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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6797 Eshawn Jessica Scipio v. Finklea, Hendrick & Blake, LLC, et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-02-12 Pending IFP circuit-conflict federal-questions fraud-upon-court judicial-records state-actors Question not identified.
25-933 Daniel N. Arbeeny, as the Administrator for the Estate of Norman Arbeeny, et al. v. Andrew M. Cuomo, former Governor of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending administrative-law constitutional-rights covid-directive nursing-home-deaths qualified-immunity state-actors 1. How could the Second Circuit have reasonably concluded that the State Respondents Governor Cuomo and Ms. DeRosa, his Chief of Staff, could not have…
25-890 Arkansas United, et al. v. John Thurston, in His Official Capacity as the Secretary of State of Arkansas et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending declaratory-relief injunctive-relief preemption private-plaintiffs state-actors voting-rights-act 1. Whether private plaintiffs may maintain a suit in equity for declaratory and injunctive relief against state actors to prevent the continued enfo…
25-6617 Naquea Elaine Johnson v. New Jersey, et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-01-20 Pending IFP due-process fundamental-rights in-forma-pauperis jurisdictional-challenge section-1983 state-actors I. Whether federal courts violate due process and equal protection by denying in forma pauperis status based on gross income that includes mandatory p…
24-6656 Derek Burns v. Georgia Georgia 2025-02-26 Denied IFP attorney-client-privilege evidence-intrusion legal-communications procedural-matters sixth-amendment state-actors Does characterizing attorney client communications about bond strategy and hearing preparation as merely 'procedural scheduling matters' defeat Sixth …
23-6540 Jennifer Agnes Lopez v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-immunity state-actors statute-of-limitations Whether the State actors can deprive the individual of a fair treatment which violates the guarantees of the Fifth Fourteenth Amendment
23-634 Pollyanna Burns, et al. v. Service Employees International Union Local 284, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied Response Waived dues-deduction first-amendment janus janus-precedent opt-out public-sector public-sector-employees state-action state-actors union-dues Whether the First Amendment waiver requirement identified by the Supreme Court in Janus applies to public-sector employees at the time they sign a uni…
23-6093 George H. Finn v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2023-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction obstruction-of-court-orders obstruction-of-justice perjury standing state-actors can-a-motion-for-dismissal-be-granted-if-the-court-dismisses-the-amended-complaint
22-732 Kaeun Kim v. Michael Saccento, et al. Second Circuit 2023-02-06 Denied civil-rights due-process fabricated-evidence fabrication-of-evidence fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution standing state-actors unreasonable-arrest Does an individual's Fourth Amendment right to free-from-unreasonable-arrest-and-detention continue beyond legal-process to allow a malicious-prosecut…
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 Shall the lower Courts shield State Public Actors from Constitutional conflicts?
22-83 B&G Foods North America, Inc. v. Kim Embry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-28 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-enforcement declaratory-relief injunctive-relief legal-immunity noerr-pennington noerr-pennington-doctrine standing state-actors unconstitutional-laws Whether the Noerr-Pennington doctrine immunizes state actors
21-1522 Wayne Torcivia v. Suffolk County, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2022-06-03 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-entry qualified-immunity special-needs-exception state-actors warrant-requirement Whether a 'special-needs exception' allows warrantless entry into a home
21-6598 Glen Plourde v. Northern Light Acadia Hospital, et al. First Circuit 2021-12-15 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process procedural-dismissal standing state-actors torture-allegations Does the Fact that the Courts' Decision conflicts with Law mean that the Federal Courts have abused their discretion?
21-6545 Debra A. Nichols v. William Paul Nichols, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment ada americans-with-disabilities-act equal-protection fifth-amendment government-employees medical-privacy state-actors warrantless-search warrantless-searches Can state actors and/or government employees violate the equal protection clause of the 5th amendment of people considered disabled under the ADA?
21-794 Pamela Reilly, Personal Representative of the Estate of Rosemarie Reilly v. Ottawa County, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-rights deshaney-test deshaney-v-winnebago domestic-violence due-process fourteenth-amendment state-actors state-created-danger substantive-due-process third-party-harm Whether an abused woman has pled a substantive due process violation under the Fourteenth Amendment
21-6392 Janet Berry v. William Paul Nichols, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment bivens-claim civil-rights digital-privacy fourth-amendment medical-records search-and-seizure standing state-actors warrantless-search Where a BERT is created by the government accompanied with private entities acting as state actors under the color of law, via an invalid warrantless …
20-1294 Simon Campbell, et al. v. Pennsylvania School Boards Association, et al. Third Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) 42-u-s-c-1983 civil-rights first-amendment free-speech petitioning petitioning-immunity retaliation retaliation-claim sham-litigation state-action state-actors Are state actors entitled to petitioning immunity for a First Amendment retaliation claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983?
