| 25A696 |
Samantha Lee-Ann Sealey v. Arturo Mancias, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-15 |
Application |
|
bodyworn-camera excessive-force fourth-amendment qualified-immunity seizure use-of-force |
Question not identified. |
| 25-660 |
Nicole Klum, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Bobby Jo Klum, et al. v. City of Davenport, Iowa, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-12-08 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-rights deadly-force fourth-amendment police-action second-amendment use-of-force |
The decision below contravenes the Second Amendment right to "keep and bear arms," and the Fourth Amendment prohibition "against unreasonable searches… |
| 25-637 |
Mark Hanneman, Minneapolis Police Officer, et al. v. Karen Wells, as Co-Trustee for the Next of Kin of Amir Rahkare Locke, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-12-03 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
appellate-jurisdiction deadly-force fourth-amendment no-knock-warrant qualified-immunity use-of-force |
1. When the Respondents' own factual allegations, the facts assumed by the courts, and the undisputedly authentic video footage, show the officer was … |
| 25-493 |
M. Patricia Cantu, et vir v. Austin Police Department, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
americans-with-disabilities-act fourth-amendment law-enforcement mental-health reasonable-accommodations use-of-force |
1. Whether Title II of the Americans with
Disabilities Act is violated when law enforcement
officers fail to provide reasonable accommodations
to a su… |
| 25-472 |
Angelic Salgado, as Personal Representative of the Wrongful Death Estate of Jonathan Molina v. Kevin Smith |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-10-17 |
Denied |
|
clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment police-shooting qualified-immunity use-of-force |
1. Second-volley rule. When an officer shoots a suspect once in the chest, steps back for cover to reload, six to eight seconds pass, and the suspect … |
| 25-186 |
Alejandro Estevis v. Ignacio Cantu, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment police-shooting qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether Officers Ignacio Cantu and Eduardo Guajardo should be denied qualified immunity before trial for shooting six times at Alejandro Estevis while… |
| 25-179 |
Officer Phillip Reinink, in His Individual and Official Capacity v. Sean Hart, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-08-14 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) |
excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity seizure use-of-force |
1. In the Fourth Amendment reasonableness of a seizure context, whether a law enforcement officer's intended level of force is relevant to determining… |
| 25A41 |
Mathew Grashorn v. Wendy Love, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-07-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights domestic-disturbance excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Question not identified. |
| 24A1238 |
M. Patricia Cantu, et vir v. Austin Police Department, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
americans-with-disabilities-act discrimination law-enforcement mental-health-crisis reasonable-accommodation use-of-force |
Question not identified. |
| 24-1214 |
Jared Cosper, in His Individual Capacity, et al. v. Perla Enriquez Baca, as Personal Representative of Amelia Baca, Deceased |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-05-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
deadly-force edged-weapon excessive-force qualified-immunity tenth-circuit use-of-force |
1. Whether the Tenth Circuit may establish a bright line rule for an officer's use of deadly force against a suspect armed with an edged weapon as in … |
| 24-1124 |
Christopher Thomas v. Tracy Pachote |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-05-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
fourth-amendment officer-assistance qualified-immunity split-second-decision supreme-court-precedent use-of-force |
This petition poses important, but unresolved, questions of federal law regarding whether the Fourth Amendment permits an officer to use force based o… |
| 24-1099 |
Kyle Smith, et al. v. Rochelle Scott, Individually, and as Co-Special Administrator of the Estate of Roy Anthony Scott, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-22 |
Pending |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18) |
bodily-pressure fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity restraint use-of-force |
1. Viewing the facts from the officers' perspective at the time, did the officers act reasonably under the Fourth Amendment by using bodyweight pressu… |
| 24-1051 |
Michael Nissen v. Javier Ambler, Sr., Individually and on Behalf of All Wrongful Death Beneficiaries of Javier Ambler, II, the Estate of Javier Ambler, II, and as Next Friend of J. R. A., minor child, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-04 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force |
After a crash filled 20-minute high-speed car chase—
caught on video by police helicopter—Javier Ambler II
died while resisting being handcuffed due … |
| 24-1047 |
Ethel "Laverne" McVae, Individually and on Behalf of the Estate of Marcus McVae, Deceased, et al. v. Jesse Perez |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
deadly-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity totality-of-circumstances use-of-force |
Nearly four decades ago, this Court drew a constitutional line: law enforcement may not use deadly force against an unarmed, fleeing suspect who poses… |
| 24-919 |
Mike Miller v. Dillon Rock |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-canine qualified-immunity use-of-force |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit depart from this
Court's decisions in Graham v. Connor, 490 U.S.
