| 25-991 |
Samantha Lee-Ann Sealey v. Arturo Mancias, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-19 |
Pending |
|
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… |
| 25-943 |
Antonio M. Smith v. John Kind, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2026-02-09 |
Pending |
|
clearly-established-law constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment government-official qualified-immunity |
When a government official acts in an obviously unconstitutional manner, is that sufficient for the violation to be clearly established, as this Court… |
| 25-472 |
Angelic Salgado, as Personal Representative of the Wrongful Death Estate of Jonathan Molina v. Kevin Smith |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-10-17 |
Denied |
|
clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment police-shooting qualified-immunity use-of-force |
1. Second-volley rule. When an officer shoots a suspect once in the chest, steps back for cover to reload, six to eight seconds pass, and the suspect … |
| 25-216 |
Mathew Grashorn v. Wendy Love, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
clearly-established-law imminent-danger jurisdiction objective-reasonableness qualified-immunity tenth-circuit |
Under this Court's well-established qualified-immunity framework, courts conduct a two-part analysis to resolve an officer's qualified-immunity defens… |
| 25-5286 |
Samuel Fields v. Laura Plappert, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-08-06 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
aedpa circuit-court-mandate clearly-established-law exceptional-circumstance habeas-corpus supreme-court-review |
May a subsequent decision of this Court calling into question the correctness and integrity of a circuit court's judgment qualify as an exceptional ci… |
| 24A1277 |
Samuel Fields v. Laura Plappert, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-06-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-case clearly-established-law confrontation-clause extrinsic-evidence habeas-corpus section-2254 |
Question not identified. |
| 24-998 |
Officer Eddie Boyd, III, et al. v. Fred Watson |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-03-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
causation-standard clearly-established-law first-amendment qualified-immunity retaliatory-force section-1983 |
The Eighth Circuit affirmed summary judgment in favor of Petitioner Officer Eddie Boyd as to all of Respondent Fred Watson's 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claims e… |
| 24A800 |
Officer Eddie Boyd, III, et al. v. Fred Watson |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-02-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
clearly-established-law first-amendment fourth-amendment objective-reasonableness qualified-immunity retaliatory-use-of-force |
Whether the First Amendment affords a right to be free from a retaliatory use-of-force that is otherwise objectively reasonable under the circumstance… |
| 24-6315 |
Eric St. George v. City of Lakewood, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-01-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process police-shooting qualified-immunity tenth-circuit |
In the grant of Qualified Immunity, the Tenth Circuit applied the 2017 vacatur of Pauly I by White v. Pauly, 580 U.S. @ 78 to the 2016 shooting of Mr.… |
| 24A226 |
Corey Cunningham, on Behalf of Kodi Gaines, a Minor v. Baltimore County, Maryland, et al. |
Maryland |
2024-08-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Question not identified. |
| 24A55 |
Karen Jimerson, et al. v. Mike Lewis |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
clearly-established-law fourth-amendment qualified-immunity reasonable-efforts search-warrant wrong-house-raid |
Does an officer violate clearly established law when he executes a search warrant at the wrong house without ascertaining the address or conspicuous f… |
| 24A42 |
Thanquarious R. Calhoun v. Warden, Baldwin State Prison, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
clearly-established-law constitutional-claim federal-statute habeas-corpus state-court writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1297 |
Michael Roane v. Tina Ray |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-12 |
Denied |
|
clearly-established-law fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-seizure objective-reasonableness personal-property qualified-immunity self-defense summary-judgment unreasonable-seizure |
1. Whether Roane's act had to be the "necessary" or "unavoidable" act, rather than within a range of objective reasonableness, to be considered an act… |
| 23A1056 |
George Stephenson, Warden v. Lafayette Deshawn Upshaw |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
aedpa clearly-established-law habeas-corpus plurality-opinion sixth-circuit state-court-review |
Question not identified. |
| 23-991 |
City of Long Beach, New York, et al. v. Ricky Joshua Benny |
Second Circuit |
2024-03-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-court civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process excessive-force law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity |
1. Whether the Second Circuit departed from this Court's precedents, none of which it cited or discussed, when it concluded that two police officers r… |
| 23-6912 |
Samuel Fields v. Laura Plappert, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-03-06 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (10)IFP |
