state-created-danger

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-427 Walid Abdelaziz, in His Individual Capacity as a Police Officer for the City of Oakland, California, et al. v. Estate of Decedent Lolomania Soakai, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-10-08 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) due-process fourteenth-amendment police-liability qualified-immunity state-created-danger substantive-due-process 1. Whether bystanders injured when a fleeing criminal suspect lost control of his car and crashed into them have a Fourteenth Amendment substantive du…
24-1050 Estate of Te’Juan Johnson v. Amanda Rakes, Administrator of the Estate of Amylyn Slaymaker and Next Friend to the Minor Children G. C. and M. C. Seventh Circuit 2025-04-04 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment police-duty qualified-immunity state-created-danger Whether a theory of liability under the Fourteenth Amendment based on 'state-created danger' is incompatible with the purpose of the Due Process Claus…
24-6 Stacy Williams, on Behalf of Her Minor Grandson, J. J. v. Andrew Williams, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-07-08 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights deshaney-v-winnebago due-process federal-circuit-split fifth-circuit judicial-interpretation legal-doctrine standing state-created-danger Whether the Court should end the Fifth Circuit's decades-long refusal to rule on the viability of the state-created danger doctrine by recognizing the…
23A1046 Desiree Martinez v. Channon High Ninth Circuit 2024-05-23 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights domestic-violence due-process precedent-interpretation qualified-immunity state-created-danger Whether a government official can be denied qualified immunity when prior circuit court precedent suggests a constitutional violation, even if the fac…
23-777 Herbert O. Chadbourne, Jr. v. Cumberland County District Court First Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied Response Waived attorney-general civil-procedure default-judgment due-process equal-protection federal-rules honest-services-fraud judicial-procedure standing state-created-danger Whether the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit erred in refusing to enter a default judgment against the respondents when the Maine Attorney Ge…
23-521 Denise Fisher v. Jodi M. Moore, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-11-16 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment qualified-immunity state-action state-created-danger Whether the Due Process Clause prohibits state officials from knowingly placing a person at unjustifiably high risk of harm
23-270 County of Tulare, California, et al. v. Jose Murguia, Individually and on Behalf of the Estates of Mason and Maddox Murguia, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied Amici (3) deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment private-violence shocks-the-conscience state-action state-created-danger substantive-due-process Whether a State's failure to protect an individual who is not in state custody from violence by a private person constitutes a violation of the Due Pr…
21-1606 Chase Yarbrough v. Santa Fe Independent School District, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-duty due-process nonstate-actor state-created-danger Whether this Court should resolve a Circuit split on the 'state-created danger' theory of a constitutional duty to protect citizens from a nonstate ac…
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
20-1392 Jason Fowler, et al. v. Brittany Irish, et al. First Circuit 2021-04-05 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (3) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-duty due-process law-enforcement qualified-immunity state-created-danger Did the First Circuit err in denying qualified immunity to Petitioners?
20-6555 Solomon Manamela v. Warden, Fort Dix FCI Third Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-uscs-1347 18-uscs-24(b) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process health-care-fraud jurisdiction pennsylvania-public-welfare-code standing state-created-danger statutory-interpretation Whether affirmative evidence exists to establish Congress' intention under 18 USCS §24(b) to find City of non-medical family support service provider …
20-634 Felicia Robinson v. Webster County, Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-claim constitutional-violation due-process government-liability private-actor-injury section-1983 standing state-created-danger Whether a person injured by a private actor can state a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against a state or local government actor who created the danger …
20-320 Jane Doe, et vir, Individually and as the Natural Parents and Next of Kin of Minor Doe v. Jackson Local School District Board of Education, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-duty deliberate-indifference deshaney-exception due-process state-created-danger supreme-court-review Whether DeShaney v. Winnebago Cty. Dep't of Soc. Servs. created the exception of the State Created Danger Test?
20-5101 Timothy Visage v. R. E. Woodall, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment arbitrary-action arbitrary-and-abusive-conduct civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process fourteenth-amendment government-liability government-policy state-created-danger state-custody Whether the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment imposes upon the State an affirmative duty of care and protection to connected persons in S…
19-8017 Maria Mercedes Cancino, et al. v. Cameron County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-circuit civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process legal-error state-created-danger Whether the District Court and the 5th Circuit erred, as a matter of law, in failing to find that Appellants have a constitutional right to be free fr…
19-998 Vickie Cook, Individually and as Natural Mother to Deanna Cook, et al. v. Tonyita Hopkins, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied Response Waived civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment state-created-danger summary-judgment Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly applied a 'deemed credible' approach to viewing a movant's credibility and arbitrarily excluded admissions of dis…
19-826 The Estate of Swannie Her, et al. v. Craig Hoeppner, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-rights culpable-intent due-process fourteenth-amendment intent liability life-liberty-property reasonable-protection state-created-danger Whether the state-created danger doctrine provides a due process claim
19-800 Carlin Robinson, Individually, as Guardian and Next Friend of I. Y., M. Y., and A. Y., and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Veronica Williams, Deceased, et al. v. Daniel A. Lioi, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-12-23 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights deshhaney due-process fourth-amendment police-liability qualified-immunity state-created-danger Which of the widely divergent approaches amongst the circuit courts of appeal, if any, appropriately applies the doctrine arising from this Court's pr…
19-656 William Anderson v. City of Minneapolis, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-11-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emergency-responders first-responders hypothermia hypothermia-treatment qualified-immunity state-created-danger Whether the burden of persuasion in qualified immunity cases should be on the plaintiff or the defendant
19-529 Robert Sanchez Turner v. Al Thomas, Jr., et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response Waived actual-knowledge-of-danger affirmative-act civil-rights constitutional-rights cut-off-all-avenues-of-recourse due-process law-enforcement public-safety qualified-immunity racial-violence shock-the-conscience specific-individual-or-public state-created-danger What analytical framework applies to the state-created danger doctrine?
18-825 Peggy Shumpert, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Antwun Shumpert, Sr., et al. v. City of Tupelo, Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-01-02 Denied Response Waived canine-force civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-force due-process federal-appeals-conflict police-misconduct qualified-immunity state-created-danger use-of-force whether-the-court-of-appeals-erred-in-concluding-t whether-the-court-of-appeals-erred-in-finding-that Whether the state-created danger doctrine is clearly established law
18-6427 Jesus Valle v. Rusty Rogers, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-24 Denied IFP administrative-segregation circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process prisoner-assault prisoner-rights standing state-created-danger Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision denying relief represents a split in the Circuit Courts
18-67 James Thomas Hurst, II v. James Caldwell, et al. Kentucky 2018-07-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-act deshaney deshaney-doctrine due-process government-liability police-misconduct section-1983 special-relationship special-relationship-rule state-actor-liability state-created-danger Does the special relationship rule articulated by this Court in DeShaney apply to shield a state actor from liability under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when the …