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25A810 Elizabeth Mirabelli, et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-13 Application Amici (9) california-education free-exercise opt-out-policies parental-rights religious-liberty substantive-due-process Whether the Free Exercise Clause and Substantive Due Process protect parents' rights to opt out of state-mandated educational policies that conflict w…
25-6457 Elijah Behringer v. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-31 Pending Response WaivedIFP covid-mandates jacobson-precedent jury-trial rational-basis-review sixth-amendment substantive-due-process Whether the Supreme Court's Jacobson v. Massachusetts precedent allows automatic dismissal of COVID-19 mandate lawsuits without jury trial, and whethe…
25-6028 Elizabeth Mora Leyva v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-conspirator criminal-law fifth-amendment firearm-enhancement sentencing-guidelines substantive-due-process Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment by adding an enhancement …
25A431 Health Freedom Defense Fund, Inc., a Wyoming Not-for-Profit Corporation, et al. v. Alberto Carvalho, in His Official Capacity as Superintendent of the Los Angeles United School District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-10-15 Presumed Complete bodily-autonomy covid-19 fundamental-rights medical-treatment substantive-due-process vaccine-mandate Whether the Substantive Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments permits a government entity to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for emp…
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 Whether bystanders injured when a fleeing criminal suspect lost control of his car and crashed into them have a Fourteenth Amendment substantive due p…
24-1043 Edward Plummer, Jr. v. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, et al. California 2025-04-01 Denied court-notification judicial-system leave-to-amend litigant-rights pro-se substantive-due-process Does our judicial system deny pro se litigants substantive due process when the courts are remise in ensuring that such litigants are timely and prope…
24-846 Marc M. Susselman v. Washtenaw County Sheriff's Office, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-02-07 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process first-amendment probable-cause rule-12b6 substantive-due-process Whether the Sixth Circuit violated Petitioner's due process rights by improperly dismissing a lawsuit under Rule 12(b)(6) and charging him with a misd…
24A693 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 2025-01-15 Presumed Complete deadline-extension petition-extension qualified-immunity substantive-due-process supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari in a case involving substantive due process an…
24-521 Bethany Farber v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-07 Denied Response Waived fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment section-1983 substantive-due-process unreasonable-seizures wrongful-detention Whether the right against wrongful detention falls under the Fourth Amendment's proscription against unreasonable seizures or the Fourteenth Amendment…
24-5454 Jesse Alaniz Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal felony-classification fifth-amendment sentencing-enhancement substantive-due-process texas-robbery Whether the Court of Appeals and District Court erred in construing a 1987 Texas robbery conviction as a felony for Armed Career sentencing, violating…
24-5244 Justin G. Reedy v. California Department of Social Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-hearing due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment goldberg-v-kelly mathews-v-eldridge public-benefits state-regulation substantive-due-process title-ix Whether the principles of due process prohibit the Ninth Circuit Court's consideration of a new argument raised by the State Defendants' on appeal tha…
24-5090 Gerald Wayne Timms v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Fourth Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-4248 attorney-general civil-commitment due-process fifth-amendment necessary-and-proper-clause procedural-due-process procedural-rights substantive-due-process Whether 18 U.S.C. § 4248, consistent with both substantive and procedural due process, can be read to permit a civil commitment order to remain in eff…
23-1199 Joanne Moskovic v. City of New Buffalo, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process michigan-zoning-enabling-act property-rights regulatory-taking regulatory-takings short-term-rental substantive-due-process zoning zoning-ordinance Whether the Appellate Court erred in finding that Petitioner's use of her home as a short-term rental is not a residential use
23-956 Roy Bracken, et al. v. City of Ketchum, Idaho, et al. Idaho 2024-03-04 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights conditional-use-permit discretionary-process due-process procedural-due-process property-rights substantive-due-process Whether All Rights To Due Process Required By Federal, State, And Municipal Law May Be Denied Because One Lacks Entitlement To A Government Benefit So…
23-6739 John Richard Brinson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment child-pornography criminal-history criminal-sentencing due-process life-without-parole rehabilitation sentencing-reasonableness substantive-due-process substantive-reasonableness Whether a life without parole sentence for a 24 year old with no prior criminal record for producing child pornography is substantively unreasonable?