aedpa clearly-established-law constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process extrinsic-evidence habeas-corpus jury-experiment jury-trial verdict-standards |
Does this Court's rule requiring that a verdict be based only on the evidence presented in the courtroom at trial satisfy 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1)'s "cl… |
| 23-846 |
City of Sparks, Nevada, et al. v. Rosa Ester Brizuela, Individually and as Special Administrator of the Estate of Rolando Antonio Brizuela, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split clearly-established-law community-areas community-owned-areas curtilage multi-family-dwelling multifamily-dwelling ninth-circuit precedent |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit err by holding that the
community-owned areas in front of a multifamily dwelling constituted curtilage, contrary to its own p… |
| 23-695 |
Samantha Taczak, et al. v. Nicolette Cremeans, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment qualified-immunity section-1983 state-court state-court-precedent u.s-constitution |
This case arises from a question this Court has repeatedly declined to answer over the last four decades: what sources of law constitute "controlling … |
| 23-684 |
Andrew Knapp, et al. v. Janice Brown |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adverse-effects-for-police clearly-established-law constitutional-rights detention law-enforcement probable-cause probable-cause-determination qualified-immunity sixth-circuit warrantless-arrest |
1. Did the Sixth Circuit err in denying qualified immunity to four police officers involved in a warrantless arrest and detention in the absence of cl… |
| 23-6292 |
Ray O. Crowell, Jr. v. Mark R. Sevier, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-court civil-rights clearly-established-law counsel-claim due-process federal-habeas ineffective-assistance post-conviction standard-of-review strickland strickland-standard |
Whether the State court's resolution of Crowell's ineffective assistance of counsel claim for bail at a capital offense preliminary hearing under 42 U… |
| 23-447 |
Jeremy Johnson v. Andre D. Boyd |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-court-precedent civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights fifth-circuit legal-standard qualified-immunity split-second-use-of-force use-of-force |
I. Whether circuit court precedent can clearly establish the law for the purpose of qualified immunity analysis, and, if so, under what circumstances … |
| 23A357 |
Brant Putnam, et al. v. Timothy Ryan |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
adverse-employment-action clearly-established-law first-amendment peer-review qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5819 |
Jason Green v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
clearly-established-federal-law clearly-established-law due-process forum-shopping habeas-corpus judicial-fairness lockyer-v-andrade ninth-circuit-review panetti-v-quarterman prosecutorial-misconduct |
When the prosecutor got an adverse evidentiary ruling, he dismissed and refiled the same day in a different courthouse, ensuring that a different judg… |
| 23-377 |
Chris Dutra, et al. v. Kim Jackson |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
|
circuit-court-precedent clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment ninth-circuit police-conduct qualified-immunity supreme-court-precedent |
The meaning of "clearly established" for qualified immunity purposes is not, itself, clearly established. There is a split among this Court's preceden… |
| 23-274 |
William Felkner v. John Nazarian, et al. |
Rhode Island |
2023-09-21 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights clearly-established-law first-amendment free-speech legal-standard policy qualified-immunity section-1983 supreme-court |
Whether the judge-made "clearly established law" qualified immunity standard, which lacks textual, historical, and logical support, and which does not… |
| 23A255 |
Denise Fisher v. Jodi M. Moore, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
clearly-established-law deliberate-indifference fourteenth-amendment qualified-immunity section-1983 state-created-danger-doctrine |
Whether the state-created danger doctrine was "clearly established" when ten circuits unanimously recognized the doctrine, and whether the doctrine sh… |
| 23A160 |
Brian Williams, Warden, et al. v. Reynaldo Agavo |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
attorney-misconduct clearly-established-law confrontation-clause equitable-tolling habeas-corpus section-2254 |
1. This case raises important questions of federal law involving (1) principles of equitable tolling, and (2) application of this Court's jurisprudenc… |
| 23-5051 |
Andrew Valles v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-law due-process federal-review first-amendment habeas-corpus separation-of-powers standing state-court-adjudication |
1. Daes the resont of 28 u.s.c.31ais (bl4) - a safety-valve created by congress - succomb entirely to and find defeat in 8191slg) -a seeming deterent … |
| 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… |
| 22-756 |
Lannette Linthicum, et al. v. Robin Wayne Smith |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit medical-needs qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment summary-reversal |