386 (1989) and Plumhoff v. Rickard, 572 U.S. 765
(2014) in d… |
| 24A752 |
Kyle Smith, et al. v. Rochelle Scott, Individually, and as Co-Special Administrator of the Estate of Roy Anthony Scott, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-31 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Question not identified. |
| 24A735 |
Latrisha Winder, as Next Friend of J. W., a Minor and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Stephen Wayne Winder, Deceased, et al. v. Joshua M. Gallardo, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
excessive-force fourth-amendment high-speed-pursuit qualified-immunity seizure use-of-force |
a. Whether the Court should reexamine and overrule its precedent on qualified immunity in civil actions under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Appendix A at 6) in li… |
| 24-616 |
Officer Benjamin M. Bauer v. Ethan Daniel Marks |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-12-05 |
GVR |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
fourth-amendment law-enforcement medical-evacuation protest seizure use-of-force |
During an emergency medical evacuation amidst a large, violent protest that had become a riot, a six-foot, two-hundred pound man assaulted an officer … |
| 24-266 |
Calisia Kelley and Johnnie Mae Kelley, Co-Administrators of the Estate of Bruce Kelley, Jr. v. Brian O'Malley and Dominic Rivotti, in Their Individual Capacities as Police Officers for the Allegheny County Port Authority |
Third Circuit |
2024-09-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
deadly-force factual-context graham-connor qualified-immunity tolan-cotton use-of-force |
I. In this deadly force case, the Third Circuit removed altogether from its definition of the 'specific factual context' of this case the Autopsy Repo… |
| 24-5416 |
Christopher Dominguez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-rights excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Question not identified. |
| 24A166 |
Tidera Harris v. Gregory Harvey |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-12 |
Denied |
|
deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5243 |
Ryan Taybron, Eric Nixon, and Geovanni Douglas v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c3a bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-statute delligatti-v-united-states omission omission-crime physical-force use-of-force |
Whether a crime that requires proof of bodily injury or death, but can be committed by failing to take action, has as an element the use, attempted us… |
| 24-5056 |
Tyrone Stafford v. Arnold S. Zwicke, Executive Sheriff, Guadalupe County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement malicious-prosecution police-misconduct qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Does sitting with hands on steering wheel constitute the use of force that allows for officers to grab your neck and choke you in 2022, when the arres… |
| 24-5040 |
Juan Alberto Ortiz-Orellana v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
attempted use but can be committed by accidental means or by fa has as an element the use or threatened use of physical force bodily-injury crime-of-violence felony-murder force-clause mens-rea modified-categorical-approach physical-force premeditated-murder use-of-force |
Under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), a felony qualifies as a "crime of violence" if it "has as an element the use, at-tempted use, or threatened use of phy… |
| 24-5036 |
Dalvon Curry, aka Dale, aka Dalo v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights combat-speech constitutional-protections deadly-force deadly-physical-force excessive-force law-enforcement penal-law retreat-duty self-defense use-of-force |
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| 24-15 |
Paulette Smith, Individually and as Successor in Interest to Albert Dorsey, Deceased v. Edward Agdeppa |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
|
clearly-established excessive-force fourth-amendment police-shooting qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment use-of-force |
In the context of Fourth Amendment claims alleging excessive force, the determination of a police officer's entitlement to qualified immunity in summa… |
| 24-5013 |
Jonathan Feliz v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-07-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actus-reus bodily-injury criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause mens-rea omission physical-force use-of-force violent-crime |
Whether a crime that requires proof of bodily injury or death, but can be
committed by failing to take action, has as an element the use, attempted us… |
| 23-1302 |
Kevin Hardaway v. Dwight Hamilton, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-13 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-rights eleventh-amendment-immunity monell-claim monell-v-department-of-social-services official-capacity section-1983 use-of-force |
This is a Section 1983 case, based on Eighth Amendment violations stemming from the DeKalb County, Georgia Sheriff's Office's custom and policy of per… |
| 23-1257 |
Santos Argueta, et al. v. Derrick S. Jaradi |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-31 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights deadly-force factual-question qualified-immunity tennessee-v-garner use-of-force |
In Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1 (1985), this Court held that unarmed, nondangerous suspects fleeing officers can't simply be shot. But the decision… |
| 23-7552 |
Jermeal White v. Ronald Erdos, Warden, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-rights court-of-appeals district-court due-process evidence-review legal-procedure scotus-review summary-judgment use-of-force |
Did the united court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit review the full merits of the Videotape?
Did the united states Court of appeals error When it f… |
| 23-7257 |
Gavin G. Brown v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-notice premeditated-murder self-defense use-of-force witness-testimony |
A) Whether the jury used unreasonable facts to prove a premeditated design. Where there was sufficient [provocation] to find Petitioner not guilty.
B… |
| 23A863 |
Janice Hughes Barnes, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Ashtian Barnes, Deceased v. Roberto Felix, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-26 |
Presumed Complete |
|
deadly-force fourth-amendment graham-standard reasonableness-test traffic-stop use-of-force |
Question not identified. |
| 23-825 |
Salvatore Delligatti v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-01-31 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (5)Relisted (2) |
bodily-injury circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law inaction statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Whether a crime that requires proof of bodily injury or death, but can be committed by failing to take action, has as an element the use, attempted us… |
| 23-644 |
City of Charlotte, North Carolina, et al. v. Azucena Zamorano Aleman, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Rubin Galindo Chavez |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement precedent qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in the process it used to find a "clearly established" Fourth Amendment right because it used cases: (1) decided afte… |
| 23-611 |
Adrian Martinez v. Sean Jenneiahn, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-07 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process excessive-force police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment use-of-force |