23-738 Leasa Marie Wright v. City of Ponca City, Oklahoma, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-01-09 Denied civil-rights civil-rights-violation discovery due-process emergency-medical-care medical-negligence municipal-liability qualified-immunity spinal-cord-injury substantive-due-process Is it a violation of substantive due process for state medical personnel to actively and affirmatively inflict injury on a patient?
23-722 Ralph Diaz, et al. v. Patricia Polanco, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-04 Denied Response Waived 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation covid-19 due-process ninth-circuit prison-conditions qualified-immunity substantive-due-process Whether the Ninth Circuit improperly denied qualified-immunity to prison-officials in these cases by defining the relevant-law at a high-level-of-gene…
23-707 Yossi Govrin, et al. v. City of Santa Monica, California, et al. California 2023-12-29 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling estoppel government-taking property-rights standing substantive-due-process takings Whether a party with close ties to the government should be allowed to proceed with litigating its claims based on equitable tolling and/or estoppel g…
23-6345 Jeffrey M. Spring, Sr. v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence procedural-due-process sixth-amendment substantive-due-process Is it a violation of substantive and procedural due process to deny the defendant an evidentiary hearing to develop newly discovered evidence?
23-6318 William Joseph Daniel v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP consenting-adults constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection glucksberg-test privileges-or-immunities substantive-due-process Should the choice of a woman and a man to pursue a relationship that could lead to marriage, children, and family be a constitutionally protected righ…
23-6215 D. E. v. Russell County Department of Human Resources Alabama 2023-12-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP biological-parent child-custody clear-and-convincing-evidence dependency-proceedings due-process ore-tenus-rule parental-rights substantive-due-process Whether the State violates the Due Process Clause when it assumes initial custody of a child from an involved biological parent utilizing dependency p…
23-5737 Roger Wilson v. Department of Justice, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-10-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights dobbs-precedent due-process equal-protection fundamental-rights history-and-tradition obergefell-v-hodges originalist-interpretation same-sex-marriage substantive-due-process unenumerated-rights Does the Supreme Court's ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson apply to same-sex marriage rights?
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…
23-5588 Roger A. Libby v. Robert Legran, Warden, et al. Nevada 2023-09-14 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-cases criminal-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application state-law substantive-due-process substantive-rule Whether the due process and equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment render Nevada state laws unconstitutional
23-212 Amos N. Jones v. Catholic University of America District of Columbia 2023-09-07 Denied civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection procedural-due-process procedural-fairness stare-decisis substantive-due-process tortious-interference Did the District of Columbia Court of Appeals err in its failure to apply its very own intervening and controlling authority
23-159 Antonio Perez v. City of Miami, Code Enforcement Board Florida 2023-08-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-law appellate-review brady-standard civil-enforcement civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidentiary-standards judicial-disqualification judicial-review standing substantive-due-process Whether the 'appellate review model' is contrary to evidentiary standard protections
22-7770 Victor Jordan v. Josue Pierre, et al. Second Circuit 2023-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP district-election-workers due-process election-day-workers election-inspector election-inspectors election-law incumbent-candidate poll-site-coordinator scanner-monitors substantive-due-process Does NY Election Law §§ 3-226(3) and 3-404(2),(3) violate the a candidate's right to substantive due process
22-7624 Gregory P. Smith v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-05-24 Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment judge judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct penal-statute prosecuting-attorney sexual-relationship substantive-due-process When was Mr. Smith's substantive due process right(s) or XIV Amendment violated?