1. Whether the Fifth Circuit manifestly departed
from this Court's precedent by holding that authority
that postdates the defendant's alleged acts can… |
| 22-728 |
Daniel Cameron Wilkey, et al. v. William Eugene Klaver |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights clearly-established-law clearly-established-right fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop |
1. This Court has repeatedly instructed the lower courts that in determining whether a right is clearly established for purposes of qualified immunity… |
| 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 |
|
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… |
| 22-6396 |
John Edward Sansing v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review clearly-established-law criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment federal-habeas mitigating-evidence mitigating-factors sentencing-procedure victim-impact |
John Edward Sansing pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and other felonies with no agreements offered by the state. During the sentencing proceeding… |
| 22-223 |
County of Riverside, California, et al. v. Estate of Clemente Najera-Aguirre, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
9th-circuit clearly-established-law constitutional-rights deadly-force excessive-force law-enforcement ninth-circuit particularized-consideration qualified-immunity use-of-force |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit's panel decision denying qualified immunity contravene this Court's mandate that courts should not hold officers to a standar… |
| 21-7774 |
Brandon Leon Bibbs v. Alex Villanueva, Sheriff, Los Angeles County, California |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-and-statutory-provisions constitutional-review due-process federal-review habeas-corpus jurisdiction reasons-for-granting-the-writ standing state-court-adjudication |
Question not identified. |
| 21-1403 |
Travis Morse, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Police Officer for the Town of Orono, Maine, et al. v. Christopher French |
First Circuit |
2022-05-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
circuit-court civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process knock-and-talk law-enforcement qualified-immunity warrant-requirement |
1. Did the First Circuit depart from this Court's qualified immunity precedent by defining clearly established law at a high level of generality and f… |
| 21-7341 |
Jerry Fruit v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
clearly-established-federal-law clearly-established-law direct-appeal fourth-amendment full-and-fair-litigation habeas-corpus stone-v-powell trial-litigation |
Whather habeas corpus petitioners •• who received a decision contrary to clearly established federal law on their Fourth Amendment claim at trial and … |
| 21-6880 |
In Re Allen Fitzgerald Calton |
|
2022-01-18 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus standing state-prisoner successive-petition successive-petitions unreasonable-application |
Whether on ZaWwidual Cire Surge of the US. Ceork Of Ageeals Was ociainal Hebbeas Compus Worishidhoa over a second of Suceassve heloeas Pelion. Filed L… |
| 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… |
| 21-6536 |
In Re Michael Robert Everett |
|
2021-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process evidence federal-habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief state-court-record suppression-hearing unreasonable-determination |
(1) Were Counsel was Ineffective when Failed to Present to the Court During Suppression Hearing than the Petitioner Teks Mamanba Nataeig Watngr when I… |
| 21-789 |
Casey Benton v. Mary Bradley, as Administrator of the Estate of Troy Robinson, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-29 |
Denied |
|
clearly-established-law constitutional-rights deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity taser-deployment tennessee-v-garner |
The issue in this case is whether a police officer who deployed a taser to stop a fleeing person on top of an eight-foot wall is entitled to qualified… |
| 21-533 |
Brad Martin, Individually and as an Employee of the Arizona Department of Public Safety, et al. v. Carlos Castro |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
clearly-established-law fourth-amendment k9-deployment law-enforcement qualified-immunity reasonable-force totality-of-circumstances use-of-force violent-crime |
1. When a law enforcement officer reasonably deploys a police K9 to restrain a fleeing suspect known to have a history of violent crime and believed t… |
| 21-314 |
Ed Reynolds, et al. v. Karri Dalton, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Nikki Bascom, and Next Friend to M. B., a Minor Child and A. C.. a Minor Child |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-08-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
10th-circuit civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights domestic-violence equal-protection police-duty police-protection qualified-immunity Question not identified. section-1983
21-313" section-1983
21-313" |
I. Did the Tenth Circuit err in denying
Petitioners qualified immunity on Dalton's
Equal Protection claim where it was not
clearly established that po… |
| 21-5460 |
Joe Michael Luna v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 circuit-split clearly-established-law federal-law federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-review state-court-decision statutory-interpretation wilson-v-sellers |