1. Whether the Court should reverse or recalibrate the doctrine of qualified immunity.
2. Whether the Tenth Circuit correctly decided that the office… |
| 23-442 |
Anthony Prescott v. K. Johnson, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-27 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment conspiracy cruel-and-unusual-punishment food-contamination food-service fourth-amendment intentional-tort official-capacity-claim prisoner-rights public-entity use-of-force |
Question: Does involuntary exposure to any non-medically necessary medication, steroid, chemical cleaning compound, schedule II drugs, toxin or any un… |
| 23-447 |
Jeremy Johnson v. Andre D. Boyd |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-court-precedent civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights fifth-circuit legal-standard qualified-immunity split-second-use-of-force use-of-force |
I. Whether circuit court precedent can clearly establish the law for the purpose of qualified immunity analysis, and, if so, under what circumstances … |
| 23-410 |
Estate of Gabriel Strickland, et al. v. Nevada County, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-19 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 civil-rights deadly-force graham-factors graham-v-connor objective-reasonableness section-1983 totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances use-of-force |
This case presents a unique question of law under 42 U.S.C. §1983 concerning the application of the "totality of the circumstances" test adopted in Gr… |
| 23-5640 |
Blake Taylor v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113(a) 18-usc-2113(d) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) attempted-armed-bank-robbery attempted-bank-robbery attempted-crime bank-robbery criminal-law force-requirement sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Whether attempted bank robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a), and
attempted armed bank robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 2113(d), are "crimes of
violence" as defined in 18 … |
| 23-5230 |
Steven Poppo v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-07-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
assistance-of-counsel attempted-robbery constitutional-rights criminal-intent deadly-force due-process equal-protection fair-trial homicide self-defense use-of-force |
Question not identified. |
| 23A61 |
Chris Dutra, et al. v. Kim Jackson |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity second-story-railing summary-judgment use-of-force |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7760 |
Todji Kijuan Martin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempt-crime attempt-crimes criminal-interpretation criminal-law force-definition statutory-construction statutory-interpretation substantive-crime supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor use-of-force |
I. Whether this Court's 2022 opinion in United States v. Taylor , is applicable to all attempt crimes particularly when the crime in question may be c… |
| 22-1151 |
City of Arlington, Texas v. De'On Crane, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
arrest-warrant fourth-amendment municipal-liability qualified-immunity reasonable-officer-standard traffic-stop use-of-force whren-v-united-states |
Rather than submit to arrest pursuant to multiple lawfully issued arrest warrants, a suspect who was pulled over for a traffic violation refused to ex… |
| 22-1157 |
Craig Roper v. De'On Crane, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment civil-rights deadly-force excessive-force objective-reasonableness officer-safety police-conduct police-intervention qualified-immunity use-of-force vehicle-stop |
1. Whether an objective police officer could have believed it reasonable to shoot a person who had warrants for his arrest, had locked the doors and r… |
| 22-7502 |
Anthony Gilbert-Brown v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment police-conduct seizure sentencing-guidelines standing supreme-court-review use-of-force |
1) Whether Third Cicuit Court of Appeals Erred Affirming Gilbert-Brown was
seize when Officer Engle approach Gilber.t-Brown as he attempted to go
aro… |
| 22-1003 |
Mucio Ramirez v. Christopher Martin |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-standard graham-v-connor police-brutality police-misconduct qualified-immunity reasonable-force use-of-force |
No dispute exists that Petitioner was intoxicated when Respondent assaulted him, but the police tried to stop Petitioner for a broken taillight. Petit… |
| 22-946 |
Martin Jay Manley v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-03-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
borden categorical-approach circuit-split divisibility extreme-recklessness fourth-circuit mathis use-of-force vicar-statute violent-crimes-in-aid-of-racketeering |
1. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred, in conflict
with decisions of other circuits, in holding that for
purposes of applying the categorical approach t… |
| 22-793 |
Paul Donald Davis, et al. v. Paul Waller, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split civil-rights deadly-force due-process hostage law-enforcement non-suspect-seizure qualified-immunity seizure use-of-force |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit misapplied the test for the constitutional use of deadly force set forth by this Court in Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1… |
| 22-563 |
Randall Greer, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Christopher Greer, Deceased v. James Haman, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-12-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
deadly-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor jury-instruction law-enforcement probable-cause self-defense tennessee-v-garner use-of-force |
A law enforcement officer's use of deadly force in
self-defense is not constitutionally unreasonable. Courts
throughout the nation universally agree t… |
| 22-564 |
Juan Carlos Salazar v. Juan Rene Molina |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-20 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment circuit-split excessive-force graham-v-connor law-enforcement qualified-immunity reasonableness-of-force surrender-protocol use-of-force |
After initially fleeing from police who suspected him of speeding, petitioner encountered a roadblock, pulled his car over, exited, and lay face down … |
| 22-223 |
County of Riverside, California, et al. v. Estate of Clemente Najera-Aguirre, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
9th-circuit clearly-established-law constitutional-rights deadly-force excessive-force law-enforcement ninth-circuit particularized-consideration qualified-immunity use-of-force |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit's panel decision denying qualified immunity contravene this Court's mandate that courts should not hold officers to a standar… |
| 22-8 |
Anthony Momphard, Jr., Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Deputy Sheriff of the Macon County Sheriff's Department, et al. v. Melissa B. Knibbs, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Michael Scott Knibbs |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-force due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-use-of-force qualified-immunity use-of-force |
1. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in finding that a reasonable officer in Deputy Momphard's position would not have perceived a danger that justifie… |
| 21-8195 |
Arthur Lee Robinson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act borden-v-united-states criminal-sentencing firearm-discharge illinois-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation use-of-force violent-felony |
The Armed Career Criminal Act provides an enhanced penalty for felons in possession of a firearm with three prior qualifying convictions, including fo… |
| 21-1559 |
Sharon Powell, as Executrix of the Estate of William David Powell, et al. v. Jennifer Snook, as Executrix for the Estate of Patrick Snook |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-force due-process fair-notice fourth-amendment qualified-immunity totality-of-the-circumstances use-of-force |
1. When the unconstitutionality of an officer's conduct is obvious, must the court, in addressing the "clearly established law" prong of a qualified i… |
| 21-8115 |
Latoya Nicole Carter v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2022-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-entry law-enforcement search-and-seizure trespass unlawful-arrest use-of-force |
Where a law enforcement officer trespasses into a resident's home by shoving his foot into the doorway through the threshold of the home, does the Fou… |
| 21-1422 |
Brett Ferris v. Chrystal Scism, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Joshua Scism |
Second Circuit |
2022-05-05 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
2nd-amendment civil-rights deadly-force due-process fourth-amendment lethal-force police-procedure qualified-immunity self-defense standing use-of-force |
Does the doctrine of qualified immunity shield a police officer from suit (not merely from judgment) where his/her split-second decision to deploy let… |
| 21-1204 |
City of Chico, California, et al. v. Estate of Tyler S. Rushing, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-03 |
Denied |
|
arrest-procedure civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity use-of-force |
1. As a matter of first impression, does the
Fourth Amendment prevent law enforcement
officers from deploying a Taser to safely arrest
a suspect who v… |
| 21-1125 |
Matthew Schantz v. Benny Deloach |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights deadly-force fourth-amendment objective-reasonableness police-pursuit qualified-immunity summary-judgment traffic-stop use-of-force |
1. Does the Fourth Amendment entitle police to seize all speeding motorists by shooting them, regardless of the circumstances and independently of any… |
| 21-1128 |
John Turnure v. Latrent Redrick |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process excessive-force qualified-immunity scott-v-harris sixth-circuit summary-judgment use-of-force |
I. Did the Sixth Circuit contravene Scott v. Harris, 550 U.S. 372 (2007) by ignoring record admissions, videos, and photographs to credit to Redrick w… |
| 21-1013 |
Republic of Turkey v. Lusik Usoyan, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
burden-of-proof discretionary-function-rule foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act policy-analysis policy-prong presidential-protection presidential-security-detail state-visit-security use-of-force |
1. Whether the Discretionary Function Rule within
the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C.
§ 1605(a)(5)(A)—which preserves foreign sovereign
im… |
| 21-770 |
Shelby Hawkins v. Johnny Banks, III |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights eighth-circuit excessive-force fourth-amendment police-conduct probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-force use-of-force |
1. Whether the Eighth Circuit wrongly denied qualified immunity to Officer Hawkins by finding the use of force was not reasonable as a matter of law w… |
| 21-6278 |
Joseph Fenelon Cooper v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-15 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
attempted-robbery bank-robbery categorical-approach clean-vehicle crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
The question presented is whether an attempted bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113, which may be completed even if it is abandoned before anyone knows… |
| 21-533 |
Brad Martin, Individually and as an Employee of the Arizona Department of Public Safety, et al. v. Carlos Castro |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
clearly-established-law fourth-amendment k9-deployment law-enforcement qualified-immunity reasonable-force totality-of-circumstances use-of-force violent-crime |
1. When a law enforcement officer reasonably deploys a police K9 to restrain a fleeing suspect known to have a history of violent crime and believed t… |
| 21-5943 |
Brandon Ward v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2253 appellate-counsel certificate-of-appealability character-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel trial-counsel use-of-force witness-testimony |
1. Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim that his trial … |
| 21-492 |
Edeline Julmisse Prosper, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Junior Prosper v. Anthony Martin |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights excessive-force scott-v-harris section-1983 summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton use-of-force video-evidence |
Under Scott and Tolan , must courts implement the traditional summary judgment requirement that all evidence be considered in the light most favorable… |
| 21-423 |
Jason Cunningham, Individually and as Administrator ad Litem and Personal Representative of the Estate of Nancy Jane Lewellyn, Deceased v. Robert Paschal, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-09-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights due-process excessive-force material-fact qualified-immunity summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton use-of-force |
1. Does the ruling in this case by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit violate basic fundamental principles of Rule 56 of the Federal Rule… |
| 20-8315 |
Joel Barcelona v. M. Escotto Rodriguez, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-gas due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement mental-health petitioner use-of-force |
1. "WHETHER THE RESPONDENT, M. RODRIGUEZ, ET AL., EXCESSIVELY USE OF DEADLY FORCE IN USING A TASER GAS SPRAY VIOLATED PETITIONER'S RIGHTS UNDER THE (I… |
| 20-1668 |
City of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, et al. v. Austin P. Bond, as Special Administrator of the Estate of Dominic F. Rollice, Deceased |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-06-01 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6)Relisted (4) |
deadly-force fourth-amendment intoxicated-individual officer-safety police-conduct qualified-immunity seizure use-of-force |
1. Whether use of force that is reasonable at the moment it is employed can nonetheless violate the Fourth Amendment if the officers recklessly or del… |
| 20-1609 |
David R. Seaton v. Blake Johnson, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights de-escalation electronic-evidence evidence-standards police-brutality pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation recent-rulings summary-judgment use-of-force |