20-6649 El Aemer El Mujaddid v. Andrew Brewer, et al. Third Circuit 2020-12-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-process civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights damages damages-remedy due-process state-actors statute-of-limitations subpoena subpoena-abuse Does 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and 18 U.S.C. § 1595 create a damages remedy against state actors for abuse of invalid subpoena?
20-744 Michael Wigginton, Jr. v. The University of Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-11-30 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established-right due-process fifth-circuit hope-v-pelzer qualified-immunity state-actors supreme-court-precedent Whether the Fifth Circuit's grant of qualified immunity to the state actors named in the instant matter was violative of Supreme Court precedent estab…
20-6351 Johnny Tippins v. Patricia Caruso, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-law legal-compliance standing state-actors statutory-interpretation Should the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recall its mandate to prevent a miscarriage of justice because the district court did not apply…
20-5724 Justin Lamar Johnson v. Joseph Gibson, Judge, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-conspiracy civil-rights court-appointed-attorneys fraud immunity judicial-immunity res-judicata state-action state-actors Are court-appointed attorneys state actors for 42 USC 1983 claims?
20-329 Julie M. Sowell, et al. v. Tinley, Renehan & Dost, LLP, et al. Second Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-actors Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine apply to interlocutory orders that are entered in state court proceedings that end after the federal court action is …
19-1291 Charles Hamner v. Danny Burls, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied Amici (7) affirmative-defense circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-prong due-process federal-appellate-courts qualified-immunity standing state-actors sua-sponte Is qualified immunity an affirmative defense that state actors must assert, as nine circuits hold, or may federal appellate courts raise the defense s…
19-1205 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…
19-7015 In Re Michael F. Harris 2019-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-justice-system due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial judicial-misconduct malicious-prosecution presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-jury state-actors witness-tampering Whether malicious and vindictive prosecution threatens the criminal justice system
19-408 Garey R. Nehrke v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Florida 2019-09-26 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights federal-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction-banking foreclosure-fraud gse-state-actors gses mortgage-securitization national-bank-act national-banks securities-law state-actors state-preemption takings-clause whistleblower-retaliation Whether Wells Fargo and others under National Bank Act, 12 U.S.C. 1 et seq. exclusive federal regulation and pre-emption, along with restrictions on s…
18-9334 In Re Phillip S. Grigalanz 2019-05-17 Denied IFP access-to-courts access-to-process appellate-process civil-rights due-process prisoner-rights state-action state-actors unlawful-interference writ-of-certiorari Do State actors possess an inherent responsibility to protect a prisoner's right of access to process against unlawful interference?
18-7486 Frank Monte v. Cyrus R. Vance, et al. Second Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-challenge criminal-charges due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct standing state-actors Constitutionality-of-the-entire-docket-vanishing-from-the-public-records
18-6966 Tina L. Wagoner v. New York New York 2018-12-07 Denied IFP abuse-of-power civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-tampering judicial-misconduct pauperis-exclusion standing state-action state-actor-immunity state-actors Whether the pauperis public can find justice and relief from oppression when they do not have the Courts or the Constitution to protect them from corr…
18-259 City of East Cleveland, Ohio, et al. v. Derrick Wheatt, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-08-30 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-deadline due-process indemnification motion-to-amend qualified-immunity settlement-agreement standing state-actors wrongful-conviction Whether the Court abused its discretion in denying Petitioner City Defendants Qualified Immunity defense
18-5613 Ladina Sykes v. Illinois Illinois 2018-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law custody fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct private-individual search-and-seizure state-action state-actors Whether on-duty police officers are state actors for Fourth Amendment purposes when they assist a private individual in searching a suspect in police …
18-76 Tracey E. George, et al. v. Tre Hargett, Tennessee Secretary of State, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-07-16 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 declaratory-judgment due-process equal-protection federal-action section-1983 state-actors Whether state actor defendants may defend and foreclose a federal action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by suing civil-rights plaintiffs in a subseque…