22-1004 Kurt Garrison v. City of Ottawa, Kansas, et al. Kansas 2023-04-14 Denied constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-bias prejudice procedural-due-process professional-engineering right-to-trial-by-jury standard-of-review substantive-due-process Whether substantive due process was denied
22-7231 James Sonny Alaniz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment gall-standard gall-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-due-process upward-departure Whether the Court of Appeals holding that a sentencing court is not required to use the incremental steps in Section 4A1 -3(a)(4)(B) in an upward depa…
22-6899 Rosalyn McDonald-Henry v. Dale S. Brink, et al. Illinois 2023-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process experimental-procedure informed-consent medical-ethics medical-procedures medical-teaching newman-v-spellberg patient-rights standing substantive-due-process teaching-subject Whether the substantive Due Process Clause subsumes a constitutionally protected right to refuse experimental medical procedures
22-6831 Will Lee Carter v. Virginia Virginia 2023-02-22 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-religion self-incrimination sexually-violent-predator substantive-due-process Is Virginia's Sexually Violent Predator Law Unconstitutional?
22-6787 Mike Webb v. City of Falls Church, Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-02-15 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-claim equal-protection in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion procedural-due-process standing standing-doctrine substantive-due-process Whether denial of in forma pauperis application violates due-process, equal-protection, or privileges-of-citizens
22-6326 Mark A. White v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation due-process illegal-detention judicial-error mcmillan-v-pennsylvania sentencing-factors sixth-amendment substantive-due-process Whether the Justices of the 1986 Supreme Court violated the substantive due process rights, protection and guarantees of the petitioner and American c…
22-6230 Derrick A. Edwards v. K. King, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights compelling-interest constitutional-rights criminal-conviction evidence-challenge free-exercise judicial-review least-restrictive-means procedural-limitations RLUIPA substantial-burden substantive-due-process Whether RLUIPA requires the respondent to show that it lacks other means of achieving its desired goal without imposing a substantial burden on the pe…
22-461 Scott Troogstad, et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied Response Waived civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-mandate due-process employment employment-condition first-amendment religious-exemption substantive-due-process vaccination-mandate vaccine-policy Whether the City of Chicago violated substantive due process in requiring employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of their employme…
22-5797 Marie C. Russo v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. as Trustee on Behalf of the Holders of the Harborview Mortgage Loan Trust Mortgage Loan Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-12 New Mexico 2022-10-07 Denied IFP due-process fair-adversarial-process jurisdiction stare-decisis constitutional-rights due-process foreclosure judicial-jurisdiction stare-decisis substantive-due-process Whether the Judiciary of the State of New Mexico violated my right of substantive due-process
22-232 Shane Place and Misty Blackwell, as Personal Representatives of the Estate of Angel Place v. Joyce Anderson, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction deliberate-indifference due-process foster-care substantive-due-process summary-judgment Did the court of appeals in its de novo review of summary judgment abuse its appellate jurisdiction and deny petitioners due process by refusing to ad…
22-42 Dipendra Tiwari, et al. v. Eric Friedlander, Secretary, Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-07-14 Denied Amici (7) civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process economic-liberty fourteenth-amendment individual-liberty meaningful-review occupation-rights occupational-licensing rational-basis-review substantive-due-process Does the Fourteenth Amendment require meaningful review of restrictions on the right to engage in a common occupation?
