| 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 … |