1. Should police brutality be constitutionally protected?
2. Do regulations ordering police to de-escalate confrontations instill an affirmative duty… |
| 20-7984 |
Eddie Lamont Lipscomb v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-11 |
GVR |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split civil-rights due-process physical-contact physical-force robbery texas-penal-code use-of-force violent-felony |
1. Whether simple robbery under Texas Penal Code § 29.02 remains a "violent felony" without the Armed Career Criminal Act's unconstitutional residual … |
| 20-7855 |
James Ayers v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-27 |
GVR |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-statute mens-rea recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Question not identified. |
| 20-1471 |
Jonathan Lozada, Deputy Sheriff, in His Individual Capacity v. Dudley Teel, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Susan Teel |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-04-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-factors law-enforcement obvious-factual-clarity-rule qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether this Court should clarify the application of the Graham factors to a law enforcement officer's use of force during a call for service that doe… |
| 20-1461 |
Jairo Acosta, Police Officer for the City of Los Banos v. Tan Lam, as Successor-in-Interest to Decedent Sonny Lam, aka Son Tung Lam |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights due-process evidence officer-credibility plain-error police-use-of-force ptsd ptsd-evidence qualified-immunity reasonable-officer threat-assessment use-of-force |
1. Is it plain error to admit evidence of a police officer's remote PTSD diagnosis to challenge the officer's credibility and prove he was more likely… |
| 20-7790 |
Rolando Villarreal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-16 |
GVR |
IFP |
assault-statute criminal-law force-against-person mens-rea reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force violent-felony |
I. Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless … |
| 20-7778 |
Gerald Scott v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-15 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute federal-sentencing physical-force physical-inaction rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Does a crime of physical inaction, in which the inaction is deemed the cause of injury or death, have as an element the "use of physical force against… |
| 20-7609 |
Raynal King and Howard R. Ross, III v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-31 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c3a criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause force-clause mens-rea physical-force statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Whether a crime that requires a resulting death categorically includes, as an element, "the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force ag… |
| 20-1362 |
Davdrin Goffin v. Robbie K. Ashcraft, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-30 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment police-shooting probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure tennessee-v-garner use-of-force |
Is an officer entitled to qualified immunity if she shoots a fleeing suspect in the back without warning after watching another officer search the sus… |
| 20-7447 |
Elijah Hasan Jones v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-statute mens-rea recklessness sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation use-of-force use-of-force-clause |
Whether the "use of force" clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act (the "ACCA"), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) encompass crimes with a mens rea of reckl… |
| 20-7171 |
Luis Javier Correa-Figueroa, aka Barney, aka Gordo v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-02-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-intent criminal-procedure district-court-ruling evidence evidence-exclusion federal-property intent motion-for-acquittal procedural-error self-defense use-of-force |
(A) WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED A
PROCEDURAL ERROR WHEN IT EXCLUDED EVIDENCE THAT
PETITIONER WAS SHOT 11 TIMES, AND AS HE WAS TRYING
TO EVADE… |
| 20-1006 |
City of Hayward, California, et al. v. Jessie Lee Jetmore Stoddard-Nunez |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-27 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment qualified-immunity section-1983 seizure use-of-force |
1. Whether an accelerating fleeing driver's sudden turn deprives a threatened shooting officer of qualified immunity?
2. Whether an unintended victim… |
| 20-997 |
Arlane James, et al. v. Noah Bartelt |
Third Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) |
civil-procedure civil-rights deadly-force johnson-v-jones law-enforcement officer-involved-shooting qualified-immunity self-defense summary-judgment third-circuit use-of-force |
1. Whether the Third Circuit's decision to exercise jurisdiction over an appeal of the District Court's denial of qualified immunity on a motion for s… |
| 20-840 |
Kenneth Knowles v. Officer Jason Michael Hart |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-22 |
Denied |
|
2nd-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights deadly-force due-process fourth-amendment police-entry second-amendment self-defense standing use-of-force |
1. Does the Fourth Amendment authorize a police officer to use deadly force against a citizen exercising her Second Amendment right to wear a holstere… |
| 20-6552 |
Ignacio Arreola-Mendoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 20-6541 |
Alejandro Pineda-Campuzano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-07 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 20-741 |
Tacara Anderson, on Behalf of Minor Child M. A. v. Officer Jonathan Vazquez |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment bodily-injury civil-rights due-process excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Are federal courts required to afford qualified immunity to a law enforcement officer who released a K9 on a child who weighed 75 pounds and was 4 fee… |
| 20-585 |
Greg Vasquez, et al. v. Maritza Amador, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Gilbert Flores and as Next Friend of Minor R. M. F., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights deadly-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-intervention police-use-of-force qualified-immunity reasonableness-standard suicide-by-cop use-of-force |
1. Viewing the facts from the officers' perspective at the time of the incident, did they act reasonably, under the Fourth Amendment, when an officer … |
| 20-578 |
Sergeant Gary Hedger, et al. v. Ronald Graves |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (7) |
deadly-force fourth-amendment homicidal-suspect law-enforcement perceived-threat qualified-immunity taser-deployment use-of-force violent-suspect |
Did the Sixth Circuit misapply or disregard this Court's precedent by holding that a law enforcement officer violates the Fourth Amendment and clearly… |
| 20-6130 |
Desmond Howard Greer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-26 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-offense elements-of-crime force legal-interpretation mens-rea personal-injury reckless-injury recklessness sentencing use-of-force violent-crime |
