state-liability
14 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-822 | Thomas DeCola v. Indiana | Indiana | 2026-01-12 | Pending | Response Waived | bill-of-rights constitutional-claims fourteenth-amendment legal-estoppel section-1983 state-liability | Whether 42 U.S.C. § 1983 provides congressional consent for asserting individual rights acknowledged in the Bill of Rights and Fourteenth Amendment in… |
| 25A688 | Pennsylvania, et al. v. Jose Montanez, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-12-11 | Application | americans-with-disabilities-act medical-contractors prisoners-rights rehabilitation-act state-liability vicarious-liability | Whether a state can be held vicariously liable under the Americans with Disabilities Act and Rehabilitation Act for medical care violations committed … | |
| 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… | |
| 25-487 | Lynette Hathon, et al. v. Michigan | Michigan | 2025-10-20 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | fifth-amendment inverse-condemnation just-compensation property-rights state-liability takings-clause | Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment is a self-executing stand-alone claim that permits property owners to sue a State directly for just … |
| 23-7525 | Stanley Waldron v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2024-05-21 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-punishment due-process equal-protection hard-labor involuntary-servitude state-liability thirteenth-amendment | Is the State of Louisiana barred by the Thirteenth Amendment from punishing involuntary servitude at hard labor for a class of offenders without due c… |
| 22-784 | Aaron G. Filler v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | Ninth Circuit | 2023-02-21 | Denied | Response Waived | amendment-rights casualty-loss civil-rights constitutional-taking due-process patent patent-protection patent-seizure standing state-liability takings tax-deduction | Whether a State's knowing, intentional, and malicious seizure and production of goods protected by a U.S. patent creates Vth or XIVth Amendment liabil… |
| 21-8046 | Joseph Martin Danks v. California | California | 2022-06-03 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment criminal-culpability cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment inmate-rights mental-health state-liability state-responsibility | Does the Eighth Amendment preclude the execution of a seriously mentally ill inmate whose homicidal behavior was the reasonably known, foreseeable, an… |
| 21-625 | Robert Palmer v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2021-10-29 | Denied | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-remedy due-process judicial-relief remedies state-liability wrongful-conviction | Does the Constitution require South Carolina to provide a remedy for a wrongful conviction? | |
| 20-5266 | Angela Rogers, et vir v. Caddo Parish School Board | Louisiana | 2020-08-06 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection liberty-interest property-interest redress-of-grievances state-government-liability state-liability | Whether the U.S. Const. amend XIV, § 1, Due Process, Equal Protection, Liberty Interest in employment and Property Interest in employment contracts an… |
| 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 … | |
| 19-6130 | George W. Fisher v. John Gregory Mermelstein, et al | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-03 | Denied | IFP | 1st-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment disability due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection free-speech media-access medical-treatment prison prisoner-rights state-liability | Whether the denial of media treatment at a state prison violates the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of the press |
| 19-5721 | In Re Craig Melvin Schafer | 2019-08-27 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process extraordinary-writ judicial-accountability judicial-performance mandamus mandamus-writ standing state-liability takings tort-law | Is a state allowed to violate the 7th Amendment and deny civil hearings? | |
| 18-6086 | In Re Daniel Clate Acker | 2018-09-24 | Denied | IFP | 8th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-claims death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment false-evidence habeas-corpus new-evidence state-liability state-repudiation wrongful-conviction | Whether an original writ of habeas corpus is appropriate in the case of a death-sentenced individual who was convicted and sentenced to death on a the… | |
| 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… |