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25-992 Reginald Johnson v. City of Satsuma, Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-19 Pending 42-usc-1983 civil-rights-act equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment racial-discrimination state-action Whether the City of Satsuma, acting in concert with Maurice Kirk Harless, individually and collectively, under color of law, deprived the plaintiff of…
25-6709 Gregory Ryan Webb v. Sandra Garrett, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending IFP 42-usc-1983 conspiracy-against-rights due-process election-crimes first-amendment sovereign-immunity 1. Whether defendants have failed in their obligation to provide funds to prevent further denial of effective assistance of counsel and conspiracy w…
25A815 Natural Lands, LLC v. City of Boca Raton, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-13 Application 42-usc-1983 due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment property-rights state-remedies Question not identified.
25-592 Teresa Miller v. Officer Helms, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-11-20 Rehearing Response Waived 42-usc-1983 conviction-vacatur heck-v-humphrey judicial-prejudice pro-se-filing section-1404 1. Did the Fourth Circuit 's affirmance (Case No. 24-1718) of the Northern District of West Virginia 's dismissal (Case No. l:23-CV-26) of a 42 U.S…
25-6098 Elston Bone v. Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2025-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 constitutional-challenge intermediate-scrutiny new-york-rifle-bruen state-court-review subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the Federal District Court have subject matter jurisdiction, over a Plaintiff who brings a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action, and presents an indepen…
25-5852 Amro N. Elkabany v. Louis C. Shapiro, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Judge, Superior Court of New Jersey, Gloucester County, et al. Third Circuit 2025-10-09 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity rooker-feldman-doctrine state-law Part I - Constitutional / Federal Questions Whether judicial immunity bars relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when a judge conducts a secret, off-the-reco…
25-376 Dustin Thomas House Darden v. Crowd Management Service Ninth Circuit 2025-09-30 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 constitutional-accountability first-amendment government-contractors police-powers state-action Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, private actors constitute state actors when they exercise governmental authority or act jointly with state officials. Courts h…
25-330 Eugene Cory Dingle v. James G. McGee, Judge of Dorchester County Family Court, Individually and in His Official Capacity, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-09-19 Denied 42-usc-1983 fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment guardian-ad-litem judicial-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether a state judge who acts in the clear absence of subject-matter jurisdiction may nonetheless invoke absolute judicial immunity to bar a 42 U.…
25-292 John L. Roseman, Sr. v. DLJ Mortgage Capital, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-09-15 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1981 42-usc-1982 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process title-vii Whether rulings of courts below constitute an infringement of Petitioner's rights under Due Process Clauses of Constitution and related rights under 4…
25-196 Cyrus Mark Sanai v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Ninth Circuit 2025-08-19 Denied 42-usc-1983 attorney-discipline reciprocal-discipline state-court-jurisdiction statutory-immunity supremacy-clause Under California 's State Bar Act as authoritively interpreted by California 's appellate courts, the State Bar, the California Supreme Court, and the…
25-74 Sullivan Equity Partners, LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company v. City of Los Angeles, California Ninth Circuit 2025-07-22 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 administrative-law due-process england-reservation pullman-abstention takings-clause Where a property owner has its building permits revoked by a government agency on false pretenses and in violation of state Due Process law, is that p…
24-1236 Louis Farrakhan, et al. v. Anti-Defamation League, et al. Second Circuit 2025-06-04 Denied Response Waived 42-USC-1983 article-III-standing first-amendment government-action quasi-governmental-actor representational-standing 1. Whether the Second Circuit failed to follow this Court's precedent when it held that representational standing does not exist in claims alleging …
24-7298 Thurmond R. Guess, Sr. v. Leonardo Brown, Administrator, Richland County, South Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-05-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 constitutional-rights district-court equal-protection fourth-circuit rule-59e 1. Did the United State District Court of Columbia South Carolina and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err Under Rule 59 E, on Motion to Alter or A…
24-1045 City of Los Angeles, California v. Jesus Pimentel, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-04-01 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 burden-of-proof eighth-amendment excessive-fines gross-disproportionality prima-facie-case Does a government defending against an Eighth Amendment excessive fines claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 bear a burden to produce affirmative evidence tha…
24-1003 Adam Brook, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Judith Brook v. Joseph Ruotolo, et al. Second Circuit 2025-03-20 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights-violation guardianship-immunity mental-hygiene-law power-of-attorney state-actor 1. Whether a court-appointed guardian for an adult, acting under color of state law, is immune from liability under 42 USC §1983 for forcing his ward …
24-955 Gabino Ramos Hernandez v. Phillip Causey Fifth Circuit 2025-03-06 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 bivens-action constitutional-rights federal-employee state-action willful-participation 1. Is the rule expressed in Lugar v Edmondson Oil Co., 457 U.S. 922, 102 S. Ct.2744, 73 L. Ed. 2d 482 (1982), that a challenged activity is deemed sta…
24-6327 Onyinye Jideani v. Robert R. Rigsby, Judge, District of Columbia Superior Court District of Columbia 2025-01-16 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process judicial-immunity pro-se-litigation 1. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit violate exiting laws guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, failed to red…
24-752 Paul Thomas v. Kathleen Harder, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-15 Denied Amici (4)Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights-action investigator-immunity medical-board-immunity medical-disciplinary-proceedings quasi-judicial-immunity This Court has been sparing in extending quasijudicial immunity to government officials outside of the judicial branch. It has never extended quasijud…
24A352 Coleman County, Texas v. Patsy K. Cope, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-15 Presumed Complete 42-usc-1983 conditions-of-confinement eighth-amendment municipal-liability pre-trial-detainee suicide-prevention Question not identified.
24-382 Quannah L. Harris v. Tre Hargett, Tennessee Secretary of State, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-10-03 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights eleventh-amendment judicial-immunity prospective-injunctive-relief younger-abstention 1. Whether a civil rights claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 can proceed against a state administrative agency and an administrative law judge when the plai…
24A309 Patricia Weiss v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2024-10-01 Presumed Complete 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-challenge declaratory-decree judicial-abstention subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Cana person obtain that "declaratory decree" in a federal court where a State Judge, and a State, are named defendants and the "declaratory decree"…
24-308 Vishrut Amin, et ux. v. Carla R. Pepperman, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as County Judge for Lake County, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-18 Denied Response Waived 42-USC-1983 article-iii constitutional-rights due-process judicial-immunity remote-hearing Petitioners were unlawfully prevented from physically appearing in to court against their will by Judge Carla R Pepperman (Pepperman). Petitioners wer…
24-285 Robert M. Rogers v. Jackson County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 county-commissioner due-process equal-protection kirkland-v-state official-misconduct Does the 1923 Florida Supreme Court embezzlement Case of Kirkland v State, 86 Fla. 64, 97, So. 502 (1923) excuse Jackson County's acquiescence to Coun…
24-5463 Ashley Wilkerson v. City of Houston, Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-09-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 constitutional-violations due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment police-interference Do the government's repeated violations of the First and Fourteenth Amendments, as demonstrated by informal pressure from police officers such as, alt…
24-5094 Kenyatta Quinn Mitchell v. Paul Bennett, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 11th-amendment 42-usc-1983 circuit-court-review civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process heck-v-humphrey judicial-discretion legal-standards plra procedural-due-process state-law statutory-interpretation Did the Ninth Circuit and Fifth District Court apply all necessary and properly applicable elements to the petitioner's 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 claim? …
24-16 Anthony Monroe v. Terry Conner, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-claims federal-interests owens-v-okure personal-injury section-1983 state-law-borrowing statute-of-limitations Whether applying a state's one-year statute of limitations to Section 1983 claims is inconsistent with the federal statutory scheme and the interests …
24-14 James R. Zuegel v. Marco Garcia, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-claim conviction conviction-challenge probation section-1983 spencer-v-kemna standing Does this Court's opinion in Spencer v. Kemna, 523 U.S. 1 (1998), permit an individual, who has completed his probation, to pursue a 42 U.S.C. section…
24-19 James LeBlanc v. Brian McNeal Fifth Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights confinement damages due-process habeas-corpus preiser-v-rodriguez release-date state-prisoner wilkinson-v-dotson Whether, consistent with Preiser and its progeny, a state prisoner who alleges that he was unlawfully confined beyond his proper release date may sue …
24-21 Tina Gerlach v. Todd Rokita, Attorney General of Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-u.s.c-1983 42-usc-1983 constitutional-violation federal-conflict just-compensation personal-capacity personal-capacity-suit sovereign-immunity takings-clause 1. Whether a state's constitutional obligation to pay just compensation when taking property waives its sovereign immunity from a claim seeking damage…
24-2 Camille Bourque v. Engineers and Architects Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-03 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech government-employer janus-v-afscme labor-unions public-sector section-1983 union-dues wage-deduction 1. Is the First Amendment violated when a union causes a government employer to seize full union dues from the wages of a nonconsenting employee? 2. …
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…
23-7459 Alan Troy Houser v. Stephen Buzas, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 accomplice-liability civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-law criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process failure-to-intervene standing Question not identified.
23-1167 Dennis O'Connor v. Rachel Eubanks, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-04-30 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) 42-U.S.C.-§-1983 42-usc-1983 constitutional-history constitutional-taking federal-conflict personal-capacity personal-capacity-suit property-rights sovereign-immunity takings-clause 1. Whether a state's constitutional obligation to pay just compensation when taking property waives its sovereign immunity from a claim seeking damage…
23-7335 Walter J. Himmelreich v. Janel Fitzgerald Sixth Circuit 2024-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 bivens bivens-action civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation territorial-jurisdiction 1) Asdan"iis£ueaofGEdjrsi Impressi'en 5.fdingtlbisaCoBBt, does the "or Territory" clause of 4 2 USC § 19 8 3 and the related Civil Rights Statutes app…
23-1158 Ryan Morrison v. Alvaro Ramos, Individually and in His Official Capacity, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-24 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights fourth-amendment home-privacy privacy-rights qualified-immunity search-and-seizure section-1983 unreasonable-search Whether a federal court deciding a civil rights claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for deprivation of rights can find that the Officers were entitled to qua…
23-1014 Diyonne L. McGraw v. Khanh-Lien Banko, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-15 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process qualified-immunity separation-of-powers state-officials supremacy-clause Whether the Supremacy Clause and the Separation of Powers doctrine preclude the federal judiciary from relying upon the federal common law defense of …
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…
23-6844 In Re Deborah E. Gouch-Onassis 2024-02-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing Question not identified.
23-915 Pleasant View Baptist Church, et al. v. Andrew Beshear Sixth Circuit 2024-02-23 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19-restrictions free-exercise free-exercise-clause qualified-immunity state-actor 1. Whether qualified immunity applies to a state actor who, despite multiple circuit court decisions directing him not to burden religious activities …
23-6670 Catherine Fernandez v. Board of Pemberton Township, et al. Third Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1367 42-usc-1983 breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction standing statute-of-limitations tolling Weather the Appeals Court 3rd Circuit erred by omitting new evidence that could re-establish the Statute o Limitation or grounds for tolling or excusa…
23-690 Brant Putnam, et al. v. Timothy Ryan Ninth Circuit 2023-12-27 Denied 42-usc-1983 adverse-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech investigation medical-staff qualified-immunity standing This Court has frequently reversed erroneous denials of qualified immunity before trial, especially when lower courts have defined clearly-established…
23-649 Lisa Price, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Nickie Miller v. Montgomery County, Kentucky, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-12-15 Denied Relisted (13) 42-usc-1983 brady-v-maryland civil-rights court-order due-process exculpatory-evidence legal-discretion prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 Nickie Miller was wrongly incarcerated for two years for a murder he did not commit. The charges were based on a coerced confession from a woman who l…
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…
23-6188 Otis Blaxton v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equitable-tolling false-imprisonment fourteenth-amendment post-conviction-relief sovereign-immunity Vn)<xW«l'T of suiK , of $7^8.2*', Fla. 6,13, AA X (Wftw <?f 5 D y'jXti \YV\ <V\ U A \4Y -[) Was fkt- >/ flor]cjc( pOf'^OO^r\'f' f(j 6ia»v\ a) Dd 4k<L …
23-6144 Susanne Aspley v. Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights color-of-law covid-pandemic due-process emergency-orders fourteenth-amendment nursing-home-deaths right-to-life section-1983 In March, 2020, during the height of the COvid Pandemic, MN Governor Tim Walz and Minnesota Health Department (MDH) Commissioner egregiously created t…
23-6071 Christopher L. Takhvar v. Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief standing state-court-procedure Question not identified.
23-540 Laura Covington v. City of Madisonville, Texas Fifth Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights municipal-liability official-policy police-chief policymaker section-1983 state-law To obtain relief against a municipality under §1983, a plaintiff must show an official policy from a policymaker was the moving force behind a violati…
23-513 Randy Smith, Sheriff, et al. v. Jerry Rogers, Jr. Fifth Circuit 2023-11-15 Denied Response Waived 42-U.S.C.-§-1983 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights discretionary-functions government-officials harlow-v-fitzgerald legal-doctrine qualified-immunity statutory-rights 1. What does it mean for a statutory or constitutional right to be "clearly established," beyond debate for purposes of § 1983 qualified immunity? 2.…
23-481 Temple of 1001 Buddhas, et al. v. City of Fremont, California Ninth Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights disparate-treatment first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause municipal-liability searching-review section-1983 1. Whether a state municipality can be held liable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when decision rights and associated impingements on free exercise are distri…
23-5953 Michael Muthee Munywe v. Julie Dier, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-11-06 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure Question not identified.
23-458 Thomas De Cola v. Starke County Council, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-10-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 administrative-appeal administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights civil-tort comity due-process miscarriage-of-justice state-federal-review Whether the comity of state and federal court reviews of Petitioner, Tom A. DeCola's respective administrative appeal and concurrent 42 U.S.C. § 1983 …
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…
23-433 Joyce Daniels, as the Administrator of the Estate of Mark Daniels, Deceased v. City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process judicial-procedure law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment unsworn-testimony wrongful-death A police officer, Gino Macioce, shot and killed Mark Daniels. Shortly after the shooting, Officer Macioce was interviewed by other police officers. Of…
23-426 Ralph Lisby, as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Ashlynn Lisby, Deceased v. Jonathan Henderson, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Police Officer, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-10-23 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-claim discovery discovery-rights judgment-on-pleadings pleadings police-misconduct procedural-posture section-1983 summary-judgment 1. Whether, in light of the procedural posture of this case, the Court should convert Respondents' Motion for Partial Judgment on the Pleadings to a M…
23-5850 In Re Lawrence Smith 2023-10-20 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus standing One whether officials violate the Eighth Amendment when they deliberately indifference to a serious medical need of an incarcerated person?