Whether an offense has as an element the use of force against the person of another if it may be committed by recklessly inflicting injury? |
| 20-263 |
Nanette Blanchard-Daigle, Representative of the Estate of Lyle Blanchard v. Shane Geers, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fifth-circuit law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity use-of-force |
1. Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by overlooking precedent in determining whether an officer enjoys qualified immunity after applying deadly excessiv… |
| 20-202 |
Robert Massie v. Basilea Mena |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights clearly-established-law detention excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity use-of-force |
(1) Under the particular facts and circumstances
of this case, did the Ninth Circuit err in finding
that Massie's actions constitute an excessive use
… |
| 20-5434 |
Treshun Devonte Bates v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-20 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
borden-case borden-v-united-states crime-of-violence grant-vacate-remand reckless-conduct sentencing-guidelines supreme-court use-of-force |
Can reckless conduct constitute a "crime of violence" by satisfying the "use of force" clause in the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual's definition of… |
| 20-183 |
Billy D. Stair, III v. Charles Jackson |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
|
excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor law-enforcement plumhoff-v-rickard qualified-immunity reasonableness-standard totality-of-the-circumstances use-of-force |
Did the Eighth Circuit depart from this Court's decisions in Graham v. Connor, 490 U.S. 386 (1989) and Plumhoff v. Rickard, 572 U.S. 765 (2014) in den… |
| 19-8613 |
Abdul Shabazz Wiggins v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2020-06-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
anderson-v-creighton civil-rights due-process graham-v-connor hope-v-pelzer hudson-v-mcmillian qualified-immunity strickland-v-washington supreme-court-precedent use-of-force |
1. Whether the General District and Circuit Courts of Suffolk ignored the defendant's right to Qualified Immunity as set forth in Hudson v. McMillian … |
| 19-8466 |
Branch William Niehouse v. Brigitte Amsberry |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law evidence force legal-sufficiency lost-and-found property-rights robbery robbery-evidence speculative-testimony trespass trespassing use-of-force |
Would reasonable jurists debate whether the evidence of robbery was legally sufficient when the only evidence that Mr. Niehouse's threatened use of fo… |
| 19-1266 |
H. B., a Minor, Individually and as Successor in Interest to Michelle Lee Shirley, By and Through His Guardian ad Litem, Ronnie Shirley v. City of Torrance, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment objective-reasonableness police-conduct qualified-immunity scott-v-harris summary-judgment use-of-force |
In a 42 USC § 1983 action where videos capturing the claimed use of excessive force are open to multiple interpretations as to whether the use of leth… |
| 19-1099 |
City of Bakersfield, California, et al. v. Leslie Laray Crawford |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment mental-illness negligence objective-reasonableness police-procedure prior-knowledge reasonable-officer use-of-force |
Did the Ninth Circuit err when it held that evidence of prior incidents which indicate that an individual may be mentally ill could be introduced for … |
| 19-1067 |
Neal N. Browder, et al. v. S. R. Nehad, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-28 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights deadly-force due-process emergency-response fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct police-shooting qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Shortly before midnight on April 29, 2015, a bookstore clerk saw Fridoon Rawshan Nehad in an alley. Nehad, who was incoherent, pulled a knife out of h… |
| 19-7790 |
Brenda Mason, Individually and on Behalf of Quamaine Dwayne Mason, et vir v. Martin Faul |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (6)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fifth-circuit objective-reasonableness police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing use-of-force |
This case involves the use of excessive force by a police officer that was determined by a jury to be "objectively unreasonable" but nonetheless resul… |
| 19-7732 |
Jerad Hanks v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
bank-robbery circuit-court-conflict circuit-court-split constitutional-interpretation crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute due-process elements-clause federal-bank-robbery federal-statutes firearm-use rule-of-lenity use-of-force vagueness-doctrine |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1), which criminalizes the use of a firearm during a "crime of violence," in this case, the federal bank robbery statute… |
| 19-7637 |
Pedro Anthony Romero Cruz v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
which can be committed through mere omission 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) attempted-murder circuit-split civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-statute omission-liability statutory-interpretation use-of-force virginia-law |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s definition of a "crime of violence," under which an offense must have "as an element the use, attempted use, or … |
| 19-889 |
Kaufman County, Texas, et al. v. Eunice J. Winzer, Individually and on Behalf of the Statutory Beneficiaries of Gabriel A. Winzer, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity summary-judgment use-of-force |
1. Did the Fifth Circuit panel majority err in reversing Kaufman County's summary judgment after concluding Officer Hinds did not violate clearly esta… |
| 19-7067 |
Michael Baird Jordan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) armed-bank-robbery bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause general-intent intent intimidation physical-force specific-intent statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Given this Court's holding in Carter v. United States, 530 U.S. 255, 268 (2000), that bank robbery by intimidation is less culpable than a specific in… |
| 19-811 |
Christine Almas Rose, Individually and as Mother of Jessie Lee Rose, et al. v. City of Utica, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force free-speech mental-health-intervention police-procedure qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Did the Second Circuit commit legal error when it granted qualified immunity to the police officer when:
a. the officer's testimony about being shot a… |
| 19-7042 |
Christian Rosado v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-law guidelines judicial-interpretation judicial-opinions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines state-law state-law-offense statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
The question presented is whether, as the court of appeals in this case held, a state-law offense qualifies as a "crime of violence" for purposes of t… |
| 19-753 |
Michael Hunter, et al. v. Randy Cole, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) |
civil-rights clearly-established-law deadly-force deadly-weapon due-process dynamic-encounter excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment police-use-of-force qualified-immunity shooting-encounter use-of-force |
