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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 24A3 | Darnell Anderson v. Aaron Fuson, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2024-07-03 | Presumed Complete | Bivens eighth-amendment excessive-force federal-tort prisoner-rights qualified-immunity | Question not identified. | |
| 23-1234 | Konstantinos Zografidis v. Vanessa Richards, Assistant United States Attorney, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-05-23 | Denied | Response Waived | bivens bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process evidence-fabrication federal-courts federal-procedure judicial-bias standing | 1. Did the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, en banc, acted in a BIAS decision in failing to reverse the District courts ' ruling by denying Petitioner 's… |
| 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… |
| 23-1046 | Peter George Noe v. Berkley, Dr., et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2024-03-22 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | bivens bivens-action civil-rights civil-rights-remedy constitutional-claim due-process federal-agents federal-tort-claims-act judicial-precedent medical-care medical-indifference standing | Whether a cause of action can be maintained under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 (1971), in circumsta… |
| 23-723 | Joseph Randolph Mays v. T. B. Smith, Warden, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-01-04 | Rehearing | Response WaivedRelisted (3) | bivens bivens-claim civil-rights damages-suit due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-prisoner race-discrimination racial-discrimination supreme-court-precedent | In Davis v. Passman, 442 U.S. 228 (1979) and Carlson v. Green, 446 U.S. 14 (1980), this Court made clear that claims for gender discrimination and cla… |
| 23-6153 | Isaiah S. Harris, Sr. v. Deborah S. Hunt, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-12-04 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | access-to-courts bivens bivens-action civil-rights court-access federal-counterpart-to-42-u.s.c.-§-1983 federal-remedy first-amendment habeas-corpus | Isaiah S. Harris Sr.'s case presents exceptional circumstances that warrant the exercise of this Court's discretionary power. Where Harris highlights … |
| 23-324 | Gerald L. Ferreyra, et al. v. Nathaniel Hicks | Fourth Circuit | 2023-09-28 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | bivens circuit-split federal-officers fourth-amendment qualified-immunity search-and-seizure | 1. Whether a cause of action exists under Bivens for Fourth Amendment claims against federal officers operating under a different legal mandate than t… |
| 21-1492 | Anas Elhady v. Blake Bradley | Sixth Circuit | 2022-05-27 | Denied | bivens bivens-remedy border-enforcement civil-rights collateral-order-doctrine due-process federal-law-enforcement interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction qualified-immunity | For decades, this Court has vigilantly enforced the final judgment rule codified at 28 U.S.C. § 1291, emphasizing the "modest scope" of the "small cla… | |
| 21-6535 | Jennifer Smith v. William Paul Nichols, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2021-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment bivens bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-injury due-process extraterritorial-warrant fourth-amendment monell search-and-seizure search-warrant section-1983 | Does forgery, drug distribution, perjured affidavits, defective extraterritorial search warrants, improper execution of search warrants, coupled with … |
| 21-655 | Max Ray Butler v. S. Porter, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-03 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | adequate-medical-care bivens bivens-remedy civil-rights constitutional-rights eighth-amendment federal-courts federal-prisoner federal-prisoners medical-care | In Carlson v. Green, 446 U.S. 14 (1980), the Court recognized a remedy under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.… |
| 21-5341 | Vernon Norman Earle v. Shreves, C/O, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-08-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | policy-based judgments that present special Biven administrative-grievance bivens Bivens-remedy civil-rights constitutional-violation correctional-officer due-process policy-based-judgment policy-based-judgments retaliation special-factors | Whether a rogue correctional officer's unlawful retaliation against an inmate for utilizing an administrative grievance process implicates the sort of… |
| 21-187 | Hamdi Mohamud v. Heather Weyker | Eighth Circuit | 2021-08-10 | Denied | Amici (2)Relisted (2) | bivens bivens-remedy circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-violation fourth-amendment law-enforcement-overreach qualified-immunity ziglar-v-abbasi | Whether a constitutional remedy is available against federal officers for individual instances of law enforcement overreach in violation of the Fourth… |
| 21-184 | Kevin Byrd v. Ray Lamb | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-10 | Denied | Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | abbasi-standard bivens bivens-action circuit-split civil-rights federal-officer-liability federal-officials fourth-amendment judicial-remedy | Under either step of the Abbasi test, may line-level federal officers be sued for violating the Fourth Amendment? |
| 21-147 | Erik Egbert v. Robert Boule | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-03 | Judgment Issued | Amici (21)Relisted (2) | bivens bivens-doctrine civil-rights constitutional-damages federal-officer-liability first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation fourth-amendment immigration immigration-enforcement reconsider-bivens | 1. Whether a cause of action exists under Bivens for First Amendment retaliation claims. 2. Whether a cause of action exists under Bivens for claims … |
| 21-16 | Robert Paul Magtulis Cledera v. United States, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-07-08 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment bivens civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-expectation-of-privacy redressability search-and-seizure standing | In Carpenter v United States, No. 16-402, 585 U. S. _ (2018), this court held that the Government 's acquisition of Carpenters cell-site records was a… |
| 20-7157 | David Smith-Garcia v. Paula Burke | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment bivens civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-need prison-healthcare probation | U Indies cw\ QjnoJaV'K AfAendmtnV clWiwi (b Vq a ^enoo^ vv\€d\Ca\ need Ck<^o,\ a'SV (X deO "vS'Nen^ ConVe*V-'\r\ vde\'i bf<~afe indiW-erencc. Ov 0-… |
| 20-7127 | Clyde Pontefract v. United States, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2021-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bivens bivens-action civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment federal-prisoner federal-prisons injunctive-relief municipal-liability standing | 1. Does Ziglar V Abbasi, 582 US_ 137 S Ct 198 L Ed 2d 290 (2017) in deciding a private right of action under Bivens, apply to a Federal Prisoner held … |
