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25-984 Dan McCaleb v. Michelle Long, Director, Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts Sixth Circuit 2026-02-19 Pending administrative-transparency court-closure first-amendment freedom-of-information judicial-proceedings public-access 1. In determining whether the public has a right to access meetings of the Tennessee Judicial Advisory Commission, must a court apply the "experience …
25-981 Kyler Newby v. Gabriel J. Bassford Ninth Circuit 2026-02-19 Pending false-arrest first-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity retaliatory-arrest The question presented is whether a police officer is entitled to qualified immunity from a retaliatory arrest claim when the officer could have reaso…
25-978 Adrianna Kondilis, et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2026-02-18 Pending Response Waived discovery due-process first-amendment pretext religious-discrimination title-vii 1. Whether the First, Second, Third, and Tenth Circuits are correct that courts must permit discovery when public employees allege the government's st…
25-967 Pennsylvania v. Bette Eakin, et al. Third Circuit 2026-02-17 Pending anderson-burdick-test election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment mail-in-ballots voting-rights Does Pennsylvania's requirement that mail-in voters provide a handwritten date when signing a preprinted declaration on a ballot return envelope viola…
25-965 Daniel Grand v. City of University Heights, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-02-17 Pending chilling-effect constitutional-injury first-amendment land-use-finality religious-exercise williamson-county-doctrine Whether the First Amendment's established chilling-effect doctrine—under which a credible government threat that deters the exercise of fundamental ri…
25A904 William Gerard Sangervasi, II v. City of San Jose, California California 2026-02-10 Application article-vi constitutional-rights first-amendment oaths-of-office police-officer supremacy-clause Question not identified.
25-948 Upsolve, Inc., et al. v. Letitia James, Attorney General of New York Second Circuit 2026-02-10 Pending content-neutrality first-amendment legal-advice nonprofit-speech speech-restriction unauthorized-practice-of-law Is a law whose application is triggered by communicating about a particular topic nonetheless content-neutral so long as the law can be described as a…
25-6770 Heath W. Gray v. Pennsylvania Department of State Pennsylvania 2026-02-10 Pending IFP first-amendment government-redress suffrage supreme-court-certiorari taxation-without-representation voting-rights Would this Honorable High Court, please REMAND this suffrage rights appeal to the Pennyslvania Supreme Court to adjudicate my "No Taxation Without Rep…
25-6769 In Re David J. Gottorff 2026-02-10 Pending IFP collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process first-amendment sixth-amendment Question 1. Whether the arrest and prosecution of the Petitioner in Ouray District Court case 2022 CR 8 was in criminal violation of 18 U.S.C. 1512(d)…
25-6737 Clyde Pontefract v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. Third Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending IFP access-to-courts administrative-procedure-act equitable-relief first-amendment jurisdictional-standing standing 1. When a Constitutional Right is being denied against a federal prisoner of the First Amendment Access-to~Court claim and he ask for Equitable Relief…
25-927 Richard Lowery v. Lillian Mills, Dean of the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-02-05 Pending civil-rights employer-threats first-amendment public-employee reasonable-employee retaliation University of Texas officials threatened Professor Richard Lowery with reduced pay, loss of a research post, and other consequences, if he did not sto…
25-923 Mike Yoder, et al. v. Scott Bowen, Director, Michigan Department of Natural Resources Sixth Circuit 2026-02-05 Pending circuit-split drone-usage first-amendment information-gathering non-political-speech speech-creation Whether the First Amendment protects the means of acquiring or creating speech when the speech is non-political.
25A874 Huong Giaccio v. Meredith Lyon, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-02-04 Application constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment municipal-immunity retaliatory-arrest 1. Whether absolute judicial and prosecutorial immunity applies when municipal officials act without jurisdiction and in coordination with retaliatory…
25A873 Patricia Tillman v. Illinois State Board of Elections, et al. Seventh Circuit 2026-02-04 Application ballot-access candidate-exclusion election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment irreparable-harm Question not identified.
25-6709 Gregory Ryan Webb v. Sandra Garrett, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending IFP 42-usc-1983 conspiracy-against-rights due-process election-crimes first-amendment sovereign-immunity 1. Whether defendants have failed in their obligation to provide funds to prevent further denial of effective assistance of counsel and conspiracy w…
25-911 Laura Gaddy, et al. v. The Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Tenth Circuit 2026-02-03 Pending Response Waived first-amendment institutional-fraud mail-fraud religious-organization rico wire-fraud Does the First Amendment bar application of the federal mail and wire fraud statutes, as RICO predicates, to a religious organization's intentional co…
25-6687 Herbert McDowell, Jr. v. South Carolina South Carolina 2026-02-02 Pending IFP contract-clause equal-protection first-amendment freedom-of-association habeas-corpus unauthorized-practice-law Did the Supreme Court of South Carolina Justifiably Disregard this Court's Holding in Johnson v. Avery by Refusing to Allow Certified Paralegal Patric…
25-906 E. D., a Minor, By Her Parent and Next Friend, Lisa Duell, et al. v. Noblesville School District, et al. Seventh Circuit 2026-02-02 Pending first-amendment free-expression hazelwood-standard school-censorship student-clubs student-speech Noblesville High School freshman E.D. worked hard to bring Noblesville Students for Life (NSFL) and its life-affirming message to her school. She took…
25-902 Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Third Circuit 2026-02-02 Pending anti-injunction-act civil-penalty drug-price-negotiation excessive-fines-clause fifth-amendment first-amendment The Drug Price Negotiation Program (Program) threatens enterprise-destroying fines unless a drug manufacturer both provides its products at government…
25-6662 Pierre Burns v. United States Sixth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-of-mistake first-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the District Court's prohibition against presenting a defense of mistake of age in a case arising under 18 U.S.C. § 225l(a) created a viola…
25-882 Andrew D. Parker, et al. v. Bill Gates, as a Member of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-22 Pending district-court-discretion election-litigation first-amendment legal-procedure political-speech rule-11-sanctions Petitioners brought claims on behalf of candidates in advance of the 2022 election, challenging the procedures Arizona would use to count votes in tha…
25A840 Ryan P. Givey v. Alicia A. Givey Pennsylvania 2026-01-22 Application constitutional-due-process court-jurisdiction custody-dispute first-amendment parental-rights psychological-evaluation Question not identified.
25-861 Minnesota Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors, et al. v. Keith M. Ellison, Attorney General of Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-01-20 Pending Response Waived constitutional-rights enforcement-authority federal-court-review first-amendment judicial-precedent state-law Minnesota enacted a law prohibiting employers from requiring employees to attend meetings in which the employer discusses its views on political or re…
25A817 Dan McCaleb v. Michelle Long, Director, Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts Sixth Circuit 2026-01-14 Application advisory-body experience-and-logic first-amendment government-proceedings public-access richmond-newspapers This case concerns whether, in determining whether the public has a right to access meetings of the Tennessee Judicial Advisory Commission, a court mu…
25-831 C. S., by Her Next Friend, Adam Stroub v. Craig McCrumb, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-01-13 Pending disruption-test first-amendment free-speech school-regulation student-speech tinker-standard Is post hoc speculation about emotional harm that speech could cause to other students insufficient to meet Tinker's "substantial disruption" standard…
25-819 Jeanne Hedgepeth v. James A. Britton, et al. Seventh Circuit 2026-01-12 Pending Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse Waived first-amendment free-speech pickering-balancing-test political-speech public-employee viewpoint-discrimination Whether and in what circumstances public employers may discipline employees based on their expression of controversial views while off the job.
25A806 Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America v. Sean O'Day, in His Official Capacity as Director of the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services Ninth Circuit 2026-01-12 Application compelled-speech first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny pharmaceutical-regulation takings-clause trade-secrets Question not identified.
25A807 Dewayne Bulls v. FBI, et al. Third Circuit 2026-01-12 Application court-access defamation due-process executive-overreach first-amendment judicial-fabrication Question not identified.
25A791 Antonio Sauceda Reyes v. Mississippi Mississippi 2026-01-08 Application court-access due-process first-amendment indigent-litigant legal-resources prisoner-access Question not identified.
25-802 Foothills Christian Ministries, et al. v. Kim Johnson, in Her Official Capacity as Director of the California Department of Social Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-07 Pending Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse Waived child-care-act compelled-speech first-amendment free-exercise religious-services zauderer-review Three churches in San Diego County, California, seek to open preschools on their campuses as extensions of their ministries. Under the Child Day Care …
25-799 Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Second Circuit 2026-01-07 Pending Amici (1) due-process economic-coercion fifth-amendment first-amendment medicare-negotiation property-rights 1. Is the Program immune from scrutiny under the First and Fifth Amendments because it relies on economic coercion to secure participation? 2. Does t…
25-789 Angela Kay Plese v. Ronald Austin, et al. Tennessee 2026-01-06 Pending civil-liability constitutional-law defamation first-amendment free-speech reputational-harm Whether the First Amendment allows a plaintiff who suffers no reputational harm to recover for defamation.
25A774 Raymond E. Butler v. Eli Eddi, et al. Seventh Circuit 2026-01-05 Application appellate-review attorney-advocacy disqualification-motion due-process first-amendment judicial-sanctions Question not identified.
25A773 Katherine London v. United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Seventh Circuit 2026-01-05 Application appellate-procedure due-process first-amendment professional-sanctions rico-litigation zealous-advocacy Question not identified.
25-780 Leda Health Corporation, a Delaware Corporation v. Bob Ferguson, Governor of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-05 Pending Response Waived commercial-speech content-restriction first-amendment marketing-speech strict-scrutiny viewpoint-discrimination The State of Washington makes it unlawful to sell a lawful product "with which evidence of sexual assault is collected" if, and only if, the seller "m…
25-776 Youth 71Five Ministries v. Charlene Williams, Individually and as Director of Oregon Department of Education, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-02 Pending Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse Waived constitutional-rights employment-discrimination first-amendment government-action grant-funding religious-autonomy For years, Petitioner Youth 71Five Ministries received grant funds from Oregon's Youth Community Investment Grants program. One year, 71Five even had …
25-770 Alan M. Dershowitz v. Cable News Network, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-31 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived actual-malice circuit-split defamation first-amendment media-liability summary-judgment As the District Court explained, "Of course, Dershowitz said nothing of the kind[.]" App. 71a. The court was referring to how CNN defamed Professor Al…
25-757 Matthew Borges v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived bribery campaign-finance first-amendment official-act political-contribution quid-pro-quo The First Amendment protects soliciting for, and contributing to, political campaigns based on policies that a candidate agrees to take while in offic…
25-756 Larry Householder v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived campaign-finance extortion first-amendment honest-services-fraud political-speech quid-pro-quo The First Amendment's protection of political speech ensures that a political contribution will not constitute extortion under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 or h…
25-755 The Society of Apostolic Church Ministries Bishop, Elizabeth Gardner Corporation Sole and Her Successors v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending Response Waived church-autonomy church-property first-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-interference ministerial-exemption property-seizure religious-freedom-restoration-act I. Whether the Ninth Circuit permitted the government to violate the First Amendment of the Constitution, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the Estab…
25-751 Bristol Myers Squibb Company v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-23 Pending Amici (1) constitutional-rights drug-pricing first-amendment government-compulsion medicare-negotiation takings-clause As part of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, Congress created the "Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program." Under the Program, manufacturers of th…
25-749 Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-23 Pending drug-pricing economic-coercion fifth-amendment first-amendment government-compulsion medicare-negotiation 1. Does the Program violate the First Amendment by compelling Janssen to express the Government's disputed messages regarding drug pricing? 2. Does t…
25-6429 Georgiy Chipunov v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-12-23 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP as-applied-challenge criminal-procedure facial-challenge first-amendment ninth-circuit true-threats In Counterman v. Colorado, 600 U.S. 66, 73 (2023), the Court clarified that, to comply with the First Amendment's protections, prosecutors "must prove…
25A735 Mike Yoder, et al. v. Scott Bowen, Director, Michigan Department of Natural Resources Sixth Circuit 2025-12-22 Application drones first-amendment government-ban non-political-speech speech-inputs strict-scrutiny Question not identified.
25-741 Keith Allen Kiefer v. Isanti County, Minnesota, et al. Minnesota 2025-12-22 Pending Response Waived constitutional-claims federal-court first-amendment petition-clause statute-of-limitations supreme-court-review To protect the right of access to the courts under the First Amendment's Petition Clause, during the petition stage of this Court seeking review of fe…
25-727 Douglas M. Folts v. United States Armed Forces 2025-12-19 Pending Response Waived constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech military-law obscenity-standard servicemembers Whether the military's obscenity standard is unconstitutional under Parker v. Levy and Miller v. California.
25A716 Laura Gaddy, et al. v. The Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Tenth Circuit 2025-12-18 Application civil-rico documentary-evidence first-amendment fraud-claims historical-representations religious-organization Whether civil courts may, consistent with the First Amendment, adjudicate fraud and concealment claims predicated on objective historical facts and do…
25-713 George Barry Hawkins, Jr. v. Glenn A. Youngkin, Governor of Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-12-18 Pending Response Waived discretionary-restoration expressive-conduct felony-disenfranchisement first-amendment selective-permissibility voting-rights Whether Virginia's system of discretionary restoration of the right to vote to people with felony convictions violates the First Amendment doctrine pr…
25-712 Sandra Hernden v. Chippewa Valley School District, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-18 Pending adverse-action circuit-split constitutional-law first-amendment governmental-action retaliation In light of our current toxic and vindictive politics and a circuit split, under a-person-of-ordinary-firmness test, does a referral by one government…
25-6392 Christopher Tyler Bray v. Texas Texas 2025-12-17 Pending IFP constitutional-law establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise-clause government-interest religious-freedom What is the meaning of religion as it concerns the Free Exercise Clause and the Establishment Clause of the 1st Amendment, and what are the implicatio…
25-6380 Anthony James Merrick v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-16 Pending IFP due-process first-amendment grievance-rights judicial-decision legal-access pro-se-prisoner I. THE NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS DECISION CONFLICTS WITH TURNER V. SAFELY, 482 U.S. 78 AND CREATES A DOUBLE STANDARD FOR PRO-SE PRISONERS THAT DO…
25-6358 Larry E. Webster, Jr. v. Bala Davuluri Fifth Circuit 2025-12-15 Pending IFP false-claims-act first-amendment hipaa-rights intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress medicaid-jurisdiction medical-malpractice Under Article III of the Constitution, Federal courts can hear 'all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution, [and] the laws of the U…
25-6356 Elvert S. Briscoe, Jr. v. Ohio Ohio 2025-12-15 Pending IFP appeal-as-of-right due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment notice-of-judgment pro-se 1. Has a pro se party received due process of notice and redress under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution if the fi…
25-6351 Anthony James Merrick v. Kenneth Herman, Former Administrator of Religious and Volunteer Services, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2025-12-12 Pending IFP constitutional-law due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-decisions prisoners-rights Mr. MeMTicXC oMegecl -HieA pv\scsr* cXVtcvcAs hack wvcAcAed V»ls freecWguvoC reU^ur* cmA*-><a V»Abe U& D^irictCcwrV cmci AVicA Atae cLocAvM<ve-s <s4 R…
25-692 Brooke Lynnette Girley, et al. v. The Florida Bar, et al. Florida 2025-12-12 Pending Response Waived due-process equal-protection first-amendment professional-discipline religious-freedom speech-based-discipline In separate proceedings consolidated on review, the state high court affirmed 30-day suspensions of two attorneys, Reverend Girley and Professor Girle…
25-678 Louis B. Antonacci v. Renu Brennan, in Her Official Capacity as Bar Counsel for the Virginia State Bar, et al. Virginia 2025-12-10 Pending bar-complaint constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-discretion Whether this Court's decision in Loper Light Enterprises v. Raimondo, 144 S. Ct. 2244 (2024) militates in favor of abrogating the prosecutorial discre…
25-672 Kate Adams v. Sacramento County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-10 Pending Amici (4) circuit-split constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech matter-of-public-concern public-employee-speech This case presents a clear, recognized, and entrenched conflict over the First Amendment rights of public employees: whether speech made as a private …
25-6325 Steven R. DeWitt v. Ceressa Haney, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-U.S.C.-§-1983 clearly-established-right constitutional-rights first-amendment government-official-recording qualified-immunity 1. Should the Court abolish or substantially reform qualified immunity? 2. If qualified immunity survives, what constitutes a clearly established rig…
25-6304 John Henry Clemons, III v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-12-05 Pending IFP constitutional-deprivation due-process first-amendment policy-implementation prisoner-rights property-interest 1) When considering the suppression of a prisoner's First Amendment right to freedom of expression and association by a prison policy, is it possible…
25A658 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Bette Eakin, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-04 Application anderson-burdick election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment mail-in-voting voter-rights Question not identified.
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 Pending 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…
25-634 Family Federation for World Peace and Unification International, et al. v. Hyun Jin Moon, et al. District of Columbia 2025-12-03 Pending church-autonomy church-leadership first-amendment neutral-principles property-dispute religious-entanglement Where necessary to resolve a church-property dispute, does the First Amendment prohibit courts from examining church-related facts to determine who le…
25A626 Rajeh A. Saadeh v. New Jersey State Bar Association New Jersey 2025-11-26 Application bar-association diversity-quotas equal-protection first-amendment freedom-of-association status-based-discrimination Question not identified.
25-6253 Sharon Johnson v. David Danon California 2025-11-26 Pending IFP constitutional-rights first-amendment government-redress judicial-review petition-rights vexatious-statutes Whether vexatious statutory schemes used in state and federal courts overreach and violate First Amendment rights of victims to petition the courts an…
25-6244 Tasleema Yasin v. VM Master Issuer, LLC Georgia 2025-11-25 Denied IFP access-to-courts appellate-review due-process electronic-filing equal-protection first-amendment 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause is violated when a timely notice of appeal is denied solely because of the State's malfunctio…
25-606 John Stockton, et al. v. Nick Brown, Attorney General of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-11-24 Pending Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived first-amendment judicial-review medical-board-regulation state-action viewpoint-discrimination younger-abstention 1. On September 16, 2025, the Washington Court of Appeals held that the State Medical Commission's COVID-19 misinformation enforcement policy targe…
25-6200 Daman Thomas Caldwell v. Florida Florida 2025-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violations false-police-report fifth-amendment first-amendment per-curiam-affirmance sixth-amendment Whether the conviction of Petitioner, obtained under a per curiam affirmance without opinion and supported by a false police report, violates the Firs…
25-598 Vishara Video, Inc., et al. v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-11-21 Denied Response Waived first-amendment free-expression municipal-ordinance police-powers secondary-effects zoning-restrictions 1. Where there have been substantial changes in the circumstances since a municipality enacted an ordinance under its police powers that impacts fre…
25-6181 Graham Schiff v. Warden Fourth Circuit 2025-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights first-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct speech-protection I. First Amendment and Certificate of Appealability Standard Whether this Court should grant certiorari —or exercise its supervisory authority —to dir…
25-6150 Cristina M. Lancranjan v. Superior Court of California, San Diego County, et al. California 2025-11-18 Denied IFP child-custody due-process educational-status-quo first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion 1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is violated when a state court, without a full evidentiary hearing on the child's best …
25-6146 William G. Roberson, IV v. Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff, Cook County, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2025-11-18 Denied IFP civil-rights establishment-clause first-amendment government-liability procedural-obstacles religious-coercion Whether the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment is violated when a pretrial detainee is compelled to attend a court hearing conducted in the s…
25A572 Ian Buenaventura v. Leslie Buot Maine 2025-11-14 Application anti-slapp due-process first-amendment judicial-bias pro-se procedural-fairness Question not identified.
25A562 Jeanne Hedgepeth v. James A. Britton, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-11-14 Application first-amendment free-speech pickering-test political-speech public-employee viewpoint-discrimination Question not identified.
25A561 Chamber of Commerce of the United States, et al. v. Lauren Sanchez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-11-14 Application california-law commercial-speech compelled-speech constitutional-challenge emissions-reporting first-amendment Question not identified.
25-6115 Anton Lazzaro v. LGM Consulting Group, Inc. Florida 2025-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights contract-law damages first-amendment fundraising political-speech The State of Florida authorizes political fundraising consultants to recover expectancy damages in breach of contract actions against political campai…
25-575 Will McLemore, et al. v. Roxanna Gumucio, in Her Official Capacity as Executive Director of the Tennessee Auctioneer Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-11-13 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived circuit-split first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny licensing-law professional-speech speech-conduct 1. Whether a burden on speech must be incidental merely because it is imposed by an occupational licensing law. 2. Whether a law that imposes inciden…
25A540 Andrew Parker, et al. v. Bill Gates, as a Member of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-11-10 Application attorney-conduct due-process election-litigation first-amendment rule-11 sanctions Question not identified.
25A524 C. S., by Her Next Friend, Adam Stroub v. Craig McCrumb, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-11-06 Application first-amendment free-speech hat-day school-regulation student-speech weapon-depiction Question not identified.
25-6058 Raymond E. Lumsden v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP equal-protection establishment-clause first-amendment prison-ministry religious-discrimination rluipa 1. Does.Texas' Partnership With The 'Heart'Of Texas College Of Ministry, A Solely Christian-Based Organization Housed And Operated On A Texas Prison…
25-552 Nicholas Lupo, et al. v. Tre Hargett, Tennessee Secretary of State, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-11-06 Denied Response Waived ballot-access elector-candidates electoral-college first-amendment fourteenth-amendment presidential-election Is not States ' premature adjudication of qualifications of Elector Candidates ' Pledged Candidates unconstitutional and violation of the foundational…
25A519 Bristol Myers Squibb Company v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Third Circuit 2025-11-05 Application constitutional-challenge drug-pricing fifth-amendment first-amendment inflation-reduction-act medicare-drug-negotiation Question not identified.
25A514 Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Third Circuit 2025-11-04 Application compelled-speech fifth-amendment first-amendment government-coercion medicare-drug-negotiation takings-clause Question not identified.
25-513 Adele Jeffords Pope v. South Carolina South Carolina 2025-10-27 Denied Response Waived contempt due-process estate-law first-amendment foia-request judicial-order 1. Whether the South Carolina Supreme Court's interpretation and enforcement of its 2015 Order violates the First Amendment. 2. Whether the South Car…
25-507 Chang Y. Aiona, V. v. County of Hawaii, Hawaii, et al. Hawaii 2025-10-23 Denied defamation first-amendment legal-precedent milkovich-standard opinion-exception public-interest Whether the "opinion" exception can be extended to a private, non-public interest, defamation lawsuit in violation of the Court's decision Milkovich v…
25-496 Lawyers for Fair Reciprocal Admission v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-10-22 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-review first-amendment licensing-standards nationwide-injunction professional-speech rules-enabling-act Whether federal district and bankruptcy court professional speech local (sic) rules—that create a nationwide patchwork of conflicting licensing standa…
25-494 Christopher A. Rogalski v. Pennsylvania Department of Education, et al. Pennsylvania 2025-10-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-discipline burden-of-proof confrontation-rights due-process educators-rights first-amendment 1. Do educators have the basic First Amendment right to communicate with their students free of a presumption that by doing so they are engaged in "…
25A452 Leda Health Corporation v. Bob Ferguson, Governor of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-10-21 Presumed Complete bill-of-attainder commercial-speech constitutional-restriction content-based-speech first-amendment medical-testing Question not identified.
25-5884 Derrick U. Jacobs v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2025-10-15 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation fabricated-prosecution first-amendment immunity-doctrine retaliation Philadelphia Police Detective Derrick Jacobs (Petitioner/Jacobs) observed newly elected Philadelphia District Attorney, Lawrence Krasner ("Krasner") a…
25-455 Thanh C. Tran v. Liberty Mutual Group Inc., et al. Massachusetts 2025-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment petition-clause trial-errors Whether a state appellate court violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause by deeming properly preserved trial errors waived without meani…
25A426 Mark A. Pulley v. United States Armed Forces 2025-10-14 Presumed Complete court-martial first-amendment free-speech indecent-conduct military-justice uniform-code-of-military-justice Question not identified.
25A402 Andrew Hess v. Oakland County, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-10-07 Presumed Complete election-recount first-amendment hyperbole michigan-statute political-speech terrorist-threat Whether Michigan Compiled Laws § 750.543m, facially and as applied to Applicant's speech, violates the First Amendment.
25A401 Steven R. DeWitt v. Ceressa Haney, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-07 Application constitutional-rights first-amendment government-office public-officials qualified-immunity recording-rights Question not identified.
25A381 Upsolve, Inc., et al. v. Letitia James, Attorney General of New York Second Circuit 2025-10-02 Application constitutional-review content-based-restriction first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny purpose-based-distinction speech-regulation Question not identified.
25-394 Beit Ha Kavod v. City of Canton, Ohio Ohio 2025-10-02 Denied building-codes constitutional-rights first-amendment free-exercise-clause municipal-law religious-discrimination The question presented is whether a municipality enforcing building codes violates the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the United State…
25A377 Ian S. R. Buenaventura v. Leslie G. C. Buot Maine 2025-10-01 Presumed Complete anti-slapp first-amendment interlocutory-appeal judicial-review pro-se procedural-due-process Question not identified.
25-5766 Jonathan Valentin v. Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industries Third Circuit 2025-09-30 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourth-amendment pro-se-litigation Should the First Amendment provisions to the U.S. Constitution addressing the making of any law abridging the freedom of speech; and to petition the G…
25-376 Dustin Thomas House Darden v. Crowd Management Service Ninth Circuit 2025-09-30 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 constitutional-accountability first-amendment government-contractors police-powers state-action Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, private actors constitute state actors when they exercise governmental authority or act jointly with state officials. Courts h…
25A366 Calvary Chapel San Jose, et al. v. California, et al. California 2025-09-29 Presumed Complete certiorari first-amendment judicial-review religious-freedom state-court-review supreme-court-procedure Question not identified.
25A362 Kate Adams v. Sacramento County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-29 Presumed Complete employment-retaliation first-amendment matter-of-public-concern ninth-circuit public-employee racist-speech Question not identified.
25A360 Henry B. Berrocal v. San Antonio Police Department-Headquarters, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-09-29 Application civil-rights eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment Question not identified.
25A357 Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Second Circuit 2025-09-29 Presumed Complete compelled-speech fifth-amendment first-amendment medicare-drug-negotiation price-setting takings-clause Question not identified.
25-5757 Kristopher Jacob Freda v. Oregon Oregon 2025-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violations cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment writ-of-mandamus Will SCOTUS order a writ of mandamus to stop the State of Oregon from punishing Freda with cruel and unusual punishment and stop the Constitutional vi…
25-368 Hal Taylor, Secretary, Alabama Law Enforcement Agency v. Jonathan Singleton, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-29 Pending Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-protection first-amendment injunction law-enforcement public-begging Whether the First Amendment protects begging.
25-5734 Charles Robol v. City of Columbus, Ohio, et al. Ohio 2025-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP first-amendment fourth-amendment procedural-due-process public-forum recording-rights viewpoint-discrimination 1. Whether a municipality's imposition of overbroad and viewpoint-discriminatory restrictions —including a permanent ban from a public forum, the deni…
25-342 Radio Communications Corporation v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2025-09-23 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing commerce-clause fcc-regulation first-amendment low-power-tv statutory-interpretation Whether the "best reading" of the Low Power Protection Act ("LPPA") mandates nationwide Low Power Protection denial, as if the LPPA had not been enact…
25-338 Simon Ateba v. Karoline C. Leavitt, in Her Official Capacity as Press Secretary to the President of the United States, et al. District of Columbia 2025-09-23 Denied Response Waived content-neutrality first-amendment judicial-review press-access speech-licensing viewpoint-discrimination 1. Whether the existence of unbridled discretion in a speech-licensing regime is per se viewpoint discrimination or merely assessed for constitutional…
25-337 City of Huntington Beach, California, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-23 Pending Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-structure first-amendment government-powers local-government official-capacity state-law 1. Whether the Constitution categorically denies a local government any capacity to invoke it against its State, without first determining—by refere…
25A329 Family Federation for World Peace and Unification International, et al. v. Hyun Jin Moon, et al. District of Columbia 2025-09-22 Presumed Complete church-autonomy doctrinal-interpretation first-amendment hierarchical-organization judicial-review religious-freedom Whether the First Amendment forbids a court from deciding whether a denomination is hierarchical when it asserts that the church-autonomy doctrine mak…
25A322 We The Patriots USA, Inc., et al v. Ventura Unified School District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-19 Presumed Complete fetal-cell-lines first-amendment free-exercise religious-exemption school-attendance vaccination-mandate 1. Whether California Health and Safety Code violates Jane Doe's First Amendment right to direct her son's religious upbringing by excluding him from …
25-5691 Bradford Allen Thompson v. Texas Texas 2025-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP abstract-beliefs constitutional-law first-amendment non-capital-felony relevancy-standard sentencing-evidence Whether Dawson u. Delaware's I First Amendment prohibition against using a defendant's "abstract beliefs" (in this case, an interest in Nazi literatur…
25-5639 Fathiree Uddin Ali v. Stephen E. Adamson, Chaplain, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-09-16 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP first-amendment individual-capacity injunctive-relief mootness religious-freedom rluipa Congress has enacted two "sister" statutes to protect religious exercise: the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA) 42 U.S.C. 2000bb et seq…
25-5636 Gordon M. Mayhew v. Arizona Arizona 2025-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process first-amendment free-exercise probation-conditions rehabilitation religious-liberty 1. Whether, consistent with the Free Exercise clause (App. B-l) and Due Process (App. B-3, B-4) (Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments), a State may compe…
25-301 Frank Marshall, et ux. v. Wisconsin Elections Commission, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-09-16 Denied Response Waived ballot-access electoral-college first-amendment fourteenth-amendment presidential-qualifications state-election-law For the first time in the history of the United States, a State violated the foundational principles of the Electoral College by removing bona fide Pr…
25-295 WG/Welch Mechanical Contractors, LLC v. International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail & Transportation Workers, Local Union 100 - Sheet Metal Division, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-09-15 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure defamation first-amendment malicious-speech pleading-standard subjective-intent Whether the plaintiff of a malicious defamation claim must plead facts that directly reveal a defendant's subjective state of mind, or whether the ple…
25-284 Leila Green Little, et al. v. Llano County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-09-11 Denied Amici (7) book-censorship first-amendment free-speech government-action library-access viewpoint-discrimination Whether those book-removal decisions are subject to scrutiny under the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment.
25-280 Tracy Cox, et al. v. Association of Oregon Corrections Employees, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-10 Denied Response Waived constitutional-protection disassociation-rights first-amendment government-unions public-employees union-membership Does the First Amendment protect a public employee's right to disassociate from the union?
25-277 Aden Rusfeldt v. Officer Cristian Morar, et al. Third Circuit 2025-09-10 Denied Response Waived fighting-words first-amendment free-speech heckler's-veto public-forum qualified-immunity Under the First Amendment, street preachers and counter-protesters can speak in front of a crowd but not to a crowd, or to any person therein, or else…
25-268 Alex Emric Jones, et al. v. Erica Lafferty, et al. Connecticut 2025-09-09 Denied Response Waived administrative-sanction constitutional-review defamation first-amendment media-liability public-figure This case presents multiple constitutional questions of first impression involving the use of a punitive administrative Death Penalty Sanction for sma…
25-256 Libby Hilsenrath, on Behalf of Her Minor Child, C. H. v. Chathams School District Board of Education Third Circuit 2025-09-04 Denied establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise-clause parental-rights public-school religious-freedom Whether a public school violates the Establishment Clause by assigning content that proselytizes for, extols, and gives favored treatment to Islam (or…
25-5505 Valeria Taveras, et vir v. U.S. Bank National Association as Legal Title Trustee for Truman 2016 SC6 Title Trust Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-28 Denied IFP civil-rights federal-jurisdiction first-amendment judicial-procedure removal-statute supreme-court-precedent 1) Whether satisfying the second prong of Georgia v. Rachel, 384 U.S. 780 (1966), for removal under 28 U.S.C. § 1443(1) requires a formal state statut…
25-5501 Brian Troy Woltz v. Susan Good, et al. Third Circuit 2025-08-28 Denied IFP due-process equity-jurisdiction fifth-amendment first-amendment judicial-misconduct trust-administration 1. Whether the lower courts, acting under statutory and de facto authority, committed reversible error in refusing to recognize or adjudicate matters…
25-5498 Jason Strauch v. New Mexico New Mexico 2025-08-28 Denied IFP due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment right-to-appeal writ-of-mandamus 1. Was the New Mexico Supreme Court's denial of Mr. Strauch's State Writ of Mandamus, contrary to the United State Constitution First Amendment, Right…
25-232 King Vanga v. Priscilla N. Juarez, et al. California 2025-08-28 Denied constitutional-law defamation false-statement first-amendment opinion-speech third-party-attribution Whether the First Amendment protects a verifiably false factual statement as an opinion based on disclosed facts simply because the statement republis…
25-230 Carina Conerly, et al. v. Sharif R. Tarpin, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-27 Denied child-custody constitutional-procedure first-amendment judicial-discretion school-access videotaping-rights 1. WHETHER, Petitioner should consider a State Judges laws Constitutionally Powerful, when the Justice System Court Judges ban, by court order, Petiti…
25A202 Kevin Frymier v. Dianne Curvey, Judge, in Her Individual and Official Capacity, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-08-20 Presumed Complete civil-rights dismissal-as-frivolous fifth-circuit first-amendment judicial-immunity pro-se Question not identified.
25A192 Hal Taylor, Secretary, Alabama Law Enforcement Agency v. Jonathan Singleton, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-15 Presumed Complete begging-laws first-amendment founding-era free-speech historical-tradition speech-categories Whether begging is protected speech under the First Amendment.
25-5354 Michael Joshua Henderson v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General, et al. Second Circuit 2025-08-13 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment marijuana-scheduling medical-necessity A. Whether this Court should overrule Gonzales v. Raich, 545 U.S. 4, 125 S.Ct. 2145 (2005) in this present day and time? B. If so, whether in this pr…
25-5351 Roberta A. Lee v. Department of the Army Federal Circuit 2025-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights employment-discrimination equal-protection first-amendment merit-system-protection-board wrongful-termination (A) Whether the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, Art. 1, Sec. 8, allow Federal Government Employees to equal…
25-156 Freedom Foundation v. Rita Gail Turner, in Her Official Capacity as Litigation Research Coordinator in the Public Records Act Unit, Office of General Counsel, Los Angeles School District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) access-to-information first-amendment labor-law public-employees union-membership viewpoint-discrimination Whether a law that prevents anyone but incumbent unions from accessing information necessary to communicate with public employees before they are recr…
25-5308 Michael J. Gaddy v. C. Pfeiffer, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-08 Denied IFP claim-preclusion constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment ninth-circuit parole-hearing 1. WHETHER THE NINTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN APPLYING CLAIM PRECLUSION TO BAR PETITIONER'S FIRST AMENDMENT FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION CLAIM WHEN THE ALLEGED CONS…
25-154 Michael Prete v. Rhode Island Rhode Island 2025-08-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment habeas-corpus interlocutory-appeals judicial-procedure Did this Court's Abney v. United States, 431 U.S. 651 (1977), decision limit the permissibility of interlocutory appeals by defendants in criminal cas…
25-148 Michael Prete v. Rhode Island Rhode Island 2025-08-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-guarantees due-process first-amendment habeas-corpus interlocutory-appeals judicial-procedure Did this Court's Abney v. United States, 431 U.S. 651 (1977), decision limit the permissibility of interlocutory appeals by defendants in criminal cas…
25-147 Michael J. Polelle v. Cord Byrd, Florida Secretary of State, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-07 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived closed-primary election-law equal-protection first-amendment political-association voting-rights 1. Does the Petitioner have standing to sue the Florida Secretary of State in his official capacity as chief election officer of the state for any vio…
25-142 William Gerard Sangervasi, II v. City of San Jose, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-06 Denied Response Waived equal-protection first-amendment government-speech police-uniform sexual-orientation viewpoint-discrimination Our American Flag and The Uniform of America's Police Officers are neutral and impartial visual symbols of blind-justice and equal protection under th…
25-5298 Michael Mallonee v. Department of the Interior Federal Circuit 2025-08-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law due-process employment-rights first-amendment judicial-review whistleblower-protection 1. Whether a federal employee's speech —reporting unsafe school conditions, unauthorized personnel practices, and retaliation to oversight bodies —is…
25-138 Margo Roman v. Massachusetts Board of Registration in Veterinary Medicine Massachusetts 2025-08-05 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-scrutiny first-amendment licensing-board occupational-speech professional-licensure speech-regulation whether a state occupational licensing board is entitled to apply a lower standard of constitutional scrutiny to speech that is neither commercial nor…
25-133 Joseph Miller, et al. v. James V. McDonald, Commissioner, New York State Department of Health, et al. Second Circuit 2025-08-04 GVR Amici (17) constitutional-law first-amendment free-exercise-clause religious-exemption secular-exemption smith-precedent 1. Whether a law that categorically disallows religious exemptions but permits secular exemptions and other comparable secular activity violates the F…
25-125 Kim Davis v. David Ermold, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-08-01 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-defenses emotional-distress first-amendment free-exercise government-official tort-liability (1) Whether the First Amendment Free Exercise Clause provides an affirmative defense to tort liability based solely on emotional distress damages with…
25-126 Michael Kane, et al. v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-08-01 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) accommodation first-amendment religious-discrimination strict-scrutiny title-vii undue-hardship Whether strict scrutiny applies to a discretionary religious-accommodation scheme that turns on whether individuals follow organized religion and whet…
25-123 Matthew Joseph Connolly v. City of Southfield, Michigan Michigan 2025-07-31 Denied Response Waived criminal-ordinance due-process first-amendment free-speech probation-conditions public-forum 1. Whether the Due Process Clause protects defendants from being prosecuted under an ordinance that prohibits expression and conduct in public forums,…
25-116 Nicholas Roddy Ramlow v. Amanda Marie Mitchell Idaho 2025-07-30 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure constitutional-rights first-amendment mootness pandemic-law public-health 1. Whether mask-wearing is symbolic or expressive speech. 2. Whether Petitioner's appeal is moot. 3. Given the cyclical nature of pandemics, the exi…
25-115 Monica Miller, et al. v. Letitia James, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as Attorney General of New York Second Circuit 2025-07-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights defamation first-amendment free-speech reputational-harm standing During a press conference convened by the New York Attorney General to announce the filing of a civil lawsuit against Red Rose Rescue, a pro-life orga…
25-113 Breanna Renteria, et al. v. New Mexico Office of the Superintendent of Insurance, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-07-30 Pending CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) employment-division-v-smith first-amendment health-care-sharing-ministry preemption religious-exercise strict-scrutiny Petitioners Breanna Renteria and Laura Smith joined a ministry with fellow Christian believers to share healthcare costs. Petitioners' religious belie…
25-110 Sally Priester v. Puerto Rico Department of Health, et al. First Circuit 2025-07-29 Denied Relisted (2) first-amendment free-speech government-interference healthcare-speech licensing-board pandemic-restrictions Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, Dr. Priester, M.D., exerted her rights under the Free Speech, Freedom of Association, and Free…
25-107 Leah Gilliam v. David Gerregano, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Revenue, et al. Tennessee 2025-07-29 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) first-amendment free-speech government-speech license-plate public-forum state-regulation Whether the messages paid for and chosen by car owners on personalized license plates—commonly known as "vanity" plates—are government speech.
25A116 Leila Green Little, et al. v. Llano County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-07-28 Presumed Complete circuit-split first-amendment free-speech government-speech information-access public-library Whether a public library's decision to remove certain books because they supposedly espouse "inappropriate" views is subject to judicial scrutiny unde…
25-5207 Jessica Salazar v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct religious-freedom In the criminal trial of Jessica Salazar, the prosecutor placed repeated emphasis on Ms. Salazar's request for a prayer. It was the first line of the …
25A97 NetChoice, LLC v. Lynn Fitch, Attorney General of Mississippi Fifth Circuit 2025-07-23 Presumed Complete Amici (8) age-verification content-based-restrictions first-amendment free-speech parental-consent social-media Question not identified.
25A76 Stepup Funny, L.L.C., dba Stepup Funny, dba AA7 Days v. Newsweek Digital, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2025-07-21 Presumed Complete confidentiality first-amendment improper-purposes judicial-records media-access privacy-interests Question not identified.
25-66 Alliance Marc & Eva Stern Math & Science High School, et al. v. Public Employment Relations Board, et al. California 2025-07-18 Denied Response Waived administrative-law first-amendment free-speech government-speech public-employers union-membership In 2017, California enacted the Prohibition on Public Employers Deterring or Discouraging Union Membership (PEDD). The PEDD prohibits "public employer…
25A69 Nicholas Lupo, et al. v. Tre Hargett, Tennessee Secretary of State, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-07-17 Presumed Complete ballot-access election-law electoral-college first-amendment fourteenth-amendment presidential-eligibility Question not identified.
25-5140 Amy Pickett v. Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC), et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-07-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ada-accommodations civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination first-amendment 1. Did the Respondents working under the color of the law exhibit abuse in power &/or retaliate, discriminate against Petitioner's Federal Constitutio…
25-5132 Jennifer Murphey v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge due-process first-amendment freedom-of-thought treaty-enforcement war-on-drugs 1. Whether I have standing to challenge the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances, which are int…
25-53 Brittany Valencia Martin v. South Carolina South Carolina 2025-07-15 Denied Response Waived appellate-review constitutional-law first-amendment independent-review preservation-rule state-courts It is a "rule of federal constitutional law" that in "cases raising First Amendment issues," appellate courts must "make an independent examination of…
25-49 Alexander Sittenfeld aka P. G. Sittenfeld v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-07-15 Pending Amici (12)Relisted (5) bribery campaign-finance first-amendment official-act political-contribution quid-pro-quo The First Amendment protects soliciting and contributing funds to support a political candidate based on his or her intended policies. To avoid chilli…
25-5092 Hussein S. Yousif v. Susan Larson Christensen, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-07-14 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review rule-41 Does Logic disqualify Judicial actions? Statutory provisions Is the first and the fourteenth Amendment meaningless in the Constitution for a Citizen …
25-43 Freedom Foundation, a Washington Nonprofit Corporation v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 117, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-07-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights first-amendment janus-precedent section-1983 state-action union-dues Whether public-sector unions that invoke the aid of state officials to deduct union dues from a nonconsenting public-sector employee act "under color …
25-5072 Khaled Miah v. United States Third Circuit 2025-07-10 Denied IFP criminal-law first-amendment interstate-communication social-media statutory-interpretation terroristic-threat Can an online social media post that at most forewarns of a possible future terroristic attack violate 18 U.S.C. § 875(c), if the post does not identi…
25-39 John Does 1-2, et al. v. Seattle Police Department, et al. Washington 2025-07-10 Dismissed anonymous-expression first-amendment government-disclosure political-association privacy-rights public-records (1) Whether compelled public disclosure of politically sensitive information, including compelled statements regarding political beliefs, motivations,…
25-29 Priscilla Villarreal v. Isidro R. Alaniz, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-07-09 Pending Amici (11)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) arrest-without-cause civil-rights first-amendment free-speech government-officials qualified-immunity 1. Whether it obviously violates the First Amendment to arrest someone for asking government officials questions and publishing the information they v…
25-5055 Andrew Marowitz v. Cory Dostie California 2025-07-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-law due-process first-amendment housing-discrimination tenant-rights void-for-vagueness 1. Does the Department of Fair Employment and Housing statutes regarding misgendering of a transgender room renter, when describing the individual as…
25-21 William F. Kaetz v. United States, et al. Third Circuit 2025-07-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) bankruptcy-law constitutional-challenge first-amendment judicial-immunity separation-of-powers student-loans 1. Can federal courts, consistent with the Consti tution, assume legislative authority by creating fed eral common law on judicial immunity, filing re…
25-5040 Nicholas Weir v. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. Second Circuit 2025-07-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP citizenship conscientious-objection first-amendment military-service naturalization oath-of-allegiance Can the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services ("USCIS ") and its employees deny an application for naturalization because the applicant …
24-1327 Spirit of Aloha Temple, a Hawaii Nonprofit Corporation, et al. v. Maui County, Hawaii, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-30 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived first-amendment municipal-jurisdiction religious-exercise rluipa substantial-burden zoning-permit Must a religious organization seeking to build a church prove that it is precluded from using other sites within a municipality's jurisdiction and/or …
24-1320 Centerline Logistics Corporation, et al. v. Inlandboatmen’s Union of the Pacific, et al. California 2025-06-27 Denied Response Waived actual-malice anti-SLAPP defamation due-process first-amendment jury-trial 1. Whether this Court should overturn Sullivan's actual malice standard. 2. Whether the Seventh Amendment's right to a jury trial is incorporated aga…
24-7510 Beit Ha Kavod v. City of Canton, Ohio Ohio 2025-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP building-codes constitutional-law first-amendment free-exercise-clause municipal-regulation religious-discrimination The question presented is whether a municipality enforcing building codes violates the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the United State…
24-1306 Terry Klee v. International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 501, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-24 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) first-amendment janus-decision section-1983 sovereign-immunity state-action union-dues Whether a public-sector union that invokes the aid of state officials to deduct union dues from a nonconsenting public-sector employee acts "under col…
24-1305 Marcus Todd v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Council 5 Eighth Circuit 2025-06-24 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) consent-diversion employee-rights first-amendment janus-standard public-sector-union state-action In Janus v. AFSCME, this Court held that a public-sector union cannot obtain direct payroll deductions from a nonmember unless it has "clear and compe…
24A1272 Benito M. Valdez v. United States District of Columbia 2025-06-23 Presumed Complete first-amendment husher jury-selection public-trial sixth-amendment voir-dire Question not identified.
24A1262 Feifei Gu v. Michael Sher, New York City Police Officer, et al. Second Circuit 2025-06-23 Presumed Complete bad-faith-prosecution constitutional-rights first-amendment judicial-misconduct retaliation state-court-proceedings Question not identified.
24A1248 Tracy Cox, et al. v. Association of Oregon Corrections Employees, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-17 Presumed Complete dues-deduction first-amendment free-association public-employees resignation-restrictions union-membership Question not identified.
24-1283 Jack R. T. Jordan v. United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Fifth Circuit 2025-06-16 Denied Response Waived attorney-conduct disbarment due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment judicial-misconduct 1. Whether the U.S. Constitution delegated power to federal courts to disbar an attorney because he stated in written federal court filings that feder…
24-1274 R. Michael Cestaro v. Clarissa M. Rodriguez, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as Chair of the New York State Workers' Compensation Board, et al. Second Circuit 2025-06-13 Denied Response Waived first-amendment mt-healthy public-employee retaliation section-1983 subjective-intent 1. In a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in which a public employee alleges First Amendment retaliation, does the government successfully Court in Mt. Hea…
24-1271 Malik Leigh v. State Bar of Florida Florida 2025-06-13 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment professional-conduct racial-discrimination 1. Whether disciplining or disbarring a civil rights attorney for speech critical of judicial bias and racial injustice violates the First Amendment…
24-1269 Jeremiah Curtis-Shanley v. J.G. Connecticut 2025-06-12 Denied constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-speech prior-restraint Did the State of Connecticut violate the petitioner's 1st and 14th Amendment rights when it imposed a no contact order (CPO) for speech/conduct that w…
24-1236 Louis Farrakhan, et al. v. Anti-Defamation League, et al. Second Circuit 2025-06-04 Denied Response Waived 42-USC-1983 article-III-standing first-amendment government-action quasi-governmental-actor representational-standing 1. Whether the Second Circuit failed to follow this Court's precedent when it held that representational standing does not exist in claims alleging …
24-1229 Denise A. Canzoneri v. Prescott Unified School District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-03 Denied clearly-established factual-allegations first-amendment light-most-favorable motion-to-dismiss qualified-immunity 1. At the motion to dismiss stage, all factual allegations in the complaint must be viewed as true and resolved in a light most favorable for the plai…
24-1226 S. G. S. v. S. F. Illinois 2025-06-03 Denied Response Waived child-custody due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure parental-rights 1. Whether a state court may completely remove a parent's constitutionally protected right to the care, custody, and control of their child through a …
24-1220 Mark Joseph Uhlenbrock v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-30 Denied Response Waived cyberstalking emotional-distress federal-prosecution first-amendment mens-rea statutory-interpretation 1. Can a Federal Cyberstalking prosecution pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2261A be used to target repeated communications on the sole basis that they would b…
24-7299 Jerry L. Hoffman, Jr. v. Jose Delgado, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-28 Denied IFP constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech municipal-ordinance prior-restraint public-forum 1. Whether there exists a circuit split on municipal recording bans violating the First Amendment? 2. Whether a Middle District Court can dismiss wit…
24-1204 Yaakov Markel v. Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, a Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-27 Denied Response Waived contract-breach employment-law first-amendment ministerial-exception overtime-compensation religious-institutions 1. Whether Religious institutions are bound by the contracts they voluntarily enter into, or are entitled, after performance by their minister, to …
24A1137 Braun Thompson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-05-22 Presumed Complete due-process first-amendment legal-mail mailbox-rule prisoner-rights supreme-court Question not identified.
24-1194 John Doe v. Second Judicial District Court of Nevada, Washoe County, et al. Nevada 2025-05-22 Denied Response Waived anonymous-investigation elected-officials first-amendment litigation public-figure speech-preparatory Are speech preparatory investigations expressive and subject to First Amendment protection?
24-7239 Ian R. Diaz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split first-amendment obstruction-offense stalking-statute statutory-construction true-threats 1. Whether an intent to "harass" or "intimidate" under the federal stalking statute, 18 U.S.C. § 2261A, has an "ordinary" broad meaning or instead is …
24-1173 Evans Hotels, LLC, et al. v. Unite Here! Local 30, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-15 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split first-amendment labor-law noerr-pennington section-8b4 sham-petitioning Section 8(b)(4) of the National Labor Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. § 158(b)(4), prohibits unions from targeting neutral parties, often referred to as seco…
24-7206 Mark Bochra v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Seventh Circuit 2025-05-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights discrimination-retaliation executive-committee first-amendment judicial-immunity public-forum Question not identified.