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…
23-5800 Malcolm Muhammad v. William E. Jackson, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 circuit-court civil-rights federal-law free-speech judicial-interpretation land-use property-rights religious-land-use-and-institutionalized-persons-a standing statutory-construction summary-judgment AppelWi-V aliened "tW-p deknciarvW 3ocVisor\3bft€S and. Tu.rf\ff dea^ed hirv^ op-Ids ti c^VvVs ar»<Ur -VU AtvervArKfv^ o/d fteldyoa-^ La^-d vise ar>d…
23-387 Taylor Carlisle, Individually and as Representative Member of a Class, et al. v. Joseph P. Lopinto, III, Sheriff, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights drug-court due-process habeas heck-doctrine over-detention preiser-doctrine qualified-immunity 1. In the absence of judicial proceedings conducted on the record with due process, are the minute entries "orders" and are the sanctions within the c…
23-5765 Lewis Eugene Day v. Anne L. Precythe, Director, Missouri Department of Corrections, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 americans-with-disabilities-act civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights disability-law first-amendment free-speech grievance-procedures pursuit-of-happiness lyvWccho^ftf^WicttW Wtfi Disabilities Ad- Kbfi".b ^')Vio!(xVi0^of (([dd AmovedRi^KtsTo FfeJ^of5/)e£cA , ideaWUsesF irsd fofjht 7° F < l&AnCopfkifi-b 6…
23-5727 Jeff Baoliang Zhang v. Kory Knapke California 2023-10-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-U.S.C.-1983 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process federal-constitution judicial-corruption judicial-misconduct medical-malpractice statute-of-limitations 1. Can the trial court judge fool around Petitioner in a serious civil suit as he highly praised Petitioner for my presentation at the court hearing b…
23-336 Keith Allen Kiefer v. Isanti County, Minnesota Eighth Circuit 2023-09-29 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment mens-rea postconviction-incarceration section-1983 unreasonable-seizure After a criminal trial under a county's civil solid waste ordinance specific to solid-waste management opera-tions, the county incarcerated the petiti…
23-300 ATM Shafiqul Khalid v. Microsoft Corporation Ninth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 congressional-power constitutional-rights copyright-clause exclusive-right fourteenth-amendment inventor-protection patent-clause patent-ownership sherman-act statutory-interpretation 1. Whether "the exclusive Right" in inventions as written in the Constitution is a fundamental Right or Constitutional privilege separate from common …
23-274 William Felkner v. John Nazarian, et al. Rhode Island 2023-09-21 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights clearly-established-law first-amendment free-speech legal-standard policy qualified-immunity section-1983 supreme-court Whether the judge-made "clearly established law" qualified immunity standard, which lacks textual, historical, and logical support, and which does not…
23-260 Daniel Erwin v. Karla Howell, as Administratrix of the Estate of Cornelius Pierre Howell Sixth Circuit 2023-09-18 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-standard deliberate-indifference due-process farmer-v-brennan fourteenth-amendment kingsley-v-hendrickson medical-need pretrial-detainee section-1983 Whether Kingsley v. Hendrickson, 576 U.S. 389, 135 S.Ct. 2466 (2015), applies to claims for deliberate indifference to a serious medical need brought …
23-229 Bronson McClelland v. Katy Independent School District, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation final-policymaking-authority first-amendment monell-liability public-school-district public-school-speech section-1983 true-threat 1. In a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, does Monell liability exist for a public school district when an official who committed a constitu…
23-5529 Abdalla Elehamir Mousa v. Christina Greve, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1997e administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies civil-rights due-process eighth-circuit-rule equal-protection prison-grievance prison-officials section-1983 Whether an Applicant for Relief Under 42 U.S.C. §1983 is Required to Exhaust Administrative Remedies Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1997e(a) If the Prison Off…
23-5470 Cedric Adams v. Nick Diamond, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force governmental-tort-liability qualified-immunity standing Should a local government be dismissed from acceptance of claims and the very beginning of a suit with prejudice giving absolute immunity without allo…
23-186 Nevada Department of Corrections, et al. v. Philip Roy Galanti Ninth Circuit 2023-08-29 Denied Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-claim custody ex-prisoner-plaintiff favorable-termination-rule habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey section-1983 Under Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994), a plaintiff asserting a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that questions the validity of his conviction or the…
23-5433 Kingsley Azubuike Ononuju v. Virginia Housing Development Authority, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 agency-regulation constitutional-rights fourth-circuit improper-eviction rule-12b6 rule-60(b)(4) rule-60b4 section-1983 tila tila-claim void-judgment A. Did the Fourth Circuit err in affirming the ruling of the district Court in which granted "Rule 12(b)(6) motion " of the Respondent against TILA cl…
23-165 Bob Johnson, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of Santa Rosa County, Florida v. Jessica N. Rogers, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Jose F. Escano-Reyes and as Parent and Natural Guardian of Y. C., a Minor Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-21 Denied Amici (1) 42-usc-1983 city-of-los-angeles-v-heller civil-rights constitutional-harm deliberate-indifference jury-finding monell-liability monell-v-new-york-city municipal-liability section-1983 1. Where a jury exonerates jail deputies of all 42 U.S.C. §1983 claims for deliberate indifference to risk of an inmate's suicide, does the jury's fin…
23-5381 David Lamar Harper v. William Patrick Adams, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-U.S.C-1983 42-usc-1983 case-law civil-rights government-immunity heck-v-humphrey Huphrey-v-Heck-512-U.S.-447-(1994) statute-of-limitations void-judgment How can a 42 U.S.C 1983 lawsuit, based on a void judgment, be barred by a statue of limitations, Huphrey v. Heck, 512 U.S..447 (1994), and government …
23-5315 Jesse Dean Redfearn v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-08-09 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process sixth-amendment witness-obstruction Did the trial court and/or the prosecution violate the Sixth (6th) Amendment, [confrontation clause], and clearly established law of the United States…
23-61 Martin E. O'Boyle, et al. v. Town of Gulf Stream, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-21 Denied Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-litigation first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation municipal-policy official-policy probable-cause retaliation 1. Whether the no-probable-cause requirement extends beyond claims for retaliatory criminal prosecution and arrest and applies to claims for retaliato…
23-50 Jascha Chiaverini, et al. v. City of Napoleon, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-07-20 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 any-crime-rule charge-specific-rule circuit-split criminal-charges fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause section-1983 To make out a Fourth Amendment malicious prosecution claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, a plaintiff must show that legal process was instituted without pro…
23-7 Lynn Hamlet v. Officer Hoxie Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-rights conditions-of-confinement cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment prison-conditions procunier-v-navarette qualified-immunity section-1983 I. Whether it is "clearly established" for purposes of qualified immunity that the Eighth Amendment bars a prison official from forcing a person with …
22-1242 Jon McClelland v. Dr. Jack Chapman, M.D. Colorado 2023-06-27 Denied 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-interpretation contract due-process judicial-immunity property property-interest state-law 1. Is a Complaint a cognizable 'three-party ' Contract (simple or specialty, and ultimately of record, i.e. judgment), between the State and the pa…
22-1196 GEFT Outdoor, L.L.C. v. Monroe County, Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-06-09 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights content-based-regulation first-amendment free-speech prior-restraint procedural-safeguards speech-licensing zoning-ordinance 1. Can a governmental entity escape 42 U.S.C. § 1983 liability for failing to have procedural safeguards in its speech licensing scheme by—only after …
22-1072 Lori A. Saxon v. Ameritas Life Insurance Corporation District of Columbia 2023-05-04 Denied 1st-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 7th-amendment bankruptcy-law constitutional-rights debt-collection due-process homestead-law judicial-foreclosure (1) Were Lori Saxon's fundamental guaranteed rights to Due Process and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and 1st, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 14th amendments violated…
22-1050 Cedric Epple v. Albany Unified School District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-28 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 administrative-actions civil-rights due-process exhaustion federal-court judicial-exhaustion ninth-circuit section-1983 state-court-remedies summary-reversal 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding, in direct conflict with this Court's precedent, that litigants challenging administrative actions must …
22-7099 Dana Simmons v. Andrew Beshear, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 advisory-opinion civil-rights color-of-state-law constitutional-challenge due-process injunctive-relief section-1983 standing state-law summary-judgment Article III of the Constitution of the United States of America limits federal courts I. to hearing the actual case or controversy before them. May lo…
22-7093 Walter Harris v. Neil Turner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights culer-v-adams due-process interstate-agreement-on-detainers prison-litigation-reform-act pro-se-litigant procedural-fairness section-1983 standing The petitioner 42 & 1983 complaint was dismissed for putting the wrong statutes the PRISON LITIGATION REFORMS ACT complaint forms need to be reinforce…
22-7038 In Re Mohammad Sharifi 2023-03-17 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing Question not identified.
22-895 Murphy Creek, LLC, et al. v. Murphy Creek Metropolitan District No. 3 Colorado 2023-03-16 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 attorneys-fees civil-rights common-nucleus common-nucleus-of-operative-fact judicial-relief prevailing-party section-1983 substantial-claim substantiality 1. Whether the Colorado Courts ignored the intent of Congress set forth in 42 U.S.C.A. § 1988 and binding precedents of this Court, and erred in holdi…
22-813 Samuel Edward Trapp v. John Gunn, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 bar-licensing civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-action declaratory-relief due-process licensing rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-court state-court-action 1. Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine foreclose a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action in federal court against outside-the-licensure-process individual influencers …
22-811 John E. Reardon v. New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Response Waived 42-U.S.C.-§1983 42-usc-1983 absolute-immunity civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violations constitutional-rights due-process judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct jurisdictional-challenge standing Are Judges Liable for Equity, Prospective and/or Legal relief when they Usurped, Lacked, or Lost their Jurisdiction, Discretion or Violated Common, Ca…
22-724 San Juan County, Utah v. Rosalie Chilcoat Tenth Circuit 2023-02-02 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process monell monell-doctrine municipal-liability section-1983 state-action state-actor unconstitutional-action A prosecutor in San Juan County, Utah, acted on behalf of the State of Utah when he made allegedly false statements at the preliminary hearing in the …
22-723 Jonathan VanLoan v. Nation of Islam, et al. Third Circuit 2023-02-02 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights clearly-baseless-standard denton-v-hernandez dismissal-standard factual-allegations frivolous neitzke-v-williams section-1983 subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Is the legal standard for dismissal of a plaintiffs 42 U.S.C. § 1983 case, for factual allegations deemed "fantastical " by the court, the "clearly…
22-675 Vicki Jo Lewis, et vir, Individually and as Co-Personal Representatives of the Estate of Isaiah Mark Lewis, Deceased v. City of Edmond, Oklahoma, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-01-20 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-reversal 1. Whether this Court should reconsider the judge made doctrine of qualified immunity. 2. Whether qualified immunity insulates a law enforcement offi…
22-661 David Frank Campeau, Jr., et ux. v. Edward Sandercock, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Wayne County, et al. Third Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied Response Waived 10th-amendment 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 9th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights federalism-powers fourteenth-amendment marriage-law ninth-amendment state-statute tenth-amendment In accord with the Tenth Amendment, how is it determined whether a power is reserved to the people or to the State? Whether the Ninth and Tenth Amend…
22-632 Anthony Haworth v. City of Walla Walla, Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 absolute-immunity brady-violation civil-rights civil-rights-act common-law ku-klux-klan-act prosecutorial-immunity qualified-immunity section-1983 1. Whether this Court should overrule a halfcentury of precedent that has inaccurately interpreted the intent and purpose of Section 1983 by affirming…
22-623 James William Hall v. G.M.S. Management Co., Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-statute constitutional-rights court-access due-process first-amendment free-speech pro-se-litigation standing Does a person have rights to a day in court to represent himself as a pro-se even when the appeal court lower United States District and the United St…
22-6454 Christine Chang v. Ezery Beauchamp, Captain and Commander for California Highway Patrol, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 abuse-of-discretion civil-rights dismissal dismissal-with-prejudice due-process fourteenth-amendment ninth-circuit pro-se section-1983 Whether the Ninth Circuit violates Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process rights when it decides in a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. Secti…
22-576 Cindy Ellen Ochoa v. Public Consulting Group, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 42-usc-1983 compelled-speech constitutional-violation due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment public-employee-rights public-sector-unions section-1983 union-dues Does a challenge to a statutory system alleging failure to provide due process under the Fourteenth Amendment and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 require an injured …
22-567 Gary Mattos, et al. v. AFSCME Council 3 Fourth Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 agency-fees civil-rights constitutional-rights damages first-amendment good-faith good-faith-defense section-1983 state-law state-law-immunity Section 1983 provides that "every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State" deprives a citizen of…
22-556 N. S., Only Child of Decedent, Ryan Stokes, By and Through Her Natural Mother and Next Friend, Brittany Lee, et al. v. Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-12-19 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (12) 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement legal-precedent qualified-immunity section-1983 1. Whether qualified immunity insulates a law enforcement officer from liability under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 if there is no factually identical precedent e…
22-534 Theresa Eagleson, Director, Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services v. St. Anthony Hospital, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-12-09 GVR Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 42-usc-1983 contract-enforcement managed-care medicaid private-rights section-1983 spending-clause statutory-duty timely-payment 1. Whether Spending Clause legislation, including Section u-2(f), can impliedly create private rights enforceable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. 2. Whether,…
22-533 Ifrah Yassin v. Heather Weyker Eighth Circuit 2022-12-09 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 42-usc-1983 bivens-action civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights federal-cross-deputization qualified-immunity section-1983 task-force Whether state and local police officers are immune from suit under 42 U.S.C. 1983 whenever they are federally cross-deputized as members of joint stat…
22-6224 Ali Shahrokhi v. Kizzy J. S. Burrow Nevada 2022-12-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial judicial-bias procedural-due-process recusal subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the trial judge's refusal to recuse himself from presiding over the 3-day bench trial—while being an adverse party litigating against Shahrokhi—vi…
22-522 Applied Underwriters, Inc., et al. v. Ricardo Lara, Commissioner, California Department of Insurance, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-05 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 abstention abstention-doctrine civil-rights constitutional-violations in-personam in-rem in-rem-jurisdiction prior-exclusive-jurisdiction section-1983 state-executive-officers "[W]hen one court is exercising in rem jurisdiction over a res, a second court will not assume in rem jurisdiction over the same res." Marshall v. Mar…
22-6175 Nancy Abbie Tallent v. Phillip Knight, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-exclusion judicial-bias pro-se pro-se-litigation section-1983 supervisory-power supreme-court-intervention Where officers violated the Petitioner rights afforded by the Constitution of the United States, under 42 U.S. Code $ 1983 . after exhausting all know…