I. If the barrel of a gun is not yet pointed directly at an officer, does clearly established federal law prohibit police officers from firing to stop… |
| 19-6908 |
Margarito Olvera-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-11 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court use-of-force |
Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 19-679 |
Amy Corbitt v. Michael Vickers |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) |
burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force interlocutory-appeal law-enforcement pleading-requirement pleading-standards police-use-of-force qualified-immunity section-1983 use-of-force |
1) Whether qualified immunity is an affirmative defense (placing the burden on the defendant to raise and prove it) or whether it is a pleading requir… |
| 19-682 |
Melanie Kelsay v. Matt Ernst |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment non-compliance police-misconduct qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Are police officers entitled to qualified immunity as a matter of law—even if they use substantial force against non-threatening suspected misdemeanan… |
| 19-657 |
Virgil Brewer v. Kristina Myers |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-11-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force graham-factors law-enforcement police-use-of-force qualified-immunity summary-judgment use-of-force |
While conducting a house-to-house search for a suspect who had threatened people in a bar with a shotgun after being thrown out of that bar for fighti… |
| 19-614 |
Cesar Vizcarra, et al. v. Monica Ortiz, Individually and as Co-Successor in Interest to Decedent Christian Pena, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anderson-v-liberty-lobby armed-suspect civil-rights excessive-force interlocutory-appeal johnson-v-jones law-enforcement mitchell-v-forsyth qualified-immunity summary-judgment taser use-of-force |
1. Does Johnson v. Jones, 515 U.S. 304 (1995) foreclose interlocutory appeal of an order denying summary judgment on qualified immunity, where the und… |
| 19-609 |
Erin J. Shepherd, et al. v. Angela Studdard |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (3) |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity sixth-circuit summary-judgment use-of-force |
1. Police officers are entitled to qualified immunity unless they violate constitutional rights in factual situations squarely governed by controlling… |
| 19-466 |
Zachery Pittman v. Herman Harris |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established excessive-force fourth-amendment qualified-immunity scott-v-harris section-1983 summary-judgment use-of-force |
1. Whether in Scott U. Harris, 550 U.S. 372 (2007)
this Court announced an "exception" to the summary
judgment standard in cases commenced under 42
U.… |
| 19-6025 |
Javier Segovia-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-sentencing force force-against-person immigration-law mens-rea mental-state reckless-conduct reckless-mental-state recklessness statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 19-345 |
Dorian Johnson v. City of Ferguson, Missouri, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment move-on-order police-encounter public-space reasonable-person-standard seizure totality-of-circumstances use-of-force |
A "seizure" occurs under the Fourth Amendment when, under the totality of the circumstances, "a reasonable person would believe he was not free to dec… |
| 19-5777 |
Donielle Rashi Ross v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law domestic-violence legal-precedent mens-rea misdemeanor-crime physical-force recklessness recklessness-standard second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-interpretation use-of-force voisine-v-united-states |
Whether this Court's holding in Voisine v. United States, __U.S.__, 136 S.Ct. 2272 (2016), that recklessness is consistent with the "use of physical f… |
| 19-5763 |
Jose Lara-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law federal-law federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law mens-rea reckless-mental-state recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 19-263 |
Cody Ross v. Johnnie Rochell, Jr. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-28 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment 8th-circuit assault-weapon civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-violation eighth-circuit excessive-force kisela-v-hughes law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force |
1. Did the Eighth Circuit depart from this Court's decision in Kisela v. Hughes, U.S. , 138 S. Ct. 1148 (2018) (per curiam) and numerous other cases b… |
| 19-5605 |
Stephen Alan Macomber v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment burden-of-proof civil-liberties constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment state-action use-of-force |
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| 19-222 |
Paul Anthony Valderas v. City of Lubbock, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-force due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct police-use-of-force qualified-immunity reasonable-force reasonable-inference use-of-force |
Whether an officer on the scene constrained by what he observes to use any force creates a reasonable inference that deadly force is excessive? |
| 19-5410 |
Charles Borden, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (7)Relisted (4)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act due-process mens-rea recklessness retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
1. Does the "use of force" clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act (the "ACCA"), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) encompass crimes with a mens rea of mere … |
| 19-76 |
Martin Marquardt, Deputy Sheriff v. William Fletcher |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
|
circuit-precedent civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process excessive-force ninth-circuit pretrial-detainee qualified-immunity use-of-force |
1. Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit correctly held that Petitioner does not have qualified immunity on the ground that "[t]he l… |
| 19-5070 |
Carlos Lamar Mitchell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924c3a bank-robbery bank-robbery-18-usc-2113 criminal-law criminal-statute demand-note intimidation physical-force physical-force-18-usc-924c3a sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Whether bank robbery (18 U.S.C. § 2113), which may be committed by unintentionally intimidating a victim or by presenting a teller with a demand note,… |
| 18-1553 |
Cheri Marie Hanson, as Trustee for the Next of Kin of Andrew Derek Layton v. Daniel Best, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process excessive-force excited-delirium fourth-amendment police-practices police-restraint police-training positional-asphyxia qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Andrew Layton died after Respondents, six on duty police officers working as a team, kept him in maximum restraints on his stomach for thirty minutes … |
| 18-9350 |
Russell Rafael Whitehead v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
assault-battery constitutional-review court-procedure criminal-law deadly-weapon ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-charge jury-instructions legal-standard standard-of-review use-of-force |
Can a fist a fist be considered a deadly weapon in and of itself?
