| 25-572 |
James Stuart Faller, II v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-11-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
absolute-immunity due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pro-se-litigant qualified-immunity |
1. Whether persistent and categorical judicial bias
and procedural disregard toward pro se litigants,
resulting in dismissal despite detailed factual … |
| 25A83 |
Jonathan Voorhis v. Cindy Digangi, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-07-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
absolute-immunity child-protective-services civil-rights due-process fabricated-evidence investigative-misconduct |
1. This case is about whether absolute immunity shields Child Protective Service (CPS) Workers from allegations of fabrication of evidence within an i… |
| 24-6851 |
Irving A. Harned, Jr. v. Office of the Clerk, Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-03-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
absolute-immunity court-order georgia-law interested-parties judicial-immunity legal-jurisdiction |
Can Georgia law grant "ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY " ( i.e., a judges immunity ) to any
party other than a judge WITHOUT A COURT ORDER? |
| 24-5912 |
David C. Lettieri v. Paul E. Bonanno, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-11-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
absolute-immunity case-assignment due-process judicial-function jurisdictional-challenge prosecutorial-misconduct |
1. Is absolute immunity a right?
2. Can abuse of process be dismissed by an immunity defense?
3. Can procutors and judges create fabricated evidence… |
| 24-5174 |
Michael D. Carver v. City of Kalamazoo, Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
absolute-immunity fabricated-evidence false-arrest fourth-amendment franks-doctrine investigative-conduct malicious-prosecution probable-cause qualified-immunity |
Whether Franks applies to material omissions, and assuming that the customary practice of lower courts that apply that rule is correct:
a. Whether pro… |
| 23A928 |
John C. Baer v. Larry Trent Roberts, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-04-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
absolute-immunity civil-rights fourteenth-amendment investigative-function prosecutorial-immunity witness-interview |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6327 |
Noel Garcia v. Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-12-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
absolute-immunity civil-rights constitutional-restrictions due-process false-arrest freedom-of-movement judicial-proceeding probable-cause unlawful-arrest |
DID THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT AND THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT OF PENNSYLVANIA ERRED IN DETERMINING DEFENDANTS ARE ENTITLED TO AB… |
| 23-5282 |
Clarence Leonard Hearns, Jr. v. Andrew Whisnand, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
absolute-immunity access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-conspiracy due-process first-amendment standing state-attorney-general |
1. WHETHER A STATE DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL HAS ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY FROM SUIT FOR INITIATING CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY?
2. WHETHER ALL ACTORS IN A CRIMINAL CO… |
| 23-105 |
Joe Thorpe v. Township of Salisbury, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-08-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
absolute-immunity civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment fourteenth-amendment harris-v-harvey immunity judicial-immunity prosecutorial-immunity |
Did the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals violate the rule announced in Harris v. Harvey. 605 F.2d 330 (7th Cir.… |
| 23-58 |
Robert Chagolla, et ux. v. Bryan Cluff, Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
|
absolute-immunity civil-rights civil-tort constitutional-rights due-process false-reporting government-collusion government-misconduct immunity statute-of-limitations |
Whether absolute immunity shields government employees who report false information/omit exculpatory information in the investigation stage as well as… |
| 23-25 |
Michael Charles Ward v. James V. Chafin, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-07 |
Denied |
|
absolute-immunity appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct section-1983 |
In 2010, Petitioner Charlie Ward was convicted of aggravated stalking and sentenced to 10 years in prison. The prosecutors who obtained that convictio… |
| 22-857 |
Paulette H. Foster, et al. v. Michael Wearry |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-08 |
Denied |
|
absolute-immunity buckley-v-fitzsimmons civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process functional-approach judicial-phase prosecutorial-immunity section-1983 witness-preparation |
After Respondent's murder conviction was reversed because the prosecution had failed to disclose evidence bearing on the credibility of its witnesses,… |
| 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… |
| 22-632 |
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… |
| 22-302 |
Brent Ristow v. Amanda Cunningham |
Minnesota |
2022-09-28 |
Denied |
|
absolute-immunity adversarial-proceeding civil-rights defamation ex-parte free-speech government-communication private-citizen |
Whether a private citizen who has submitted allegedly defamatory statements, to the government, ex parte, outside of any adversarial proceeding, about… |
