civil-liability
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-1146 | Angelo Pesavento, et al. v. Eddie L. Bolden | Seventh Circuit | 2026-04-02 | Pending | civil-liability damages-calculation noneconomic-damages pain-and-suffering prejudgment-interest tort-law | Whether prejudgment interest should be unavailable as a matter of law on awards of noneconomic damages, such as pain and suffering and loss of a norma… | |
| 25-829 | Matt Martorello v. Lula Williams, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2026-01-13 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-liability indian-commerce-clause internet-contract rico-act state-regulation tribal-lending | 1. Whether the Indian Commerce Clause preempts state regulation of loans made on an Indian reservation, by an arm of a tribe, when the borrower contra… |
| 25-789 | Angela Kay Plese v. Ronald Austin, et al. | Tennessee | 2026-01-06 | Denied | civil-liability constitutional-law defamation first-amendment free-speech reputational-harm | Whether the First Amendment allows a plaintiff who suffers no reputational harm to recover for defamation. | |
| 25A631 | John Doe, et al. v. Twitter, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-01 | Presumed Complete | child-pornography civil-liability content-moderation internet-platform section-230 sex-trafficking | Question not identified. | |
| 25A529 | FemtoMetrix, Inc., et al. v. Hovik Nazaryan | California | 2025-11-07 | Presumed Complete | civil-liability form-1099 fraudulent-filing information-return statutory-interpretation tax-statute | Question not identified. | |
| 25-206 | Edwin L. Rojas v. Connecticut, et al. | District of Columbia | 2025-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | anti-peonage-act civil-liability double-jeopardy due-process judicial-misconduct state-court-jurisdiction | 1. The primary question presented is whether a criminal court in a state can renege on the dismissal of criminal cases when a prior judge and/or the… |
| 24-1299 | Planet Green Cartridges, Inc., a California Corporation v. Amazon.com, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-06-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-liability communications-decency-act internet-platforms product-misrepresentation section-230 third-party-content | 1. In early 2022, Plaintiff Planet Green, Inc. ("Planet Green"), a U.S.-based remanufacturer of printer ink cartridges, provided Defendants Amazon.com… |
| 24A232 | Juan Cartaya v. Travelers Indemnity Company | Colorado | 2024-09-04 | Presumed Complete | arbitral-immunity arbitration-decision civil-liability colorado-court-of-appeals federal-arbitration-act supreme-court-review | Question not identified. | |
| 23-1262 | Ikemefuna Stephen Nwoye v. Barack H. Obama, former President of the United States, et ux. | Second Circuit | 2024-06-04 | Denied | civil-claim civil-liability continuing-wrong factfinding insufficient-pleading jurisdictional-conflict presidential-immunity pro-se-litigation scope-of-employment statute-of-limitation statute-of-limitations | 1. Whether the 2nd Circuit erred in law in upholding the District Court's dismissal of the case on grounds of being frivolous because of presidential … | |
| 23-7104 | In Re Tonya Knowles | 2024-03-29 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment civil-liability civil-rights disqualifications fair-credit-reporting-act insurrection rebellion sovereign-immunity | 1. In Case No. 22-846, The Department of Agriculture Rural Development, Rural Housing Service, Does the civil-liability provisions of the Fair Credit … | |
| 23-7081 | Elias Makere v. E. Gary Early, Administrative Law Judge | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-03-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-liability civil-procedure civil-prosecution civil-rights clerical-functions clerical-tasks court-procedure judicial-immunity legal-immunity ministerial-duties ministerial-tasks | 1. Are judges immune (from civil prosecution) when performing clerical tasks (eg, Xeroxing transcripts/etc.)? 2. Are judges immune (from civil prosec… |
| 23-6636 | Thomas Oliver v. Kristin T. Mihelic, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-immunity civil-liability civil-rights court-orders government-accountability government-personnel judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct legal-ethics official-duties official-misconduct willful-crimes | 1. Should judges or other government personnel in the United States be protected by any form of civil immunity at all for willful crimes they commit w… |
