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25-6754 Kendrick Simpson v. Christe Quick, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2026-02-09 Denied IFP eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young federal-civil-rights rooker-feldman section-1983 state-procedural-rule Whether Rooker-Feldman and the Eleventh Amendment jurisdictionally bar a § 1983 challenge to a state procedural rule announced in a state court decisi…
25-854 Adam Holley v. Benjamin M. Lepak, in His Official Capacity as Oklahoma Secretary of State, et al. Tenth Circuit 2026-01-16 Pending Response Waived ballot-access constitutional-rights elections-clause eleventh-amendment primary-election state-action 1. Whether, under the Elections Clause, U.S. Constitution Article I § 4 Clause 1, and this Court's decision in U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton, 514…
25-647 Kevin Frymier v. Dianne Curvey, Individually, and as Judge, 280th Judicial District Court, Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-12-04 Denied eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young first-amendment judicial-immunity pro-se-litigant sovereign-immunity 1. Whether a federal appellate court may deem constitutional arguments waived when a pro se appellant, entitled to liberal construction under Haines v…
25-640 Randall Williams, as Personal Representative of the Estates of Shanice R. Dantzler-Williams and Miranda R. Dantzler-Williams, et al. v. Charleston County Sheriff’s Office, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-12-03 Pending arm-of-the-state county-office eleventh-amendment judgment-analysis sovereign-immunity state-liability When the State is not liable for a judgment against an entity, what weight should this fact be given in the arm-of-the-state immunity analysis of that…
25-477 Aaron Jacob Mindiola v. Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-10-20 Denied Response Waived claim-construction eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young federal-credit-reporting-act pro-se title-ii-ada In an Arizona divorce, despite A.R.S. §25-403(5)'s best-interests standard addressing the mental health of all parties, the court compelled only the d…
25-5670 Sarai Hannah Ajai v. North Dakota Department of Transportation, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-09-17 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment pro-se rule-4m service-of-process Petitioner, a pro se civil-rights litigant, challenges the ongoing alteration and redistribution of her state-issued North Dakota REAL ID identificati…
24-992 Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority v. Jeffrey Good, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-03-18 Pending Amici (3)Response WaivedRelisted (2) corporate-status eleventh-amendment higher-education public-instrumentality sovereign-immunity state-arm Under Missouri law, the Higher Education Loan Authority of the State of Missouri (MOHELA) is a "public instrumentality of the State" serving the "esse…
24-940 Timothy L. Blixseth v. Montana Department of Revenue Ninth Circuit 2025-03-03 Denied Amici (1) bankruptcy-law circuit-split congressional-power eleventh-amendment involuntary-bankruptcy sovereign-immunity Whether the Eleventh Amendment prevents Congress from authorizing citizens to collect damages against states that force citizens into bankruptcy with …
24-6651 Michael C. Romig v. Laurel R. Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Pennsylvania 2025-02-26 Denied IFP constitutional-rights damages-claim due-process eleventh-amendment legal-mail-interference state-agency-immunity 1.) Did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court error by affirming the Commonwealths Courts ORDER (that was per .curiam) , and without any discussuon/opinion i…
24A750 Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority v. Jeffrey Good, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-01-31 Presumed Complete arm-of-the-state circuit-split eleventh-amendment federal-courts sovereign-immunity state-instrumentality Question not identified.
