westfall-act
5 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A295 | Lesly Pompy v. Lt. Marc Moore, MANTIS, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-09-15 | Application | bivens-remedy fourth-amendment joint-task-force qualified-immunity warrantless-search westfall-act | Whether a Bivens remedy remains available for warrantless searches and seizures of property by federal officers in joint task-force operations when al… | |
| 25A250 | Donald J. Trump, President of the United States v. E. Jean Carroll | Second Circuit | 2025-09-02 | Presumed Complete | defamation federal-tort-claims-act issue-preclusion presidential-immunity scope-of-employment westfall-act | Whether a former president can be held liable for defamatory statements made about a public accusation while serving in office, and the proper standar… | |
| 24-7506 | Allan Douglas Wilson v. United States | District of Columbia | 2025-06-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | defamation-claim federal-tort-claims-act official-conduct removal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction westfall-act | Whether a federal district court may dismiss a defamation case for lack of subject matter jurisdiction after removal under the Westfall Act, rather th… |
| 22-1154 | Winglet Technology, LLC, et al. v. United States | District of Columbia | 2023-05-30 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-conflict defamation discovery-standard government-certification government-liability limited-discovery personal-spite scope-of-employment westfall-act | Where the FAA disowned as verifiably false its employee's defamatory statements about petitioners and questioned his decision to publish them in the f… |
| 18-275 | Patricia Smith, et al. v. Hillary Rodham Clinton, et al. | District of Columbia | 2018-09-04 | Denied | Response Waived | benghazi civil-procedure civil-rights dc-circuit defamation federal-court-procedure federal-courts government-immunity hillary-clinton motion-to-dismiss sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction substitution substitution-of-defendant westfall-act | Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit erred in affirming the substitution of the United States for Hillary Clinton an… |