| 23-6133 | Jacquelyn Reaves v. Monmouth University, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-11-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-liability civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection false-imprisonment hate-crime jurisdiction racial-discrimination | Should respondents be criminally and civilly liable for hate crime(s), false imprisonment, racial discrimination, persecution, emotional distress, and… |
| 23A209 | DeRay Mckesson v. John Doe | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-01 | Presumed Complete | civil-liability first-amendment NAACP-v-Claiborne-Hardware negligence protest-organizer third-party-violence | Question not identified. | |
| 22-846 | Department of Agriculture Rural Development Rural Housing Service v. Reginald Kirtz | Third Circuit | 2023-03-07 | Judgment Issued | Amici (2)Relisted (3) | civil-liability civil-procedure fair-credit-reporting-act federal-jurisdiction federal-law sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation waiver | Whether the civil-liability provisions of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. 1681 et seq., unequivocally and unambiguously waive the sovereign i… |
| 22-695 | Jane Does No. 1–6, et al. v. Reddit, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-25 | Denied | Relisted (2) | child-pornography civil-action civil-liability communications-decency-act internet-immunity sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation third-party-liability | Whether the exception to CDA immunity contained in 47 U.S.C. § 230(e)(5)(A)—which states "Nothing in this section (other than subsection (c)(2)(A)) sh… |
| 22-593 | United States, ex rel. Deborah Sheldon v. Allergan Sales, LLC | Fourth Circuit | 2022-12-27 | GVR | Relisted (5) | civil-liability false-claims-act government-fraud knowingly knowledge-standard statutory-interpretation subjective-beliefs subjective-understanding | Whether and when a defendant's contemporaneous subjective understanding or beliefs about the lawfulness of its conduct are relevant to whether it "kno… |
| 22-195 | Thomas J. Dart, et al. v. Salvatore Ziccarelli | Seventh Circuit | 2022-09-01 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-liability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employee-rights employment-law family-medical-leave-act interference-claim standing statutory-interpretation | Under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, employers may be subject to civil liability if they interfere with their employees' exercise of the ri… |
| 22-5423 | Elise LaMartina v. Jason Patrick Johnson, et al. | Mississippi | 2022-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-liability civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection indigent-rights interstate-commerce privileges-and-immunities | Whether the State of Mississippi may unconstitutionally discriminate against interstate commerce to shield and protect its citizens and businesses fro… |
| 21-1326 | United States, et al., ex rel. Tracy Schutte, et al. v. SuperValu Inc., et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2022-04-05 | Judgment Issued | CVSGAmici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | civil-liability deliberate-ignorance false-claims-act fraud knowingly materiality reckless-disregard scienter statutory-interpretation | Whether and when a defendant's contemporaneous subjective understanding or beliefs about the lawfulness of its conduct are relevant to whether it "kno… |
| 21-908 | Kate Marie Bartenwerfer v. Kieran Buckley | Ninth Circuit | 2021-12-21 | Judgment Issued | Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | 11-usc-523 bankruptcy bankruptcy-fraud circuit-split civil-liability discharge discharge-exception fraud imputation imputation-liability statutory-interpretation | May an individual be subject to liability for the fraud of another that is barred from discharge in bankruptcy under 11 U.S.C. (the "Bankruptcy Code")… |
| 21-682 | Mackie L. Shivers, Jr. v. United States, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-09 | Denied | circuit-split civil-liability constitutional-violation discretionary-function-exception employee-liability federal-tort-claims-act government-immunity | Whether the discretionary function exception to the Federal Tort Claims Act immunizes the United States from tort liability for acts taken by its empl… | |
| 21-419 | Bob Lewis v. Google LLC, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-17 | Denied | Response Waived | 47-usc-230 censorship civil-liability constitutionally-protected-speech first-amendment free-speech hate-speech packingham-v-north-carolina section-230 social-media | 1. Does this Court's holding in Packingham v. North Carolina, 137 S. Ct. 1730, at 1736-1736, 198 L. Ed. 2d 273 (2017) that First Amendment protections… |