| 22-215 |
Heslin Gallagher v. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
7th-amendment absolute-immunity civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jury-trial quasi-governmental-immunity securities-exchange-commission self-regulatory-organization seventh-amendment standing |
1. Whether clarification is needed to resolve the conflicts among the various circuits when a Self-Regulatory Organization registered with the Securit… |
| 21-1480 |
James Acres v. Lester Marston, et al. |
California |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
absolute-immunity california-common-law civil-litigation commercial-enterprise federal-law personal-immunity prosecutorial-immunity state-law tribal-immunity tribal-officials |
In Lewis v. Clarke 137 S.Ct. 1285 (201 7) this Court explained tribal officials sued in their personal capacities could avail themselves of personal i… |
| 21-1255 |
Acres Bonusing, Inc., et al. v. Lester John Marston, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-16 |
Denied |
|
absolute-immunity administrative-conduct circuit-split conspiratorial-conduct court-employees functional-approach judicial-immunity ministerial-conduct |
In Forrester v. White, 484 U.S. 219, 227 (1988) this Court explained an absolute immunity is "justified and defined by the functions it protects and s… |
| 21-6756 |
Tracy Clare Micks-Harm v. William Paul Nichols, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
absolute-immunity administrative-function civil-rights constitutional-rights HIPAA hipaa-immunity judicial-immunity proprietary-functions qualified-immunity retaliation search-and-seizure third-party-doctrine |
I. Does iralice, retaliation, deliberate indifference to the constitutional rights, acts committed within the scope of administrative function, acts c… |
| 21-891 |
Benjamin Wey, et al. v. NASDAQ, Inc., et al. |
New York |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
absolute-immunity commercial-interests false-reporting federal-law-enforcement nasdaq-conduct non-existent-rule regulatory-function regulatory-functions securities-rule self-regulatory-organization self-regulatory-organizations |
Under federal common law, Nasdaq and other self regulatory organizations (SRO's) enjoy absolute immunity from suit when exercising their regulatory fu… |
| 21-6047 |
Fortuno Jeanfort v. Florida Atlantic University Board of Trustees, aka Florida Atlantic University |
Florida |
2021-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
absolute-immunity civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-guarantees due-process pleading-standards public-official standing tort-liability |
IntraDistrict courts all across the State have confused absolute immunity to State Universities themselves, versus the personal liability of (actual) … |
| 21-188 |
Eddison Ramsaran v. Candace Lapidus Sloane, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2021-08-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
absolute-immunity administrative-investigation buckley-standard buckley-v-fitzsimmons evidence-fabrication fabricated-evidence medical-licensing medical-licensing-board pre-adjudicatory-investigation pre-adjudicatory-proceedings prosecutorial-function prosecutorial-immunity |
In this case, the Petitioner, Eddison Ramsaran, M.D., alleges that during an investigation into his medical practice, certain non-attorney members of … |
| 20-1811 |
Jackie Chagolla, Parent on Behalf of B. C. and P. C. v. Liz Vullo, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
absolute-immunity constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-information false-information government-employees investigation-stage spending-clause |
Whether absolute immunity shields government employees who report false information/omit exculpatory information in the investigation stage as well as… |
| 20-1806 |
Kim R. Helper v. Patrick H. Stockdale, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-06-25 |
Denied |
|
absolute-immunity civil-rights first-amendment giglio-disclosure giglio-v-united-states law-enforcement qualified-immunity retaliation |
Did the Sixth Circuit err in denying Helper absolute immunity for communicating to the officers' employer her decision regarding them under Giglio v. … |
| 20-1632 |
Patrick H. Stockdale, et al. v. Kim R. Helper |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-24 |
Denied |
|
absolute-immunity clearly-established constitutional-rights first-amendment petition-clause public-employee qualified-immunity retaliation |
1. Whether the decisional law regarding retaliation under the Petition Clause of the First Amendment was clearly established to place a public officia… |
| 19-1430 |
Richard Polidi v. Michelle K. Lee, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
absolute-immunity brady-v-maryland civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ethics-prosecution exculpatory-evidence federal-circuit-jurisdiction fifth-amendment immunity qualified-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides a legal or declaratory remedy, consistent with Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agen… |
| 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… |
| 19-7782 |
Stephen Mayer v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
absolute-immunity contempt-of-court-18-usc-401 contempt-proceedings criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-42-a-2 federal-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction-28-usc-1331 federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure government-misconduct immunity judicial-immunity statutory-interpretation |
I.
WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT'S OPINION DECLINING JURISDICTION
OVER CONTEMPT PROCEEDINGS UNDER 18 U.S.C. §401, VIOLATES FEDERAL
RULES OF CRIMINAL P… |
| 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… |
| 19-559 |
John E. Reardon v. Noel Hillman, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
|
absolute-immunity administrative-acts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-immunity notice notice-and-hearing notice-of-hearing right-to-be-heard standing standing-order void-judgment |
1. Contrary to all 12 circuits, Is the court's failure to set aside a Void judgment that is due to the failure to give prior notice and right to be he… |
| 19-88 |
Wadith Stockinger Nader, et ux. v. City of Papillion, Nebraska, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-07-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
absolute-immunity eighth-circuit fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause prosecutorial-immunity search-and-seizure totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances |
1. Can an unverified tip which was the basis for a lawful search, and which was disproved during the course of the lawful search, by itself constitute… |
| 18-1193 |
Brandon Lee Moon v. County of El Paso, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
absolute-immunity brady-violation circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process imbler-v-pachtman judicial-proceedings post-conviction post-conviction-DNA-testing prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether absolute immunity shields a prosecutor's unconstitutional handling of post-conviction DNA testing under Imbler v. Pachtman, 424 U.S. 409 (1976… |
| 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… |
| 18-7541 |
Adrian G. Rangel v. Tippecanoe County, Indiana, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
absolute-immunity appeals civil-procedure civil-rights complaint court-of-appeals dismissal due-process federal-court federal-trial-court immunity jurisdiction legal-error standing |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh and the Hammond Indiana Federal Trial Court err in dismissing Petitioner's Complaint based sole… |
| 18-440 |
Edward Michael Nero, et al. v. Marilyn J. Mosby |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
absolute-immunity advocacy-function civil-procedure civil-rights due-process investigation investigatory-materials law-enforcement legal-advice probable-cause prosecutor prosecutor-investigation prosecutorial-immunity standing |
Whether a prosecutor is acting as an "advocate"
and is entitled to absolute immunity when the
prosecutor performs an investigation and provides
those … |
| 18-5583 |
Stephen Brian Turner v. Melody Smith, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment absolute-immunity civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment immunity judicial-review parole parole-conditions quasi-judicial-role right-to-marry standing |
1. Whether, despite federal laws stemming from the Fourteenth Amendment which grant prisoners the right to marry, it is constitutionally permissible t… |
| 18-5316 |
Susan Wells Vaughan v. Jennifer Vaughan, et al. |
North Carolina |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
absolute-immunity child-neglect child-neglect-cases-recusal due-process ex-parte ex-parte-initiations judicial-recusal prosecutorial-misconduct subject-matter-jurisdiction troxel-v-granville |
Whether a judge who regularly participates in unlawful ex parte initiations of child neglect cases should recuse herself from hearing a challenge to t… |
| 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… |