22-416 Tuhin Kumar Biswas v. Ethan Rouen, et al. Second Circuit 2022-11-02 Denied 42-U.S.C.-1983 42-usc-1983 appeal appellate-review copyright-act federal-cause-of-action first-amendment plagiarism state-actor 1. Is Copyright Act the only Federal Cause of Action under which Plagiarism can be adjudicated? 2. Whether Columbia University and related parties ca…
22-409 Alexander Moskovits v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. Second Circuit 2022-11-01 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-recusal supervisory-power This case presents a Constitutional question of fundamental public importance: whether instituting sealed proceedings in a civil case (in next day rea…
22-403 Frances Endencia v. American Psychiatric Association, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-10-31 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-1347 42-usc-1983 administrative-review civil-rights civil-rights-violation health-care-fraud license-suspension medical-records-sharing psychiatric-diagnosis stigma unemployment 1. The American Psychiatric Association designed & trains students of psychiatry to rewrite any complaint presented to them into psychiatric disorders…
22-394 Eric Brown, et al. v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 5, AFL-CIO, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-10-27 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 agency-fees civil-rights constitutional-rights damages-liability first-amendment good-faith good-faith-defense section-1983 Section 1983 provides that "every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State" deprives a citizen of…
22-376 Louisville-Jefferson County, Kentucky Metropolitan Government, et al. v. Johnetta Carr Sixth Circuit 2022-10-21 Denied Amici (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-action conviction criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey pardon section-1983 In 1994, this Court held that an individual convicted of a crime may not bring a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim unless "the conviction or sentence has been re…
22-373 David Schaszberger, et al. v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Council 13 Third Circuit 2022-10-20 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights damages-liability due-process good-faith good-faith-defense qualified-immunity retroactivity state-action Is there a "good faith " defense under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that shields a defendant from damages liability for depriving citizens of their constitutional…
22-366 County of Sonoma, California, et al. v. Gabbi Lemos Ninth Circuit 2022-10-19 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights comity conviction excessive-force heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey judicial-preclusion section-1983 Does Heck's "necessarily imply" standard bar a § 1983 suit only if, as some circuit courts have held, success would "necessarily require" plaintiff to…
22-363 Candice Hinton, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Rodrin Hinton and as Parent and Natural Guardian of Her Minor Children R. H. and C. H. and Next Friend of I. H. and K. H., et al. v. Harris County, Texas Fifth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference farmer-v-brennan governmental-liability medical-policy policymaker section-1983 Whether the Court's analysis in a 42 U.S. Code § 1983 - Civil action for deprivation of rights policy case should be restricted to a finding of delibe…
22-341 Nebraska, ex rel. Timothy L. Ashford, P.C. L.L.O., et al. v. Donald Kleine, et al. Nebraska 2022-10-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-U.S.C.-1983 42-usc-1983 civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-law due-process prosecutorial-recusal racial-discrimination standing Whether the Nebraska Supreme Court has decided an important question of constitutional law that has not been, but should be, settled by this Court whi…
22-334 Alice Guan v. Gary Bell, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment notice-of-appeal petition-government 1. Whether Fourth Circuit affirming district court's decision based on altered Notice of Appeal without performing any review on the merit of the appe…
22-5822 Eric S. Ray v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus interstate-agreement-on-detainers-act interstate-extradition jurisdiction uniform-criminal-extradition-act 1. Petitioner ask this Court for consideration on the narrow issue of jurisdiction relevant to two major points in this case. The initial proceedings…
22-5766 Clifford Benjamin Kinkade v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-10-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing Whether the district Court's order denying a certificate of appealability for petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to vacate, set aside, or correct th…
22-5698 Robert L. Davis v. Julian Holt, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 appeal-process civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts forged-document hearing-rights immigration-law judicial-procedure non-citizen-rights standing QUESTION ONE Does Federal Rules oF Civil Procedure Allow A PriSoner TO File A Non H2 U.S.C.81983 CiVil Suit In Federal Counts ? QUESTION TWO Can A Pe…
22-255 Scott Wilford, et al. v. National Education Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-19 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process fair-share-fees free-speech good-faith-defense janus-precedent public-sector-unions retroactive-effect retroactivity section-1983 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred by basing a defense to § 1983 on "equality and fairness" rather than determining whether the common law in 1871 pro…
22-248 Larry Tawney, Jr. v. Portage County, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-09-15 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights eighth-amendment intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress monell-claim section-1983 summary-judgment Whether a trial court properly dismisses, as a matter of law, pursuant to Rule 56(c), F.R.C.P., a plaintiff's complaint wherein the plaintiff seeks co…
22-224 Brent Stroman, et al. v. John Wilson, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights false-arrest franks-v-delaware franks-violation grand-jury law-enforcement pleading-standards qualified-immunity section-1983 This case involves issues relating to the arrest of respondents on the charge of engaging in organized criminal activity and the sufficiency of respon…
22-222 Abelino "Abel" Reyna, et al. v. John Wilson, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 criminal-procedure due-process franks-rule franks-v-delaware grand-jury judicial-procedure probable-cause search-warrant section-1983 In Franks v. Delaware, 438 U.S. 154 (1978), this Court announced a rule of "limited scope" which allowed a criminal defendant to attack the veracity o…
22-213 Delores Polk, et al. v. Betty Yee, in Her Official Capacity as State Controller of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 first-amendment nonmembers state-action union-speech waiver The Court in Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31 held that it violates the First Amendment for a state and union to seize payments for union speech from nonme…
22-5525 Terron Gerhard Dizzley v. Melvin Garrett Fourth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 accrual appellate-review civil-rights district-court federal-courts federal-law section-1983 statute-of-limitations supreme-court Whether The United States Court of Appeals, for the Fourth Circuit, affirmance of the District Court's order that the State law determines the time of…
22-187 County of Orange, California, et al. v. Kathy Craig, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-08-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights damages due-process federal-court section-1983 state-law survival-claim survival-claims Under controlling Supreme Court authority, must a federal court apply a state law prohibition on "loss of life" damages in survival claims pursued via…
22-141 Michelle McDonald-Witherspoon, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Kenyada Jones v. Amber Browne, et al. Third Circuit 2022-08-15 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights disability due-process equal-protection mental-disability mental-health probation-officer section-1983 Whether a probation officer with no medical or psychiatric training who is in charge of a mentally disabled (schizophrenic) person (who is out of jail…
22-5124 Michael Jerrial Ibenyenwa v. Elroddrock B. Wells, Sr., et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process frivolous frivolous-claims in-forma-pauperis pleadings prisoner-plaintiff qualified-immunity twombly QUESTION: ONE WHETHER ADEFENDANT SUFFIUIENTLY ANDPROPERLY INVOKES ENTITLEMENT TO QUALIFIED IMMUNITY DEFENSE INAQZU.S.L.S19B3 CIVIL RIGHTS ACTION LAWSU…
21-1598 City of Anaheim, California, et al. v. Fermin Vincent Valenzuela, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied Amici (2) 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1988 circuit-split civil-rights federal-court hedonic-damages robertson-v-wegmann section-1983 state-law survivorship-claim wrongful-death Under Robertson v. Wegmann, 436 U.S. 584 (1978) must a federal court apply a state law prohibition on hedonic damages to a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 survival c…
21-1569 SouthPointe Partners, LLC v. Louisville Metro Government, et al. Kentucky 2022-06-16 Denied 42-usc-1983 administrative-law administrative-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exclusive-remedy federal-claims section-1983 state-statute The Louisville Metro Planning Commission denied a developer's applications for approval of a minor plat and a related waiver after announcing their bi…
21-8122 Jeremiah Henderson v. Austin K. McClain Fourth Circuit 2022-06-10 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-tort first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement probable-cause retaliatory-arrest retaliatory-prosecution section-1983 Does probable cause defeat a retaliatory prosecution claim when there is strong circumstantial proof that a policeman initiated the prosecution to ret…
21-1540 Nita Gordon, Personal Representative of the Estate of Antonio Gordon v. Keith Bierenga Sixth Circuit 2022-06-08 Denied Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation excessive-force fourth-amendment police-misconduct police-use-of-force precedent qualified-immunity section-1983 1. Does qualified immunity protect government officials so long as no prior precedent exists recognizing the unconstitutionality of a fact pattern exa…
21-8040 Dominique Brown v. Burgess McCowan, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-tort due-process prosecutorial-immunity qualified-immunity section-1983 standing state-action 1. Can Court-appointed attorney's be sued under Statite 1983 clain when they violate or deprive an person of thier constitutional rights" 2. Are prose…
21-1497 Scott Louis YoungBear v. Tom Miller, Attorney General of Iowa Eighth Circuit 2022-05-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights content-discrimination first-amendment free-speech prior-restraint religious-speech viewpoint-discrimination Whether prior restraint, content-based or viewpoint discrimination was applied when religious speech in a civil complaint was censored per the "forbid…
21-7926 Jonathan D. Stephen, Jr. v. Palestine Police Department, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-05-19 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation covid-19 due-process eleventh-amendment federal-jurisdiction qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing state-officials Why did Ashton Rodriguez $ Zachary smith ofte Palestine Police Dept. aCt Under color ofstate law, custom, or usAge, subjeets qnother to the depriation…
21-1419 Hong Tang v. Kurt L. Schmoke, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-05-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling federal-procedure jurisdictional-dismissal maryland-law saving-statute section-1983 statute-of-limitations 1. Whether in 42 U.S.C. § 1983 proceedings, when the lower court even specifically stated in the initial per curiam opinion and judgment that "[t]he c…
21-1399 Ali Al-Maqablh v. Crystal L. Heinz, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-05-02 GVR 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process favorable-termination legal-remedy malicious-prosecution section-1983 sixth-circuit standing thompson-v-clark After Respondents' prosecution of Petitioner terminated without a conviction, Petitioner brought a claim against them under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for malic…
21-1396 Dustin Dillard, et al. v. Vicki Timpa, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Anthony Timpa, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-04-29 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment bystander-liability civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement-liability mental-health-intervention qualified-immunity section-1983 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit misapplied the Court's qualified immunity jurisprudence in holding that a police officer who held a mentally ill subject …
21-1328 Community Baptist Church, et al. v. Jared Polis, Governor of Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment 42-usc-1983 due-process free-exercise mootness standing Whether a statute requires strict scrutiny for facial and as-applied claims where officials invoke it as legal authority to issue mandates which depri…
21-1306 Stacy Penning v. Service Employees International Union, Local 1021, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied Response Waived 42-U.S.C.-1983 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-share-fees good-faith-defense janus-v-afscme public-sector-unions retroactive-effect retroactivity 1. Whether the proper remedy for the collection of an illegal fee is refund or restitution, regardless of the purported good faith of the fee collecto…
21-1289 Foster Taft v. Ventura County Medical Center, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-24 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process federal-regulation hipaa hipaa-privacy privacy privacy-act private-cause-of-action private-right-of-action state-actor 1. Does 42 U.S.C. §1983 confer a private cause of action for privacy violations of HIPAA, in particular 164.502(a)? Within this issue, the court woul…
21-1268 Joe Clarence Smith, Jr. v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-18 Denied 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty death-row eighth-amendment habeas-relief method-of-execution section-1983 1. Whether Mr. Smith's method-of-execution challenge is cognizable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. 2. Whether a method of execution involving 44 years of mos…
21-7408 Randy Dingle v. Talmage S. Baggett, Judge, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-03-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 18-usc-242 42-usc-1983 case-coherence civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-interpretation legal-induction occurrence-analysis planned-action procedural-reasoning standing Although comparable occurrences appear to rehash the same thing, the conclusion should not be made that those occurrences are valid or impossible. The…
21-7397 Mario Derrell Jones v. Great Southern National Bank, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 administrative-decision administrative-law civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment section-1983 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with relevant de…
21-1220 County of Sacramento, California, et al. v. Kenard Thomas Ninth Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-violation due-process fact-determination law-enforcement qualified-immunity reviewing-standard section-1983 1. In deciding whether qualified immunity applies, the court is to view the evidence in the light most favorable to the plaintiff. Is it appropriate, …
21-7311 Linda Baldwin v. Office of Injured Employee Counsel Fifth Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process federal-statute qualified-immunity reckless-conduct section-1983 1. Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, is a public official, whose reckless conduct proximately injured another violate a plaintiff 's federally protected right '…
21-1179 Eric Lund v. Jeffrey Datzman, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-02-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment harmless-error heck-v-humphrey Whether the Heck v. Humphrey bar on § 1983 suits is categorically inapplicable when a convicted individual brings a Fourth Amendment claim seeking dam…
21-1163 Carolyn L. Baburka v. Township of Hazlet, New Jersey, et al. New Jersey 2022-02-23 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1988 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-amendments federal-law qualified-immunity search-and-seizure state-law 1. Did the courts below commit error by deciding the case based solely on New Jersey State law, failing to give any recognition to federal law such …
21-1159 Balubhai Patel, et al. v. Julie A. Su, et al. California 2022-02-22 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights declaratory-relief federal-courts-improvement-act injunctive-relief judicial-immunity quasi-judicial-officers section-1983 Prior to the 1996 amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, this Court held that judicial immunity for state defendants does not extend to actions for declarator…
21-7104 Jeffrey Ryan Simmermaker v. Cedar County Sheriff's Department, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights confidential-informant due-process fourth-amendment heck-bar heck-barr probable-cause search-warrant section-1983 standing 1. ) Did the court err in it's HECK BARR determination? 2. ) Did the magistrate rely on fraudulent, fabricated and uncorr oborated evidence? 3. ) W…
21-1073 Kourosh Kenneth Hamidi, et al. v. Service Employees International Union, Local 1000 Ninth Circuit 2022-02-02 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights employee-protections first-amendment fourteenth-amendment good-faith state-action union-rights waiver 1. May a labor union acting in concert with State officials, consistent with the First and Fourteenth Amendments, seize for union political speech pay…
21-7043 Ada Maria Benson v. Allstate Insurance Co. Ninth Circuit 2022-02-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights contract-clause deprivation-of-rights due-process fair-trial interlocutory-decision procedural-due-process public-confidence standing Does justification exist by the United States District Court and the Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit to deny the petitioner the right of being heard an…
21-6983 Shahid L. A. Majid, aka Arthur Moseley v. RN Richards, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-01-27 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process excessive-force municipal-liability qualified-immunity Question not identified.
