| 25-846 |
Reed Christensen v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2026-01-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
amendment-violations constitutional-rights declaratory-judgment eighth-circuit federal-jurisdiction jan6-misconduct |
1. Did the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals err in agreeing that a federal district court does not have jurisdiction to judge unconstitutional actions … |
| 25-5854 |
Dmt MacTruong v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
citizen-prosecution civil-rights constitutional-standing declaratory-judgment due-process separation-of-powers |
1. Does Appellant-Petitioner, a U.S. citizen, living in one State of the Union, have standing to commence a civil action for a declaratory order/opini… |
| 25-291 |
Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP, et al. v. International Paper Company, Inc., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-09-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cercla-statute-of-limitations contribution-action declaratory-judgment environmental-cleanup-costs potentially-responsible-parties superfund-liability |
1. Does the theoretical availability of a
contribution action under CERCLA § 113(f) foreclose
recovery of costs under CERCLA § 107(a), even
where all … |
| 25-245 |
Fire-Dex, LLC v. Admiral Insurance Company |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-09-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
abstention-doctrine coercive-relief declaratory-judgment diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts state-law |
When a complaint joins claims for declaratory relief on a novel state-law issue with claims for damages, does a district court retain its discretion t… |
| 25-5195 |
Missouri, ex rel. Steven Albert Martin v. Ann Hansbrough, Presiding Judge, Circuit Court of Platte County, Missouri, et al. |
Missouri |
2025-07-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
declaratory-judgment due-process fiduciary-control fourteenth-amendment judicial-inaction state-court |
1. Whether a state court may constitutionally refuse to act on a properly filed Petition for
Declaratory Judgment regarding private trusts and fiduci… |
| 24-1290 |
Katie Sczesny, et al. v. Philip Murphy, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Governor of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-06-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge declaratory-judgment employment-termination executive-fiat public-health voluntary-cessation |
1. Does the voluntary cessation doctrine require a defendant to provide affirmative assurance that the challenged conduct will not recur, particularly… |
| 24-1147 |
Glenn Bowles, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-05-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge court-of-claims declaratory-judgment ex-parte-young standing state-officials |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously held that Petitioners, who sought a declaratory judgment under the Declaratory Judgment Act tha… |
| 24-6727 |
David Wood v. Rachel Patton, Assistant Attorney General |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-10 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
article-iii-standing declaratory-judgment judicial-review plaintiff-injury redressability state-official |
Does Article III standing require a particularized determination of whether a specific state official will redress the plaintiff's injury by following… |
| 24-6590 |
John Dwayne Garvin v. Levern Cohen, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights declaratory-judgment grand-jury habeas-corpus judicial-process void-indictment |
1. Whether a South Carolina Supreme Court's Order Declining to Entertain a Complaint for a Declaratory Judgment to Determine the Legality and Constitu… |
| 24-645 |
Kelsey Cascadia Rose Juliana, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-12 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
article-iii cheney-standard declaratory-judgment mandamus redressability standing |
(1) When plaintiffs have established their ongoing
injuries are traceable to defendants' policies and
practices, does Article III require a particul… |
| 24A267 |
Kelsey Cascadia Rose Juliana, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
article-iii-standing declaratory-judgment fifth-amendment leave-to-amend ninth-circuit redressability |
1. The petition for a writ of certiorari would raise two issues. The first is the manner of analyzing the redressability prong of Article III standing… |
| 24A241 |
John Dwayne Garvin v. Levern Cohen, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-06 |
Denied |
|
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge declaratory-judgment due-process grand-jury habeas-corpus |
Does a South Carolina Supreme Court's Decision Declining to Entertain a Complaint for a Declaratory Judgment to Determine the Legality and Constitutio… |
| 24-91 |
Targeted Justice, Incorporated, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process injunctive-relief national-security redress-mechanism standing subject-matter-jurisdiction terrorist-watchlist |
The No-Fly and Selectee lists of the Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB) known as "handling codes 1 and 2" make up the terrorism watchlist that contai… |
| 24A43 |
Carlos Demond Robinson v. Sean Janson, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
declaratory-judgment jones-v-hendrix section-2241 section-2255 statutory-interpretation successive-collateral-attack |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7809 |