24-7197 Darrin Alonzo Miller v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP content-analysis evidence-scope first-amendment jury-determination miller-test obscenity Whether a jury, when determining whether a letter is "obscene," applying the test from Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15 (1973), can consider evidence…
24-1136 Dale Prey v. Franciscan University of Steubenville, et al. Ohio 2025-05-06 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights equal-protection first-amendment judicial-interpretation religious-doctrine tort-law 1) Does the text of the First Amendment, "Congress shall make no law", limit its application to the Legislature and, thus, allow the Judiciary to craf…
24-7138 Steve Van Horne v. Harriett L. Haag, Judge, County Court at Law No. 2, Taylor County, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-05-05 Denied IFP district-court first-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-error motion-to-reconsider religious-freedom Whether the district court erred in ignoring the 1st Amendment and 42 USC 21b § 2000bb in denying Petitioner's Notification of Religious Obligation fi…
24A1053 Brittany Valencia Martin v. South Carolina South Carolina 2025-04-30 Presumed Complete appellate-review breach-of-peace first-amendment freedom-of-expression independent-review-doctrine procedural-preservation Question not identified.
24A1023 Dale Prey v. Franciscan University of Steubenville, et al. Ohio 2025-04-22 Presumed Complete employment-discrimination first-amendment judicial-review-of-religious-entities religious-institution-exemption watson-v-jones Question not identified.
24-7056 Andrew D. Anderson v. North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-04-22 Denied IFP article-iii first-amendment judicial-immunity prosecutorial-immunity res-judicata sovereign-immunity As applied in petitioner's case, are the applications of judicial and prosecutorial immunities consistent and compliant with Art. III. Sec. 2. "The ju…
24-7048 Ganiyu Ayinla Jaiyeola v. United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan Sixth Circuit 2025-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment judicial-discretion pro-se Whether the U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids, Michigan, abused its discretion with prejudice and denied pro se Petitioner constitutional rights to …
24A1017 Mark Joseph Uhlenbrock v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-04-21 Presumed Complete cyberstalking-statute defamation first-amendment internet-postings substantial-emotional-distress true-threat Question not identified.
24-1085 David P. Demarest v. Town of Underhill, Vermont, et al. Second Circuit 2025-04-17 Denied Response Waived class-of-one constitutional-rights equal-protection first-amendment municipal-retaliation property-rights 1. When a property owner exercises his First Amendment right to speak out at public meetings, does it violate that Constitutional guarantee when the g…
24A988 Carlos Moore v. Mississippi Commission on Judicial Performance Mississippi 2025-04-16 Presumed Complete extrajudicial-speech first-amendment judicial-conduct judicial-ethics judicial-removal racial-justice Question not identified.
24-1083 Jeanne Tamagny v. John Scott Tamagny New Jersey 2025-04-16 Denied content-neutrality family-court first-amendment free-speech parental-rights prior-restraint Under the guise of protecting a 17½-year-old child, a New Jersey family court judge placed a blanket prohibition upon petitioner Jeanne Tamagny's ab…
24A987 Joseph Miller, et al. v. James V. McDonald, Commissioner, New York State Department of Health, et al. Second Circuit 2025-04-16 Presumed Complete amish-community employment-division-v-smith first-amendment free-exercise-clause religious-exemption vaccination-mandate Question not identified.
24-1070 Conghua Yan v. Mark A. Taylor, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Criminal District Office Investigator, Tarrant County, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-04-11 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure district-attorney first-amendment government-policy petition-rights This petition addresses an unpublished dismissal of a constitutional challenge to a goyernment. barring Petitioner and everyone from filing individual…
24-1061 Project Veritas, et al. v. Nathan Vasquez, in His Official Capacity as Multnomah County District Attorney, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-04-09 Denied Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) content-neutrality first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny newsgathering speech-restriction supreme-court-precedent Did the Ninth Circuit err by holding that Oregon's prohibition of unannounced recordings—which expressly exempts recordings of police activity and dis…
24-6943 Noah Duncan v. The Curators of the University of Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP disciplinary-procedures due-process ferpa first-amendment fourteenth-amendment student-rights Regarding [FERPA] 20 U.S.C § 1232g(a)(lXA): I. Does 20 U.S.C § 1232g(a)(l)(A) use "rights-creating language " to infer that a student has a right to …
24-6937 Anthony Craig Weimer v. Montana Montana 2025-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment sixth-amendment supremacy-clause 1. Whether the initial Court erred in holding that the Flathead County Commission's display on public property and the Guarantee Clause in the free ex…
24-1041 In Re Sally Priester 2025-04-01 Dismissed appellate-review constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech judicial-procedure writ-of-mandamus The question presented is whether this Court should issue a writ of mandamus directing the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit to pro…
24-6857 Maria Herta v. Superior Court of California, San Diego County, et al. California 2025-03-26 Denied IFP constitutional-rights custody-proceedings due-process first-amendment judicial-immunity jurisdictional-challenge Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Violation: Whether the Superior Court of San Diego County violated Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment right to due pro…
24-1025 Daniel Z. Crowe, et al. v. State Bar of Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied Amici (6) circuit-split constitutional-scrutiny first-amendment free-association legal-profession mandatory-bar In Keller v. State Bar of California , 496 U.S. 1, 13-14 (1990), this Court held that it is constitutional for states to require attorneys to join and…
24-1024 Clarence Cocroft, et al. v. Chris Graham, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Revenue, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived central-hudson commercial-speech constitutional-law first-amendment regulatory-speech state-law Under this Court's four-part Central Hudson framework, truthful speech promoting a commercial transaction is protected under the First Amendment. Sinc…
24-1026 Oregon v. Committee to Recall Dan Holladay, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) ballot-access circuit-split direct-democracy first-amendment procedural-requirement voter-rights When a neutral, procedural requirement burdens voters' advancement of direct-democracy measures to the ballot, does that requirement affect any intere…
24-6825 Jane Doe v. Jack Dwosh California 2025-03-21 Denied IFP anti-slapp constitutional-rights federal-courts first-amendment petition-clause state-courts Whether anti-SLAPP statutes used in state and federal courts violate First Amendment rights of plaintiffs to petition the courts when even meritorious…
24-6819 Kenneth Daywitt, et al. v. Jodi Harpstead, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Human Services, in her Individual and Official Capacity, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights court-standards first-amendment free-speech judicial-duty legal-standards Should Court Specifically Address Whether Access to Internet and Technology-Based Speech Must Extend First Amendment Protection? Do federal courts ha…
24-1000 In Re Michael Prete 2025-03-20 Denied Relisted (2) due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment fourth-amendment sixth-amendment Did the R.I. Judiciary violate Petitioner's First Amendment right by retaliating (repeatedly) (e.g. arbitrarily doubling Petitioner's bail, denying Pe…
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…
24-993 Gabriel Olivier v. City of Brandon, Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-03-18 Granted Amici (32)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment heck-v-humphrey prospective-relief section-1983 Gabriel Olivier is a Christian who feels called to share the gospel with his fellow citizens. After being arrested and fined for violating an ordinanc…
24-6769 Maylois Bacot, aka Maylois Conerly Price, aka Maylois Conerly, aka Maylois Price v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Ameriquest Mortgage Securities, Inc., Asset-Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-R4 Louisiana 2025-03-14 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-speech right-to-petition Whether the court violated the Petitioner's U.S. Constitution First Amendment right to freedom of speech and right to petition the court to redress gr…
24-6760 Christopher Michael Williams v. Pavan Parikh, Clerk, Hamilton County, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-03-13 Denied IFP administrative-duties civil-rights first-amendment judicial-machinery petition-of-grievances quasi-judicial-immunity 1. Is a State Court Clerk entitled to absolute quasi-judicial immunity regardless of their conduct due to their administrative duties being closely in…
24-965 Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Shirley Weber, California Secretary of State Ninth Circuit 2025-03-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split election-law first-amendment free-speech misinformation retaliation Did the Ninth Circuit undermine free speech protections when it found that a retaliatory action is independent from an action that could chill a perso…
24A844 Elroy Wilkerson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-03-03 Presumed Complete child-sexual-abuse-material dost-factors first-amendment lascivious-exhibition sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24-934 Edward Turnbull, IV v. Board of Directors of the State Bar of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-02-27 Denied Response Waived administrative-proceedings civil-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment injunctive-relief standing Petitioner sued state bar officials after they mishandled his grievances against attorneys who falsely accused him of illegal conduct. His suit allege…
24-932 Pierre Kory, et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-02-27 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) content-neutrality first-amendment medical-communication physician-speech strict-scrutiny viewpoint-discrimination 1. Should this Court grant this petition to resolve the widening conflict between the Ninth Circuit, which started in Tingley v. Ferguson , 47 F.4th…
24-920 Keith Pardue, Vice President, Texas State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners, et al. v. Ronald S. Hines Fifth Circuit 2025-02-26 Pending Amici (1) constitutional-law first-amendment heightened-scrutiny professional-conduct speech-regulation veterinary-medicine (1) Whether professional conduct regulations that incidentally burden speech are subject to heightened First Amendment scrutiny. (2) Assuming heighte…
24-6604 Siddhanth Sharma v. Alan Hirsch, Chairman of North Carolina State Board of Elections, in His Official Capacity, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-02-20 Denied IFP ballot-access candidate-qualifications election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment voter-privacy Is Petitioner's case moot simply because the 2024 midterms are over and he has expressed a desire to run for the 2026 midterms as the 4th Circuit note…
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…
24-891 Warren Balogh v. Chief Al Thomas, Jr., et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-02-19 Denied Response Waived civil-rights first-amendment government-violence monell-liability qualified-immunity speech-rights Whether the First Amendment protects speech amid violence left deliberately unchecked by the local government because such violence serves as useful p…
24-887 Johnny Moats, Sheriff, Polk County, Georgia, et al. v. Stephen Jarrard Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-19 Denied first-amendment jail-ministry pickering-garcetti-framework qualified-immunity unbridled-discretion volunteer-religious-work 1. Whether the Court's Pickering-Garcetti framework applies to a First Amendment claim by an applicant for volunteer religious work in a local jail's …
24-881 Georgia Association of Club Executives, Inc. v. Georgia, et al. Georgia 2025-02-18 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) content-based-regulation first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny reed-v-gilbert strict-scrutiny tax-law A Georgia statute imposes a tax that, on its face, singles out businesses defined by the content of their expression; the State seeks to justify the t…
24-6585 Patrick Jones v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography constitutional-law first-amendment mens-rea statutory-construction supreme-court-precedent Whether the child pornography offense set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) requires the government to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant h…
24A779 William Valentin v. United States Third Circuit 2025-02-11 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment judicial-process Question not identified.
24-854 Mark Miller, et al. v. Jane Nelson, Texas Secretary of State, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-02-11 Denied Response Waived anderson-burdick-test ballot-access election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-party-rights It is undisputed that a state may not condition participation in its elections on the payment of a fee. In this case, the uncontroverted evidence esta…
24-853 Rory Douglas Wilson v. Idaho Idaho 2025-02-11 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-liberties constitutional-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech municipal-ordinance Respondent Moscow, Idaho has an ordinance prohibiting "any notice, sign, announcement, or other advertising matter" in the public square without the p…
24-846 Marc M. Susselman v. Washtenaw County Sheriff's Office, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-02-07 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process first-amendment probable-cause rule-12b6 substantive-due-process 1. Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals violated Petitioner's right to due process under the Fourteenth Amendment by failing to adhere to the st…
24-842 Adam Cole Shryock v. Colorado, ex rel. Philip J. Weiser, Attorney General of Colorado Colorado 2025-02-07 Denied Response Waived contempt-proceedings due-process first-amendment ineffective-assistance prior-restraint sentencing-consequences I. Whether the permanent injunction issued against Petitioner violated his First Amendment rights by constituting an unconstitutional prior restrain…
24-829 Steve Wynn v. The Associated Press, et al. Nevada 2025-02-04 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived actual-malice anti-SLAPP defamation first-amendment public-figure seventh-amendment In New York Times Co. v. Sullivan,1 this Court "overturn[ed] 200 years of libel law" to constitutionalize an actual-malice standard for public-officia…
24-6429 Robert Michael Kuczewski v. Robin Marien, et al. California 2025-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP defamation first-amendment free-speech government-speech limited-purpose-public-figure public-interest 1. What is the standard for classification of public figures and limited purpose public figures? 2. Can government officials suppress and shield the…
24-803 Michael Quinn Sullivan v. Texas Ethics Commission Texas 2025-01-28 Denied Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) citizen-communication first-amendment free-speech government-regulation lobbying-restrictions political-speech The question presented is whether —and if so, under what circumstances —the First Amendment permits the government to require ordinary citizens to reg…
24-781 First Choice Women's Resource Centers, Inc. v. Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey Third Circuit 2025-01-24 Granted Amici (52)Relisted (10) constitutional-challenge federal-jurisdiction first-amendment investigatory-subpoena ripeness-doctrine state-court-proceedings Where the subject of a state investigatory demand has established a reasonably objective chill of its First Amendment rights, is a federal court in a …
24A722 Steve Van Horne v. Harriett L. Haag, Judge, County Court at Law No. 2, Taylor County, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-23 Presumed Complete court-procedure first-amendment judicial-discretion jurisdiction-challenge religious-freedom religious-practice Whether the US District Court is bound by 42 USC 21b § 2000bb, that government, including the courts, shall not substantially burden a person's exerci…
24-776 Paul S. Astrup v. United States Second Circuit 2025-01-22 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment petition-clause seventh-amendment summary-judgment 1. Pursuant to SCOTUS Rule 13.3, did the lower court appropriately entertain an untimely petition for rehearing thus fixing the time for Astrup to fil…
24A717 Gabriel Olivier v. City of Brandon, Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-21 Presumed Complete circuit-split constitutional-rights first-amendment heck-doctrine injunctive-relief section-1983 1. This case presents an important, recurring question that has divided circuits regarding the reach of this Court's decision in Heck v. Humphrey, 512…
24A716 Clarence Cocroft, et al. v. Chris Graham, in His Official Capacity as the Commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Revenue, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-21 Presumed Complete advertising-ban central-hudson commercial-speech federal-preemption first-amendment medical-marijuana Whether and to what extent this Court's Central Hudson factors apply to commercial speech uttered by state-legal medical marijuana businesses.
24-6320 Aaron Abadi v. Eric L. Adams, et al. Second Circuit 2025-01-16 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights executive-powers first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review vaccine-mandate Does the enforcement of COVID-19 vaccine mandates violate individual rights protected under the First and Fourteenth Amendments? Should the unchecked…
24-6321 Celeste Ryan v. Jeff Timmerman, et al. Washington 2025-01-16 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment judicial-discretion sixth-amendment Q1- Does the exercise of judicial discretion violate constitutional guarantees such as due process, equal protection, impartiality, and the right to a…
24-756 National Federation of the Blind of Texas, Incorporated, et al. v. City of Arlington, Texas Fifth Circuit 2025-01-16 Denied Amici (4)Response Waived charitable-solicitation first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny private-property-rights speech-restriction zoning-regulation The City of Arlington, Texas, has banned charitable donation boxes on consenting private property in 25 of 28 zoning districts in the City, foreclosin…
24A699 Oregon v. Committee to Recall Dan Holladay, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-16 Presumed Complete ballot-access election-administration first-amendment recall-election signature-petition state-regulation This case presents the "important issue of election administration" that four justices previously have indicated likely warrants certiorari: whether "…
24A702 Daniel Z. Crowe, et al. v. State Bar of Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-16 Presumed Complete attorney-discipline civil-liberties constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech state-bar Question not identified.
24-742 Vanessa Enoch v. Hamilton County Sheriff's Office, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-01-14 Denied courthouse-recording first-amendment law-enforcement-discretion media-rights news-gathering public-spaces At all relevant times, Petitioner Vanessa Enoch was working as a member of the media and collecting information for a study regarding the removal of…
24-732 Children's Health Defense v. Meta Platforms, Inc., a Delaware corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-13 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) content-moderation first-amendment government-collaboration interactive-platform speech-suppression state-action Does Skinner v. Ry. Labor Executives' Ass'n, 489 U.S. 602 (1989), mandate that Meta, an interactive computer service provider which receives 47 U.S.C.…
24A685 Deandre Swain v. Martavious Kincaide, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-01-13 Presumed Complete cooperation-agreement criminal-proceeding first-amendment plea-supplement public-access right-of-access Question not identified.
24A683 Martin Akerman v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2025-01-13 Presumed Complete due-process federal-agency first-amendment judicial-review jurisdictional-barriers suspension-clause Does the Supreme Court's practice of denying certiorari petitions without requiring or allowing a response conflict with the Suspension Clause and the…
24A681 TikTok, Inc., et al. v. Tawainna Anderson, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of N. A., a Deceased Minor Third Circuit 2025-01-13 Presumed Complete algorithm-liability content-moderation first-amendment internet-platform section-230 third-party-speech Question not identified.
24-6247 Christopher Stephen Beckman v. Lloyd Arnold, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Correction Seventh Circuit 2025-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment mail-restrictions prison-regulations publication-censorship 1. My right to receive publications from outside sources is being infringed upon by the Indiana Department of Corrections through the use of misrepres…
24-716 Tate David Prows v. City of Oxford, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-01-08 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing chilling-effect constitutional-rights first-amendment legislative-authority police-power 1. Are all First Amendment Chilling Effect Cases Subjective? 2. Do Political Subdivisions of States Have the Lawful Authority to Create Their Own Pol…
24A670 Pierre Kory, MD, et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California Ninth Circuit 2025-01-08 Presumed Complete covid-19 first-amendment government-regulation medical-speech physician-speech strict-scrutiny According to the district court and the Ninth Circuit, all speech between a doctor and a patient is unprotected by the First Amendment because it is a…
24-713 Bradley E. King, Robin King, and Sarah King v. Florida Florida 2025-01-03 Denied due-process first-amendment landlord-tenant malicious-prosecution stand-your-ground whistle-blower Whether the Supreme Court should compel the Third D.C.A. to overturn Judge Garcia's Order filed July 8, 2024, that it be disannulled, and that an evid…
24-709 Kirk E. Knopp v. CSX Transportation Inc. Sixth Circuit 2025-01-03 Denied Response Waived first-amendment notice-requirements railway-labor-act social-media-policy summary-judgment union-representation Whether indirect notice to an employee by a union representative satisfies 45 U.S.C. § 153, First (j) (reproduced at Pet. App. 17a), when the union ma…
24A654 Carl Ellen Puckett, Jr., et ux. v. Ain Jeem, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-02 Presumed Complete due-process first-amendment jurisdiction lanham-act pro-se trademark-seizure Question not identified.
24A638 John Paul Gomez v. Judge Dan Favreau, et al. Ohio 2024-12-30 Presumed Complete access-to-courts constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment vexatious-litigator For my motion to stay, I raise the following questions: a. Whether the Ohio Supreme Court's denial of my request for leave to file a motion to stay o…
24A621 Jason Orlando Rios v. Florida Florida 2024-12-23 Presumed Complete execution-protocol first-amendment free-exercise prison-rights religious-accommodation spiritual-advisor Question not identified.
24-676 Friends of George's, Inc. v. Steven J. Mulroy, in His Official and Individual Capacity as the District Attorney General of Shelby County, Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2024-12-23 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing content-based-restriction first-amendment judicial-review statutory-interpretation viewpoint-discrimination When evaluating a constitutional challenge to a state statute, may a federal court unilaterally narrow the statute's scope in a manner that contradict…
24-673 Randal M. Hall v. Travis Trochessett, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-12-20 Denied arrest-basis circuit-split first-amendment interference-statute qualified-immunity speech-protection 1. Whether the First Amendment can countenance an arrest based on a husband's advice to his wife to take a clearly non-criminal action. 2. Whether th…
24A613 Keith Pardue, Vice President, Texas State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners, et al. v. Ronald S. Hines Fifth Circuit 2024-12-19 Presumed Complete first-amendment licensing professional-regulation speech-restriction state-authority veterinary-medicine Question not identified.
24-667 Belinda Parker Brown v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-12-19 Denied Response Waived attorney-communication contempt-power court-procedure first-amendment free-speech judicial-discretion Whether a court's exercise of its contempt powers to punish an individual (in this case, the Petitioner herein) for verbal interactions with a crimina…
24A604 Rahul Dev Manchanda v. Attorney Grievance Committee for the First Judicial Department New York 2024-12-19 Presumed Complete attorney-discipline constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech grievance-committee Question not identified.
24-660 Misop Baynun v. Bruce Hiltunen, et al. Massachusetts 2024-12-18 Denied Response Waived appeals-court constitutional-rights first-amendment judicial-procedure legal-fees religious-freedom In accord with Supreme Court Rule 10(c), since a state court "has decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with relevant decision…
24-6169 Deandre Johnson v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2024-12-18 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-claim first-amendment free-exercise prisoner-rights religious-accommodation If Reasonableness Submit Would And Beef Mae Iomenter. KAN WTERNIMLY WWLOSSTEA™ STATE Mrocequace BRA IS POKQUATE TO PrectvOeE FeRe AR WaGers Review . …
24-655 Viewpoint Neutrality Now!, et al. v. Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-12-17 Denied first-amendment free-speech-clause limited-public-forum status-discrimination student-organization viewpoint-neutrality A student organization of student-service-fee-paying students called Viewpoint Neutrality Now! sued the University of Minnesota based on alleged viola…
24A587 TikTok, Inc. and ByteDance Ltd. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General. District of Columbia 2024-12-16 Presumed Complete Amici (5) bill-of-attainder content-restriction first-amendment free-speech national-security social-media Question not identified.
24A588 Brian Firebaugh, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General District of Columbia 2024-12-16 Presumed Complete Amici (2) content-restriction first-amendment foreign-ownership free-speech social-media tiktok Question not identified.
24A581 Lonzie Hershner, et al. v. City of Dallas, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-12-13 Presumed Complete civil-rights equal-protection first-amendment juneteenth lgbtq-rights municipal-discrimination Question not identified.
24-6133 Kyle Wolfe v. Jill Krowinski Vermont 2024-12-13 Denied IFP constitutional-scrutiny first-amendment free-speech petition-rights second-amendment state-law Are current Vermont State Statutes 15 § V.S.A. 5133(e) and 12 V.S.A. § 5131(3) constitutional by U.S. Amendment 1 and Amendment 2 standards? And is OR…
24A576 Indiana Green Party, et al. v. Diego Morales, Indiana Secretary of State Seventh Circuit 2024-12-12 Presumed Complete ballot-access election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-parties signature-requirements Question not identified.
24A568 Thomas Ostly v. City and County of San Francisco, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-11 Presumed Complete due-process employment-discrimination first-amendment public-employee retaliation summary-judgment Question not identified.
24-6124 Bradley Dorman v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP court-access equal-protection first-amendment prison-litigation-reform-act three-strike-rule younger-abstention 1). Is the application of the Prison litigation Reform Act ("PLRA "), "Three- Strike " Rule, 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g) to Petitioner 's prior dismissals un…
24-6110 Askari Danso MS Lumumba, fka Dale Lee Pughsley v. Jeffrey Kiser Fourth Circuit 2024-12-10 Denied IFP first-amendment fourth-circuit inmate-correspondence overbreadth prison-regulation turner-balancing 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by holding, in conflict with this Court's decision in United States v. Stevens, 559 U.S. 460 (2010), that a prison…
24A558 Nicholas Paul Somberg v. Karen D. McDonald, Prosecutor, Oakland County Prosecutor's Office Sixth Circuit 2024-12-09 Presumed Complete chilling-effect constitutional-challenge criminal-prohibition first-amendment governmental-punishment pre-enforcement-standing Question not identified.
24A556 Rory Douglas Wilson v. Idaho Idaho 2024-12-06 Presumed Complete content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech municipal-ordinance public-property viewpoint-discrimination Question not identified.
24-621 National Republican Senatorial Committee, et al. v. Federal Election Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-12-06 Granted Amici (40)Relisted (2) campaign-finance constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech party-communication political-expenditure A political party exists to get its candidates elected. Yet Congress has severely restricted how much parties can spend on their own campaign advertis…
24-618 Erin Wade, et al. v. City of Houston, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-12-05 Denied civil-rights fifth-circuit first-amendment mass-arrests pleading-standards qualified-immunity 1. Whether this Court should correct the Fifth Circuit's departure from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings by selectively eliminati…
24-613 Frederick Lewis Washington v. Sunflower County, Mississippi Fifth Circuit 2024-12-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-interpretation first-amendment judicial-review public-employee-speech summary-reversal supreme-court-precedent 1. Should this Court summarily reverse when a court of appeals defies clear, unmistakable decisions of this Court? 2. Should a judge or a jury deci…
24-614 Michael Prete v. Rhode Island Rhode Island 2024-12-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment judicial-discipline professional-conduct Is it a violation of the First Amendment for an attorney to be disciplined (let alone stripped of his law license) for Constitutionally Protected spee…
24A537 Sara González Flavell v. Jim Young Kim, et al. District of Columbia 2024-12-03 Presumed Complete articles-of-association due-process first-amendment functional-immunity international-organization subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
24-598 B&L Productions, Inc., dba Crossroads of the West, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) commercial-speech equal-protection first-amendment gun-show-ban public-forum second-amendment 1. Whether the distinction between pure speech and commercial is obsolete, with the First Amendment protecting all lawful speech in the same manner an…
24A525 Mark Miller, et al. v. Jane Nelson, Texas Secretary of State, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-12-02 Presumed Complete ballot-access constitutional-burden election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-parties Question not identified.
24-6036 Antonio Medina v. Microsoft Corporation, et al. California 2024-11-26 Denied IFP circuit-split court-sealed-documents first-amendment immunity publication-rights section-230 1. Whether the split in the Circuits regarding tests to grant immunity under section 230 of title 47 of the United States Code should remain unresolve…
24A508 Steve Wynn v. The Associated Press, et al. Nevada 2024-11-22 Presumed Complete actual-malice anti-slapp defamation first-amendment jury-trial new-york-times-v-sullivan Question not identified.
24-6015 Tawanna Hilliard v. United States Second Circuit 2024-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-statute first-amendment law-enforcement-protection overbreadth-doctrine retaliation statutory-interpretation 1. Whether § 1513(e) is facially overbroad in that, as interpreted by the court of appeals, the statute can be violated by mere speech alone. 2. Whet…
24A494 Michael Quinn Sullivan v. Texas Ethics Commission Texas 2024-11-19 Presumed Complete campaign-finance first-amendment free-speech-restriction government-compulsion political-speech registration-requirement Question not identified.
24-5971 Maritza Ortiz v. Supreme Court of Puerto Rico Puerto Rico 2024-11-15 Denied IFP constitutional-rights ethics-rules first-amendment free-speech petitioning-redress strict-scrutiny The question presented is whether, under this specific circumstance 1, and under this Supreme Court of the United States ' precedents, interpreting th…
24-543 Nili N. Alai v. Law Offices of Mark B. Plummer, P.C., et al. California 2024-11-14 Denied actual-malice defamation due-process first-amendment public-figure res-judicata 1. Whether failing to consider a public figure classification under Gertz and its progeny improperly lowers this Court's standard for defamation and v…
24-5967 Robert Emert v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division One, et al. California 2024-11-13 Denied IFP access-to-justice due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment vexatious-litigant-statute Are the State of California courts at multiple levels (trial, appellate, and supreme) violating self-represented litigants' constitutional rights to d…
24A480 Randal M. Hall v. Travis Trochessett, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-11-13 Presumed Complete arrest-warrant fifth-circuit first-amendment interference-with-public-duties probable-cause speech-exception Question not identified.
24-539 Kaley Chiles v. Patty Salazar, in Her Official Capacity as Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-11-13 Granted Amici (113)Relisted (4) content-based-regulation counseling-restriction first-amendment free-speech gender-identity viewpoint-discrimination Whether a law that censors certain conversations between counselors and their clients based on the viewpoints expressed regulates conduct or violates …
24-534 Arizona Yagé Assembly, et al. v. United States District Court for the District of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-13 Denied Response Waived associational-privacy civil-discovery exacting-scrutiny first-amendment law-enforcement-demand religious-freedom In view of this Court's seminal holding recognizing the right of associational privacy in NAACP v. Alabama, and its teachings on the application of ex…
24-528 Phil Lyman v. Spencer J. Cox, Governor of Utah, et al. Utah 2024-11-12 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) associational-rights candidate-selection convention-process first-amendment political-party-rights primary-election In New York State Bd. Of Elections v. Lopez Torres, 552 U.S. 196 (2008), this Court held: "a political party has a First Amendment right to limit its …
24-530 Bethesda University, et al. v. Seungje Cho, et al. California 2024-11-12 Denied Amici (13) board-membership church-state-separation ecclesiastical-abstention first-amendment religious-institution religious-qualifications Bethesda University is a Pentecostal institution that requires its Board members to share its religious faith and to act consistently with its Penteco…
24-529 Dale Scott Heineman v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-11-12 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process equitable-maxim first-amendment judicial-doctrine oath-of-office A serious conflict exists between decisions rendered from this Court and lower appeal courts, along with constitutional provisions and statutes, in de…
24-508 Joseph Anoruo v. Department of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2024-11-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure due-process false-statements first-amendment performance-appraisal workplace-harassment 1. Whether 5th Amendment due process clause of the constitution of the United States is impeded if fairness of the performance appraisal, performance …
24A440 John Stockton, et al. v. Robert Ferguson, Attorney General of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-04 Presumed Complete constitutional-protection covid-19 first-amendment government-censorship physician-speech strict-scrutiny 1. Is Respondents' enforcement program of investigating, prosecuting, and sanctioning Washington physicians for their public speech on COVID-19 patent…
24-504 Joseph M. Hoskins v. Jared Withers, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-11-04 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-retaliation due-process first-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity 1. Whether qualified immunity shields government officials from liability even in cases where they retaliate against a person for exercising a clearly…
24-503 Upstate Jobs Party, et al. v. Peter S. Kosinski, New York State Board of Elections Co-Chair Commissioner, et al. Second Circuit 2024-11-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) campaign-finance contribution-limits first-amendment judicial-scrutiny political-speech quid-pro-quo When the government restricts political speech, to satisfy the First Amendment, the government must "point to record evidence or legislative findings …
24-499 Nita A. v. A. A. Illinois 2024-11-01 Denied domestic-violence due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment ninth-amendment personal-jurisdiction 1. Whether the Ilinois Domestic Violence Act, 750 Ill. Comp. Stat. Ann. 60/101 et seq., as applied by the Illinois Courts, violated Nita's First Amend…
24A417 James A. Daly v. City of DeSoto, Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-10-30 Presumed Complete employment-termination first-amendment free-speech-rights public-employee speech-retaliation temporal-proximity Whether a public official has the right to terminate a public employee's employment over a year after the alleged speech took place.
24-5856 Anthony Shane Martin v. Erin Gaffney, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process first-amendment qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment Did the lower courts error in ruling to dismiss plaintiffs ' case(s) numbered above on grounds of error of law and misapplied rulings of the courts :1…
24-5796 Deandre Arnold v. Chad Chronister, Sheriff, Hillsborough County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-22 Denied IFP constitutional-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias prosecutorial-immunity standing Whether Petitioner lack's standing to sue a Sheriff's Office or its employees under Linda R.S. for the alleged violation of a First Amendment right to…
24A378 Viewpoint Neutrality Now!, et al. v. Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-10-21 Presumed Complete first-amendment limited-public-forum minority-cultural-centers status-discrimination student-organization viewpoint-discrimination Question not identified.
24A372 Joseph Nierman v. Juan M. Merchan, Justice, New York State Supreme Court, New York County New York 2024-10-18 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech gag-order judicial-restraint prior-restraint Question not identified.
24A368 Children's Health Defense v. Meta Platforms, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-18 Presumed Complete content-moderation first-amendment free-speech government-censorship misinformation social-media-platforms Question not identified.
24-5787 Taiming Zhang v. X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment immunity-doctrine section-230 a) The 9th circuit 's insurrection of 47 U.S. Code § 230 (c) (1) subverting the 1 plain text of CPA 230 cl'. This was called "republishing nonsense "…
24-430 In Re Gregory Stenstrom, et al. 2024-10-17 Denied Relisted (2) due-process election-fraud equal-protection first-amendment prosecutorial-discretion take-care-clause 1. Does the Department of Justice's policy of deferring investigations, as outlined in its Election Crimes Branch Memorandum (Eighth Edition, 2017), v…
24-410 L. M., a Minor, By and Through His Father and Stepmother and Natural Guardians, Christopher and Susan Morrison v. Town of Middleborough, Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2024-10-11 Denied Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (12) first-amendment ideological-speech personal-identity school-censorship student-speech tinker-standard L.M. is a student whose public school promoted the viewpoint that sex and gender are limitless, based on personal identity, and have no biological fou…
24-5739 Christopher Lee Parker v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment internet-restriction plea-agreement supervised-release Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Parker's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement.
24-402 John Lugo v. Alan Burton, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-10-10 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights first-amendment loitering police-discretion public-space reasonable-restriction In determining whether a police officer acted reasonably in denying a citizen's right to loiter on public property for innocent purposes protected by …
24-399 Helen Allen v. Ford Motor Company Seventh Circuit 2024-10-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) employment-law first-amendment hostile-work-environment racial-harassment summary-judgment workplace-discrimination 1. Whether evidence of Harassment and Discrimination, as documented by Petitioner in numerous complaints that were acknowledged by Ford Motor Company …
24A332 Martin Akerman v. United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Federal Circuit 2024-10-07 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure civil-service due-process first-amendment judicial-review petition-rights Injunction: Whether the Clerk of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has unlawfully abridged the petitioner's First Amendment r…
24A328 Good Lawgic, LLC, et al. v. Juan M. Merchan, Justice, New York State Supreme Court, New York County New York 2024-10-04 Presumed Complete first-amendment judicial-sanctions legal-ethics media-litigation professional-responsibility trial-court-conduct Question not identified.
24-368 Levi Rudder v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-10-02 Denied article-v constitutional-interpretation first-amendment judicial-review separation-of-powers unenumerated-powers (This is believed to be a case of first impression, according to Mr. Rudder's extensive research there has never been a challenge that has raised a ci…
24-361 Speech First, Inc. v. Pamela Whitten, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied Amici (9)Relisted (5) bias-response-team constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech student-rights university-policy Whether bias-response teams objectively chill students' speech.
24-355 Kari MacRae v. Matthew Mattos, et al. First Circuit 2024-09-30 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (16) constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech-rights pickering-test pre-employment-speech public-employee-speech Does the Pickering balancing test apply to unrelated, preemployment speech on matters of public concern?
24-346 Robert Beadles v. Jamie Rodriguez, et al. Nevada 2024-09-27 Denied election-grievances first-amendment government-accountability petition-clause pleading-standards rule-12b5-dismissal 1. First Amendment Right to Petition: Does the failure of state and local officials to address and respond to legitimate election grievances constitut…
24-5654 Vincent L. Hepburn v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP damages-claim establishment-clause federal-tort-claims-act first-amendment official-capacity religious-freedom 1. Where federal employees acting in their official capacity violate 76 OK Stat § 1 and the First Amendment's Establishment Clause by harming Mr. Hepb…
24-342 Shiva Ayyadurai v. New Jersey Democratic State Committee, et al. New Jersey 2024-09-26 Denied Response Waived ballot-access citizenship-clause equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment presidential-qualifications For the first time in the history of the United States, a State silenced a presidential candidate running for the Office whose message spoke to the in…
24-338 Troy A. Minter v. Alexander Falconi, et al. Nevada 2024-09-25 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights divorce-proceedings family-court first-amendment public-access strict-scrutiny 1. Whether a state statute permitting the closing of a hearing in a divorce case upon the request of one party violates an implied First Amendment con…
24A285 Team Kennedy, et al. v. Henry Berger, et al. Second Circuit 2024-09-23 Presumed Complete ballot-access election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment independent-candidate presidential-qualifications Whether New York's requirement that independent presidential candidates establish residency in the state for at least four weeks before the election, …
24-319 Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, et al. v. Adrienne A. Harris, Superintendent, New York Department of Financial Services, et al. New York 2024-09-20 GVR Amici (7)Relisted (2) employment-division-v-smith first-amendment neutrality-test religious-exemption religious-organizations strict-scrutiny In 2017, New York promulgated a regulation mandating that employer health insurance plans cover abortions. N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 11, § 52.1…
24A278 Martin Akerman v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2024-09-18 Presumed Complete civil-forfeiture due-process federal-employment fifth-amendment first-amendment whistleblower-protection Whether the Federal Circuit erred in dismissing a Timely Fifth Amendment Petition for a Property Hearing for lack of jurisdiction over mixed cases inv…
24-307 Kirsti Parde v. Service Employees International Union, Local 721, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-18 Denied Response Waived constitutional-injury due-process first-amendment payroll-deduction state-action union-dues 1) Whether, to properly plead a procedural due process claim under the Fourteenth Amendment, a plaintiff must allege a government actor had actual or …
24A266 Upstate Jobs Party, et al. v. Peter Kosinski, New York State Board of Elections Co-Chair Commissioner, et al. Second Circuit 2024-09-16 Presumed Complete campaign-finance contribution-limits equal-protection first-amendment political-speech quid-pro-quo-corruption Question not identified.
24-296 Kieran Ravi Bhattacharya v. James B. Murray, Jr., in His Official Capacity as Rector of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-09-16 Denied Response Waived academic-hearing disciplinary-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech seventh-amendment Was Bhattacharya deprived of his Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial because the district court and Fourth Circuit Majority resolved disputed iss…
24A264 St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Gentner Drummond, Attorney General of Oklahoma, ex rel. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-09-13 Presumed Complete educational-funding first-amendment free-exercise religious-school school-choice state-funding Whether a private religious school that contracts with a state charter school board to participate in a state virtual charter school program is a "sta…
24-5537 Nevin P. Cooper-Keel v. Roberts A. Kengis Sixth Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP facebook-page first-amendment free-speech government-speech public-forum viewpoint-discrimination 1) Is a government's facebook page a traditional, designated public forum or a limited one? 2) If it is a limited public forum, is deleting my commen…
24-5526 Terry Dean Birts v. Arkansas Arkansas 2024-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP campaign-finance constitutional-rights donation-regulation first-amendment free-speech political-speech 1) Did the Court of Appeals err in its decision dated May 2025 denying petitioner's petition for Writ of Certiorari under the strict construction? 2)…
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…
24-276 Ryan Crownholm, et al. v. Richard B. Moore, in His Official Capacity as Executive Officer of the California Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-11 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) conduct-distinction constitutional-scrutiny first-amendment occupational-licensing professional-speech speech-regulation 1. What standard applies to determine whether an occupational licensing law's restriction on a person's use, creation, and dissemination of informatio…
24-279 360 Virtual Drone Services LLC, et al. v. Andrew L. Ritter, in His Official Capacity as Executive Director of the North Carolina Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-09-11 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) as-applied-challenge circuit-split conduct-vs-speech first-amendment licensing-law speech-regulation In an as-applied First Amendment challenge to Mississippi's surveyor-licensing law, the Fifth Circuit in 2020 held that the standard for determining w…
24-280 Kevin Cichowski, et al. v. Andrea K. Totten, Judge, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-11 Denied Response Waived ada-compliance electronic-notification first-amendment judicial-immunity pro-se-representation state-bar-restrictions A pro se can conduct their own case under 28 U.S.C. § 1654, however, because the practice of law is ill defined, and often varies from venue to venue,…
24-251 Jack Jordan v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Ninth Circuit 2024-09-06 Denied attorney-discipline constitutional-delegation due-process first-amendment judicial-misconduct professional-conduct 1. Whether the U.S. Constitution delegated power to federal courts to injure a court officer (an attorney) because he stated in written federal court …
24-5463 Ashley Wilkerson v. City of Houston, Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-09-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 constitutional-violations due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment police-interference Do the government's repeated violations of the First and Fourteenth Amendments, as demonstrated by informal pressure from police officers such as, alt…
24A234 Sandra A. Zikry v. Exodus Women's Center, Inc., et al. Florida 2024-09-04 Presumed Complete civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment informed-consent medical-consent Question not identified.
24A233 Sandra A. Zikry v. Hernie David Vann, Jr., et al. Florida 2024-09-04 Presumed Complete civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment informed-consent medical-consent Question not identified.
24A231 OCA-Greater Houston, et al. v. Kim Ogg Fifth Circuit 2024-09-04 Presumed Complete election-law ex-parte-young first-amendment fourteenth-amendment sovereign-immunity voting-rights Question not identified.
24-243 Michael Grant v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2024-09-04 Denied Response Waived content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech public-forum religious-expression solicitation On December 21, 2019, Petitioner preached at Love Park in Philadelphia with a sign "if you died tonight, do you know if you are going to heaven or hel…
24-222 Kathryn Dana Papp v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-08-29 Denied constitutional-rights first-amendment harassment-law speech-criminalization state-supreme-court strict-scrutiny Whether the First Amendment permits the government to criminalize speech on the basis that the speaker intends to harass, annoy, or alarm.
24-221 Douglas Alan Dyson v. Whitley County Regional Water & Sewer District, et al. Indiana 2024-08-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights first-amendment free-exercise judicial-proceeding jurisdictional-authority summary-judgment 1. Whether the trial court Judge Matthew Rentschler, (Judge Rentschler) violated the organic law and constitutional provisions to supplant his orders …
24-225 B. S. v. D. S. California 2024-08-29 Denied constitutional-rights domestic-violence-restraining-order due-process evidentiary-standard first-amendment fourteenth-amendment 1. Does the preponderance of the evidence standard used for the issuance of a DVRO in California comply with the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantees of …
24-226 Grace Bible Fellowship, et al. v. Jared Polis, Governor of Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-08-29 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing constitutional-rights declaratory-relief first-amendment jurisdictional-analysis mootness Whether plaintiffs seeking only declaratory relief, without alleging an "ongoing" or "imminent" or "continuing" deprivation of constitutional rights, …
24-216 Advance Colorado, et al. v. Jena Griswold, Colorado Secretary of State Tenth Circuit 2024-08-28 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ballot-measures first-amendment government-speech legislative-interference petition-rights tax-reduction The Colorado Legislature and the Governor of Colorado are hostile to ballot measures that would reduce state tax revenue. After several tax reduction …
24-214 Karen E. Ellingstad, et al. v. Kake Tribal Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-27 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment oral-argument Q-1. Whether the restrictive policy and practice of the district court and of the Ninth Circuit not to hear oral argument denies the parties their "da…
24-5365 Troy Steven Richter v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-investigation erotica first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech ineffective-assistance Does the First Amendment and protection of free speech prohibit the initiation of a criminal investigation when original materials were deemed as erot…
24-189 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, et al. v. Food and Drug Administration, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-08-21 Denied Amici (4) commercial-speech first-amendment government-mandated-warnings graphic-warnings tobacco-regulation zauderer-standard 1. Whether provocative and misleading government-mandated graphic warnings on product packaging and advertising are "purely factual and uncontroversia…
24-174 Jack Jordan v. Attorney Grievance Committee for the First Judicial Department New York 2024-08-16 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights disbarment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech 1. Whether the New York State Court of Appeals violated the U.S. Constitution Amendment XIV by dismissing an attorney's appeal based on the summary co…
24-160 Juan Dalmau Ramirez v. Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico Puerto Rico 2024-08-14 Denied Response Waived ballot-design constitutional-rights first-amendment freedom-of-association puerto-rico-status voting-rights Does the ballot for the upcoming 2024 Plebiscite in Puerto Rico violate petitioner's and the electorate's federal constitutional rights to freedom of …
24-155 James R. Fouts v. The Warren City Council, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-08-13 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-expression term-limits 1. Where an individual plaintiff challenges under the First and Fourteenth Amendments, as applied to him only, the constitutionality of a city charter…
24-154 Catholic Charities Bureau, Inc., et al. v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission, et al. Wisconsin 2024-08-13 Judgment Issued Amici (43)Relisted (2) constitutional-challenge first-amendment religious-exemption religious-organization state-court tax-exemption 1. Does a state violate the First Amendment's Religion Clauses by denying a religious organization an otherwise-available tax exemption because the or…
24-144 Thomas Charles Felton Jones v. South Carolina South Carolina 2024-08-09 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement overbreadth-doctrine verbal-resistance Whether a county ordinance that criminalizes any verbal act that resists, hinders, impedes, or interferes with a law enforcement officer is facially i…
24-5293 Anthony Douglas Elonis v. United States Third Circuit 2024-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction cyberstalking emotional-distress first-amendment intent-standard true-threat Whether the Third Circuit's decision affirming Petitioner's conviction is erroneous because the evidence in the record was insufficient to establish t…
24A161 L.M., a Minor By and Through His Father and Stepmother and Natural Guardians, Christopher and Susan Morrison v. Town of Middleborough, Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2024-08-09 Presumed Complete first-amendment free-speech off-campus-speech school-discipline student-speech tinker-standard Question not identified.
24-5280 Willie Charles Rose v. Joseph Damron, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts first-amendment legal-documents prisoner-rights retaliation sixth-circuit 1) Whether the Sixth circuit made clear error when it concluded that the District Court did not err or make s;s,s.r,s1isBosfnis. ts:.ss1::ssLJs!?sr?rs…
24-5267 Richard George Baxter v. State Bar of California California 2024-08-08 Denied IFP content-based-restriction embezzlement first-amendment fraud-regulation mortgage-fraud strict-scrutiny 1. The first questions presented is whether a California law requiring fraud embezzlement, and forgery are legitimate covering the court proceedings. …
24-142 Brian Benjamin v. United States Second Circuit 2024-08-08 Denied Amici (2) bribery campaign-contributions criminal-law explicit-agreement first-amendment quid-pro-quo Where the government charges an elected official with bribery for accepting campaign contributions in exchange for lawful constituent services, McCorm…
24-136 Eshed J. L. Alston v. Kent County Levy Court and Department of Planning Services, et al. Third Circuit 2024-08-07 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment judicial-misconduct statutory-violations witness-protection USAF Vet Christian Prophet Shaman in reality of the King of Spirits Most High GOD. As is real US Constitution 's First Amendment Proclamation relied u…
24-5242 Marcus Jarrod Payne v. The Anthony Scott Law Firm, P.L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-08-07 Denied IFP bankruptcy censorship constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment After divorcing the Eley (Payne) respondent, Petitioner was minding his own affairs, proceeding through post-divorce bankruptcy when Eley (Payne) resu…
24-140 Raymond H. Pierson, III v. Northern California Collection Service, Inc., et al. California 2024-08-07 Denied access-to-courts due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment separation-of-powers vexatious-litigant 1. Litigiousness or Numerosity of Litigations Alone is Insufficient to Support the Determination that a Self-Represented Party is a Vexatious Litigant…
24-5218 Martin Akerman v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company Seventh Circuit 2024-08-02 Dismissed Relisted (3)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process financial-disadvantage first-amendment indigence judicial-review standing Question not identified.
24-122 Michael Craine v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Council 36, Local 119, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-02 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights first-amendment free-association free-speech municipal-liability public-employee state-action union-dues union-membership 1. Whether the First Amendment's guarantee of free association protects a public employee's right to resign membership in a union. 2. Whether the Fir…
24-5199 Sharon Cammille Riddick v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2024-07-31 Denied IFP dismissal due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment interlocutory-appeal obstruction-of-justice petition-government self-incrimination (1).Whether S.J.C. Rule 2:21 (2), as amended, 434 Mass. 1301 (2001) is an adequate basis to dismiss the Petitioner 's Complaint, and not a violation o…
24-106 Patricia Fritz v. Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination first-amendment media-harassment public-employment retaliation title-vii wrongful-termination Why was the Petitioner not given her position back when she was exonerated and has sworn testimony that has proved that there was no racial discrimina…
24A94 Tamer Mahmoud, et al. v. Thomas W. Taylor, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-07-26 Presumed Complete accommodation constitutional-rights first-amendment free-exercise religious-liberty school-board Question not identified.
24A90 Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, et al. v. Adrienne A. Harris, Superintendent, New York Department of Financial Services, et al. New York 2024-07-25 Presumed Complete abortion-coverage employment-regulation first-amendment free-exercise health-insurance religious-exemption Question not identified.
24-71 Avraham Goldstein, et al. v. Professional Staff Congress/CUNY, et al. Second Circuit 2024-07-23 Denied Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) anti-semitism compelled-association exclusive-representation expressive-activities first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association religious-freedom state-prohibition union union-representation Whether it violates the First Amendment for a state to prohibit individuals from dissociating from a union's representation to protest that union's ex…
24A64 Grace Bible Fellowship, et al. v. Jared Polis, Governor of Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-07-19 Presumed Complete covid-restrictions first-amendment free-exercise public-health religious-liberty state-action Question not identified.
24-57 Coalition Life v. City of Carbondale, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2024-07-18 Denied Amici (11)Relisted (9) abortion abortion-rights civil-rights constitutional-law due-process first-amendment free-speech public-debate public-forum supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court should overrule Hill v. Colorado.
24-53 Nathan Miller, et al. v. Republican Party of Minnesota, et al. Minnesota 2024-07-17 Denied campaign-speech civil-rights compelling-state-interest constitutional-law content-based-restriction content-based-restrictions first-amendment free-speech political-speech Whether state statutes broadly banning false campaign speech, such as Minnesota Statutes § 211B.02, are unconstitutional, if not narrowly tailored to …
24A54 The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago v. Janay E. Garrick Seventh Circuit 2024-07-17 Presumed Complete church-autonomy employment-discrimination first-amendment judicial-interference religious-liberty title-vii Question not identified.