21-6917 Joseph Earl Clark, II v. Shawn Lindsey Britt, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sentencing-mitigation standing Whether the Fourth Circuit erred and/or abused its discretion in affirming summary judgment against petitioner. Can court dismiss claims in the compl…
21-6841 Ada Maria Benson v. Hemet Police Department Ninth Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-violation color-of-law due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment police-misconduct probable-cause Whether the 42 USC 1983 (4th, 14th Amendment) can protect a law abiding educated senior disable that has been abducted (arrested) after physical assau…
21-6778 In Re Mark Thomas Garrett 2022-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights court-discretion due-process equal-protection exceptional-circumstances extraordinary-relief legal-remedy qualified-immunity standing writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
21-933 Vdare Foundation v. City of Colorado Springs, Colorado Tenth Circuit 2021-12-23 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights first-amendment free-speech government-action hate-speech municipal-services retaliation retaliation-claim section-1983 Whether a complaint based on a local government's public announcement that the plaintiff's speech may be illegal "hate speech" and that, therefore, th…
21-6678 Raul Mendez v. City of Boise, Idaho, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-21 Denied IFP 1983-statute 42-usc-1983 administrative-procedure due-process mandatory-billing municipal-liability pleading-standard pro-se property-tax-roll utility-services 1) Can local government entities take adverse actions against its citizens without Due Process for not using the provided utility services? 2) Can a…
21-790 Bradford Disney Lund v. David J. Cowan, Judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-29 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 ada civil-rights declaratory-relief judicial-immunity ninth-circuit respondeat-superior section-1983 title-ii-ada 1. Whether this Court should grant Certiorari to review the Ninth Circuit's holdings that because of Judge Cowan's judicial immunity, the doctrine of …
21-774 Michelle Munger, et al. v. Brenda Davis, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights federal-rights inmate-rights inmate-services prison private-contractor qualified-immunity Can an employee of a private contractor providing constitutionally-required services to inmates in a county jail or state prison facility assert quali…
21-768 Lil’ Man in the Boat, Inc. v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied 42-usc-1983 commerce-clause fees-and-obligations navigable-waters rivers-and-harbors-act statutory-interpretation tonnage-clause Pursuant to the Rivers and Harbors Act, Congress provided that "No taxes, tolls, operating charges, fees, or any other impositions whatever shall be l…
21-6392 Janet Berry v. William Paul Nichols, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment bivens-claim civil-rights digital-privacy fourth-amendment medical-records search-and-seizure standing state-actors warrantless-search Where a right created by the Panied with private entities acting as state actors under the color of law, via an invalid warrantless search and seizure…
21-737 David Saxon Bagley, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Jeremiah Ray Bagley v. Ramona Rogers, M.D., et al. Texas 2021-11-18 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights dismissal-with-prejudice excessive-force expert-report mandatory-dismissal medical-liability preemption section-1983 state-healthcare state-healthcare-institutions Whether the Texas Medical Liability Act's expert report and mandatory sanction of dismissal with prejudice for failure to serve an expert report provi…
21-703 RLR Investments, LLC v. City of Pigeon Forge, Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exxon-mobil fifth-amendment interlocutory-order property-taking rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-order takings After Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Saudi Basic Industries Corp., 544 U.S. 280 (2005), is it improper for a United States District Court to dismiss claims brou…
21-709 Jacob Clark, et ux. v. Bernadette Stone, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment burden-of-proof child-protective-services civil-rights home-invasion home-privacy qualified-immunity warrantless-search warrantless-searches 1. Whether qualified immunity applies to shield from liability child protective services case workers who repeatedly conduct warrantless searches of a…
21-700 Keith Smith v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-11-12 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 42-usc-1983 accrual-rule bail bail-conditions circuit-split civil-rights fourth-amendment legal-procedure pretrial-detention seizure seizure-definition 1. Does a claim brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 seeking damages for wrongful pre-trial detention caused by the fabrication of evidence accrue upon the …
21-6246 Noble Leroy Johnson v. Hazel Peterson, Warden Tenth Circuit 2021-11-10 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process standing Whether The District Court Erred In Summarily Dismissing Petitioner KSA.60-1507 Motion
21-569 Gregory V. Tucker v. City of Shreveport, Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights excessive-force fair-warning qualified-immunity section-1983 Respondents are police officers who tackled, punched, and kicked Petitioner Gregory Tucker after they pulled him over for non-functioning brake and li…
21-534 Roman Andy Janiec, et al. v. City of Glendora, California Ninth Circuit 2021-10-12 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights class-of-one monell monell-doctrine municipal-liability section-1983 selective-enforcement 1. Can a municipality be held liable under 42 U.S.C. §1983 pursuant to Monell v Dep't of Soc. Servs. of City of New York, 436 U.S. 658 (1978) for a "c…
21-499 Carlos Vega v. Terence B. Tekoh Ninth Circuit 2021-10-04 Judgment Issued Amici (14)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-act fifth-amendment law-enforcement miranda-v-arizona miranda-warnings police-liability section-1983 self-incrimination Whether a plaintiff may state a claim for relief against a law enforcement officer under Section 1983 based simply on an officer's failure to provide …
21-480 William D. Brice v. California Faculty Association Ninth Circuit 2021-09-30 Denied 42-usc-1983 agency-fees civil-rights damages first-amendment good-faith good-faith-defense monetary-damages retrospective-liability statute-of-limitations union-dues Whether an affirmative good faith defense denying damages to the victims of First Amendment wrongdoing is faithful to the language and purpose of 42 U…
21-5811 Hazhar A. Sayed v. Virginia Page, et al Tenth Circuit 2021-09-29 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 administrative-remedies civil-rights due-process judicial-mandate prison-litigation ross-v-blake ross-v-rlake tenth-circuit 1) Do the mandates stated by this Court in Ross v. Blake, 136 S.Ct. 1850 (2016) require the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and U.S. Dist.…
21-5757 Calvin Tinsley v. United States District of Columbia 2021-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 abuse-of-discretion civil-rights denial district-court due-process Question not identified.
21-442 Rodney Reed v. Bryan Goertz Fifth Circuit 2021-09-22 Judgment Issued Amici (13)Relisted (8) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights dna-testing due-process postconviction-claim section-1983 state-court-litigation statute-of-limitations In Skinner v. Switzer, 562 U.S. 521, 524-25 (2011), this Court held that state prisoners may pursue postconviction claims for DNA testing of crime-sce…
21-414 First Midwest Bank, as Guardian of the Estate of Michael D. LaPorta v. City of Chicago, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights legal-causation municipal-liability off-duty off-duty-conduct official-policy section-1983 Can municipalities evade liability under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for unlawful acts that their official municipal policies undisputedly caused if the municipa…
21-352 Jason Gonzales v. Michael J. Madigan, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-09-07 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process election-campaign electoral-misconduct first-amendment summary-judgment Do the protections of the First Amendment bar use of a candidate's unproven allegations of electoral misconduct during an election campaign as a basis…
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 1. Whether in 42 U.S.C. § 1983 proceedings, when the pro se litigant initially only argued his property interest in the complaint and then claimed wit…
21-317 Dean Koch v. Ohio Department of Natural Resources, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-08-31 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment 42-usc-1983 bostock-v-clayton-county civil-rights-act civil-rights-act-of-1871 constitutional-interpretation eleventh-amendment judicial-doctrine qualified-immunity statutory-construction 1. Does the Decision of the Sixth Circuit herein violate the canons of statutory construction especially those enunciated in Bostock v. Clayton County…
21-179 Nehemiah Rolle, Jr. v. Norman St. George Second Circuit 2021-08-06 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process equity equity-lawsuit federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jury-trial section-1983 1. Does a state court judicial officer like Respondent Norman St. George have the right to malicious criminally slander and libel and malicious defame…
21-130 Jack Darrell Hearn, et al. v. Steven C. McCraw, in His Official Capacity as Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-07-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights continuing-violations-doctrine discovery-of-injury-rule governmental-conduct separate-accrual-rule statute-of-limitations Under 42 U.S.C. §1983, and the Continuing Violations Doctrine, Does a "Separate Accrual Rule," or in Contrast a "Discovery of Injury Rule," Apply to a…
21-5194 Benjamin Mario Soto v. Minnesota Supreme Court, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied IFP 11th-amendment 42-usc-1983 contract-law contract-rights due-process equal-protection ex-parte-young supremacy-clause Judicial officers acting clearly/substantially beyond their judicial capacities fraudulently legislating/extrapolating law deliberately fraudulently m…
21-95 David W. Foley, et ux. v. Orange County, Florida, et al. Florida 2021-07-23 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 colore-officii fourteenth-amendment legal-remedy public-servant-immunity state-court-discretion statutory-interpretation virtute-officii Is a state court free under the Fourteenth Amendment to deprive a plaintiff of a remedy in 42 USC §1983 by granting a public servant immunity from sui…
21-65 Yvonne Bowers, Sr. v. Lynx Asset Services, LLC New Jersey 2021-07-16 Denied Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process equal-protection fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court section-1983 state-action state-actions 1. Whether violations of due process and equal protection of law by state actions present a constitutional challenge and violates Petitioner's civil r…
21-5079 Donnell Bledsoe v. Richard J. Guiliani, Judge, Superior Court of California, San Joaquin County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights color-of-law criminal-procedure due-process qualified-immunity A material point of fact or law was overlooked in the decision; 18 U.S.C. 242
21-29 Blake Leitch, et al. v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Council 31, AFL-CIO Seventh Circuit 2021-07-09 Denied 42-usc-1983 agency-fees civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment good-faith-defense janus-v-afscme section-1983 state-law wyatt-v-cole Section 1983 provides that "every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State" deprives a citizen of…
20-1805 Wylmina Elizabeth Hettinga v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-25 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-civil-rights ninth-circuit standing summary-judgment Are the United States District Courts routinely deciding disputed facts in favor of the defending state court actor 's motion for summary judgment …
20-1773 Pasadena Republican Club v. Western Justice Center, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 civil-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-management state-action state-actor viewpoint-discrimination While it is managing the city-owned property, is the Western Justice Center a State Actor for purposes of the First and Fourteenth Amendments and 42 U…
20-8351 Kevin Herriott v. Aaron Joyner, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-dismissal pro-se-litigation standing statutory-interpretation 1) DID THE COURT OF APPEALS IMPROPERLY REVERSED THE DISTRICT COURT ON THE ISSUE OF LAW OF WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT HAD VALID SUBJECT-MATTER JURISDIC…
20-1725 David Seidemann, et al. v. Professional Staff Congress Local 2334, et al. Second Circuit 2021-06-14 Denied Amici (2) 42-U.S.C.-1983 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fair-share-fees good-faith-defense janus-v-afscme restitution retroactivity union-fees Petitioners are current and former public-school teachers in the State of New York who declined to join a public union. They seek a refund of the fair…
20-1667 City of East Cleveland, Ohio, et al. v. Arnold Black Ohio 2021-06-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights discovery-sanctions due-process exemplary-damages municipal-liability police-misconduct section-1983 vicarious-liability The case below conflicts with the precedents of the Sixth Circuit, other circuits, fellow state supreme courts as well as is violative of constitution…
20-8115 Christopher Scott Merrill v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 42-usc-1983 civil-rights covid-19 due-process habeas-corpus prison-conditions prisoner-rights standing Whether prisoners can challenge unsafe prison conditions causing death and other life threatening conditions by the COVID-19 pandemic outbreaks using …
20-1534 Patrick Doughty, et al. v. State Employees’ Association of New Hampshire, SEIU Local 1984, CTW, CLC First Circuit 2021-05-04 Denied Amici (1) 42-usc-1983 agency-fees compelled-association compelled-speech damages first-amendment restitution section-1983 Does a First Amendment compelled speech and association claim for damages or restitution brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 require a plaintiff to prove m…
20-7781 Abdu-Salim Gould v. Leslie Bess, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 administrative-proceeding civil-rights constitutional-violation final-judgment jurisdiction A Lontfove So Aaksiaa e Course o A 1963 Chvt pala hk acto as a Admintstrative Proceeding, « Poes ATH «Sets AG DSurksdicl on Xtend the Author! ty to Ad…
20-7698 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. Town of Cary Police Department, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity standing WHETHER DISMISSAL AS AN ACTION AGAINST THE TOWN OF CARY'S POLICE AND POLICE CHIEF TONI DEZONITS IS ADEQUATE WHEN PETITIONER PROVE FACTS TO SUPPORT HIS…
20-1387 In Re Lakshmi Arunachalam 2021-04-05 Denied 18-usc-241-245-249 42-usc-1983 access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct property-rights 1. Whether denial of my fundamental right to protection provided by the law, denial of my rights to private property, personal security, health, re…
20-1383 Arthur Diamond, et al. v. Pennsylvania State Education Association, et al. Third Circuit 2021-04-02 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights damages damages-liability first-amendment good-faith-defense retroactivity section-1983 union-fees 1. Is there a good-faith defense to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that shields a defendant from damages liability for depriving citizens of their constitutional ri…
20-1353 Allen Glenn Thomas v. Tekle Girma Abebe, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process forgery fraud fraud-claims judicial-procedure property-deed 1) The Question Presented is an important one in the evolution by statutes and United States Constitution, lst;5th;14th Amendments,the Bill OF RIGHTS …
20-1351 Phillip W. Hurd, et al. v. Joy Laskar Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process favorable-termination heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey legal-termination malicious-prosecution section-1983 termination-of-prosecution A plaintiff alleging malicious prosecution under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 must show that the broader prosecution against him was terminated in his favor. Heck…
20-1336 Denis Quinette v. Dilmus Reed, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-24 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process fourth-amendment inmate-abuse qualified-immunity supervisory-liability Petitioner Denis Quinette was violently attacked by a jailer at the Cobb County Jail who had a terrifying history of violence and inmate abuse.1 Despi…
20-7484 Joseph F. Olivares v. Mark Long, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied IFP 42-USC-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review limitations medical-evidence res-judicata standing statute-of-limitations DID THE COURT ERR; 1. IN NOT ALLOWING PETITIONER TO DEVELOP THE RECORD FOR APPEAL, BY ALLOWING AT LEAST ONE HEARING? 2. IN FINDING THAT LIMITATIONS …
20-1287 Recovery Innovations, Inc., et al. v. Kenneth Rawson Ninth Circuit 2021-03-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-law involuntary-commitment mental-health mental-health-services state-action state-action-doctrine Whether through the provision of mental health services, a private, non-profit hospital and private healthcare providers become state actors, subject …
20-1234 Marianne Baptiste, et al. v. Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services, et al. Massachusetts 2021-03-08 Denied 42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process juvenile-detention juvenile-rights medical-treatment state-custody 1. Whether a juvenile committed to the custody of the State enjoys the protection of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process clause when evaluating the…
20-7351 Sheena Shaw v. Sacramento County Sheriff's Department, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1988 circuit-court civil-rights federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation section-1983 statute-of-limitations statutes-of-limitations tolling-rules May the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ignore the goals of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when interpreting and applying state statute s of limitations and the coor…