Under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1) and Wilson v. Sellers, 138 S. Ct. 1188 (2018), is a habeas court's review of a state court decision limited to an analysi… |
| 20-1613 |
John Wayne Collins v. James David Green, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
aedpa aedpa-deference clearly-established-law criminal-joinder federal-constitutional-claim federal-constitutional-rights habeas-corpus standard-of-review state-court-proceedings state-supreme-court unreasonable-application |
1. Whether de novo review instead of deferential review under AEDPA applies where a state supreme court's analysis was not conducted deliberately as a… |
| 20-1592 |
Caitlin McCann, et al. v. Sheila Garcia, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process legal-principles precedent qualified-immunity social-workers standing |
1. Whether a plaintiff satisfies the "clearly established law" prong of qualified immunity by identifying prior authority that articulates general leg… |
| 20-1324 |
Charles McManemy v. Bruce Tierney, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-23 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process eighth-circuit excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement-conduct qualified-immunity standing |
I. A split exists within the Eighth Circuit concerning how narrowly or broadly existing precedent is to be applied in finding clearly established law … |
| 20-1276 |
Stephen B. McKinney v. Felicia Harkness Dean, Guardian and Conservator for and on Behalf of Janel Harkness, an Incapacitated Adult |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
|
circuit-court-of-appeals clearly-established-law deliberate-indifference due-process intent-to-harm parratt-hudson parratt-hudson-doctrine qualified-immunity substantive-due-process |
1. Did the Circuit Court of Appeals err in failing to apply the Parratt-Hudson doctrine to the Respondent's substantive due process claim?
2. Did the… |
| 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… |
| 20-6768 |
Quentin Watson v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-evaluation petition-review standing |
Whether the United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana and Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals mis-applied clearly established law in eval… |
| 20-872 |
Shane Davis v. Mike Carroll, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process factual-reasonableness judicial-interpretation legal-standard qualified-immunity |
Though unstated in 42 U.S.C. § 1983 or the common law, qualified immunity doctrine sets forth a two-prong test for claims of qualified immunity: (i) w… |
| 20-811 |
Kathy Contreras, on Behalf of Her Minor Child A. L. v. Dona Ana County Board of County Commissioners, dba Dona Ana County Detention Center, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process monell-claim monell-claims qualified-immunity section-1983 |
1. Whether this Court should resolve the confusion in the circuit courts about what constitutes "clearly established" law with a clear rule and guidan… |
| 20-6419 |
Romell Broom v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
clearly-established-law constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-attempt habeas-corpus robinson-v-california section-2254 sentencing supreme-court-precedent trop-v-dulles |
Is Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. Resweber, 329 U.S. 459 (1947) the clearly established United States Supreme Court precedent, for purposes of 28 U.S.C.… |
| 20-6146 |
Douglas Harrie Stewart v. Cathleen Stoddard, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa antiterrorism-and-death-penalty-act-of-1996 clearly-established-law due-process estelle-v-mcguire evidence-prejudice fourteenth-amendment lisenba-v-people-of-state-of-california payne-v-tennessee trial-fairness |
Whether the rule of law espoused by Payne v. Tennessee, 501 U.S. 808 (1991), Lisenba v. People of State of California, 314 U.S. 219 (1941), and Estell… |
| 20-498 |
Sonia Garcia, et vir v. Wesley Blevins, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights deadly-force fourth-amendment qualified-immunity stare-decisis unpublished-decisions unpublished-opinions |
1. The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted qualified immunity reasoning facts demonstrating that a person shot and killed by … |
| 20-202 |
Robert Massie v. Basilea Mena |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights clearly-established-law detention excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity use-of-force |
(1) Under the particular facts and circumstances
of this case, did the Ninth Circuit err in finding
that Massie's actions constitute an excessive use
… |
| 20-182 |
Rita Stanback, et al. v. Ginny Humphrey, as Parent and Legal Guardian of Minor Child, O. H., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process law-enforcement police-investigation qualified-immunity sexual-misconduct sixth-circuit supervisory-liability takings |
Whether the Sixth Circuit contradicted a fundamental principle of this Court's qualified immunity precedent when it denied qualified immunity to Petit… |
| 20-83 |
Jacob Jones, et al. v. Wayne Duke Kalbaugh |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement objective-reasonableness police-conduct qualified-immunity tenth-circuit |