24-41 Michael D. Cohen v. Donald J. Trump, former President of the United States, et al. Second Circuit 2024-07-15 Denied Amici (1) bivens-action bivens-claims civil-liberties constitutional-rights first-amendment first-amendment-rights free-speech habeas-corpus retaliation retaliatory-imprisonment Petitioner, Michael Cohen, was eligible for release from federal prison to home confinement for health reasons. But Respondents conditioned his rele…
24-5062 Amanda Reynolds v. City of Sandy, Utah Utah 2024-07-12 Denied IFP birchfield-v-north-dakota constitutional-violation due-process exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment first-amendment fourth-amendment implied-consent miranda-rights sixth-amendment standing-mootness-public-interest-doctrine There comes a point in time in the development of a State that its actors are compelled to evaluate its integrity in relation to both, its Constitutio…
24-33 Reuben Neff v. Iowa Supreme Court Attorney Disciplinary Board Iowa 2024-07-12 Denied Response Waived attorney-disciplinary-rules attorney-speech civil-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process first-amendment free-speech professional-conduct sexual-harassment workplace-speech Reuben Neff is a licensed attorney and a member of the State of Iowa bar. While he was the elected chief prosecuting attorney for Wapello County Iowa,…
24-5041 John Maron Nassif v. United States District of Columbia 2024-07-10 Denied IFP capitol-buildings civil-rights criminal-prohibition demonstrating first-amendment free-speech overbreadth viewpoint-expression At issue here is whether the First Amendment allows Congress to criminally prohibit viewpoint expression in the buildings that make up the seat of our…
24A6 Advance Colorado, et al. v. Jena Griswold, Colorado Secretary of State Tenth Circuit 2024-07-08 Presumed Complete ballot-initiative compelled-speech false-speech first-amendment government-speech petition-process Question not identified.
24A10 Kieran Ravi Bhattacharya v. James B. Murray, Jr., in His Official Capacity as Rector of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-07-08 Presumed Complete due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-trial summary-judgment university-discipline Question not identified.
24A4 Joseph M. Hoskins v. Jared Withers, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-07-03 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity retaliation Whether, in a retaliation case, to overcome qualified immunity a plaintiff need only establish that the right retaliated against was clearly establish…
24-2 Camille Bourque v. Engineers and Architects Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-03 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech government-employer janus-v-afscme labor-unions public-sector section-1983 union-dues wage-deduction 1. Is the First Amendment violated when a union causes a government employer to seize full union dues from the wages of a nonconsenting employee? 2. …
24A1 Jake Delahney Taylor v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-03 Presumed Complete child-pornography circuit-split first-amendment lascivious-exhibition sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation 1. This case presents an important issue concerning the interpretation of the child pornography statutes that has caused a circuit split. At issue is …
23-1369 John Rust v. Diego Morales, Indiana Secretary of State, et al. Indiana 2024-07-02 Denied Response Waived election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-association primary-election primary-elections state-election-laws voter-registration voting-rights Whether the Affiliation Statute violates Indiana citizens' right to freely associate with the political party of their choosing pursuant to the First …
23-1366 Jenny Jing, et al. v. Joseph Womack, et al. Montana 2024-07-02 Denied adversary-rights constitutional-rights domestic-partner first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech petition-to-redress-grievances privacy probate-court unauthorized-practice-of-law 1. Did the Montana Supreme Court overlook a violation of First and Fourteenth Amendment rights, specifically concerning free speech, petition to redre…
23-1351 Torrey Lynne Henderson, Amara Jana Ridge, and Justin Royce Thompson v. Texas Texas 2024-06-27 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived criminal-conviction first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech obstruction-of-passageway obstruction-statute peaceful-assembly peaceful-protest public-forum public-sidewalks Petitioners assembled with others in a brief, peaceful march along a historic Texas street. The march took place primarily on the sidewalk, but when n…
23-1348 In Re Charles Simon 2024-06-27 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act all-writs-act civil-rights civil-rights-act-1964 due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure first-amendment judicial-impartiality judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation 1. Whether the Three Judge Panel Two Page Order denied and rubber the Mandamus All Writs Act 28 U.S.C. section 1651, consolidated with the appeal, ign…
23-7784 Cornell Smith v. Nicholas Sanchez Seventh Circuit 2024-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-power civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment ministerial-acts retaliation Whether the 3 Wardens ' had a, meeting of the minds decided the fate of the Petitioner's issued retaliatory ordered .to their entire WCI Department a…
23-7785 Jared Pierce Sanchez v. Brown University, et al. First Circuit 2024-06-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP academic-exclusion civil-rights covid-19-mandate equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise public-hospitals religious-discrimination 1) Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals and the District Court erred in dismissing Mr. Sanchez 's claims of religious discrimination, harassment…
23-7786 Christine H. Scott v. Florida Florida 2024-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP assembly-rights constitutional-rights contract first-amendment free-speech government-property petition-rights private-property public-access public-forum Whether the right to petition, assemble and speak freely on government-owned property held open to the public exists when the publicly held land is co…
23A1139 360 Virtual Drone Services LLC, et al. v. Andrew L. Ritter, in His Official Capacity as Executive Director of the North Carolina Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-06-21 Presumed Complete aerial-mapping communicative-content first-amendment licensing-board professional-regulation speech-restriction Whether North Carolina's land-surveyor licensure law, as applied to Michael Jones and 360 Virtual Drone Services LLC, violates the First Amendment by …
23A1132 Thomas Osadzinski v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-06-21 Presumed Complete advocacy first-amendment free-speech material-support statutory-interpretation terrorist-organization Question not identified.
23A1131 Michael Craine v. AFSCME Council 36, Local 119, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-21 Presumed Complete circuit-split constitutional-waiver dues-deduction first-amendment janus-precedent public-sector-unions Question not identified.
23A1124 Kathryn Dana Papp v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-06-20 Presumed Complete communication-regulation content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech harassment-statute intent-to-harass 1. This case concerns whether the First Amendment permits a person to be convicted for communicating with another with intent to harass, annoy, or ala…
23-1328 Yuval Golan v. Daily News, L.P., et al. New York 2024-06-20 Denied Response Waived anti-slapp constitutional-rights defamation first-amendment jury-trial public-figure public-figures seventh-amendment 1. Is the New York anti-SLAPP statute unconstitutional as a violation of the First Amendment's distinction between private figures and public figures,…
23-1316 Doug Smith, et al. v. Richard Stillie, Jr., in His Official Capacity as Chair, Alaska Public Offices Commission, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) campaign-finance civil-rights compelled-speech disclosure-requirements first-amendment political-contributions 1. Does Alaska's requirement that individual donors file duplicative reports of their political contributions within 24 hours of making them—on pain o…
23A1120 Malcolm Johnson, et al. v. Tina Kotek, Governor of Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-17 Presumed Complete certiorari constitutional-challenge first-amendment legislative-representation redistricting writ Question not identified.
23-1303 Craig Malin v. Lee Enterprises, Inc., et al. Iowa 2024-06-13 Denied actual-malice civil-rights defamation due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-trial publication-law summary-judgment As a global information network accessible by smartphones was science fiction, New York Times v. Sullivan federalized libel law in 1964. Variously cri…
23-7710 William Anderson v. L'Oreal Snell, et al. Pennsylvania 2024-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP ballot-access ballot-access-laws civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process election-law first-amendment signature-challenge voter-disenfranchisement voting-rights Did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court violate Petitioner Constitutional Rights by affirming the Lower Courts order Removing Petitioners Name from the Apr…
23-7706 Tia Pugh v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-obedience-act civil-rights commerce-clause congressional-authority due-process first-amendment interstate-commerce legislative-vagueness standing vagueness 1. Did Pugh's prosecution under the Civil Obedience Act exceed Congress' authority to legislate interstate and foreign commerce? 2. Did Pugh's prosec…
23-7704 Michael Jarrow v. Heath H. Orr Fifth Circuit 2024-06-13 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-procedure standing takings Question not identified.
23-7684 Andrew W. Bell v. Brad Raffensberger, Georgia Secretary of State, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP ballot-access constitutional-rights due-process election-law first-amendment first-amendment-rights fourteenth-amendment independent-candidates rooker-feldman-doctrine signature-verification 1. Should the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals have the same fraud-on-the-court exception to the Rooker-Feldman doctrine as the Sixth Circuit Court o…
23A1099 Ryan Crownholm, et al. v. Richard B. Moore, in His Official Capacity as Executive Officer, California Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-10 Presumed Complete first-amendment free-speech land-surveying professional-licensing regulatory-conduct site-plan Whether the creation and dissemination of site-plan drawings—which depict the location of property lines and geographical relationships—constitutes pr…
23-1276 Young Israel of Tampa, Inc. v. Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-05 Denied Amici (5) circuit-split first-amendment free-speech government-forum public-forum religious-speech rosenberger-precedent viewpoint-discrimination Whether a public transit agency's ban on advertisements that "primarily promote a religious faith or religious organization" violates the First Amendm…
23-1274 Brian Philip Manookian v. Board of Professional Responsibility of the Supreme Court of Tennessee Tennessee 2024-06-05 Denied Response Waived attorney-discipline disbarment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech notice retaliation The Tennessee Supreme Court disbarred Brian Manookian for truthful statements, the majority made out-of-court and about other attorneys, and further…
23-1264 X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. v. United States District of Columbia 2024-06-03 Denied Amici (2) communications-provider electronic-communications executive-privilege first-amendment nondisclosure-order service-provider strict-scrutiny user-privacy warrant-service 1. Whether an electronic communications service provider can be compelled to produce potentially privileged user communications before adjudication of…
23A1078 Mark Bochra v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Seventh Circuit 2024-06-03 Presumed Complete first-amendment government-endorsement ihra-definition judicial-mandamus religious-discrimination viewpoint-discrimination Question not identified.
23A1080 Larry R. Steele v. United States Postal Service, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-06-03 Presumed Complete civil-liberties constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment freedom-of-expression government-action Question not identified.
23-7604 Sheila Halousek v. Verizon Ninth Circuit 2024-05-31 Denied IFP appeal-denial arbitrary-dismissal civil-rights court-of-appeals district-court first-amendment judicial-discretion petition-clause petition-government redress-grievances Was Petitioner denied her explicit constitutional civil right under the First Amendment to petition the government for a redress of grievances when th…
23-7597 William Hill v. New Jersey New Jersey 2024-05-30 Denied IFP appellate-court appellate-review california-v-champman constitutional-review conviction conviction-reversal due-process first-amendment harmless-error trial-procedure When an appellate court concludes that a conviction for one offense violated the First Amendment, is the appellate court required to apply the harmles…
23A1067 Catholic Charities Bureau, Inc., et al. v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission, et al. Wisconsin 2024-05-30 Presumed Complete first-amendment free-exercise ministerial-exception religious-exemption statutory-interpretation unemployment-compensation Question not identified.
23A1062 Coalition Life v. City of Carbondale, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2024-05-29 Presumed Complete buffer-zone content-neutrality first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny public-forum speech-restriction Question not identified.
23-1228 Mason Murphy v. Michael Schmitt Eighth Circuit 2024-05-21 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-rights first-amendment free-speech nieves-exception probable-cause retaliatory-arrest selective-enforcement selective-prosecution Under Nieves v. Bartlett, probable cause does not bar a retaliatory-arrest claim when the plaintiff shows "that he was arrested when otherwise similar…
23-1225 Maryland Shall Issue, Inc., et al. v. Anne Arundel County, Maryland Fourth Circuit 2024-05-21 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 303-creative-llc-v-elenis commercial-speech compelled-speech content-based-regulation expert-testimony first-amendment nifla zauderer zauderer-standard At issue in this case is a local ordinance, Bill 108-21 ("the Ordinance") enacted by Anne Arundel County, Maryland ("the County"). That Ordinance comp…
23-7503 Christopher Michael Bullins Croce v. Florida Florida 2024-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony first-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment stalking-statute I. Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? II. Wh…
23-7497 In Re Olamide O. Bello 2024-05-16 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defamation due-process federal-release first-amendment free-speech government-liability retaliation speech-restriction 1. Wether a Company's Comments with customer on and for tedress Of Grievances Ver on alt eqed Qqovernment defam ator stoten ends 15 Orotected Under Fi…
23-7473 Cody Ray Leveke, aka Cody Meyer, aka Cody Ray Meyers v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-instructions subjective-intent supreme-court supreme-court-precedent threat-standard Whether jury instructions based on Elonis v. United States (2015) sufficiently encompass the requirement of "subjective intent to threaten," as articu…
23-7467 Joseph Thomas Saari v. Kris Rish, Warden Eighth Circuit 2024-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-error first-amendment mootness retroactivity right-to-jury-trial sixth-amendment Did the panel of the Eighth Circuit err by deciding the merit of an appeal not properly before the court to justify the denial of a certificate of app…
23-1215 Christopher Deering v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 18, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-14 Denied Response Waived color-of-law compelled-speech dues dues-payments first-amendment free-speech political-speech public-employee union union-membership 1. As a matter of first impression, whether the First Amendment protects a public employee's right to disassociate from a union —by resigning union me…
23-1214 Tanishia Hubbard v. Service Employees International Union Local 2015, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-14 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-rights compelled-speech due-process first-amendment free-speech government-deduction janus-v-afscme labor-union labor-unions public-employee state-action union-dues Petitioners, individual providers Tanishia Hubbard and Kristy Jimenez, never agreed to join a union or pay dues. Despite this, their public employers …
23-7452 In Re Ramsey Randall 2024-05-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-appeals first-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-rights standing 1) Did the US Appeals court Abuse their discretion in its delay and subsequent denial of mandamus relief to the Kendall "< 2) Does the Novelty doctri…
23-1198 Harisadhan Patra, et ux. v. Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure first-amendment frcp-56 independent-review local-rules material-facts religious-harassment statement-of-material-facts summary-judgment supreme-court-precedents workplace-discrimination Supreme Court precedents require, "The evidence of the nonmovant is to be believed, and all justifiable inferences are to be drawn in his favor." Ande…
23-7389 Brad Evans v. Florida Florida 2024-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants WHETHER THE STATE OF FLORIDA HAS CREATED RULES OF CRIMINAL AND APPELLATE PROCEDURE THAT ARBITRARILY AND UNREASONABLY ENCROACHES UPON THE PERSONAL RIGH…
23-1192 Christine Mire v. University Hospital & Clinics, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-03 Denied Response Waived attorney-conduct civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment estoppel excessive-fines first-amendment free-speech punitive-sanctions subject-matter-jurisdiction Courts may not impose punitive sanctions upon attorneys to deter colorable arguments that insulate judicial determinations from legitimate challenges …
23-1189 Jeryl Turco v. City of Englewood, New Jersey Third Circuit 2024-05-03 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (11) abortion-clinic buffer-zones civil-rights content-neutrality due-process first-amendment free-speech hill-v-colorado public-forum sidewalk-counseling speech-suppression standing 1. Whether the City of Englewood's speech-free buffer zones, including zones outside an abortion clinic, violate the First Amendment. 2. Whether this…
23-1188 Jonathon Owen Shroyer v. United States District of Columbia 2024-05-03 Denied Response Waived appeal-waiver first-amendment free-speech protected-speech relevant-conduct relevant-offense-conduct sentencing substantive-reasonableness 1. Whether a prison sentence imposed as a result of the consideration of protected speech as "relevant offense conduct" violates the First Amendment a…
23-7368 Denise J. Johnson v. Mark Witcher Eighth Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights employment employment-termination first-amendment religious-discrimination retaliation sabbath-observance title-vii workplace-retaliation The United States District Court Western District of Arkansas and the United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, refused to hear Denise Johnson'…
23-7372 Meghan Kelly v. Disciplinary Counsel Patricia B. Swartz, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech judicial-discretion professional-disciplinary-proceedings sixth-amendment standing I. Should this Court hear the appeal in a case and controversy to allow the Courts on remand, not Congress, or bureaucrats or Disciplinary Boards to c…
23-7373 Giovanni DePalma v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1981 civil-procedure civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process emergency-petition first-amendment free-speech standing subject-matter-jurisdiction younger-abstention Whether the Petitioner is foreclosed from presenting a lack of subject matter jurisdiction and double jeopardy claim through an EMERGENCY PETITION FOR…
23-7363 Orin Kristich v. United States District Court for the District of New Mexico Tenth Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-circuit-court-of-appeals access-to-courts constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment legal-mail prison-officials (1) Whether The First Amendment applies to legal mail? (2) Whether The First Amendment applies to Mr.Kristich, and access to the court's by U.S. mail…
23-1172 Kristen Lovell, et al. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State, et al. Georgia 2024-05-01 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived constitutional-rights critical-infrastructure election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment georgia-constitution ninth-amendment official-immunity official-misconduct sovereign-immunity voting-rights The case before this Honorable Court concerns the misapplication of the grant of sovereign immunity for elections officials in Georgia that have faile…
23-7335 Walter J. Himmelreich v. Janel Fitzgerald Sixth Circuit 2024-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 bivens bivens-action civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation territorial-jurisdiction 1) Asdan"iis£ueaofGEdjrsi Impressi'en 5.fdingtlbisaCoBBt, does the "or Territory" clause of 4 2 USC § 19 8 3 and the related Civil Rights Statutes app…
23-1160 Derrick Williams v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-04-25 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence first-amendment fourteenth-amendment petition-clause right-to-counsel 1. WHETHER THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT TO PETITION THE STATE COURTS PURSUANT TO THE 1ST AND 14THAMENDMENTS OF OUR UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION UPON THE ISSUE …
23A959 Predrag Tosic v. Heather Tosic Washington 2024-04-25 Presumed Complete ada-accommodations disability-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se Question not identified.
23-1155 Priscilla Villarreal v. Isidro R. Alaniz, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-04-24 GVR Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arrest-without-cause civil-rights criminal-procedure first-amendment free-speech government-officials news-reporting public-officials qualified-immunity 1. Whether it obviously violates the First Amendment to arrest someone for asking government officials questions and publishing the information they v…
23-1135 Saline Parents, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General District of Columbia 2024-04-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) chilling-effect domestic-terrorism first-amendment free-speech government-surveillance reputational-harm standing 1. Do Petitioners, who were the intended targets of the challenged policy directive, have standing to advance this ripe legal challenge when they have…
23-1123 In Re Lawyers For Fair Reciprocal Admission 2024-04-17 Denied Response Waived due-process first-amendment judicial-recusal local-court-rules local-rules rules-enabling-act supervisory-power third-circuit The patchwork of nonuniform District Court local rules that deny general admissions privileges to lawyers licensed in forty-nine states is challenged …
23-7247 Calvin Fair v. New Jersey New Jersey 2024-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech intent mental-state political-speech recklessness standing true-threat When the state prosecutes core political speech as a true threat, must the state prove the speaker's intent to terrorize, or is a recklessness standar…
23A933 Kurt Benshoof v. Freya Brier, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-17 Presumed Complete civil-rights-act due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment mask-mandate 1. Whether Respondents must be enjoined from continuing to retaliate against Applicant for his religious beliefs, and subjecting Applicant to segregat…
23-1122 Free Speech Coalition, Inc., et al. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-04-16 Judgment Issued Amici (45)Relisted (2) adults-access constitutional-rights content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech protected-speech rational-basis rational-basis-review strict-scrutiny This Court has repeatedly held that States may rationally restrict minors' access to sexual materials, but such restrictions must withstand strict scr…
23A916 Karen E. Ellingstad, et al. v. Kake Tribal Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-15 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment ninth-circuit oral-argument Question not identified.
23-1111 Glenn Laird v. United Teachers Los Angeles, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-12 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) compelled-speech consent first-amendment nonmember-employees public-sector-labor public-sector-unions union-dues waiver-of-rights The First Amendment prohibits public sector labor unions from using state law to divert money from a public employee's lawfully earned wages unless th…
23-1112 Ryan Cram, et al. v. Service Employees International Union Local 503, Oregon Public Employees Union, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 1st-amendment campaign-contributions campaign-finance civil-rights compelled-speech first-amendment free-speech labor-union labor-unions public-employees public-sector union-political-funds For nearly fifty years, this Court has held that public sector labor unions can fund political speech only through "charges, dues, or assessments paid…
23-1113 Atishma Kant, et al. v. Service Employees International Union, Local 721, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) affirmative-consent collective-bargaining compelled-speech first-amendment labor-union labor-unions public-employee public-sector waiver-of-rights Public sector labor unions cannot use state law to take money from a nonmember public employee's lawfully earned wages for use in political speech unl…
23-1105 National Press Photographers Association v. Kelly Higgins, in His Official Capacity as District Attorney of Hays County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii-standing civil-rights content-based-restriction content-based-restrictions drone-surveillance due-process first-amendment free-speech intermediate-scrutiny standing vagueness void-for-vagueness 1. Do journalists and news organizations whose First Amendment rights are chilled by an ambiguous criminal law have standing to bring a facial void-fo…
23-7198 Ebone East, et al. v. Fix It Auto Repair, Inc. Arizona 2024-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech right-to-appeal standing state-court-discretion 1. ) Does This Federal courts apply standards of review when examining lower court rulings. It refers to the idea of fundamental fairness, that the go…
23-7172 JB Nicholas v. Judy A. Camuso, Commissioner, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife First Circuit 2024-04-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burford-abstention civil-rights due-process evidence first-amendment government-restrictions judicial-review occupational-liberty rational-basis Should the Court require Government-imposed restrictions on the 809-year-old personal right to occupational liberty, long-recognized by this Court as …
23A897 Brian Benjamin v. United States Second Circuit 2024-04-09 Presumed Complete bribery-statute campaign-contributions explicit-agreement first-amendment political-speech quid-pro-quo Question not identified.
23-7158 Russell Dean Alford v. United States District of Columbia 2024-04-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth political-expression protected-speech secret-service statutory-interpretation vagueness In § 1752(a)(2)'s and § 5104(e)(2)(D)'s prohibitions against "disorderly or disruptive" conduct, do "disorderly" and "disruptive" narrow the types of …
23-1090 Scott D. Pitta v. Dina Medeiros, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as Administrator of Special Education for the Bridgewater Raynham Regional School District, et al. First Circuit 2024-04-05 Denied Amici (3) citizen-rights civil-rights expressive-activity first-amendment free-speech government-employee inherently-expressive public-interest public-space recording-rights 1. Whether the act of recording a government employee engaged in his or her duties is inherently expressive activity entitled to First Amendment prote…
23-1073 Raland J. Brunson v. Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-04-02 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-conflict due-process first-amendment governmental-immunity judicial-jurisdiction misprision-of-treason oath-of-office standing treason A serious conflict exists between decisions rendered from this Court and lower appeal courts, along with conflict that exists between constitutional…
23-7123 Ivan Isho v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-instructions mental-state objective-standard recklessness stalking true-threats Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision below violated the standard this Court announced in Counterman—that true threats prosecutions require a mental st…
23A875 X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. v. United States District of Columbia 2024-04-01 Presumed Complete executive-privilege first-amendment nondisclosure-order presidential-records-act prior-restraint stored-communications-act Question not identified.
23-7110 Ileen Cain v. Mercy University, fka Mercy College, et al. Second Circuit 2024-03-29 Denied IFP civil-procedure document-exclusion federal-rules-of-civil-procedure finality first-amendment frcp-60b judgement judgment-finality pro-se-pleading rule-60(b) standing 1. Which juncture of federal civil proceedings constitute Judgement entered establishes the finality of a civil complaint, Pursuant to Federal Rule Ci…
23-1062 Mark Changizi, et al. v. Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-03-28 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) article-iii-standing civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech government-censorship government-interference public-health-policy social-media social-media-censorship standing Petitioners are three individual users of a social media platform who allege that federal officials violated their First Amendment rights by inducing …
23-7079 Santiago Mason Gomez v. Odunay O. Kuku, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-03-27 Denied IFP civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process first-amendment free-speech prisoner-rights retaliation standing supreme-court-review Question not identified.
23-7063 Ryan P. Givey v. Department of Justice, et al. Third Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-complaint criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment government-accountability petition-clause standing Can the Department of Justice refuse to take a criminal Complaint of federal crimes from Givey?
23-1049 John-Henry Ayanbadejo v. Chanel Goosby, et al. Texas 2024-03-22 Denied appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings seventh-amendment supreme-court-procedure 1. Whether the Lower Appellate Court departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, and/or sanctioned such a departure by the Te…
23A854 Anthony Earl Ridley v. Laura Kelly, Governor of Kansas, et al. Kansas 2024-03-20 Presumed Complete administrative-exhaustion extraordinary-writ first-amendment religious-freedom rluipa standard-of-review (1.) Did the Court of Appeals contravene the requirements of the appellate court's standard of review on a motion for a temporary restraining order an…
23-1030 Mississippi District Council for Assemblies of God v. Kevin Beachy, et al. Mississippi 2024-03-19 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) church-governance ecclesiastical-abstention ecclesiastical-authority first-amendment hierarchical-church intra-church-dispute jurisdictional-limits neutral-principles religious-freedom standing Whether the First Amendment deprives courts of jurisdiction to enforce the ecclesiastical decisions of religious authorities in an intra-church disput…
23-1016 William Facteau and Patrick Fabian v. United States First Circuit 2024-03-15 Denied Amici (1) arbitrary-enforcement fda-regulations fifth-amendment first-amendment interstate-commerce medical-device off-label-use truthful-speech 1. Whether FDA's "intended use" regulations violate the First Amendment by requiring manufacturers to refrain from truthful, non-misleading speech abo…
23-1008 Gwyneth K. Murray-Nolan v. Scott Rubin, et al. Third Circuit 2024-03-14 Denied appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law context due-process expressive-conduct first-amendment free-speech judicial-precedent legal-interpretation standing 1. Whether conduct must convey a particularized message to be protected as expressive under the First Amendment. 2. Whether the full context of conduc…
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 …
23-989 Robert J. Murphy v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2024-03-11 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process ex-parte-communications first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-code sixth-amendment workers-compensation 1. Where petitioner sought removal in 2010 of unelected administrative Workers' Compensation judges involving their actual or apparent improprieties i…
23A820 Spectrum WT, et al. v. Walter Wendler, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-03-06 Presumed Complete administrative-action campus-speech first-amendment prior-restraint student-expression viewpoint-discrimination 1. Whether public university administrators violate the First Amendment when they ban student expression from campus simply because it offends others,…
23-957 David Michael Bishop, et al. v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-03-04 Denied Response Waived administrative-investigation civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech irs irs-summons judicial-review powell-factors standing tax tax-procedure Is the United States Internal Revenue Service1 summons process subject to quashing and constraint by operation of the First Amendment as interpreted t…
23-958 Joshua Moon, et al. v. Russell G. Greer Tenth Circuit 2024-03-04 Denied contributory-infringement copyright-infringement fair-use first-amendment material-contribution metro-goldwyn-mayer-studios-v-grokster takedown-notice 1. Whether receipt of a takedown notice alone is sufficient to impute actual knowledge of copyright infringement to its recipient under the contributo…
23-960 Independence-Alliance Party of Minnesota v. Steve Simon, Minnesota Secretary of State Eighth Circuit 2024-03-04 Denied Response Waived anderson-burdick ballot-access first-amendment minor-political-party nominating-petition political-participation strict-scrutiny Whether an unnecessarily confusing oath requirement in a minor political party candidate's nominating petition to gain access to the ballot is subject…
23-6876 Joseph Neil Bronson, Jr. v. United States First Circuit 2024-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-attempt criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech legislative-intent overbroad post-conviction-relief standing statutory-interpretation vagueness Is 18 U.S.C. § 1504(1)(C) (Omnibus Crime Control Act) applied to Bronson's Metaphysical attempt to attempt "Louefl)rco,c|j uayi w" unconstitutionally?…
23-940 Kenneth James Rosellini v. New Jersey Office of Attorney Ethics New Jersey 2024-02-28 Denied attorney-ethics due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud fraud-upon-court professional-misconduct res-judicata 1) Can an attorney can be suspended from the practice of law in a state attorney ethics proceeding by the state's highest court for failure to obey th…
23A787 Ryan Cram, et al. v. Service Employees International Union Local 503, Oregon Public Employees Union, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-27 Presumed Complete compelled-speech first-amendment government-deduction non-union-employees political-speech union-fees Question not identified.
23A786 Robert Espinoza v. Union of American Physicians and Dentists, AFSCME Local 206, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-27 Presumed Complete circuit-split constitutional-waiver first-amendment janus-precedent public-employees union-dues This document is an Application for Extension of Time to File Petition for Writ of Certiorari, not a Petition for Writ of Certiorari itself. The "Ques…
23-927 National Religious Broadcasters Noncommercial Music License Committee v. Copyright Royalty Board, et al. District of Columbia 2024-02-27 Denied Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act burden-of-proof copyright-royalty copyright-royalty-board first-amendment rate-setting religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act webcasting The Copyright Royalty Board sets default royalty rates for webcasting sound recordings. Recently, the Board adopted rates requiring noncommercial reli…
23-926 No on E, San Franciscans Opposing the Affordable Housing Production Act, et al. v. David Chiu, in His Official Capacity as San Francisco City Attorney, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-27 Denied Amici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) advertising-regulation association campaign-finance compelled-speech disclosure-requirements donor-disclosure donor-transparency first-amendment free-speech political-speech 1. Whether requiring political advertisers to name their donors' donors within their advertisements advances any important or compelling state interes…
23-6840 Suzanne Ellen Kaye v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law counterman-v-colorado first-amendment free-speech jury-instructions political-speech true-threats watts-v-united-states In threat prosecutions where the defendant mounts a political-speech defense, may trial courts—consistent with the First Amendment—instruct the jury o…
23A795 Atishma Kant, et al. v. Service Employees International Union Local 721, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-27 Presumed Complete collective-bargaining first-amendment janus-precedent section-1983 state-action union-dues Question not identified.
23A792 Glenn Laird v. United Teachers Los Angeles, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-27 Presumed Complete constitutional-waiver first-amendment janus-precedent labor-organization public-employees union-dues This document is an Application for Extension of Time to File Petition for Writ of Certiorari, not a Petition for Writ of Certiorari itself. The "Ques…
23A775 Tanishia Hubbard v. Service Employees International Union Local 2015, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-26 Presumed Complete compelled-speech first-amendment janus-precedent section-1983 state-action union-dues Question not identified.
23A780 Christopher Deering v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 18, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-26 Presumed Complete constitutional-waiver dues-deduction first-amendment janus-precedent public-employees union-membership Question not identified.
23A778 Kristy L. Jimenez v. Service Employees International Union Local 775, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-26 Presumed Complete compelled-speech first-amendment janus-precedent section-1983 state-action union-dues Question not identified.
23A769 Christine H. Scott v. Florida Florida 2024-02-23 Presumed Complete ballot-access constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech quasi-public-property right-to-petition Whether the Florida courts erred in holding that the Florida Constitution does not confer greater political speech rights than the First Amendment whe…
23A773 Carolyn Crouthamel, et al. v. Walla Walla Public Schools, a Washington Public School District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-23 Presumed Complete first-amendment janus-precedent payroll-deduction section-1983 state-action union-dues This document is an Application for Extension of Time to File a Petition for a Writ of Certiorari, not a petition itself. It does not contain a "Quest…
23-6819 In Re Mary A. Nelson-Rogers 2024-02-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights equal-protection first-amendment free-speech standing Question not identified.
23-895 Richard Rogalinski v. Meta Platforms, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-21 Denied Response Waived censorship civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech protected-speech social-media standing state-action The Executive Branch of the United States Government acted in concert with Meta Platforms, Inc., to censor protected speech. The questions presented …
23-901 John C. Frank v. Debra Lee, in Her Official Capacity as Laramie County Clerk, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-02-21 Denied Response Waived buffer-zone burson-v-freeman election-buffer-zone election-day electioneering first-amendment free-speech polling-place polling-place-restrictions reasonableness voter-intimidation Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in upholding Wyoming's 300-foot election day buffer zone without requiring the state to meet any burden to support the…
23A754 Harisadhan Patra, et ux. v. Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, et al. Third Circuit 2024-02-15 Presumed Complete chilling-effect first-amendment inter-circuit-split retaliation speech-suppression summary-judgment Question not identified.
23-6720 Lawrence Remsen, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. California 2024-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights class-action declaratory-relief due-process first-amendment free-speech good-time-credits judicial-immunity liberty-interest standing 1. Did the CSC deny class member Bruce Koklich his First Amendment Right to Petition for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief (DIR) when he was part of t…
23A740 Elbert Walker, Jr. v. Dismas Charities, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-08 Presumed Complete bivens-remedy constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment home-confinement Question not identified.
23A739 Irina Collier v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. California 2024-02-08 Presumed Complete first-amendment government-misconduct institutional-fraud political-conspiracy retaliation whistleblower-protection Question not identified.
23-855 Richard Abbott v. Supreme Court of Delaware, et al. Delaware 2024-02-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 6th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause disbarment due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech pro-se professional-licensure I. Whether a person proceeding Pro Se in defending a confidential professional licensure disbarment proceeding is vested with full 1st Amendment Right…
23A732 Mason Murphy v. Michael Schmitt, in His Individual Capacity Eighth Circuit 2024-02-07 Presumed Complete first-amendment jaywalking nieves-exception probable-cause retaliatory-arrest selective-enforcement Whether the probable-cause exception to claims for retaliatory arrests that this Court announced in Nieves v. Bartlett can be satisfied by objective c…
23-837 Casey Campbell v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-02-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) de-novo-review federal-employee first-amendment judicial-admissions qualified-immunity religious-discrimination title-vii workplace 1. Are employer statements on religious dis crimination that are included in the complaint and admitted in the answer binding judicial admissions in …
23-834 Elizabeth Stafford v. International Business Machines Corporation Second Circuit 2024-02-05 Denied Response Waived age-discrimination arbitration arbitration-agreement civil-rights confidentiality-provision due-process federal-arbitration-act first-amendment judicial-document Whether an arbitration agreement can be used to keep an arbitration award holding an employer liable for age discrimination under the Age Discriminati…
23-835 Association of Club Executives of Dallas, Inc., et al. v. City of Dallas, Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-02-05 Denied Response Waived content-based content-neutral content-neutrality evidentiary-burden first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny secondary-effects sexually-oriented-businesses strict-scrutiny 1. The secondary effects doctrine of City of Renton v. Playtime Theatres, Inc., 475 U.S. 41 (1986), provides that regulations adopted for the content-…
23-6653 Mark Marvin v. United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2024-02-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure first-amendment free-speech habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mandamus standing WHETHER PETITIONER HAS STANDING TO FILE A HABEAS AND MANDAMUS PETITION WITH THE COURT OF APPEALS WHEN THE QUESTION OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH AFFECTS HIM AS…
23-6648 Anthony Christopher Mendonca v. United States Second Circuit 2024-02-01 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial first-amendment jury-selection plain-error-review public-trial public-trial-right sixth-amendment structural-error The Constitution requires "public" criminal trials. U.S. Const. amend. VI. The First Amendment and Sixth Amendment guarantee the community and the def…
23-822 Nicholas Sandmann v. New York Times Company, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-01-30 Denied Response Waived fact-vs-opinion first-amendment free-speech milkovich-standard milkovich-v-lorain opinion opinion-doctrine sensory-impressions sixth-circuit 1. Do statements conveying observed sensory impressions in factual, descriptive terms constitute protected "opinion" under the First Amendment to the …
23-6607 Harry William Lott v. Ohio Job and Family Services Department Washington 2024-01-29 Denied IFP civil-rights court-access due-process first-amendment legal-restrictions ohio-statute petition petition-rights standing vexatious-litigator 1 QUESTION: Does the state of Ohio have the ability to stop access to the court by using the Vexatious Litigator OH, Rev, cod, § 2323.52 or does the F…
23A683 Jill Hile, et al. v. Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-01-24 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge education-funding establishment-clause first-amendment parent-advocacy school-choice Question not identified.
23-784 Kenneth James Rosellini v. New Jersey Office of Attorney Ethics New Jersey 2024-01-18 Denied civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech legal-ethics res-judicata 1) Can an attorney can be sanctioned in an ethics proceeding for failure to obey the rules of a tribunal when he is openly asserting that no valid obl…
23-6480 Joseph D. Jones v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-01-12 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-defense entrapment-defense entrapment-doctrine exceptional-national-importance first-amendment government-manufacturing government-manufacturing-criminals predisposition Whether this Court's review of the entrapment doctrine is necessary to: (1) resolve the circuit split that has created no less than four disparate te…
23-747 Marylin Pierre v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland Maryland 2024-01-10 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived actual-malice civil-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-discipline legal-ethics new-york-times-v-sullivan professional-conduct rules-of-professional-conduct Does the actual malice test of New York Times v. Sullivan protect lawyers' First Amendment rights in disciplinary proceedings?
23A639 Mississippi District Council for Assemblies of God v. Kevin Beachy, et al. Mississippi 2024-01-10 Presumed Complete church-governance denominational-dispute ecclesiastical-abstention first-amendment hierarchical-church property-control Question not identified.
23-732 Richard Plishka v. William Skurla, et al. Ohio 2024-01-08 Denied Response Waived civil-courts civil-procedure constitutional-law ecclesiastical-abstention first-amendment religious-freedom standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the First Amendment doctrine of ecclesiastical abstention operates to deprive civil courts of subject-matter jurisdiction.
23-6416 Carla Slater v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. Third Circuit 2024-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conspiracy employment-discrimination first-amendment fraud government-agencies religious-discrimination retaliation statute-of-limitations title-vii 1. Whether Title VII violations and retaliation claims are isolated events confined to the date they occurred when they are part of a conspiracy and f…
23-6417 Ralph Hall v. New York New York 2024-01-05 Denied IFP civil-rights compelled-speech constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech government-speech prosecutorial-discretion sentencing Question not identified.
23A620 Christopher J. Pratt v. United States Second Circuit 2024-01-04 Presumed Complete access-to-courts covid-19 first-amendment incarceration legal-mail prison-law-library Question not identified.
23A615 Curtis Dwayne Vaughn v. Sean M. Flannery, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-01-03 Presumed Complete americans-with-disabilities-act due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech judicial-misconduct Question not identified.
23A609 Lorenzo M. Wilson, et al. v. Ford Motor Company, et al. Alabama 2024-01-02 Presumed Complete arbitration findings-of-fact first-amendment legal-counsel motion-to-compel right-to-petition Whether average citizens have a right to a finding of fact and law by the trial court on motion to compel arbitration, and whether the trial court's f…
23-703 Liberty University, Inc. v. Laura Barbour Bowes, as Executor of the Estate of Eva Palmer Fourth Circuit 2023-12-29 Denied constitutional-law defense-to-liability employment-discrimination first-amendment immunity ministerial-exception religious-autonomy religious-institutions religious-organizations (1) Whether the First Amendment ministerial exception provides religious organizations with immunity from employment discrimination suits, or merely a…
23-696 Colorado Republican State Central Committee v. Norma Anderson, et al. Colorado 2023-12-28 Dismissed Amici (3)Response Waived 14th-amendment disqualification-clause due-process election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment insurrection political-parties presidential-eligibility section-3 state-authority The Supreme Court of Colorado held that states possess authority, regardless of the lack of congressional authorization, to determine that a president…
23-6379 Terrence LaFaive v. Records Custodian, Waukesha County District Attorney Wisconsin 2023-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-work-product civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment plea-negotiations public-records standing 1. Does the Common-Law exception recognized in State ex rel. Richards v. Foust - that doesn't require a response from a Records Custodian to a public…
23A596 Meghan Kelly v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2023-12-28 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights disciplinary-action first-amendment freedom-of-religion professional-license religious-speech Question not identified.
23A589 Rian Waters v. Aidan Kearney Massachusetts 2023-12-27 Presumed Complete article-iii-standing constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution fair-trial first-amendment witness-intimidation Whether I have standing to appeal the court's unintelligible refusal to issue a criminal complaint, when the crime is against justice, and my safety, …
23-690 Brant Putnam, et al. v. Timothy Ryan Ninth Circuit 2023-12-27 Denied 42-usc-1983 adverse-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech investigation medical-staff qualified-immunity standing This Court has frequently reversed erroneous denials of qualified immunity before trial, especially when lower courts have defined clearly-established…
23-6349 Derrick Martin King v. Budget Car Mart, LLC Ohio 2023-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pandemic remote-depositions Whether the Supreme Court of Ohio's administrative orders necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic regarding the use of remote depositions violates a civ…
23-671 Byron Johnson v. Kaija Freborg Minnesota 2023-12-21 Denied Response Waived defamation first-amendment online-speech private-figure public-concern sexual-assault Where one private figure accuses another private figure of sexual assault in an online posting, is that "a matter of public concern" under the First A…
23-672 Alessandra Nicole Rogers v. Stanton Riggs, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-12-21 Denied civil-rights concerted-speech first-amendment free-speech garcetti-pickering group-speech petition-rights public-employees summary-judgment This Court, in Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31, 138 S. Ct. 2448 (2018) and United States v. Nat'l Treasury Emples. Union, 513 U.S. 454, 115 S. Ct. 1003 (1…
23A575 Elizabeth Stafford v. International Business Machines Corporation Second Circuit 2023-12-21 Presumed Complete age-discrimination arbitration-agreement confidentiality employment-law first-amendment public-access Question not identified.
23-665 Tina Goede v. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, LP, et al. Minnesota 2023-12-20 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights due-process employment-policy first-amendment free-speech philosophical-choice religious-beliefs religious-sincerity state-court-review thomas-v-review-board unemployment-benefits Where an unemployment applicant's religious beliefs are independently sufficient to cause her refusal to follow an employer policy, can a state deny h…
23-6305 Brendan Hunt v. United States Second Circuit 2023-12-19 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-fact first-amendment free-speech independent-review speech-protection standard-of-review true-threat A jury's determination that a particular expression constitutes a "true threat" takes it outside the First Amendment. The consequence is that the stat…
23-657 Michelle MacDonald v. Minnesota Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility Minnesota 2023-12-18 Denied Response Waived attorney-discipline attorney-speech client-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech government-power judicial-discipline judicial-integrity professional-conduct 1. Whether a free speech right to impugn judicial integrity must be recognized for attorneys in order to reclaim their First Amendment Rights in invok…
23-6268 Clifford A. Gooden, III v. United States, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-12-15 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment government-immunity judicial-activism judicial-immunity ku-klux-klan section-1983 1. Is the original scope and purpose of a section 1983 action is to allow black citizens the right to sue racist government where it has been infiltr…
23-647 Adrienne Sepaniak King v. Meta Platforms, Inc., fka Facebook, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2023-12-15 Denied Relisted (2) 47-usc-230 civil-procedure content-moderation contract contract-law first-amendment free-speech immunity internet-immunity judicial-interpretation section-230 standing Should this Court 1) adopt the opinion of Justice Thomas in his concurrence to the denial of certiorari in Malwarebytes v. Enigma Software Group USA, …
23-6243 Offie Curtis Brown, Jr. v. North Carolina Department of Public Safety, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-provisions first-amendment free-speech jurisdictional-issue legal-standard procedural-question public-concern public-employee retaliation statutory-provisions Question not identified.
23-6254 William Graves, III v. Florida Florida 2023-12-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants WHETHER THE STATE OF FLORIDA HAS CREATED RULES OF CRIMINAL AND APPELLATE PROCEDURE THAT ARBITRARILY AND UNREASONABLY ENCROACHES UPON THE PERSONAL RIGH…
23-634 Pollyanna Burns, et al. v. Service Employees International Union Local 284, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied Response Waived dues-deduction first-amendment janus janus-precedent opt-out public-sector public-sector-employees state-action state-actors union-dues (1) Whether the First Amendment waiver requirement identified by the Supreme Court in Janus applies to public-sector employees at the time they sign a…
23A543 Mischa Shuman, et al. v. New York Magazine, et al. New York 2023-12-13 Presumed Complete defamation first-amendment journalistic-standards libel public-concern supreme-court-precedent Question not identified.
23-626 Elon Musk v. Securities and Exchange Commission Second Circuit 2023-12-11 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech government-action sec-enforcement settlement settlement-agreement standing unconstitutional-conditions Whether a party's acceptance of a benefit prevents that party from contending that the government violated the unconstitutional conditions doctrine in…
23A519 Raul Mendez v. Ada Community Libraries Board of Trustees, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-12-07 Presumed Complete civil-rights equal-protection first-amendment ninth-circuit pro-se voting-rights Question not identified.
23A513 Zachary Greenberg v. Jerry Lehocky, in His Official Capacity as Board Chair of the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2023-12-06 Presumed Complete anti-harassment-rule first-amendment jurisdictional-inquiry mootness pre-enforcement-challenge standing 1. This case presents two substantial and unsettled questions of federal law that divide the circuits. First, whether a court may bypass a mootness in…
23A505 Dale Wendall Laue v. State Bar of California California 2023-12-05 Presumed Complete attorney-discipline due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-review state-bar-court (a) Whether admission to a State Bar, or other state licensing agency, constitutes a liberty interest under the United States Constitution. (b) Wheth…
23A511 No on E, San Franciscans Opposing the Affordable Care Housing Production Act, et al. v. David Chiu, in His Official Capacity as San Francisco City Attorney, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-12-05 Presumed Complete campaign-finance compelled-speech donor-disclosure first-amendment free-speech-doctrine political-advertising Question not identified.
23-597 Robin Mayfield, et al. v. Butler Snow, L.L.P., et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-12-05 Denied Response Waived civil-rights comparator-evidence first-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause retaliatory-arrest warrant-based-arrest 1. Whether, in the case of an alleged retaliatory arrest in violation of the First Amendment, Nieves v. Bartlett requires a plaintiff to identify othe…
23-590 Bonifacio R. Aleman, et al. v. Andrew G. Beshear, Governor of Kentucky, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-12-04 Denied Response Waived discretionary-licensing discretionary-restoration expressive-conduct felony-convictions felony-disenfranchisement first-amendment sixth-circuit voting-rights Whether Kentucky's system of discretionary restoration of the right to vote to people with felony convictions violates the First Amendment doctrine pr…
23-6161 Norman Javier Herrera Pastran v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-amendment free-speech internet-access sex-offender supervised-release 1. Whether the constitutional holding of Packingham v. North Carolina, 137 S. Ct. 1730 (2017)—which recognized a First Amendment right to access the I…
23-6153 Isaiah S. Harris, Sr. v. Deborah S. Hunt, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-12-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts bivens bivens-action civil-rights court-access federal-counterpart-to-42-u.s.c.-§-1983 federal-remedy first-amendment habeas-corpus Isaiah S. Harris Sr.'s case presents exceptional circumstances that warrant the exercise of this Court's discretionary power. Where Harris highlights …
23-6140 In Re Yi Tai Shao 2023-11-30 Pending IFP 28-usc-636 civil-procedure due-process first-amendment judicial-conspiracy judicial-disqualification judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction magistrate-judge venue-change Whether the District Court's dismissal order must be reversed and remanded to a neutral District Court when it is undisputed and no appellees objected…
23-572 Dustin Williams, et al. v. Randall McElhaney Sixth Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied circuit-split civil-rights extracurricular-activities first-amendment free-speech parent-speech-rights qualified-immunity school-rules Where a parent who has voluntarily agreed to be bound by team rules for their minor to play in an extracurricular academic setting including rules tha…
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…
23A463 LaTausha Simmons v. City of Detroit, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-21 Presumed Complete civil-rights digital-access due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment indigent-rights Question not identified.
23-6084 Joe Stephens v. Alaska Division of Elections Ninth Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ballot-access constitutional-rights due-process election-law equal-protection federalism first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech Whether this Court will allow the People of the State of Alaska to determine if a certified candidate is allowed the name Joe Trump AKA Not Murkowski …
23-545 Achashverosh Adnah Ammiyhuwd Ngola Mbandi, et al. v. Pangea Adventures LLC, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied alien-tort-statute civil-rights federal-question first-amendment free-speech human-rights international-law retaliation self-determination standing 1) Whether aliens of the Hebrew Israelite Kingdom/Nation self-determination, self-governing and autonomy, expressive first amendment retaliatory tort …
23-535 Jillian Ostrewich v. Teneshia Hudspeth, in Her Official Capacity as Harris County Clerk, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived ballot-measure election-law first-amendment free-speech polling-place polling-place-censorship union voter-apparel The First Amendment requires that electioneering statutes that ban certain voter apparel in polling places contain "objective, workable standards" tha…
23-541 Michael Donnellon, Deputy, et al. v. John Jordan Tenth Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) arrest civil-rights excessive-force first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity 1. Whether the Tenth Circuit's use of Hill's First Amendment analysis negated the objective Fourth Amendment standard of Maryland v. Pringle, 540 U.S.…
23A430 Ernest Bustos v. Encino Park Homeowners Association, et al. Texas 2023-11-14 Presumed Complete access-to-courts due-process first-amendment fraud-upon-court pro-se supreme-court-precedent Question not identified.
23-486 Sidney Powell, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-08 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure electoral-college first-amendment petition petition-clause rule-11 safe-harbor sanctions The Sixth Circuit upheld large joint-and-several monetary sanctions and bar-referral sanctions under Rule 11(c)(2) for a complaint against Michigan's …
23-481 Temple of 1001 Buddhas, et al. v. City of Fremont, California Ninth Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights disparate-treatment first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause municipal-liability searching-review section-1983 1. Whether a state municipality can be held liable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when decision rights and associated impingements on free exercise are distri…
23-463 Elizabeth Brokamp v. Letitia James, Attorney General of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2023-11-02 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split content-based content-based-regulation evidence first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny licensing-scheme motion-to-dismiss talk-therapy In Reed v. Town of Gilbert, this court held that laws that "defin[e] regulated speech by particular subject matter" are "obvious[ly]" content-based an…
23-5935 Michael Ray Thomas v. Adam Douglas, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-11-01 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct standing sua-sponte-appointment sufficiency-of-evidence After a United States District Judge orders the appointment of counsel sua sponte "in the interest of justice," may a United States court of appeals s…
23A386 Marylin Pierre, et al. v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland Maryland 2023-10-31 Presumed Complete actual-malice attorney-discipline first-amendment free-speech judicial-criticism new-york-times-v-sullivan Question not identified.
