| 25-5578 |
Sinisa Djurdjic v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bosnian-war due-process immigration-fraud naturalization refugee-status state-actor |
Whether the Srpska Demokratska Stranka (SDS) was a state actor in the Bosnian War and whether Mr. Djurdjic's alleged omission of uniformed service con… |
| 24-1033 |
Maria Del Rosario Chico Vietti, Individually and as Parent and Next Friend of A. R. V., P. F. V., and H. S. V., minor children v. Welsh & McGough, PLLC, an Oklahoma Professional Limited Liability Corporation, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-03-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-best-interests court-appointed-role due-process guardian-ad-litem quasi-judicial-immunity state-actor |
Whether a guardian ad litem violates due process by acting outside her statutory duties and advocating for one parent over another |
| 24-1003 |
Adam Brook, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Judith Brook v. Joseph Ruotolo, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-03-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights-violation guardianship-immunity mental-hygiene-law power-of-attorney state-actor |
Whether a court-appointed guardian and attorney acting under color of state law are immune from liability under 42 USC §1983 for actions that allegedl… |
| 24-833 |
Aklilu Yohannes v. Olympic Collection Inc. (OCI), et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge due-process garnishment-statute pre-deprivation-hearing property-seizure state-actor |
Whether Washington's garnishment statute is unconstitutional for lack of pre-deprivation procedural safeguards and whether attorneys issuing garnishme… |
| 24-506 |
J. Michael White, et al. v. Lindsay Davis, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-11-04 |
Denied |
|
compensatory-damages due-process legal-authority punitive-damages reasonable-relationship state-actor |
Whether a private actor authorized by the state to collect sewer charges, acting on its own choices, constitutes a state actor, and whether a punitive… |
| 24-113 |
John J. Dierlam v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
affordable-care-act civil-rights-standing-mootness-due-process-janus-v constitutional-rights mootness religious-exemption standing state-actor |
Is it proper for an appeals court to raise the bar for standing and mootness to an unattainable level despite evidence of continuing violations and ad… |
| 24A113 |
Baboucar B. Taal v. John Cronin, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-07-31 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights due-process equal-protection ex-parte judicial-misconduct state-actor |
Whether a state court judge's alleged ex parte communications and procedural rulings violate a pro se litigant's constitutional rights to due process … |
| 24-44 |
West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission v. B. P. J., By Her Next Friend and Mother, Heather Jackson, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-16 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
brentwood-academy-v-tennessee-ssaa entwinement-test federal-funding legal-duties peltier-v-charter-day-school private-organization smith-v-ncaa state-actor state-actor-doctrine title-ix |
What are the indicia of 'state actor'? And do they include action, entwinement and controlling authority? |
| 23-7359 |
Elvert S. Briscoe, Jr. v. Annette Chambers-Smith, Director, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
confidential-informant constitutional-rights due-process prison-management retaliation rule-50 state-actor transcript |
Can a prison confidential informant be described as a state actor for retaliation |
| 23-915 |
Pleasant View Baptist Church, et al. v. Andrew Beshear |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19-restrictions free-exercise free-exercise-clause qualified-immunity state-actor |
Whether qualified immunity applies to a state actor who violates the Free Exercise Clause |
| 23-372 |
Torey Jarrett v. Service Employees International Union Local 503, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-06 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-U.S.C.-§-1983 civil-rights consent due-process public-employees public-sector-unions state-action state-actor union-dues wage-deduction wage-deductions |
Whether a state-designated exclusive representative is a state actor under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when it directs a public employer to deduct dues from non-… |
| 22-7107 |
In Re Jeffrey L. G. Johnson, et al. |
|
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ministerial-duty missouri-supreme-court res-judicata section-1983 standing state-actor |
Whether the state's highest court's denial of mandamus relief based on an unconstitutional unwritten policy violated the petitioner's civil rights |
| 22-928 |
Roger Swartz v. Board of Trustees of University of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-03-23 |
Denied |
|
academic-freedom civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances scienter state-action state-actor university-funding |
When can unrestricted state funding to a university professor make them a state actor? |
| 22-921 |
Dan Cherner v. Westchester Jewish Community Services, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-03-21 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights court-appointed court-immunity custody-proceeding due-process family-court forensic-evaluator judicial-immunity qualified-immunity state-action state-actor |
Are respondents state actors? |
| 22-724 |