24A445 Timothy L. Blixseth v. Montana Department of Revenue Ninth Circuit 2024-11-04 Presumed Complete bankruptcy-code damages-claim eleventh-amendment involuntary-petition jurisdiction-waiver sovereign-immunity 1. The vast majority of cases under the Bankruptcy Code are commenced voluntarily by the debtor. However, Section 303 of the Bankruptcy Code alternati…
24-5846 Andrey L. Bridges v. Patricia Blackmon, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-10-29 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-deprivation due-process eleventh-amendment government-immunity section-1983 Whether this court should resolve the longstanding conflict among the right to sue officials in their individual or official capacity, where the offic…
24-382 Quannah L. Harris v. Tre Hargett, Tennessee Secretary of State, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-10-03 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights eleventh-amendment judicial-immunity prospective-injunctive-relief younger-abstention 1. Whether a civil rights claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 can proceed against a state administrative agency and an administrative law judge when the plai…
24-359 Adriana Alvarez v. Texas Workforce Commission Fifth Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection religious-accommodation sovereign-immunity title-vii 1. Whether TWC's employees may avail themselves of sovereign immunity as a bar to a claim for damages under Title VII, the First Amendment and Fourtee…
24-282 Minnesota RFL Republican Farmer Labor Caucus, et al. v. Mary Moriarty, in Her Official Capacity as County Attorney for Hennepin County, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing declaratory-relief eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young first-amendment ripeness Whether there are additional ripeness or imminence requirements under the Ex parte Young exception to Eleventh Amendment immunity in actions for decla…
24A45 Elaine Mickman v. Superior Court of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2024-07-16 Presumed Complete civil-rights declaratory-relief eleventh-amendment pro-se-litigation state-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
24-5046 Kyle Greene, et ux. v. Meeker County Department of Human Services Eighth Circuit 2024-07-10 Denied IFP americans-with-disabilities-act article-iii-judge civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment judicial-transparency legal-standing sovereign-immunity standing 1. Does the Eleventh Amendment Apply to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)? 2. Are American Citizens entitled to know whether their case was a…
23-7648 Jennifer Dupree, et al. v. Pamela Owens, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment ada congress-abrogation congressional-power eleventh-amendment retaliation sovereign-immunity title-v 1. Did the Eleventh Circuit err in holding that the 11th Amendment precluded Petitioners' retaliation claims under Title V of the ADA?
23A995 Tina Gerlach v. Todd Rokita, Attorney General of Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-05-08 Presumed Complete eleventh-amendment individual-capacity just-compensation section-1983 sovereign-immunity takings-clause Question not identified.
23-6922 Benjamin Kohn v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law arms-of-the-state bar-admission civil-rights eleventh-amendment en-banc judicial-review ninth-circuit pro-bono-counsel sovereign-immunity state-university Question not identified.
23-943 Samuel T. Russell v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied 11th-amendment civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation due-process eleventh-amendment judicial-tradition matthew-15-6 state-sovereignty Is it a civil right for citizens to complain against their own state; whereas Amendment 11 does not justify the traditions of the Courts when these tr…
23-790 Matthew Flinders v. State Bar of California California 2024-01-23 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment age-discrimination bar-admission due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection privileges-and-immunities sovereign-immunity state-sovereign-immunity (1) Whether the State Supreme Court and State Bar's denial of admission based on age violated Petitioner's rights to due process, equal protection, an…
23-751 0.12 Acres of Land, More or Less, in Washington County, Maryland, et al. v. Columbia Gas Transmission, LLC Fourth Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied Response Waived citizen-suit eleventh-amendment eminent-domain federal-jurisdiction judicial-power natural-gas-act sovereign-immunity state-sovereign-immunity Does the Eleventh Amendment's statement that "[t]he Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend" to suits "commenced or prose…
23-748 Langston Austin, et al. v. Glynn County, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied 11th-amendment circuit-split eleventh-amendment eleventh-circuit employment-law fair-labor-standards-act individual-liability public-officials state-officials This case presents a clear conflict among the circuit courts regarding the interpretation of the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"), 29 U.S.C. § 201 et…
23-598 Chester Noel Abing, et al. v. James F. Evers, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-12-05 Denied Response Waived civil-rights civil-rights-laws discrimination due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment property-rights sovereign-immunity Does the Fourteenth Amendment (1868) amend the Eleventh Amendment (1798)? (If so, then the Eleventh Amendment cannot provide "sovereign immunity " fro…