23-5911 Jeffrey Rivard v. Brattleboro Reformer, et al. Vermont 2023-10-30 Denied IFP false-light first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech journalists-privilege libel negligence This matter is a US 1st Amendment Constitutional issue Freedom of Speech. The matter is overlooked and misapprehended by Vermont Superior Court Judge …
23-450 M. C., et vir v. Indiana Department of Child Services Indiana 2023-10-30 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 14th-amendment child-custody due-process first-amendment free-exercise free-speech parental-rights prior-restraint M.C. and J.C. are devout Christians who believe that God creates each person as immutably male or female and that, based on those beliefs and scientif…
23-5902 Kaleb J. Cole v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-10-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process first-amendment free-speech retaliation speech-protection worldview-perception worldviews 1. Whether the First Amendment/ Post Counterman v. Colorado permits a criminal conviction for retaliatory speech which is inherently threatening not o…
23-5877 Sarah Nathreen Nakanwagi v. City of Flagstaff, Arizona Ninth Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment interests-of-justice judicial-subpoena judicial-system national-origin race Is the Currency of obtaining a Justice determined by one's race, ethnicity, and nothing to do on one's merits? Are First Amendment and Fourteenth Amen…
23-438 Austin Roy Clark v. Neeli Bendapudi, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied Response Waived academic-freedom civil-rights dobbs-decision dobbs-v-jackson due-process first-amendment free-speech retaliation standing viewpoint-discrimination This case involves the expulsion of a medical student from the University of Louisville School of Medicine in retaliation for his expression and suppo…
23-439 Jim Boydston, et al. v. Shirley N. Weber, California Secretary of State, et al. California 2023-10-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment party-nomination political-association political-parties primary-election state-elections voter-participation 1. Where, under State law, the selection of a political party's presidential nominee is governed by internal party rules and procedures and not by the…
23-441 Patrick Fehlman v. James Mankowski Seventh Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-law first-amendment free-speech government-retaliation public-employee public-employment retaliation Is the government free to continue to retaliate against a former public employee for speech made during the employee's employment?
23A383 Alessandra Nicole Rogers v. Stanton Riggs, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-10-26 Presumed Complete first-amendment garcetti-pickering group-speech public-concern public-employees summary-judgment Whether the Tenth Circuit's application of the Garcetti/Pickering test to analyze a group's concerted speech to elected officials was appropriate in l…
23A376 Ralph Harrison Benning v. Tyrone Oliver, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-25 Presumed Complete due-process email-censorship first-amendment prisoner-rights procedural-safeguards qualified-immunity Whether censorship of prisoner emails, without any notice that the emails are being censored, nor any opportunity to challenge the decision before a n…
23A361 Meghan Kelly v. Disciplinary Counsel Patricia B. Swartz, et al. Third Circuit 2023-10-23 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights first-amendment government-petition pro-se-litigation religious-exercise statute-of-limitations Whether I, Petitioner Meghan Kelly averred good cause requiring this Court to grant my request for leave to exceed the page limit given: 1. the volum…
23A360 Michael S. Barth v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-23 Presumed Complete constitutional-intervention first-amendment judicial-records public-access search-warrant special-counsel Question not identified.
23-423 Susan Porter v. Kelly Martinez, in Her Official Capacity as Sheriff of San Diego County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) categorical-ban content-neutral expressive-conduct first-amendment free-speech government-restriction less-restrictive-alternatives traffic-safety 1. Whether the government may categorically ban expressive conduct, such as expressive honking of car horns, in the name of traffic safety without pre…
23-5863 Katherine L. Woitaszewski v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence first-amendment standing ^Y\dA\d>o A'o (\w. o^icLevv^j^ oLeva i cd . jLweoV \i\oV*K 0-ocA Povur-keyvKm3 yVU_ V/>Ab \JY\pYV {Vtydrt \pc& {/) <£ OYA(^CA5>ND^ 1[Y\U <Y ^ :ihY^…
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.
23-5835 Sean Christopher Finnell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-defendants first-amendment internet-access packingham-v-north-carolina sex-offenders sixth-amendment supervised-release 1. In Packingham v. North Carolina, 582 U.S. 98 (2017), the Court held that a North Carolina statute prohibiting registered sex offenders from accessi…
23-5831 Roberto Carlos Mendives, Individually and On Behalf of His Four Minor Children, R. C. M., II, M. A. M., G. L. M., and E. F. M. v. Bexar County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-custody civil-rights due-process family-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment parens-patriae parental-rights standing strict-scrutiny 1. Whether this court should overrule the fact that the state court has separated a fit parent from his/her minor children without an adjudication hea…
23-5821 Vanessa Sue Stafford v. Arizona Arizona 2023-10-17 Denied IFP civil-rights content-moderation due-process first-amendment free-speech government-censorship government-corruption legal-statements public-platform standing Before October 1, 2022: 1. While trying to get public interest and inform the public on the corruption of the Judges of Yavapai County and Appellate …
23-5820 William H. Cornelius v. Florida Florida 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment due-process federal-jurisdiction first-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions non-delegation-doctrine separation-of-powers sixth-amendment state-courts 1.) IN LIGHT OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON'S ASSERTIONS IN "THE FEDERALIST PAPERS" NO. 80, IS IT THE OBLIGATION OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT TO RESOLVE …
23-385 Clayton R. Hulbert, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Jeffrey W. Hulbert, et al. v. Brian T. Pope Fourth Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) 1983 civil-rights civil-rights-act first-amendment notwithstanding-clause police-accountability police-activity qualified-immunity section-1983 1. Whether any qualified immunity is abrogated by the Notwithstanding Clause of the Civil Rights Act of 1871, which provides that individuals are liab…
23-389 Colleen Reilly, et al. v. City of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) content-based content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech monell monell-liability rule-30b6-testimony speech-restriction standing viewpoint-based viewpoint-discrimination 1. Whether the test for content neutrality set forth in Hill v. Colorado, 530 U.S. 703 (2000), should be overruled in light of this Court's holding in…
23-5765 Lewis Eugene Day v. Anne L. Precythe, Director, Missouri Department of Corrections, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 americans-with-disabilities-act civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights disability-law first-amendment free-speech grievance-procedures pursuit-of-happiness lyvWccho^ftf^WicttW Wtfi Disabilities Ad- Kbfi".b ^')Vio!(xVi0^of (([dd AmovedRi^KtsTo FfeJ^of5/)e£cA , ideaWUsesF irsd fofjht 7° F < l&AnCopfkifi-b 6…
23-373 DeRay Mckesson v. John Doe Fifth Circuit 2023-10-10 Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) civil-rights first-amendment free-speech naacp-precedent naacp-v-claiborne-hardware negligence negligence-action protest-leader-liability protest-liability Do the First Amendment and this Court's decision in NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co., 458 U.S. 886 (1982), foreclose a state law negligence action maki…
23-363 Stephen R. Porter v. Board of Trustees of North Carolina State University, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-10-05 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) academic-freedom causal-connection employment-retaliation faculty-hiring first-amendment free-speech garcetti-doctrine garcetti-v-ceballos public-concern scholarship teaching I. Were Petitioner's statements about the role that diversity and equity considerations should play in faculty hiring and evaluation protected by the …
23-5720 In Re Terrance A. McCauley 2023-10-05 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-proceedings legal-procedure peaceable-assembly sovereign-immunity standing state-court Question not identified.
23A293 Richard Plishka v. William Skurla, et al. Ohio 2023-10-04 Presumed Complete ecclesiastical-abstention first-amendment religious-organizations secular-courts subject-matter-jurisdiction watson-v-jones Whether the doctrine of ecclesiastical abstention—a First Amendment doctrine initially outlined by this Court in Watson v. Jones, 80 U.S. (13 Wall.) 6…
23-353 John Jones v. Lyudmyla Pyankovska Ninth Circuit 2023-10-03 Denied Response Waived attorney-liability child-custody custody-proceeding first-amendment omnibus-crime-control omnibus-crime-control-and-safe-streets-act recording-liability recordings right-to-petition title-iii Does the First Amendment to the United States Constitution's protection of the right to petition the government extend to insulate an attorney, presen…
23-339 J. M. F. v. New Jersey Department of Treasury, Division of Pensions and Benefits New Jersey 2023-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-hearing administrative-law burden-of-proof civil-rights credibility credibility-determination disability disability-benefits due-process first-amendment 1. Whether ALJs violate the rule of law by depriving petitioners of their disability pensions on credibility grounds when petitioners have met their…
23-342 X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Amici (2) civil-rights content-based-restriction disclosure due-process first-amendment free-speech government-surveillance national-security prior-restraint speech-restriction The U.S. Government conducts surveillance of Americans and foreign nationals by issuing "national security process" to electronic communication servic…
23-326 Vanessa A. Phillips v. Macon Bibb County Government Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-29 Denied Response Waived at-will-employment breach-of-contract civil-rights defamation due-process employee-handbook employment employment-termination first-amendment free-speech unemployment-benefits 1. Whether the At-Will employment statute shelters the employer, Macon-Bibb County Government (MBCG), from the First Amendment's "unprotected speech",…
23-5669 Steven Grimm v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 2255-petition compassionate-release compassionate-relief district-court federal-prisoner first-amendment habeas-corpus religious-beliefs religious-exemption rluipa section-3582 1. Where a federal prisoner's religious beliefs prevented him from getting vaccinated, was it error for the district court to deny his motion for comp…
23-5645 Robert Eugene Stallings v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge counterman-precedent criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions procedural-error statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Whether Counterman v. Colorado, decided after the decision below, shows that 18 U.S.C. §1038(a) should be read to require proof that the defendant int…
23-282 Cynthia Stepien, on Behalf of Herself and Her Minor Child, et al. v. Phil Murphy, Governor of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech pandemic-masking school-restrictions schoolchildren speech-protection state-intrusion 1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in refusing to hear the merits of a First Amendment challenge to the forced masking of schoolchildren where the …
23-279 Couy Griffin v. New Mexico, ex rel. Marco White, et al. New Mexico 2023-09-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 14th-amendment civil-rights congress congressional-power constitutional-interpretation due-process enforcement first-amendment fourteenth-amendment insurrection judicial-authority standing I. Whether Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution exclusively reserves the power to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment,…
23-276 Dijon Sharpe v. Winterville Police Department, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-21 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement-interaction police-accountability police-filming public-recording qualified-immunity This case presents a stark circuit conflict over a nationally important First Amendment question. By 2011, this Court had definitively held that gener…
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…
23-272 Winterville Police Department, et al. v. Dijon Sharpe Fourth Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) first-amendment fourth-amendment livestreaming reasonable-time-place-manner seizure traffic-stop Should the constitutionality of a law enforcement officer's restriction of livestreaming by an occupant of a seized vehicle during a lawfully initiate…
23-5576 Robert William Pann v. Sherry L. Burt, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-09-14 Denied IFP access-to-courts ex-parte-proceeding extrinsic-fraud first-amendment lewis-v-casey prison-conditions prisoner-rights probate-court prosecutorial-misconduct IS PETITIONER'S FIRST AMENDMENT VIOLATED BY THE RULE ANNOUNCED IN LEWIS v. CASEY; TOO NARROW BY BEING STRICTLY FOR ATTACKS ON CRIMINAL SENTENCES AND P…
23A243 Vivek H. Murthy, Surgeon General, et al. v. Missouri, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-14 Presumed Complete Amici (5) content-moderation first-amendment free-speech government-speech injunction social-media Question not identified.
23-227 Sarah K. Molina, et al. v. Daniel Book, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied Amici (4) circuit-split civil-rights clothing-expression first-amendment free-speech particularized-message police-observation qualified-immunity speech-rights 1. Whether words printed on clothing are pure speech, and thus presumptively entitled to First Amendment protection—as the Fourth, Fifth, and Ninth Ci…
23-229 Bronson McClelland v. Katy Independent School District, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation final-policymaking-authority first-amendment monell-liability public-school-district public-school-speech section-1983 true-threat 1. In a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, does Monell liability exist for a public school district when an official who committed a constitu…
23-220 Michael Parietti v. Ed Day, et al. New York 2023-09-08 Denied Relisted (2) bias-standard first-amendment free-speech judicial-disqualification probability-of-bias public-hearing public-hearings redistricting speech-rights On 27 May 2022, the Rockland County Legislature enacted Local Law 6-2022 which extended Covid era measures allowing legislators to attend meetings …
23-5519 Octavio Cortez Fierros v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law child-pornography civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment judicial-review legal-precedent sexual-exploitation standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
23A209 DeRay Mckesson v. John Doe Fifth Circuit 2023-09-01 Presumed Complete civil-liability first-amendment NAACP-v-Claiborne-Hardware negligence protest-organizer third-party-violence Question not identified.
23-5461 Joshua David Giddings v. Austin Knudsen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights equal-protection first-amendment free-speech standing Whether Detective Ekola destroyed exculpatory evidence in violation of Brady and Youngblood.
23-179 Alaska, et al. v. Alaska State Employees Association/American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 52, AFL-CIO Alaska 2023-08-25 Denied Amici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) civil-rights due-process employee-rights first-amendment free-speech paycheck-deduction public-sector-unions state-action union union-speech voluntary-waiver waiver Whether the First Amendment prohibits a state from taking money from employees' paychecks to subsidize union speech when the state lacks sufficient ev…
23-182 James W. Tindall v. Department of Labor, Administrative Review Board Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-25 Denied Response Waived 1st-amendment administrative-procedure article-iii constitutional-review federal-sovereign-immunity first-amendment judicial-power judicial-review sovereign-immunity standing strict-scrutiny us-constitution 1. ) Whether the doctrine of federal sovereign immun ity has any basis in the U.S. Constitution or is pre cluded by the U.S. Const., Art. Ill, Sec. 2…
23-172 Cynthia L. Pollick v. Anthony P. Trozzolillo Pennsylvania 2023-08-24 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-record-sealing judicial-records judicial-transparency speech-restraint standing Whether the complete sealing of a judicial record violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments since it restrains speech and conflicts with precedent …
23-5383 Ramham Dupriest v. New Jersey New Jersey 2023-08-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech minor mistake-of-age obscene-material obscenity scienter I. Does it violate First Amendment free speech protections to convict a person for conduct involving distributing obscene material to a minor without …
23A149 Andrew J. J. Wolf v. Josh Tewalt, Director, Idaho Department of Correction, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-18 Presumed Complete access-to-courts due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment intentional-obstruction prison-officials Question not identified.
23-156 Speech First, Inc. v. Timothy Sands, Individually and in His Official Capacity as President of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Fourth Circuit 2023-08-17 Judgment Issued Amici (10)Relisted (9) bias-response-team bias-response-teams chilling-effect circuit-split first-amendment free-speech protected-speech student-rights university-administration Whether bias-response teams objectively chill students' speech.
23-150 Ronald Preston Harper v. North Carolina North Carolina 2023-08-16 Denied civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech objective-reasonableness police-conduct swatting Is it illegal to criticize police in North Carolina? Do citizens, using their God-given rights of life, liberty and pursuing their happiness, have the…
23A139 Siddhanth Sharma v. Damon Circosta, Chair, North Carolina State Board of Elections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-08-16 Presumed Complete ballot-access elections-clause felon-disqualification first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-party-affiliation 1.) Does Appellee's (NC Board of Elections) extra requirements of 3 additional requisites of 1.) Being a Registered Voter 2.) Being part of a Politica…
23-129 Eddie Tardy v. Corrections Corporation of America, nka CoreCivic, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived civil-procedure court-records first-amendment intervention judicial-records judicial-standing public-access sealed-documents standing transparency transparency-rights Whether an intervenor's interest in transparency is sufficient to confer standing to seek access to sealed or protected judicial records (as the First…
23-5326 Latonia Smith v. United States District Court for the District of Nevada Ninth Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech habeas-corpus legal-detention speech-conduct standing Whether AOL A(C2I0B) targets conduct lone of SPeecin.and.Conduck Can sir distinciand.Confircking opinyvons among tthe lowes Coutts ond signifreanty ta…
23-5308 James Renwick Manship v. Susan Beals, Commissioner Virginia 2023-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights election-integrity electronic-voting first-amendment free-speech grand-jury petition petition-rights voting-machines voting-rights related to FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS of HONEST VOTE (FREE SPEECH) & PETITION for REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES to a GRAND JURY 1) Is an Election Expedited Injunc…
23-118 Ashton R. O'Dwyer, Jr. v. Ron Carter, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-08 Denied civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal recusal sanctions standing Whether the failure of Federal District Judge Carl J. Barbier to recuse himself prior to his summary dismissal of an underlying civil diversity action…
23A114 Jillian Ostrewich v. Clifford Tatum, in His Official Capacity as the Harris County Elections Administrator, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-08 Presumed Complete electioneering-statutes first-amendment polling-places section-1983 unreviewable-discretion voter-apparel Question not identified.
23-5282 Clarence Leonard Hearns, Jr. v. Andrew Whisnand, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied IFP absolute-immunity access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-conspiracy due-process first-amendment standing state-attorney-general 1. WHETHER A STATE DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL HAS ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY FROM SUIT FOR INITIATING CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY? 2. WHETHER ALL ACTORS IN A CRIMINAL CO…
23-5272 Grace Woodham v. Helen Hanks, Commissioner, New Hampshire Department of Corrections, et al. New Hampshire 2023-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP compelled-speech content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech government-regulation private-entities Question not identified.
23-98 Gregory Lemelson, aka Father Emmanuel Lemelson, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission First Circuit 2023-08-02 Denied first-amendment fraud free-speech market-speech material-misstatement rule-10b-5 sec-rule-10b-5 securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-of-1934 securities-law securities-regulation Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 prohibits any "manipulative or deceptive device or contrivance," as defined by Securities and Exc…
23-87 Cody A. Craig v. Emma R. Solorzano Maine 2023-07-31 Denied civil-rights constitutional-law due-process first-amendment free-exercise judicial-discretion parental-rights religious-freedom Does a court decision limiting parental rights, based upon express disapproval of the parent's "troubling" religious views, violate of the free exerci…
23-5208 Jason Boudreau v. United States First Circuit 2023-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment plea-agreement search-and-seizure search-condition sentencing sentencing-enhancement 1. Whether the District Court's decision to subject the Petitioner to a lifetime suspicionless search condition that lacks any limitations at all vio…
23-74 Debra A. Vitagliano v. County of Westchester, New York Second Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied Amici (18)Relisted (2) abortion abortion-clinic-protests constitutional-law content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech precedent public-forum stare-decisis The question presented is whether the Court should overrule Hill.
23-73 Colleen Huber v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied Response Waived censorship civil-rights conspiracy first-amendment free-speech pleading-stage pleading-standards social-media-regulation state-action twombly-iqbal Petitioner Dr. Colleen Huber sued President Biden (in his official capacity) and Twitter for censoring Dr. Huber's speech on Twitter critical of the B…
23A68 Mark Barinholtz v. HomeAdvisor, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-07-25 Presumed Complete attorney-conduct due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-sanctions prior-restraint Question not identified.
23-5183 Allen S. Herschaft v. New York City Campaign Finance Board Second Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-exercise religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act res-judicata standing 1) Whether Res Judicata precludes bringing the case? 2) Whether the defendant by enforcing its rules and regulations is violating plaintiffs free exe…
23-5160 Scott Eric Houston v. Louisiana Louisiana 2023-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP compelled-speech content-moderation first-amendment free-speech government-regulation social-media 00 rii.q+ri C/vjp+ ComplifiH 4Kp Lnn'ic;,nnn ^upriomP C C\t/f>+ nprlpr 9
23-55 J. Cory Cordova v. Louisiana State University Agricultural & Mechanical College Board of Supervisors, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-07-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) adversary-system attorney-misconduct first-amendment fraud judicial-review litigation-tactics medicare-fraud public-interest sanctions viewpoint-discrimination Litigants may not weaponize the judicial system to sanction colorable arguments that in effect insulate its conduct from legitimate judicial challenge…
23-61 Martin E. O'Boyle, et al. v. Town of Gulf Stream, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-21 Denied Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-litigation first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation municipal-policy official-policy probable-cause retaliation 1. Whether the no-probable-cause requirement extends beyond claims for retaliatory criminal prosecution and arrest and applies to claims for retaliato…
23A46 Paule McKenna v. Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., et al. California 2023-07-18 Presumed Complete anti-SLAPP commercial-speech first-amendment lanham-act right-of-publicity trademark-infringement Question not identified.
23A47 Bronson McClelland v. Katy Independent School District, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-07-18 Presumed Complete due-process first-amendment municipal-liability parental-rights school-discipline student-speech Question not identified.
23-5126 Farkhan Mahmood Shah v. American Airlines, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2023-07-18 Denied IFP arbitration civil-rights collective-bargaining diversity-jurisdiction due-process employment employment-discrimination first-amendment misrepresentation religious-discrimination summary-judgment 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit erred by explicitly relying on American Airlines ' misrepresentation of the terms …
23A42 Sarah K. Molina, et al. v. City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-07-17 Presumed Complete clearly-established first-amendment legal-observers qualified-immunity retaliation section-1983 (1) whether wearing a hat identifying one as a "National Lawyers Guild legal observer" is protected speech under the First Amendment, or as the panel …
23-39 Haseeb Abdullah v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-07-14 Denied Response Waived article-iii civil-rights due-process establishment-clause fiduciary-duty first-amendment free-speech ideological-viewpoint standing Does a beneficiary of a public retirement fund have standing to bring a First Amendment facial challenge to a state statute that requires funds to div…
23-5093 German Alexis Arjona v. California California 2023-07-13 Denied IFP certiorari civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection first-amendment jurisdiction legal-procedure standing statutory-provisions supreme-court voting-rights Question not identified.
23A31 Winterville Police Department, et al. v. Dijon Sharpe Fourth Circuit 2023-07-13 Presumed Complete constitutional-interpretation first-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement livestreaming traffic-stop Whether the constitutionality of a policy prohibiting livestreaming during a lawful traffic stop should be analyzed under the First Amendment or the F…
23A32 M.C., et vir v. Indiana Department of Child Services Indiana 2023-07-13 Presumed Complete child-custody first-amendment free-speech fundamental-liberty-interest parental-rights prior-restraint Question not identified.
23-5087 Michael R. v. Connecticut Connecticut 2023-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography civil-rights constitutional-interpretation dost-factors due-process first-amendment free-speech miller-standard obscenity obscenity-test 1. Should the six factor analysis set forth in United States v. Dost, 636 F. Supp. 828 (S.D. Cal. 1986), aff'd sub nom United States v. Weigand, 812 F…
23-29 CLA Estate Services, Inc., et al. v. Washington Washington 2023-07-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights commercial-speech consumer-protection due-process fair-notice first-amendment free-speech state-action state-regulation vagueness 1. Whether a company has fair notice under the Due Process Clause that it is barred from engaging in certain speech under a state consumer protection …
23-5056 Carlos Antonio Raymond v. JPMorgan Chase Bank Fifth Circuit 2023-07-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-tampering federal-procedure first-amendment fraud judicial-review summary-judgment Whether The Violation of Standard of Review for Summary Judgment (Rule 60(d)(3); 18 U.S. Code § 1341; 18 U.S. Code § 1519 be allowed to stand uncorrec…
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 …
23-10 Miriam Brysk, et al. v. Henry Herskovitz, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) anti-semitism attorney-fees civil-rights civil-rights-statute due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-bias synagogue synagogue-picketing 1. Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly affirmed a decision by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan …
23-5045 Evans Samuel Santos Diaz v. United States Third Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP associational-rights conditions-of-release constitutional-scrutiny criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment freedom-of-association individual-liberty supervised-release 1. The First Amendment guarantees individuals a right to associate. Petitioner and his fiancée want to associate. The Court of Appeals affirmed a dist…
22-1227 Nejla K. Lane v. Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission Illinois 2023-06-21 Denied Response Waived attorney-disciplinary-proceedings attorney-discipline constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech illinois-constitution professional-conduct 1. In an attorney disciplinary matter in which charges against an attorney must be proven by clear and convincing evidence, and without any substantiv…
22-1199 Rogan O'Handley v. Shirley N. Weber, California Secretary of State, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) censorship first-amendment free-speech government-speech online-censorship political-speech social-media social-media-regulation state-action In 2018, California created the Office of Election Cybersecurity. State law empowers the Office "[t]o monitor and counteract false or misleading infor…
22-1196 GEFT Outdoor, L.L.C. v. Monroe County, Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-06-09 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights content-based-regulation first-amendment free-speech prior-restraint procedural-safeguards speech-licensing zoning-ordinance 1. Can a governmental entity escape 42 U.S.C. § 1983 liability for failing to have procedural safeguards in its speech licensing scheme by—only after …
22-7750 Jessie Traylor v. Stevie Knight, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-06-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights clemency constitutional-law criminal-justice-reform due-process equal-protection expressive-conduct first-amendment free-speech hate-crime sentencing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
22-7751 David Paul Bickford v. Maryland Maryland 2023-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP charging-document child-photography child-pornography constitutional-law first-amendment new-york-v-ferber obscenity-standard parental-rights sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation 1. If the First Amendment case of New York v Ferber, 458 US 747 (1982), describes the essential elements required for "all legislation in [the] sensit…
22-1176 Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. District of Columbia 2023-06-05 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment judicial-error jurisdiction rule-of-law standing Whether inexcusable error or neglect by U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Court of Columbia to issue an improper Order stating the Court had no j…
22-1168 Center for Medical Progress, et al. v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-06-02 Denied Amici (5) civil-rights creative-pleading due-process emotional-distress first-amendment free-speech general-application-law public-speech publication standing tort tort-liability The circuit courts are divided over when the First Amendment protects defendants against tort claims arising out of speech or expression. In Hustler M…
22-7695 Meghan Marie Kelly v. Pennsylvania Office of Disciplinary Counsel Pennsylvania 2023-06-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process first-amendment reciprocal-discipline religious-freedom standing 1. Whether there is subject matter jurisdiction under the applicable Pennsylvania subject matter jurisdiction statute 204 Pa. Code § 85.3, given my st…
22-7686 Daniel Dorado v. California California 2023-06-01 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment miranda-rights rape-cases sentencing sixth-amendment For the Court's consideration and determination regarding issues involved in my criminal case, and consideration for adults in rape cases: 1. That th…
22-7678 Gary E. Peel v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence child-pornography due-process ex-post-facto first-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel takings-clause 1. Whether, contrary to Supreme Court precedent [Ashcroft v Free Speech Coalition, 535 U.S. 234 (2002)], the government can criminalize the possession…
22-1160 Albin Rhomberg v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-06-01 Denied Amici (1) abortion-litigation civil-rights compensatory-damages due-process first-amendment free-speech no-injury racketeering rico-damages standing takings undercover-journalism Respondent Planned Parenthood sued Petitioners over their use of undercover journalism techniques to investigate Planned Parenthood's involvement in s…
22-1150 Josh Stein, Attorney General of North Carolina, et al. v. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-05-26 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process duty-of-loyalty employee-rights employment-law first-amendment free-speech newsgathering property-protection standing tort-law The North Carolina Property Protection Act gives property owners a civil cause of action for certain torts committed in the nonpublic areas of their p…
22-1148 North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation, Inc. v. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-05-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) breach-of-loyalty content-neutral-statute first-amendment newsgathering private-property-rights property-rights trespass Whether a worker planted in a business to collect information for their true employer, and who does so in nonpublic areas of the business, is immunize…
22-1147 Sandra Susan Merritt v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-05-25 Denied defamation first-amendment fraud free-speech journalistic-investigation newsgathering rico rico-act 1. Whether this Court's decision in Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell, 485 U.S. 46 (1988), which precludes publication damages without meeting the con…
22-7614 Lisa A. Biron v. Jody Upton, Warden, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-05-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP christian-faith constitutional-rights federal-inmate first-amendment legitimate-penological-interests prison-regulations qualified-immunity religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act substantial-burden Does the Religious Freedom Restoration Act ("RFRA" ) and its compelling government interest/least restrictive means-test apply to protect a federal …
22-7613 Khawaja Muhammad Farooq v. United States Second Circuit 2023-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-plea due-process extortion first-amendment press press-rights voluntary-plea 1. Does the First Amendment for a Journalist or member of the press forbid the taking and publishing pictures of an extorted ex girlfriend? 2. Would …
22-1135 Center for Medical Progress, et al. v. National Abortion Federation Ninth Circuit 2023-05-22 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) abortion abortion-debate civil-rights constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech prior-restraint public-debate public-discourse Is the district court's suppression of speech about a high-profile and highly charged issue of public debate an unconstitutional prior restraint?
22-7598 Larry Donahill Jones v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech standing 1. DOES THE LOWER COURT'S DECISION DENYING PETITIONER'S CLAIM (THAT THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN STRIKING A PROSPECTIVE JUROR ABSENT A SUFFICIENT RACE-NEU…
22-1125 Don Blankenship v. NBCUniversal, LLC, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-05-18 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) actual-malice constitutional defamation first-amendment media-liability public-figure summary-judgment (1) whether the actual malice standard imposed on public figure plaintiffs in defamation cases should be replaced; and (2) whether the framework for s…
22-1123 Richard J. Peltz-Steele v. UMass Faculty Federation, Local 1895 American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, et al. First Circuit 2023-05-18 Denied Response Waived civil-rights exclusive-representation first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association labor-law Does a state law forcing a government employee to accept a union of which the employee is not a member to speak and negotiate on their behalf as their…
22-7568 John B. Freitas v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County, et al. California 2023-05-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights domestic-terrorism due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-misconduct rico-violations sedition standing 1. No one is above the law. Local, State and Federal judges are not above the law. Local, state and federal judges who assume that they are above the …
22-7549 Gilberto Arreola Chavez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process first-amendment judicial-review legal-procedure post-conviction-relief retroactivity 1. 15 -£PfidEl^_ yS, UsiiTgrl STATES, IHI R RETRoAdTi v\V ftppUcftWVE^L_m? r5o3i) it>K poST- CObN \ dTi OTsS PsE\E\F ? 2. D»r> "THE EIGHTH C'tRdUiT C…
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…
22-1096 Ariadna Ramon Baro v. Lake County Federation of Teachers Local 504, IFT-AFT/AFL-CIO, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied Response Waived collective-bargaining consent employee-rights first-amendment government-employer janus-v-afscme union-membership waiver waiver-doctrine In Janus v. AFSCME, this Court held that government employers may not withhold money from an employee on behalf of a union unless the employee affirma…
22-7504 Xingfei Luo v. Tomas Czodor California 2023-05-10 Denied IFP content-based-restraint domestic-violence due-process evidence family-code first-amendment fourteenth-amendment prior-restraint restraining-order Are a restrained party's due process rights under Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution violated by the issuance of a restraining ord…
22-7507 Robert Stanley Woods, aka Saladin Rushdan v. Haar, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment civil-rights correctional-goals due-process first-amendment medical-treatment out-of-court-settlement prisoner-rights retaliation settlement-agreement 1. ) Does and Out 6'f Court Settlement Agreement "Set the Perimeters " for future so-called Legitimate Correctional Goals in a specific instance?? O…
22-7493 Glen Thomas Dotson v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment federal-bureau-of-prisons first-amendment medical-treatment retaliation standing Was Petitioner's First Amendment Right violated when he was retaliated by Federal Bureau of Prisons staff for exercising his right to pursue his lawsu…
22-1088 John T. Morris v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-05-09 Denied Response Waived accumulated-knowledge article-1-section-2 constitutional-interpretation election-integrity first-amendment frequent-elections political-rights redistricting voter-participation voting-rights 1. Are frequent elections implied in Article 1, Section 2 Clause 1 of the United States Constitution that were meant by the Framers of the Constitut…
22-1093 Mark Anthony Spell, et al. v. John Bel Edwards, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-05-09 Denied Amici (4)Response Waived church-assembly church-state-separation establishment-clause first-amendment founders-intent free-exercise free-exercise-clause religious-freedom religious-liberty state-restrictions This is a vital case of first impression concerning our most sacred rights of religious freedom and the very nature of the Church and State as separat…
22-7475 Jason J. Hyatt v. Mike Lukas, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-05-05 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights equal-protection first-amendment free-speech standing Question not identified.
22-7471 Renzo Alegre v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split constitutional-law first-amendment internet-access sex-offenders supervised-release Does the constitutional holding of Packingham v. North Carolina, 137 S. Ct. 1730 (2017) — which recognized a First Amendment right to access the Inter…
22-7425 James Conerly, et al. v. Kaiser Permanente, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment judicial-discretion judicial-immunity ninth-circuit subject-matter-jurisdiction systemic-racism 1. WHETHER, the Ninth Circuit Court "Abused in its Discretion with its Findings, Recommendations and Judgment/Orders concerning this Case at hand? 2.…
22-7397 Daniel Kim v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2023-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-speech due-process fighting-words first-amendment free-speech jury-determination jury-instructions speech-protection state-court true-threats 1. Whether a state court is prohibited from unilaterally determining whether a defendant's written speech on his blog is protected or criminal, withou…
22-1032 Sergei Vinkov v. Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Company Ninth Circuit 2023-04-25 Denied article-iii civil-procedure due-process duty-to-defend federal-jurisdiction first-amendment insurance-contract pro-se tax-exempt tax-exempt-corporation 1) Has the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (9th Circuit) correctly determined the jurisdictional power of the federal court over …
22-1033 Eugene Mazo, et al. v. Tahesha Way, New Jersey Secretary of State, et al. Third Circuit 2023-04-25 Denied Amici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ballot ballot-restrictions civil-rights content-based-regulation content-regulation election first-amendment free-speech political-speech strict-scrutiny viewpoint-discrimination Whether a state that permits political candidates to engage in core political speech on the ballot may restrict that speech on the basis of content an…
22-1025 Sylvia Gonzalez v. Edward Trevino, II, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-04-24 Judgment Issued Amici (23)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) arrest circuit-split civil-rights first-amendment free-speech government-record probable-cause qualified-immunity retaliation retaliatory-arrest standing 1. Whether the Nieves probable cause exception can be satisfied by objective evidence other than specific examples of arrests that never happened. 2.…
22-7306 Keith Thomas v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-procedure rule-11 sanctions seventh-amendment standing 1. Did the district court improperly apply Rule 11 sanctions against this petitioner basically stripping him of his 1st amendment rights and 7th amend…
22-7241 Eric Matthew Ray v. Utah Utah 2023-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-statute due-process facial-challenge first-amendment free-speech statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether Salerno's "no set of circumstances" test, the Hoffman/Grayned "more stringent vagueness test," or some other test, should govern judicial revi…
22-971 Glenn Henderson v. Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., et al. North Carolina 2023-04-07 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process employment-dispute first-amendment free-speech legal-threat pro-se-litigation self-defense threat Is it legal to say you will attempt to defend yourself if attacked? Does it make a difference if the persons warned committed several or many felonie…
22-967 David Banks v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-04-06 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals district-court due-process first-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sealing sealing-order Did the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit violate the Petitioner's rights under the First Amendment when it sealed almost the entire transcript a…
22-7208 Sherry Rock v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-04-04 Denied IFP brady-disclosure common-law common-law-access first-amendment judicial-records police-reports public-access public-access-to-judicial-records sealing-order standing standing-to-challenge-sealing-orders 1. Whether Petitioner (Member Of Public) Lacks Standing To Bring First Amendment Challenge To 1978 Judicial Order Sealing Police Reports Because She W…
22-7189 Amos Gabriel Hicks v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex Fourth Circuit 2023-04-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights court-reporter court-transcripts due-process first-amendment ineffective-counsel right-to-records transcript-destruction (1) Was the Petitioner's Constitutional Right of Due Process and First Amendment Right to all Records violated when the Courts destroyed Petitioner's …
22-7198 Richard Roy Blake v. Liliane Hong, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-04-04 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-assembly free-speech municipal-ordinance section-1983 void-for-vagueness 1.) Did the City of Northglenn, Colorado police department violate Petitioner's First Amendment rights to free speech and assembly on January 4, 2020 …
22-7201 Adrienne Brown-Mallard v. Next Day Temps, et al. Virginia 2023-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-power civil-rights conspiracy-against-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech pro-se-litigation workers-compensation I. Is it a violation of the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment on Freedom of Speech or abuse of power when Workers' Compensation Commissioners during…
22-954 Justin Marcus Zinman v. California California 2023-03-30 Denied Response Waived civil-rights establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech homeland-defense political-ideology second-amendment state-secrets takings Whether allowing a Progressive political ideology to influence the law violates the Establishment clause of the First Amendment? Whether the State …
22-951 Jane Doe No. 1, et al. v. Todd Rokita, Attorney General of Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-03-30 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived abortion abortion-rights constitutional-law dobbs-precedent dobbs-v-jackson first-amendment free-exercise free-speech medical-protocols religious-beliefs Whether, following Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, 142 S. Ct. 2228 (2022), this Court's First Amendment precedents continue to apply to …
22-942 Brian Tingley v. Robert W. Ferguson, Attorney General of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-28 Denied Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (10) counseling counseling-regulation employment-division-v-smith first-amendment free-speech gender-identity professional-speech religious-freedom religious-liberty Brian Tingley is a licensed marriage and family counselor who helps clients with various issues, including sexuality and gender identity. A practicing…
22-939 Robert Frese v. John M. Formella, Attorney General of New Hampshire First Circuit 2023-03-28 Denied Amici (3) civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-prosecution defamation due-process first-amendment free-speech public-official standing vagueness vagueness-doctrine 1. Whether the First Amendment tolerates criminal prosecution for alleged defamation of a public official. 2. Whether New Hampshire's common law of c…
22-7128 James Cody McMahon v. Louisiana Louisiana 2023-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-sex-offender civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-restrictions due-process first-amendment free-speech sex-offender-registration social-media Is Louisiana's statute that prohibits child-sex-offender registrants from using social media meaningfully distinguishable from the North Carolina stat…
22-932 North Carolina Division of Sons of Confederate Veterans, Inc. v. North Carolina Department of Transportation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-law first-amendment fourth-circuit free-speech government-speech license-plate public-forum specialty-license-plate state-law 1. Did the district court and Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err in applying the "Government Speech" doctrine to limit the speech of private citizens…
22-7083 Rick Lee Searcy v. United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri Eighth Circuit 2023-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 12b-6-dismissal 1st-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial first-amendment judicial-bias judicial-misconduct motion-to-recuse standing The petitioner did not receive a 'Fair and impartial 'proceeding which ultimately lead to 12 b (6) dismissal. Applying the 'de novo standard ' of revi…
22-7078 Rick Lee Searcy v. Central Intelligence Agency, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 12b6-dismissal civil-rights due-process fair-trial federal-rules-evidence first-amendment judicial-bias judicial-misconduct motion-to-recuse recusal standing The petitioner did not receive a 'Fair and impartial 'proceeding which ultimately lead to 12 b (6) dismissal. Applying the 'de novo standard ' of revi…
22-7061 Lorenzo Elias Mendez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-statute first-amendment minor-exploitation sentencing-guidelines sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the statutory term "lascivious exhibition " refers to the defendant 's act of exhibiting a minor 's genitals on film, or, in other words, t…
22-7060 Zachary James McAlexander v. D.G. Yuengling & Son, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-protection corporate-liability due-process false-advertising first-amendment seventh-amendment standing 1. Why is the right to petition the government for grievances not being honored in this case, along with others, in accordance with the First Amendmen…
22-923 Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. District of Columbia 2023-03-22 Denied civil-rights discrimination-claims due-process first-amendment judicial-error right-to-petition summary-affirmance title-vii Whether inexcusable error by U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Court of Columbia to issue an Order that was unclear with judicial errors that is …
22-906 Alan Grayson v. No Labels, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-17 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) actual-malice appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure defamation first-amendment new-york-times-v-sullivan public-figure public-figures 1. Should the "actual malice" standard for state law defamation claims by "public figures" imposed by New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (19…
22-893 Libertarian Party of New York, et al. v. New York State Board of Elections, et al. Second Circuit 2023-03-16 Denied Amici (1) anderson-burdick-test ballot-access election-law equal-protection first-amendment minor-parties political-parties signature-requirements 1. Did the courts below properly apply the Anderson-Burdick standard as a "two-tracked approach" rather than as "a sliding-scale balancing analysis" w…
22-882 Merrilee Stewart v. RRL Holding Company of Ohio, LLC, et al. Ohio 2023-03-15 Denied case-stay civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment government-petition judicial-procedure legal-redress petition-government redress-grievances standing When an officer of the court, indefinity stays a case of significance, for example from 2015 to 2023 (8 years), is this an unconstitutional gag on the…
22-6997 John B. Freitas v. Noel Wise, Judge, Superior Court of California, Alameda County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-13 Denied IFP civil-rights conspiracy domestic-terrorism due-process first-amendment free-speech government-corruption judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct real-estate-fraud sedition 1. No one is above the law. Local, State and Federal judges are not above the law. Federal judges who assume that they are above the law should realiz…
22-865 Mobilize the Message, LLC, et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California Ninth Circuit 2023-03-10 Denied Amici (4) campaign-finance campaign-material civil-rights content-based-regulation content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech independent-contractor independent-contractors political-canvassing political-speech speech-regulation Whether regulating canvassing and the delivery of printed material based on that speech's content, function, or purpose implicates the First Amendment…
22-6963 Zachary James McAlexander v. Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-08 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights corporate-liability due-process first-amendment medical-harm seventh-amendment standing 1. Why is the right to petition the government for grievances not being honored in this case, along with others, in accordance with the First Amendme…
22-6937 Robert L. Davis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-06 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 28-usc-1915 access-to-courts civil-rights court-access cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment pro-se-litigant redress Question & oue PoC. S A L't F-e-f-i'vne. 8 Cl vi TO CO Ur 4s LivtUcr IS? U-S. C, %ltis(9) U^kss Owe. Pco/5 In- FTU Due. Process V?oIcttimg Tke. 1st Av…
22-842 National Rifle Association of America v. Maria T. Vullo Second Circuit 2023-03-06 Judgment Issued Amici (41)Response RequestedRelisted (7) 1st-amendment civil-rights corporate-social-responsibility first-amendment free-speech government-intimidation government-regulation regulatory-coercion second-amendment viewpoint-discrimination Bantam Books v. Sullivan held that a state commission with no formal regulatory power violated the First Amendment when it "deliberately set out to ac…
22-6928 Logan Dyjak v. Jo-An Lynn, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process failure-to-protect first-amendment fourteenth-amendment litigation-reform mental-health sexual-abuse sexual-acts In an action in which an individual is committed for mental health treatment, does a state's failure to protect that individual against other inmates …
22-824 The Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, et al. v. Alexander Belya Second Circuit 2023-03-01 Denied Amici (8)Relisted (3) church-autonomy defamation-claims first-amendment immunity internal-disputes judicial-interference liability ministerial-exception religious-leadership religious-liberty I. Whether the First Amendment's church autonomy doctrine and its "ministerial exception" should be understood as an immunity from judicial interferen…
22-6888 Samantha D. Rajapakse v. Seyfarth Shaw, et al. Second Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied IFP civil-rights credit-reporting credit-reporting-agency due-process fair-credit-reporting-act first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigation standing Question#1: Can a law firm retained by any credit reporting agency carry out the duties of and services of credit reporting agency business? Question…
22-809 Texas State LULAC, et al. v. Lupe C. Torres, in Her Official Capacity as the Medina County Elections Administrator, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-02-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) causation circuit-split first-amendment government-act injury mens-rea self-censorship standing 1. To have standing to challenge an unlawful government act, must a plaintiff show that the act is the sole cause of its injury, as the Fifth Circuit …
22-6862 Benjamin Young v. Alabama Alabama 2023-02-24 Denied IFP capital-trial character-evidence criminal-procedure culpability-phase dawson-v-delaware first-amendment fourteenth-amendment gang-membership sentencing-phase Whether, as in the sentencing phase of a capital trial under Dawson v. Delaware, 503 U.S. 159 (1992), the First and Fourteenth Amendment prohibit the …
22-792 Sergei Vinkov v. Superior Court of California, County of Riverside, et al. California 2023-02-22 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights defamation due-process first-amendment free-speech religious-speech standing (1) Does California Supreme Court create unconstitutional burden on Petitioner's rights abstaining from compelling the state trial court to enter the …
22-777 William E. Henry v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-17 Denied Response Waived butterworth-precedent compelled-speech constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech grand-jury grand-jury-secrecy prior-restraint secrecy witness-testimony Nearly 33 years ago, this Court decided Butterworth v. Smith, 494 U.S. 624 (1990), holding that grand jury secrecy laws restricting a grand jury witne…
22-6783 Meghan M. Kelly v. Disciplinary Counsel Patricia B. Swartz, et al. Third Circuit 2023-02-15 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts bar-dues civil-rights disciplinary-action due-process first-amendment free-speech reciprocal-discipline religious-freedom 1. Whether the Third Circuit abused its discretion by denying my Motion to stay the civil rights proceeding relating to civil rights violations agains…
22-6776 J. Doe v. Design Review Board of the Town of Sullivan's Island, et al. South Carolina 2023-02-14 Denied IFP amendment-violation appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure meaningful-review procedural-due-process seventh-amendment I. Whether review should be granted where no other review was available and whether the lower appellate court denied meaningful review and other subst…
22-6742 Jan M. Gawlik v. Ned Lamont, Governor of Connecticut, et al. Connecticut 2023-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP conditions-of-confinement discrimination due-process first-amendment free-exercise religious-freedom rluipa symbolic-expression WHERE THE GOVERNOR/MALLOY; P.DANNELL OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT, RECOMMENDED SEMPLE,SCOTT AS COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTIONS WITHIN CONNECTICUT TO THE ST…
22-6740 Lisa Antoine v. Delancy LLC, dba Vital Medical Staffing Fourth Circuit 2023-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-discrimination civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery-withholding due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech retaliation whistleblower-protection whistleblowing 1. The standard of review for error #1 - Dosen't the EEOC has Federal Investigators who do investigations when a complaint comes in their office and h…
22-749 Andre Dow v. Nevada Nevada 2023-02-09 Denied 6th-amendment attorney-client-privilege counsel-of-choice due-process fair-trial first-amendment prejudice sixth-amendment us-v-gonzalez-lopez 1. Whether Mr. Dow's Sixth Amendment right to counsel of choice was violated and prejudice should have been presumed by the lower court in light of th…
22-6735 Echo Dixon v. New York New York 2023-02-09 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud-on-the-court free-exercise habeas-corpus misnomer Whether the People of the State of New York, while investigating child abuse and neglect and crime, interfered with Petitioner 's first and fourteent…
22-741 Faith Bible Chapel International v. Gregory Tucker Tenth Circuit 2023-02-08 Denied Amici (12)Relisted (4) church-autonomy civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination first-amendment free-speech interlocutory-appeal judicial-immunity ministerial-exception religion-clauses religious-freedom standing I. Whether the First Amendment's "ministerial exception" should be understood as an immunity from judicial interference in church employment decisions…
22-737 Brian A. Truskey v. Thomas J. Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture Sixth Circuit 2023-02-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) employment employment-discrimination first-amendment religious-freedom-restoration-act sixth-circuit social-security-number tax-reporting title-vii The Constitution guarantees that all citizens may enjoy the "free exercise" of the religion of their choice. Am. 1. The Court has recognized that the …
22-704 Katherine K. Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office v. Steve Elster Federal Circuit 2023-01-27 Judgment Issued Amici (8)Relisted (2) first-amendment free-speech government-official public-figure registration section-1052c trademark trademark-registration Whether the refusal to register a mark under Section 1052(c) violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment when the mark contains criticism o…
22-699 Council for Education and Research on Toxics v. California Chamber of Commerce Ninth Circuit 2023-01-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) federal-preemption first-amendment petition-rights preliminary-injunction prior-restraint public-interest-lawsuit public-interest-lawsuits state-court 1. Does a preliminary injunction issued by a district judge enjoining a state attorney general and nongovernmental organizations from filing public in…
22-696 Reginald L. Gundy v. City of Jacksonville, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-26 Denied Response Waived civil-rights first-amendment free-exercise free-speech government-speech qualified-immunity retaliation 1. Whether Petitioner's invited invocation before the City Council, without any instructions or limitations, was private speech as the district court …
22-684 Jack Jordan v. Kansas Disciplinary Administrator Kansas 2023-01-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights disbarment due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-misconduct legal-ethics standing A lawyer, in motions filed in federal court proceedings (requesting reconsideration of an order or disqualification of a judge) stated that one or mor…
22-665 Gordon M. Price v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. District of Columbia 2023-01-19 Denied Amici (3) commercial-speech content-based-restriction first-amendment permit-requirement prior-restraint public-forum The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia enjoined enforcement of 54 U.S.C. § 100905, which directs the Secretary of the Interior to "requi…
22-662 Ramon K. Jusino v. Federation of Catholic Teachers, Inc. Second Circuit 2023-01-18 Denied 1st-amendment church-schools civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech labor-organizations labor-relations religion-clauses standing Whether the Second Circuit contravened the Four teenth Amendment Equal Protection clause by hold ing that - because of potential First Amendment Re …
22-6517 William F. Kaetz v. Freda L. Wolfson, Judge, United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2023-01-11 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-violations content-discrimination first-amendment free-speech government-accountability government-retaliation speech-suppression viewpoint-discrimination When a United States Citizen attempts to correct the errors of the United States government by filing a civil complaint, and the United States governm…
22-640 David Wellington v. Fernando Daza, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-01-10 Denied Response Waived 1st-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights content-seizure first-amendment fourth-amendment overbreadth qualified-immunity search-warrant tax-code In 2017 Respondents executed a search warrant (which had no affidavit) at Petitioner's home. It authorized a search for violations of 26 U.S.C. §7201 …
22-623 James William Hall v. G.M.S. Management Co., Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-statute constitutional-rights court-access due-process first-amendment free-speech pro-se-litigation standing Does a person have rights to a day in court to represent himself as a pro-se even when the appeal court lower United States District and the United St…
22-611 Kevin Lindke v. James R. Freed Sixth Circuit 2023-01-04 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Relisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-scrutiny first-amendment free-speech government-duty government-official public-forum public-official social-media state-action Whether a public official's social media activity can constitute state action only if the official used the account to perform a governmental duty or …
22-612 Marshall Spiegel v. 1618 Sheridan Road Condominium Association, Inc., et al. Illinois 2023-01-04 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech municipal-liability public-photography Question not identified.
