No. 25-7206

Huong Gilmer Giaccio v. Meredith Lyon, et al.

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2026-04-15
Status: Pending
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: first-amendment-retaliation fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity prosecutorial-immunity retaliatory-enforcement subject-matter-jurisdiction
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Whether municipal judges and prosecutors are entitled to absolute judicial or prosecutorial immunity when they act in the clear absence of subject-matter jurisdiction and in coordination with retaliatory enforcement actions against a private resident home.

2. Whether retaliatory arrests, citations, and prosecutions initiated in response to a home's owner protected petitioning activity violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments.

3. Whether summary dismissal of constitutional claims without evidentiary review violates procedural due process and the right of access to courts, particularly where liberty interests are implicated.

4. Whether repeated warrantless arrests and enforcement actions, combined with judicial refusal to review evidence, violate the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments.

5. Whether denial of meaningful language access and ADA accommodations to a pro se litigant facing arrest, fines, and incarceration violates due process and federal disability law.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether municipal judges and prosecutors are entitled to absolute judicial or prosecutorial immunity when they act in the clear absence of subject-matter jurisdiction and in coordination with retaliatory enforcement actions against a private resident home, and whether retaliatory arrests, citations, and prosecutions initiated in response to a home owner's protected petitioning activity violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments

Docket Entries

2026-01-30
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due May 15, 2026)

Attorneys

Huong Gilmer Giaccio
Huong Gilmer Giaccio — Petitioner