| 24-1229 |
Denise A. Canzoneri v. Prescott Unified School District, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-03 |
Denied |
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clearly-established factual-allegations first-amendment light-most-favorable motion-to-dismiss qualified-immunity |
1. At the motion to dismiss stage, all factual allegations in the complaint must be viewed as true and resolved in a light most favorable for the plai… |
| 24A697 |
Ismael Ruiz v. Dan Shannon, Director, Wyoming Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-01-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
access-to-courts clearly-established constitutional-violation prisoners-rights pro-se tenth-circuit |
Question not identified. |
| 24-15 |
Paulette Smith, Individually and as Successor in Interest to Albert Dorsey, Deceased v. Edward Agdeppa |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
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clearly-established excessive-force fourth-amendment police-shooting qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment use-of-force |
In the context of Fourth Amendment claims alleging excessive force, the determination of a police officer's entitlement to qualified immunity in summa… |
| 23-1333 |
Sami Azmi, et al. v. John Sylvester Penny |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-21 |
Denied |
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civil-rights clearly-established excessive-force law-enforcement ninth-circuit qualified-immunity summary-judgment undisputed-evidence video-evidence |
In ruling on a claim for qualified immunity raised in a motion for summary judgment, does a court's obligation to view the evidence in the light most … |
| 23-689 |
City of Los Angeles, California, et al. v. M. A. R., a Minor, By and Through His Guardian ad Litem, Elisabeth Barragan, Individually and as a Successor in Interest to Daniel Rivera, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights clearly-established excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity summary-judgment undisputed-evidence video-evidence |
In ruling on a claim for qualified immunity raised in a motion for summary judgment, does a court's obligation to view the evidence in the light most … |
| 23-521 |
Denise Fisher v. Jodi M. Moore, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment qualified-immunity state-action state-created-danger |
Whether the Court should hold that it was clearly established by November 2019 that the Due Process Clause prohibits state officials from knowingly pl… |
| 23A42 |
Sarah K. Molina, et al. v. City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-07-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
clearly-established first-amendment legal-observers qualified-immunity retaliation section-1983 |
(1) whether wearing a hat identifying one as a "National Lawyers Guild legal observer" is protected speech under the First Amendment, or as the panel … |
| 22-1107 |
Officer Matthew Gregory, et al. v. Elise Brown |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law constitutional-rights department-policies excessive-force law-enforcement police-procedure police-training qualified-immunity |
1. A unanimous Ninth Circuit panel upheld qualified immunity for two police officers who followed department policies and training when they ordered t… |
| 22-735 |
Kori Anderson, et al. v. Tristen Calder, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Coby Lee Paugh |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-02-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
alcohol-withdrawal civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-violation due-process law-enforcement medical-needs qualified-immunity |
Is qualified immunity wrongfully denied to Petitioners in an alcohol withdrawal case based upon a general determination that ignoring serious medical … |
| 22-675 |
Vicki Jo Lewis, et vir, Individually and as Co-Personal Representatives of the Estate of Isaiah Mark Lewis, Deceased v. City of Edmond, Oklahoma, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-01-20 |
Denied |
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42-usc-1983 civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-reversal |
