substitution-of-defendant westfall-act |
Did the DC Circuit err by affirming the order of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ("District Court") substituting the United State… |
| 18-5827 |
Robert Joseph King v. Robert R. Neall, Secretary, Maryland Department of Health, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
americans-with-disabilities-act appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts jurisdiction-28-usc-1292 sovereign-immunity standing state-immunity statutory-interpretation title-i |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issue an Order that conflicts with 28 U.S.C. § 1292 by denying Petitioner's appeal?
Did… |
| 18-241 |
Paminder S. Parmar, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Surinder K. Parmar, et al. v. Lisa Madigan, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. |
Illinois |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
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constitutional-challenge due-process estate-tax jurisdiction post-deprivation-remedy retroactive-application retroactivity sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation tax-refund |
This Court held in Reich v. Collins, 513 U.S. 106, 108 (1994) that "due process requires a 'clear and certain' remedy for taxes collected in violation… |
| 18-234 |
Guadalupe Chaidez Campos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights discretionary-function-exception due-process false-arrest false-imprisonment federal-tort-claims-act intentional-torts law-enforcement-proviso sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction |
The Federal Tort Claims Act's law enforcement proviso, 28 U.S.C. § 2680(h), waives the United States' sovereign immunity for "[a]ny claim" arising out… |
| 18-233 |
Indiezone, Inc., et al. v. Todd Rooke, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
28-usc-1927 act-of-state-doctrine congressional-intent due-process extraterritorial-application federal-sanctions inherent-powers rule-44.1 sanctions sovereign-immunity |
Did congress intend the court's inherent powers and U.S. 28 U.S.C. § 1927 to apply extraterritorially allowing Rule 44.1 analysis to be applied to ove… |
| 18-206 |
Craig Cunningham v. General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-16 |
Denied |
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affirmative-defense civil-procedure federal-agency-authority federal-contractor-liability federal-preemption federal-statutes government-contractor-defense jurisdictional-defense separation-of-powers sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation yearsley-defense yearsley-v-w-a-ross |
Almost 80 years ago, in Yearsley u. W. A. Ross
Const. Co., 309 U.S. 18, 21-22 (1940), under seemingly
innocuous facts, this Court created a defense to… |
| 18-205 |
Northern California Water Association, et al. v. California State Water Resources Control Board, et al. |
California |
2018-08-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
central-valley-project federal-property intergovernmental-immunity preemption property-rights sovereign-immunity state-taxation state-water-board supremacy-clause tax-assessment taxation water-contractors water-contracts water-rights |
Is a California statute imposing a direct tax on the United States' property interest in water constitutional if it is applied in a manner that passes… |
| 18-170 |
John Anthony Gentry v. Tennessee, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
attorney-misconduct constitutional-rights constitutional-rights-enforcement due-process federal-jurisdiction government-reform judicial-misconduct judicial-oversight republican-form republican-government sovereign-immunity state-reform state-sovereignty |
Whether a state's sovereign immunity is vitiated when the state government is no longer republican in character or form.
Whether a citizen of a state… |
| 18-5381 |
Aslam Handy v. Johnson & Johnson, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights discrimination due-process eeoc federal-reserve financial-crisis financial-misconduct free-speech job-discrimination sovereign-immunity whistle-blower |
Why has the Federal Reserve still not been asked to open its books to find out who exactly they have been giving backdoor help since 2001 that lead to… |
| 18-115 |
Kimothy Maurice Wynn v. Washington |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-26 |
Denied |
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civil-procedure due-process facial-challenge federal-courts federal-rules jurisdictional-challenge material-allegations personal-jurisdiction pleading-requirements pleadings sovereign-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
The Court lacks subject matter and personal jurisdiction for the reasons below.
The Complaint presents a detailed recitation of Plaintiffs' assertion… |
| 18-42 |
GlaxoSmithKline LLC v. Louisiana |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-09 |
Dismissed |
Amici (4) |
11th-amendment absent-class-member civil-procedure class-action due-process federal-court federal-courts federalism opt-out rule-23 sovereign-immunity state-sovereign-immunity |
Whether state sovereign immunity bars a federal court from binding a State to a Rule 23 class settlement as an absent class member plaintiff based on … |
| 18-19 |
Republic of Korea's Defense Acquisition Program Administration, et al. v. BAE Systems Solution & Services, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
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arms-export-control-act civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-15 contract-law foreign-military-sales foreign-sovereign-immunities-act national-security sovereign-immunity united-states-contractors |
1. Whether the court of appeals' blanket
invalidation of contracts between United States
contractors and foreign governments that relate to
contemplat… |
| 25A287 |
New Jersey Transit Corporation, et al. v. Jeffrey Colt, et al. |
New York |
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Presumed Complete |
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civil-rights employment-discrimination federal-law sovereign-immunity state-agency transit-authority |
Question not identified. |
| 24A414 |
Frederick Foster v. Joel H. Slomsky, et al. |
Third Circuit |
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Presumed Complete |
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en-banc-review federal-procedural-law legal-precedent postal-service sovereign-immunity stare-decisis |
"Whether, in accordance with the doctrine of "stare decisis", the Panel upon which review is sought is required to adhere to the binding precedents ma… |