| 20-1060 | Jose Oliva v. Mario Nivar, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-03 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | bivens bivens-remedy civil-rights constitutional-remedy constitutional-violation federal-police fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure | Whether claims against federal police for Fourth Amendment violations committed during standard law enforcement operations fall within an established … |
| 20-6527 | Byron Brown v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review bivens civil-rights criminal-procedure damages due-process federal-government legal-interpretation seventh-circuit writ-of-certiorari | Question not identified. |
| 20-587 | Hope Angelic White, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Myron Pollard v. United States, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2020-11-03 | Denied | bivens bivens-action civil-procedure civil-rights federal-tort-claims-act judgment-bar personal-representative sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation | The Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), 28 U.S.C. 1346(b), 2671 et seq., waives the sovereign immunity of the United States and creates a cause of action … | |
| 19-8864 | Calvin D. Williams v. Samson Resources Corporation | Third Circuit | 2020-06-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bivens bivens-action civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-authority federal-procedure judicial-authority judicial-conduct procedural-due-process | 1. Are Judges bound by: ABA Rule 2.15:, Judicial Canons 1-5, and FRCP Rule 46 while under color of [F]ederal authority? 2. Can the judge Fail to foll… |
| 19-1033 | Daniel Enrique Cantú v. James M. Moody, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-19 | Denied | bivens bivens-claim civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process evidence-fabrication fabricated-evidence federal-officer qualified-immunity standing | The question presented is whether a plaintiff may pursue a claim under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S.… | |
| 19-7214 | Gregory Brown v. Ellen Mace-Liebson, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment bivens bivens-action civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment intra-circuit-conflict medical-care medical-treatment pro-se summary-judgment | WHETHER THE SITTING PANEL FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS, PER-. CURIAM OPINION, AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S ENTRY OF SUMMARY JUDGMENT. ON P… |
| 19-7186 | James R. Young v. United States, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bivens bivens-claim civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-review fifth-amendment in-forma-pauperis inmate-rights property property-theft standing | (1) - Did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals abuse Petitioner's 5th Amendment due process right to be heard on his Bivens claim on appeal by summa… |
| 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… |
| 19-661 | Mynor Abdiel Tun-Cos, et al. v. B. Perrotte, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-11-22 | Denied | 4th-amendment bivens bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-law-enforcement federal-tort-claims-act immigration-enforcement law-enforcement qualified-immunity search-and-seizure | Whether victims of an unconstitutional search and seizure, who were subjected to a home raid and detention without a warrant or suspicion, by law enfo… | |
| 19-443 | Charles G. Kinney v. Philip S. Gutierrez, Judge, United States District Court for the Central District of California | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-03 | Denied | Response Waived | access-to-courts bivens bivens-claim cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines obstruction-of-justice vexatious-litigant | A Bivens case allows a private individual to seek damages from an individual federal officer for unconstitutional conduct (e.g. 8th Amendment). Ziglar… |
| 19-5560 | Cecil McDonald Davis v. United States, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment bivens bivens-action bivens-claim certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-claim | 1.) Whether the District Court in denying the Petitioner medical claim under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Fed. Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. … |
| 19-5207 | Admassu Regassa v. Emily Cimino, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2019-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment bivens bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ftca ftca-claim judicial-review prison-conditions pro-se-prisoner | Petitioner, Admassu Regassa, a DC inmate and pro se indigent prisoner currently confined in a federal facility at FCC Petersburg, Virginia, initiated … |
| 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… |
| 18-1350 | Maria S., as Next Friend for E. H. F. and S. H. F., Minors, and A. S. G. v. Ramiro Garza | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-29 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | bivens border-protection civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-tort immigration qualified-immunity retaliation standing wrongful-death | Did the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit improperly weigh evidence and fail to draw factual inferences in favor of the nonmoving party when it d… |
| 18-1121 | Captain James Linlor v. Michael Polson | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-27 | Denied | 4th-amendment bivens bivens-action civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment police-powers qualified-immunity sexual-battery tsa tsa-screener tsa-screening | 1. Whether the attested-as-intentional excessive and unreasonable force striking of a cooperative passenger's genitals by a TSA screener not meeting m… | |
| 18-474 | LeFloris Lyon v. Canadian National Railway Company, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2018-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | bivens bivens-action civil-rights first-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause retaliatory-prosecution seventh-circuit-conflict | Whether the Seventh Circuit decision conflicts with all Courts of appeals, and Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach, 138 S. Ct. 1945 (2018); Manuel v. City… |
| 18-309 | Lonnie Swartz v. Araceli Rodriguez, Individually and as the Surviving Mother and Personal Representative of J. A. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-11 | GVR | CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (4) | bivens bivens-remedy bivens-v-six-unknown-named-agents border-security cross-border-shooting extraterritorial-application foreign-relations fourth-amendment qualified-immunity separation-of-powers | 1. Whether the panel's decision to create an implied remedy for damages under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of the Fed. Bureau of Narcotics, 403 … |