covid-19-restrictions
22 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-460 | Donata Edwards v. U.S. Bank National Association, Trustee for RMAC Trust, Series 2016-CTT, et al. | District of Columbia | 2025-10-16 | Denied | Response Waived | covid-19-restrictions equal-protection executive-order foreclosure fourteenth-amendment property-sale | 1. Whether the DC Court of Appeals improperly affirmed the decision of its lower court to ratify the sale of Petitioner 's real property and the su… |
| 25-5355 | Toya Gibson v. Ridgewells Catering | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-14 | Denied | IFP | catering-industry contract-interpretation covid-19-restrictions employment-discrimination employment-guide workplace-rights | Was employee Toya M Gibson discriminated against, considering she was hired and then denied the ability to work the guaranteed hours that was noted in… |
| 25-68 | James Thomas Ballard, Individually and as Trustee of the James T. Ballard Millennium Trust, dated January 9, 2002 v. City of West Hollywood, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-07-18 | Denied | Response Waived | amendment-standard covid-19-restrictions due-process municipal-regulation property-rights takings-clause | 1. Whether a municipality may transform temporary emergency rent restrictions and occupancy mandates adopted at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic i… |
| 24-5358 | James Andrew Metcalf v. GEO Group, Inc., et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights court-access covid-19-restrictions prisoners-rights pro-se-filing summary-judgment | Are prisoners' Constitutional Rights to access the Courts violated when the institutional law library is closed in response to COVID-19 protocols, lea… |
| 23-7803 | Michael Sean Graham v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation confrontation-clause covid-19-restrictions due-process fifth-amendment public-interest sars-cov-2 sixth-amendment trial-procedure | 1. By denying relief, did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in holding that the masking of trial witnesses was not a violation of defendant's Fif… |
| 23-915 | Pleasant View Baptist Church, et al. v. Andrew Beshear | Sixth Circuit | 2024-02-23 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19-restrictions free-exercise free-exercise-clause qualified-immunity state-actor | 1. Whether qualified immunity applies to a state actor who, despite multiple circuit court decisions directing him not to burden religious activities … |
| 23A493 | Indiezone, Inc., et al. v. Todd Rooke, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-01 | Presumed Complete | covid-19-restrictions electronic-filing excusable-neglect federal-appellate-procedure good-cause judicial-discretion | Question not identified. | |
| 23A481 | Pleasant View Baptist Church, et al. v. Andrew Beshear | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-28 | Presumed Complete | covid-19-restrictions first-amendment free-exercise hybrid-rights qualified-immunity religious-schools | Whether this Court should limit qualified immunity for executive branch officials who have the benefit of deliberative process and legal counsel, part… | |
| 22-7793 | Nedeltcho Vladimirov v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-06-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause covid-19-restrictions criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial less-restrictive-alternatives sixth-amendment speedy-trial witness-testimony | Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment is violated by requiring all trial witnesses to testify with masks that covered the majority o… |
| 22-1115 | Chris Noel Tagunicar v. California | California | 2023-05-15 | Denied | bill-of-rights courtroom-access covid-19 covid-19-restrictions criminal-defendant first-amendment media public-trial sixth-amendment | The Sixth Amendment guarantees a criminal defendant a public trial. In Presley v. Georgia , 558 U.S. 209 (2010) (per curiam), this Court held that exc… | |
| 22-6672 | J. M. v. Oregon Department of Human Services | Oregon | 2023-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure covid-19-restrictions due-process parental-rights remote-proceedings statutory-rights technical-interference technical-issues termination-of-parental-rights video-trial | As a matter of state statutory law and federal due process, parents have the right to meaningfully participate in defending against petitions by the s… |
| 22-694 | Jermaine Andra Whitaker v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-restrictions due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prison-access prison-law-library statute-of-limitations | 1. Whether the 11th circuit Court erred in determining that the covid-19 pandemic, which led to the quarantine of the Wheeler Correctional Facility fo… |
| 22-586 | Kimberly Beemer, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2022-12-27 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-challenge covid-19-restrictions due-process emergency-powers free-speech fundamental-rights judicial-review mootness standing voluntary-cessation | 1. Is this constitutional challenge to the Michigan Governor's emergency restrictions that directly infringed fundamental rights moot when the restric… |
| 22-5971 | Joseph Michael Ladeairous v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. | District of Columbia | 2022-11-02 | Dismissed | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | access-to-court access-to-courts civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-restrictions due-process judicial-precedent prison-law-library prison-litigation prisoner-rights standing | Petitioner submits this writ of certiorari to the United States Supreme Court concerning the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columb… |
| 22-5808 | Zachary Spada v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. | Pennsylvania | 2022-10-12 | Denied | IFP | 8th-amendment civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-restrictions damages-claim due-process exercise-opportunities inmate-rights institutional-liability mootness mootness-doctrine standing | 1. Whether an inmate that was confined at a correctional institution during the COVID- 19 Pandemic has a right to sue for damages for the denial of ex… |
| 22-5321 | William S. Divine v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment constitutional-challenge covid-19 covid-19-restrictions due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus procedural-deadline section-2255 statutory-interpretation | 1). When the government impedes a defendant, in the name of COVID-19 safeguards, from making ;a motion and the Court enforces the (f)(1) clause of §2… |
| 21-8257 | Edwin Oland Andrus v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | access-to-courts civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-restrictions due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-due-process section-2255 statutory-interpretation | Can the Court omit exculpatory facts to deny a citizen his one year guaranteed by 28 U.S.C. §2255(f)(l) when the government by locking down the defend… |
| 21-1120 | Chad Thompson, et al. v. Richard Michael DeWine, Governor of Ohio, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2022-02-14 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | ballot-access civil-rights constitutional-challenge COVID-19-restrictions first-amendment free-speech government-regulation initiative-placement mootness standing | 1. Whether ever-changing and ongoing governmentissued COVID-19 restrictions moot First Amendment challenges to ballot access restrictions. 2. Whether… |
| 20-1497 | Yao Pone v. Board of County Commissioners for Calvert County, Maryland | Maryland | 2021-04-28 | Denied | Response Waived | 8th-amendment administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights county-regulations covid-19-restrictions due-process standing takings zoning zoning-violations | a. Were the citations issued by the County sufficient notice of violations? b. Were the Petitioner's rights violated when the County continued to imp… |
| 20-1311 | Sedfrey M. Linsangan v. Territory of Guam, et al. | Guam | 2021-03-19 | Denied | administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19-restrictions due-process government-authority public-health quarantine-rights standing takings | & WRAY inceming hes ident ard Passengers Inte Gram are Sting gurarantrned at Government facilitres desprte that they ofid not have hack Contact wrth p… | |
| 20-7390 | Emem Ufot Udoh v. Nate Knutson, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2021-03-09 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | actual-innocence administrative-law constitutional-vagueness covid-19 covid-19-restrictions deportation due-process immigration immigration-law | In light of the recent binding precedent of this court, dated April 17, 2018, in Session v. Dimaya, 200 L. Ed 2d 549, 138 S Ct. 1204, affirming the Ni… |
| 20-639 | Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley v. Steve Sisolak, Governor of Nevada, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-11-10 | Denied | Amici (6)Relisted (2) | covid-19 covid-19-restrictions equal-protection first-amendment free-assembly free-exercise free-exercise-clause free-speech religious-liberty strict-scrutiny | 1. Whether the Governor's favoring of secular over religious gatherings violates the Free Exercise Clause. 2. Whether the Governor's favoring of secu… |