22-6400 José L. Canales-Cancel v. United States, et al. First Circuit 2022-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction first-amendment privacy-and-1st-amendment statutory-interpretation 1. Whether my claim is propperly presented under 28 USC § 1331 which is jurisdiction on all civil actions. 2. Whether 42 U S. Code § 2000dd is still …
22-591 Donald V. Watkins, et al. v. Matrix, LLC, et al. Alabama 2022-12-27 Denied Response Waived actual-malice civil-rights defamation due-process first-amendment free-speech presumed-damages public-figure summary-judgment 1. Whether the Alabama Courts' grant and affirmance of a summary judgment for Respondents in a state law defamation case conflicts with this Court's d…
22-6373 Alicja Z. Herriott v. Paul Barrett Herriott California 2022-12-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-redress petition-clause right-to-petition vexatious-litigant InBe&K Constr. Co. v. NLRB (2002) 536 U.S. 516, 53, this Court held that "The First Amendment provides, in relevant part, that "Congress shall make no…
22-582 United States v. Jose Felipe Hernandez-Calvillo, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-12-22 GVR Relisted (2) constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-prohibition first-amendment free-speech immigration immigration-law overbreadth-doctrine statutory-interpretation Whether the federal criminal prohibition against conspiring to encourage or induce unlawful immigration, in violation of 8 U.S.C. 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv) an…
22-576 Cindy Ellen Ochoa v. Public Consulting Group, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 42-usc-1983 compelled-speech constitutional-violation due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment public-employee-rights public-sector-unions section-1983 union-dues Does a challenge to a statutory system alleging failure to provide due process under the Fourteenth Amendment and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 require an injured …
22-577 Jodee Wright v. Service Employees International Union Local 503, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-rights collective-bargaining due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech labor-law public-sector union-dues Do the constitutional guarantees of Freedom of Speech and Due Process of law create an affirmative duty for government employers to ensure employees' …
22-567 Gary Mattos, et al. v. AFSCME Council 3 Fourth Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 agency-fees civil-rights constitutional-rights damages first-amendment good-faith good-faith-defense section-1983 state-law state-law-immunity Section 1983 provides that "every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State" deprives a citizen of…
22-566 William Yeatman v. Kathryn Hyland, et al. Second Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Amici (2) class-action class-certification class-counsel cy-pres due-process first-amendment rule-23 settlement-approval student-loan third-party-beneficiary The Second Circuit affirmed Rule 23(e)(2) approval of a cy-pres class-action settlement that paid no money to the class of student-loan borrowers, but…
22-6354 Thomas J. McNulty v. Rose Olivo, et al. Florida 2022-12-20 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process estate-law felony-conviction felony-disenfranchisement first-amendment inheritance pro-se-litigation probate-procedure standing 1. Whether a lawful sole heir/beneficiary to an interstate estate, who is a convicted felon, awaiting the appointment of a personal representative, …
22-558 Pedro Lance Soto v. Texas Texas 2022-12-19 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process electronic-communication first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine 1. Is a law that criminalizes expressive speech immunized from First Amendment scrutiny if it also criminalizes non-expressive conduct? 2. Is a law t…
22-555 NetChoice, LLC, dba NetChoice, et al. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas Fifth Circuit 2022-12-19 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (8)Relisted (2) content-moderation editorial-discretion first-amendment free-speech free-speech-rights social-media social-media-regulation viewpoint-discrimination Whether the First Amendment prohibits viewpoint-, content-, or speaker-based laws restricting select websites from engaging in editorial choices about…
22-6333 N. P. v. Vermont, et al. Vermont 2022-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP best-interests child-welfare due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment parental-rights santosky-standard unfitness This case concerns the constitutionality of Vermont law governing the termination of parental rights, specifically, whether it is a violation of the F…
22-554 Anna St. John v. Lisa Jones, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (4) class-action cy-pres fairness fairness-doctrine first-amendment forum-shopping property-interest rule-23 settlement-approval Whether, or in what circumstances, a court may approve a settlement as "fair, reasonable, and adequate" under Rule 23(e)(2) when it pays a substantial…
22-539 Juliet Anilao, et al. v. Thomas J. Spota, III, Individually and as District Attorney of Suffolk County, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2022-12-13 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation first-amendment prosecutorial-immunity section-1983 state-action thirteenth-amendment 1. Whether a plaintiff can defeat a prosecutor's absolute immunity from suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by demonstrating that the prosecutor lacked any co…
22-532 Joachim Martillo v. Twitter, Inc., et al. First Circuit 2022-12-09 Denied Response Waived 1996-interactive-computer-service common-carrier common-law-common-carrier constitutional-right-to-non-discriminatory-common- digital-property first-amendment first-amendment-right-to-refuse-message-common-car hosting-of-digital-personal-literary-property-as-s interactive-computer-service logical-fallacy-in-statute-interpretation public-forum social-media 1. Whether digital personal literary property, which a Defendant carries in the form of a post, com ment, or tweet, is "other property " according to…
22-6239 Nicholas Stewart Hines v. Denny Kaemingk, Secretary, South Dakota Department of Corrections, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts access-to-legal-documents civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection first-amendment judicial-access prisoners-rights retaliation 1 IS t\ PPvISoneks'm&ht to (vccess a county^ CowTtost A#1D P>U6Ut ,ftttoMS _ UWDlLF,lHt FiH^TAio fo«PvTEENT|-tM^OfAEAlT5 DiFfERT/IT TW K RegULPT <L\Tt…
22-6238 David N. Firewalker-Fields v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court civil-procedure constitutional-review district-court due-process evidence first-amendment procedural-default withholding-evidence I. Did the District Court and Court of Appeals err in not granting a certificate of appealability due to a procedural default caused by the Circuit Co…
22-6205 Demetric Hardaway v. Lori Myers, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-12-02 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law district-court first-amendment fourth-circuit legal-interpretation retaliation summary-judgment transfer work-assignment ^ l^i i +U«. Fo\at4F (L\fC\J\\ \ Cov^r'V o4 4^*v\^r-»4 o4 "VV\e. Ff\r po \ rv "frKt cF^-Vnc* COvat-V ( vniK®.re_ **W JUs4r*c4 COwrAca,cr jr\ c\ $V\An…
22-509 J. T. H., et al. v. Spring Cook Eighth Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment hartman-v-moore law-enforcement qualified-immunity retaliatory-investigation retaliatory-investigations Whether investigations—even when they lack probable cause—are so categorically different from other retaliatory acts that they cannot be the basis for…
22-497 Jasper Robin Chen v. Texas Texas 2022-11-28 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse Waived communications criminal-law criminal-statute electronic-communication first-amendment free-speech harassment-law intent overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine 1. Is a law that criminalizes expressive speech immunized from any First Amendment scrutiny if it also criminalizes non-expressive conduct? 2. Is a l…
22-498 Kristine Kurk v. Los Rios Classified Employees Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-11-28 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights collective-bargaining compelled-association due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association public-employment state-statute union-membership Does the First Amendment protect a public employee's right to resign union membership at will?
22-494 Melodie DePierro v. Las Vegas Police Protective Association Metro, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-11-23 Denied Response Waived collective-bargaining consent first-amendment free-speech government-employer janus-precedent janus-v-afscme union-dues Melodie DePierro is a police officer in the State of Nevada who exercised her First Amendment right not to support union speech under Janus v. AFSCME,…
22-6143 Blake Sandlain v. C. Maruka, Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-11-22 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP compelled-speech content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech government-regulation private-entities Question not identified.
22-6062 Thomas Walter Gillen v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-riot-act circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-appellate-courts first-amendment free-speech severability statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the difference of opinion between the Fourth Circuit and the Ninth Circuit as to the constitutionality of "organize" within the context of …
22-461 Scott Troogstad, et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied Response Waived civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-mandate due-process employment employment-condition first-amendment religious-exemption substantive-due-process vaccination-mandate vaccine-policy I. Whether the City of Chicago violated substantive due process in requiring employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of their emplo…
22-6054 Stephen Barbee v. Bryan Collier, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-11-15 Denied IFP capital-punishment execution-chamber fifth-circuit first-amendment free-exercise prison-litigation-reform-act prison-policy religious-rights rluipa spiritual-advisor 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in vacating as an abuse of discretion the injunction requiring TDCJ to publish a clear policy where the district co…
22-443 Michael S. Zummer v. Jeffrey S. Sallet, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights civil-service-reform-act constitutional-claims due-process employment employment-law federal-jurisdiction first-amendment free-speech judicial-review standing Whether a federal district court has jurisdiction to hear colorable constitutional claims by federal employees related to their employment—in this ins…
22-434 Slade Alan Moore v. Texas Texas 2022-11-09 Denied criminal-law criminal-statute due-process electronic-communication first-amendment free-speech harassment intent-standard overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine A Texas statute criminalizes sending repeated electronic communications with the intent and likely result of "harassing, annoying, alarming, abusing, …
22-433 The Lawyers' Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, Inc., et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General of the United States, et al. Second Circuit 2022-11-08 Denied Response Waived 11-Sep 9-11 article-iii article-iii-standing civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-circuits federal-courts first-amendment grand-jury judicial-remedies standing A. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Act Contrary to the Constitution and in Conflict with Decisions of the Supreme Court …
22-430 Charles Barton v. Texas Texas 2022-11-08 Denied Amici (7) criminal-law criminal-statute due-process electronic-communication electronic-communications expressive-speech first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine public-concern In Snyder v. Phelps, this Court held that speech on matters of public concern cannot be punished "simply because it is upsetting or arouses contempt,"…
22-428 Deborah Walton v. First Merchants Bank Seventh Circuit 2022-11-07 Denied Response Waived billing-errors dispute-letters due-process fair-credit-billing-act first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process statute-of-limitations I. Whether a Creditor must follow the requirements specified in 1974 by the Fair Credit Billing Act, Pub. L. 93-495, Tit. Ill, 88 Stat. 1511, for t…
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.
22-5985 Islam Yaser-Abdel Said v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-challenge criminal-defendants criminal-procedure facial-attacks facial-vagueness first-amendment johnson-v-united-states sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness-review unconstitutionally-vague 1. Whether criminal defendants challenging a statute as unconstitutionally vague may raise facial attacks in cases not involving the First Amendment? …
22-416 Tuhin Kumar Biswas v. Ethan Rouen, et al. Second Circuit 2022-11-02 Denied 42-U.S.C.-1983 42-usc-1983 appeal appellate-review copyright-act federal-cause-of-action first-amendment plagiarism state-actor 1. Is Copyright Act the only Federal Cause of Action under which Plagiarism can be adjudicated? 2. Whether Columbia University and related parties ca…
22-415 Mark Elliott Stuart v. Arizona Arizona 2022-11-02 Denied Response Waived civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-law due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech municipal-code statutory-interpretation vagueness (1) Whether Scottsdale Revised Code 19-13 is overbroad and violates the First Amendment? (2) Whether Scottsdale Revised Code 19-13 is unconstitutiona…
22-394 Eric Brown, et al. v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 5, AFL-CIO, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-10-27 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 agency-fees civil-rights constitutional-rights damages-liability first-amendment good-faith good-faith-defense section-1983 Section 1983 provides that "every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State" deprives a citizen of…
22-393 NetChoice, LLC, dba NetChoice, et al. v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-26 Denied CVSGAmici (6)Relisted (3) compelled-speech content-based content-based-restrictions editorial-discretion first-amendment free-speech tech-regulation viewpoint-discrimination zauderer Whether S.B. 7072 in its entirety, and its compelled disclosure provisions in particular, comply with the First Amendment.
22-5922 Andrew S. Andersen v. Jennifer Shaffer, Executive Director, California Board of Parole Hearings Ninth Circuit 2022-10-26 Denied IFP beliefs-thoughts civil-rights due-process due-process-clause first-amendment free-speech government-benefit parole parole-regulations speech-suppression turner-test 1) when a plaintiff alleges that he or She was denied a valuable governmental benefit based on his or her beliefs and thoughts and that the receipt o…
22-387 James Edward White v. Michigan State University Unemployment Compensation Division Michigan 2022-10-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 9th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-rules justice legal-counsel ninth-amendment right-to-petition 1. Does the Ninth Amendment of the United States Constitution guarantee rights to: a. Correction of mistakes as expeditiously as practical after disco…
22-388 Rodney Keister v. Stuart Bell, in His Official Capacity as President of the University of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-25 Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedRelisted (2) expressive-activity first-amendment free-speech government-intent public-forum public-sidewalks sidewalk-access university Petitioner Rodney Keister sought to evangelize at the intersection of sidewalks open to the public, owned by the City of Tuscaloosa, but adjacent to t…
22-379 Arkansas Times LP v. Mark Waldrip, as Trustee of the University of Arkansas Board of Trustees, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-10-24 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) boycott boycott-speech civil-rights constitutional-law content-discrimination first-amendment free-speech government-contractors viewpoint-discrimination Is a state law requiring government contractors to certify that they are not participating in, and will not participate in, boycotts of Israel or Isra…
22-375 Word of God Fellowship, Inc., dba Daystar Television Network v. Vimeo, Inc., et al. New York 2022-10-21 Denied civil-rights content-moderation contract-preemption first-amendment free-speech internet-immunity public-discourse section-230 viewpoint-discrimination 1. Does Section 230 immunity extend to the removal of viewpoint-based speech on matters of public concern when the content of the speech is neither fa…
22-365 Reform America, dba Created Equal, et al. v. City of Detroit, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response Waived civil-rights first-amendment free-speech protest-rights public-forum security-justification strict-scrutiny viewpoint-discrimination For two days in July, the City of Detroit hosted the 2019 Democratic Party presidential candidate debates, which were held at the Fox Theatre. The Cit…
22-353 David M. Morgan v. Arizona, et al. Arizona 2022-10-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) court-access first-amendment juror-names press-enterprise press-enterprise-i press-enterprise-ii qualified-right qualified-right-of-access voir-dire 1. Does the qualified right of access to voir dire under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, recognized in Press-Enterprise Co. v. …
22-5842 Lex Lugard Eugene v. Florida Florida 2022-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-sentencing first-amendment fourteenth-amendment habitual-felony-offender-statute sixth-amendment unsubstantiated-allegations I. WHETHER UNSUBSTANTIATED ALLEGATIONS OF MISCONDUCT INTRODUCED IN A CRIMINAL SENTENCING PROCEEDING VIOLATES THE FIRST AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS TO …
22-350 In Re Yi Tai Shao 2022-10-13 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-rights due-process first-amendment judicial-misconduct mandamus-relief procedural-irregularities recusal recusal-issues standing Do the issues presented below constitute exceptional circumstances that there are no other means to get adequate relief that warrants this Court to ex…
22-347 Diece-Lisa Industries, Inc. v. Disney Store USA, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-13 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (3) expressive-work first-amendment intellectual-property likelihood-of-confusion reverse-confusion trademark-infringement trademark-law 1. Does the First Amendment provide an infringer blanket immunity for trademark infringement across all categories of goods so long as they can claim …
22-334 Alice Guan v. Gary Bell, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment notice-of-appeal petition-government 1. Whether Fourth Circuit affirming district court's decision based on altered Notice of Appeal without performing any review on the merit of the appe…
22-343 Lynn S. King v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied Response Waived divorce-proceedings domestic-relations domestic-relations-law first-amendment free-exercise religious-covenant religious-wedding sacred-covenant standing Whether New York Domestic Relations Law 170(7), which permits one spouse to obtain a divorce based on an affidavit that the marriage relationship has …
22-322 Zia Shaikh v. Madeline F. Einbinder, et al. Third Circuit 2022-10-06 Denied access-to-courts civil-rights de-novo-review due-process first-amendment judicial-immunity section-1915 standing vexatious-litigant 1. Did the Third Circuit err in not doing a De Nova Review of the Federal District Court Dismissal Order when the dismissal was pertaining to 28 USC 2…
22-324 Michelle O’Connor-Ratcliff, et al. v. Christopher Garnier, et ux. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-06 Judgment Issued Amici (12)Relisted (3) blocking-access circuit-split civil-rights first-amendment free-speech public-official social-media standing state-action Whether a public official engages in state action subject to the First Amendment by blocking an individual from the official's personal social-media a…
22-5775 William Robert Bramscher v. California California 2022-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-rights conviction criminal-appeal first-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence presumption-of-innocence right-to-counsel 1. HAVE THE FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT TO ADVOCATE THAT I AM INNOCENT OF ANY CHARGED OF CONVICTED CRIME(S)? 2. AN APPEAL ATTORNEY CANNOT CONCEDE GUILT IN …
22-5723 Jackie-DeVere Allen Cole v. Unknown El Paso County Sheriff's Office Records Clerk Colorado 2022-09-30 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-review standing takings Does the State of Colorado have authority to create a law that forces acts on citizens to elude a pre-First Amendment petition for redress of grievanc…
22-5696 Matt Nasuti v. Adrian Holm, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-tribunals civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-accountability secret-proceedings veterans-rights Can Secret Trials Ever Be Constitutional? May Federal Agencies Adjudicate Violent Behavior Cases in Secret "Star Chamber" Tribunals, and Then Bar the…
22-293 Anthony Novak v. City of Parma, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-09-28 Denied Amici (5) circuit-split civil-rights first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement parody parody-speech police-misconduct qualified-immunity Petitioner Anthony Novak created a parody Facebook page to mock his local police department in Parma, Ohio. Novak published six posts on the page, der…
22-295 In Re Deborah Walton 2022-09-28 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure court-order district-court due-process first-amendment judicial-interpretation jurisdiction legal-procedure remand seventh-circuit standard-of-review Did the District Court err by misinterpreting the Order from the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals? Did the District Court denying the Petitioner her …
22-301 Xiu Jian Sun v. Donald J. Trump, former President of the United States District of Columbia 2022-09-28 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-provisions divine-intervention due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-review legal-interpretation religious-doctrine religious-freedom spiritual-claims standing The complaint of the plaintiff, -god's servant, Xiu Jian Sun, the spiritual Adam respectfully shows and alleges as follows 1. Jehovah the Lord god of…
22-5700 Eric E. Johnson v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2022-09-27 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process first-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure standing statutory-protections X IktHd cffafe? toujjr&f debuaL optetjfkc C^u^fHidioml fyklHt df[e apt tffipcal? ik dittzd 7 viol&hok, krd'-Hte /7/rd/ hiM^udupertkofi diet C^iptdHttd…
22-5681 Towaki Komatsu v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2022-09-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-estoppel first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-bias judicial-misconduct procedural-infirmity standing 1. After the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ("Second Circuit") confirmed in United States v. Lumumba, 794 F.2d 806 (2d Cir. 1986) that p…
22-5674 Chad M. Vice v. Lee County Sheriff Department, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-09-26 Denied IFP 1st-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech individual-liberties political-expression public-forum Whereby time frame with state tost proceedings fights arsing idividuals constitutional end. access to the courts. cnd equal te cit:zens via Art. T S2,…
22-5677 Michael Louis McCarron v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-enticement circuit-split criminal-law due-process enticement-statute first-amendment statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether the Ninth Circuit decision that "purely hypothetical" emails can support a conviction for violation of 18 U.S.C. §2422(b) (attempted enticemen…
22-277 Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. v. NetChoice, LLC, dba NetChoice, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-23 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (10)Relisted (3) censorship content-moderation first-amendment free-speech social-media social-media-regulation state-law state-regulation third-party-communications time-place-manner 1. Whether the First Amendment prohibits a State from requiring that social-media companies host third-party communications, and from regulating the t…
22-5650 In Re Bobby D. Hathaway-Bey 2022-09-22 Denied IFP criminal-procedure first-amendment public-access public-trial sentencing sixth-amendment should this court isr s lowik toGrant alrit of Haks Corpus Jo a Moorish AMKican SovErig Man wHo has No wvaila forum to raiss his Comlilling clam of Di…
22-5647 Jose Antonio Guerrero-Yanez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 appeal certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fifth-circuit first-amendment rule-60b-motion standing (1) Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit misapply 28 U.S.C. §2253 by requiring Petitioner to be granted a Certificate of Appea…
22-5621 Cody Ray Leveke, aka Cody Meyer, aka Cody Ray Meyers v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-communication criminal-law first-amendment free-speech jury-instruction statutory-interpretation subjective-intent true-threat Whether, to establish that a statement is a "true threat" unprotected by the First Amendment, the government must show that the speaker subjectively k…
22-5617 Michael Farrow v. Officer Tulupia, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-09-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights dismissal-of-case due-process first-amendment government-employment presumption-of-receipt rebuttal-of-presumption standing workplace-retaliation Where the Tenth Cirit Cort sancticaed the Distrist Courts (ac.) failure to address rebuttal of the pre sumption of Reciept atlourts urders), causing t…
22-219 Cara O'Callaghan, et al. v. Michael V. Drake, in His Official Capacity as President of the University of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) civil-rights collective-bargaining first-amendment government-worker janus-precedent janus-v-afscme labor-law labor-rights union-dues Whether a union can trap a government worker into paying dues for longer than a year under Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31, 138 S. Ct. 2448 (2018).
22-216 Terry C. Cooley v. California Statewide Law Enforcement Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-09 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights contract-restrictions first-amendment janus-precedent janus-v-afscme public-sector-union public-sector-unions resignation-limitations state-employer-contracts union-membership 1. After this Court's ruling in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31, 138 S. Ct. 2448 (2018), petitioner…
22-213 Delores Polk, et al. v. Betty Yee, in Her Official Capacity as State Controller of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 first-amendment nonmembers state-action union-speech waiver The Court in Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31 held that it violates the First Amendment for a state and union to seize payments for union speech from nonme…
22-212 Jonathan Savas, et al. v. California Statewide Law Enforcement Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) associational-rights compelled-speech constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech janus-v-afscme labor-rights speech-rights union-membership waiver The Court in Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31 held it violates the First Amendment for a state and union to compel employees to subsidize union speech. 138…
22-204 Melissa Elaine Klein, et vir v. Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries Oregon 2022-09-07 GVR Amici (13)Relisted (2) civil-rights custom-art due-process employment-division employment-division-v-smith first-amendment free-speech masterpiece-cakeshop religious-freedom religious-hostility 1. Whether, under Masterpiece, the Oregon Court of Appeals should have entered judgment for Petitioners after finding that Respondent had demonstrated…
22-202 Leonardo Nuncio v. Texas Texas 2022-09-06 Denied constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech harassment-statute obscenity obscenity-test overbreadth texas-penal-code vagueness 1. Is Texas's obscene harassment statute (Tex. Penal Code 42.07(a)(1) and (b)(3)) unconstitutionally vague and overbroad? 2. Does the Miller v. Calif…
22-5501 In Re Eric Drake 2022-09-02 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights court-access due-process first-amendment prefiling-injunction pro-se-litigation sanctions state-courts vexatious-litigant Under the First Amendment, every U.S. citizen has a right of speech (right to petition), and 42 USC §1981 (right to sue, give evidence, to be parties …
22-179 United States v. Helaman Hansen Ninth Circuit 2022-08-29 Judgment Issued Amici (15)Relisted (2) 8-usc-1324 commercial-advantage constitutional-challenge criminal-prohibition first-amendment immigration immigration-law overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine private-financial-gain statutory-interpretation Whether the federal criminal prohibition against encouraging or inducing unlawful immigration for commercial advantage or private financial gain, in v…
22-175 Steven M. Recht, et al. v. Patrick Morrisey, Attorney General of West Virginia Fourth Circuit 2022-08-25 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split commercial-speech disclaimer-requirements due-process first-amendment legal-advertising misleading-advertising professional-regulation speech-restrictions Applying a version of commercial-speech doctrine that heavily deferred to legislative choices, which ignoring other requirements in this Court's decis…
22-5408 Lady Donna Dutchess v. Jason Dutch Alaska 2022-08-19 Denied IFP civil-rights establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise lemon-test medical-scientology religious-freedom vaccine-mandate vaccine-mandates 1. Regarding the American court's absolute faith in human-made vaccine concoctions, which is an important national and public issue, is it truly this …
22-148 Jack Daniel's Properties, Inc. v. VIP Products LLC Ninth Circuit 2022-08-17 Judgment Issued Amici (30) brand-recognition commercial-speech commercial-use dilution-by-tarnishment first-amendment lanham-act noncommercial-use trademark-infringement 1. Whether humorous use of another's trademark as one's own on a commercial product is subject to the Lanham Act's traditional likelihood-of-confusion…
22-5367 Derrick Lee Hinton v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation federal-jurisdiction federal-power first-amendment free-speech government-criticism judicial-review legal-precedent native-american-rights sovereignty-doctrine tribal-sovereignty Question not identified.
22-144 Mahesh Khatri v. Ohio State University, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-08-15 Denied Response Waived academic-freedom biosafety-regulations bioterrorism-act civil-rights disability-discrimination employee-speech first-amendment free-speech garcetti-exception whistleblower As of August 1, 2022, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic which is caused by a corona virus called SARS-CoV-2, a select infectious agent, more than 6…
22-135 Heather Kokesch Del Castillo v. Joseph A. Ladapo, Secretary, Florida Department of Health Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-15 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech government-regulation occupational-licensing occupational-regulation professional-speech speech-restriction Whether a government prohibition on communicating a message is exempt from First Amendment scrutiny simply because that prohibition flows from a statu…
22-5340 Jonathan Wells v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech internet-access packingham-v-north-carolina sex-offenders supervised-release Whether the same First Amendment principles in Packingham apply to sex offenders on supervised release and prohibit untailored bans on internet use du…
22-138 Billy Raymond Counterman v. Colorado Colorado 2022-08-11 Judgment Issued Amici (20)Relisted (5) first-amendment free-speech objective-standard reasonable-person speech-protection subjective-intent true-threats Whether, to establish that a statement is a "true threat" unprotected by the First Amendment, the government must show that the speaker subjectively k…
22-137 BYD Company Ltd. v. Alliance for American Manufacturing, et al. District of Columbia 2022-08-11 Denied Response Waived actual-malice civil-rights defamation discovery first-amendment free-speech pleading-standard pleading-standards public-figure reckless-disregard New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964), St. Amant v. Thompson, 390 U.S. 727 (1968), and Harte-Hanks Communications, Inc. v. Connaughton, …
22-130 Lonnie Tofsrud v. City of Spokane, Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-08-10 Denied Response Waived chain-of-command civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech officer-misconduct pickering-garcetti-framework public-employee public-employee-speech supervisor-retaliation whistleblower whistleblower-protection Following a supervisor's refusal to act on a credible report of officer misconduct, does a city police detective's complaint to a county attorney, giv…
22-5315 Ryan Rydell Bonner v. Texas Texas 2022-08-09 Denied IFP burden-of-proof censorship clear-and-present-danger constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech government-regulation statutory-vagueness -QuESTID nI I.) CoMsfifuTlO/vlAL IavJ To-\a1 it SfftTi/tfeS,, ElRST AM0\lDM0\tT AMD STATUTORY V/AfcUENlESS : Because ; First fcMDMQvT freedoms meed Me…
22-101 Martin Cowen, et al. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived ballot-access congressional-district equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment signature-requirements third-party third-party-candidates 1. Does a State violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments when its ballot-access restrictions on third-party candidates for United States Representa…
22-5246 Bruce H. Singman v. IMDb.com, Inc. California 2022-08-01 Denied IFP anti-SLAPP commercial-speech damaging-information defamation digital-media edit-system first-amendment freedom-of-speech internet-movie-database internet-publication tortious-interference wrongful-information Did the Supreme Court of California error in failing to note that the Respondent's IMDb.com i.e., Internet Movie Data Base had an EDIT System providin…
22-95 Schuyler File v. Margaret Hickey, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-08-01 Denied Amici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) abood-v-detroit civil-rights compelled-membership due-process first-amendment free-speech janus-precedent mandatory-bar scrutiny-standard standing union-shop Whether membership in a mandatory state bar is subject to heightened scrutiny under the First Amendment.
22-5215 Graham Schiff v. Maryland Maryland 2022-07-28 Denied IFP as-applied constitutional-rights content-based content-based-speech first-amendment free-speech public-concern right-to-counsel Whether the petitioner's speech, which is content-based, on a matter of public-concern, and made while exercising one's right to counsel, is protected…
22-5219 Kim Lee Millbrook v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment ineffective-assistance newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct standing takings Whether petitioner has a jurisdictional and standing to challenge 18 U.S.C. § 922 and 924, 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2), and 18 U.S.C. § 30 as an infringeme…
22-5146 Dawud Canaan Sturrup Gabriel v. Melton Truck Lines Tenth Circuit 2022-07-21 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings standing tenth-circuit-review 1. Whether or not the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth (10th) Circuit, departed far from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, as …
22-59 Paul Nunu v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-07-21 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment ab-initio constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction first-amendment privileges-or-immunities rooker-feldman state-court-judgments void-ab-initio 1. Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars inferior Federal Courts from voiding State Court judgments that are void ab initio under State and Federal…
22-60 Church of Scientology International, et al. v. Chrissie Carnell Bixler, et al. California 2022-07-21 Denied Amici (5)Response Waived arbitration-agreement church-membership civil-procedure establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise freedom-of-religion religious-arbitration Where a parishioner freely executes a religious arbitration agreement with her church, does the First Amendment prohibit enforcement of the agreement …
22-5087 Dawud Canaan Sturrup Gabriel v. Melton Truck Lines Tenth Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review petition-for-redress tenth-circuit I. Whether or not the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth (10th) Circuit, departed far from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, as …
22-29 Richelle D. Wallace v. City of Hampton, Virginia, et al Virginia 2022-07-11 Denied actual-malice constitutional-interpretation curtis-publishing-co-v-butts defamation first-amendment free-speech libel-law new-york-times-v-sullivan public-figure New York Times v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964) federalized a large swath of libel law holding that the First Amendment mandates proof of actual malic…
22-28 Yi Tai Shao v. Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of California, et al. California 2022-07-08 Denied Relisted (2) child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech habeas-corpus prefiling-order standing 1. Does May 17, 2022 Order of California Supreme Court violate the First Amendment, Fifth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment of Constitution pursu…
22-5056 Rosa Serrano v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2022-07-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review case-dismissal civil-procedure court-record disclosure due-process first-amendment judicial-procedure legal-standards procedural-dismissal public-records standing Question not identified.
21-1593 Robert L. Schulz, et al. v. United States Congress District of Columbia 2022-06-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) congress congressional-power constitution-power-liberty constitutional-petitioning electoral-process federal-law first-amendment first-amendment-petition judicial-proceedings jurisdiction presidential-electors 1. Whether the D.C. Court of Appeals has sanc tioned a "lack of jurisdiction " decision by the District Court that has so far departed from the Consti…
21-1591 Bardstown Capital Corporation, et al. v. Seiller Waterman, LLC, et al. Kentucky 2022-06-27 Denied Relisted (2) antitrust-laws civil-proceedings first-amendment noerr-pennington-doctrine petition-clause sham-lawsuit sham-lawsuits standing wrongful-use-of-process 1. This Court's precedent "finds all but sham law suits exempt from the reach of the antitrust laws." BE & K Const. Co. v. N.L.R.B., 536 U.S. 516, 540…
21-1589 Henry McInnis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-24 Denied Response Waived circuit-split false-claims first-amendment fraud hospice-fraud medical-certification regulatory-liability social-security-act Did the lower court err in finding pervasive fraud as to "false" hospice certifications —following the Third Circuit as opposed to the Eleventh Circui…
21-1580 MyPillow, Inc. v. US Dominion, Inc., et al. District of Columbia 2022-06-22 Denied actual-malice collateral-order-doctrine defamation first-amendment free-speech interlocutory-appeal jurisdictional-appeal new-york-times-standard A defamation lawsuit has been filed by a for profit corporation ("Dominion") whose machines tabulated ballots in 28 States in the 2020 Presidential el…
21-8194 Richard Reynolds, et al. v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Second Circuit 2022-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-agency administrative-law constitutional-review corrections due-process first-amendment free-speech prison-regulations sexually-explicit-materials turner-standard turner-v-safley Whether a state administrative agency, based upon the recommendation of an ad hoc committee, can deny access to publications protected by the First Am…
21-8142 Major Mike Webb, aka Michael D. Webb v. Ralph Northam, et al. Virginia 2022-06-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights color-of-law due-process first-amendment necessity-defense prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation unrepresented-litigant writ-of-mandamus "Globally, as of 6:09pm CEST, 10 June 2022, there have been 532,201,219 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,305,358 deaths, reported to WHO ", St…
21-8138 Lawrence J. Gerrans v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure first-amendment free-exercise religious-rights sixth-amendment structural-error trial-rights 1. May a district court , upon the prosecutor's demand that a defendant's Bible be removed from the courtroom during a criminal trial, constitutionall…
21-8122 Jeremiah Henderson v. Austin K. McClain Fourth Circuit 2022-06-10 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-tort first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement probable-cause retaliatory-arrest retaliatory-prosecution section-1983 Does probable cause defeat a retaliatory prosecution claim when there is strong circumstantial proof that a policeman initiated the prosecution to ret…
21-1543 Jane Doe, aka Beeism v. Jomy Sterling Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-09 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (4) anonymous-speech civil-procedure first-amendment online-platforms standard-of-review subpoena 1. What is the proper standard of review to be applied in determining whether a party may obtain a subpoena compelling the identification an anonymous…
21-1548 Courtney L. Rainey v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-06-09 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-investigation due-process false-information first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech witness-intimidation 1. Whether it violates a citizens' rights under the First Amendment's Freedom of Speech clause for a State to prosecute that citizen for asking someon…
21-1535 David Lowery v. Benjamin Joffe, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied Amici (1) class-action copyright cy-pres first-amendment google-litigation privacy-rights rule-23 settlement-fairness standing 1. Whether, or in what circumstances, a cy pres award that provides no direct relief or benefit to class members comports with the Rule 23(e) requirem…
21-1532 Brian Davison v. Deborah Rose, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-scrutiny due-process first-amendment free-speech government-action government-speech public-forum speech-restriction standing viewpoint-discrimination 1. Whether a forum and scrutiny analysis are required when considering First Amendment infringement claims involving the government barring citizen sp…
21-1531 Korry L. Ardell v. Joshua Kaul, Attorney General of Wisconsin Seventh Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech habeas-corpus jury-instructions procedural-default stalking I. The jury instructions here permitted conviction for felony "stalking" based merely on the Ardell's communications with third parties about the alle…
21-1520 Wismettac Asian Foods, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board Ninth Circuit 2022-06-03 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure due-process employer-speech first-amendment free-speech labor-board labor-law national-labor-relations-act section-8c standing union-authorization 1. Did the National Labor Relations Board violate Section 8(c) of the National Labor Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. § 158(c), which guarantees employer free…
21-8050 Brad Allen Dunn v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-06-03 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection first-amendment public-university religious-freedom standing student-organization takings viewpoint-discrimination l~ OA ~fh $U\ ter /V of ^CoJ, rjUd fL ^44^ fijh&A Ontn^od fUr? i&i uoA/^ facvYtfhJ 6s~cA fiy-^ oiUr Short) ^sfM f^br 6dr<;fJ(>s&/jb/\ e JU IW Jk T+k …
21-1518 BYD Company Ltd. v. Vice Media LLC Second Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied actual-malice defamation discovery-rights first-amendment iqbal pleading-standard public-figure twombly New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964), St. Amant v. Thompson, 390 U.S. 727 (1968), and Harte-Hanks Communications, Inc. v. Connaughton, …
21-1502 Jeff Swanson v. Couy Griffin, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied civil-liberties first-amendment free-speech public-forum qualified-immunity social-media viewpoint-discrimination Did the Tenth Circuit err in reversing the decision of the District Court that Commissioner Couy Griffin was not entitled to qualified immunity after …
21-8023 Xingfei Luo v. California California 2022-06-01 Denied IFP content-based-restriction content-based-restrictions dating-relationship effective-assistance-of-counsel first-amendment fourteenth-amendment nude-photography nudity privacy privacy-expectation Where an individual does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in an image, the State's interest in protecting the individual's privacy interes…
21-8026 William F. Kaetz v. Educational Credit Management Corporation, et al. Third Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-law constitutional-vagueness due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment standing statutory-interpretation takings vagueness Is the statute 11 U.S.C. §523(a)(8) void for vagueness therefore unconstitutional?
21-1497 Scott Louis YoungBear v. Tom Miller, Attorney General of Iowa Eighth Circuit 2022-05-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights content-discrimination first-amendment free-speech prior-restraint religious-speech viewpoint-discrimination Whether prior restraint, content-based or viewpoint discrimination was applied when religious speech in a civil complaint was censored per the "forbid…
21-1489 Andrew Ioannidis v. Tom Wolf, Governor of Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2022-05-27 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-remedy due-process election-law electoral-count-act first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech mootness standing state-law-preemption Whether there is any remedy for violation(s) of the First and Fourteenth Amendment(s) to the United States Constitution. Whether Pennsylvania Law sup…
21-1477 Sylwia Ewelina Madej Manchanda, et vir v. Andrea Lewis, et al. Second Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority judicial-bias judicial-proceedings organized-crime systemic-bias 1. Does the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and Catherine O'Hagan Wolfe, routinely, and arbitrarily exercise authority beyond the proposed function an…
21-1474 Candace Owens, et al. v. Lead Stories, LLC, et al. Delaware 2022-05-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rights contract contract-law defamation first-amendment free-speech marketplace-regulation tortious-interference 1. Should the First Amendment provide a defense to claims of tortious interference and similar torts that happen to involve speech? 2. May a business…
21-7901 Richard Coleman v. North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-05-18 Denied IFP anti-pro-se-bias civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-overreach obstruction-of-justice pro-se-bias seventh-amendment Whether judges judging judges in cases in which one party is not represented results in pro se litigants being victims of judicial criminal acts - tho…
21-7912 Jack A. Courtney v. Motorists Mutual Insurance Company Ohio 2022-05-18 Denied IFP establishment-clause first-amendment government-endorsement public-forum religious-display separation-of-church-and-state This Appeal chAims to inu olve a Constitu tion Al qvestion inuoluing Both the U.S. PUBLiC and Ohio constitution Aowestion
21-7894 Dana Albrecht v. Katherine Albrecht New Hampshire 2022-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP domestic-violence due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment objective-standards orders-of-protection protective-order supreme-court Petitioner alleges that New Hampshire does not provide equal protection under the law to its citizens when deciding whether to issue domestic violence…
21-7855 James Wells Horsey v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-05-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP blockburger-test constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment juvenile-pornography same-evidence-test sixth-amendment Under the Blockburger Test and same evidence test, can possession of juvenile pornography be considered child pornography or adult pornography since t…
21-1429 Zhang Jingrong, et al. v. Chinese Anti-Cult World Alliance, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied Amici (4) civil-rights constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech legislative-history place-of-worship religious-discrimination religious-freedom statutory-interpretation Whether the statutory text and First Amendment permit FACEA's protections from violence at a "place of religious worship" to apply only to places reli…
21-7802 In Re Jaime Rodriguez, aka Jay, et al. 2022-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment second-circuit uncontested-factual-circumstances united-states-court-of-appeals united-states-v-heymond united-states-v-merced writ-of-mandamus Question not identified.
21-7805 William Paul Burch v. Select Portfolio Servicing, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2022-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech frivolous-dismissal in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigant removal sanctions The legal definition of frivolous is incomplete. What should the complete legal definition of frivolous be? On an appeal to the circuit court regardi…
21-7807 In Re Rafael Cezar Danam 2022-05-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection first-amendment jury-trial mandamus-writ redress-of-grievances supremacy-clause 1.) Application pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 22, United States Constitution Article III, Sections 1 and 2, Applicant as Petitioner seeks interventio…
21-1416 Christopher Orr v. Christian Brothers High School, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-05-04 Denied civil-rights employment-discrimination employment-law first-amendment ministerial-exception racial-discrimination religious-discrimination religious-freedom title-vii After alleging that his immediate supervisor, the President of his Catholic high school, invoked racist stereotypes against Black people and other per…
21-1413 James Tolle v. Ralph Northam, Governor of Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-05-03 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection executive-order first-amendment friends-of-the-earth-v-laidlaw mootness-doctrine roman-catholic-diocese-of-brooklyn-v-cuomo state-of-emergency Does the Supreme Court's Mootness Doctrine found in Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services (TOG), Inc., 528 U. S. 167 (2000), he…
21-1412 Pamela Young, et al. v. Wendy Rogers, et al. Arizona 2022-05-03 Denied Response Waived defamation false-light first-amendment milkovich milkovich-standard political-speech private-figure reasonable-reader 1. Whether the First Amendment immunizes a political candidate from a private figure's defamation and false light claims where the candidate publishes…
21-1402 Outdoor One Communications LLC v. Charter Township of Canton, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2022-05-02 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge content-based content-based-regulation first-amendment free-speech permit-requirement prior-restraint speech-restriction standing variance-scheme 1. Whether a speaker must first engage in self-censorship to have standing to attack the constitutionality of a prior restraint on its speech. 2. Whe…
21-7755 Eric Ericson v. Illinois Illinois 2022-04-29 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-injunction due-process first-amendment free-speech injunction standing state-prosecution Must a citizen obey a court ordered injunction that deprives him of his constitutionally protected right to free speech under the First Amendment? Ca…
21-1372 Hollie Adams, et al. v. Teamsters Union Local 429, et al. Third Circuit 2022-04-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) affirmative-consent agency-shop civil-rights due-process employment-contract first-amendment union union-dues waiver-requirement For whom does this Court's affirmative consent waiver requirement set forth in Janus apply: nonmembers currently or previously employed in agency shop…
21-1369 Carter Page v. Oath Inc. Delaware 2022-04-21 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived burden-of-proof defamation first-amendment passive-voice public-figure qualified-language truth-standard 1. Does couching factual claims in qualified language and in the passive voice suffice to render them "true or substantially true" under the First Ame…
21-1360 Mike Kowall, et al. v. Jocelyn Benson, Michigan Secretary of State Sixth Circuit 2022-04-19 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) candidate-qualifications civil-rights due-process electoral-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment legislative-restrictions political-participation standing term-limits 1. Whether candidate qualifications should be subjected merely to rational-basis review, as the Sixth Circuit concluded below, or some heightened leve…
21-7655 Bruce Committe v. Vickie Gentry Fifth Circuit 2022-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP academic-freedom civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-procedure press-freedom standing What are the contours and principles of the First Amendment's free speech and freedom of the press protections (a/k/a Academic Freedom) in the academi…
21-1343 Victor R. Marshall v. Supreme Court of New Mexico New Mexico 2022-04-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-recusal lawyer-discipline legal-ethics professional-conduct standing Does the First Amendment permit a state to suspend a lawyer from practice indefinitely because it found statements in a motion, in which the lawyer so…
21-1295 St. Augustine School, et al. v. Jill Underly, in Her Official Capacity as Superintendent of Public Instruction, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-03-28 Denied constitutional-claims doctrinal-determination establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause government-interference public-benefits religion-clauses religious-preference summary-reversal 1. Whether summary reversal is warranted where the Seventh Circuit did not consider this case in light of Espinoza v. Montana Dep't of Revenue, 591 U.…
21-1294 David H. Penny v. Nancy Pelosi, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-03-25 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-limits first-amendment free-speech impeachment impeachment-power justiciability legislative-standing political-question-doctrine standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Does a citizen constituent of a duly elected President have the possibility of filing a complaint with standing, subject matter jurisdiction, and just…
21-1288 Libertarian Party of Alabama v. John Harold Merrill, Alabama Secretary of State Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-23 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-parties voter-registration Does it violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution for a State to discriminate against minor political parties by p…
21-1284 Barry D. Romeril v. Securities and Exchange Commission Second Circuit 2022-03-23 Denied Amici (6) constitutional-rights content-based-restriction due-process first-amendment prior-restraint sec-settlement viewpoint-based-restriction void-judgment 1. Does it violate the First Amendment for the Securities and Exchange Commission to impose a requirement that any party with whom it settles must agr…
21-7442 Aaron Matthew Oleston v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2022-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights disorderly-conduct due-process fighting-words first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement police-arrest police-discretion Does the First Amendment protect the right of the people to approach law enforcement and criticize police actions in an opprobrious manner?
21-1263 Marvin Gerber v. Henry Herskovitz, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-03-17 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived anti-israel anti-jewish first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-of-religion harassment intimidation judicial-review religious-freedom speech-restriction Jewish worshippers entering their synagogue for worship on Saturday mornings for Sabbath services are harassed and intimidated by a group that assembl…
21-7397 Mario Derrell Jones v. Great Southern National Bank, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 administrative-decision administrative-law civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment section-1983 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with relevant de…
21-1229 Saved Magazine, et al. v. Spokane Police Department, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-10 Denied Response Waived civil-rights content-based-censorship content-based-restrictions due-process dueling-protests first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech press-freedom public-forum qualified-immunity Police kept opposing protestors on separate sides of a street at an event called "Drag Queen Story Hour" held at a public library. A journalist for a …
21-1235 Robert Grundstein v. Supreme Court of Ohio Ohio 2022-03-10 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-access due-process first-amendment free-speech standing statutory-interpretation vexatious-litigator 1. Is the Ohio Vexatious Litigator Statue, ORC 2323.52, Unconstitutional on the basis of vagueness and insufficient standards? Is it subject to abuse …
21-7285 Irina Collier v. University of California, Berkeley Ninth Circuit 2022-03-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech online-communication school-discipline student-rights student-speech university-policies whistleblower-protections 1. Whether tutor vi demoine Cowl applies to witrapd tudents free ad g byivernity , Ue herteley sdaytiats bill fol aikewing to me (parent ) 2. |bbelln…
21-1200 Sherif A. Philips v. Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-03 Denied civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection federal-question-jurisdiction fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud-upon-the-court personal-jurisdiction Unrecognized Transfer The Case From Guam Superior Court To Guam District Court , even with lack of Jurisdiction lead To Default Judgement And Levi on …
21-7246 In Re Isaiah S. Harris, Sr. 2022-03-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech mandamus standing ultra-vires Harris' case presents exceptional circumstances that warrant exercise of this Court's discretionary power. Because of the willful disobedience or adop…
21-7259 Keith Prescott Gace v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied IFP child-pornography circuit-split d-c-circuit dost-factors federal-criminal-law first-amendment judicial-precedent lascivious-exhibition seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation As a matter of statutory interpretation, should a jury or court consider the so-called Dost factors when determining whether a visual depiction of a m…
21-7237 John Dalen v. South Carolina South Carolina 2022-03-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP common-law constitutional-rights driver-license driver's-license due-process first-amendment right-to-travel social-security 1. Was Petitioner, John Dalen denied his Constitutionally-protected Common Law right to travel where the State has converted the right to travel into …
21-1172 American Society of Journalists and Authors, Inc., et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California Ninth Circuit 2022-02-24 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) content-based content-based-law employment-classification financial-burdens first-amendment function-of-speech independent-contractor purpose-of-speech regulatory-burdens speech-regulation tax-burden Is a law content-based when it imposes financial and regulatory burdens based on the function or purpose of speech? Does a law that has the effect of…
21-1171 Cadillac of Naperville, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board District of Columbia 2022-02-24 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure comity employer-speech federalism first-amendment free-speech labor-dispute nlrb nlrb-procedure state-sovereignty (1) Whether the Court of Appeal improperly narrowed the First Amendment protection owed employers in a labor dispute by requiring objective factual su…
21-1156 Rodric David v. Tony Kazal, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-02-22 Denied Response Waived anti-stalking-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process extraterritorial-application first-amendment foreign-nationals free-speech ninth-circuit standing territorial-jurisdiction Did the Ninth Circuit impermissibly disregard this Court's holding in Agency for Int? Dev. v. All. for Open Soc'y Int'l, Inc., 140 S. Ct. 2082, 2086 (…
21-7115 Robert Stahlnecker v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP communications-law constitutional-challenge criminal-law first-amendment free-speech political-speech statutory-interpretation telecommunications Does 47 U.S.C. § 223(a)(1)(C) violate the First Amendment when applied to political speech, as it was in this case?
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…
21-1113 Brock Fredin v. Lindsey E. Middlecamp, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-02-11 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights district-court first-amendment free-speech inherent-judicial-powers inherent-powers injunctive-relief prior-restraint public-officials On November 10, 2021, the Eighth Circuit ignored two-hundred and fifty years of First Amendment precedent and issued a breathtakingly unconstitutional…
21-7103 Roger D. Ream v. Florida Florida 2022-02-11 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process first-amendment internet-access liberty-interest liberty-rights packingham-v-north-carolina probation-conditions property-rights supervised-release Under the First Amendment, does a person on probation or other form of supervised release have a constitutional right to access the Internet or other…
21-7105 Charles E. Sisney v. Denny Kaemingk, Secretary, South Dakota Department of Corrections, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-02-11 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights content-based content-based-restriction first-amendment less-restrictive-alternative penological-interest prison-censorship prison-policy turner-factors turner-v-safley 1. It is settled that inmates in state and federal prisons retain First Amendment rights consistent with the application of the four factors set forth…
21-7095 Paul Anthony Darrah v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied IFP enterprise enterprise-existence first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech jury-instruction jury-instructions necessity-requirement rico-conspiracy title-iii-wiretap wiretap-authorization L. Should the jury have been allowed to convict Mr. Darrah on the hypothetical existence of all of the elements of a RICO conspiracy? II. Did the jur…
21-1089 Jeff Garvin Smith, Cary Dale Vandiver, Patrick Michael McKeoun, David Randy Drozdowski, and Vincent John Witort v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-02-07 Denied Criminal-Procedure Due-Process First-Amendment Free-Speech hypothetical-elements jury-instruction Jury-Instructions RICO-Conspiracy sixth-circuit-precedent I. Should the jury have been allowed to convict the defendants on the hypothetical existence of all of the elements of a RICO Conspiracy? II. Did the…
21-1076 Sivagnanam Thamilselvan v. Vijayalakshmi Thamilselvan Michigan 2022-02-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) comity comity-doctrine divorce first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise no-fault-divorce religious-freedom subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether the petitioners ' First and Fourteenth Amendment rights are violated, when Michigan Supreme Court, Michigan Court of Appeals and Trial Cour…
21-7042 Craig Nelsen v. Southern Poverty Law Center Eighth Circuit 2022-02-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-malice constitutional-protection defamation diversity-jurisdiction first-amendment free-speech public-figure summary-judgment I. Whether the US Court for the 8th Circuit 1] wrongly allowed the District Court's improper statement of a Missouri Supreme Court ruling, which held—…
21-1073 Kourosh Kenneth Hamidi, et al. v. Service Employees International Union, Local 1000 Ninth Circuit 2022-02-02 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights employee-protections first-amendment fourteenth-amendment good-faith state-action union-rights waiver 1. May a labor union acting in concert with State officials, consistent with the First and Fourteenth Amendments, seize for union political speech pay…
21-1071 Stephen Lynch Murray v. Janelle Irwin Taylor, et al. Florida 2022-02-02 Denied civil-rights cyberstalking-statute defamation due-process first-amendment free-speech government-retaliation judicial-discretion political-speech standing 1. Can the government deputize private actors to attack political speech and thereby abridge political speech using law and case law in civil court?…
21-7019 Runnie Myles v. Jay Jacobs, et al. Second Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-error civil-procedure due-process fairly-traceable-standard first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation proximate-cause-analysis standing standing-requirement sua-sponte-dismissal Whether the circuit court committed reversable error when it dismissed Petitioner's case on an issue of fact that was never noticed or briefed and …
21-1057 Oracle Corporation v. Hewlett-Packard Company California 2022-01-31 Denied Amici (1) appeal-rights civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights damages-award due-process first-amendment free-speech litigation-activity petition-clause standing The First Amendment to the Constitution protects "the right of citizens to petition the government," U.S. amend. I, which this Court has held "protect…
21-1048 Cesar Caballero, et al. v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-27 Denied Response Waived equal-protection first-amendment native-american-land-rights native-american-lands political-question-doctrine quiet-title right-to-access-courts sovereign-immunity 1. Whether the Trial Court and the Court of Appeals committed prejudicial error in barring/blocking a Native American tribe from pursuing in rem / qui…
21-6964 Carlton Smith v. Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2022-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment standing takings Whether the Shate Sufkeme CouRt erroneausly departed froM the essentinl Require ments of the law and denied Petitioner's Federat Constitutional ClAim.