20-1228 Chris Ann Jaye v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa Eighth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 all-writs-act civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts judicial-authority judicial-immunity legal-remedies void-orders 1. Because rights are God-given to individuals, what legal authority did this Court have to impair the lights of the governed, specifically in exchang…
20-1222 Julie Dalessio v. University of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights comprehensive-remedial-scheme due-process judicial-review ninth-circuit remedial-scheme section-1983 statutory-interpretation statutory-rights 1. Does a "comprehensive remedial scheme for the enforcement of a statutory right " under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) [42 U.S.C. 12101 e…
20-1212 Peyman Pakdel, et ux. v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-03 GVR Amici (3)Relisted (4) 42-usc-1983 administrative-remedies exhaustion-of-remedies finality-requirement land-use-regulation property-rights regulatory-takings takings-claim unconstitutional-conditions williamson-county Planning for their retirement home, Petitioners (the Pakdels) purchased a tenancy-in-common interest in a six-unit building in San Francisco, which ga…
20-1120 Melissa Belgau, et al. v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 collective-bargaining color-of-law employee-rights first-amendment public-employees section-1983 union-dues 1. Whether it violates the First Amendment for a state and union to seize union dues or fees from employees' wages without proof the employees waived …
20-1085 Scott Erik Stafne v. Thomas S. Zilly, Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 article-iii civil-rights due-process good-behaviour-tenure judicial-independence judicial-tenure jurisdictional-challenge separation-of-powers standing Whether the challenge that a jurist is not an Article III judge because she or he does not have "good behaviour" tenure is a jurisdictional one which …
20-1005 Sara Dees v. San Diego County, California Ninth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 child-seizure civil-rights due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty-interest parental-rights section-1983 Is it necessary, in order to prove a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violation of the Fourteenth Amendment concerning a parent's liberty interest in …
20-965 Balubhai Patel, et al. v. Manuel Chavez California 2021-01-22 Denied 42-usc-1983 anti-SLAPP anti-SLAPP-statute attorney-fees civil-rights civil-rights-statute federal-preemption fee-shifting preemption supremacy-clause Whether California's anti-SLAPP statute's mandatory attorney fee shifting provisions in favor of a prevailing defendant conflicts with, and stands as …
20-951 Mary Stewart, as Administrator of the Estate of Luke O. Stewart, Sr., Deceased v. City of Euclid, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-01-15 Denied Amici (6) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference fourth-amendment municipal-liability qualified-immunity section-1983 Where a municipal employee has violated the Constitution, must a plaintiff point to "clearly established law" (such as would overcome a defense of qua…
20-6797 Kevin Sembrat v. Heather Stanton, fka Heather Sembrat New Jersey 2021-01-07 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-conduct judicial-impartiality property-rights section-1983 1. Whether, in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as well as The Civil Rights Act of 1871 "Sect…
20-881 Huong L. Tran, et al. v. City of Holmes Beach, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 administrative-remedies civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-access equal-protection finality-requirement section-1983 shotgun-pleading The first broad question is whether strict shotgun pleading rules, a category of heightened standard, is permissible as used (excessively) in the Elev…
20-870 John W. Orem, et ux. v. Matthew Gillmore, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights fourth-amendment medical-privacy probable-cause qualified-immunity search search-and-seizure Whether the Respondent State Trooper's lack of probable cause to search was sufficiently clear, when all reasonable inferences are made in Petitioner'…
20-872 Shane Davis v. Mike Carroll, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process factual-reasonableness judicial-interpretation legal-standard qualified-immunity Though unstated in 42 U.S.C. § 1983 or the common law, qualified immunity doctrine sets forth a two-prong test for claims of qualified immunity: (i) w…
20-876 Jeanine Liberti, et vir v. City of Scottsdale, Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights common-law constitutional-rights due-process legal-doctrine police-liability police-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 1. For 42 U.S.C. § 1983 cases, this Court has created a qualified-immunity doctrine. It lacks support in the common law, in this Court's pre-1974 case…
20-851 Roger Hawes v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-12-28 Denied 42-usc-1983 commingled-funds disability-benefits due-process inmate-trust-fund preemption section-1983 section-5301 statutory-protection veterans-benefits 1. The Fifth Circuit held that veterans' disability benefits deposited in Petitioner's inmate trust fund (ITF) account are not protected from being us…
20-744 Michael Wigginton, Jr. v. The University of Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-11-30 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established-right due-process fifth-circuit hope-v-pelzer qualified-immunity state-actors supreme-court-precedent Whether the Fifth Circuit's grant of qualified immunity to the state actors named in the instant matter was violative of Supreme Court precedent estab…
20-734 Brett Emmett Lloyd v. John Gerhard, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-27 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 anti-SLAPP civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process false-police-report favorable-termination malicious-prosecution standing summons Within the State of Oregon, to effectively state a malicious prosecution claim, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, a plaintiff must establish State law elements …
20-6443 Scott Myers v. Patrolman Rowell, et al. Second Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 42-usc-section-1983 civil-rights false-arrest false-prosecution institutionalized-abuse malicious-prosecution municipal-liability 1. Don't the complete reversals affirm that malicious prosecution, inter alia, occurred and therefore requires, on the law, that the case be remanded …
20-711 City of Fairbanks, Alaska, et al. v. Marvin Roberts, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-23 Denied Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights conviction-vacatur criminal-conviction due-process favorable-termination habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey section-1983 In Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994), this Court held that a plaintiff cannot bring a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for allegedly unconstitutional …
20-6351 Johnny Tippins v. Patricia Caruso, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-law legal-compliance standing state-actors statutory-interpretation Should the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recall its mandate to prevent a miscarriage of justice because the Sixth Circuit and the Distri…
20-634 Felicia Robinson v. Webster County, Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-claim constitutional-violation due-process government-liability private-actor-injury section-1983 standing state-created-danger Whether a person injured by a private actor can state a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against a state or local government actor who created the danger …
20-605 Kiernan Wholean, et al. v. CSEA SEIU Local 2001, et al. Second Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights damages-liability good-faith-defense qualified-immunity unconstitutional Is there a "good faith defense" to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that shields a defendant from damages liability for depriving citizens of their constitutional rig…
20-580 Barry Damon Mallatere v. Town of Boone, North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2020-11-02 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 ashcroft-v-iqbal civil-rights fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution monell-v-dept-of-soc-servs municipal-liability policymaker-liability The Fourth Circuit affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded the district court's dismissal over the Petitioner's, Barry Damon Mallatre, causes …
20-6014 Jasper Lee Vick v. Clement F. Bernard, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-10-14 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-violation deliberate-indifference due-process first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation medical-segregation prisoner-grievance retaliation summary-judgment I. Did the Sixth Circuit err in denying Petitioner review of the district court's judgment in favor of Respondents on Whether there is a temporal prox…
20-486 Nathaniel Ogle v. Ohio Civil Service Employees Association, AFSCME Local 11, AFL-CIO Sixth Circuit 2020-10-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights damages-liability good-faith-defense legal-immunity Is there a "good faith defense" to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that shields a defendant from damages liability for depriving citizens of their constitutional rig…
20-465 Young County, Texas, et al. v. Nichole Sanchez, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-10-09 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 42-usc-1983 bell-v-wolfish civil-rights conditions-of-confinement judicial-management monell-v-dept-of-soc-servs municipal-liability pretrial-detainee respondeat-superior section-1983 In Monell v. Dep't of Soc. Servs. and subsequent precedent, the Court articulated stringent requirements for imposing liability on municipalities unde…
20-422 Sarah R. Lee v. Ohio Education Association, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-10-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights good-faith-defense private-entities qualified-immunity restitution restitutionary-remedies retroactivity section-1983 Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31, 138 S. Ct. 2448 (2018), held that the Constitution forbids public-…
20-427 Polk County, Wisconsin v. J. K. J., et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-10-02 Denied Amici (3) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violations failure-to-train monell-liability municipal-liability section-1983 single-incident-theory Whether the "single-incident" theory of Monell liability may be used to hold a municipality liable under §1983 on the theory that its failure to do mo…
20-387 Lewana Howard v. Gabriel DeFrates, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights equal-protection federal-remedy retaliation state-action state-employees (1) When state employees acting in their personal capacity rather than agents of the state, violate the 14,h Amendment Equal Protection rights of a ci…
20-381 Hamilton County Job and Family Services, et al. v. Joseph Siefert, et ux. Sixth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied 42-usc-1983 child-services circuit-conflict civil-rights due-process medical-care qualified-immunity state-action state-actor A. Did the Sixth Circuit err when it failed to conduct an individualized analysis of Petitioners' actions before blanketly rejecting their asserted de…
20-5777 Leroy Banks v. Anthony Terry, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-23 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-law free-speech judicial-procedure standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals and The District Court erred and Prejudiced me in denying and dismissing my claims and case (including injunctive relief …
20-5756 Chen Xu v. City of New York, New York Second Circuit 2020-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 administrative-abuse child-abuse child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-court due-process family-court substantive-rights After a diagnosis and an assigned test in Weill Cornell hospital, petitioner Chen Xu's eight years old son urinate blood for two weeks. The hospital t…
20-5724 Justin Lamar Johnson v. Joseph Gibson, Judge, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-conspiracy civil-rights court-appointed-attorneys fraud immunity judicial-immunity res-judicata state-action state-actors I. The trial and appellate court ruled that the plaintiffs court appointed attorneys were not state actors subject to the court's jurisdiction in a 42…
20-329 Julie M. Sowell, et al. v. Tinley, Renehan & Dost, LLP, et al. Second Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-actors I. In the district court petitioners sought prospective declaratory relief, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, from a Connecticut Superior Court protective…
20-5553 Joseph E. Lawrence v. Montana Montana 2020-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech government-accountability judicial-misconduct public-records standing state-accountability subject-matter-jurisdiction (1) Are the Montana Supreme Court, Montana Attorney General and Montana's lower courts obligated and/or accountable to abide by the express provisions…
20-5526 Norman Paul Blanco v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process municipal-liability qualified-immunity supervisory-liability Question not identified.
20-190 Daniel Sohn, et ux. v. Mariposa County, California, et al. California 2020-08-19 Denied 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-statute constitutional-violation fourth-amendment government-entity property-rights subdivision-map-act 1. Where a government entity enters and takes real and personal property of its citizens under color of law based on an intentional misinterpretation…
20-161 City of Sacramento, California, et al. v. Robert Mann, Sr., et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment intimate-association section-1983 sibling-relationship sibling-relationships standing 1. Whether the First Amendment protects intimate associations absent expressive activity; 2. If so, whether that protection exceeds what the Due Proc…
20-5353 Ramone L. Wright v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-precedent qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation DiDthE CoUtERR N P/EA DEFENDANT while HEWAS UNDER HUENCE IN thE Psychiatric MEDICINE REMEON MEDICA/ FiLE CE.C.F. NO.8 atPE SEE.B.O.P. ID #341 that inr…
20-5314 Jared Stubblefield v. Dorothy Brown, Clerk, Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-08-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing Question not identified.
20-5229 Arthur Lopez v. Costa Mesa Police Department, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process free-speech Should the absence of Probable Cause and the absence of Reasonable Suspicion even to stop Petitioner, Warrentless in a vehicle seizure of his four min…
20-5096 In Re Shavez Evans 2020-07-16 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 campaign-finance civil-rights constitutional-law declaratory-judgment due-process equal-protection first-amendment judicial-elections judicial-immunity state-court 1) he Distic Cor Aiona n the ptner Evn uce ual when abusing their discretion ruling Judges are absolutely immone. from S 1983 suits for damages when t…
20-24 Great Lakes Minerals, LLC v. Ohio, et al. Kentucky 2020-07-15 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure comity declaratory-relief individual-capacity injunctive-relief minimum-contacts sovereign-immunity state-jurisdiction state-sovereign-immunity I. Whether the Court's decision in Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt, 139 S.Ct. 1485 (2019) extends a state's sovereign immunity to declarato…
20-20 Benito Casanova v. International Association of Machinists, Local 701 Seventh Circuit 2020-07-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights damages-liability good-faith-defense legal-immunity Is there a "good faith defense" to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that shields a defendant from damages liability for depriving citizens of their constitutional rig…
19-1466 Tammy Korthals v. Bradley Strozeski Sixth Circuit 2020-07-07 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process hope-v-pelzer non-decisional-evidence police police-liability qualified-immunity standing Whether non-decisional evidence must be considered when determining the protections of qualified immunity for a police officer as originally held in H…
19-8870 Daniel Vallejo Recio v. Rudy Vasquez, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process evidence legal-relief procedural-dismissal standing witness witness-evidence (1) WHY WAS THE ATTACH STATE OF CLAIM UNITE DISMISS.? (2) WHY THE REQUEST RELEAF WAS NOT GRANTED? (3) WHY WAS COMPLAINT 42 USC.§ 1983 DISMISS ON THE…
19-1436 Denise DeMartini v. Town of Gulf Stream, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-30 Denied 42-usc-1983 causation civil-lawsuit civil-litigation civil-rights first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation municipal-liability probable-cause retaliation section-1983 Did the Eleventh Circuit err in importing a "lack of probable cause" requirement for a First Amendment retaliation claim under 42 U.S.C § 1983 arising…
19-8772 Mario Torres v. Mike Hansen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-23 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 brady-violations civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment discovery discovery-deprivation due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial Whether Contra Costa County California's blanket policy of depriving a criminal defendant, the facts and the evidence (exculpatory or otherwise), surr…
19-1360 William Cannon, Sr., as Special Representative for Charles Cannon, et al. v. Johnnie Lee Savory Seventh Circuit 2020-06-11 Denied Amici (1) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights custody favorable-termination habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey preclusion-doctrines section-1983 statute-of-limitations statutes-of-limitations Heck v. Humphrey , 512 U.S. 477 (1994), held that, to prevent circumvention of habeas corpus's statutory exhaustion of state remedies requirement, a p…
19-8639 Derrick Allen v. Ted Wire, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights contract-law discrimination due-process employment equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit Question not identified.