Ruben Gutierrez v. Luis Saenz, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-26 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2)IFP |
article-iii-standing circuit-split declaratory-judgment due-process federal-courts redressability reed-v-goertz state-official |
In Reed v. Goertz, 598 U.S. 230, 234 (2023), this Court held that Rodney Reed has standing to pursue a declaratory judgment that Texas's post-convicti… |
| 23A837 |
Centura Health Corporation, a Colorado Non-Profit Corporation, et al. v. Barbara Morris, M.D. |
Colorado |
2024-03-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
church-autonomy declaratory-judgment employment-termination first-amendment pretext religious-organization |
(1) Under the church-autonomy doctrine, can a jury determine whether a doctor violated her employer's policies, where the doctor's underlying conduct … |
| 23-921 |
Mark Jerome Johnson Blount v. United States, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights declaratory-judgment enforcement-deterrence pre-enforcement-action pre-enforcement-challenge reasonable-fear-of-enforcement second-amendment standing standing-doctrine |
Does Petitioner, in a pre-enforcement action brought under the Declaratory Judgment Act, have to allege that he has already violated the law or "will … |
| 23-874 |
Impossible X LLC v. Impossible Foods Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
|
causation civil-procedure declaratory-judgment declaratory-relief due-process forum-contacts personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction trademark-noninfringement |
Under the U.S. Constitution, courts may not exercise specific personal jurisdiction unless the plaintiff's alleged injury "arise s out of or relate s … |
| 23-6269 |
Yavonne Hand v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-hearing administrative-law civil-rights criminal-conduct declaratory-judgment due-process ethics-violation government-misconduct public-officials standing |
IN AN ACTION IN WHICH THE SOLE CLAIM TO BE TRIED IS A CLAIM UNDER THE DECLARA
TORY JUDGMENT ACT RESULTING TO VIOLATION OF ETHICS AND CRIMINAL CONDUCT… |
| 23-490 |
Enrique Jevons, as a Managing Member of Jevons Properties LLC, et al. v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-08 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
covid-19 declaratory-judgment eviction-moratoria fifth-amendment just-compensation regulatory-taking standing takings-clause |
1. Because the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment demands just compensation for governmental takings, including temporary ones, did the Ninth Circu… |
| 22-1124 |
Christian Gilbert Tony Nadal v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights coram-nobis declaratory-judgment due-process federal-question fraud habeas-corpus machine-gun-regulation machine-guns second-amendment silencers |
1. Are catalogues given to Petitioner ie: Global
Sales Limited and Shotgun News fraudulently
advertising for sale illegal machinegun and silencer kits… |
| 22-924 |
John M. Fife v. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2023-03-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law declaratory-judgment due-process exchange-act federal-jurisdiction finra-discipline securities-exchange-act securities-law standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether Congress impliedly stripped federal district courts of their "exclusive jurisdiction" to determine whether FINRA violates the Exchange Act whe… |
| 22-836 |
Hiram I. Perez Soto v. Maite D. Oronoz-Rodriguez, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-03-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights declaratory-judgment disbarment due-process ethical-complaints injunction judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct section-1983 standing |
I filed a complaint in the Federal District Court of Puerto Rico in March 2019 19CV-1266 Leading case, and 19CV-1774. I wanted to obtain a declaratory… |
| 22-6485 |
Annamarie Riethmiller v. Unnamed Defendants |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-rights declaratory-judgment due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation presidential-actions standing state-court statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6115 |
Danny Fabricant v. Federal Election Commission, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
article-iii-standing campaign-finance constitutional-law constitutional-qualifications declaratory-judgment equal-protection federal-election-campaign-act federal-election-commission prisoner-litigation standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Does 52 U.S.C. § 30101's REQUIREMENT, that potential candidates for the House of Representatives report (either) the receipt of more that $5,000 in… |
| 22-465 |
Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP, et al. v. International Paper Company, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) |
cercla cercla-statute-of-limitations contribution contribution-action damages declaratory-judgment environmental-liability judicial-interpretation response-costs statute-of-limitations |
CERCLA's three-year statute of limitations for an "action for contribution for any response costs or damages" under § 113(f) begins running on "the da… |
| 22-426 |
Transperfect Global, Inc., et al. v. Robert Pincus |
Delaware |
2022-11-07 |
Denied |
|
contempt contempt-power corporate-litigation declaratory-judgment delaware-law due-process first-amendment judicial-declaration petition-clause |