21-1038 John B. Kenney v. City of San Diego, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-25 Denied Response Waived brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights damages due-process equal-protection first-amendment judicial-misconduct retaliation standing When & What interest &/or other penalties may A/P Kenney also collect along with the $6,050,800.00 "DEFAULT JUDGEMENTS" - now seven (7) years+ -per De…
21-1024 Miriam Brysk v. Henry Herskovitz, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-01-24 Denied Response Waived anti-semitism civil-rights emotional-distress first-amendment free-speech injunction standing 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred by holding that the use of multiple signs in front of a synagogue in Ann Arb…
21-1030 Peter Brimelow v. The New York Times Company Second Circuit 2022-01-21 Denied Response Waived actual-malice civil-rights defamation due-process first-amendment free-speech government-policy media-entity media-liability new-york-times-standard race-intelligence-crime Whether the Sullivan Malice rule should be abandoned, especially where it serves to spare government policy from criticism and shelters a powerful med…
21-6935 Richard Roy Blake v. City of Northglenn, Colorado Colorado 2022-01-21 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-assembly free-speech municipal-code vagueness 1.) Did the City of Northglenn, Colorado police department violate Petitioner's First Amendment rights to free speech and assembly on January 4, 2020 …
21-1027 Green Haven Preparative Meeting, et al. v. New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, et al. Second Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Amici (1) civil-rights first-amendment free-exercise institutional-rights prison-ministry religious-organization standing substantial-burden 1. Does the standing of a religious organization to protect the fundamental practices of its faith from being abridged by the state cease at the priso…
21-1007 Robert A. Hawkland v. Burke Hall, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied Response Waived first-amendment free-speech governmental-agency internal-investigation official-duties public-employee retaliation speech-protection Without hearing any evidence and contrary to the fact-based allegations of petitioner's complaint that his speech was not made within the ordinary sco…
21-6883 Walter Delaney Booker, Jr. v. M. E. Engelke, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights compelling-interest constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-exercise-clause prison prison-rights religious-exercise religious-freedom standing 1. Does tho RLuipA require the louer courts to evaluate the claims raised under the Aat under the legrtimate penological interest test or the compelli…
21-6868 Michael D. Webb v. Anthony S. Fauci, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP and whether summary judgment can be granted in a administrative-law administrative-remedies civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment freedom-of-information-act freedom-of-religion standing 1. Whether, pursuant to S.Ct.R. 11, see also 28 U. S. C. § 2101(e) 1, upon application for prejudgment relief, in "a case pending in a United States c…
21-1003 F. F., as Parent of Y. F., et al. v. New York, et al. New York 2022-01-14 Denied constitutional-rights first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause narrow-tailoring religious-bias religious-exemption school-vaccination strict-scrutiny vaccination-requirement Does New York's religious exemption repeal violate the First Amendment's Free Exercise Clause because (1) either (a) it allows for secular exemptions …
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…
21-992 Dori Yates, et al. v. Hillsboro Unified School District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-12 Denied Response Waived belgau-v-inslee first-amendment janus-precedent janus-v-afscme membership-agreement political-speech public-employees public-sector-unions union-dues waiver In Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31, this Court held that public employees have a First Amendment right not to subsidize union speech. 138 S. Ct. 2448, 248…
21-987 Owolabi Salis v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security Second Circuit 2022-01-11 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction witness 1. Whether facts brought by a witness before a jury and tried by that jury can be reexamined by the same witness before another body who was also a …
21-6777 Carol Garrard, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-07 Denied IFP appearance-of-impropriety civil-rights due-process first-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-conduct judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics paupers-penalty standing 1. Neither an allegation of infra-judicial acts of bias, nor proof of acts of bias, is an 'essential element ' of the appearance of impropriety, and i…
21-974 Sylvia Borunda Firth, et al. v. Tony K. McDonald, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-01-06 Denied administrative-agency civil-rights first-amendment free-speech free-speech-clause government-speech judicial-department keller-v-state-bar overrule-precedent state-bar 1. Whether the State Bar of Texas, which is "a public corporation and an administrative agency of the judicial department of [the Texas] government," …
21-6757 Dimitar Petlechkov v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fifth-amendment first-amendment judicial-review judicial-reviewability perjury sixth-amendment Question 1: Is judicial reviewability of a trial attorney's failure to impeach a key prosecution witness with regard to the most critical and material…
21-951 Rio Grande Foundation v. City of Santa Fe, New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-12-29 Denied ballot-initiative chilling-effect civil-rights constitutional-challenge donor-disclosure first-amendment free-speech nonprofit-disclosure speech-rights standing standing-doctrine This Court has held that a plaintiff may challenge the constitutionality of a burden on speech by alleging that it objectively deters people from exer…
21-953 Richard Leake, et al. v. James T. Drinkard, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Assistant City Administrator of the City of Alpharetta, GA, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-29 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech government-speech historical-context parade-participation public-forum 1. Whether the District Court and Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred when applying the "Gov-ernment Speech" doctrine to limit the speech of priva…
21-6735 Gregory A. Rollins v. Illinois Illinois 2021-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-photography constitutional-challenge content-based content-based-restriction first-amendment government-interest intermediate-scrutiny public-place strict-scrutiny This Court has held that a statute restricting photographs, videos, or sound recordings is presumptively invalid under the First Amendment to the Cons…
21-943 Gerald G. Lundergan v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-12-27 Denied campaign-finance civil-rights constitutional-law corporate-contributions family-corporation federal-ban first-amendment free-speech scrutiny-standard Whether the federal ban on corporate contributions is unconstitutional as applied to intrafamilial contributions from a closely held, family-run corpo…
21-933 Vdare Foundation v. City of Colorado Springs, Colorado Tenth Circuit 2021-12-23 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights first-amendment free-speech government-action hate-speech municipal-services retaliation retaliation-claim section-1983 Whether a complaint based on a local government's public announcement that the plaintiff's speech may be illegal "hate speech" and that, therefore, th…
21-929 Marie Henry v. The Florida Bar, et al. Florida 2021-12-23 Denied Response Waived bar-membership civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process first-amendment free-speech integrated-bar judicial-ethics keller-v-state-bar-of-california standing 1. Whether this Court's First Amendment speech and petitioning precedents on the fundamental constitutional right to access the court as expressed in …
21-928 Alan Hutzel v. Georgia Georgia 2021-12-23 Denied Response Waived anonymous-speech anti-mask-law conduct-of-others constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech intent-to-intimidate rally-conduct 1. Does finding of an intent to intimidate for the purpose of an anti-mask law conviction based solely on the conduct of others violate the First Amen…
21-927 Donald Clinton Crabtree v. Christine Crabtree South Carolina 2021-12-22 Denied 1st-amendment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-expression gender-bias gender-discrimination judicial-misconduct religious-expression Did Judge Monet Pincus violate the 1st Amendment protection of freedom of expression and generally condemn religious expression of men? II. Did the S…
21-918 Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund, United Stockgrowers of America v. Thomas J. Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) compelled-subsidies constitutional constitutional-review first-amendment free-speech government-speech johanns-precedent johanns-v-livestock-marketing-association private-speech 1. Whether otherwise unconstitutional compelled subsidies of private speech are "government speech," free from First Amendment review, because Congres…
21-900 City of Cincinnati, Ohio, et al. v. Lamar Advantage GP Company, LLC, et al. Ohio 2021-12-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) billboard billboard-advertising business-privilege commercial-speech first-amendment freedom-of-press freedom-of-speech municipal-tax state-court-conflict Relying on the same First Amendment precedent from this Court, the highest courts of Ohio and Maryland reached conflicting conclusions about whether t…
21-894 Helen Gardner v. New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, et al. New York 2021-12-17 Denied 42-usc-1981 access-to-courts certificate-of-merit civil-rights court-access due-process first-amendment section-1981 wrongful-death 1. Whether the Supreme Court of the State of New York, namely, Judge Marsha L. Steinhardt, erred and abused its/her discretion by dismissing Petiti…
21-6647 Kenneth Howard Kerr, III v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP computer-skills due-process equal-protection first-amendment freedom-of-speech injury-in-fact re-entry rehabilitation survival Did the Petitioner state enough facts (included in his attachments as well as the text) to present a valid claim? II Did the Petitioner state enough …
21-890 Gaspee Project, et al. v. Diane C. Mederos, et al. First Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) campaign-finance commercial-speech compelled-speech constitutional-law disclosure-requirements donor-disclosure first-amendment free-speech issue-advocacy strict-scrutiny Rhode Island law requires most issue advocacy groups that mention a candidate or referendum in a communication before an election to register with the…
21-886 Ismet Islami v. Kemper Independence Insurance Company Wisconsin 2021-12-15 Denied civil-dissolution due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise legal-separation marital-property religious-freedom religious-rights statutory-entitlement Introductory Statement This is a liberty based "due process" case. Enactment by the Wisconsin legislature of the Wisconsin Marital Property Act in 19…
21-6604 Andre Bowers v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violations constitutional-rights criminal-justice due-process faulty-investigative-practices first-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigative-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct systemic-racism wrongful-conviction wrongful-convictions 1. There is a proven systematic pattern of wrongful conviction around the Nation based on prosecutorial/police misconduct, and ineffective assistance…
21-866 Realgy, LLC v. Roberta Lindenbaum, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-12-10 Denied Response Waived civil-rights content-based-speech due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-recusal recusal retroactive-liability severability standing statutory-interpretation 1. Did this Court sever the government exception retroactively, and if so, is it permissible to reimpose the unequal treatment that this Court held "v…
21-6574 Robert Tracy Warterfield v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-12-10 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-procedure contracts-clause due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment interlocutory-appeal plea-agreements right-to-petition Can a lawfully perfected interlocutory appeal pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1292(a)(1) that has been fully briefed and pending in the United States Court of …
21-855 Paul M. Mahoney v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division Three California 2021-12-09 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights contempt contempt-citation due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech judicial-proceedings petition-for-rehearing This petition seeks review of the California Court of Appeal citing Petitioner for Civil Contempt for allegedly making contemptuous statements in a pe…
21-844 Jim Carmack v. Mark Janny, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-12-07 Dismissed civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech housing-services parole parole-conditions religious-freedom state-action state-actor summary-judgment Whether the employee of a private, religious nonprofit may be held liable, as a state actor, for making pro bono housing and social services at the no…
21-839 Thomas H. Oehmke v. Patrick Andrew Guinan Michigan 2021-12-07 Denied Response Waived actual-malice civil-rights constitutional-protection defamation first-amendment free-speech malicious-reporting qualified-privilege Qualified Privilege for FBI Crime Tips Under the First Amendment, should there be a qualified privilege (instead of absolute immunity ) for relator…
21-6513 Christopher Schneider v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. California 2021-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process federal-law first-amendment property-rights standing state-courts unlawful-detainer 1. Mating the real criticality of this Special—totally deny ONLY petitioner (Mr. Schneider) Gay and all ACLU access to Court record on appeal ANY copi…
21-834 Libertarian Party of Minnesota, et al. v. Steve Simon, Minnesota Secretary of State Eighth Circuit 2021-12-06 Denied Response Waived civil-rights criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process election-law elections first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech petition-rights political-parties political-party Whether a government during the election process, without violating the First and Fourteenth Amendments, can threaten criminal prosecution against vot…
21-822 Donna Patrick, et al. v. The Alaska Public Offices Commission Alaska 2021-12-03 Denied Response Waived campaign-finance certiorari constitutional-interpretation first-amendment free-speech independent-committees institutional-corruption originalism political-contributions standing Petitioners are Alaskan citizens who challenged the Alaska Public Offices Commission's ("APOC's") refusal to enforce Alaskan law regulating contributi…
21-802 Coral Ridge Ministries Media, Inc., dba D. James Kennedy Ministries v. Southern Poverty Law Center Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (14) actual-malice common-law curtis-publishing-co-v-butts defamation first-amendment free-speech public-figure reputational-harm sullivan In New York Times v. Sullivan, this Court upended common law defamation jurisprudence creating a more-often-than-not insurmountable bar for a public f…
21-800 Tony K. McDonald, et al. v. Sylvia Borunda Firth, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Amici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights compelled-speech due-process first-amendment free-speech ideological-speech legal-membership mandatory-bar political-activities political-activity standing state-bar-association Does the First Amendment prohibit a state from compelling attorneys to join and fund a state bar association that engages in extensive political and i…
21-792 Michael Billioni v. Bruce Bryant, Sheriff, York County, South Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied chain-of-command civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech internal-investigation law-enforcement-misconduct pickering-balancing-test public-employee-speech whistleblower whistleblower-protection 1) Whether a public employee's speech about serious law enforcement misconduct involving an in-custody death has limited weight in the Pickering First…
21-6456 Terry Ray Carter v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-vagueness due-process first-amendment overbreadth-doctrine pornographic-matter pornography supervised-release vagueness I. Does a special condition of supervised release that prohibits possession or control of "any pornographic matter" violate due process as unconstitut…
21-791 Timothy H. Edgar, et al. v. Avril D. Haines, Director of National Intelligence, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-11-29 Denied Amici (3) civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-censorship national-security prepublication-review prior-restraint public-debate speech-licensing 1. Whether Snepp should be overruled because it applied mere "reasonableness" scrutiny to an agency's prepublication review regime, and failed to requ…
21-786 James P. Crocker v. Steven Eric Beatty, Deputy Sheriff, Martin County, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-29 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech police-activity public-recording public-space qualified-immunity recording-rights 1. Whether a First Amendment right to record police activities in public has been clearly established so as to preclude application of qualified immun…
21-779 Mark E. Schell v. Richard Darby, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bar-dues compulsory-fees constitutional-scrutiny exacting-scrutiny first-amendment ideological-speech mandatory-bar-dues political-speech union-fees Are mandatory bar dues that subsidize the political and ideological speech of bar associations subject to "the same constitutional rule" of exacting F…
21-6415 Terril Kinchen v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech standing IF THE DISTRICT COURT SENTENCED A DEFENDANT TO A AGREED PLEA AGREEMENT BETWEEN PARTIES, CAN THE DISTRICT COURT NOW DETERMINE THAT THE DEFENDANT WAS NO…
21-6381 Russell Tinsley v. Merrill Main, et al. Third Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech qualified-immunity retaliation standing WHEATHER THE NEW JERSEY UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DENIED MR. TINSLEY 'S HIS FIRST AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION (RETALIATION CLAIM AG…
21-6395 Seitu Sulayman Kokayi v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights electronic-surveillance first-amendment fisa-surveillance foreign-intelligence-surveillance-act fourth-amendment probable-cause standing Whether electronic surveillance undertaken by the United States, of a United States citizen, pursuant to perceived authority under the Foreign Intelli…
21-764 Patrick Huff v. Florida Florida 2021-11-23 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights courtroom-closure criminal-procedure first-amendment public-access sixth-amendment trial-procedure waller-analysis waller-v-georgia Whether, as the court below and two other states hold, trial courts may close a courtroom pursuant to a closure statute without undertaking the Waller…
21-765 In Re Kelaco Corporation, dba Kelaco Construction Company 2021-11-23 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts appellate-review due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment Where a Florida state appellate court finds enough merit to an appeal such that it holds an oral argument but, after the oral argument, refuses to iss…
21-760 Laura Kelly, Governor of Kansas, et al. v. Animal Legal Defense Fund, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-11-22 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (3) animal-facilities constitutional-law criminal-statute first-amendment free-speech property-rights trespass viewpoint-discrimination Whether Kan. Stat. Ann. § 47-1827(b), (c), and (d) violate the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment by criminalizing trespass by deception at ani…
21-6354 Erik Mishiyev v. Alphabet Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-19 Denied IFP 1st-amendment censorship civil-rights content-moderation due-process first-amendment free-speech platform-liability standing youtube-censorship Whether The United States Court of Appeals For the Ninth Circuit Order allowed YouTube to deprive the Petitioner of his Due Process rights under the 1…
21-6306 Jason T. Shortes v. Google, LLC Florida 2021-11-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP commerce commerce-clause digital-rights first-amendment freedom-of-expression freedom-of-press international-law network-enforcement-law trade (1). Whether, First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Freedom of the Press; survives, GOOGLE, LLC enforcing the Federal Republic of Germany…
21-6302 Juan Alvarado-Gonzalez v. Illinois Illinois 2021-11-16 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech government-action immigration language-access public-officials retaliation p4! on prom m a(c\ Ce<">-br?( /lic<\. /Mo*Vv'oo 4~o WN-V^d^awl G^i'lV Pi#**- Q^d \Mca4eJ 4h* Q,>ecau^ On K°ow/^ "Hios'f q^J PuLl^c &et*«J'eh ytyf^W c…
21-706 Joel Iverson Gilbert v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied bribery bribery-statute federal-bribery-laws first-amendment issue-advocacy jury-instruction jury-instructions official-action prosecutorial-standard 1. Whether, in a bribery prosecution based on issue-advocacy payments that would otherwise enjoy First Amendment protection, the Government must prove…
21-712 Derrick Tyrone Jenkins v. Florida Florida 2021-11-15 Denied Response Waived clear-and-present-danger contempt contempt-of-court due-process extrajudicial-speech first-amendment free-speech habeas-review judicial-criticism political-speech Does the clear and present danger standard apply in contempt proceedings brought to sanction a litigant's extrajudicial criticism of an elected judge …
21-716 David Sivella v. Township of Lyndhurst, New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied criminal-investigation employer-liability first-amendment free-speech protected-speech public-employment retaliation whistleblower Does the First Amendment bar a public employer from initiating a baseless criminal investigation in retaliation for a public employee engaging in prot…
21-6221 David Jackson v. Massachusetts Department of Correction Massachusetts 2021-11-09 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech prisoner-rights protected-speech racial-discrimination solitary-confinement true-threat Whether the petitioner, a senior African American prisoner complaining about systemic racism in a letter he mailed to the governor of Massachusetts at…
21-677 Donald Burns v. Town of Palm Beach, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-08 Denied Amici (2) aesthetic-regulation architectural-design first-amendment free-speech individual-expression municipal-review residential-architecture takings zoning zoning-requirements This case is about the extent to which the First Amendment applies to residential architecture. Donald Burns wanted to replace his Palm Beach home wit…
21-659 Asociación de Periodistas de Puerto Rico v. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, et al. Puerto Rico 2021-11-03 Denied Amici (5) civil-procedure civil-rights court-closure domestic-violence due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-proceedings press-rights public-access standing 1. Whether courts may summarily close judicial proceedings and deny access to the official recordings of those proceedings without determining whether…
21-657 Joseph Cecil Vandevere v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied Response Waived conditional-speech constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech political-hyperbole political-speech public-concern true-threat 1) WHETHER THE SPEECH AT ISSUE HEREIN IS ENTITLED TO SPECIAL PROTECTION BECAUSE IT INVOLVES A MATTER OF PUBLIC CONCERN? 2) WHETHER THE SPEECH AT ISSU…
21-649 Walder Vacuflo, Inc. v. Illinois Human Rights Commission, et al. Illinois 2021-11-02 Denied access-to-courts circuit-split civil-rights discrimination due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech human-rights-commission religious-freedom standing 1. Whether the Illinois Supreme Court and Appel late Court's refusal to consider this matter violates the First and Fourteenth Amend ment rights of Pe…
21-639 Mark R. Smith v. Kate Bieker, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied Response Waived dues-seizure employee-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment johnson-v-zerbst state-action union-speech waiver waiver-of-rights In Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31, this Court held that public employees have a right to refuse to subsidize union speech, that "States and public-sector…
21-6143 Stephen Cameron Zyszkiewicz v. California California 2021-11-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights controlled-substances-act equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment freedom-of-religion marijuana-prohibition religious-freedom state-federal-conflict Petitioner sold marijuana ostensibly as part of a California state legal nonprofit cannabis collective and possessed mescaline, ostensibly as a member…
21-615 Christopher A. Woods, et al. v. Alaska State Employees Association, AFSCME Local 52, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied Amici (1) first-amendment free-speech public-sector state-action union-dues waiver The Court in Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31 held that public employees have a First Amendment right not to subsidize union speech. 138 S. Ct. 2448, 2486 …
21-614 Brian Green v. Pierce County, Washington Washington 2021-10-27 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedRelisted (2) citizen-journalism citizen-journalist corporate-personhood first-amendment free-speech media-access press press-freedom public-records Whether barring individual citizen-journalists from accessing public records otherwise made available to news media, for lack of corporate personhood,…
21-6085 Robert George Knecht, Jr. v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Florida 2021-10-27 Denied IFP 1st-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment standing Question not identified.
21-605 David Lynn Roberson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied bribery bribery-prosecution circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-programs first-amendment free-speech issue-advocacy official-action quid-pro-quo 1. Whether, in a bribery prosecution based on issue-advocacy payments that would otherwise enjoy First Amendment protection, the government must prove…
21-600 Wade Steven Gardner, et al. v. William Mutz, in His Capacity as Mayor of the City of Lakeland, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied Response Waived civil-rights first-amendment free-speech government-speech legacy-monuments legal-doctrine monument-display public-forum public-forums summum summum-precedent Should the government speech doctrine as recognized in Pleasant Grove City, Utah v. Summum be modified in cases involving legacy monuments already in …
21-612 Isaac Wolf v. University Professional and Technical Employees, Communications Workers of America Local 9119, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied Response Waived affirmative-consent civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech labor-law labor-rights public-workers standing supreme-court-precedent union-dues 1) Whether a union can trap a public worker into paying dues without the "affirmative consent" required by Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31, 138 S. Ct. 244…
21-609 Loriann Anderson, et al. v. Service Employees International Union Local 503, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech nonmember-employees public-employees state-action union-dues union-membership waiver 1. Under the First Amendment, to seize payments for union speech from employees who resigned union membership, became nonmembers, and objected to subs…
21-6025 Stewart Hines v. Gwendolen Cleopha Nelson South Dakota 2021-10-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-due-process court-access due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-representation standing trust trust-law Whether a sole Beneficiary and Trustee can represent that Trust pro se. Whether SDCL 15-6-24(a) (Fed.R.Civ.24(a)) would have automatically substitute…
21-571 Infowars, LLC, et al. v. Marcel Fontaine Texas 2021-10-20 Denied class-action defamation first-amendment free-speech media-organization public-concern rosenblatt-test speech-rights sullivan-test tort-actions New York Times v. Sullivan , 376 U.S. 254 (1964) establishes that speech must be "of and concerning" a specific individual for that individual to stat…
21-575 Freedom Foundation v. Washington Department of Ecology, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-rights first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech public-employee-unions public-employees right-to-work state-action unions viewpoint-discrimination Does state action that supports speech by public employee unions to public employees advocating union membership and disfavors speech by right-to-work…
21-567 Horizon Christian School, et al. v. Kate Brown, Governor of Oregon Ninth Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech injunctive-relief mootness-doctrine pandemic pandemic-restrictions religious-schools standing takings 1. To obtain injunctive relief against a state governor during the pandemic—and to satisfy the exception to mootness for a controversy "capable of rep…
21-564 Diane Scott Haddock v. Tarrant County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-18 Denied Response Waived association-rights constitutional-rights elrod-branti-test first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-association freedom-of-petition government-employment pickering-connick-test strict-scrutiny If multiple and distinct First or Fourteenth Amendment rights are involved— either collectively or as alternative factual theories—is each right analy…
21-5954 David Lee Smith v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights court-access due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment judicial-abuse judicial-proceedings takings The question presented for review is whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has so far departed from the accepted and usual …
21-5952 Robert Paul Rundo, Robert Boman, Tyler Laube, and Aaron Eason v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Amici (1)IFP 18-usc-2101 anti-riot-act brandenburg-v-ohio civil-rights constitutional-interpretation first-amendment free-speech interstate-commerce overt-act riot speech-restriction Whether the Anti-Riot Act is facially unconstitutional, because it cannot be interpreted, faithful to its plain text and consistent with congressional…
21-509 James Lawrence v. Altice USA Second Circuit 2021-10-06 Denied Response Waived arrest-warrant civil-rights defamation due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-interpretation media-defamation media-reporting standing substantial-truth Can a media lawfully portray a ONE TIME One Count of Second Degree Breach of Peace arrest as "ARRESTED FOR STALKING SEVERAL WOMEN " given the fact tha…
21-497 T. E. L., a Minor v. Florida Florida 2021-10-04 Granted Relisted (2) criminal-statute due-process elonis-v-united-states first-amendment free-speech intent-requirement speech-protection supreme-court-precedent virginia-v-black watts-v-united-states 1. Whether Florida Statute § 790.162 (2007), which makes it a second degree felony to threaten to "throw, project, place or discharge any destructive …
21-5884 Carina Conerly v. Superior Court of California, Sacramento County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial first-amendment frivolous in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion moot recusal standing 1. WHETHER, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Abused its discretion, erred and Deprived Petitioners of To A Fair and Just Trial/RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS …
21-5880 C. C. v. S. T. California 2021-10-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-discretion public-space standing video-recording 1. WHETHER, video cameras used in public are protected by The United States Constitution, especially when applying and exercising under the 1st Amendm…
21-480 William D. Brice v. California Faculty Association Ninth Circuit 2021-09-30 Denied 42-usc-1983 agency-fees civil-rights damages first-amendment good-faith good-faith-defense monetary-damages retrospective-liability statute-of-limitations union-dues Whether an affirmative good faith defense denying damages to the victims of First Amendment wrongdoing is faithful to the language and purpose of 42 U…
21-5814 Matthew David George v. Ohio Ohio 2021-09-29 Denied IFP civil-rights compelled-speech constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-mandate Is a court ordered apology letter in a criminal case a violation of the First Amendment's prohibition on compelled speech?
21-5780 Omari H. Patton v. Crystal Kimble Fourth Circuit 2021-09-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment prison-litigation-reform-act retaliation-claim special-factors-doctrine standing Can Federal Prisoners Use a Bivens Action For a First Amendment Retaliation Claim Does a First Amendment retaliation Claim Present a New Bivens conte…
21-455 Mark's Engine Company No. 28 Restaurant, LLC v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2021-09-24 Denied civil-rights constitutional-review due-process emergency-powers first-amendment jacobson-precedent jacobson-v-massachusetts meaningful-review narrow-tailoring public-health public-health-crisis 1. Whether the appellate court's decision improperly expands the holding set forth in Jacobson v. Massachusetts , 197 U.S. 11 (1905), and its progen…
21-450 Anthony Futia, Jr., et al. v. Westchester County Board of Legislators, et al. Second Circuit 2021-09-23 Denied Response Waived citizen-accountability constitutional-rights first-amendment guarantee-clause petition-clause redress standing state-constitution state-government taxpayer-standing Whether a State's legislative and executive employees are obligated to respond to Petitions from that State's citizen-voters for Redress of their viol…
21-427 William Frederick Lamoureux v. Montana Montana 2021-09-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-law content-based-restriction criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine speech-regulation Whether a statute that criminalizes speech intended to annoy or offend is unconstitutionally overbroad under the First Amendment.
21-430 Luke T. West v. United States Federal Circuit 2021-09-21 Denied Response Waived collateral-estoppel court-martial due-process federal-claims first-amendment judicial-review military-justice privacy-act statutory-construction united-states-constitution 1) As a matter of statutory construction and application, is petitioner entitled to the exercise of the authority of the United States Federal Court o…
21-419 Bob Lewis v. Google LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied Response Waived 47-usc-230 censorship civil-liability constitutionally-protected-speech first-amendment free-speech hate-speech packingham-v-north-carolina section-230 social-media 1. Does this Court's holding in Packingham v. North Carolina, 137 S. Ct. 1730, at 1736-1736, 198 L. Ed. 2d 273 (2017) that First Amendment protections…
21-418 Joseph A. Kennedy v. Bremerton School District Ninth Circuit 2021-09-16 Judgment Issued Amici (68)Relisted (2) constitutional-rights establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise free-speech public-employment public-school religious-expression 1. Whether a public-school employee who says a brief, quiet prayer by himself while at school and visible to students is engaged in government speech …
21-405 Emerald Home Care, Inc. v. Department of Unemployment Assistance Massachusetts 2021-09-15 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech preemption speech-restriction supremacy-clause tax tax-law This case concerns, as far as Petitioner can determine, the first law in American history that restricts taxpayers' speech about a tax. It also concer…
21-5680 Heather Matthews v. California State University Nevada 2021-09-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights criminal-activity due-process first-amendment sovereign-immunity state-jurisdiction Does a large public entity or state university or government agency have the right to claim sovereign immunity when committing criminal activities aft…
21-5673 Timothy Brandon Fredrickson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP child-pornography consensual-transmission constitutional-law constitutional-overbreadth criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech image-production statutory-interpretation Whether Section 18 USC 2251(a) is overbroad in that it provides punishment for constitutionally protected activity in the inducement of consensual pro…
21-5667 David Lockmiller v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion ashcroft-v-iqbal civil-rights constitutional-rights contingency-fee due-process federal-tort-claims-act first-amendment free-speech government-redress petition-clause Given the fact that the Constitution of the United States, Amendment I reads in pertinent part that "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging . . . …
21-5662 Bishop Ruben DeWayne v. United States, et al. District of Columbia 2021-09-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment 7th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech 1. Whether or not the lower court's denial of the Petitioner's guaranteed rights as published under provision outlined in the Bill of Rights departed …
21-394 D. F. Pace v. Emily Baker-White, et al. Third Circuit 2021-09-13 Denied Response Waived actual-malice civil-rights defamation due-process first-amendment free-speech internet-speech new-york-times-sullivan standing technological-advances 1. Whether the Court should revisit the "actual malice" doctrine of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan and its progeny in light of the advent of technolog…
21-398 Jesus Guerrero v. Diocese of Lubbock Texas 2021-09-13 Denied Response Waived child-sexual-abuse defamation first-amendment free-speech religious-organization secular-audience tort-liability Whether the First Amendment shields a religious organization from tort liability for defamatory statements made to a secular audience regarding the se…
21-388 John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy, Inc., et al. v. Tony Evers, Governor of Wisconsin Seventh Circuit 2021-09-10 Denied Amici (4) circuit-split equal-access first-amendment forum-analysis government-exclusion press-access press-clause public-forum speech-clause viewpoint-neutrality Whether the government's selective exclusion of members of the press implicates the equal treatment guarantee of the First Amendment's Press Clause, a…
21-375 Joshua Gray v. Maine Department of Public Safety Maine 2021-09-09 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech good-moral-character occupational-licensing professional-license speech-content strict-scrutiny Petitioner Joshua Gray made comments on his Facebook page in which he criticized the conduct of employees of the Respondent Maine Department of Public…
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…
21-5583 Jordan Lee Bell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-sentencing due-process first-amendment pornographic-matter supervised-release unconstitutionally-vague 1. Does a special condition of supervised release that prohibits possession or control of "any pornographic matter" violate due process as unconstitut…
21-357 Lucille S. Taylor v. James W. Heath, President-Elect, State Bar of Michigan Board of Commissioners, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-09-07 Denied Relisted (2) compelled-speech exacting-scrutiny first-amendment integrated-bar keller-v-state-bar labor-unions policy-positions public-sector public-sector-employees In Janus v. AFSCME, 138 S.Ct. 2448 (2018), this Court held that laws that impinge on public-sector employees' First Amendment rights are subject to "e…
21-353 Ethan Hoggatt, et al. v. Allstate Insurance, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-09-07 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion fair-credit-reporting-act first-amendment insurance-fraud mississippi-unfair-and-deceptive-trade-practices-a negligence-per-se petition-clause right-to-petition Petitioners, the Hoggats, filed criminal fraud charges with the Mississippi Attorney General against Allstate a month prior to filing of this civil ac…
21-352 Jason Gonzales v. Michael J. Madigan, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-09-07 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process election-campaign electoral-misconduct first-amendment summary-judgment Do the protections of the First Amendment bar use of a candidate's unproven allegations of electoral misconduct during an election campaign as a basis…
21-343 Michelle J. Smith v. Nicholas French, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Martin D. French, Deceased Massachusetts 2021-09-02 Denied Response Waived actual-malice child-athletes defamation first-amendment fourteenth-amendment libel preemption public-figure sports-governance In Gertz v. Robert Welch Inc 418 US 323(1974), Justice Powell, • t in reference to Defamation/Libel claims of a private individual concerning an issue…
21-331 Alice Jin-Yue Guan v. Bing Ran Virginia 2021-09-01 Denied Relisted (2) 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-rights takings 1. Whether state courts violated Petitioner's federal rights by removing her own property of 2% company ownership and $2.3M cash without notice and du…
21-5521 Antonia W. Shields v. United States Second Circuit 2021-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-accountability government-immunity petition-clause redress-of-grievances sovereign-immunity standing Under U. S. Constitution Article III, section 2 and U. S. Constitution Article VI., is the Government sovereignly immune to duty in U. S. Constitution…
21-308 Tim Sundy v. Friendship Pavilion Acquisition Company, LLC, et al. Georgia 2021-08-31 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights court-record custody due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment Whether the willful refusal and/or failure of a court of record to maintain a complete record is a form of custody, depriving a litigant of due proces…
21-302 Arthur G. Jaros Jr. v. Village of Downers Grove, Illinois, et al. Illinois 2021-08-30 Denied Response Waived due-process first-amendment free-speech home-rule-powers liberty-interest library-trustee municipal-corporation public-office retaliation I. Notwithstanding its Home Rule Powers, did the Respondent Village of Downers Grove Violate Petitioner Jaros' First Amendment Right to Freedom of Spe…
21-301 Mario Lamont Sims v. Bank of New York Seventh Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure court-of-appeals due-process first-amendment first-impression judicial-conduct judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct judicial-openness judicial-transparency judicial-tyranny Whether the conduct of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals was so outrageous that due process principles would absolutely bar the anonymous three judge p…
21-298 Bobby Wilson v. Phoenix Newspapers, Inc., et al. Arizona 2021-08-30 Denied Response Waived context defamation false-publication first-amendment freedom-of-press freedom-of-speech malice media-liability speech-protection 1. Is a per se false publication that was proven fabricated solely by the defendant sufficient proof alone of malice? Liability for the publication of…
21-5510 Prayed v. Department of Labor, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech labor-management labor-management-relations lmrda lmrda-interpretation procedural-due-process standing union-representation In this case specifically, has the Petitioner's substantive rights been abridged, a violation of 28 USC 2072 (b), by the Court rules and procedures ef…
21-5495 José Yeyille v. Armandina Acosta-Leon, et al. Florida 2021-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts certiorari discretionary-review due-process equal-protection first-amendment florida-constitution fourteenth-amendment indigent-rights 1. Whether the judiciary of the State of Florida, whose Declaratory Judgment Statutes §§86.011 through 86.111 are appropriate for the occasion, may le…
21-5496 José Yeyille v. Armandina Acosta-Leon, et al. Florida 2021-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts discretionary-review due-process equal-protection first-amendment florida-constitution fourteenth-amendment petition-clause 1. Whether the judiciary of the State of Florida, whose Declaratory Judgment Statutes §§86.011 through 86.111 are appropriate for the occasion, may le…
21-5497 José Yeyille v. Armandina Acosta-Leon, et al. Florida 2021-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts constitutional-review due-process equal-protection first-amendment first-amendment-petition-clause fourteenth-amendment indigent-rights petition-clause pro-se-litigant Whether Florida Constitution Article V, Sections 3(b)(3), 3(b)(7), and 3(b)(8), Jenkins v. State, 385 So. 2d 1356 (1980), and Grate v. State, 750 So. …
21-263 Kimbro Stephens Insurance Trust, et al. v. James E. Smith, Jr., et al. Arkansas 2021-08-24 Denied Response Waived attorney-termination bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure client-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment lawyer-discharge legal-malpractice standing 1. Whether a client has a right to discharge a lawyer at any time, whether in Arkansas state court or in Federal Court, with or without cause, subject…
21-5425 Jay J. Sawatzky v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession first-amendment judicial-discretion racist-paraphernalia racist-views sentencing sentencing-variance upward-variance May a sentencing judge impose an upward variance on a defendant convicted of possessing firearms and ammunition as a felon, based on that defendant's …
21-247 Coalition for Better Government, et al. v. Alliance for Good Government Fifth Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees chilling-effect commercial-speech fee-shifting first-amendment lanham-act non-commercial-speech political-speech 1. Should this Court permit the Lanham Act to be extended to non-commercial political speech? 2. Should this Court permit the imposition of a sanctio…
21-5416 Donnell Bledsoe v. Facebook, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights first-amendment free-speech petition-government social-media viewpoint-discrimination Question not identified.
21-5407 Robin Rick Manning v. Michigan Michigan 2021-08-17 Denied IFP civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process first-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-justice miller-v-alabama proportionality-review roper-v-simmons sentencing sentencing-discretion 1. THE 4 TO 3 MAJORITY DECISION OF HE MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT FLOUTED U.S. SUPREME COURT PRECEDENT i .e. THE EVOLVING STANDARDS OF DECENCY ON PROPORTIO…
21-227 Venus Y. Springs v. North Carolina State Bar North Carolina 2021-08-17 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights corporate-litigation due-process evidence first-amendment free-speech judicial-discipline north-carolina standing I. Whether the N.C. Court of Appeals erred in holding that Springs' posting of a deposition video --long after the proceedings were concluded -- in or…
21-226 Libertarian Party of Ohio, et al. v. Don Michael Crites, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-08-16 Denied Amici (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights election-law first-amendment political-parties public-office standing state-restriction Whether a state violates the First Amendment by barring members of small political parties from holding a public office.
21-219 Clear Channel Outdoor, LLC v. Henry J. Raymond, Director, Department of Finance of Baltimore City Maryland 2021-08-16 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (2) billboard-regulation commercial-speech constitutional-scrutiny content-based content-discrimination first-amendment strict-scrutiny takings tax-law zoning Whether a tax singling out off-premises billboards is subject to heightened scrutiny under the First Amendment.
21-213 Nathaniel Borrell Dyer v. Atlanta Independent School System Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied due-process first-amendment free-speech limited-public-forum protected-speech public-figures public-forum satirical-flyer satirical-speech viewpoint-discrimination 1. Whether Atlanta Independent School System violated Mr. Dyer's First Amendment right to free speech by categorically banning him from using protecte…
21-204 Montgomery Blair Sibley v. Frank Paul Geraci, Jr., et al. Second Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied Response Waived bivens-claim constitutional-authority due-process first-amendment frivolous judicial-immunity removal separation-of-powers sua-sponte-dismissal Whether a District Court Judge runs afoul of due process by a sua sponte dismissal of Petitioner's Complaint without "hearing" argument and then deemi…
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…
21-185 Scott Solomon v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, District Council 37, AFL-CIO Second Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied agency-fees civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment good-faith-defense janus-v-afscme restitution section-1983 state-law Section 1983 provides that "every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State" deprives a citizen of…
21-5322 André J. Twitty v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law federalism first-amendment preemption state-statute statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause void-for-vagueness Does the Assimilative Crimes Act, 18 U.S.C. § 13, impose upon a federal Court to assimilate Under the requirements of an Unconstitutional State Statut…
21-164 Trustees of the New Life In Christ Church v. City of Fredericksburg, Virginia Virginia 2021-08-04 Denied Amici (6)Relisted (10) church-autonomy church-state-separation civil-authority civil-rights establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech ministerial-exception ministerial-exemption property-tax religious-doctrine religious-freedom Virginia law provides an exemption from property taxes for "[r]eal property and personal property owned by churches * * * and exclusively occupied or …
21-154 Nagui Mankaruse v. Raytheon Company, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied Relisted (2) bill-of-rights civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment I. Whether the Honorable United States Supreme Court must defend our Great United States Constitution? II. Whether the Honorable United States Suprem…
21-147 Erik Egbert v. Robert Boule Ninth Circuit 2021-08-03 Judgment Issued Amici (21)Relisted (2) bivens bivens-doctrine civil-rights constitutional-damages federal-officer-liability first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation fourth-amendment immigration immigration-enforcement reconsider-bivens 1. Whether a cause of action exists under Bivens for First Amendment retaliation claims. 2. Whether a cause of action exists under Bivens for claims …
21-145 Gordon College, et al. v. Margaret DeWeese-Boyd Massachusetts 2021-08-03 Denied Amici (10)Relisted (7) academic-disciplines academic-freedom christian-education christian-mission faculty-integration first-amendment good-faith-characterization ministerial-exception religious-colleges religious-organization spiritual-formation In Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. MorrisseyBerru , 140 S. Ct. 2049 (2020), this Court instructed lower courts to consider a variety of factors in det…
21-144 Seattle's Union Gospel Mission v. Matthew S. Woods Washington 2021-08-03 Denied Amici (17)Relisted (9) civil-rights coreligionist-hiring employment-discrimination first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause ministerial-exception religious-exemption religious-freedom religious-nonprofits standing 1. Whether the First Amendment protects the Mission's right to hire coreligionists. 2. Whether denying the Mission a total exemption the state grants…
21-132 Robert Pilchman v. National Labor Relations Board, et al. Second Circuit 2021-08-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law agency-discretion civil-rights due-process first-amendment judicial-review labor-relations pro-se-litigation standing Whether a government agency like the National Labor Relations Board has absolute discretion in all of its non-enforcement decisions and thus such deci…
21-5258 In Re Calvin James 2021-07-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment standing A) WHE ARE MAKING ERROR OF H/7- HEE BERE BRASLY WEKLAO KEO SUDS 5 THE ABUL APU OE CONSTZ TUTTO NAL at ice, + ime 7ZO LATIONS SENTING TN TAT FETIT ION.…
21-121 Christiana Tah, et al. v. Global Witness Publishing, Inc., et al. District of Columbia 2021-07-28 Denied Amici (1) actual-malice civil-rights defamation first-amendment free-speech inference-of-intent pleading-standard pleading-standards public-figure public-plaintiff Whether a complaint by a public plaintiff alleging defamation sufficiently pleads actual malice, in the absence of direct evidence, by presenting deta…
21-120 James Tracy v. Florida Atlantic University Board of Trustees, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied academic-freedom content-based content-based-restriction due-process first-amendment free-speech public-employment vagueness vagueness-doctrine viewpoint-discrimination Florida Atlantic University has a reporting policy that requires its faculty and staff to disclose outside professional activities to the university…
21-108 Clint A. Krislov, et al. v. Cook County Officers Electoral Board, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-07-27 Denied ballot-access civil-rights due-process first-amendment mootness mootness-exception public-interest public-interest-exception signature-requirements Whether federal courts recognize a public interest exception to mootness, such that Petitioners' challenge to the Cook County Election Board's policy …
21-5209 Cynthia E. Collie v. South Carolina Commission on Lawyer Conduct South Carolina 2021-07-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure standing 1. Whether this Court should grant writ of certiorari where no other review is available with stay pending review to address the state court of last r…
21-5178 In Re Walter Drummond 2021-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights compelled-speech due-process first-amendment free-speech standing Is State v. Drmmond,#o2004343cf102, TIp3ro, line.24's Couct Reporterinpotted /s being told to "Speak Up!"in violation of Us. Const stAmend.FL.ConstArt…
21-57 Levi Frasier v. Christopher L. Evans, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-07-15 Denied Amici (7) civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement police-conduct police-recording public-conduct qualified-immunity 1. Whether training or law enforcement policies can be relevant to whether a police officer is entitled to qualified immunity. 2. Whether it has been…
21-29 Blake Leitch, et al. v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Council 31, AFL-CIO Seventh Circuit 2021-07-09 Denied 42-usc-1983 agency-fees civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment good-faith-defense janus-v-afscme section-1983 state-law wyatt-v-cole Section 1983 provides that "every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State" deprives a citizen of…
21-15 Don Peterson, et al. v. Russ Jones, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-07-07 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech Question not identified.
21-5005 Erwin Eugene Semien v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment administrative-claim due-process federal-tort-claims-act first-amendment jones-v-bock jurisdictional-threshold supreme-court-precedent QUESTION ONE: DID THE LOWER COURTS VIOLATE SEMIEN 'S RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS UNDER THE 5th AMENDMENT DUE PROCESS CLAUSE BY FAILING TO FOLLOW SUPREME COUR…
20-8437 Jan G. v. Scott Semple, et al. Connecticut 2021-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-association state-courts supremacy-clause WHERE THE CONNECTICUT DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION VIOLATES THE FIRST AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS ,DENYING THE PLAINTIFF AND HIS INFIRM MOTHER DENIED VISIT…
20-1803 Evelyn Sineneng-Smith v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-06-25 Denied Response Waived alien-status constitutional-vagueness criminal-statute due-process first-amendment immigration-law standing statutory-interpretation vagueness 1. Do the terms "encouraging" and "inducing" an alien to reside in the United States, within the meaning of 8 U. S.C. § 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv), extend to t…
20-1806 Kim R. Helper v. Patrick H. Stockdale, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-06-25 Denied absolute-immunity civil-rights first-amendment giglio-disclosure giglio-v-united-states law-enforcement qualified-immunity retaliation Did the Sixth Circuit err in denying Helper absolute immunity for communicating to the officers' employer her decision regarding them under Giglio v. …
20-1800 Harold Shurtleff, et al. v. City of Boston, Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2021-06-24 Judgment Issued Amici (24) content-discrimination establishment-clause first-amendment flag-display free-speech government-speech public-forum religious-expression religious-viewpoint viewpoint-discrimination 1. Whether the First Circuit's failure to apply this Court's forum doctrine to the First Amendment challenge of a private religious organization that …
20-1773 Pasadena Republican Club v. Western Justice Center, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 civil-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-management state-action state-actor viewpoint-discrimination While it is managing the city-owned property, is the Western Justice Center a State Actor for purposes of the First and Fourteenth Amendments and 42 U…
20-1782 Regina Therese Drexler v. Theresa Spahn, et al. Colorado 2021-06-23 Denied 2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-protection-order civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech prior-restraint section-1983 1. Whether the First Amendment permits the issuance of a civil protection order to (i) punish a "pattern" of conduct where such conduct includes only …
20-1786 JoAnne Troesch, et al. v. Chicago Teachers Union, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights employee-rights first-amendment free-speech government-restrictions janus-vs-afscme union-dues waiver waiver-doctrine Under the First Amendment, to seize payments for union speech from employees who provide notice they are nonmembers and object to supporting the union…
20-1751 Susan Fischer, et al. v. Phil Murphy, Governor of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights employee-rights first-amendment government-action public-employee standing union-dues union-speech waiver waiver-doctrine In 2018, the Court in Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31 held that public employees have a First Amendment right not to subsidize union speech. 138 S. Ct. 24…
20-1731 Trista Oettle v. William J. Cadigan, Chairman, Illinois State Board of Elections, et al. Illinois 2021-06-15 Denied Response Waived ballot-selfie content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech political-expression political-speech public-forum viewpoint-neutral viewpoint-neutrality 1. Whether a photograph of a completed ballot, commonly called a ballot selfie, is a form of political expression in a public forum or a nonpublic for…
20-1723 Jane Doe v. James T. DeWees, et al. Maryland 2021-06-14 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts civil-rights common-law-name constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment homelessness privileges-and-immunities standing The fundamental right of all persons to seek remedy for injury via the courts has been variously grounded in Article IV's privileges and immunities cl…
20-8302 Calvin Gumbs, II v. Kelly Harrigan, et al. Virgin Islands 2021-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment judicial-review legal-standing virgin-islands Did the Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands err in dismissing the Petitioner's appeal, being dismissed for lack of jurisdiction, considering that, pur…
20-8277 Richard Wesley Bryan v. Jeffrey Uttecht, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-06-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment First-Amendment-right,civil-rights,due-process,sta habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct jurisdiction Question-not-identified 1) has the UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT (USDC) decision conflict with this aggrieved party's fundamental First Amendment Right? 2) has the NINTH CIRC…
20-8225 John Anderson v. The University of Iowa, et al. Iowa 2021-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure covid-impact disability due-process first-amendment notice-of-appeal procedural-rules tolling-statutes 1. Is a Notice of Appeal, although with the trial courts designation, but filed with the Appellate Court automatic grounds for dismissal? 2. If there…
20-1672 Joan Carol Lipin v. Wisehart Springs Inn, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-06-02 Denied attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process first-amendment fraud-on-the-court judicial-authority summary-judgment supreme-court-precedent trust-agreement I. If the sanctity of the express and unambiguous written intent, terms, and conditions of an Act of Congress are inviolate, like the express and unam…
20-1678 Daniel Z. Crowe, et al. v. Oregon State Bar, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-02 Denied Amici (10)Response Waived attorney-regulation compelled-speech constitutional-scrutiny first-amendment free-speech keller-v-state-bar mandatory-dues political-speech public-sector-unions state-bar This Court has held that "exacting" First Amendment scrutiny applies to laws that force public employees to subsidize the speech and political activit…
20-8186 Michael James Young, Jr. and Vance Edward Volious, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law explosives first-amendment fourth-circuit law-enforcement mail-fraud non-mailable-matter postal-service statutory-interpretation DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERR BY RULING THAT 18 UNITED STATES CODE SECTION 1716 PROHIBTS AS NON-MAILABLE AN INERT …
20-1643 Arthur Baisley v. International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Fifth Circuit 2021-05-26 Denied constitutional-rights fair-representation first-amendment janus-v-afscme labor-law opt-out opt-out-procedures political-activities railway-labor-act union-fees Whether opt-out procedures for collecting union fees for ideological and political activities violate the First Amendment or the Railway Labor Act.