19-1277 David Thorpe v. Dexter Dumas, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-12 Denied Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 absolute-immunity administrative-acts civil-rights due-process investigative-acts probable-cause prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 Question 1. Whether a supervising Deputy District Attorney who assigned three (4) District Attorneys over a two-year period to a case that lacked prob…
19-8394 Paul Anthony Hatton v. Douglas L. Combs, Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-enforcement standing state-court-rules state-supreme-court subject-matter-jurisdiction WHETHER THE FEDERAL COURTS HAVE AN AFFIRMATIVE DUTY TO EXERCISE THEIR SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION TO HEAR A 42 U.S.C. § 1983 ACTION SEEKING TO HAVE A …
19-1261 Trent Michael Taylor v. Robert Riojas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-04-30 GVR Amici (2)Relisted (4) 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment government-officials obvious-violation prisoner-rights qualified-immunity section-1983 standing Respondents are prison officials who deliberately left Petitioner Trent Taylor naked for six days in two filthy cells; the first cell was covered from…
19-1196 William Johnson v. Paulding County, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-03 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process eleventh-amendment manuel-v-city-of-joliet pre-trial-detention pretrial-detention statute-of-limitations 1. This question presented is whether a State's statute of limitations bridling the pursuit of regress for Unconstitutional and illegal pre-trial impr…
19-1186 Joshua Baker, Director, South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied Amici (6) 42-usc-1396a(a)(23) 42-usc-1983 circuit-split federal-enforcement medicaid-recipients medicaid-rights private-right-of-action provider-qualification spending-clause state-determination statutory-interpretation 1. Whether Medicaid recipients have a private right of action under 42 U.S.C. 1983 and 42 U.S.C. 1396a(a)(23) to challenge a state's determination tha…
19-1150 Gary Kirchhoff v. United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-03-20 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process federal-suit fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech military-medical-privileges statute-of-limitations whistleblower whistleblower-rights Whether the court erred in affirming the lower court's decision that the statute of limitations was past for Gary Kirchhoff, M.D. to file a federal su…
19-8023 Tom Eli Orr v. Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied IFP 42-U.S.C.-section 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process pro-se pro-se-pleading procedural-due-process sixth-circuit standing HAS MR. ORR BEEN AFFORDED PROCEDURAL DUE PROCESS UNDER THE CONSTITUTION?
19-1130 Dale Danielson, et al. v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Relisted (9) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 constitutional-rights court-ruling good-faith-defense private-entities qualified-immunity restitution retroactivity takings In Wyatt v. Cole, 504 U.S. 158 (1992), this Court held that qualified immunity is categorically unavailable to private entities who violate 42 U.S.C. …
19-1126 Stacey Mooney v. Illinois Education Association, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied Relisted (9) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 constitutional-rights good-faith-defense private-entities qualified-immunity restitution restitutionary-remedies retroactivity section-1983 takings Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31, 138 S. Ct. 2448 (2018), held that the Constitution forbids public-…
19-1128 Jose Mendes Da Costa v. City of Mount Vernon Police Officer Pereira, et al. Second Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-violation claim-preclusion constitutional-amendments due-process petition-rights res-judicata 1. Whether the right to petition the government for redress of grievances in 42 U.S.C. § 1983, U.S. Const. Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments, and the…
19-1104 Mark Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Council 31, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (9) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights damages-liability good-faith-defense legal-immunity unconstitutional-law Is there a "good faith defense" to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that shields a defendant from damages liability for depriving citizens of their constitutional rig…
19-1086 Robert E. Garcia v. Michael Falk, et al. Second Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights compensable-injury constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process legal-injury nominal-damages procedural-due-process section-1983 standing Whether it is an error of law to dismiss a constitutional claim brought under 42 U.S.C. 1983 on the grounds that the plaintiff has failed to establish…
19-1076 John L. Corrigan, Jr. v. City of Savage, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response Waived 1983-claim 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights custody due-process favorable-termination habeas habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey incarceration judicial-precedent section-1983 spencer-v-kemna standing Whether the court below erroneously held, in conflict with the decisions of seven other circuits, that the favorable termination rule applies even if …
19-7709 John A. Toth v. Peter Antonacci, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance qualified-immunity treaty Question not identified.
19-1014 Teresa Berry v. Delaware County Sheriff's Office Sixth Circuit 2020-02-14 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights deliberate-indifference detainee-rights due-process jail-conditions medical-care medical-policy medical-training municipal-liability policy training withdrawal The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment from the United States District Court Southern District of Ohio Eastern Division finding that…
19-1018 Dana Gallop v. Adult Correctional Institutions, et al. Rhode Island 2020-02-14 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-death-statute civil-rights constitutional-law political-disenfranchisement prisoner-rights racial-discrimination supremacy-clause unconstitutional Does Rhode Island's Civil Death Statute, G.L. 1956 § 13-6-1, violate the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution, where it is derived from …
19-7634 Aimee Hankins v. Tim Lowe Seventh Circuit 2020-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey judicial-remedy section-1983 state-federal-proceedings unlawful-detention When habeous corpus relief is unavailable to an inmate or parolee who has been held beyond their lawful release or termination date, does this Court's…
19-7572 Abel Revilla Ochoa v. Bryan Collier, Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied IFP 1st-amendment 42-U.S.C.-§-1983 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights clemency clemency-process constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review standing state-actor 1. Whether a state actor can insulate unconstitutional policies and practices from judicial review by asserting that the upcoming execution of the pla…
19-7554 Roger Hillygus v. Frances Doherty, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983,false-arrest,due-process, due-process false-arrest guardianship-fraud judicial-procedure qualified-immunity standing 1. Did the trial court err when it dismissed with prejudice all of Plaintiffs' claims under 42 USC § 1983 when Plaintiff Roger Hillygus has suffered f…
19-7453 Nancy Delaney v. San Andreas Regional Center, et al. California 2020-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 constitutional-violation developmental-disability due-process government-officials governmental-duties harmless-error involuntary-confinement jury-determination qualified-immunity standing 1. Whether persons who are not government officials and not performing governmental duties can claim qualified immunity from suit in a civil rights ac…
19-7452 Jeffrey R. Golin, et ux. v. San Andreas Regional Center, et al. California 2020-01-28 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 constitutional-violation developmental-disability due-process government-officials governmental-duties governmental-immunity harmless-error jury-determination qualified-immunity standing Whether persons who are not government officials and not performing governmental duties can claim qualified immunity from suit in a civil rights actio…
19-7441 Anthony Earl Ridley v. Board of County Commissioners of Sedgwick County, Kansas, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation damages due-process exhaustion-of-remedies section-1983 sovereign-immunity standing state-employee 1.)Is Petitioner's request for Compensatory damages barred by U.S.C.1997e (e)? Punitive damages because He alleges no facts whatsoever establishing th…
19-928 Kenneth Fernandez Johnson, Jr. v. Sadie Darnell, Sheriff, Alachua County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights-statute due-process false-arrest false-imprisonment favorable-termination fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause 1. Review whether my Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures was violated after I was falsely arrested, falsely i…
19-7415 Dennis C. Davis v. Fayette County Appraisal District, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 adjudicate-merits erroneous-limitation-law federal-jurisdiction state-court-remedies state-law-remedies statutory-claims statutory-interpretation tax-case-litigation tax-cases tax-cases-1983-relief taxation-violation-claim tort-claims Writ of Certiorari to resolve a conflict among the state, courts as to whether in TAX CASES, state court must provide relief under 42 U.S.C. §1983 whe…
19-7366 In Re Andrew J. Johnston 2020-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing takings Does the court of appeals' circuit precedent in United States v. Bilanzich, 771 F.2d 292 (7th Cir. 1985) accurately reflect the legislative intent/his…
19-868 Aaron Miner, et al. v. Steven L. Picatti Idaho 2020-01-14 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) 42-U.S.C.-1983 42-usc-1983 civil-rights clearly-established-rights constitutional-rights excessive-force factual-disputes qualified-immunity summary-judgment In this excessive force case under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the defendant officials (petitioners here) moved for summary judgment arguing that, on the facts …
19-862 William Castro v. R. Fred Lewis, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process due-process-rights federal-constitutional-claims federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 state-court-judgment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars subject-matter jurisdiction in a federal district court over federal constitutional claims filed pursuant to …
19-7163 Paul Anthony Hatton v. Douglas L. Combs, Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-enforcement standing state-court-rules state-courts state-supreme-court subject-matter-jurisdiction WHETHER THE FEDERAL COURTS HAVE AN AFFIRMATIVE DUTY TO EXERCISE THEIR SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION TO HEAR A 42 U.S.C. § 1983 ACTION SEEKING TO HAVE A …
19-7060 Kent Glen Williams v. Brooks, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-23 Denied IFP due-process first-amendment free-speech rlulpa standing 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-claim court-order due-process health-screening judicial-relief prisoner-rights religious-freedom standing Wo^> prisoners consbKjtioH <\\ c^<A sWoforj/ rty 'hf fo P^j/jioi^ (edic^ous -Troe^jomj \Ziola.j<z.d ojkc/J jj e_ District court " AismYSSed Kb u^c. …
19-797 City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. v. Mary R. Meier Eighth Circuit 2019-12-23 Denied 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment municipal-liability probable-cause section-1983 seizure wanted-bulletin warrantless-seizure Every year, thousands of automobiles are identified in law enforcement databases as stolen or wanted in connection with crimes. Warrants for seizure o…
19-7002 Robert C. Denham, Jr. v. James Dzurenda, Director, Nevada Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied IFP 28-usc-1332 42-usc-1983 amended-complaint amount-in-controversy civil-procedure civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction in-forma-pauperis jurisdictional-amount screening-order standing subject-matter-jurisdiction I. (a) Is whether or not Plaintiff s Reply, Motions 7 Affidavit to Screening Order dated 01-09-19 was timely, and satisfied the $75, 000 amount-in-con…
19-6981 Vladik Bykov v. Steven G. Rosen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 absolute-immunity ada-title-ii americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights compensatory-damages declaratory-relief discriminatory-motive Does Title II of the Americans with Disabilities A section-1983 standing #1. Is absolute immunity a bar to declaratory relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983? #2. Does Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act require a plain…
19-6944 Bahman Khodayari v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights damages discovery due-process nominal-damages rule-26 rule-26(a)(1)(A)(ii) rule-37 rule-37(c)(1) rule-41 rule-41(b) sanctions section-1983 A. Does the Ninth Circuit's affirmance of the District Court's dismissal of Petitioner's 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim under Fed.R.Civ.P. Rule 41(b) due to R…
19-731 Pancho's LLC v. James T. Hughes, et al. West Virginia 2019-12-10 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process federal-regulation notice-and-hearing paul-v-davis reputation stigma-to-reputation 1. Does Paul v. Davis , 424 U.S. 693 (1976), establish a two-pronged test for a cause ofaction under 42 U.S.C. § 1983? 2. Whether the stigma to reput…
19-718 James King v. Douglas Brownback, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-12-06 Denied Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 bivens civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law due-process federal-law law-enforcement section-1983 state-law task-force The use of joint state-federal police task forces has expanded nationwide and along with it the related practice of federally deputizing state law enf…
19-686 Snodgrass-King Pediatric Dental Associates, P.C., et al. v. DentaQuest USA Insurance Co., Inc. Sixth Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied Response Waived 1st-amendment 42-usc-1983 blum-v-yaretsky civil-rights first-amendment government-contractor government-directive private-contractor section-1983 significant-encouragement state-action 1. Whether a government directive made to a private contractor while the contractor is bidding on a lucrative and admittedly important government cont…
19-615 Elaine Ward v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection municipal-liability service-of-process state-court-proceedings transparency 1. Is there a violation of due process and equal protection under the 5th and 14th amendments as related to 42 U.S.C. 1983, when a municipality, fails…
19-6570 Ray Jefferson Cromartie v. Bradfield Shealy, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process habeas-corpus procedural-history section-1983 standing state-statute stay-of-execution In Skinner v. Switzer, 562 U.S. 521 (2011), this Court held that a prisoner who has been denied access to DNA testing under a state statute may bring …
19-562 Brian Burke v. New York City Transit Authority, et al. Second Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 ada civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation defamation due-process fair-labor-standards-act first-amendment leave-to-amend pleading-standards pro-se pro-se-litigation standing state-statute title-vii unconstitutionality Pleading standards generally and/or for Title VII and/or 42 U.S.C. 1983 and/or ADA, with regards to pro se parties If a Defamation per se claim is bl…
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 1. For a summary judgment to be granted, the Circuits must determine that the movant is entitled to "judgment as a matter of law", Miller . New York C…
19-552 William A. Salzwedel v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-challenge disability-rights due-process equal-protection rehabilitation-act rooker-feldman-doctrine standing third-party-standing title-ii-ada 1. Does an attorney in the practice of representing proposed adult conservatees/wards have direct standing , associational standing, or traditional th…
19-6324 Taeng Yang v. Michael McNeill, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights conviction-vacatur due-process heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey leave-to-amend section-1983 statute-of-limitations wallace-v-kato 1. "Whether Yang's § 1983 claims begins to accrue on the date his conviction was "vacated and overturned" in light of Heck U. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477, …