I. Did the Tenth Circuit improperly focus on the knowledge and intentions of the suspect, rather than the facts knowable to the officers, in reversing… |
| 20-5092 |
Sebastian Cortez-Hernandez v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
2020-07-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-law ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure statutory-construction supreme-court |
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| 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… |
| 19-1042 |
Euince J. Winzer, Individually and on Behalf of the Statutory Beneficiaries of Gabriel A. Winzer v. Kaufman County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fifth-circuit law-enforcement qualified-immunity |
1. According to the Fifth Circuit, a reasonable juror could conclude that it was clearly unreasonable for a law-enforcement officer to fire multiple b… |
| 19-956 |
Donald E. Craig, et al. v. Janet Turner O'Kelley, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of John Harley Turner, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-30 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process government-officers harlow-standard harlow-v-fitzgerald moore-v-pederson panel-decision qualified-immunity timing-circumstance |
1. Whether a panel decision decided nine days before the relevant conduct in question constitutes clearly established law to deprive government office… |
| 19-7192 |
Keith Edward Walker v. Ronda Pash, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction federal-review finality-of-judgment habeas-corpus standing state-court-decision statute-of-limitations |
DOES THE READING OF 28 U.S.C. § 2244(A) CREATE AMBIGUITY IN 28 U.S.C. § 2244(D)(A) READ IN PART "A ONE YEAR PERIOD OF LIMITATION SHALL APPLY TO AN APP… |
| 19-753 |
Michael Hunter, et al. v. Randy Cole, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) |
civil-rights clearly-established-law deadly-force deadly-weapon due-process dynamic-encounter excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment police-use-of-force qualified-immunity shooting-encounter use-of-force |
I. If the barrel of a gun is not yet pointed directly at an officer, does clearly established federal law prohibit police officers from firing to stop… |
| 19-657 |
Virgil Brewer v. Kristina Myers |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-11-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force graham-factors law-enforcement police-use-of-force qualified-immunity summary-judgment use-of-force |
While conducting a house-to-house search for a suspect who had threatened people in a bar with a shotgun after being thrown out of that bar for fighti… |
| 19-263 |
Cody Ross v. Johnnie Rochell, Jr. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-28 |
Denied |
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4th-amendment 8th-circuit assault-weapon civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-violation eighth-circuit excessive-force kisela-v-hughes law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force |
1. Did the Eighth Circuit depart from this Court's decision in Kisela v. Hughes, U.S. , 138 S. Ct. 1148 (2018) (per curiam) and numerous other cases b… |
| 19-215 |
Darrel Conell Nevels v. Piggly Wiggly Corporation, et al. |
Alabama |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process gross-negligence interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction premises-liability qualified-immunity |
1. In qualified liability cases, Supreme court prece dent shows an Appellate court has Jurisdiction to hear a Rights to Due Process, Gross Negligence,… |
| 19-5438 |
Jimmy Fletcher Meders v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 anti-flyspecking-rule circuit-court-procedure clearly-established-law eleventh-circuit federal-court-deference federal-review habeas habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review section-2254 standard-of-review state-court-decision state-court-deference wilson-v-sellers |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's adherence to its self-styled "no-grading-papers, anti-flyspecking rule" for the application of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) i… |
| 19-155 |
Lenard Johnson v. Megan Winfrey |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-01 |
Denied |
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civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware immunity-analysis law-enforcement qualified-immunity |
When a claim is brought under Franks v. Delaware, does the Fourth Amendment alone fully define the dimensions of a law enforcement officer's qualified… |
| 19-76 |
Martin Marquardt, Deputy Sheriff v. William Fletcher |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
|
circuit-precedent civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process excessive-force ninth-circuit pretrial-detainee qualified-immunity use-of-force |
1. Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit correctly held that Petitioner does not have qualified immunity on the ground that "[t]he l… |
| 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… |
| 18-9314 |
Randall Pierce v. Stuart Sherman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure clearly-established-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit pleadings pro-se pro-se-pleadings sentencing-information standing supreme-court |
1)
Was the District Court Judge's Illiberal Construction of the Pro Se
Pleadings a Denial of Access to the Courts?