1. Whether this Court should reconsider the judge made doctrine of qualified immunity.
2. Whether qualified immunity insulates a law enforcement offi… |
| 22-556 |
N. S., Only Child of Decedent, Ryan Stokes, By and Through Her Natural Mother and Next Friend, Brittany Lee, et al. v. Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-12-19 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (12) |
42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement legal-precedent qualified-immunity section-1983 |
1. Whether qualified immunity insulates a law enforcement officer from liability under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 if there is no factually identical precedent e… |
| 22-431 |
Gigi Jordan v. Amy Lamanna, Superintendent, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2022-11-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
clearly-established federal-law habeas-corpus public-trial-clause sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent unreasonable-application |
The question presented is whether a federal habeas petitioner seeking relief on the basis of a violation of the Public Trial Clause can demonstrate an… |
| 21-1220 |
County of Sacramento, California, et al. v. Kenard Thomas |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-violation due-process fact-determination law-enforcement qualified-immunity reviewing-standard section-1983 |
1. In deciding whether qualified immunity applies, the court is to view the evidence in the light most favorable to the plaintiff. Is it appropriate, … |
| 21-1141 |
Charles Wade v. Gordon Lewis |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-violation due-process fair-warning medical-treatment prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Whether this Court's qualified immunity doctrine demands a nearly identical fact pattern before a case can clearly establish the law—as the Eleventh a… |
| 21-1075 |
Mandy England, in Her Individual Capacity v. Annissa Colson |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights correctional-officer due-process eighth-amendment inmate-treatment medical-determination medical-treatment qualified-immunity |
1. Whether a correctional officer violated a constitutional right of an inmate for not requesting further treatment for a non-life-threatening injury … |
| 21-6593 |
Murray Hooper v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 clearly-established clearly-established-law evidence-suppression federal-law greene-v-fisher habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct state-court supreme-court-review united-states-v-bagley witness-testimony |
1. Whether this Court should clarify its holding in Greene v. Fisher, 565 U.S. 34, 38 (2011), to reflect that the state court decision by which "clear… |
| 20-1632 |
Patrick H. Stockdale, et al. v. Kim R. Helper |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-24 |
Denied |
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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… |
| 20-1128 |
Ralph Clay Walsh, Jr. v. Lisa Hodge, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law cross-examination due-process qualified-immunity title-ix |
Justice Thomas and Justice Sotomayor have criticized the "clearly established" prong of the qualified immunity test and would revisit the Court's prec… |
| 20-1002 |
Cody William Cox v. Don Wilson |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process fair-notice fair-warning government-official legal-standard precedent-comparison qualified-immunity |
Whether a court may uphold a qualified immunity claim on the ground that qualified immunity had been granted in a prior case in which the "impropriety… |
| 20-877 |
Trinell King v. Ricky Pridmore, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights clearly-established excessive-force hope-v-peltzer police-misconduct qualified-immunity racial-bias summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton |
Respondents Ricky Pridmore, Corey Archer, and Andrew Hill are White police officers who treated Petitioner Trinell King, a young Black citizen, as a t… |
| 19-1085 |
Shannon Deasey, et al. v. Daniella Slater, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
7th-circuit 9th-circuit civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law closely-analogous constitutional-rights due-process legal-precedent ninth-circuit qualified-immunity seventh-circuit sufficiently-analogous |
This petition presents the question whether, for purposes of qualified immunity, a merely "sufficiently analogous" case is enough to show that the law… |
| 19-725 |
JonMichael Guy v. Robert O. Lampert, Director, Wyoming Department of Corrections, et al. |
Wyoming |
2019-12-09 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights clearly-established due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-interpretation qualified-immunity religion-clauses religious-discrimination sincere-belief standing |
When a government official discriminates against a belief that is sincere and religious to the victim, and is therefore protected by the Religion Clau… |
| 19-466 |
Zachery Pittman v. Herman Harris |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established excessive-force fourth-amendment qualified-immunity scott-v-harris section-1983 summary-judgment use-of-force |
1. Whether in Scott U. Harris, 550 U.S. 372 (2007)
this Court announced an "exception" to the summary
judgment standard in cases commenced under 42
U.… |
| 19-174 |
Jeri Lynn Rich, Representative for Gavrila Covaci Dupuis-Mays, an Incapacitated Person v. Michael Palko, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-rights clearly-established collateral-order collateral-order-doctrine excessive-force fourth-amendment material-facts qualified-immunity seizure |
The Court's "collateral order" doctrine permits
interlocutory appeal with a two- pronged test for a
government official's claim to qualified immunity:… |
| 18-1458 |
Charles J. Vernier v. Debra Gallegos |
New Mexico |
2019-05-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-search burden-of-proof circuit-precedent circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law consent consent-burden fourth-amendment implied-consent qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
On May 4, 2013, Respondent Debra Gallegos was stopped at a DWI checkpoint in New Mexico. Petitioner Charles Vernier, a New Mexico State Police Officer… |
| 18-1358 |
Douglas Echols v. Spencer Lawton |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-violation due-process first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation libel-per-se presumption-of-innocence qualified-immunity retaliation substantive-due-process |
Where the Eleventh Circuit found a constitutional violation in a prosecutor's use of libel per se to retaliate against a wrongfully convicted person w… |
| 18-643 |
Janette Dunkle v. Jennifer Dale, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment child-seizure circuit-court-precedent circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment qualified-immunity warrantless-seizure |
This Court has deliberately left open whether a
U.S Supreme Court decision (as opposed to a Circuit
Court decision) is required to "clearly establish"… |
| 18-46 |
City of Middletown, Connecticut, et al. v. William McKinney |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
4th-amendment active-resistance civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights detainee-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity reasonable-officer use-of-force |
Police officers were attempting to transfer a detainee to a padded cell where he could be appropriately monitored after he repeatedly obstructed the v… |