19-485 Juan Perez, et al. v. City of Sweetwater, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-15 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 city-of-canton-v-harris civil-procedure civil-rights due-process municipal-liability police-misconduct reeves-v-sanderson reeves-v-sanderson-plumbing section-1983 seventh-amendment single-occurrence-rule I) Whether the Petitioner's Seventh Amendment rights were violated when the trial court weighed evidence and drew inferences against Petitioner in set…
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.…
19-409 City of Cleveland, Ohio, et al. v. Ricky Jackson, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1988 brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 federal-law municipal-liability personal-injury personal-injury-claims qualified-immunity section-1983 section-1988 state-law state-law-survival-rule survival 1. Whether § 1988 requires the survival of § 1983 claims to be determined using the state-law survival rule for the most closely analogous state cause…
19-6028 Adam Lane v. Adam Nading, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation fourth-amendment knock-and-announce parole-search parole-searches qualified-immunity 1. With a Fourth Amendment knock-and-announce violation in Petitioner's parole search, and where no case in nearly 50 years ever held that knock-and-a…
19-372 William D. Jenkins, Jr., et ux. v. Corey Chance, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-09-19 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts judicial-power legislative-authority legislative-intent standing state-legislation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction Does This Court possess verifiable Constitutional and Congressional power to interpret unwritten Congressional Law and alleged Legislative "voids ". …
19-5984 Daniel H. Jones v. Claudia C. Bonnyman, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis sovereign-immunity standing I. DID THE U.S. SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERR IN DENYING THE PETITIONER 'S ABSOLUTE RIGHT IN FILING AS WELL AS TO APPEAL HIS CIVIL ACTION IN …
19-5651 Gary Ray Bowles v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied IFP 18-usc-3599 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-enforcement clemency clemency-proceedings death-penalty due-process federal-counsel federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus intellectual-disability right-to-counsel section-3599 Can state officials bar a death-sentenced individual's 18 U.S.C. § 3599 counsel from representing him in state clemency proceedings, and if not, is th…
19-5564 Montye Benjamin v. Lynn Thomas Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights disputed-facts due-process federal-court federal-courts law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 standing summary-judgment 1. Whether a defense of qualified immunity raised by a law enforcement officer in a § 1983 action is a valid basis for a Federal court to resolve disp…
19-5567 Delores Neely v. Georgia Department of Human Resources Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 amendment-xiv-section-5 civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1871 congressional-power constitutional-immunity constitutional-provisions eleventh-amendment federal-courts fourteenth-amendment sovereign-immunity state-sovereignty 1. Can Congress abrogate a State 's immunity from being sued in Federal court without its consent, under authority granted to Congress by the Fourte…
19-5520 Terry G. Watson v. Nathan B. Stewart, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied IFP 42-usc-1981 42-usc-1982 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 42-usc-1986 civil-rights due-process ethnic-discrimination ethnic-origin federal-statutes human-rights political-prisoners religious-conscience 1. Did the USCA8, err, by not addressing the fundemental issues of civil rights under 42 USC § 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985 and 1986; Bivens or the Federal…
19-150 Lynn Lumbard, et al. v. City of Ann Arbor, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2019-08-01 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 5th-amendment federal-court-review fifth-amendment just-compensation loretto-v-teleprompter permanent-physical-occupation physical-occupation san-remo-hotel state-court-exhaustion takings takings-claim takings-clause In Knick v. Township of Scott, 588 U.S. __, 139 S. Ct. 2162, 2019 U.S. LEXIS 4197 (U.S., J une 2 1, 2 019), this Court expressly overruled the state c…
19-5285 Daniel Luke Meier v. Amanda M. Berger, et al. Michigan 2019-07-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 42-U.S.C.-1983 42-usc-1983 5th-amendment circuit-court civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 constitutional-rights default-judgment due-process property property-rights state-law Did the Circuit Court err in failing to complete the default process against Allstate Property and Casualty Insurance Company under color of state law…
19-116 Heather Marlowe v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived and whether a systemic failure to investigate rap 42-U.S.C.-§-1983 42-usc-1983 accrual civil-rights discriminatory-policy equal-protection monell Monell-claim rape-investigation statute-of-limitations I. When does a Monell-based equal protection claim brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 accrue for statute of limitations purposes? Specifically, does…
19-5245 Michelle Renee Lamb v. Joe Norwood, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation 1. This case represents a public issue to thousands of transgenders confined to state and federal institutions whom are being denied treatment despite…
19-80 Shreveport Chapter #237 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy v. Caddo Parish Commission Fifth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment monument-preservation standing treaty-rights In a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action, the Petitioner Shreve port Chapter #237 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy ("UDC") filed its lawsuit in response…
19-65 Jonna Corporation, dba Premier Recycling Company v. City of Sunnyvale, California Ninth Circuit 2019-07-12 Denied 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pleading pleading-standards property-rights section-1983 standing 1. Did Petitioner Premier Recycling adequately plead its Declaratory Judgment claim alleging a violation of 42 U.S.C. Section 1983, pursuant to FCRP 8…
19-56 Mark Milner, et al. v. Vincent Mares, Executive Director, New Mexico Racing Commission, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response Waived 42-U.S.C.-§-1983 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-accountability harlow-v-fitzgerald new-mexico qualified-immunity Did the lower courts err in dismissing Petitioners' cases on the basis of Qualified Immunity in the face of US Supreme Court precedent and New Mexico …
19-47 Jeryme Morgan v. Minh Schott, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-07-08 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights criminal-sentence disciplinary-proceedings due-process edwards-v-balisok heck-bar heck-v-humphrey mixed-sanctions non-durational-sanctions section-1983 When an inmate is penalized for a disciplinary infraction, prison officials may impose durational sanctions (e.g., revoking good-time credits) or nond…
18-1524 Michelle MacDonald Shimota, et vir v. Bob Wegner, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-06-07 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech probable-cause retaliation retaliatory-arrest retaliatory-prosecution In Neives v. Bartlett, this court held that probable cause is not an absolute bar to a First Amendment retaliatory- arrest claim under 42 U.S.C. § 198…
18-1461 Dawn Marie Delebreau v. Cristina Danforth, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 bivens civil-rights constitutional-equality domestic-dependent-nations due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction native-american-rights section-1983 sovereign-immunity territorial-jurisdiction tribal-law tribal-sovereignty Are tribal laws considered territorial laws under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 such that Native Americans must also have an equal § 1983 remedy when Indians are c…
18-1458 Charles J. Vernier v. Debra Gallegos New Mexico 2019-05-22 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-search burden-of-proof circuit-precedent circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law consent consent-burden fourth-amendment implied-consent qualified-immunity search-and-seizure On May 4, 2013, Respondent Debra Gallegos was stopped at a DWI checkpoint in New Mexico. Petitioner Charles Vernier, a New Mexico State Police Officer…
18-9383 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 1st-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection erroneous-decisions first-amendment judicial-misconduct patent-law patent-rights Whether the lower court vacating hearings and arbitrarily ordering Petitioner to amend her complaint and the Judge acting as attorney to Defendants or…
18-1452 Jose A. Perez v. Physician Assistant Board, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-05-21 Denied 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 amendment civil-procedure constitutional-amendment constitutional-claim due-process equal-protection federal-rules-civil-procedure pro-se-litigant statute-of-limitations takings williamson-county Whether Mr. Perez can amend his complaint pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1653 and 15(c) F.R.C.P., to allege that a State cannot exclude a person from the pra…
18-9140 Michael Ray Ingram v. Frank Clements, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment injunctive-relief qualified-immunity standing supervisory-liability Whether dismissal of claims for injunctive relief requiring state officials to obey the Eighth Amendment pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1983 was error? Wheth…
18-9040 Valerie Arroyo v. Joseph Colbert, Jr., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied IFP 1985 1988 and 18 U.S.C. §§ 241 242? 18-usc-241-242 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 42-usc-1988 civil-rights civil-rights-deprivation-due-process-42-usc-1983-1 color-of-law constitutional-violation due-process federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Did the lower tribunal, federal or state court, federal or state agencies, or employees' actions, conduct or interference were unconstitutional throug…
18-1366 Estate of Adriano Roman, Jr. v. City of Newark, New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-30 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights fourth-amendment joint-and-several-liability joint-several-liability pleading qualified-immunity section-1983 standing tort-law warrantless-search cepts of tort law. A fundamental concept of tort law is joint and several liability, which shifts the burden to plausible joint tortfeasors to apporti…
18-1357 Randy Cummings, et al. v. Celina Bussey, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 clearly-established-law discretionary-function federal-court-interpretation federal-court-review ministerial-exception property-rights qualified-immunity state-law state-law-interpretation state-supreme-court-precedent statutory-interpretation 1. Whether a federal court interpreting a state statute can conclude that it grants the state agency discretion such that the "ministerial exception" …
18-1355 Edward Kramer v. Antonio Vitti, et al. Second Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights factual-dispute jury-trial malicious-prosecution material-dispute material-facts seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether the Petitioner's Seventh Amendment right to a jury determination of the material disputed facts in his case was violated when the Court of App…
18-1333 Ronald Jones, et al. v. Michael Keitz, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 ashcroft-v-iqbal civil-rights county-liability heightened-pleading iqbal-standard malicious-prosecution monell-claim municipal-liability pleading-standard section-1983 sheriff-liability 1. What facts must a plaintiff allege to state a claim for malicious prosecution against a California county and its sheriff under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, e…
18-1316 Beverley R. Nettles v. Cynthia C. Bullington, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment probable-cause protected-class retaliation retaliatory-claim Whether the existence of probable cause should be a factor to preclude a retaliatory-claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for a person's prior exercise of the…
18-1278 Corey A. Kerns, et al. v. Chesapeake Exploration, L.L.C., et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-04-08 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 due-process due-process-clause horizontal-drilling mineral-extraction mineral-rights permanent-physical-invasion property-rights regulatory-police-power state-action state-regulatory-police-power state-regulatory-power subsurface-rights takings-clause STATE REGULATORY POLICE POWER 1. Whether the Due Process and Takings Clauses are violated when a state official utilizes a state regulatory police po…
18-8548 Marvin Belser v. Jeffrey Woods, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process grievances qualified-immunity standing Did the Sixth circuit court of appeals incorrectly decide the case? Yes; If so, what facts?
18-8377 Walter D. Booker v. T. Johnson, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-03-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment investigative-detention probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion section-1983 seizure WHETHER THE OFFICERS HAD REASONABLE SUSPICION TO SEIZE MR. BOOKER SHABAZZALLAH? WHETHER THE OFFICERS HAD PROBABLE CAUSE TO CONVERT SEIZURE INTO AN AR…
18-8290 Vicky Ware Bey v. Joseph Ponte, et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1981 42-usc-1983 42-usc-2000e anti-retaliation civil-rights civil-rights,title-vii,42-usc-2000e,42-usc-1981,42 due-process employment-discrimination federal-procedure retaliation title-vii Whether the anti-retaliation provision of section 704(a) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 codified as 42 USC 2000e protect the Plaintiffs …
18-8283 Terry A. Burlison v. Pam Angus, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as a Marion County, Florida Court Deputy Clerk Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 absolute-immunity civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process immunity official-liability pre-seizure-conduct property-loss property-rights section-1983 seizure Under 42 U.S.C. 1983 when a public official violates clearly established law though her pre-seizure conduct and the conduct caused the loss of propert…
18-1115 Ronald DeCoster v. Waushara County Highway Department, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights claim-preclusion due-process fair-notice federal-funding fifth-amendment inverse-condemnation res-judicata takings uniform-relocation-assistance ura I. Are Petitioner's claims under the URA, the Fifth Amendment and 42 U.S.C. §1983 barred by the doctrine of claim preclusion and res judicata, despite…
18-8142 Michael Williamson v. Karen Slusher, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech jurisdiction official-misconduct prisoner-lawsuit standing Is the holding of the 6th Circuit court of appeals in King v. Zatdara, 733 F. no 1 (80 W. 201.5), cert. Sen., Z&niaray.King, 20115 U.S. LSXtS IS? (201…
18-1093 City of Joliet, Illinois, et al. v. Elijah Manuel Seventh Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 accrual accrual-rule civil-rights fourth-amendment judicial-procedure manuel-v-city-of-joliet pretrial-detention section-1983 Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in holding that a Fourth Amendment claim for unlawful post-process, pretrial detention brought pursuant to §1983 is …
18-7962 Al-Rashid Muhammad Abdullah v. Plant City Police Department, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty-rights property-rights section-1983 takings Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments require that prior to the final termination of a property right/interest § 1983 …
18-7866 King Grant-Davis v. South Carolina Office of the Governor, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 administrative-procedure americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-rights due-process federal-statute procedural-rights property-interest rehabilitation-act vocational-rehabilitation Whether an individual with a disability (as that term is defined in 29. U.S.C. Section 705(20)) who has entered into an Individualized Plan for Employ…
18-1045 Nathaniel Brent, et al. v. Wayne County Department of Human Services, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment administrative-policy civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte-orders judicial-oversight qualified-immunity rooker-feldman-doctrine standing 1. This Court has made clear that the RookerFeldman Doctrine is simply an application of 28 U.S.C. § 1257. Does the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine bar a 42 U…
18-7775 Joseph F. Olivares v. Michigan Workers' Compensation Agency, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing statute-of-limitations takings workers-compensation Question not identified.