Whether holding TPG in contempt because it filed a lawsuit in Nevada unconstitutionally burdened TPG's First Amendment right to petition. |
| 21-1155 |
Natalia Marshall v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-02-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights declaratory-judgment fourth-circuit injunctive-relief mootness second-amendment standing |
I. Whether a suit seeking a declaratory judgment and injunctive relief is rendered moot on appeal if the plaintiff remains negatively impacted by the … |
| 21-997 |
Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. v. Arizona Attorneys for Criminal Justice, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-judgment federal-courts first-amendment free-speech injunctive-relief standing state-criminal-proceedings state-sovereignty younger-abstention |
In 1990, Arizona voters amended the Arizona Constitution to include the Victims' Bill of Rights. See Ariz. Const. art. II, §2.1. Arizona then passed t… |
| 21-942 |
Clark County Bancorporation v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, as Receiver for Bank of Clark County |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-27 |
Denied |
|
administrative-claims declaratory-judgment federal-common-law firrea jurisdiction jurisdictional-rule tax-refund |
This case presents an important issue of the failure of lower courts to adhere to relevant Supreme Court decisions, Rodriguez v. FDIC, as Receiver for… |
| 21-6479 |
Earnest Lee Langston v. Don Phillips, Chairman, Missouri Board of Probation and Parole |
Missouri |
2021-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
board-of-probation declaratory-judgment due-process fraud hearing judicial-review missouri-statute parole parole-eligibility procedural-fairness state-statute substantive-due-process |
1) WHETHER THE MISSOURI BOARD OF PROBATION AND PAROLE VIOLATED PETITIONER'S SUBSTANTIVE DUE PROCESS RIGHTS BY APPLYING A NEW PAROLE STATUTE, SECTION 5… |
| 21-664 |
Patrick J. Downey v. City of Toledo, Ohio |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process federalism fourteenth-amendment home-rule municipal-ordinance police-powers statutory-interpretation |
Do federal courts have legal authority to alter or amend the plain meaning of a lawfully-enacted statute of a sovereign state or a lawfully-enacted or… |
| 21-566 |
Teresa Ward Cooper, as Next Friend of Jane Doe/D. T. v. First Financial Bank, N.A. |
Texas |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment attorney-fees civil-procedure constitutional-review declaratory-judgment equal-protection mootness standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
When its petition was filed, did the Bank have standing to sue Petitioner/D.T. to remove a claimed uncertainty?
After the Bank pled in its Motion for… |
| 21-191 |
Sergei Vinkov v. United States District Court for the Central District of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-11 |
Denied |
|
case-or-controversy civil-rights constitutional-claims declaratory-judgment diversity-jurisdiction establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech insurance-coverage standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
(1) Whether the District Court abused its discretion retaining jurisdiction over the Declaratory Judgment Act (28 USC § 2201(a)) in the insurance disp… |
| 21-179 |
Nehemiah Rolle, Jr. v. Norman St. George |
Second Circuit |
2021-08-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process equity equity-lawsuit federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jury-trial section-1983 |
1. Does a state court judicial officer like Respondent Norman St. George have the right to malicious criminally slander and libel and malicious defame… |
| 20-1716 |
Melvin Trent Walker v. Tom Wolf, Governor of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-06-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-law declaratory-judgment discrimination-claims district-court-jurisdiction employee-definition employee-status punitive-damages standing title-vii |
Constitutional Question is the Governors Code of Conduct constitutional? 16AM Juris. 2nd Ed.Const. Law. Sect. 177 Declaratory Judgement Act Commonweal… |
| 20-1698 |
Philip Palade, et al. v. Board of Trustees University of Arkansas System, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-08 |
Denied |
|
academic-freedom contract-rights declaratory-judgment due-process employment-contract property-rights retroactive-application standing standing-doctrine tenure-rights |
Whether the lower courts erred in holding that Petitioners lacked standing to seek declaratory relief concerning the retroactive application of newly-… |
| 20-1619 |
Expensify, Inc. v. Eddie White |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights declaratory-judgment dignitary-interests due-process free-speech mootness ninth-circuit nominal-damages standing |
(No. 17,322) The question presented is whether Uzuegbunam merits summarily granting the petition, vacating the judgment, and remanding to determine wh… |
| 20-1452 |
Rick C. Sasso v. Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-04-16 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-1295(a)(1) 28-usc-1338(a) breach-of-contract declaratory-judgment federal-circuit federal-patent-laws jurisdiction patent-jurisdiction removal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether this is a case "arising under" federal patent laws under 28 U.S.C. § 1338(a) within the Federal Circuit's jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1295(… |
| 20-6138 |