21-8246 Richard D. Bostwick v. 44 Chestnut Street, Wakefield, Massachusetts, et al. Massachusetts 2022-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-immunity reasonable-accommodation regulatory-taking standing substantive-due-process Whether the Remedies, Procedures and Rights set forth in the Americans with Disabilities Act are unconstitutional
21-7843 Tina Marie Bradford v. Los Angeles County Office of Education, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-05-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure due-process intermediate-scrutiny motion-practice motion-to-dismiss oral-argument procedural-due-process standing substantive-due-process trial-by-jury Whether Due Process Clause entitlement to trial by jury, oral argument and hearing were denied by overuse of Motion Practice to Dismiss
21-7184 Richard Langley v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fundamental-rights healthcare-rights medical-benefits medical-marijuana medication-alternatives right-to-life substantive-due-process Whether there is a fundamental right to use medical marijuana when it provides life-altering medical benefits that other medications cannot reasonably…
21-854 Rachel Maniscalco, et al. v. New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2021-12-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights covid-19-mandate due-process employment employment-rights executive-order government-action professional-restriction public-health public-sector substantive-due-process vaccination Does the Executive Order violate the substantive due process rights of New York City public-school teachers whose sole employer is the DOE by preventi…
21-6479 Earnest Lee Langston v. Don Phillips, Chairman, Missouri Board of Probation and Parole Missouri 2021-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP board-of-probation declaratory-judgment due-process fraud hearing judicial-review missouri-statute parole parole-eligibility procedural-fairness state-statute substantive-due-process Whether the Missouri Board of Probation and Parole violated petitioner's substantive due process rights
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
21-342 Hong Tang v. RuthAnne Visnauskas, Commissioner, New York Division of Housing and Community Renewal, et al. Second Circuit 2021-09-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 appellate-preservation bolling-v-sharpe due-process equal-protection liberty-interest motion-for-reconsideration pro-se-litigation section-1983 substantive-due-process Whether a liberty interest claim was properly preserved for appeal
21-283 In Re Roland N. Patterson 2021-08-27 Denied Response Waived attorney-discipline bar-admission civil-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process reinstatement separation-of-powers substantive-due-process Whether Petitioner suffered the violation of his Constitutional Rights to Procedural Due Process
20-1785 Ronald W. Ogle, et al. v. Sevier County Regional Planning Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied Response Waived arbitrary-and-capricious board-of-regents-v-roth due-process entitlement-test fourteenth-amendment land-development property-interest regional-planning substantive-due-process Whether initial approval in a land development scheme creates a legitimate claim of entitlement for the purpose of establishing a property interest th…
20-8239 Jeffrey S. Whitaker v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract contract-law due-process fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence plea-agreement statute-of-limitations substantive-due-process When the opposing party breaches the terms of the plea agreement under the law of contracts, does the one-year statute of limitations begin to run whe…
20-8130 Jasma McCullough v. Shaylonda Herron, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied IFP 14th-amendment child-abuse child-abuse-investigation due-process medical-diagnosis procedural-due-process procedural-rights substantive-due-process substantive-rights Whether a child abuse investigator can give a medical diagnosis/opinion to the court without a Doctors opinion to remove a child
20-8011 Troy Webb v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-922(g)(1) 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-statute discarding-firearm due-process fifth-amendment firearm-possession statutory-interpretation substantive-due-process Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to a substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment by the lower court's co…
20-7905 Christopher K. Skagen v. Oregon State Bar Oregon 2021-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP client-privacy constitutional-rights due-process evidence-standard evidentiary-standard lawyer-discipline procedural-due-process substantive-due-process Question not identified
20-7642 Daniel Fetzer v. Shevaun Harris, Secretary, Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-commitment civil-rights due-process kansas-v-hendricks liberty liberty-interest mental-abnormality mental-health sexual-violence substantive-due-process Can the State of Florida and federal courts in Florida, including the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, deprive Mr. Fetzer of his substantive constitutio…
20-7525 Masao Kikuchi v. Catherine S. Bauman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review parole parole-challenge standing substantive-due-process Does substantive due process protect inmates in parole process?
20-1286 Sacramento County, California v. Joseph Hardesty, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) chosen-profession due-process executive-action executive-decisions land-use land-use-regulation legislative-decisions municipal-decision-making occupational-liberty substantive-due-process zoning-ordinance Whether executive land-use decisions may be challenged via substantive due process
20-1276 Stephen B. McKinney v. Felicia Harkness Dean, Guardian and Conservator for and on Behalf of Janel Harkness, an Incapacitated Adult Fourth Circuit 2021-03-15 Denied circuit-court-of-appeals clearly-established-law deliberate-indifference due-process intent-to-harm parratt-hudson parratt-hudson-doctrine qualified-immunity substantive-due-process Did the Circuit Court of Appeals err in failing to apply the Parratt-Hudson doctrine to the Respondent's substantive due process claim?
