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25-582 Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. v. Enbridge Energy, LP, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-11-17 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived ex-parte-young federal-court real-party-in-interest sovereign-immunity sovereign-lands state-officials Whether a State is the real party in interest, and therefore entitled to sovereign immunity, where a private plaintiff sues state officials in federal…
25A515 Jose Duran, Individually and as Representative of a Class of Judgment Creditors of the Estate of Ferdinand E. Marcos v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2025-11-04 Denied constitutional-claims federal-court judicial-relief preliminary-injunction state-officials status-quo Whether a federal court may issue a preliminary injunction against state officials based on a likelihood of success on constitutional claims without a…
25-491 Gillian Filyaw v. Steve Corsi, in His Official Capacity as Chief Executive Officer of the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-10-21 Denied Amici (2) due-process ex-parte-young federal-law prospective-relief sovereign-immunity state-officials When a suit alleges that state officials are depriving a plaintiff of property in violation of due process, does the suit allege an ongoing violation …
25-7 Dawn Keefer, et al. v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. Third Circuit 2025-07-02 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing constitutional-duty elections-clause federal-elections legislative-authority state-officials Whether individual legislators have Article III standing to sue state and federal executive officials for altering the manner of federal elections in …
24-1307 Jennifer Cotto, et al. v. Andrea J. Campbell, Attorney General of Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2025-06-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-tort ex-parte-young ongoing-violation property-retention state-officials Whether the unlawful retention of property by state officials constitutes a past wrong or an ongoing constitutional violation under Ex parte Young
24-1198 Association for Government Accountability, et al. v. Steve Simon, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Minnesota Secretary of State, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-05-22 Denied Response Waived drivers-privacy-act ex-parte-young federal-court injunctive-relief seminole-tribe state-officials Whether the Ex Parte Young exception for prospective injunctive relief applies in federal court actions against state officials in their official capa…
24-1147 Glenn Bowles, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-05-08 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge court-of-claims declaratory-judgment ex-parte-young standing state-officials Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously held that Petitioners lacked standing to sue under Ex parte Young when naming the Governor and …
23-1130 Uber Technologies, Inc., et al. v. California, et al. California 2024-04-18 Denied Amici (1) arbitration-agreements eeoc-v-waffle-house federal-arbitration-act individual-relief litigation-claims monetary-relief preemption state-law state-officials Does the FAA allow state officials to litigate claims for monetary relief on behalf of people who agreed to arbitrate those claims?
23-1014 Diyonne L. McGraw v. Khanh-Lien Banko, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-15 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process qualified-immunity separation-of-powers state-officials supremacy-clause Whether the Supremacy Clause and the Separation of Powers doctrine preclude the federal judiciary from relying upon the federal common law defense of …
23-748 Langston Austin, et al. v. Glynn County, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied 11th-amendment circuit-split eleventh-amendment eleventh-circuit employment-law fair-labor-standards-act individual-liability public-officials state-officials Whether state officials are subject to liability as employers in their individual capacity for violations of the FLSA
22-1171 James LeBlanc, et al. v. Jessie Crittindon, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-06-05 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment overdetention prisoner-rights qualified-immunity section-1983 state-officials supervisory-liability Do high-ranking state prison officials violate a prisoner's constitutional rights by failing to promulgate policies cajoling independent, locally-elec…
22-6951 Zachariah Marcyniuk v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied IFP capital-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-fairness judicial-misconduct peremptory-strikes procedural-default state-officials supervisory-powers Whether cause exists to excuse procedural default when state officials made misleading statements that hindered counsel's compliance with state's proc…
22-6759 In Re Charles Jordan 2023-02-10 Denied IFP brady-material civil-rights constitutional-errors counsel-silence default-rule due-process habeas-corpus plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct standing state-officials How can a petitioner raise Fundamental claims to a higher state court when he lost appeal of right on certain claims due to officials' mishandling of …
21-7926 Jonathan D. Stephen, Jr. v. Palestine Police Department, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-05-19 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation covid-19 due-process eleventh-amendment federal-jurisdiction qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing state-officials Whether the plaintiffs' claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for deprivation of their constitutional rights were improperly dismissed
20-1578 William A. Graven v. Arizona Ninth Circuit 2021-05-14 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment civil-rights criminal-acts due-process qualified-immunity respondeat-superior service-of-process sovereign-immunity state-official-immunity state-officials Whether state officials can be sued in their individual capacities for alleged criminal acts under Ex Parte Young
20-7011 Hemmingway Mukora Saisi v. Carolyn Murray, et al. Third Circuit 2021-02-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process equal-protection protection-claim self-defense stare-decisis state-criminal-procedure state-officials Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights to due process and equal protection were violated by the heightened pleading standard applied to his se…
20-6741 Peter J. McDaniels v. Kathleen Preito, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights document-request due-process evidence evidence-withholding legal-discovery spoliation state-officials summary-judgment Does spoliation shift the burden of proof in a summary judgment motion?
20-772 Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor v. Phil Murphy, Governor of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) congressional-approval ex-parte-young interstate-compact interstate-compacts preemption sovereign-immunity state-officials Whether, under the doctrine of Ex parte Young, 209 U.S. 123 (1908), an interstate compact agency may sue a state official to prevent that official fro…
20-6267 In Re Graham Schiff 2020-11-10 Denied IFP bad-faith civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-violations criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process federal-intervention post-conviction-relief state-criminal-proceedings state-officials Whether federal intervention in a state criminal proceeding is appropriate given the petitioner's showing of 'bad faith and harassment by state offici…
19-6763 Anthony D. White v. Florida Florida 2019-11-26 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process hearsay judicial-misconduct judicial-obstruction open-courts pro-se-litigation prosecutorial-misconduct standing state-officials Whether it is constitutionally lawful to deny a pro se litigant access to the courts when obstructed by state officials
19-5855 Flenoid Greer v. Michigan Michigan 2019-09-06 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence evidence-suppression government-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct public-officials standing state-officials Whether Michigan public officials failed to perform their duties and deprived petitioner of due process of law?
19-5557 Josiah English, III v. Theodore Campagnolo, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Judge of the Maricopa County Superior Court, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-jurisdiction irreparable-harm ninth-circuit standing state-officials younger-abstention Did the U.S. District Court err in invoking the Younger Abstention Doctrine and not allowing the Plaintiff to state a claim in his Civil Rights action…
18-1590 Corey Lamar Smith, et al. v. Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response Waived 8th-amendment civil-rights clearly-established-test danger due-process helling-v-mckinney incident-rate-statistics ninth-circuit plata-receiver prison-conditions qualified-immunity standing state-officials Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied the clearly established test's generality principles by analyzing the issue too specifically, whether the Ninth C…
18-9552 Patricia Gill v. Nyack College, et al. Second Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied IFP bad-faith civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process harassment in-forma-pauperis judicial-misconduct poor-person-status prosecutorial-misconduct standing state-officials Whether the prosecutions undertaken by state officials in bad faith with the intent to harass the defendant/Plaintiff and discourage her from exercisi…
18-8332 Abu-Ali Abdur'Rahman, et al. v. Tony Parker, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Corrections, et al. Tennessee 2019-03-08 Denied Amici (1)IFP cross-examination discovery due-process execution-method execution-secrecy method-of-execution prisoners-rights privileged-communications standing state-officials state-secrecy Does a state deprive condemned prisoners of due process when, to defeat a challenge to the state's method of execution, state officials rely on and th…