20-1647 Valerie Haney v. Church of Scientology International, et al. California 2021-05-26 Denied Amici (1) arbitration arbitration-procedure civil-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-religion religious-arbitration religious-freedom Whether, under the First Amendment, a court may subject a person who has rejected the faith to participate in a religious "arbitration" where arbiters…
20-1637 Janice Dickinson v. Ryan Seacrest Productions, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response Waived actual-malice defamation first-amendment lanham-act new-york-times-v-sullivan public-figure rogers-test rogers-v-grimaldi Whether a defendant who willfully creates a false narrative about a public figure that is marketed to the public as a true story, for the intentional …
20-1632 Patrick H. Stockdale, et al. v. Kim R. Helper Sixth Circuit 2021-05-24 Denied absolute-immunity clearly-established constitutional-rights first-amendment petition-clause public-employee qualified-immunity retaliation 1. Whether the decisional law regarding retaliation under the Petition Clause of the First Amendment was clearly established to place a public officia…
20-1635 Michael Anthony Casillas v. Minnesota Minnesota 2021-05-24 Denied civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-amendment free-speech mens-rea nonconsensual-dissemination obscenity protected-speech strict-scrutiny Does the First Amendment allow a state to criminalize protected speech by means of a statute aimed at prohibiting the nonconsensual dissemination of s…
20-1623 David Paul Bohler v. City of Fairview, Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2021-05-21 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech garcetti-rule public-employee retaliation whistleblower whistleblower-protection Whether a rational juror could find that the Petitioner, a police officer, had a First Amendment right to speak to a local prosecutor about corruption…
20-1626 Robert L. Schulz v. United States Second Circuit 2021-05-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment government-response historical-practice judicial-review petition-clause right-to-petition Whether a forerunner to this case, We The People, et al. u. United States, 2005 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 20409 (D.D.C. 2005) aff 'd 485 F.3d 140 (2007, D.C. C…
20-1627 S. S., et al. v. S. B. Pennsylvania 2021-05-21 Denied Amici (3) child-custody content-based content-based-restriction first-amendment free-press free-speech gag-order overbreadth prior-restraint vagueness Is such a "gag order" an unconstitutionally vague and overbroad prior restraint and content-based restriction violating Petitioners' First Amendment f…
20-1618 John Anthony Gentry v. Glen Casada, et al. Tennessee 2021-05-19 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-duty legislative-procedure petition standing state-constitution This Court has not in its entire history been presented a more important case, seeking to restore the cornerstone right of petition oppressed in attem…
20-1620 Joy McShan Edwards v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-1513 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the Sixth Circuit's denial of Petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) was unreasonable, whe…
20-1603 Susan Bennett v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31, AFL-CIO, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-05-18 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) affirmative-consent employee-rights first-amendment janus-v-afscme paycheck-deduction public-sector-union public-sector-unions union-dues waiver waiver-requirement In Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31, 138 S. Ct. 2448, 2486 (2018), this Court held that no payment to a union may be deducted from a nonmembers' paycheck u…
20-1588 Michael Konowicz, aka Michael Phillips, et al. v. Jonathan P. Carr, et al. Third Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied actual-malice commercial-speech constitutional-interpretation defamation first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech lanham-act 1. Whether the Court should revisit the fifty-year old "actual malice" doctrine of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan and its progeny to determine if the …
20-1598 Project Veritas Action Fund v. Rachael S. Rollins, in Her Official Capacity as District Attorney for Suffolk County, Massachusetts First Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights facial-overbreadth first-amendment free-speech newsgathering ripeness secret-recording speech-suppression standing Whether the First Circuit erred in holding— 1. in direct conflict with the Illinois Supreme Court and in conflict with four other circuit courts of ap…
20-1587 Louisiana v. Tazin Ardell Hill Louisiana 2021-05-14 Denied Amici (1) compelled-speech first-amendment fraud fraudulent-alteration government-speech sex-offender-registration sex-offender-registry state-id state-identification (1) May a State require convicted sex offenders to obtain and carry a state identification bearing the words "sex offender" without facially violating…
20-8023 Walter Timothy Gause v. Eric A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit 2021-05-14 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process first-amendment free-speech standing Question not identified.
20-1574 Joseph Ocol v. Chicago Teachers Union, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) compelled-speech constitutional-rights exclusive-bargaining exclusive-bargaining-representative first-amendment freedom-of-association janus-precedent janus-v-afscme public-employee public-sector-unions union-representation 1. In Minnesota State Board for Community Colleges v. Knight, 465 U.S. 271 (1984), this Court held that the First Amendment allows States to compel pu…
20-1576 145 Fisk, LLC v. F. William Nicklas Seventh Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation judicial-review preliminary-agreement rational-basis retaliation standing 1. Whether false information, which a city official knows to be false, is a "rational basis" for terminating a preliminary agreement allocating city f…
20-1580 Shenglin R. Chen, et al. v. Alvin Turner, et al. Maryland 2021-05-13 Denied 1st-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emergency-access emergency-exit equal-protection equal-rights first-amendment free-speech judicial-misconduct Question 1. Is freedom of speech protected by the First Amendment? Question 2. Whether complied/ substantially complied the equal rights? Question 3…
20-1569 Dawn Desrosiers, et al. v. Charlie Baker, Governor of Massachusetts Massachusetts 2021-05-12 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived content-neutral covid-restrictions due-process first-amendment peaceable-assembly rational-basis time-place-manner Massachusetts reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic by adopting severe restrictions on the First Amendment right of peaceable assembly. Governor Baker exem…
20-1564 James M. Perna v. Health One Credit Union, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts arbitration civil-rights due-process first-amendment forum-selection jurisdiction petition-clause sixth-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether a grant of a writ of certiorari is warranted where, if left without review, the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth C…
20-1543 Adam P. McNiece v. Town of Yankeetown, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied Response Waived bill-of-attainder constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial first-amendment municipal-law notice redress-of-grievances self-representation statutory-reference 1. Can a violation of law or code be charged and tried without any statutory reference of code chapter and section indicated? 2. Will a trial be fa…
20-7944 Peter Bobal v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law due-process first-amendment internet-access sex-offender supervised-release Does the constitutional holding of Packingham v. North Carolina, 137 S. Ct. 1730 (2017) ─ which recognized a First Amendment right to access the Inter…
20-1534 Patrick Doughty, et al. v. State Employees’ Association of New Hampshire, SEIU Local 1984, CTW, CLC First Circuit 2021-05-04 Denied Amici (1) 42-usc-1983 agency-fees compelled-association compelled-speech damages first-amendment restitution section-1983 Does a First Amendment compelled speech and association claim for damages or restitution brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 require a plaintiff to prove m…
20-1526 Warnock Engineering, L.L.C., et al. v. Canton Municipal Utilities Fifth Circuit 2021-05-03 Denied civil-procedure due-process federal-pleading-standards first-amendment johnson-v-shelby pleading-standards quantum-meruit retaliation-claim standing summary-judgment 1. Whether the Court of Appeals' decision affirming the dismissal of Petitioners' quantum meruit claim due to alleged inadequate pleading should be re…
20-1520 Diane Gruber, et al. v. Oregon State Bar, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-30 Denied Response Waived bar-association compelled-speech constitutional-law first-amendment freedom-of-speech integrated-bar janus-v-afscme keller-v-state-bar legal-precedent mandatory-dues This case involves compelled speech of attorneys and whether that compelled speech unconstitutionally infringes upon the attorneys' Freedom of Speech:…
20-1499 American Civil Liberties Union v. United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court 2021-04-27 Denied Amici (7)Relisted (3) article-iii-court article-iii-courts constitutional-law first-amendment foreign-intelligence-surveillance-court judicial-jurisdiction public-access statutory-interpretation Congress created the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ("FISC") in 1978 to oversee electronic surveillance conducted for foreign intelligence pu…
20-1501 Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, et al. v. Shirin Emami, Acting Superintendent, New York Department of Financial Services, et al. New York 2021-04-27 GVR Amici (6)Relisted (4) abortion abortion-mandate employment-division-smith first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause free-speech health-insurance religious-autonomy religious-exemption smith-v-oregon In 2017, New York promulgated a regulation mandating that employer health insurance plans cover abortions. N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 11, § 52.1…
20-7780 James Plas Sams v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-15 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation content-based-regulation expressive-association first-amendment free-speech group-grievance retaliation The Constitution guarantees a right to expressive association for activities protected by the First Amendment. Similarly, the Constitution limits cont…
20-7682 Antoine Barnes v. Salinas Superior Court Judge Ninth Circuit 2021-04-07 Denied IFP case-statement civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection firearms first-amendment jurisdiction legal-provisions standing supreme-court writ Question not identified.
20-1405 Tarek Farag v. Ali Waqas Illinois 2021-04-07 Denied civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech injunctive-relief judicial-discretion legal-procedure religious-freedom religious-law Whether Sharia is contrary to Our Constitution and laws? Whether Sharia is untouchable? Whether the Court erred in not granting the injunction and n…
20-1401 James Dennis v. Virginia Virginia 2021-04-06 Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process false-evidence fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment prosecutor prosecutorial-misconduct A. Does any Court have the authority to extinguish a defendant's due process rights via the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment by allowing the prosecutor …
20-1383 Arthur Diamond, et al. v. Pennsylvania State Education Association, et al. Third Circuit 2021-04-02 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights damages damages-liability first-amendment good-faith-defense retroactivity section-1983 union-fees 1. Is there a good-faith defense to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that shields a defendant from damages liability for depriving citizens of their constitutional ri…
20-1384 Amy Everett v. Cobb County, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-02 Denied Response Waived cease-and-desist civil-rights constitutional-rights custom-and-practice due-process first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement-discretion malicious-prosecution qualified-immunity speech-protection 1. In the face of clear law, under Reno v. ACLU and traditional categories of unprotected speech, was it error to treat Everett's email s, which she c…
20-1378 Linda Rizzo-Rupon, et al. v. International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO District 141, Local 914, et al. Third Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied agency-fees first-amendment janus-v-afscme private-sector-employees railway-labor-act state-action union-representation 1. Does this Court's recent First Amendment agency fee ban announced in Janus v. AFSCME, 138 S.Ct. 2448 (2018), apply to matters involving private-sec…
20-1379 Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority v. Center for Investigative Reporting Third Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied Amici (3) categorical-ban commercial-speech content-restriction first-amendment free-speech government-speech political-speech public-forum supreme-court-precedent transit-advertising transit-authority 1. Whether this Court's decision in Mansky overruled or abrogated the Court's holding in Lehman that transit authorities have the discretion to catego…
20-7624 Jeremy Randolph Martin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP ashcroft-v-free-speech-coalition constitutional-rights due-process electronic-devices fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech internet-monitoring supervised-release united-states-v-holena 1) Do theoconditions of petitioner's supervised release requiring petitioner to have his probation officer's prior approval to own, purchase, posses…
20-7584 In Re Terril Lee Graham 2021-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-threats due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech public-defender 1. Is California Penal Code 422, Criminal Threats, an invalid statute, prohibiting the exercise of 1% Amendment free speech rights? (In re Robbins : (…
20-7581 Michael Hernandez v. Florida Florida 2021-03-26 Denied IFP constitutional-rights fact-finding first-amendment judicial-discretion juvenile-sentencing life-sentence mandatory-minimum sentencing-factors sixth-amendment trial-judge 1. Whether Florida's juvenile sentencing statute - which mandates a life sentence if a certain finding is made and prohibits that sentence when that f…
20-1360 Scottlynn J. Hubbard v. State Bar of California California 2021-03-26 Denied Response Waived advocacy-speech false-speech first-amendment free-speech harmless-speech mandatory-bar Whether under the First Amendment a mandatory integrated state bar may punish advocacy speech it deems false but also expressly finds to be harmless?
20-1346 Calvary Chapel of Bangor v. Janet T. Mills, Governor of Maine First Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) employment-division-v-smith establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause government-discrimination jacobson-v-massachusetts pandemic-restrictions preliminary-injunction religious-liberty strict-scrutiny temporary-restraining-order (1) Whether the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment prohibits the government from discriminating against houses of worship by restricting the …
20-7557 Wendy Alison Nora v. Office of Lawyer Regulation Wisconsin 2021-03-25 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceeding lawyer-discipline mortgage-foreclosure petition standing Whether Petitioner was denied procedural due process in the lawyer disciplinary proceeding. Whether Petitioner is being denied due process in the law…
20-7543 Victor Real-Alomar, aka Toston v. United States First Circuit 2021-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure first-amendment ninth-amendment plea-agreement plea-bargaining pretrial-detainee waiver A. Whether a criminal defendant must raise the issue of nonapplicability of a waiver of appeal in his opening brief or whether it falls upon the gover…
20-7552 Hugo Rufino Alvarez-Reyes v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2021-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection expert-testimony first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment standing witness-credibility 1. Where petitioner is actually innocent and being held in violation of the 8th and 14th Amendments to the United States Constitution, where such peti…
20-1334 Bradley Boardman, et al. v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-24 Denied Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) first-amendment harris-v-quinn information-access opt-out-rights public-records public-sector-unions speech-rights viewpoint-discrimination Whether a law that skews the debate over the value of public-sector unions and undermines public sector employees' opt-out rights by giving incumbent …
20-1343 Audrey L. Kimner v. Web Watchers, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure federal-rules first-amendment racketeering standing vacatur 1. Whether the Supreme Court finds it appropriate by law, The United States Constitution and Federal Rule 60 to VACATE all attached federal orders in …
20-1331 Arthur J. Clemens, Jr. v. Local One Service Employees International Union, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied civil-rights class-counsel constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection exhaustion-of-remedies first-amendment free-speech labor standing union union-governance 1. Should 29 USC 481(c) be declared Unconstitutional by the Supreme Court and the case remanded to the Eighth Circuit or the Trial Court with instruct…
20-7510 In Re Leonard English 2021-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fairness fifth-amendment first-amendment judicial-discretion ninth-amendment 1) Does any judge have the discretion to arbitrarily pick what relevant written & verified facts to consider and not apply them to governing laws for …
20-1294 Simon Campbell, et al. v. Pennsylvania School Boards Association, et al. Third Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) 42-u-s-c-1983 civil-rights first-amendment free-speech petitioning petitioning-immunity retaliation retaliation-claim sham-litigation state-action state-actors 1. Are state actors, acting under color of state law, entitled to claim petitioning immunity from liability for a First Amendment retaliation claim br…
20-7460 Carlos Rodriguez Fernandez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-16 Denied IFP child-pornography context-test due-process first-amendment four-corners-test jury-instruction lascivious-exhibition To comport with the First Amendment and Due Process in determining whether an image of a child acting innocently constitutes child pornography, must c…
20-1243 Staci Burk v. Doug Ducey, Governor of Arizona, et al. Arizona 2021-03-10 Denied Response Waived case-or-controversy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process election-challenge equal-protection federal-jurisdiction first-amendment standing stare-decisis voter-registration 1. Did the Arizona Supreme Court violate Petitioner's right to Equal Protection when it denied remand for an evidentiary hearing of Petitioner's const…
20-1253 Charles L. Stringer v. Storesonline, Inc., et al. Mississippi 2021-03-10 Denied chancery-court civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment motion-to-strike pro-se-representation sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation 1 DID THE MISSISSIPPI SUPRME COURT BREAK STATE LAW WHEN IT WOULD NOT APPLY THE MANDATORY LANGUAGE IN THE USE OF THE WORD OF SHALL IN MISSISSIPPI CO…
20-1241 Michael Paul Miselis v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Amici (1) anti-riot-act civil-rights constitutional-validity criminal-prosecution due-process federal-prosecution first-amendment free-speech overbreadth protest-rights standing statutory-interpretation 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2101, the Anti-Riot Act, is facially invalid under the First Amendment. 2. If so, are the constitutionally infirm provisions o…
20-7377 Benjamin Drake Daley v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied IFP anti-riot-act civil-rights civil-unrest criminal-prosecution due-process facial-constitutionality federal-statute first-amendment free-speech interstate-commerce overbreadth standing 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2101, the Anti-Riot Act, is facially invalid under the First Amendment. 2. If so, are the constitutionally infirm provisions o…
20-7384 Samuel Rasheen Rymond Toliver v. K. Adner Second Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process exhaustion-of-remedies first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech solitary-confinement Was the treatmenttof the Petitioner on 5/30/17, being forced into Solitary Confinment for asserting his U.S.C.A. Const. First Amendment Unconsitutiona…
20-7399 Jenita Clancy v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense Tenth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP disability-discrimination disability-harassment employment-retaliation federal-rule-15 first-amendment post-employment-retaliation rehabilitation-act retaliation summary-judgment title-vii Federal law strictly prohibits false declaration and misleading conduct in Court against Rehabilitation Act binding in potential Agency that discharge…
20-1193 Christopher G. Lee v. United States Third Circuit 2021-03-01 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-chapter-110 child-pornography constitutional-rights criminal-statute due-process first-amendment image-cropping ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lascivious-exhibition minor-image sexually-explicit-conduct 1. Can innocent, concededly non-sexual conduct of a minor, depicted in an image, be retroactively converted into the "use or employment" of a minor to…
20-7263 Darryl A. Robinson v. Yee Sixth Circuit 2021-02-26 Dismissed IFP equal-protection first-amendment gerrymandering redistricting standing voting-rights Question not identified.
20-7243 David Linehan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law first-amendment free-speech interstate-commerce interstate-communication statutory-interpretation threat-transmission Whether 18 U.S.C. § 875(c), which criminalizes "transmit[ting] in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to . . . inju…
20-1174 Kim Lippard, et vir v. Larry Holleman, et al. North Carolina 2021-02-25 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) civil-claims defamation ecclesiastical-settings first-amendment neutral-principles neutral-principles-of-law religion-clauses tort-claims Whether the First Amendment's Religion Clauses prohibit courts from hearing defamation claims that arise from ecclesiastical settings, even when the c…
20-7226 John R. Scannell v. Washington State Bar Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP disciplinary-proceedings first-amendment fourteenth-amendment investigation judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction obstruction res-judicata rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court unlawful-practice 1. Did the Washington State Supreme Court have jurisdiction conduct original disciplinary proceedings against Scanned for obstruction into an investig…
20-1158 The North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Inc. v. Will McRaney Fifth Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) employment employment-tort first-amendment ministerial-exception neutral-principles religion-clauses religious-organization secular-court tort-law 1. Whether a secular court can, consistent with the First Amendment's Religion Clauses, adjudicate a minister's employment-related state law tort clai…
20-1137 California Parents for the Equalization of Educational Materials v. Tom Torlakson, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied Amici (2) disfavored-treatment federal-law first-amendment free-exercise-clause government-discrimination ninth-circuit-precedent recurring-issue religious-exercise religious-liberty substantial-burden Whether the Free Exercise Clause permits the government to single out a religion for disfavored treatment so long as it does not "substantially burden…
20-1120 Melissa Belgau, et al. v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 collective-bargaining color-of-law employee-rights first-amendment public-employees section-1983 union-dues 1. Whether it violates the First Amendment for a state and union to seize union dues or fees from employees' wages without proof the employees waived …
20-1123 Lenwood Hamilton v. Lester Speight, et al. Third Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights commercial-speech first-amendment free-speech likeness-rights privacy privacy-rights property-rights right-of-publicity transformative-use video-game-law 1) whether the First Amendment right to free speech protects using a person's actual likeness without permission when weighed against that person's pr…
20-1111 International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers, Local 229, AFL-CIO v. National Labor Relations Board Ninth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied content-based content-based-restriction first-amendment labor-speech national-labor-relations-act secondary-boycott speaker-based strict-scrutiny union-inducement viewpoint-discriminatory Whether the secondary boycott provision of the National Labor Relations Act prohibiting peaceful and non-coercive Union inducement of workers to leave…
20-1091 Robert L. Schulz v. Town Board of the Town of Queensbury, et al. New York 2021-02-10 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment government-accountability government-obligations petition-clause public-records republican-form-of-government state-statute 1. Whether the lower Court has misapplied Minne sota State Bd. for Community Colls, v. Knight, 465 U.S. 271 (1984) in ruling Respondent Town Board …
20-1100 Paul Rodriguez, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) electoral-college equal-protection first-amendment political-parties presidential-election summary-affirmance vote-dilution voting-rights Petitioners are two California Republicans and two non-profit organizations who have alleged their votes for President and Vice President are diluted …
20-7103 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. North Carolina, et al. North Carolina 2021-02-10 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech grievance-mechanism petition-clause prisoner-rights standing THE JUDGMENTCS) IN THE NATTER OF CASE NO. 42SPIQ-2 DiRECTIY iNVOLUES A SUbSTANTIAL EUINO STATES PURSUONT TO N.C.G.S.7A-BOCI). HENCE, THE Said juDGNEUT…
20-7108 Jan Gawlik v. Scott Semple, et al. Connecticut 2021-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-association freedom-of-expression freedom-of-speech religious-rights WHERE THE CONNECTICUT DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION VIOLATES THE FIRST AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS, DENYING USED RELIGIOUS/NON-RELIGIOUS BOOKS FROM PUBLISHER…
20-1088 David Carson, as Parent and Next Friend of O. C., et al. v. A. Pender Makin First Circuit 2021-02-09 Judgment Issued Amici (55)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) constitutional-rights equal-protection espinoza-v-montana first-amendment first-circuit religion-clauses sectarian-instruction student-aid-program Does a state violate the Religion Clauses or Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution by prohibiting students participating in an oth…
20-1078 Danyelle Bennett v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) constitutional-protection first-amendment free-speech hecklers-veto pickering-balancing-test political-speech public-employee rankin-v-mcpherson 1. Whether, contrary to Rankin v. McPherson, 483 U.S. 378 (1987), a public employee's political debate on an issue of national importance may be silen…
20-1081 Illinois Republican Party, et al. v. J. B. Pritzker, Governor of Illinois Seventh Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Response Waived civil-rights content-based-restriction content-based-restrictions first-amendment free-speech pandemic-regulation political-speech religious-speech strict-scrutiny In Reed v. Town of Gilbert , this Court clarified that content -based restrictions are those that apply to particular speech because of the topic disc…
20-7084 Mindy Hill v. Google LLC, et al. District of Columbia 2021-02-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights closed-captioning digital-content due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech standing terms-of-service youtube-terms-of-service 1. Whether the court should resolve the following for which the state courts are dominated by Google's financial endeavors, and further use of TikTok …
20-7051 Tomas Zavalidroga v. United States District Court for the Northern District of New York Second Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech iccpr pro-se-litigant standing vexatious-litigant Whether the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) pro…
20-1072 Chad Thompson, et al. v. Richard Michael DeWine, Governor of Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Amici (1) anderson-burdick anderson-burdick-test ballot-access ballot-initiative electoral-rights first-amendment initiative recurring-issue signature-gathering strict-scrutiny Whether and how the First Amendment applies to regulations that impede a person's ability to place an initiative on the ballot.
20-1074 Sedfrey M. Linsangan v. Alice M. Taijeron, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights constitution constitutional-rights due-process election-law first-amendment free-speech guam-law legal-burden political-office standing Is there anything else that I need to suffer or injure in order to qualify for the standing issue? 2. How could I live the quality of life that I des…
20-1063 Shkelzën Berisha v. Guy Lawson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) actual-malice constitutional-law curtis-publishing-co-v-butts defamation first-amendment libel libel-law mckee-v-cosby public-figure The question presented is whether this Court should overrule the "actual malice" requirement it imposed on public figure defamation plaintiffs.
20-1066 Ashlyn Hoggard v. Ron Rhodes, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-02-04 Denied Amici (6)Relisted (8) case-precedent circuit-split constitutional-rights factual-similarity first-amendment higher-standard legal-standard public-university qualified-immunity 1. Whether qualified immunity shields public university officials from liability when the reasoning—but not the holding—of a binding decision gave the…
20-7044 Gregory Bartunek v. Hall County, Nebraska, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause pretrial-detainee pretrial-detainees religious-freedom Whether failing to provide consistent and reliable opportunities for pretrial detainees to exercise their religious freedoms is a violation of the Fir…
20-1055 Anthony Tricoli v. Rob Watts, et al. Georgia 2021-02-03 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-corruption government-retaliation retaliation sanctions sovereign-immunity 1. May the State of Georgia impose punitive sanctions, against an attorney petitioning the courts and speaking out in public to expose and redress sta…
20-7009 Mark Rudolph Arsenio Reed v. Robert Toole, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment indigent-defendant motion-in-arrest sixth-amendment standing Georgia state law O.C.G.A. 17-9-61 provides the following: (a) When a judgement has been rendered, either party may move in arrest thereof for any def…
20-1045 David G. Liebenguth v. Connecticut Connecticut 2021-02-01 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fighting-words first-amendment free-speech hate-speech law-enforcement racial-epithet Whether Referring To A Law Enforcement Officer By A Racial Epithet While Protesting An Enforcement Action Constitutes Fighting Words Unprotected By Th…
20-1049 City of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, et al. v. Calvin McCraw, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-02-01 Denied Response Waived civil-rights content-neutral-regulation due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-interest narrow-tailoring pedestrian-rights public-safety For the purposes of protecting the health and safety of pedestrians on medians from encroaching traffic, and drivers from distractions caused by pedes…
20-1036 Robert V. Bolinske v. Supreme Court of North Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-01-29 Denied Response Waived amendment-of-pleadings civil-procedure due-process first-amendment motion-to-dismiss rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing younger-abstention 1. Did the District Court and Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals err in refusing to allow Appellant Bolinske the right to serve and file his proposed Ame…
20-1019 Jade Thompson v. Marietta Education Association, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights compelled-association first-amendment free-speech knight-v-minnesota labor-union labor-unions public-sector public-sector-employees representative-advocacy Three times in recent years, this Court has recognized that schemes compelling public-sector employees to associate with labor unions impose a "signif…
20-1029 City of Austin, Texas v. Reagan National Advertising of Austin, LLC, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-01-28 Judgment Issued Amici (21)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) billboard-regulation content-based content-based-regulation first-amendment free-speech metromedia municipal-law reed-v-town-of-gilbert sign-code strict-scrutiny Austin sign code provisions distinguish between on-premise and off-premise signs based solely on location. From this distinction—and unrelated to what…
20-6923 Christopher J. Abbate v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process first-amendment interpretation pornography supervised-release vagueness I. Does a special condition of supervised release that prohibits possession or control of "any pornographic matter" violate due process as unconstitut…
20-974 Emil Svrcina, et al. v. Scott T. Nago, Chief Election Officer of the State of Hawaii, et al. Hawaii 2021-01-15 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process election-contest election-law elections first-amendment fourteenth-amendment hawaii-supreme-court state-legislature vote-by-mail Article II of the Constitution provides that "Each State shall appoint [electors for President and Vice President] in such Manner as the Legislature …
20-961 John Henry Ryskamp v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2021-01-15 Denied Response Waived article-i-section-8 constitutional-scrutiny due-process first-amendment free-speech general-welfare janus-precedent janus-v-afscme speech-component tax tax-system Under Janus v. AFSCME, does the U.S. tax system violate U.S. Const, amend I because it contains a prohibited individually enforceable protected speech…
20-969 Freedom Watch, Inc., et al. v. Google Inc., et al. District of Columbia 2021-01-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (6) 1st-amendment antitrust appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation first-amendment free-speech human-rights-act political-discrimination sherman-act standing 1. Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit err by failing to find that the District of Columbia Human Rights Act's prohibition on political…
20-952 Construction Cost Data, L.L.C., et al. v. The Gordian Group, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied business-disparagement defamation false-statements first-amendment jury-findings noerr-pennington noerr-pennington-doctrine reckless-disregard state-law-liability 1. Whether the Noerr-Pennington doctrine has been improperly expanded beyond its First Amendment moorings to insulate knowingly, recklessly, or intent…
20-950 H. Renee James v. City of Montgomery, Alabama Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied but-for-causation employment-discrimination first-amendment free-speech mcdonnell-douglas retaliation summary-judgment title-vii 1. Whether the court deprives a plaintiff of her First Amendment right to free speech and expression when, in applying the McDonnell Douglas framework…
20-946 John J. Dierlam v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response Waived 1st-amendment affordable-care-act civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech religious-exemptions rfra 1)Do one or more Constitutional violations exist in the ACA? Subsidiary to this question and suggested by the Claims in the Complaint and subsequent p…
20-6863 Tommy Findley v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split federal-court-review first-amendment fourth-amendment internet-access probable-cause state-law-application supervised-release warrant-application warrant-probable-cause 1. Whether a federal court is required to apply controlling state law in determining whether facts omitted from a warrant application vitiate probable…
20-6825 Andrew Andersen v. Marisela Montes, Commissioner of California Board of Parole Hearings, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-11 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process first-amendment greenholtz-v-inmates-of-nebraska parole parole-denial prisoners-rights protected-freedoms swarthout-v-cooke 1. Did this court's ruling in swarthout v. cooke and Greenholtz v. inmates of Nebraska foreclose First Amendment challenges agasint statements of reas…
20-920 Jeremy Collins v. Rebecca Putt, in Her Individual and Official Capacity, et al. Second Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response Waived academic-freedom college-classroom college-speech constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech hazelwood-v-kuhlmeier tinker-standard tinker-v-des-moines viewpoint-discrimination 1. Whether or not viewpoint discrimination in a college classroom is permissible under the Supreme Court's ruling in Hazelwood Sch. Dist. v. Kuhlmeier…
20-903 First Choice Chiropractic, LLC, et al. v. Mike DeWine, Governor of Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied Response Waived central-hudson-test circuit-split commercial-speech content-based-regulation content-based-restrictions first-amendment free-speech heightened-scrutiny speaker-based-restrictions speaker-identity When governmental regulations upon commercial speech are based upon either the identity of the speaker or the content of the message, does the "height…
20-889 The Sherwin-Williams Company v. Delaware County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing chilled-speech civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-action standing Fundamental in this Court's Article III jurisprudence is the principle that the federal courts are open to hear federal claims for declaratory and inj…
20-882 Donald J. Trump, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, et al. Wisconsin 2021-01-04 Denied Response Waived absentee-ballot article-ii constitutional-interpretation election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review laches legislative-intent state-courts voter-fraud wisconsin-legislature 1. Whether it violates Article II of the Constitution, as well as the First and Fourteenth Amendments, for state courts, on review of a post-election …
20-6717 Jay S. Kravitz v. Kenneth Leis, et al. Second Circuit 2020-12-29 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech grievance-procedure incarceration-rights prison-policy religious-freedom summary-judgment Whether Petitioner presented an underlying First Amendment Constitutional violation in complaining of Respondents' depriving him of the use of Tefilli…
20-6707 Cary Lee Peterson v. United States Third Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment judgment procedural-irregularity standing transcripts Whether the Court of Appeals erred in issuing an unpublished opinion, without including the Bill of Costs or Attorney's Fees or Costs of Appellate Pro…
20-838 Kim Blandino v. Nevada, et al. Nevada 2020-12-22 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise impartial-judge judicial-impartiality structural-error (1) Whether this Court's decision in Rippo v. Baker, 137 S. Ct. 905 (2017) which concerns a structural error of the Constitutional denial of an impart…
20-6670 Janice Sue Taylor v. United States Federal Circuit 2020-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-rights due-process federal-statutes fifth-amendment first-amendment jurisdiction title-26-usc 1. Petitioner's Constitutional rights have been violated by the Appellate Court denying Petitioner due process of law, as provided under The Constitut…
20-824 Edward F. Taupier v. Connecticut Connecticut 2020-12-17 Denied Response Waived civil-rights criminal-prosecution due-process first-amendment free-speech free-speech-protection intent intent-standard reckless-speech recklessness true-threats virginia-v-black Whether the First Amendment prohibits a State from criminalizing threats to commit violence communicated in reckless disregard of the risk of placing …
20-810 Mike Kelly, United States Congressman, et al. v. Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2020-12-15 Denied Amici (11)Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process election-law elections elections-clause first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech laches laches-doctrine standing 1. Do the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution permit Pennsylvania to rely on the laches doctrine to bar all forms of equ…
20-804 Houston Community College System v. David Buren Wilson Fifth Circuit 2020-12-14 Judgment Issued Amici (8)Relisted (2) censure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process first-amendment free-speech legislative-speech local-government member-conduct standing Does the First Amendment restrict the authority of an elected body to issue a censure resolution in response to a member's speech?
20-791 Eglise Baptiste Bethanie De Ft. Lauderdale, Inc., et al. v. Seminole Tribe of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) access-act civil-remedies civil-rights establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise-clause freedom-of-access-to-clinic-entrances-act off-reservation-conduct religious-worship tribal-sovereign-immunity Six members of a reservation-based tribal police force, while in uniform, using a marked vehicle and carrying departmental firearms, during a sabbath …
20-6542 Alfonso Percy Pew v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Pennsylvania 2020-12-07 Denied IFP 1st-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment federal-religious-land-use-institutionalized-perso federal-settlement-agreement first-amendment pro-se-litigant religious-land-use standing 1. WHETHER THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COURT JUDICIAL SYSTEM IN ITS COMMON PLEAS COURT, COMMONWEALTH COURT AND STATE SUPREME COURT HAS CREATED A HANDS OFF …
20-6550 Kenneth H. Newkirk v. Jeffery Kiser, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech magistrate-judge school-discipline standing student-speech I. D(0M)T UVmA^Cr me jwGe v»£*fe f!eNi>?£0 a1* <J.$T ttss^stj c\cxihs <5- ■# tiw TH£ LQteytA 9-oP- CMftAOgrA) 4L G>^ RgSPdAiP^wt To rm (te<jugS7 Mtrn…
20-6538 Gabriel Schmitt v. Charlie Baker, Governor of Massachusetts First Circuit 2020-12-04 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment police-power public-health public-health-emergency service-of-process standing substitute-service 1. May a state governor close the state house of that state's congressional body to the public, in addition to all of his offices, such that there is …
20-751 Ashley Ann Krapacs v. The Florida Bar Florida 2020-12-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abstract-idea administrative-law bar-discipline civil-rights disbarment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech free-speech 20-7519" integrated-bar intellectual-property judicial-corruption patent-law political-speech professional-conduct state-action supreme-court-precedent Whether the Supreme Court will address alleged jud The Florida Bar, an integrated Bar system under the jurisdiction of the Florida Supreme Court, has disbarred an attorney who has posted what amounts t…
20-746 South Bay United Pentecostal Church, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-30 GVR Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-review first-amendment free-exercise free-speech jacobson-v-massachusetts pandemic-restrictions religious-liberty strict-scrutiny Once again, Petitioners South Bay United Pentecostal Church and Bishop Arthur Hodges III ("South Bay") must seek relief from this Court. California, i…
20-705 Chris Jaye v. United States Federal Circuit 2020-11-23 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts first-amendment judicial-discretion judicial-immunity petition-rights pleading-standards standing Has the US Court of Federal Claims and US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit acting in opposition to controlling law (Erickson v. Pardus, Johnso…
20-6398 Richard Wesley Allen v. Marcus A. Pollard, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-11-20 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection First-Amendment Fourteenth-Amendment free-speech parole prisoner-rights religious-freedom DOES IT VIOLATE THE FIRST AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION, WHEN A STATE THAT OFFERS PAROLE TO PRISONERS, DENIES PAROLE TO A PRISONE…
20-691 Lih Bin Shih v. Nathan Brooks Parnell California 2020-11-18 Denied civil-rights clean-hands-doctrine due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-petition petition-clause police-reports retaliation 1. Whether the Court may deny Petitioner's First Amendment right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances? In particular when the Govern…
20-676 J. P., By and Through His Guardian Ad Litem, Shannon Villanueva v. Alameda County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emotional-harm fair-notice first-amendment foster-care fourteenth-amendment qualified-immunity I. Emotional harm alone triggers 42 U.S.C. §1983 liability. The Ninth Circuit granted qualified immunity on J.P.s First and Fourteenth Amendment claim…
20-677 John T. Laettner v. California Commission on Judicial Performance California 2020-11-17 Denied Response Waived due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-discipline judicial-performance notice rebuttal-evidence right-to-be-heard speech-restraint This Writ seeks review of a Decision by the California Commission on Judicial Performance to remove Judge John T. Laettner from service on the Contra …
20-671 In Re Atul C. Shah 2020-11-16 Denied Relisted (2) bankruptcy-court civil-rights discrimination due-process eeoc-investigation employment-discrimination first-amendment free-speech judicial-procedure religion standing 1. The primary purpose of the Petition for an Extraordinary Writ is the exceptional circumstances warrant the exercise of the Supreme Court's discreti…
20-6318 Abdul Azeem Mohammed v. Erin Anderson, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied IFP civil-litigation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech legal-procedure standing 1) whether a litigant does not have First Amendment Right to Freedom of Speech in civil litigation.
20-6280 Deverick Scott v. Pamela Cook Eighth Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process first-amendment free-speech prisoner-grievance retaliation some-evidence some-evidence-standard 1. Was inmate Scott engaged in an activity he was entitled to perform by writing a prisoner grievance explaining "3 months earlier he had set his cell…
20-6276 Arek R. Fressadi v. Arizona, et al. Arizona 2020-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-violations court-rules due-process equal-protection first-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct judicial-review oath-of-office procedural-default self-defense state-law supreme-court trial-counsel venue-transfer venue-transfer 20-6275" Would a jurist of reason find debatable the correc 1) Whether failures to apply mandatory language of the U.S. Constitution, U.S. Supreme Court rulings, state law, and court rules are violations of the…
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…
20-6258 Arthur L. Campbell v. Cynthia Gause, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights first-amendment free-exercise islam judicial-review prison-policy religious-freedom rluipa statutory-interpretation substantial-burden THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COMMITTED PLAIN ERROR, CONTRARY TO 42 U.S.C. §2000cc et seq., WHEN IT ABDICATED THE RESPONSIBILITY, CONFERRED BY CONGRESS ON THE COU…
20-612 Roque "Rocky" De La Fuente, et al. v. Steve Simon, Minnesota Secretary of State Minnesota 2020-11-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ballot-access equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-parties political-party-rights primary-election primary-elections In the context of Minnesota's taxpayer-funded, state-administered, and binding presidential nomination primary election, are Minnesota Statues repugna…
20-606 Tatyana E. Drevaleva v. California Department of Industrial Relations California 2020-11-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law anti-SLAPP civil-procedure civil-rights first-amendment free-speech governmental-immunity labor-code labor-law libel 1) Does Governmental Entity the California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) have a right to file a Special Motion to Strike my Complaint (an …
20-594 Richard S. Berry v. State Bar of Arizona Arizona 2020-11-04 Denied Response Waived antitrust civil-rights commercial-speech constitutional-challenge due-process first-amendment free-speech professional-regulation professional-services standing state-bar-regulation unauthorized-practice-of-law IS A COURT RULE DEFINING AND PROHIBITING THE UNAUTHORIZED PRACTICE OF LAW ("UPL") AN UNCONSTITU TIONAL ABRIDGMENT OF COMMERCIAL SPEECH WHEN a) IT IS …
20-600 Anthony Sevy v. Philip Barach Sixth Circuit 2020-11-04 Denied 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights excessive-force first-amendment free-speech government-official qualified-immunity retaliation retaliatory-force symbolic-protest Does the First Amendment, which prohibits government officials from subjecting an individual to retaliatory actions, including criminal prosecutions, …
20-584 Michael Wood, et ux. v. United States Third Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied Response Waived conspiracy-charges conspiracy-to-commit-immigration-offenses constructive-amendment criminal-procedure first-amendment immigration-law prejudicial-variance statute-of-limitations yates-v-united-states 1. Whether Defendants' conviction for conspiracy to commit immigration offenses is legally invalid pursuant to Yates v. United States, 354 U.S. 298 (1…
20-569 Elim Romanian Pentecostal Church, et al. v. J. B. Pritzker, Governor of Illinois Seventh Circuit 2020-10-30 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) content-based-restriction content-based-restrictions first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause jacobson-v-massachusetts pandemic-exception religious-discrimination religious-gatherings strict-scrutiny (1) Whether the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment prohibits the government from discriminating against religious gatherings by restricting t…
20-6164 In Re Theresa S. Romain 2020-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud-upon-the-court full-faith-and-credit petition-clause race-discrimination 1. Can a State encourages discrimination on the basis of the race theory? 2. Does the petition clause (1st Amendment) automatically disqualifies a pe…
20-6160 Azaniah Blankumsee v. Walter West, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions contract-clause due-process federal-courts first-amendment legal-interpretation private-contractors public-policy standing 1) Are there other issues? 2) Does the exhaustion requirement apply
20-538 Rentberry, Inc., et al. v. City of Seattle, Washington Ninth Circuit 2020-10-23 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived civil-rights first-amendment mootness nominal-damages section-1983 standing voluntary-cessation Rentberry, which operates a website that allows landlords and potential tenants to communicate through an auction-style bidding process, and Delaney W…
20-536 The Episcopal Church, et al. v. The Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, et al. Texas 2020-10-22 Denied Relisted (2) church-property church-property-disputes constitutional-law ecclesiastical-deference express-trusts first-amendment free-exercise neutral-principles polity religious-freedom The First Amendment limits civil courts' authority to resolve disputes within a church. For more than a century, this Court respected those limits by …
20-530 Harold H. Burbank, II v. Connecticut Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel Connecticut 2020-10-21 Denied attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech petition petition-rights political-speech I. Did the First Amendment and Connecticut Constitution preclude Connecticut from reciprocal attorney discipline predicated on petitioner's Maine appe…
20-506 Sergei Vinkov v. Mark Smith, et al. California 2020-10-16 Denied civil-rights communication-decency-act defamation due-process first-amendment religious-organization subject-matter-jurisdiction volunteer-protection-act (1) Do the lower courts have the lack of subject matter jurisdiction over a defamation lawsuit against a foreign national board director of religio…
20-508 Brandon S. LaVergne v. Michael Vaughn, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech mail-restriction qualified-immunity religious-freedom solitary-confinement turner-test 1) Can a prisoner's 1st amendment right to correspondence be totally "revoked" without a hearing or due process? This included all religious mail, edu…
20-6019 Greg P. Givens v. Clyde Yates, Jr., et al. Ohio 2020-10-15 Denied IFP bankruptcy civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech immunity judicial-discretion petition-clause standing I. Does the lower court have the absolute right to wholly suspend and censor the First Amendment Right of the Freedom of Speech to a natural born cit…
20-6031 Durwyn Talley v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois Seventh Circuit 2020-10-15 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-rights court-access due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction first-amendment fourteenth-amendment prison-litigation-reform-act J6 U)MM the. United Zhitf Court erf appeals , c/|ecu it teas to to denying feiito nee Access -h the court and kis dny vmotronS tfjQmsf Suck decision C…
20-6008 Brian Evans v. Kaiali'i Kahele Hawaii 2020-10-14 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP compelled-speech content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech government-regulation private-entities 1. During an Objection to an Election, if a candidate is duly served and fails to Answer the Complaint or otherwise appear, is he in Default and shou…
20-6013 Peter Patrick LaForte v. California California 2020-10-14 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech standing Is it correct a conflict of interest claim "does not depend on the outcome of the case as in a more typical [federal] analysis." and is instead satisf…
20-6014 Jasper Lee Vick v. Clement F. Bernard, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-10-14 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-violation deliberate-indifference due-process first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation medical-segregation prisoner-grievance retaliation summary-judgment I. Did the Sixth Circuit err in denying Petitioner review of the district court's judgment in favor of Respondents on Whether there is a temporal prox…
20-5922 Julia Hook v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-access due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment judicial-abuse judicial-bias judicial-taking sanctions The question presented for review is whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has so far departed from the accepted and usual …
20-5943 Lamar A. Williams v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights complaint-filing constitutional-rights criminal-charges criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment legal-procedure retaliation standing Whether or not the criminal charges were retaliatory in response to my May 8, 2018 complaint, the follow up complaint on May 24, 2018 and a 200-page s…
20-5907 Joseph Peterson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights computer-seizure constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech search-and-seizure trial-court written-materials Did the trial court violate Mr. Peterson's Due Process of Law when denying written materials seized from his computer when those materials were protec…
20-5912 Adam Alan Henry v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-2256 constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process federal-statute first-amendment overbreadth sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation vagueness 1. Whether in 18 U.S.C. § 2256(2)(A)(v ) the definition of "sexually explicit conduct" defined as the lascivious exhibition of the genitals or pubic …
20-5858 Elvert S. Briscoe, Jr. v. Annette Chambers-Smith, Director, Ohio Rehabilitation and Correction, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied IFP constitutional-rights disciplinary-hearing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection first-amendment liberty-interest sandin-v-connor Liberty Interest Can an action by a prison disciplinary hearing that is a violation of the First Amendment, Eighth Amendment, or Equal Protection Clau…
20-5845 Deverick Scott v. Danny Burl, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-09-30 Denied IFP 1st-amendment administrative-grievance civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process false-disciplinary first-amendment prisoner-rights property-rights retaliation 1. If the A.D.C. authorizes a prisoner to have his personal property in Isolation Confinement by giving to him on his 48hr relief after he served 30 d…
20-5831 Rafael Cezar Danam v. Arizona Board of Education Arizona 2020-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-hearing bill-of-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment freedom-of-speech redress-of-grievances stare-decisis From the founding of the United States of America, the "inalienable " right of "Freedom of Speech " and the right of "Redress of Grievances " has been…
20-375 In Re E. Edward Zimmermann 2020-09-24 Denied civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech standing Are "terms and conditions of employment and working conditions " as defined by The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), subject matter left to Petitio…
20-384 Penny Nichols Corn, et al. v. Mississippi Department of Public Safety, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech garcetti-precedent garcetti-v-ceballos lane-v-franks law-enforcement-misconduct misprision-of-felony public-employee-speech Whether, after inconsistencies generated by Garcetti v. Ceballos, 547 U.S. 410 (2006) and Lane v. Franks, 573 U.S. 228 (2014), citizen public employee…
20-365 Jack Daniel's Properties, Inc. v. VIP Products LLC Ninth Circuit 2020-09-18 Denied Amici (7) commercial-speech dilution-by-tarnishment first-amendment humor-defense lanham-act parody trademark-dilution trademark-infringement 1. Whether a commercial product using humor is subject to the same likelihood-of-confusion analysis applicable to other products under the Lanham Act,…
20-5755 Joseph Lee Jones v. Google LLC Tenth Circuit 2020-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights consumer-protection due-process first-amendment free-speech human-rights in-forma-pauperis legal-remedies three-strikes Question not identified.
