wrongful-detention

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A263 Christopher J. Rahaim v. Bruce Bartlett, Individually and in His Official Capacity as State Attorney for the Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-04 Presumed Complete actual-innocence civil-rights heck-doctrine judicial-review section-1983 wrongful-detention Whether a state court's dismissal of a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 based on the Heck doctrine improperly prevents an actually innocent …
24-1245 Masika Brown Ray v. Anthony Boone, Chief, Longview Police Department, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-06-05 Denied Response Waived constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection police-accountability selective-enforcement wrongful-detention Did the Fifth Circuit err in affirming the district court's dismissal where substantial constitutional violations under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amend…
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…
23A1017 James LeBlanc v. Brian McNeal Fifth Circuit 2024-05-16 Presumed Complete federal-remedies habeas-corpus judicial-precedent prisoner-rights section-1983 wrongful-detention Whether a prisoner who could have sought habeas relief but did not can subsequently sue for damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for alleged wrongful detent…
18A1251 City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. v. Maurice Lewis Seventh Circuit 2019-06-03 Presumed Complete accrual-of-claim false-arrest fourth-amendment legal-process qualified-immunity wrongful-detention Whether a Fourth Amendment claim for wrongful pretrial detention accrues when the detention ends or at a different point in time