20-1248 Kyle Kinzy, et ux. v. First Tennessee Bank, N.A. Illinois 2021-03-09 Denied arbitrary-and-capricious due-process electronic-filing filing-requirements state-official substantive-due-process Whether a state official arbitrarily and capriciously violates substantive due process by rejecting a timely electronic filing
20-6997 Joe D. Bryan v. Texas Texas 2021-01-29 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-punishment due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review substantive-due-process Does the criminal punishment of an innocent person violate the Substantive Due Process Clause of the Constitution?
20-821 Mountainlands Conservancy, LLC, et al. v. California Coastal Commission, et al. California 2020-12-17 Denied Response Waived coastal-regulation due-process fourteenth-amendment land-use procedural-due-process property-rights substantive-due-process takings zoning zoning-law When the California Coastal Commission's certification of the County of Los Angeles' local coastal program imposed a complete ban on the establishment…
20-6189 Francisco Javier Nunez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment base-offense-level constructive-possession due-process fifth-amendment firearm firearm-enhancement scienter sentencing-enhancement substantive-due-process Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment in this constructive poss…
20-6150 Andres Keyon Roman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment collective-knowledge due-process fourth-amendment narcotics reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure substantive-due-process vehicle-search warrantless-search Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to substantive due process under the Fourth Amendment in this narcotics case b…
20-6064 Alan Justin Smith v. Washington Washington 2020-10-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights custodial-rights due-process evidence-procedure family-law hague-convention parental-rights substantive-due-process wrongful-removal Whether the incommunicado detention of natural custodial children
20-5895 Michael Carlton Lowe, Sr. v. Minnesota Minnesota 2020-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-procedures civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct liberty-interest separation-of-powers standing substantive-due-process Did the lower courts infringe on relator's fundamental right of substantive due process
20-5374 In Re Amro Elansari 2020-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP cannabis-prohibition class-of-one constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection judicial-review mandamus-writ medicinal-value substantive-due-process Does the failure of the Third Circuit and other courts to consider the Plaintiff's substantive due process claims applied to the prohibition of cannab…
19-8519 James E. Myers v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-05-21 Denied IFP civil-rights confrontation-clause dna-testing due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus substantive-due-process writ-of-certiorari Whether Procedual Due Process, Substantive Due Process, Equal Protection, and Confrontational Clause have been violated
19-1136 Chong Yim, et al. v. City of Seattle, Washington Washington 2020-03-17 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived civil-rights due-process first-in-time fourteenth-amendment landlord-tenant legislative-act property-rights regulatory-taking regulatory-takings substantive-due-process takings tenant-selection undue-oppression Whether the destruction of a fundamental attribute of property ownership constitutes a taking without the need to prove diminished value or interferen…
19-7963 Yehowshua Yisrael v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2020-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process florida-constitution jurisdiction manifest-injustice miscarriage-of-justice procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct substantive-due-process Did the trial Court and State of Florida Prosecutor invoked a miscarriage of Justice and manifest Injustice
19-7733 Gustavo Diaz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-dismissal civil-procedure constitutional-rights dismissal district-court-procedure due-process fifth-amendment pre-sentencing-waiver sentencing substantive-due-process waiver Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to a substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment by the United States Co…
19-1036 Teresa Ann Waters v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment adam-walsh-act civil-liberties due-process equal-protection federal-funding sex-offender-registration substantive-due-process tier-classification tier-iii-sex-offender Whether Ms. Waters is a Tier III sex offender according to 18 U.S.C. § 2241(c)
19-7229 Asata D. Lowe v. Mike Parris, et al. Tennessee 2020-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process procedural-due-process property-interest state-action state-court-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction substantive-due-process Does the Petitioner have a property interest in Rule 13 and 36 of the Tennessee Rules of Appellate Procedure and the Right to relief secured by the 14…
19-837 Jerome Kunkel, et al. v. Northern Kentucky Independent Health District, et al. Kentucky 2020-01-02 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech religious-freedom retaliation substantive-due-process Does a Health Department and its employees violate the United States Constitution when they disparately treat and target private Catholic Elementary a…
19-6975 Jason Lee Bennett v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2251 constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation substantive-due-process Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to a substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment by the lower court's co…
19-6892 John R. Van Orden v. Mark Stringer, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split civil-commitment due-process fundamental-rights liberty-interest mental-health-confinement sexually-violent-predator shocks-the-conscience substantive-due-process What is the proper analysis to review a substantive due process claim? Is it the conjunctive or disjunctive analysis?