San Juan County, Utah v. Rosalie Chilcoat |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-02-02 |
Denied |
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42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process monell monell-doctrine municipal-liability section-1983 state-action state-actor unconstitutional-action |
Whether a municipality may be exposed to liability under Section 1983 and Monell v. Dep't of Soc. Servs. of City of New York, 436 U.S. 658 (1978), if … |
| 22-416 |
Tuhin Kumar Biswas v. Ethan Rouen, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-11-02 |
Denied |
|
42-U.S.C.-1983 42-usc-1983 appeal appellate-review copyright-act federal-cause-of-action first-amendment plagiarism state-actor |
Is Copyright Act the only Federal Cause of Action under which Plagiarism can be adjudicated? |
| 21-1289 |
Foster Taft v. Ventura County Medical Center, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process federal-regulation hipaa hipaa-privacy privacy privacy-act private-cause-of-action private-right-of-action state-actor |
Does 42 U.S.C. §1983 confer a private cause of action for privacy violations of HIPAA, in particular 164.502(a)? |
| 21-844 |
Jim Carmack v. Mark Janny, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-07 |
Dismissed |
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civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech housing-services parole parole-conditions religious-freedom state-action state-actor summary-judgment |
Whether the employee of a private, religious nonprofit may be held liable, as a state actor, for making pro bono housing and social services at the no… |
| 21-688 |
Neris Montilla, et al. v. Federal National Mortgage Association, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-11-09 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
administrative-law conservatorship constitutional-claims due-process federal-agency federal-housing-and-finance-agency federal-national-mortgage-association mortgage-association state-actor |
Whether the Federal National Mortgage Association, when under the conservatorship of the Federal Housing and Finance Agency, is a state actor for purp… |
| 20-1773 |
Pasadena Republican Club v. Western Justice Center, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 civil-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-management state-action state-actor viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether the Western Justice Center is a state actor for purposes of the First and Fourteenth Amendments and 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1985(3) |
| 20-1303 |
Anthony Pappas v. Joseph Lorintz, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
campaign-funds civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-election judicial-review private-right-of-action standing state-actor third-party-interference |
Did the Second Circuit Court of Appeals commit serious error when it affirmed dismissal of a civil rights action challenging state actor interferences… |
| 20-381 |
Hamilton County Job and Family Services, et al. v. Joseph Siefert, et ux. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
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42-usc-1983 child-services circuit-conflict civil-rights due-process medical-care qualified-immunity state-action state-actor |
Did the Sixth Circuit err in its qualified-immunity analysis? |
| 20-353 |
J. H., By Conservator, Betty Harris v. Williamson County, Tennessee, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-16 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-warning hope-v-pelzer qualified-immunity reasonable-standard state-actor |
Is Hope v. Pelzer dead in the Court's analysis of qualified-immunity? |
| 20-198 |
Tamatrice Williams v. City of Sherwood, Arkansas |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arkansas-supreme-court civil-rights court-reorganization legal-jurisdiction municipal-courts municipal-liability rehearing section-1983 state-actor state-court state-law |
Should the opinion below be vacated, and this case remanded, for reconsideration in light of City of Little Rock v. Nelson? |
| 20-59 |
Charles R. Campbell v. Hollie Bennett, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
due-process equal-protection family-court family-rights right-to-counsel rooker-feldman self-incrimination sixth-amendment state-actor state-bar |
Right to Counsel for Defence |
| 19-8265 |
Jerry Wilson Hartley v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation damages due-process judicial-review legal-scope procedural-rights qualified-immunity standing state-actor |
Are the actions of a district court in denying a motion to dismiss a civil rights claim for damages against a state actor constitutional? |
| 19-1205 |
Anthony J. Lucero v. Paul Gordon, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-04-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment certificate-of-review civil-procedure due-process federal-review legal-malpractice rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine sham-affidavit state-actor state-actors state-court-judgments |
Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine permit this United States Supreme Court to review state trial court documents and judgments in this case within a cas… |
| 19-7829 |
Dale E. Phillips v. South Coast Plaza, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights civil-rights-discrimination class-action constitutional-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis jurisdiction pro-se-litigation standing state-actor vexatious-litigant |