23-157 Samuel O. Jacobs v. Kent Jacobs, et al. Second Circuit 2023-08-17 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-amendment federal-procedure rooker-feldman-doctrine sovereign-immunity 1. Can a State Court use the 11th Amendment, Soverign Immunity, and the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine to justify or allow it to violate the 14th, 8th, 5th…
23-149 Sabine River Authority, Louisiana v. Perry Bonin, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment civil-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment federal-court louisiana-civil-law sovereign-immunity state-agency subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Subject matter jurisdiction, a threshold issue, cannot exist in federal court where Louisiana has conditionally waived its sovereign immunity to al…
23-128 Curtis Jason Wendt-West v. Hawaii Department of Education, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied Response Waived abrogation civil-rights civil-rights-act eleventh-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigation sovereign-immunity title-vii 1. Whether the States, in private suits involving Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq., retain their El…
23-105 Joe Thorpe v. Township of Salisbury, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied Response Waived absolute-immunity civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment fourteenth-amendment harris-v-harvey immunity judicial-immunity prosecutorial-immunity Did the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals violate the rule announced in Harris v. Harvey. 605 F.2d 330 (7th Cir.…
23-102 Marvin Carrera v. Rhonda K. Forsberg Ninth Circuit 2023-08-02 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violations constitutional-due-process constitutional-violations eleventh-amendment federal-court-jurisdiction judicial-immunity rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-federal-court 1.) Can a Judge use the Rooker-Feldman doctrine to divert the State Federal Court from looking in to violation of civil and Constitutional violations?…
22-983 Remingtyn A. Williams, et al. v. Lamar A. Davis, Superintendent, Louisiana State Police Fifth Circuit 2023-04-10 Denied Response Waived collateral-order eleventh-amendment interlocutory-appeal interlocutory-review judicial-process pendent-appellate-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity standing May a court of appeals exercise pendent appellate jurisdiction to consider an issue, such as standing, that "significantly overlaps" with an immediate…
22-372 Skatemore, Inc., dba Roll Haven Skating Center, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-10-20 Denied Response Waived due-process eleventh-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment just-compensation sovereign-immunity takings-clause Does the Fifth Amendment's requirement of "just compensation," as incorporated by the Fourteenth Amendment, waive Eleventh Amendment Sovereign Immunit…
22-217 Grant S. Kim v. Superior Court of California, County of Riverside Ninth Circuit 2022-09-09 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights default-judgment due-process eleventh-amendment eleventh-amendment-immunity eminent-domain jurisdictional-challenge military-service-protection servicemembers-civil-relief-act standing Re: 14 Days — MEMORANDUM Filed date June 29, 2022. US Postal stamp date July 12, 2022. (Tuesday). I received date July 15, 2022 (Friday), already pass…
22-152 Thomas Earl Dunn v. Elizabeth Post, Magistrate, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-accountability due-process eleventh-amendment nominal-damages public-trust sovereign-immunity state-actors state-public-trust 1. Shall the lower Courts, District Court followed by the Appellate Court, deliberately stand a Constitutional conflict in law, by judicially shield…
22-5145 Michael Kim v. Twelfth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-removal due-process eleventh-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-jurisdiction litigation-costs removal standing supreme-court-precedent 1. Should this Court overrule Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. v. Jackson, 139 S. Ct. 1743 (2019), affirmed on 5-4 (1 dissent), or hold that a defendant in a c…
22-21 Abdur-Rahim Dib Dubar v. Department of Community Affairs Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment federal-jurisdiction immunity-waiver procedural-default standing taking-clause takings waiver 1. Was Petitioner's Amended Complaint considered in All Courts? 2. Even if considered immune by the Eleventh Amendment in an abstract form, did DCA w…
21-1583 Jerry Bird v. Oregon Commission for the Blind, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment administrative-procedures-act arbitration-process blind-vendor-rights commercial-contract eleventh-amendment federal-arbitration federal-statute sovereign-immunity vending-services 1. Does a State by necessity waive its sovereign immunity from money damages in federal court when it voluntarily enters into a commercial vending ser…
21-8193 Robert D. Keith v. Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment civil-rights color-of-law conflict-of-interest due-process eleventh-amendment judicial-immunity state-court title-iv-d 1. Does a State Judges have authority to preside over a case when He/She has a conflict of interest Does absolute immunity apply when a judge has acte…
21-8049 Thomas Tate Tunstall v. Hope Daigle, fka Hope D. Theriot Fifth Circuit 2022-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection ex-parte-young fourth-amendment section-1983 statute-of-limitations Respondent, a Louisiana state agent, procured the post-legal-process seizures of petitioner and his property (seaman's wages and tax refunds) through …
21-7926 Jonathan D. Stephen, Jr. v. Palestine Police Department, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-05-19 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation covid-19 due-process eleventh-amendment federal-jurisdiction qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing state-officials Why did Ashton Rodriguez $ Zachary smith ofte Palestine Police Dept. aCt Under color ofstate law, custom, or usAge, subjeets qnother to the depriation…