19-640 Andrew Clarke, et al. v. Ray D. Goodson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-18 Denied 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation legal-theory standing substantive-due-process Does substantive due process really mean anything, or is it mere mythology? Does equal protection of the law apply to everyone, or not?
19-553 Moussa Diarra v. City of New York, New York Second Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process judicial-bias monell-claim monell-liability police-procedure probable-cause substantive-due-process summary-judgment Is the Second Circuit's refusal to apply the 'totality of circumstances' test for probable cause in a Monell suit constitutional?
19-6361 Gregory Alan McKown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights commitment competency-evaluation criminal-procedure due-process involuntary-commitment liberty liberty-interest mathews-factors mathews-v-eldridge mental-health procedural-safeguards substantive-due-process Does mandatory, involuntary commitment of an incompetent defendant to the Bureau of Prisons for the sole purpose of evaluating whether he can attain c…
19-420 Alfred Risien Hamman v. University of Central Florida Board of Trustees Florida 2019-09-30 Denied Response Waived carey-v-piphus civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-guarantees dual-enrollment due-process educational-rights extraordinary-cause extraordinary-process institutional-responsibility procedural-compliance procedural-due-process standing substantive-due-process whistleblower whistleblower-protection May we be denied procedural due process, including extraordinary process, guaranteed through the Constitution?
19-421 In Re William Henry Hamman 2019-09-30 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights-education dual-enrollment due-process education equal-protection florida-statute home-education procedural-due-process statutory-interpretation substantive-due-process Does the 14th amendment's guarantee of equal protection extend to Florida's children here, or may the executive willfully break the black letter of la…
19-5942 Wade Lay v. Oklahoma Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-09-13 Denied IFP administrative-due-process brown-vs-board civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-principles due-process federal-intervention federalism judicial-review standing state-governance substantive-due-process takings Whether substantive due process as a legal doctrine has been so altered over time that it has distorted the principles of our political system, underm…
19-328 David Brennan v. White County, Arkansas Arkansas 2019-09-10 Denied Response Waived alcohol-regulation civil-rights due-process governmental-purpose highway-system local-option-law private-clubs rational-basis-review social-science-evidence substantive-due-process Is Arkansas' local option law rationally related to controlling alcohol's ill effects?
19-5877 Damion D. Faulkner v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion proportionality proportionality-review sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness sex-offense sex-offenses substantive-due-process is-it-substantively-unreasonable-to-impose-an-effective-sentence-of-life
19-5713 Larael Owens v. Tamesha Saddlers, et al. Florida 2019-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law court-hearing due-process due-process' 'If a judge has a financial interest false-information financial-affidavit financial-interest fraud hearing judicial-bias judicial-ethics' 'Has the petitioner due process r lower-court lower-court' 'If a financial affidavit has false i procedural-due-process procedural-fairness recusal standing substantive-due-process void-judgment Is a judgment that was issued from a lower court void if the lower court did not offer a hearing for that matter?