Jerry Walker v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Arkansas |
2020-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure declaratory-judgment due-process evidence procedural-error sixth-amendment |
DECLARATON® FOUOGEMNZNT THAT HE UIAS DEAITED DVE PROCESS ses HES CRIMTMAL etal. whtsI FAE CoORT ADIN TZTED THE pring restimouy oF al vsavartliadee ulr… |
| 20-5096 |
In Re Shavez Evans |
|
2020-07-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 campaign-finance civil-rights constitutional-law declaratory-judgment due-process equal-protection first-amendment judicial-elections judicial-immunity state-court |
1) he Distic Cor Aiona n the ptner Evn uce ual when abusing their discretion ruling Judges are absolutely immone. from S 1983 suits for damages when t… |
| 19-1441 |
City of Austin, Texas v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption preemption standing state-preemption supremacy-clause |
Under Ex parte Young, is a state official a proper defendant in a federal declaratory judgment challenge under the Supremacy Clause to the validity of… |
| 19-8395 |
Peter Gakuba v. Charles O'Brien, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process equitable-relief federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-review standing statutory-protection |
ISSUES PRESENTED FOR REVIEW
THE VIDEO PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT (VPPA) (8 USC §§ 2710(A), 2710(B)(2)(C), 2710(4), 2710(E)
AMAZON V. LAY 758 F.SUPP.2D 11… |
| 19-7152 |
Allan M. Leavitt v. Cynthia A. Phillips, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2020-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
choice-of-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation contract-enforcement contract-law declaratory-judgment due-process interstate-dispute judicial-procedure massachusetts property property-rights property-rights-deprivation standing state-interest vermont |
1)Did Massachusetts deprive a Vermont citizen the fundamental right to property without a compelling state interest by refusing to enforce its substan… |
| 19-65 |
Jonna Corporation, dba Premier Recycling Company v. City of Sunnyvale, California |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-12 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pleading pleading-standards property-rights section-1983 standing |
1. Did Petitioner Premier Recycling adequately plead its Declaratory Judgment claim alleging a violation of 42 U.S.C. Section 1983, pursuant to FCRP 8… |
| 18-8710 |
Veronica Moody Johnson v. Social Security Administration |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights declaratory-judgment due-process lien lien-enforcement social-security social-security-administration spousal-support |
Whether the United States District Court had jurisdiction to make a 14th 15th Amendment due process declaration of rights pursuant to the Declaratory … |
| 18-1169 |
John Stephen Thorne v. Union Pacific Corporation, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure declaratory-judgment equitable-defense equitable-defenses equity judicial-remedy laches legal-claims limitations-period prejudice property-rights statute-of-limitations stock-ownership texas-law |
Thorne initiated a declaratory judgment action seeking inter alia declarations that he owned the stock certificate issued by a predecessor-in-interest… |
| 18-970 |
Thomas Mitchell, et al. v. Tulalip Tribes of Washington |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
allotment declaratory-judgment jurisdictional-challenge non-indian-fee-land regulatory-authority sovereign-immunity treaty treaty-rights tribal-authority tribal-taxation |
Does sovereign immunity bar the federal courts' consideration of a declaratory judgment action to determine whether Respondent Tribes can exercise reg… |
| 18-549 |
Voter Verified, Inc. v. Election Systems & Software LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-101 bilski-v-kappos collateral-estoppel declaratory-judgment federal-circuit issue-preclusion method-claims patent-infringement patent-validity res-judicata voting-method |
Whether the Federal Circuit erred in deciding that patent claims for a method of voting are invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101 in a second action for paten… |
| 18-304 |
Kimberly-Clark Corporation, et al. v. Jennifer Davidson |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
|
article-iii-standing consumer-protection consumer-standing deception declaratory-judgment false-advertising future-harm injunctive-relief product-misrepresentation standing |
Whether a consumer, who after using a product and determining that a representation concerning that product is allegedly misleading, can plausibly all… |
| 18-182 |
AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Inc. v. Gilead Sciences, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-controversy article-iii declaratory-judgment drug-exclusivity fda-approval generic-drugs patent-invalidity pharmaceutical pharmaceutical-patents standing |
In the context of patent cases involving pharmaceutical products, does the "actual controversy" requirement of the Declaratory Judgment Act, 28 U.S.C.… |
| 18-76 |
Tracey E. George, et al. v. Tre Hargett, Tennessee Secretary of State, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 declaratory-judgment due-process equal-protection federal-action section-1983 state-actors |
(1) Whether state actor defendants may defend and foreclose a federal action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by suing civil rights plaintiffs in a subs… |