21-7877 James Adeyemi v. Maryland, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-05-16 Denied IFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights discrimination-claim due-process eleventh-amendment public-safety-department retaliation-claim sovereign-immunity state-employees state-sovereign-immunity 1. Does the ELEVETH amendment of the US Constitution bars the claim of retaliation or discrimination under the title of the Americans with Disabilitie…
21-1443 Edward Ronny Arnold v. Bob Oglesby, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of General Services Sixth Circuit 2022-05-16 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment sovereign-immunity state-authority wage-withholding warn-act 1. The Eleventh Amendment requires the Defendant, as Commissioner of the State of Tennessee Department of General Services, to be acting on the author…
21-7491 Cassandra Bonita Charles v. Office of Personnel Management, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-action civil-rights civil-rights-violation due-process eleventh-amendment false-claims-act federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction judicial-immunity sovereign-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Does Eleventh Amendment immunity apply when an officer of the court violates 31 U.S. Code 3729? 2. Dose a Judge have Immunity for their judicial a…
21-1105 Jana Garcia v. Wyoming Department of Health and Social Services Tenth Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied Response Waived ada affirmative-defense americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights eleventh-amendment eleventh-amendment-immunity federal-funding federal-funds rehabilitation-act subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver-of-defense 1. In an action against a State under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended, is the State immune from suit under the Eleventh Amendment when the c…
21-1004 Leon Cody, et ux. v. Superior Court of California, Trinity County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment fair-trial fourteenth-amendment injunctive-relief section-1983 state-law 1. Whether a State has an Eleventh Amendment right to arbitrarily enforce or not enforce a State Law having significant interest to federal Fourteenth…
21-674 North Carolina State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees v. Maxwell Kadel, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-11-05 Denied 11th-amendment civil-rights discrimination-waiver eleventh-amendment federal-financial-assistance rehabilitation-act sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation Section 1003 of the Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1986 provides that a State "shall not be immune under the Eleventh Amendment . . . from suit in F…
21-547 Kevin Tung v. Superior Court of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Response Waived attorney-ethics civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection ex-parte-young federal-law judiciary sovereign-immunity The Third Circuit affirmed the New Jersey District Court's decision that dismissed the Petitioner Kevin Tung, Esq.'s violation of the constitutional d…
21-361 Guangcun Huang v. Tim Hui-Ming Huang, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied academic-freedom eleventh-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment standing state-immunity title-vi title-vii 1. Whether this Court's decisions interpreting the Eleventh Amendment, see e.g. Fitzpatrick v. Bitzer; Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corp. v. Feeney, ba…
21-317 Dean Koch v. Ohio Department of Natural Resources, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-08-31 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment 42-usc-1983 bostock-v-clayton-county civil-rights-act civil-rights-act-of-1871 constitutional-interpretation eleventh-amendment judicial-doctrine qualified-immunity statutory-construction 1. Does the Decision of the Sixth Circuit herein violate the canons of statutory construction especially those enunciated in Bostock v. Clayton County…
21-216 Roger Brown v. Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights commercial-activity contract-impairment due-process eleventh-amendment governmental-function pro-se-rights state-immunity state-sovereign-immunity thacker-v-tva Both the lower Courts ' decisions contradict cases within its own circuit, other circuits, and this Court 's precedent in Thacker v TVA. Please cons…
21-182 Sean A. Clark v. Mark Schroeder, Commissioner, New York State Department of Motor Vehicles Second Circuit 2021-08-09 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment service-of-process social-security social-security-benefits standing student-loans This actions pertains to the leakage of my current drivers license #xxx-xxx-678 which expires in 2025. A leakage is secret information that exposes th…
21-19 Christopher Sullivan v. Texas A&M University System Fifth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response Waived eleventh-amendment federal-funding federal-funds fifth-circuit human-rights-act sovereign-immunity state-entity state-immunity texas-commission-on-human-rights-act texas-labor-code-chapter-21 waiver-of-immunity Whether the Fifth Circuit correctly interpreted that a State Entity who receives Federal funds waives its Eleventh Amendment Immunity from the Texas C…
20-1567 Marshall Abbas Khan v. Clark County Enforcement, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-12 Denied 11th-amendment administrative-capacity bill-of-attainder civil-rights color-of-law conflict-of-interest eleventh-amendment judicial-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction Does a County/State judges have authority to preside over a case when He/ She has a conflict of interest Does absolute immunity apply when a judge has…