19-205 City of Flint, Michigan, et al. v. Shari Guertin, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied 11th-amendment bodily-integrity civil-rights conscience-shocking due-process eleventh-amendment environmental-toxin governmental-policy standing state-immunity substantive-due-process Whether the substantive due process right to bodily integrity should be extended to protect the public at large from exposure to an environmental toxi…
19-206 In Re Melba L. Ford 2019-08-16 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts appellate-relief appellate-review appointment-of-counsel court-access due-process en-banc-circuit fraud judicial-procedure meaningful-access-to-courts separation-of-powers substantive-due-process unrepresented-litigants unsigned-orders When Circuits issue unsigned orders denying appellate relief to unrepresented litigants, which orders address no issue raised and provide no explanati…
19-5510 Maurice Patrick Fortune, III v. Virginia Fourth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony-prosecution grand-jury indictment magistrate-warrant sentencing substantive-due-process Whether a fatico hearing or sentencing hearing can substitute for the qualifications of a formal trial
18-9759 Juan Rodriguez v. Illinois Illinois 2019-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP cognitive-defects due-process fundamental-rights kennedy-v-mendoza-martinez punishment-analysis rational-basis rational-basis-review sex-offender-registration strict-scrutiny substantive-due-process unfit-defendant Does Illinois's SORA scheme constitute punishment that impinges the fundamental right of unfit defendants to be free from trial or sentencing, thus fa…
18A1308 Liane Shekter-Smith, et al. v. Shari Guertin, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-06-13 Presumed Complete bodily-integrity constitutional-rights drinking-water qualified-immunity state-regulators substantive-due-process Whether state regulators can be held liable under substantive due process for failing to protect citizens from foreseeable risks of harm in public dri…
18-1465 County of San Diego, California v. Mark Mann, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied child-welfare due-process fourth-amendment medical-examination municipal-liability parental-consent parental-notice parental-rights shocks-the-conscience special-needs special-needs-doctrine substantive-due-process Does a parent have a substantive due process right to notice and consent before a child's medical examination in protective custody?
18-9167 Michael J. Pendleton v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset Pennsylvania 2019-05-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights contract-clause conviction-resentencing criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process ex-post-facto non-existent-crime state-federal-government state-legislation state-legislature substantive-due-process Whether the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania violated the petitioner's substantive due process rights by convicting and resentencing him for a non-existen…
18-1358 Douglas Echols v. Spencer Lawton Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-violation due-process first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation libel-per-se presumption-of-innocence qualified-immunity retaliation substantive-due-process Whether a prosecutor's use of libel per se to retaliate against a wrongfully convicted person seeking compensation through legislative means violates …
18-8947 Michael-Francis Palma v. Harris County Appraisal Review Board Texas 2019-04-23 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-amendment due-process judicial-review procedural-due-process property-rights state-judiciary statutory-interpretation substantive-due-process Are the following Due Process violations?
