bivens-claim
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-952 | Brij Mohan, et al. v. Jordan Watkins | Seventh Circuit | 2026-02-11 | Pending | bivens-claim constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment inmate-rights pretrial-detention | In Carlson v. Green, 446 U.S. 14 (1980), this Court recognized a cause of action under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcoti… | |
| 24-5884 | Sheng-Wen Cheng v. P. Grenier, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bivens-claim constitutional-violation judicial-remedy prison-counselor prisoner-rights right-to-petition | 1. Should a prisoner's Bivens claim againt a prison counselor for denial of right to petition be dismissed, v/hen the District Court at the same tim… |
| 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… |
| 23A489 | Martin Akerman v. General Daniel Hokanson, Chief, National Guard Bureau,et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-11-30 | Presumed Complete | administrative-law bivens-claim constitutional-violations federal-employment government-officials national-guard | Question not identified. | |
| 23A94 | Michael Boresky v. Jeremy Graber | Third Circuit | 2023-08-01 | Presumed Complete | bivens-claim collateral-order-doctrine false-arrest fourth-amendment qualified-immunity separation-of-powers | Question not identified. | |
| 22-6967 | Arnoldo Antonio Garcia v. Afod Valdez, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-03-08 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts bivens-claim civil-detainee civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction government-liability ninth-circuit | Did the Ninth Circuit err in an of issue of nationwide importance, and erroneously dismissed a meritorious Appeal, despite the fact that Petitioner pl… |
| 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… |
| 21-204 | Montgomery Blair Sibley v. Frank Paul Geraci, Jr., et al. | Second Circuit | 2021-08-13 | Denied | Response Waived | bivens-claim constitutional-authority due-process first-amendment frivolous judicial-immunity removal separation-of-powers sua-sponte-dismissal | Whether a District Court Judge runs afoul of due process by a sua sponte dismissal of Petitioner's Complaint without "hearing" argument and then deemi… |
| 19-1169 | Jonas Ybarra, Jr. v. Texas Health and Human Services Commission, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-26 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-remedy bivens-claim civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-remedy retaliatory-conduct section-1983 section-1985 sex-discrimination standing | 1. Mr. Ybarra's Bivens claim has no administrative remedy and should not be construed to preclude a juridical remedy. 2. Mr. Ybarra's Section 1983 cl… |
| 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.… | |
| 19-7186 | James R. Young v. United States, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-01-06 | Dismissed | 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… |
| 19-546 | Douglas Brownback, et al. v. James King | Sixth Circuit | 2019-10-28 | Judgment Issued | Amici (6)Relisted (2) | bivens-claim bivens-claims civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-tort-claims-act government-liability judgment-bar sovereign-immunity state-tort-law | Whether a final judgment in favor of the United States in an action brought under Section 1346(b)(1), on the ground that a private person would not be… |
| 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… |
| 19-5776 | Benjamin R. Schwarz v. Erwin Meinberg, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affidavit assets bivens-claim civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment federal-inmate financial-disclosure free-speech in-forma-pauperis liabilities prison-conditions standing takings ziglar-precedent | 1. Is there a federal right, under the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Fed. Bureau of Narcotics, 4… |
| 19-217 | DaVinci Aircraft, Inc. v. United States, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-19 | Denied | Response Waived | bivens-claim bivens-v-six-unknown-named-agents civil-asset-forfeiture civil-asset-forfeiture-reform-act civil-rights discretionary-action espionage-act federal-tort-claims-act fourth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction | 1. Does the exception for forfeitures created by the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000 (CAFRA), Pub. L. No. 106-185, § 3, 114 Stat. 202 for pr… |
| 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. … |
| 18-9212 | Vincent McCrudden v. United States, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bivens-claim civil-procedure civil-rights credibility-determination de-minimis-force due-process federal-tort-claims-act jury-trial standing summary-judgment | Can Courts systemically deny access to a jury trial in meritorious FTCA and Bivens Claims by making credibility determinations at the summary judgment… |
| 18-6037 | Raul S. Zavala v. Hector Rios, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bivens-claim civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions damages-claim due-process federal-courts mail-restrictions prison prison-mail prison-officials prison-regulations standing | I. WHETHER ZIGLAR v. ABBASI, 137 S.Ct. 1843 (2017). PRECLUDES A MONEY DAMAGES CLAIM UNDER BIVENS v. SIX UNKNOWN NAMED AGENTS OF FEDERAL BUREAU OF NARC… |
| 18-228 | Western Radio Services Company, Inc. v. John Allen, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-23 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-procedures-act agency-discrimination bivens-claim class-of-one equal-protection first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation permitting-actions retaliation | Where a company alleges that, after it began filing legal challenges against Forest Service decisions, the agency singled it out for delay and inactio… |