| 21-382 | Moses Strauss, et al. v. Credit Lyonnais, S.A. | Second Circuit | 2021-09-09 | Denied | CVSGRelisted (2) | aiding-and-abetting civil-liability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process foreign-terrorist-organization free-speech justice-against-sponsors-of-terrorism-act standing substantial-funds terrorism terrorist-organization | Whether a person who knowingly transfers substantial funds to a designated foreign terrorist organization aids and abets that organization's terrorist… |
| 21-381 | Tzvi Weiss, et al. v. National Westminster Bank, PLC | Second Circuit | 2021-09-08 | Denied | CVSGAmici (5)Relisted (2) | 18 U.S.C. § 2333(d)(2) aiding-abetting civil-liability civil-rights due-process foreign-terrorist-organizations free-speech material-support standing substantial-assistance terrorism terrorist-organizations | Whether a person who knowingly transfers substantial funds to a designated FTO aids and abets that organization's terrorist acts for purposes of civil… |
| 21-81 | Burt W. Newsome, et al. v. Clark A. Cooper, et al. | Alabama | 2021-07-21 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | appellate-review civil-claims civil-liability civil-rights criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process newton-v-rumery release-dismissal | 1. Whether a release-dismissal order entered in a criminal case is enforceable under the standards set forth in Newton v. Rumery wherein said order wa… |
| 20-1685 | Scott Fulford, et al. v. George Wingate | Fourth Circuit | 2021-06-04 | Denied | civil-liability fourth-amendment law-enforcement-training qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion terry-stop totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances | The Fourth Amendment requires that a Terry stop be supported by some minimal level of objective justification for the stop. In conducting a Fourth Ame… | |
| 20-1069 | Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. v. A. Y., et al. | Pennsylvania | 2021-02-05 | Denied | Amici (4) | civil-liability drug-labeling fda-regulation federal-preemption impossibility-preemption off-label-use preemption state-tort-law | Whether federal law preempts state-law claims that a manufacturer failed to provide adequate warnings relating to the off-label use of their products,… |
| 20-651 | Cook Children's Medical Center v. T. L., a Minor, et al. | Texas | 2020-11-13 | Denied | Amici (1) | civil-liability civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process hospital-review internal-review-process medical-ethics section-1983 state-action texas-advance-directives-act | Whether, despite the lack of any state involvement, participation, coercion, input, or control of any kind, a private hospital is nevertheless a state… |
| 20-5336 | Matthew Jones v. Captain Alice Brumbley | Delaware | 2020-08-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-liability civil-procedure civil-prosecution civil-rights constitutional-protection criminal-law criminal-liability due-process government-immunity immunity legal-accountability official-misconduct | 1. Do government employees enjoy immunity from committed crimes and civil prosecution? 2. Must a plaintiff prove the facts of the Case in the Complai… |
| 20-144 | Spencer Savings Bank, SLA, et al. v. Lawrence B. Seidman | New Jersey | 2020-08-12 | Denied | bank-secrecy-act civil-liability customer-privacy financial-crimes financial-institution non-disclosure-obligation state-court-liability statutory-scheme suspicious-activity-report | A recent decision from a New Jersey appellate court (which the New Jersey Supreme Court declined to review) joins a growing number of decisions across… | |
| 19-1284 | Malwarebytes, Inc. v. Enigma Software Group USA, LLC | Ninth Circuit | 2020-05-13 | Denied | Amici (4)Relisted (2) | anticompetitive-animus antitrust blocking civil-liability civil-rights communications-decency-act computer-service-providers filtering free-speech immunity section-230 | Whether federal courts can derive an implied exception to Section 230(c)(2)(B) immunity for blocking or filtering decisions when they are alleged to b… |
| 19-1077 | Chris Ann Jaye v. Oak Knoll Village Condominium Owners Association, Inc., et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-03-03 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-liability color-of-law due-process equal-protection first-amendment judicial-immunity separation-of-powers | Are the circuit judges of the Third Circuit acting in violation of the US Constitution by providing different due process to citizens similarly situat… |
