civil-rights-action
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-7169 | Gabryelle Daniels v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2026-04-09 | Pending | IFP | civil-rights-action due-process in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigation qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity | 1. Whether a federal court violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments by dismissing a pro se, in forma pauperis civil-rights action at the 28 U.S.C.… |
| 25-991 | Samantha Lee-Ann Sealey v. Arturo Mancias, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-19 | Pending | Response Waived | civil-rights-action clearly-established-law constitutional-violation excessive-force qualified-immunity section-1983 | I. To avoid dismissal of a § 1983 excessive-force suit, must a plaintiff plead, as an element of her claim, that the officer had a "superior alternati… |
| 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… |
| 23-976 | Jeremy Henning v. Donald V. Snowden | Seventh Circuit | 2024-03-06 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | bivens-remedy civil-rights civil-rights-action due-process excessive-force federal-law-enforcement fourth-amendment implied-damages judicial-immunity warrant-execution warrants | Whether the court of appeals erred in allowing a Bivens remedy in this case, where the claim arises from an arrest made outside the home, in a place o… |
| 23A216 | Brett Kimberlin v. Department of Justice, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2023-09-06 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights-action declaratory-relief DNA-testing heck-bar innocence-claim section-1983 | Question not identified. | |
| 22-6922 | Samuel Ross v. Clerk of Courts of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-03-03 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts civil-rights civil-rights-action extraordinary-circumstance fed-r-civ-p-60(b)(6) lewis-v-casey prisoner-rights rule-60(b)(6) | Whether the majority Circuit Court of Appeal decisions clarifying that Lewis v. Casey does not foreclose a prisoner's right to access to courts to lit… |
| 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 … |
| 22-376 | 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… |
| 21-6819 | Christopher Varner v. Stan Shepard, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-remedy booth-v-churner civil-rights civil-rights-action due-process exhaustion-of-remedies exhaustion-requirement internal-investigation prison-conditions prison-grievance ross-v-blake section-1997e | Under 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a), an incarcerated person cannot bring a prison-conditions action without first exhausting "such administrative remedies as a… |
| 21-593 | Priscilla Everette-Oates v. Beth Wood, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-10-22 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights civil-rights-action conspiracy due-process evidence-concealment immunity municipal-immunity municipal-liability prosecutorial-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment | In a claim alleging conspiracy to conceal evidence against a public official who was falsely charged with embezzlement, can multiple municipal defenda… |
| 19-8869 | Robert Wade v. Monroe County District Attorney, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-06-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-action District-Attorney's-Office-for-the-Third-Judicial- district-court-order due-process rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 Skinner-v-Switzer standing supreme-court-precedent | WHETHER THE AMENDED ORDER OF THE COURT OF APPEALS VACATING THE ORDER OF THE DISTRICT COURT AND DISMISSING THE 1983 ACTION BASED ON THE ROOKER-FELDMAN … |
| 19-8511 | Herbert W. Morrison, Jr. v. Andrew J. Hale | Eighth Circuit | 2020-05-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-action collateral-estoppel fourth-amendment heck-doctrine Heck-v-Humphrey illegal-search-and-seizure qualified-immunity section-1983 | Whether a 42 U.S.C. §1983 civil rights action based on Fourth Amendment illegal search and seizure claims are barred under the Doctrine of Heck v. Hum… |
| 19-8384 | In Re Levon Spaulding | 2020-05-01 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-action due-process federal-action free-speech institutional-conditions legal-assistance prisoner-rights standing takings | WHETHER THE PETITIONER'S PSYCHIATRIC HISTORY AND LEARNING DISORDERS CONTRIBUTED TO BRAINWASHING A LEGALLY INCOMPETENT ACCUSED—A DISADVANTAGED PERSON? … | |
| 18-9697 | Dennis Gordon v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 1983-action 28-usc-2254 civil-rights civil-rights-action due-process ex-post-facto federal-court-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ninth-circuit parole parole-hearing parole-release-hearings section-1983 section-2254 | Does Dennis Gordon's ex post facto challenge to the eight-year increase in the interval between his parole release hearings fall within the Federal Co… |