20-1436 Marty D. Foust v. Lawrence Brothers, Inc., et al. Virginia 2021-04-14 Denied amendment-rights bill-of-rights civil-rights constitutional-rights court-documentation due-process eleventh-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct postal-delay 1. Should an official of the Virginia Supreme Court make false statements? 2. Should an official of the Virginia Supreme Court tell the truth about i…
20-1115 Christopher R. Granton v. Washington State Lottery Ninth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied 11th-amendment civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment federal-jurisdiction judicial-bias lottery-dispute property-rights standing state-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit err when it did not recognize that my case has federal subject matter jurisdiction, Standing, a…
20-1068 Jorel Shophar v. Johnson County, Kansas, et al. Kansas 2021-02-04 Denied Response Waived child-protective-services civil-rights county-judges due-process eleventh-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity parental-rights pro-se-litigation standing 1. Is the enjoyment of the Eleventh Amendment Immunity for County judge 's contradictory to Fourteenth Amendment for U.S. Citizens, when County Jud…
20-945 Samuel T. Russell v. Texas Fifth Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied 11th-amendment bill-of-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process eleventh-amendment federal-jurisdiction jury-trial right-to-petition search-and-seizure sovereign-immunity When the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (" Court) said they reviewed "an Eleventh Amendment immunity determination de novo, " di…
20-494 The Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College v. Stephen M. Gruver, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied Response Waived article-i-spending-power article-one-powers civil-damages civil-rights-remedies-equalization-act eleventh-amendment federal-funds sovereign-immunity spending-power title-ix 1. Can Congress, in the exercise of Article I Spending Power, unilaterally expand federal judicial power for private civil damages actions asserted ag…
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…
19-1319 David R. Morabito, et ux. v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2020-05-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process due-process-14th-amendment eleventh-amendment hydraulic-fracturing interstate-commerce rosemary-knick rosemary-knick-v-township-of-scott standing takings takings-clause takings-clause-5th-amendment 1. Whether the New York State Law, adopte d on or about April 3, 2020, permanently banning high volume hydraulic fracturi ng in the State of New York…
19-1196 William Johnson v. Paulding County, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-03 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process eleventh-amendment manuel-v-city-of-joliet pre-trial-detention pretrial-detention statute-of-limitations 1. This question presented is whether a State's statute of limitations bridling the pursuit of regress for Unconstitutional and illegal pre-trial impr…
19-1122 Hong Tang v. University of Baltimore, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-injunctive-relief declaratory-relief due-process eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young jurisdictional-grounds official-capacity pro-se-litigant service-of-process sovereign-immunity standing 1. Whether the lower courts should have liberally construed the pro se litigant's claims against the state officials' offices (the University of Balti…
19-7721 Machelle Parsons v. Ashton McDaniel, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied IFP Child-protective-services-investigation child-support child-welfare civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment Eleventh-Amendment-immunity family-law guardian-ad-litem Guardian-ad-litem-liability jurisdiction parental-rights Parental-rights-termination social-security-disability standing Termination-order-access 1. Does the court have jurisdiction over the parties in the case to mandate services to families if there were no finding of neglect. No adjudicatory…
19-7262 Danilo Mallari v. Tracy Vessigault, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-13 Denied IFP 11th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-amendment first-amendment free-speech standing state-immunity 1. WHETHER THE PETITIONER HAS STANDING UNDER THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION TO BRING THE CASE BEFORE THE COURT OF JUSTICE? 2. WHETHER THE PETITIONER'…
19-798 Bay Point Properties, Incorporated v. Mississippi Transportation Commission, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-12-23 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process eleventh-amendment just-compensation just-compensation-clause property-rights sovereign-immunity state-immunity state-liability takings takings-clause Whether the "self -executing" Just Compensation Clause abrogates a State's Eleventh Amendment immunity, allowing a property owner to sue the State for…
19-205 City of Flint, Michigan, et al. v. Shari Guertin, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied 11th-amendment bodily-integrity civil-rights conscience-shocking due-process eleventh-amendment environmental-toxin governmental-policy standing state-immunity substantive-due-process 1. Whether the substantive due process right to bodily integrity should be extended to protect the public at large from exposure to an environmental t…