18-1145 Minerva Dairy, Inc., et al. v. Brad Pfaff, in His Official Capacity as Secretary-designee of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Amici (3) burdens-on-interstate-commerce circuit-split civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-law discrimination disparate-impact dormant-commerce-clause due-process economic-liberty interstate-commerce local-benefits pike-v-bruce-church rational-basis rational-basis-test state-regulation substantive-due-process Dormant Commerce Clause challenge to Wisconsin butter grading law
18-7191 Scott Richard Pendergraft, et ux. v. Network of Neighbors, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2018-12-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure meaningful-opportunity-to-be-heard pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process procedural-fairness standing substantive-due-process Whether a pro se litigant's procedural or substantive due process rights are violated when trial and appellate courts willfully refuse to fully and fa…
18-745 Alan Overton v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services Tennessee 2018-12-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process family-law fundamental-rights parental-rights state-action strict-scrutiny substantive-due-process Does the court order and underlying state action which prohibits all contact between the father and his children violate substantive due process under…
18-669 Shane M. Gates v. Walter Reed, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response Waived civil-rights conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process hobbs-act insurance-interference malicious-prosecution prosecutorial-misconduct substantive-due-process Whether a District Attorney violated the Hobbs Act and denied due process by prosecuting a misdemeanor case at the behest of a liability insurer
18-648 Burdette Searcey, et al. v. James L. Dean, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 1989 civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-investigation criminal-trial due-process evidence false-evidence false-evidence-manufacture law-enforcement-liability manufacture-of-false-evidence municipal-liability qualified-immunity reckless-evidence-gathering substantive-due-process voluntary-plea Whether a law enforcement officer violated substantive-due-process rights by recklessly gathering unreliable evidence
18-585 Ernest J. Franceschi, Jr. v. Betty T. Yee, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-05 Denied Response Waived bill-of-attainder driver-licenses due-process hearing-opportunity license-suspension occupational-licenses procedural-rights retrospective-legislation substantive-due-process tax-delinquencies tax-delinquency Does the suspension of state issued occupational and driver licenses without a hearing opportunity, based upon tax delinquencies that pre date enactme…
18-535 Residents Against Flooding, et al. v. Reinvestment Zone Number Seventeen, City of Houston, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure land-use land-use-decisions motion-to-dismiss property-rights rational-basis rule-12b6 standard-of-review substantive-due-process takings Whether, and to what extent, a court must give deference to a plaintiff's complaint and view the government's rational basis as a rebuttal presumption…
18-6147 Macking Nettles v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus mental-incompetence procedural-bar substantive-due-process time-limit Whether a procedural bar or the AEDPA time limit apply to the substantive due process mental incompetence issue that petitioner plead guilty while men…
18-386 Joshua Vasquez, et al. v. Kimberly Foxx, State's Attorney of Cook County, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2018-09-25 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-due-process criminal-law criminal-penalty due-process ex-post-facto geographic-limitation home-occupation prior-conviction residency-restriction residency-restrictions substantive-due-process takings Whether the constitutionality of laws that impose criminal penalties for blameless action or inaction is controlled by this Court's decisions upholdin…
18-6054 In Re Michael Boone 2018-09-20 Dismissed IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights double-jeopardy judge jury sentencing separation-of-powers statute-of-limitations statutory-offense substantive-due-process Is Petitioner Boone serving an unlawful/void sentence because it is a Substantive-Due-Process, Double-Jeopardy violation for a defendant to be punishe…
18-291 Gul Jaisinghani v. Anil Sharma, et al. California 2018-09-07 Denied Response Waived bank-fraud constitutional-rights due-process duplicative-damages fair-trial joint-venture substantive-due-process supremacy-clause witness-exclusion Whether a state court's enforcement of an agreement to violate federal banking law violates the Supremacy Clause, whether the state court's exclusion …
18-5865 Gary L. Pennington v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Pennsylvania 2018-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-offense constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder fourteenth-amendment state-law substantive-due-process Whether petitioner's conviction of first degree murder violated the constitutionally protected state-created liberty interest guaranteed under the Fou…
18-177 Kenneth Jerome Dawson v. Board of County Commissioners of Jefferson County, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied bond-release constitutional-rights criminal-procedure detention detention-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-liberty fundamental-right judicial-scrutiny liberty-interest reasonably-related strict-scrutiny substantive-due-process When does a criminal defendant's right to be released from jail after posting bond implicate a fundamental right of liberty?
18-5146 Adam Darrick Toghill v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation conviction criminal-conviction criminal-statute due-process equal-protection lawrence-v-texas sodomy-statute substantive-due-process unequal-penal-consequences unequal-treatment Whether Virginia's anti-sodomy statute violates due-process, equal-protection
18-5119 Ambrose King v. Mary King Maryland 2018-07-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal-dismissal appeals award civil-procedure dismissal due-process judicial-discretion monetary-award procedural-due-process standing substantive-due-process vacatur Did the lower court violate substantive and procedural due process in not vacating the dismissal of the appeal?