| 19-741 | Estate of Esther Klieman, By and Through Its Administrator, Aaron Kesner, et al. v. Palestinian Authority, aka Palestinian Interim Self-Government Authority, et al. | District of Columbia | 2019-12-11 | GVR | anti-terrorism-act civil-liability civil-litigation congress-power congressional-intent criminal-prosecution due-process fifth-amendment foreign-sovereign | 1. Whether the PA-PLO has the right to raise a Due Process defense under the Fifth Amendment—a defense the Court has ruled unavailable to U.S. state s… | |
| 19-695 | Dean Browning Webb, et al. v. Deere Credit, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-02 | Denied | Response Waived | beck beck-v-prupis civil-liability civil-rico co-conspirator-liability conspiracy-law mediate-causation pinkerton-doctrine procedural-sanctions rico-1962-d salinas salinas-v-united-states | Pinkerton, Salinas, Beck, and mediate causation: Does the Pinkerton Doctrine, Pinkerton v. United States, 328 U.S. 640, 647, 66 S.Ct. 1180, 90 L. Ed. … |
| 19-5720 | Melinda Scott v. Joshua Moon, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-08-27 | Denied | IFP | 47-usc-230 civil-liability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process immunity internet-law invasion-of-privacy legal-standing privacy section-230 standing tort-liability | Has Plaintiff Scott stated sufficient facts to support an Invasion of Privacy claim against Defendants Moon and Zaiger? Are Defendants Moon and Zaige… |
| 19-153 | Yasmeen Daniel, Individually and as Special Administrator of the Estate of Zina Daniel Haughton v. Armslist, LLC, et al. | Wisconsin | 2019-08-01 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 47-usc-230 circuit-split civil-liability communications-decency-act internet-regulation section-230 state-civil-liability third-party-content tort-liability website-liability website-owners | Does the Communications Decency Act, 47 U.S.C. § 230's prohibition on treating providers of interactive computer services as publishers or speakers of… |
| 19-40 | Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. v. J. W., a Minor | California | 2019-07-05 | Denied | church-governance civil-liability clergy-privilege first-amendment fourteenth-amendment intra-faith-communications religious-doctrine religious-freedom religious-practice | For decades this Court has safeguarded the First Amendment rights of freedom of religion, speech, and press from state infringement. Jehovah's Witness… | |
| 18-1090 | Mary Kay Beckman v. Match.com, LLC | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-court-interpretation circuit-court-split civil-liability communications-decency-act immunity internet-immunity negligence publisher-liability section-230 third-party-content tort tort-liability website-immunity | Does Section 230 of the CDA immunize web site operators for their own negligent or tortious conduct from all civil lawsuits any time a third party has… |
| 18-7450 | Bradley B. Miller v. Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-16 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | anti-injunction-act civil-liability civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-law judicial-immunity removal removal-proceedings state-court-procedure state-courts supremacy-clause title-28 | This case presents issues related to the failure of the 330th Family District Court, Dallas County, Texas, to observe federal jurisdiction during a re… |
| 18-913 | Joshua Brennan v. James Dawson, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-15 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (9) | civil-liability civil-procedure civil-rights common-law constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement liability police-conduct qualified-immunity reasonable-reliance | Whether a police officer may reasonably rely on a narrow exception to a specific and clearly established right to shield him from civil liability when… |
| 18-7092 | Ileen Cain v. Atelier Esthetique Institute of Esthetics, Inc. | Second Circuit | 2018-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | character-damage civil-liability civil-rights defamation defamation-per-se due-process financial-prospects professional-reputation rehabilitation-act terrorism trade trade-school | Whether a trade school student have a trade for purposes of defamation per se Without due process, whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals Summar… |