2)
Does a State Court Fail to Unre… |
| 18-1357 |
Randy Cummings, et al. v. Celina Bussey, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 clearly-established-law discretionary-function federal-court-interpretation federal-court-review ministerial-exception property-rights qualified-immunity state-law state-law-interpretation state-supreme-court-precedent statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a federal court interpreting a state statute can conclude that it grants the state agency discretion such that the "ministerial exception" … |
| 18-8977 |
Scott E. Schmidt v. Brian Foster, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 circuit-court-procedure clearly-established-federal-law clearly-established-law federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation summary-reversal supreme-court-review unreasonable-application wilson-v-sellers |
1. Whether this Court should summarily reverse or, at a minimum, grant certiorari, vacate, and remand in light of Wilson v. Sellers, 138 S. Ct. 1188 (… |
| 18-1326 |
Justin Shultz, et al. v. Jason Cole |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process first-amendment individual-assessment law-enforcement legal-standard police-conduct qualified-immunity retaliation summary-judgment |
1. When multiple police officers seek qualified immunity on a summary judgment motion, should their entitlement to qualified immunity be evaluated ind… |
| 18-8434 |
Leif Halvorsen v. DeEdra Hart, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
amendment-of-habeas-petition clearly-established-law darden-v-wainwright due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct white-v-woodall |
I. Does the Sixth Circuit's ruling that a lack of Supreme Court case law dealing with a specific type of improper prosecution closing argument means n… |
| 18-8283 |
Terry A. Burlison v. Pam Angus, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as a Marion County, Florida Court Deputy Clerk |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 absolute-immunity civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process immunity official-liability pre-seizure-conduct property-loss property-rights section-1983 seizure |
Under 42 U.S.C. 1983 when a public official violates clearly established law though her pre-seizure conduct and the conduct caused the loss of propert… |
| 18-7157 |
Cody Wayne Mayfield v. Jimmy Martin, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
clearly-established-law deferential-review due-process estelle-v-mcguire federal-claim federal-law habeas-corpus standard-of-review state-court state-court-adjudication supreme-court-precedent unreasonable-application |
Whether deferential treatment is given when a state court's adjudication of a federal claim is not merely unreasonable, but too involved an incorrect … |
| 18-695 |
Christopher Chung, et al. v. Gulstan E. Silva, Jr., as Personal Representative of the Estate of Sheldon Paul Haleck, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
civil-rights clearly-established-law community-caretaking due-process excessive-force law-enforcement ninth-circuit qualified-immunity reasonableness use-of-force |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying the officers qualified immunity by defining clearly established law at too high a level of generality ra… |
| 18-6845 |
Edward Mitchell v. Lawrence Mahally, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
clearly-established-law confrontation-clause constitutional-law crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process greene-v-fisher habeas habeas-corpus habeas-statute retroactivity |
The Petitioner, Edward Mitchell, was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment by a state trial court in 2001 based on testimony that, al… |
| 18-6492 |
Pascual Rentas v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability clearly-established-law due-process eleventh-circuit giglio giglio-standard habeas-corpus habeas-petition ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standard-of-review strickland strickland-standard supreme-court-law supreme-court-precedent |
I
SHOULD THE DENIAL OF MR. RENTAS' COA BE REVERSED AND
RECONSIDERED DUE TO THE RECENT RULING BY THIS COURT IN
MARION WILSON V. ERIC SELLERS, WARDEN 58… |
| 18-110 |
Andrew Burningham, et al. v. John Morrison Raines, III, Guardian of the Estate of John Morrison Raines, IV |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
8th-circuit anderson-v-liberty-lobby civil-rights clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment interlocutory-appeal johnson-v-jones mitchell-v-forsyth qualified-immunity summary-judgment use-of-force |
1. Does Johnson v. Jones, 515 U.S. 304 (1995)
foreclose interlocutory appeal of an order
denying summary judgment on qualified immunity, where the und… |