19-191 Ashley Wilcox Page v. Todd L. Hicks, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 11th-amendment civil-procedure eleventh-amendment federal-court federal-jurisdiction lapides-v-board-of-regents removal sovereign-immunity state-court state-removal waiver waiver-by-removal In Lapides v. Board of Regents of University System of Georgia, 535 U.S. 613 (2002), the Court held that when a State voluntarily removes a case from …
19-5567 Delores Neely v. Georgia Department of Human Resources Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 amendment-xiv-section-5 civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1871 congressional-power constitutional-immunity constitutional-provisions eleventh-amendment federal-courts fourteenth-amendment sovereign-immunity state-sovereignty 1. Can Congress abrogate a State 's immunity from being sued in Federal court without its consent, under authority granted to Congress by the Fourte…
18-1545 Tracy Guerin v. Mickey Fowler, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) constitutional-law due-process eleventh-amendment pension-transfer property-rights public-pensions retrospective-application state-authority state-immunity statutory-benefits takings takings-clause 1. If a State's statutorily created pension system allows government employees to transfer their accumulated pension contributions into a different pe…
18-1391 N'Dama Miankanze Bamba v. Kimberly Fenton, et al. Second Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response Waived civil-rights civil-rights-discrimination discrimination due-process eleventh-amendment federal-financial-assistance federal-statute physicians-board protected-activity retaliation standing title-vii Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred when it held that the Plaintiff's complaint of discrimination to the New York …
18-1210 Chad Chronister, Sheriff, Hillsborough County, Florida v. Doris Freyre, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 11th-amendment ada ada-standing arm-of-the-state associational-claim child-protective-investigations child-protective-services child-welfare civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment eleventh-amendment-immunity florida-statute-39.3065 grant-agreement judicial-restraint standing standing-associational-ada-claim state-immunity 1. Whether the court of appeals violated this Honorable Court's "fundamental rule of judicial restraint" by failing to address whether Doris Freyre ha…
18-8412 Lamar Perryman v. Georgia, et al. Georgia 2019-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment cherokee-nation-v-georgia civil-rights constitutional-interpretation eleventh-amendment johnson-v-mcintosh native-american-rights non-intercourse-act sovereign-immunity treaty-law worcester-v-georgia 1. Does Title 25 U. S. C. Section 177 (Non-Intercourse Act) and this Court's decisions in Johnson v. MIntosh, Cherokee Nation v. Georgia and Worcestor…
18-1056 Mitzi Johanknecht, Sheriff, King County, Washington v. Eva Moore, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young monell municipal-liability official-capacity prospective-relief section-1983 separation-of-powers standing state-court-orders Whether Ex parte Young establishes a novel and unprecedented judge-made cause of action, separate from § 1983, that can be used through an official ca…
18-7620 Emmanuel Adeyinka v. Harris County Jail, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights competency criminal-conviction cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment eleventh-amendment immunity mental-illness monetary-damages personal-involvement rational-understanding section-1983 standing Question not identified.
18-850 David Altstatt, Sr. v. Melinda Fruendt, Executive Director, Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Response Waived arbitration blind-vendors compensatory-damages eleventh-amendment randolph-sheppard-act sovereign-immunity When States voluntarily choose to participate under the Randolph Sheppard Act, and consent to arbitration of blind vendors' grievances, do the states …
18-7106 Ramiro Plascencia-Orozco v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal breach breach-of-contract commerce-clause constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eleventh-amendment judicial-power plea-agreement sentencing Whether the District Court Erred When it Declared, Petitioner Breached His 2011 Plea Agreement and Thus Allowed the Government to go Forward on Charge…
18-6796 Paul L. Muckle v. Wells Fargo Bank, et al. First Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights code-of-conduct due-process eleventh-amendment financial-conflict financial-interest judicial-conduct judicial-recusal ninth-amendment recusal standing Did the second panel, assigned to hear the appeal, err in denying Muckle's motion to remand the case or recuse itself because it concerns the appearan…
18-305 Kenda Kirby v. Office of the Attorney General of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied ada civil-rights due-process educational-amendments eleventh-amendment equal-protection first-amendment retaliation sex-based-characteristics sex-discrimination standing title-ix Broadly, questions raised by the case include whether Plaintiff has a right to redress (both for discrimination and retaliation) under Title IX of the…
18-243 Anthony Fox v. John Powell, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment checks-and-balances civil-rights constitutional-protection constitutional-rights discovery due-process eleventh-amendment judicial-abrogation judicial-proceedings motion-to-dismiss rule-12b6 standing supervisory-liability supervisory-responsibility Is this Court not required to protect the Constitution as envisioned by our founding fathers in the Eleventh Amendment of the Constitution and does no…
25A897 Kendrick Simpson v. Christe Quick, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection execution-stay judicial-access rooker-feldman Question not identified.