Is it considered proper procedure for the Court to add dialogue not supported by th… |
| 18-9032 |
Michael Slager v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights credibility-of-witness criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony legal-standard officer-involved-shooting police-misconduct police-use-of-force second-degree-murder use-of-force voluntary-manslaughter |
Did the district court deny Petitioner's right to due process when it found that the underlying conduct at issue here——Officer Michael Slager's shooti… |
| 18-1286 |
Brian D. Baur v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
castle-doctrine chain-of-custody civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-preservation ineffective-counsel law-of-the-case prosecutorial-misconduct reassignment sentencing standing use-of-force |
1. Whether the Law of the Case Doctrine is an
issue in this case since two Judges have made
rulings concerning the Constitutional Rights of the
Pet… |
| 18-1128 |
Curtis Minchuk v. Craig Strand |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split deadly-force deadly-force-justification excessive-force fourth-amendment police-use-of-force qualified-immunity self-defense totality-of-the-circumstances use-of-force |
1. Whether evidence of a dangerous and violent
suspect's sudden and unexpected gesture of
surrender immediately and objectively
terminates the deadly … |
| 18-7882 |
Christopher M. Gates v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment handcuffs investigative-detention officer-safety reasonable-suspicion terry-stop use-of-force |
A. Whether use of handcuffs is permissible during a mere investigative detention, or "Terry stop," where there is a risk to officer safety.
B. Whethe… |
| 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 |
I. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in finding that the state-created danger doctrine is not clearly established law and in failing to apply it, whe… |
| 18-746 |
County of Los Angeles, California, et al. v. Angel Mendez, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-12 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment causation circuit-review civil-rights clearly-erroneous fourth-amendment intervening-event proximate-causation proximate-cause reasonable-force remand search-warrant section-1983 standard-of-review use-of-force warrantless-search |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit disregarded this Court's clear directives on remand and whether, in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action, a plaintiff's injuries res… |
| 18-695 |
Christopher Chung, et al. v. Gulstan E. Silva, Jr., as Personal Representative of the Estate of Sheldon Paul Haleck, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
civil-rights clearly-established-law community-caretaking due-process excessive-force law-enforcement ninth-circuit qualified-immunity reasonableness use-of-force |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying the officers qualified immunity by defining clearly established law at too high a level of generality ra… |
| 18-672 |
City of Newport Beach, California, et al. v. Richard Vos, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) |
ada-title-ii americans-with-disabilities-act fourth-amendment law-enforcement mental-illness totality-of-the-circumstances use-of-force |
1. Does Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act require law enforcement officers to provide accommodations to an armed, violent, and mentally … |
| 18-6612 |
James Pinkney v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924e2bi armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach force illinois-robbery-statute statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states use-of-force violent-felony |
Whether the Illinois robbery statute categorically requires the use of force called for by this Court so as to qualify as a "violent felony" under the… |
| 18-6369 |
Lashon Browning v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-10-17 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach certiorari circuit-split illinois-robbery statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states use-of-force violent-felony |
1. Does Illinois robbery categorically require the use of force and thereby qualify as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act? |
| 18-6177 |
Tony Lipscomb v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-10-02 |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split illinois-robbery stokeling-v-united-states use-of-force violent-felony |
1. Does Illinois robbery categorically require the use of force and thereby qualify as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act?
2. The S… |
| 18-6104 |
Wayne Thomas, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law federal-jurisdiction johnson-standard johnson-v-united-states robbery-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states supreme-court supreme-court-review use-of-force violent-crime |
1) Does the Florida Robbery 812.13 "meet use of force" as defined in Johnson v. United States U.S. (2010)? Petitioner requests a GVR in light of Stoke… |
| 18-323 |
Suzan Evans, Individually and as Wife and Next of Kin of Scott Evans, Deceased v. United States, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split constitutional-law excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor police-conduct reasonableness-standard tennessee-v-garner totality-of-circumstances use-of-force |
Whether the totality of the circumstances test for assessing the reasonableness of a use of force under this Court's decisions in Tennessee v. Garner,… |
| 18-5915 |
Michael Hill v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempt categorical-approach illinois intent statutory-interpretation substantial-step use-of-force violent-felony |
The Armed Career Criminal Act treats as a violent felony felonies that require the use of force. In Illinois, as in many states and as for many federa… |
| 18-5890 |
Mark D. Whitfield v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-law force hobbs-act property robbery statutory-interpretation supreme-court use-of-force violent-crime |
Whether jurists of reason could debate whether robbery under the Hobbs Act possesses the use, attempted use, or threatened use of force against the pe… |
| 18-236 |
Paul Weddle v. Alan Nutzman, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity seizure standing use-of-force |
(1) Whether under a qualified immunity analysis there existed clearly established precedent that taking down Weddle when he had surrendered, posed no … |
| 18-110 |
Andrew Burningham, et al. v. John Morrison Raines, III, Guardian of the Estate of John Morrison Raines, IV |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
8th-circuit anderson-v-liberty-lobby civil-rights clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment interlocutory-appeal johnson-v-jones mitchell-v-forsyth qualified-immunity summary-judgment use-of-force |
1. Does Johnson v. Jones, 515 U.S. 304 (1995)
foreclose interlocutory appeal of an order
denying summary judgment on qualified immunity, where the und… |
| 18-46 |
City of Middletown, Connecticut, et al. v. William McKinney |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
4th-amendment active-resistance civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights detainee-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity reasonable-officer use-of-force |
Police officers were attempting to transfer a detainee to a padded cell where he could be appropriately monitored after he repeatedly obstructed the v… |
| 18-5008 |
Autrey Canadate v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act armed-robbery attempted-armed-robbery attempted-robbery certificate-of-appealability curtis-johnson-v-united-states due-process elements-clause florida-criminal-law use-of-force violent-felony violent-force |
Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether the Florida offense of
attempted armed robbery, Fla. Stat. § 812.13, categorically requires the use of… |