Whether California's Vexatious Litigant Laws violate the 1st, 8th and 14th Amendments |
| 19-7572 |
Abel Revilla Ochoa v. Bryan Collier, Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
1st-amendment 42-U.S.C.-§-1983 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights clemency clemency-process constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review standing state-actor |
Whether a state actor can insulate unconstitutional policies and practices from judicial review |
| 19-643 |
John Hurry, et al. v. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process finra immunity law-enforcement-powers private-corporation regulatory-authority securities-industry securities-regulation state-action state-actor tort-immunity |
Whether FINRA, an ostensibly private corporation invested with vast powers to regulate the securities industry, is absolutely immune from any claims a… |
| 19-5454 |
Melinda Scott v. Andrew Carlson, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech information-disclosure online-publication privacy privacy-act standing state-action state-actor |
Are private citizens, who take over functions normally left to the state, by publishing information, on the Internet, about others from (a) courts not… |
| 19-5488 |
Loretta Jackson v. Joseph Barla, et al. |
Delaware |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment animal-rights civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment property-rights state-action state-actor |
Whether The Supreme Court of the State of Delaware deprived Loretta Jackson of her Due Process rights under the 4th and 14th Amendment of the United S… |
| 18A1353 |
Anmarie Calgaro v. St. Louis County, Minnesota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-21 |
Presumed Complete |
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constitutional-rights due-process emancipation minor-medical-treatment parental-rights state-actor |
Whether a parent's fundamental constitutional rights are violated when county and medical institutions make emancipation and medical treatment decisio… |
| 18-1392 |
John M. Barone v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-property-rights constitutional-rights due-process fannie-mae federal-jurisdiction foreclosure foreclosure-fraud nemo-dat-quod-non-habet pro-se-litigation securities securities-law standing state-actor takings takings-clause |
Whether the U.S. government's unconstitutional involvement in millions of foreclosures through FHFA and de facto state-actor Fannie Mae subjects it to… |
| 18-9039 |
Kent Vu Phan v. National Jewish Health, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
ada ada-violation civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violation disability-discrimination disability-rights due-process environmental-contamination medical-malpractice racial-discrimination standing state-actor |
Whether the petitioner's disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act was violated by suppression instead of protection |
| 18-1340 |
Bonnie R. Fowler v. Utah, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel dismissal due-process federal-question res-judicata standing state-actor supervisory-power |
Does the doctrines of res-judicata and collateral estoppel fail when the Petitioner has repeatedly disputed and proven that not any one of the necessa… |
| 18-886 |
Lillian M. Jones v. Hawaii Residency Programs, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
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14th-amendment civil-rights corporate-fraud due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud judicial-procedure private-corporation residency-program state-action state-actor technology |
Whether citizens should still be afforded protection under the 14th Amendment against state abuses committed when the State disguises itself as a priv… |
| 18-6942 |
Monserrate Zapata v. PECO Energy Company |
Third Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-regulatory-commission government-regulation pleading-standards property-rights smart-meter standing state-actor utility-regulation utility-service utility-shut-off |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment due process rights were violated when PECO issued shut-off notices to the petitioner for failing to provide access to… |
| 18-6490 |
Lyman S. Hopkins v. Language Testing International, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-u.s.c.-1983 42-usc-1983 certification civil-rights discrimination discrimination-claim due-process employment employment-discrimination employment-website equal-protection parent-organization retaliation state-actor |
Is language certification testing agency Language Testing International, Inc. (LTI) immune from discrimination and retaliation charges despite its twi… |
| 18-5977 |
Syed K. Rafi v. Yale University School of Medicine, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-restraints due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment spending-clause state-action state-actor |
If Government Requires or Induces A Private Party to Engage in Law Enforcement, All Relevant Constitutional Restraints Do Apply? |
| 18-5925 |
Dean Loren v. City of New York, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal-filing civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-procedure due-process federal-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-misconduct public-forum standing state-actor |
Whether the lower Appellate Court departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings in failing to file an appeal under FRAP Rule 4, … |