18-7486 Frank Monte v. Cyrus R. Vance, et al. Second Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-challenge criminal-charges due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct standing state-actors Constitutionality, of the entire docket vanishing from the public records of the Supreme Court of New York, New York County. Shortly after filing the …
18-931 David Christopher Hesse v. Jason Kane Howell Texas 2019-01-17 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 abuse-of-process civil-rights civil-rights-violation color-of-law due-process false-arrest legal-procedure prosecutorial-immunity state-law-immunity texas-civil-practices-and-remedies-code wrongful-incarceration 1. Are acting as a witness by swearing to facts, abusing process and committing crimes, acts that are foreign to the duties of a prosecutor? If so, is…
18-7476 Scott Ash James Zirus v. Sharon Faye Keller, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-01-17 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 42-usc-section-1983 civil-action civil-procedure civil-rights fee-payment prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner-rights standing writ-of-mandamus When a prisoner's 42 U.S.C. §1983 action is construed as a Petition for Writ of Mandamus, is it a "civil action" within the scope of the Prison Litiga…
18-7411 David H. Jacob v. Rosalyn Cotton, Chairperson, Nebraska Board of Parole, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 allen-v-mccurry civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-claims due-process failure-to-state-a-claim federal-petition haines-v-kerner parole-board section-1983 The Petitioner first filed a state court declaratory judgment action claiming that the state Parole Board had (1) made an ex post facto change to paro…
18-7404 John Laake v. Turning Stone Resort Casino Second Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violation first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-religion indian-land jurisdiction religious-freedom tribal-sovereign-immunity tribal-sovereignty Whether the established clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution as it pertains to Free Speech and Freedom of Religion effectiv…
18-888 Michael S. Bent v. Cheryl Strange, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 due-process federal-grants impartiality judicial-impartiality noncustodial-parent parens-patriae social-security-act state-courts strict-scrutiny title-iv-d Lacking federal definition for the Title IV-D noncustodial parent, may a state agency classify an obligator parent as a Title IV-D noncustodial parent…
18-7221 Kevin Abdul Gilbert v. Washington Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 assault-and-battery circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-litigation constitutional-claims constitutional-grounds due-process heck-doctrine section-1983 unlawful-arrest unlawful-imprisonment 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit of Appeals erred in affirming the Western U.S. District Court's ruling barring the Petitioner's 42 U.S.C. §1983 claims fo…
18-773 Daniel Sullivan v. City of Frederick, Maryland, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied 42-usc-1983 assembly civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech monell monell-doctrine municipal-immunity retaliation Three questions are presented: 1. Did the court below err in affirming that a sixmonth criminal investigation of police officer Dan Sullivan, for his…
18-7062 Louis Matthew Clements v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Florida 2018-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-statute constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment malicious-prosecution state-governmental-immunity Does FL.S. § 768.28 first claiming to allow Florida citizens to sue State Governmental Agencies for malicious prosecution and then dis- allowing it, i…
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…
18-735 Maricopa County, Arizona v. Manuel de Jesus Ortega Melendres, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-10 Denied Relisted (7) 10th-amendment 42-usc-1983 contempt-powers county-authority-under-state-law federal-courts federalism federalism-limits-on-federal-courts final-policymaker guarantee-clause mcmillian-precedent rizzo-v-goode sovereign-prerogatives tenth-amendment In the Ninth Circuit, the precepts of federalism often count for very little. They are, at most, but minor hurdles to be vaulted over by federal court…
18-730 Moses McCormick, et al. v. Kim A. Browne, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 amendment amendment-futility civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process fourteenth-amendment injunctive-relief municipal-liability qualified-immunity section-1983 standing In light of this Court's recognition in Owen v. City of Independence, 445 U.S. 635-658 (1980), "A Municipality has no immunity from liability under 19…
18-689 Mariano Moya, et al. v. Robert Garcia, Sheriff, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied 42-usc-1983 arraignment causation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights detention due-process section-1983 standing state-court When a jailer detains a person for an extended period with no access to a court hearing for arraignment and bail review, in violation of his or her Du…
18-6780 Joan E. Farr v. Daryl Davis, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-11-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech homeowners-association retaliation section-1983 Whether the Huckleberry Homeowners Association and its individual members denied Joan Farr her rights under 42 Usc 1983 and retaliated against her to …
18-647 Pulte Homes of New York LLC v. Town of Carmel, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights continuing-violation land-development-fees municipal-government municipal-liability section-1983 statute-of-limitations Whether a civil rights claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 accrues by a continuing violation theory when a municipality refuses, or attempts to condition, th…
18-645 Marcella Winn v. Susan Mellen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-19 Dismissed Response Waived 42-U.S.C-1983 42-usc-1983 bad-faith brady-v-maryland brady-violation circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process police-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 1. Do claims against a police officer under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for failure to disclose material evidence under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) req…
18-630 Charles Allen Richards v. City of Des Moines Police Department, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-11-15 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-clinic police-department retaliation standing 1. Did Charles Richards exercise a right protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States when he approached the legal clinic…
18-623 Katrina Walker v. Carl Weatherspoon, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment illinois-v-gates informant informant-tip probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant section-1983 seventh-circuit May a police officer, who secures a search warrant on the uncorroborated tip of a first-time informant by withholding from the issuing judge facts tha…
18-6490 Lyman S. Hopkins v. Language Testing International, et al. Second Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-u.s.c.-1983 42-usc-1983 certification civil-rights discrimination discrimination-claim due-process employment employment-discrimination employment-website equal-protection parent-organization retaliation state-actor Is language certification testing agency Language Testing International, Inc. (LTI) immune from discrimination and retaliation charges despite it's tw…
18-6402 Elroy William Robinson v. California California 2018-10-24 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection jurisdiction qualified-immunity standing statutory-provisions (1) WHEN A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER DELIBERATELY DELAYS AN ARREST IN ORDER TO BRING A SPOUSE BRING A PERSON OF INTEREST IN TO FOR QUESTIONING AND IN CO…
18-6407 Ong Vue v. Frank X. Henke, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection judicial-review parole parole-procedures section-1983 standing Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that Petitioner Vue "failed to state a claim" is in contrary to the holding of Wilkinson v. Dotson, …
18-518 Charles G. Kinney v. Clerk, Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division Three, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-19 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights clean-water-act color-of-law due-process federal-clean-water-act free-speech hobbs-act honest-services judicial-discretion professional-speech state-nuisance-law By simultaneously dismissing 8 of Kinney's pending appeals, did this 3 Judge panel abuse its discretion by violating Janus and NIFLA to cover-up acts …
18-6365 Angel Bartlett v. Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-2332a 18-usc-2332h 18-usc-ch-13 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process government-conspiracy state-action torture weapons-of-mass-destruction IS it Wrongful or illegal to use weapons of mass destruction to radiate and torture Angel Bartlett in her home or her mother's home? Michigan is a non…
18-498 Maricopa County, Arizona v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process issue-preclusion law-enforcement monell-doctrine monell-liability policymaker-liability sovereign-immunity title-vi violent-crime-control-act In McMillian v. Monroe County, Alabama, 520 U.S. 781 (1997), this Court held that counties cannot be liable in actions brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 …
18-476 Cowlitz County, Washington, et al. v. Jule Crowell, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-care monell monell-doctrine municipal-liability objective-reasonableness section-1983 serious-medical-needs subjective-intent 1. Whether a pretrial de tainee alleging Fourteenth Amendment claims of deliberate indifference to serious medical needs under 42 U.S. C. § 1983 must …
18-458 Lillian Pellegrini v. Fresno County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 18-usc-1961 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-procedure-60b civil-rights color-of-law due-process fraud property-rights rooker-feldman-doctrine standing 1. Can the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine bar federal court jurisdiction under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 60(b), 42 U.S.C. 1983, or 18 U.S.C. 1961 et s…
18-6239 Sean P. Reilly v. Guelsy M. Herrera, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey limitations-period prisoner-rights section-1983 Whether a Section 1983 Plaintiff, who diligently sought favorable termination according to the requirements of Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477, 114 S.C…
18-6221 Raymond P. Vinnie v. Bruce R. Henry, et al. Massachusetts 2018-10-04 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 constitutional-rights due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court litigation-privilege standing state-immunity supremacy-clause 1) Whether as a matter of first impression, are 5-private attorneys who fraudulently conspired with a Clerk of Court in a lawsuit for the sole purpose…
18-368 Cedrick Thomas v. Jeffrey Cozzi Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-20 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights detective-thomas district-of-columbia-v-wesby eleventh-circuit false-arrest fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity 1. Whether, in light of District of Columbia v. Wesby, 138 S. Ct. 577 (2018), the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred by affirming the denial of p…
18-348 Robert Weisler, III v. Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights Devenpeck-v-Alford fourth-amendment heck-v-humphrey police-accountability qualified-immunity warrantless-arrest Whether Devenpeck, which only protects officers who either incompetently or maliciously arrest a person for a crime the arrestee did not commit, shoul…
18-337 County of Orange, California, et al. v. Mary Gordon, Individually and as Successor in Interest to Matthew Shawn Gordon, Deceased Ninth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied Amici (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-standard due-process eighth-amendment fourth-amendment medical-care objective-reasonableness pretrial-detainee qualified-immunity section-1983 standard-of-care Whether a pretrial detainee's "inadequate medical care" claim pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 requires a showing of a jail professional's subjective inte…
18-5951 David Dwayne Cassady v. Steven D. Hall Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-damages due-process ex-contractu ex-contractu-actions garnishment indemnity indemnity-proceeds jurisdiction sovereign-immunity state-liability Does the United States District Court have jurisdiction under 42 USC §1983 to enforce its judgement by garnishment of indemnity proceeds of the Georgi…
18-5886 Dwight Mitchell v. Wilson Taylor, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 due-diligence due-process fraudulent-concealment lower-court merits rule-12-motion rule-12-motion-to-dismiss statute-of-limitations term-1 term-2 term-3 term-4 term-5 term-6 Was it proper for the lower court to throw out a properly plead 42 U.S.C. § 1983 cause of action for events in 2013 on a Rule 12 motion to dismiss wit…
18-5853 Dorothy Binns v. City of Marietta, Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-31 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 ada americans-with-disabilities-act due-process fair-housing-act housing-discrimination public-housing reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act Whether the Lower Courts violated any of these or other pertinent Laws, or rules, Overlooked, misapplied, neglected or made any vital legal errors in …
18-249 Madeleine Connor v. Eric Castro, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process federal-procedure free-speech government-retaliation lugar-v-edmondson rule-15-supplementation section-1983 standing state-action twombly-iqbal Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's denial of Petitioner's request as futile to supplement her pleading under Fed. R.…
18-5792 Marlon Watford v. Thomas LaFond, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied IFP 1st-amendment 42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing When filing a complaint under 28 U.S.C.S 1915(A) screening provisions of a 1983 complaint do the Petitioner Plaintiff have a 28 U.S.C.14 right to file…
18-5590 Veronica M. Johnson v. Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-act judicial-immunity ministerial-duty spousal-support spousal-support-judgment Is judicial immunity an affirmative defense that must be pleaded and proved by a judge when Plaintiff files a clearly stated, sufficiently documented …
18-5591 Valerie Mason v. Dan A. Polster, Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 chambers-conduct civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process federal-courts free-speech judicial-conduct judicial-misconduct photography recusal standing Whether HONORABLE Judge DAN A POLSTER Judicial Immunity is IMMUNE FROM BY NOT RECUSING HIMSELF when petitioner discovered Judge Polsten was personally…
18-171 Robert R. Snyder v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights color-of-state-law constitutional-rights Cruel-and-unusual-punishment Due-process Eighth-amendment First-amendment immunity law-library-access Preliminary-injunction prisoner-rights retaliation section-1983 Does a person or entity have immunity from prosecution under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when rights that have been secured by the United States Constitution hav…
18-5477 Thomas Ebron v. Karen D. Brown, Chair, Virginia Parole Board, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 appeal appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-procedure legal-access standing statutory-interpretation 1. Has the U.s. Court of Appeals abused its discretion and Committed reversable error in dismissing Ebroni's 42 U.s.C. 5 1983, Appeal, finding no reve…
18-152 Gregory Garmong v. Supreme Court of Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-06 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-complaint due-process exxon-mobil-precedent exxon-mobil-v-saudi-basic federal-jurisdiction judicial-review ninth-circuit rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983-complaint standing stare-decisis state-court-judgments Whether the Ninth Circuit may ignore and refuse to follow this Court's precedent in application of the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, which requires that th…
18-5424 Patsy N. Sakuma v. Association of Apartment Owners of the Tropics of Waikele, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-claim due-process hypothetical-jurisdiction jurisdictional-waiver merits-question rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing sua-sponte waiver Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit properly applied waiver on appeal as a new exception to bypass the Rooker-Feldman jur…
18-76 Tracey E. George, et al. v. Tre Hargett, Tennessee Secretary of State, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-07-16 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 declaratory-judgment due-process equal-protection federal-action section-1983 state-actors (1) Whether state actor defendants may defend and foreclose a federal action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by suing civil rights plaintiffs in a subs…
18-73 Scott Carpenter v. Douglas Jordan Sixth Circuit 2018-07-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 brady-violation brady-vs-maryland civil-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence favorable-termination heck-doctrine heck-vs-humphrey invalidation section-1983 statute-of-limitations wrongful-conviction Does a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 wrongful conviction claim for unconstitutionally withholding exculpatory evidence "accrue" and thus the statute of limitations…
18-67 James Thomas Hurst, II v. James Caldwell, et al. Kentucky 2018-07-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-act deshaney deshaney-doctrine due-process government-liability police-misconduct section-1983 special-relationship special-relationship-rule state-actor-liability state-created-danger 1. Does the special relationship rule articulated by this Court in Deshaney, supra, apply to shield a state actor from liability under 42 U.S.C. § 198…
18-5131 Tu My Tong v. New Mexico, et al. New Mexico 2018-07-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-action qualified-immunity standing state-action Was petitioner Curny Coy deprived of Due Process, Equal protection of The law and the privileges and immunities guaranteed to all us citizens by the i…
18-5154 Edward Vincent Ray, Jr. v. Jamilah A. Jefferson, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 absolute-immunity civil-rights due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court ninth-circuit standing statute-of-limitations 1. whether Respondentcs), a "(ivil Attorney" employed by the City of Oakland, CA., whom Petitioner alleges Committed Fraud on the Court, and Petitoner…
18-5099 Lennie Williams v. Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation declaratory-relief due-process fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court monell-v-department-of-social-services municipal-immunity officer-of-court perjury prospective-relief standing Where officer of the court submitted intentionally false and misleading claims of "meet and confer" not privilege to obtain this Court's decision in W…
18-7 Choctaw County, Mississippi, et al. v. Jessica Jauch Fifth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (4) 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 capias county-liability due-process fourteenth-amendment pretrial-detention procedural-due-process qualified-immunity section-1983 The Sheriff's Department detained Respondent for ninety-six days pursuant to a capias issued by the state circuit court following a grand jury's indic…