20-358 Randy Henry v. J. Bret Johnson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-employer government-employment public-concern public-employee retaliation When a government employee speaks on a matter of public concern, may the government punish that employee (1) if the employee's interest in freedom of…
20-345 Deborah Katz Pueschel v. Elaine L. Chao, Secretary of Transportation, et al. District of Columbia 2020-09-16 Denied Response Waived civil-service constitutional-rights disability-benefits first-amendment free-speech government-restrictions public-office standing Does the rule in U.S. Civil Service Comm'n v. Nat'l Ass'n of Letter Carriers, 413 U.S. 548 (1973), that the First Amendment does not prevent the feder…
20-351 Norris Paul Carey, Jr. v. Joanne Throwe, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) concealed-carry concealed-weapon first-amendment law-enforcement-officer-safety-act law-enforcement-safety-act public-employee public-employee-speech qualified-retired-law-enforcement-officer section-1983 social-media-posts In a reported opinion, the Fourth Circuit affirmed the district court's dismissal of claims brought by Norris Paul Carey, Jr., a retired twenty-six-ye…
20-340 Olga Paule Perrier-Bilbo v. United States, et al. First Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied Response Waived civil-rights equal-protection establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise freedom-of-religion government-endorsement religious-discrimination standing May the federal government continue to degrade Atheists from the equal rank of citizens by repeatedly, flagrantly, and facially lending its power to M…
20-346 D. Ashley Pennington v. Beattie I. Butler Fourth Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-termination first-amendment fourth-circuit public-defender qualified-immunity scott-v-harris standing 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit, consistent with this Court's decision in Scott v. Harris, 550 U.S. 372 (2007), should have exercised jurisdiction and c…
20-332 Maggy Hurchalla v. Lake Point Phase I, LLC, et al. Florida 2020-09-14 Denied Amici (2) first-amendment free-speech genuine-belief governmental-action petition-clause public-concern tort-award verifiable-assertion Where a person speaks to a government official on a matter of public concern, and a subsequent governmental action regarding that matter harms a third…
20-5678 Charise L. Logan v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP cia-testing civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech frivolous-law government-conspiracy jurisdictional-law standing systematic-oppression IN OBSERVANCE OF OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS TO LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS, TO LIVE WITH MASLOW'S FIVE HIERARCHY NEEDS AND THE PROTECTIO…
20-329 Julie M. Sowell, et al. v. Tinley, Renehan & Dost, LLP, et al. Second Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-actors I. In the district court petitioners sought prospective declaratory relief, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, from a Connecticut Superior Court protective…
20-290 Charles Meyers, et al. v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2020-09-04 Denied Response Waived assembly civil-rights constitutional-review due-process fair-notice first-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-permission A. How individualized must government permission be to raise fair notice protection under the due process component of the Fourteenth Amendment? B. I…
20-5597 Rory Swenson v. Illinois Illinois 2020-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law first-amendment free-speech intent intent-standard listener-perception speech-protection true-threat true-threats virginia-v-black May speech that does not contain any expression of an intent to commit an act of unlawful violence be criminalized as a "true threat" unprotected by t…
20-261 Jeff Schulz, et al. v. Presbytery of Seattle. et al. Washington 2020-09-02 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (3) church-autonomy church-property-disputes civil-procedure constitutional-law denominational-authority denominational-dispute first-amendment free-exercise property-ownership religious-freedom In a dispute between a local congregation and its former denomination over ownership of property to which the local congregation holds legal title, do…
20-264 Stephen S. Bona v. Illinois Illinois 2020-09-02 Denied criminal-threat elonis-v-united-states first-amendment free-speech intent-to-harm political-speech true-threat virginia-v-black 1. Whether, in a case involving political speech, the first amendment allows a state to criminalize a knowing threat of violence directed against a po…
20-5559 Tim Sundy v. Friendship Pavilion Acquisition Company, LLC, et al. Georgia 2020-09-02 Dismissed IFP constitutional-rights court-record-tampering criminal-immunity due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity judicial-remedy 1) Given that Art. I, Sec. II, Par. I, of the Constitution of Georgia of 1983 states, (a) "Public officers are the trustees and servants of the people…
20-5565 Mary Jo Weidrick v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. Second Circuit 2020-09-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-interference civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process executive-order fifth-amendment first-amendment investigation-misconduct national-security standing 1. ) Whether this case is "frivolous " as claimed and dismissed by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York ON 4/27/20. …
20-252 Gannett Co., Inc., et al. v. Ryan Larson Minnesota 2020-09-01 Denied Response Waived defamation fair-report-privilege falsity-element first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement-statements media-reporting public-concern "[W]here a newspaper publishes speech of public concern, a private-figure plaintiff cannot recover damages without also showing that the statements at…
20-255 Mahanoy Area School District v. B. L., a Minor, By and Through Her Father, Lawrence Levy and Her Mother, Betty Lou Levy Third Circuit 2020-09-01 Judgment Issued Amici (36) circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech school-discipline school-regulation student-rights student-speech Whether Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503 (1969), which holds that public school officials may regulate speech …
20-5531 Cynthia Holmes v. James Y. Becker, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 7th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech seventh-amendment Whether the revised South Carolina Frivolous Proceedings Act (FPA), S.C. Code § 15-36-10, is unconstitutional on its face or as applied in violation o…
20-5480 Dennis Andrew Ball v. John Does 1-X, et al. District of Columbia 2020-08-25 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech schools student-discipline Question not identified.
20-207 Lara Bush-Pensy v. Timothy Pflieger Wisconsin 2020-08-21 Denied due-process first-amendment freedom-of-speech private-communication private-email state-court state-court-restraint unprotected-speech Whether basic First Amendment and Due Process freedom of speech is infringed where a state court restrains a person's private email absent any evidenc…
20-193 Calvin McMillan v. Alabama Alabama 2020-08-20 Denied Amici (4) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech standing Whether the execution of a person sentenced to death by judicial override violates the Eighth Amendment.
20-197 Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. v. Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, et al. Second Circuit 2020-08-20 GVR Relisted (15) blocking first-amendment free-speech government-official personal-account public-forum social-media twitter-blocking Whether the First Amendment deprives a government official of his right to control his personal Twitter account by blocking third-party accounts if he…
20-5410 Kevin Rene Aparicio-Leon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech standing 1. Whether an indictment charging a person for possession with intent to distribute a "mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of methamph…
20-180 Matthew William George v. Virginia Virginia 2020-08-18 Denied 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech post-commitment probation-restrictions A. Does a Virginia Court have the authority to extinguish a defendant's post commitment First Amendment Rights? B. Can a Virginia Court subject a def…
20-5375 Charles Michael Hall v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-08-17 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech standing UNDER THE FEDERAL DEATH ACT, "MUST" JURORS RETURN A DEATH SENTENCE IF PROVEN AGGRAVATING FACTORS SUFFICIENTLY OUTWEIGH PROVEN MITIGATING FACTORS, AS M…
20-5381 Lawrence F. Curtin v. Kimberly Cortez Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment florida fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-qualification-commission petition redress-of-grievances sixth-amendment state-court-judge DO I HAVE A FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT TO PETITION FLORIDA'S JUDBCIIAL QUALIFICATION COMMISSION, TOE GOVERNMENT, HIM WRITING, FOSS A REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES …
20-161 City of Sacramento, California, et al. v. Robert Mann, Sr., et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment intimate-association section-1983 sibling-relationship sibling-relationships standing 1. Whether the First Amendment protects intimate associations absent expressive activity; 2. If so, whether that protection exceeds what the Due Proc…
20-149 Cheryl D. Uzamere v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied antitrust civil-rights court-corruption due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech genocide hobbs-act new-york-state-law Whether New York State Law S2942 —A is unconstitutional: a) Federal Courts find that New York State Law S2942 —A is unconstitutional. b) New York Stat…
20-130 Hung Dang v. Washington Department of Health, Medical Quality Assurance Commission Washington 2020-08-07 Denied Response Waived duty-of-care first-amendment free-speech medical-licensing medical-quality-assurance physician-patient-relationship professional-speech statutory-interpretation While on-call as a private otolaryngologist, I verbally declined to accept into my care two persons from outlying hospitals, where I was neither on st…
20-115 Charles G. Kinney v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Ninth Circuit 2020-08-04 Denied Response Waived antitrust-law civil-rights due-process first-amendment standing state-bar-regulation 30+ states have mandatory or integrated state bar associations who mostly use temporarily-inactive attorneys serving as "judges" to impose discipline …
20-5255 Don Mashak v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eighth Circuit 2020-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment irs-authority natural-law natural-rights retaliation rule-of-law tax-enforcement 1)At every step in the process, is it unconstitutional for Respondent Commissioner of Internal Revenue (IRS) to be punish or retaliate against any cit…
20-103 Stephen E. Stockman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-03 Denied Amici (4)Response Waived bipartisan-campaign-reform-act buckley-standard buckley-v-valeo campaign-finance electioneering-communications feca-enforcement federal-election-campaign-act first-amendment fraud-claims mcconnell-v-fec 1. Whether Buckley's narrowing construction applies to non-BCRA activity (i.e., non-electioneering communications) in FECA enforcement actions. 2. Wh…
20-108 Paul Poupart v. Jeff Landry, Attorney General of Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-07-31 Denied Response Waived 1983 civil-rights due-process first-amendment state-conviction supremacy-clause Whether the standards in Heck v. Humphrey, should continue to apply to state convictions which are deemed unconstitutional and whether the invalidatio…
20-5220 Gerald Lee Groomes v. Arkansas Arkansas 2020-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-nudity child-pornography constitutional-rights criminal-statute first-amendment lewd-exhibition overbreadth protected-expression protected-speech vagueness Does a state's unreasonable application of a criminal statute prohibiting the possession of images depicting a "lewd exhibition" of child nudity in a …
20-91 Joseph H. Martin v. Department of Homeland Security Federal Circuit 2020-07-29 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-employee-rights first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech hotel-privacy labor-management-relations standing union-speech Weather the 4th amendment to the constitution of the United States protects speech in my personally rented hotel room; my home for the period of ren…
20-5185 Joshua Jermaine Nelson v. Texas Texas 2020-07-27 Denied IFP constitutional-vagueness content-based-restriction due-process first-amendment free-speech mens-rea overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine vagueness 1. Is a statute unconsti tutional, on its face, when it is a content-based restri ction that severel y criminalizes a substanti al amount of harml ess…
20-70 Jagan Mahadevan v. Prem Bikkina California 2020-07-24 Denied civil-rights defamation due-process federal-preemption first-amendment free-speech public-concern public-interest research-misconduct scientific-integrity standing 1. Whether federal statutory and regulatory scheme, for research misconduct, displaced state law from subject matter jurisdiction on defamation claims…
20-5146 Douglas Harry Warenback v. Dwight W. Neven, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment access-to-courts case-law certificate-of-appealability court-access due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review Has the Circuit Court violated my first Amendment right to access the courts by failing to provide any evidence that my request for certificate of app…
20-48 Stacey Eugene Johnson v. Arkansas Arkansas 2020-07-20 Denied Relisted (5) access-to-courts actual-innocence criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment post-conviction-relief post-conviction-remedies Does the Arkansas DNA testing statute, as construed by the Arkansas Supreme Court, prevent Petitioner from meaningfully accessing the State's post-con…
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…
20-5044 Ilya Liviz v. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Massachusetts 2020-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-obligations compelled-speech constitutional-procedure first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech government-compulsion search-and-seizure speech-rights subpoena subpoena-law warrant-requirement 1. Can the Government compel speech without a warrant, nor a subpoena? 2. Can an attorney be held in contempt for failing to cooperate with the Govern…
20-13 Brandon S. Lavergne v. Burl Cain, Warden, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-action due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech legal-correspondence prisoner-mail qualified-immunity standing 1. Did the state actors Paul Smith, Amber Vittorio and Michael Vaughn violate my 6th and 14th Amendment rights by finding me guilty of a rule violatio…
20-9 Bibiji Inderjit Kaur Puri, et al. v. Sopurkh Kaur Khalsa, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-09 Denied Response Waived civil-rights corporate-law de-novo-review due-process ecclesiastical-abstention first-amendment ministerial-exception standing statute-of-limitations summary-judgment 1. May a Court of Appeals on de novo review of summary judgment refuse to decide a claim predicated on a failure of two non-religious corporations, wi…
19-1455 Leigh Ann Youngblood-West v. Aflac Incorporated, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-02 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech hush-agreement judicial-recusal prior-restraint rumery standing 1. Whether the injunction enforcing the hush agreements and sealing the evidence of Aflac's and Dan Amos' cover-up of Dr. Amos' serial assaults upon w…
19-8891 Jeffery L. Howard v. Management and Training Corp., et al. Ohio 2020-07-02 Denied IFP administrative-exhaustion due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech grievance-forms retaliation stare-decisis state-courts 1) is PETITIONER'S first amendment rights violated when PRIVATE FOR PROFIT CORPORATION AND ITS AGENTS DENY ACCESS TO THE PAPER NOTIFICATION of GRIEV…
19-1436 Denise DeMartini v. Town of Gulf Stream, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-30 Denied 42-usc-1983 causation civil-lawsuit civil-litigation civil-rights first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation municipal-liability probable-cause retaliation section-1983 Did the Eleventh Circuit err in importing a "lack of probable cause" requirement for a First Amendment retaliation claim under 42 U.S.C § 1983 arising…
19-1415 John J. Dierlam v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-24 Denied Response Waived 1st-amendment affordable-care-act civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association healthcare-mandate religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act rfra 1)Do one or more Constitutional violations exist in the ACA? Subsidiary to this question and suggested by the Claims in the Complaint and subsequent p…
19-1413 Armin Abazari v. Department of Education, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-24 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules complaint dismissal due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-civil-procedure first-amendment objections procedural-due-process sovereign-immunity standing 1. Whether the District Court must A. consider an opportunity to present objections under F.R.C.P. §72(b)(2) prior to a ruling on a dismissal of a Com…
19-1398 Ted Lieu, United States Congressman, et al. v. Federal Election Commission District of Columbia 2020-06-22 Denied Amici (6) campaign-finance corruption corruption-prevention federal-election-campaign-act first-amendment independent-expenditures political-committees political-contributions standing statutory-limit Whether the federal statutory limit on contributions to political committees, 52 U.S.C. § 30116(a)(1)(C), comports with the First Amendment as applied…
19-1387 Waseem Daker v. Theodore Jackson, Sheriff, Fulton County, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-18 Denied access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-challenge first-amendment free-speech in-forma-pauperis prison-litigation-reform-act religious-exercise three-strikes three-strikes-provision I. Whether the Prison Litigation Reform Act "three-strikes" provision, 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g), is unconstitutional as applied to deny a prisoner access t…
19-1383 Michael Leidig, et al. v. BuzzFeed, Inc. Second Circuit 2020-06-16 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof civil-rights credibility evidence evidentiary-standard falsity first-amendment free-press free-speech freedom-of-the-press libel media-defendant summary-judgment This Court has held that the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of the press requires that when a plaintiff sues a media defendant for libel, base…
19-8695 Ruben Gutierrez v. Luis V. Saenz, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-15 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (12)IFP compelling-interest execution execution-protocol first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause religious-accommodation religious-adviser religious-exercise rluipa spiritual-aid 1. Under the RLUIPA, does the State's decision to deprive Mr. Gutierrez of the opportunity to be accompanied during his execution by a religious advis…
19-1375 Aaron L. Katz v. Incline Village General Improvement District Nevada 2020-06-13 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights fee-shifting first-amendment litigation-immunity petition-clause public-concern public-grievances punitive-statute sham-litigation standing The First Amendment right to petition clause contains a heightened standard precluding liability when a citizen exercises his/her right to bring suit …
19-1370 Kimberley Thames v. City of Westland, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied abortions brandenburg-test criminal-threat first-amendment free-speech monell-claim municipal-liability naacp-v-claiborne-hardware qualified-immunity true-threats westland 1. Did Petitioner's arrest and subsequent detention based on her speech violate her clearly established rights as set forth in Watts v. United States,…
19-8669 William M. Tyson v. United States Third Circuit 2020-06-11 Denied IFP circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-law due-process first-amendment mistake-of-age-defense statutory-interpretation Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit erred in ruling that a mistake-of-age defense need not be read into 18 U.S.C. §2251 (…
19-1345 Jon Butcher v. Cady Vishniac Massachusetts 2020-06-05 Denied Response Waived defamation defamation-law due-process-clause first-amendment gertz-precedent gertz-v-robert-welch private-concern private-figure republication republication-doctrine 1. Does either the First Amendment or this Court's holding in Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc., 418 U.S. 323, 341 (1974) impose any limitations upon common…
19-8606 Robert D. Thorson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-power criminal-statute due-process first-amendment free-speech intimate-images privacy-rights standing takings 1) MAY CONGRESS ENACT BROAD AND SWEEPING STATUTES TO PROHIBIT THE PRODUCTION AND POSSESSION OF PERSONAL IMAGES OF INTIMATE AND LAWFUL CONDUCT WITHOUT …
19-8541 Haider Salah Abdulrazzak v. South Dakota Board of Pardons and Paroles South Dakota 2020-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-filing fed-r-app-p-4c1 federal-regulations first-amendment fourteenth-amendment inmate-filing inmates-rights supremacy-clause 1. Whether under the Supremacy Clause, the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights, states are permitted to dissociate themselves from Federal regulatio…
19-8507 Dominique R. Taylor v. Corporation Worldwide Eighth Circuit 2020-05-20 Denied IFP commercial-speech compelled-speech content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech private-property retriil 20 cdD posible Gpse bokh coure oth the lowep Grnd uffor oper i Ofper onges courto? 13 poosible to. borh. heve und lower coorts investuse UAto…
19-8497 Christopher Lyman v. Kansas Kansas 2020-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-defendant due-process expert-testimony first-amendment fourteenth-amendment medical-expert religious-discrimination sixth-amendment Whether a court can deny a criminal defendant his medical expert, who's expert testimony is critical to a material fact in dispute, and base this deni…
19-1271 Toni Sharretts Collins v. William Zolnier Texas 2020-05-07 Denied Response Waived absolute-privilege circuit-conflict civil-procedure communication-privilege defamation defamation-privilege first-amendment free-speech judicial-privilege legal-immunity procedural-exception tort tort-law Whether a party has absolute judicial privilege when a defamatory communication is made that has no logical relation to the proceeding.
19-1262 Steven Eric Greer v. Dennis Mehiel, et al. Second Circuit 2020-04-30 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights final-policymaking-authority first-amendment government-entity government-liability monell monell-claim monell-v-department-of-social-services petition press probable-cause retaliation retaliation-claim rule-60-motion The Lozman question Did the lower courts misapprehend, then ignore completely on appeal, Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach, Fla., 13 8 S. Ct. 1945 (201…
19-1253 Kenneth Shelton v. Anthonee Patterson Pennsylvania 2020-04-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) church-autonomy church-governance church-leadership civil-magistrate civil-rights first-amendment free-speech leadership-selection neutral-principles religious-freedom Whether a church's First Amendment rights are violated when, under the guise of "neutral principles," a civil magistrate selects the leadership of the…
19-1247 Judson A. Lovingood v. Discovery Communications, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-27 Denied Response Waived actual-malice defamation entertainment entertainment-media first-amendment free-speech public-official sworn-testimony In N.Y. Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964) this Court announced that in defamation cases involving a public official/public figure, the Plaint…
19-1244 Anthony J. Johnson v. Storix, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2020-04-23 Denied attorney-fees civil-procedure copyright copyright-fees due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech ninth-circuit petition standing Whether the Ninth Circuit denied Petitioner's Fifth Amendment right to due process by refusing to consider any legal arguments raised on appeal, inclu…
19-1233 Robert Doyle v. Douglas Palmer, Clerk, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York Second Circuit 2020-04-20 Denied bar-admission civil-rights delegation-of-power due-process federal-court federal-courts first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association freedom-of-conscience judicial-branch judicial-delegation legislative-power standing 1. Whether Congress may delegate, to the Judicial Branch, the power to enact federal-court bar admission requirements that Congress lacks the power to…
19-1232 Todd C. Bank v. Al Johnson’s Swedish Restaurant & Butik, Inc. Federal Circuit 2020-04-20 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights disparagement first-amendment lanham-act matal-v-tam standing trademark trademark-law trademark-registration 1. In Matal v. Tam , 137 S. Ct. 1744 (2017), this Court held that the disparagement clause of Section 2(a) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1052(a), whi…
19-1229 Edward Lee Mulcahy v. Aspen Skiing Company Colorado 2020-04-18 Denied 1st-amendment colorado-constitution constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech national-labor-relations-act public-lands retaliation ski-lift unionization 1. Is the banning from ski lift operations on public lands during Plaintiffs distribution of a unionization flyer promoting a living wage a violati…
19-1225 Paul Hunt v. Board of Regents of the University of New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-04-17 Denied Amici (8)Relisted (7) constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech off-campus-speech political-speech professional-conduct professional-norms public-university qualified-immunity student-speech university-policy Whether Respondents violated Mr. Hunt's clearly established rights as a private citizen under the First Amendment by punishing him for his off-campus,…
19-1219 Respect Washington v. Burien Communities for Inclusion, et al. Washington 2020-04-16 Denied Response Waived ballot ballot-access civil-rights election-law first-amendment free-speech initiative initiative-process political-speech referendum voting voting-rights Whether the First Amendment protects the right of citizens to vote on an initiative that meets all time, place and manner requirements for the initiat…
19-1217 Scottie A. Bagi, et al. v. City of Parma, Ohio Sixth Circuit 2020-04-15 Denied 42-usc-1988 attorney-fees christiansburg-garment civil-rights discretionary-standard due-process first-amendment free-speech public-employee retaliation retaliation-claim summary-judgment Whether the District Court abused its discretion in its application of the standards set forth in Christiansburg Garment Co. v. EEOC, 434 U.S. 412 (19…
19-8244 Frank Morgan v. Illinois Department of Corrections Illinois 2020-04-14 Denied IFP chaplain-duties civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protections detainee-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment religious-services standing takings 1. Whothere the Illissis Dopnatnout ot COLNELTION'S HAS HUTHONITY TO CHANBO Qocumers Promalquted by THe IiGOOONA/ ASSEblY N01S 2y 21607 Body? THO DinO…
19-8254 Samuel Dowell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-rights consumer-rights due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment personal-property religious-freedom stream-of-commerce takings 1) Can Congress Regulate the private and personal property of the ultimate consumer for eturnity through The Commerce Clause simply because that ite…
19-1201 Clay Bright, Tennessee Commissioner of Transportation v. William Harold Thomas, Jr. Sixth Circuit 2020-04-08 Denied Relisted (2) commercial-speech content-neutrality first-amendment highway-beautification-act noncommercial-speech off-premises-signs on-premises-signs reed-v-gilbert reed-v-town-of-gilbert sign-regulation Whether a sign regulation containing an exception for on-premises signs, for which both commercial and noncommercial speech may qualify, violates the …
19-8200 Don Farley v. Carl Parson Tenth Circuit 2020-04-07 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-exclusion first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech witness-testimony 1. Was Farley denied his First Amendment Right of Free Speech and Fourteenth Amendment of due process? 2. Did the U.S. District Court fail to exercis…
19-8168 Charles E. Justise, Sr. v. Indiana Indiana 2020-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation court-procedure due-process fabricated-facts first-amendment first-amendment-right-to-petition judicial-misconduct libel-and-defamation newly-discovered-evidence redress-of-grievances right-to-petition slander 1. (Issue of First Impression) Whether Justise has a right, pursuant to the Right to Petition the Government for Redress of Grievances Clause of the 1…
19-8153 Keith Clayton Brooks, Jr. v. Celia Schwartz, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-04-01 Dismissed IFP civil-rights conditions-of-confinement due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment post-traumatic-stress-disorder prisoner-rights section-1915g suicidal-impulses PETITIONER IS A STATE PRISONER ALLEGING FIRST AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT VIOLATIONS FOR RETALIATION AND DUE PROCESS VIOLATIONS AGAINST PRISON STAFF. PET…
19-8134 James Ricky Ezell v. Damon Hininger, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-03-31 Denied IFP access-to-courts appointed-counsel appointment-of-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment judicial-remedies pro-se-plaintiff retaliation Whether the Tenth Circuit has jurisdiction to consider Denying of plaintiff prisoner in custody of Department of Corrections housed in private prison …
19-1184 Nikki Bruni, et al. v. City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied Amici (10)Response RequestedRelisted (5) buffer-zone circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation content-neutrality due-process federalism first-amendment free-speech judicial-construction narrow-tailoring overbreadth standing state-law Petitioners are sidewalk counselors who engage in quiet, one-on-one conversations with women visiting an abortion clinic in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. …
19-8123 Wendell Brown aka Menes Ankh El v. Superior Court of Indiana, Marion County, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment civil-rights due-process first-amendment legal-mail-rights name-change procedural-due-process religious-freedom signature-rights title-42-usc-2000bb-1 title-42-usc-2000cc-1 I. Does Ankh-El's common-law name change, which was executed 2 years prior to his arrest and almost 3 years prior to his imprisonment, have to be reco…
19-8086 Randy Dale Jackson v. Tommy Taylor, Interim Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment access-to-courts appellate-sanctions civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction-challenges criminal-conviction due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment Whether Petitioner's First, Fifth, Sixth, Fighthand Fourteenth Amendment's Right's Are Violated BJ The Imposing of Monetar Sanctions and Threat Restri…
19-1160 Robert J. Murphy v. Office of Disciplinary Counsel Pennsylvania 2020-03-23 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-code pennsylvania-rules-of-professional-conduct pennsylvania-workers-compensation-act retroactive-application workers-compensation 1. Whether petitioner, Robert Murphy, had fair warning as to reach of disciplinary proceedings and precise nature of charges that petitioner's adminis…
19-1150 Gary Kirchhoff v. United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-03-20 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process federal-suit fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech military-medical-privileges statute-of-limitations whistleblower whistleblower-rights Whether the court erred in affirming the lower court's decision that the statute of limitations was past for Gary Kirchhoff, M.D. to file a federal su…
19-1135 Dignity Health, dba Mercy San Juan Medical Center v. Evan Minton California 2020-03-17 Denied Amici (5)Relisted (7) civil-rights employment-division-v-smith first-amendment free-association free-exercise free-expression medical-procedure medical-procedures religious-freedom religious-liberty state-law unruh-civil-rights-act (1) Does the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment bar a state-law claim that seeks to compel a religiously affiliated hospital to allow medical…
19-8006 John P. Greiner v. Macomb County, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Relisted (3)IFP administrative-hearing administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech labor-relations obstruction-of-justice perjury retaliation wrongful-termination I am a wrongfully terminated employee. I was terminated in violation of the first amendment of the United States Constitution. The pretext that was cr…
19-8008 Jeremy Fontanez v. J. Coakley, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process federal-prisoner first-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus legal-materials prison-policy prisoner-rights Does B.O.P. Policy 1315.007 "Legal Activities, Inmates," violate a Federal prisoner's First Amendment Right to reasonable access to the state court, w…
19-7990 Gabriel L. Roman v. Sarah H. Kim, et al. California 2020-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP california-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-access standing vexatious-litigant Whether the California Vexatious Litigant Statute is Unconstitutional
19-1108 DeRay Mckesson v. John Doe Fifth Circuit 2020-03-10 GVR Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) civil-rights demonstration-law due-process first-amendment free-speech naacp-v-claiborne-hardware negligence negligence-action personal-liability protest protest-demonstration protest-liability standing tort-liability Do the First Amendment and this Court's decision in NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co., 458 U.S. 886 (1982), foreclose a state law negligence action maki…
19-1091 Steve Ray Evans v. Sandy City, Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) expressive-conduct first-amendment free-speech government-burden government-regulation less-restrictive-alternatives public-forum roadway-medians speech-restriction traffic-safety 1. Whether a governme nt may ban expressive conduc t without first trying to advance its interests using less speech -restrictive measures , as the …
19-7865 Clifford Laverne Mecham, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied IFP 2nd-circuit 8th-circuit child-pornography circuit-split constitutional-law eighth-circuit first-amendment free-speech morphed-images second-circuit sexually-explicit-conduct Whether the First Amendment protects morphed child pornography created without any child's involvement in sexually explicit conduct, as the Eighth Cir…
19-1077 Chris Ann Jaye v. Oak Knoll Village Condominium Owners Association, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied Response Waived civil-liability color-of-law due-process equal-protection first-amendment judicial-immunity separation-of-powers Are the circuit judges of the Third Circuit acting in violation of the US Constitution by providing different due process to citizens similarly situat…
19-7826 Marlon R. Miller v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure document-sealing due-process first-amendment judicial-transparency law-enforcement-misconduct public-access public-access-to-courts right-to-fair-trial sealed-records Whether the district court correctly sealed an entire category of information from public access, including preventing Mr. Miller from having meaningf…
19-7795 Robert Alan Foster v. Willis Chapman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discovery-violation due-process equal-protection fair-trial first-amendment free-speech ineffective-assistance jury-instruction prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination school-desegregation sixth-amendment standing voting-rights Question not identified.
19-1051 Kansas v. Timothy C. Boettger Kansas 2020-02-24 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (3) civil-rights constitutional-protection criminal-law criminal-threats due-process first-amendment free-speech reckless-disregard standing state-law threat Does the First Amendment prohibit a State from criminalizing threats to commit violence communicated in reckless disregard of the risk of placing anot…
19-1047 Michael Weiss, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Jane L. Marsh, Deceased v. Damon Marsh, as Executor of the Estate of Monroe F. Marsh, Deceased, et al. California 2020-02-24 Denied and whether California's vexatious litigant statu appellate-opinions bill-of-rights civil-procedure constitutional-challenge court-procedure due-process first-amendment full-faith-and-credit standing vexatious-litigant vexatious-litigant-statutes void-court-opinions void-grant-deed (1) Whether Full Faith and Credit can be given to the appellate opinion in G058123 and other of its specified opinions; (2) Do Code of Civ.Proc. 391.7…
19-1029 Bethany Austin v. Illinois Illinois 2020-02-19 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) content-based first-amendment free-speech non-consensual-dissemination privacy revenge-porn strict-scrutiny technology 1. Whether strict First Amendment scrutiny applies to a criminal law that prohibits nonconsensual dissemination of non-obscene nude or sexually-orient…
19-7641 Yusong Gong v. University of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-02-12 Denied IFP civil-rights civil-rights-act false-claims-act federal-funding first-amendment fraud-waste-abuse government-corruption old-case public-university public-university-employees research-misconduct retaliation settlement-agreement state-immunity title-vii whether-court-of-appeals-made-mistakes-in-determin whether-district-court-court-of-appeals-has-respon whether-us-supreme-court-should-exclude-state-immu whistleblower-protection 1. Whether U. S. Supreme Court should enforce The Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 (WPEA) and The False Claim Act (FCA), and extend pr…
19-999 Lewis Alan Dugan v. Wyoming Wyoming 2020-02-10 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-instruction obscenity overbreadth speech-conduct stalking-statute 1. Whether, in a prosecution for writing obscene letters, a trial court should instruct a jury regarding the legal definition of the term "obscene" as…
19-988 Living Essentials, LLC, et al. v. Washington Washington 2020-02-06 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) central-hudson commercial-speech consumer-protection false-advertising federal-trade-commission first-amendment free-speech prior-substantiation substantiation-doctrine washington-state-law Whether the prior substantiation doctrine violates the First Amendment.
19-7551 Donald Arthur Herrington v. Virginia Virginia 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-Amendment case-management case-management-system civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech public-trial separation-of-powers sixth-amendment 1. "Was Petitioner 's conviction a result of a procedure, §17.1-293.1 that violates 1st Amendment U.S. Constitutional Civil Rights to access correct …
19-983 Colleen Reilly, et al. v. City of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) article-iii-court constitutional-avoidance content-based content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech hill-v-colorado less-restrictive-alternatives reed-v-gilbert speech-restriction standing 1. Whether this Court's holding in Reed v. Town of Gilbert, 135 S. Ct. 2218 (2015), that laws restricting speech on the basis of its function or purpo…
19-7544 Robert M. Waggy v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied Amici (2)IFP constitutional-law content-based content-based-restrictions criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech public-concern speech-regulation telephone-harassment Whether a statute that prohibits telephone harassment may, consistent with the First Amendment, prohibit speech on matters of public concern or impose…
19-974 William T. Schmitt, et al. v. Frank LaRose, Ohio Secretary of State Sixth Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied Amici (2) ballot-initiative ballot-initiatives civil-rights constitutional-law election-law first-amendment free-speech strict-scrutiny subject-matter-restriction subject-matter-restrictions voting-rights Whether the First Amendment and strict scrutiny apply to subject matter restrictions on ballot initiatives.
19-976 Jovanna Edge, et al. v. City of Everett, Washington Ninth Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied Response Waived body-confidence civil-rights commercial-speech dress-code expressive-conduct first-amendment free-speech message-communication particularized-message workplace-attire 1. Whether First Amendment protection extends to expressive conduct only when there is a "great likelihood" that an intended particularized message wi…
19-968 Chike Uzuegbunam, et al. v. Stanley C. Preczewski, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-03 Judgment Issued Amici (32)Relisted (2) censorship civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-policy mootness nominal-damages standing Whether a government's post-filing change of an unconstitutional policy moots nominal-damages claims that vindicate the government's past, completed v…
19-947 Xiu Jian Sun v. Robert N. Chatigny Second Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied civil-rights divine-intervention due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-complaint parable-interpretation religious-doctrine religious-freedom spiritual-adam standing unjust-judge The complaint of the plaintiff, -god's servant, Xiu Jian Sun, the spiritual Adam respectfully shows and alleges as follows 1, Jehovah, -the Lord God …
19-948 Gene Rechtzigel v. Minnesota Minnesota 2020-01-29 Denied civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment fourth-amendment government-action petition-clause sixth-amendment standing I. Did the Government deprive Petitioner the First Amendment Right "to petition the Government for a redress of grievances?" II. Did the Government d…
19-7406 Bartholomew Antonio Guzman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-jurisdiction first-amendment freedom-of-information government-transparency habeas-corpus public-records standing state-court state-court-interpretation state-court-proceedings Question/Issue No.l: Isthe juckgment of the because the habeas petitiower's State hebeas proceralie Question/Issue No.2: Did the United Stctes Distri…
19-912 Albert T. Robles v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bribery campaign-contribution campaign-contributions federal-officials federal-statute first-amendment hobbs-act quid-pro-quo Whether conviction of a federal bribery charge against a state or local official under 18 U.S.C. § 666 requires proof of a quid pro quo where the alle…
19-7344 John L. Williams v. Jackson County, Missouri Eighth Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech standing summary-judgment turner-factors Should the District Court delegate the task of applying the (4) TURNER FACTORS to the Jury. OR Should the District Court apply the (4) TURNER FACTOR…
19-893 Shimon Waronker v. Hempstead Union Free School District, et al. Second Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied civil-rights corruption due-process employment-retaliation first-amendment free-speech government-corruption public-employee public-official speech-protection whistleblower 1. Whether the First Amendment protects the speech by a public official that is required by law and that reports and exposes corruption. 2. Whether s…
19-7281 Clifton A. Grant v. MTGLQ Investors, L.P. District of Columbia 2020-01-15 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment access-to-courts due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review pro-se pro-se-litigant right-to-petition 1) Whether the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia denial of Petitioner's timely and duly filed Appeal, without any lawful judicial reasonin…
19-874 William Alan Pesnell, et al. v. Jill Sessions, et al. Louisiana 2020-01-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-access criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights public-access public-records sixth-amendment trial-recording 1. Whether La. R.S. 44:4(47) and the local rule of the 26th Judicial District Court in and for Bossier Parish can bar public access to the digital rec…
19-7226 Tony Robinson v. Illinois Illinois 2020-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 35-usc-101 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment patent qualified-immunity standing takings Question not identified.
19-7260 Darin Kaufmann v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-01-13 Denied IFP 18-usc-2252 categorical-approach child-pornography federal-criminal-law first-amendment predicate-offense prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation 1. Did the Seventh Circuit err in holding that the categorical approach does not apply when determining whether a state conviction triggers a sentenci…
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'…
19-7195 Matthew Davonn Weatherspoon v. Colorado Colorado 2020-01-07 Denied IFP cell-phone-tracking civil-rights colorado-statute criminal-law due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement privacy-rights search-and-seizure sex-trafficking standing statutory-interpretation warrant-requirement Question not identified.
19-7199 Paul Tooly v. John F. Schwaller Second Circuit 2020-01-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process employee-rights first-amendment free-speech qualified-immunity retaliation standing university-administration workplace-violence John Schaller, the then President of The State University of New York (SUNY) at Potsdam, should not be allowed qualified immunity for many reasons. A…
19-847 Jonathan Reisman v. Associated Faculties of the University of Maine, et al. First Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Amici (11)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) associational-freedoms compelled-association constitutional-scrutiny exclusive-representation first-amendment free-speech labor-union labor-unions public-sector public-sector-employees Whether it violates the First Amendment to designate a labor union to represent and speak for public-sector employees who object to its advocacy on th…
19-831 Adam Jarchow, et al. v. State Bar of Wisconsin, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-01-02 Denied Amici (5)Relisted (3) associational-rights compelled-association compelled-speech first-amendment integrated-bar janus-precedent political-speech state-bar In Janus v. AFSCME, 138 S. Ct. 2448 (2018), the Court held that State laws compelling public employees to subsidize the speech of labor unions violate…
19-837 Jerome Kunkel, et al. v. Northern Kentucky Independent Health District, et al. Kentucky 2020-01-02 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech religious-freedom retaliation substantive-due-process Does a Health Department and its employees violate the United States Constitution when they disparately treat and target private Catholic Elementary a…
19-7089 Jonathan Cruz-Ramirez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fifth-amendment first-amendment juvenile-evidence prejudice prejudicial-error sixth-amendment Whether the Ninth Circuit's sanctioning of the admission of a vile and obscenity-laced rap poem found inside the purse of a 16-year-old girl and not w…
19-7075 Matthew Rouse v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-of-consent child-pornography criminal-conduct first-amendment privacy sexual-conduct Whether the child pornography exception to the First Amendment, which is grounded in the long-standing exemption for speech integral to criminal condu…
19-808 Leibundguth Storage & Van Service, Inc. v. Village of Downers Grove, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2019-12-27 Denied commercial-speech content-based content-based-speech first-amendment free-speech government-restriction reed-v-gilbert reed-v-town-of-gilbert strict-scrutiny In Reed v. Town of Gilbert, this Court clarified that content-based restrictions are those that apply to particular speech because of the topic discus…
19-809 Michael Bonin v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-12-27 Denied Response Waived criminal-law due-process false-identity federal-jurisdiction federal-statute first-amendment impersonation standing statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant violates 18 U.S.C. § 912's prohibition on "falsely assum[ing] or pretend[ing] to be an officer or employee acting under the author…
19-7058 In Re Ramsey Randall 2019-12-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 35-usc-101 civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech patent-eligibility standing Does the petitioner's arrest violate the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution's freedom of petition AND Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process and Equ…
19-7064 Johanna Beanblossom v. Bay District Schools Florida 2019-12-26 Denied IFP amendment civil-procedure complaint-amendment due-process due-process-amendment employment-law first-amendment retaliation school-employment summary-judgment 1. Absent unfair delay or futility, does fundamental due process require that a Plaintiff be allowed to amend a complaint at least once before a Court…
19-805 Ben Adam v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-26 Denied Response Waived circuit-split criminal-statute due-process first-amendment prosecution-threat religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act religious-practice standing standing-doctrine threat-of-prosecution (1) Did the Second Circuit err in finding that petitioner lacked standing to challenge a criminal statute under the threat of prosecution doctrine, wh…
19-804 Xiu Jian Sun v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. District of Columbia 2019-12-23 Denied Response Waived administrative-law biblical-allegation civil-rights constitutional-claim divine-communication due-process first-amendment legal-standing presidential-liability religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act religious-interpretation separation-of-church-and-state standing The complaint of the plaintiff, -god's servant, Xiu Jian Sun, the spiritual Adam respectfully shows and alleges as follows Jehovah, the Lord god of t…
19-7026 James W. Guy v. Ohio Ohio 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-material civil-procedure civil-rights continuance discovery-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial first-amendment free-speech self-representation self-representing-defendant standing untimely-discovery (1) Did a trial judge deny a self-representing defendant his due process right to a fair trial when the State disclosed untimely discovery documents …
19-792 Vugo, Inc. v. City of New York, New York Second Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Amici (2) central-hudson civil-rights commercial-speech content-based-restrictions content-based-speech first-amendment free-speech reed-v-gilbert reed-v-town-of-gilbert strict-scrutiny In Reed v. Town of Gilbert, this Court clarified that content-based restrictions are those that apply to particular speech because of the topic discus…
19-793 Institute for Free Speech v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California Ninth Circuit 2019-12-20 GVR Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) civil-rights compelled-disclosure donor-disclosure exacting-scrutiny first-amendment free-speech nonprofit nonprofit-association standing state-action strict-scrutiny 1. Whether a state official's demand for all significant donors to a nonprofit organization, as a precondition to engaging in constitutionally-protect…
19-781 Frank Condez v. Massachusetts Civil Service Commission, et al. Massachusetts 2019-12-18 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights civil-service constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech massachusetts-appeals-court petition-for-certiorari standing Does the Massachusetts Appeals Court decision constitute a forbidden intrusion of the petitioner's First Amendment rights?
19-767 National Association for Gun Rights, Inc. v. Jeff Mangan, in His Official Capacity as the Commissioner of Political Practices for the State of Montana, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) campaign-finance circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights express-advocacy first-amendment free-speech political-committee political-committee-regulations Whether the First Amendment permits imposing burdensome political-committee regulations upon groups that do not engage in any express advocacy for or …
19-771 Gerald Sensabaugh v. Kimberly Halliburton, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights common-law due-process first-amendment free-speech personnel-file protected-speech public-employee qualified-immunity retaliation standing takings 1. Whether the Court should reconsider its qualified immunity jurisprudence to accord with the official's burden of establishing immunity entitlement …
19-758 Kamal Anwiya Youkhanna, et al. v. City of Sterling Heights, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied Response Waived civil-rights consent-decree establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech local-government municipal-law public-forum religion religious-freedom zoning zoning-law 1. Does a city council rule prohibiting private citizens from making disparaging comments about religion when speaking during the public comment perio…
19-750 In Re The Law Offices of Nina Ringgold, et al. 2019-12-12 Denied civil-procedure-28-usc-1446 civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1866 civil-rights-act-of-1886 due-process federal-jurisdiction first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity recusal-requirement removal-procedure removal-statute state-court-procedure supremacy-clause 1. Whether in conflict with the clear authority of this court California local rules of court may defeat the command of 28 U.S.C. § 1446 (d) that a st…
19-729 Scott Howard Meyer v. Emily Peterson Minnesota 2019-12-10 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights custody-dispute due-process family-law first-amendment free-speech harassment-order parental-rights prior-restraint When two parents are involved in an ongoing and contentious custody battle over a minor child, does one parent have a First Amendment right to critici…
19-730 DeRay McKesson v. John Doe Fifth Circuit 2019-12-10 Dismissed Amici (1) civil-rights demonstration-law first-amendment free-speech NAACP-v-claiborne-hardware negligence negligence-action protest protest-leader protest-liability standing state-law unidentified-perpetrator Do the First Amendment and this Court's decision in NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co., 458 U.S. 886 (1982), foreclose a state law negligence action maki…
19-725 JonMichael Guy v. Robert O. Lampert, Director, Wyoming Department of Corrections, et al. Wyoming 2019-12-09 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights clearly-established due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-interpretation qualified-immunity religion-clauses religious-discrimination sincere-belief standing When a government official discriminates against a belief that is sincere and religious to the victim, and is therefore protected by the Religion Clau…
19-726 Mallory Jones, et al. v. Ramone Lamkin, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Marshal of the Civil and Magistrate Court of Richmond County, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-09 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) branti-finkel branti-v-finkel civil-rights confidential-employee due-process elrod-burns elrod-v-burns employment employment-law first-amendment free-speech government-policy policy-maker policymaker public-employee public-employees public-sector In determining whether or not the exception to First Amendment protections for public employees as set forth by this Court in Elrod v. Burns, 427 U.S.…
19-727 Keepers, Inc. v. City of Milford, Connecticut Second Circuit 2019-12-09 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights content-based content-based-speech first-amendment free-speech reed-v-gilbert reed-v-town-of-gilbert rule-60(b) rule-60b strict-scrutiny summary-judgment Whether the district court erred in refusing to grant Petitioner relief from summary judgment based on the Supreme Court's superseding decision in Ree…
19-728 Brian Davison v. Facebook, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-12-09 Denied Response Waived censorship civil-rights delegation-of-authority due-process first-amendment free-speech government-delegation private-forum public-forum standing standing-to-sue 1. Whether a person has standing to sue the government for a delegation of censorship authority to a private party when his speech on a topic of publi…
19-722 Larry J. Hudack v. La Cresta Property Owners Association California 2019-12-06 Denied Response Waived anti-slapp anti-SLAPP-statute civil-procedure collateral-attack due-process federal-statute first-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect right-to-petition standing state-statute void-judgment void-judgments 1. Is a collateral attack on void judgments, on its face, an assault on the constitutional Right to Petition under any state or federal statute? 2. D…
19-713 Paul E. Nunu v. Nancy Nunu Risk, et al. Texas 2019-12-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abridged Petitioner's First-Amendment-right-to-pe as applied access-to-courts citizens-united-v-fec contempt court-access first-amendment petition-clause prior-restraint pro-se vexatious-litigant 1. Whether the Texas Vexatious Litigant Statutes, as applied, abridged Petitioner's First Amendment unfettered core right to petition and to access Te…
19-6870 Kenny Brown v. Mental Health Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2019-12-05 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech habeas-corpus standing Question not identified.
19-698 Wendy Alison Nora v. Minnesota Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility Minnesota 2019-12-04 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure disciplinary-proceedings due-process federal-courts first-amendment free-speech interpretation lower-court political-speech regulation standing Whether Petitioner was denied her Rights to Due Process guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States when the Minne…
19-6831 In Re Fredrick Wroten 2019-12-03 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial first-amendment judicial-obligation petition petition-for-redress redress unilateral-contract When the State and Federal appellate courts ignore and/ or refuse to respond to a denial of a fair trial claim/ does it violate and/ or abridge the Ap…
19-6821 Tim Sundy v. Friendship Pavilion Acquisition Co., et al. Georgia 2019-12-03 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment takings Whether Petitioner Tim Sundy, without a meaningful remedy, has immunity, as provided by the due process clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments …
19-686 Snodgrass-King Pediatric Dental Associates, P.C., et al. v. DentaQuest USA Insurance Co., Inc. Sixth Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied Response Waived 1st-amendment 42-usc-1983 blum-v-yaretsky civil-rights first-amendment government-contractor government-directive private-contractor section-1983 significant-encouragement state-action 1. Whether a government directive made to a private contractor while the contractor is bidding on a lucrative and admittedly important government cont…
19-6761 Younes Kabbaj v. United States Third Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-115 18-usc-875 apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence elonis-v-united-states first-amendment first-amendment-free-speech sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation subjective-intent true-threat true-threats It is a federal crime under both 18 U.S.C. §875 and §115 to threaten to injure the person (\.e. physical body) of another, yet not legally settled as…
19-670 Arnold Fleck v. Joe Wetch, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Amici (4)Relisted (2) compulsory-funding compulsory-membership first-amendment janus-v-afscme opt-out opt-out-mechanism political-activities political-speech state-bar-association union-fees The Petitioner is an attorney who is required by state law to join and to fund a state bar association as a condition of practicing law. He challenged…
19-6723 T. B. v. Colorado Colorado 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography due-process first-amendment free-speech sexting sexual-exploitation teen-sexting teenager-rights This case involves teen "sexting" or, more specifically, the exchange of nude and partially nude "selfies" between consenting teenagers. Petitioner T.…
19-653 Theresa Ortloff v. Dave Trimmer, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied Response Waived connick-v-myers due-process first-amendment first-amendment-speech-public-interest-connick-v-m free-speech procedural-due-process public-employee public-employee-speech public-interest speech whistleblower-protection 1. Must the entire record, including motives, main thrust of the speech, and all instances of speech be reviewed under Connick v. Myers, 461 U.S. 138 …
19-631 William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. v. American Association of Political Consultants, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-11-15 Judgment Issued Amici (19) automated-call-restriction constitutional-remedy first-amendment free-speech government-debt-exception political-speech severability statutory-interpretation tcpa telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether the government-debt exception to the TCPA's automated-call restriction violates the First Amendment, and whether the proper remedy for any con…
19-6631 Tatyana E. Drevaleva v. Appellate Division of the Superior Court of California, San Mateo County, et al. California 2019-11-14 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP anti-SLAPP civil-procedure civil-rights first-amendment free-speech limited-civil-case standing tenant-rights unlawful-detainer 1) Can a Tenant who was being evicted by a Landlord for expressing a First Amendment right for a free speech file an anti-SLAPP Motion pursuant to the…
19-6605 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-infirmity due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment post-conviction-relief short-sentence standing state-courts statutory-construction Q1. ARE THE FOLLOWING PENNSYLVANIA STATUTES CONSTITUTIONALLY 18 Pa. C.S. §2709(a)(4); 42 Pa C,S. §9542; 42 Pa. C.S. §9543(a)(l)(i); 42 Pa. C.S. §9545(…
19-6593 Deshay D. Ford v. Timothy P. White, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 42-usc-1981 access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech racial-discrimination 1. Violation of the Petitioner's Constitutional and Civil Rights to prevent the Petitioner from filing a law suit against the Respondent (s) which w…
19-6628 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-infirmity due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-relief short-sentence statutory-construction Q1. ARE THE FOLLOWING INFIRM? 18 Pa. C.S. §2709(a)(4): 42 Pa G.S. §0542; 42. Pa. C.S. §9543(a)(l)(i); 42 Pa. C.S. §9545 (b)(4); 42 Pa. C.S. §9545(a);…
19-608 Mark Elster, et al. v. City of Seattle, Washington Washington 2019-11-12 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) campaign-finance civil-rights compelled-subsidy constitutional-review first-amendment free-speech property-levy rational-basis speech-funding standing Seattle's "democracy voucher" program establishes a dedicated property levy used solely to fund individual contributions from Seattle residents to the…
19-590 Michael Anthony Deem v. John P. Colangelo, et al. New York 2019-11-06 Denied child-custody child-custody-rights custody-dispute due-process equal-protection family-law first-amendment forensic-evaluator free-speech parental-rights right-to-privacy 1. Whether a court appointed FE's examination of a fit parent's children over that fit parent's objection violates that fit parent's right to control …
19-580 Jun Xiao v. Regents of the University of Minnesota, et al. Minnesota 2019-11-04 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process Fourteenth Amendment equal-protection qualified-immunity civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-rights qualified-immunity section-1983 standing takings Whether the state district court erred in dismissing Petitioner's 42 U.S.C. § 1983, Fourteenth Amendment equal protection claim for failure to state a…
19-575 Charter Communications, Inc., et al. v. Steve Gallion, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-01 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) automatic-dialing-system constitutional-violation content-based-restrictions first-amendment government-debt-collection-exception judicial-remedy ninth-circuit prerecorded-voice severability speech-limitation tcpa telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether the TCPA's prohibitions on calls made using an automatic dialing system or an artificial or prerecorded voice are unconstitutional content-bas…
19-6457 D. B. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Texas 2019-10-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP child-welfare civil-rights civil-rights-discrimination due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment parental-rights religious-freedom 1. Whether the Texas district court violated the Petitioner 's Federal Civil Rights under Section 1983 by discriminating against the Petitioner 's Re…
19-6450 Sherif Sayed Mahmoud v. Texas Texas 2019-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutionality content-based-restriction due-process first-amendment free-speech penal-code standard-of-review standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions texas-penal-code 1. Whether Section 33.021 of the Texas Penal Code is a content-based restriction. The courts of appeals continue applying the incorrect standard of re…
19-562 Brian Burke v. New York City Transit Authority, et al. Second Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 ada civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation defamation due-process fair-labor-standards-act first-amendment leave-to-amend pleading-standards pro-se pro-se-litigation standing state-statute title-vii unconstitutionality Pleading standards generally and/or for Title VII and/or 42 U.S.C. 1983 and/or ADA, with regards to pro se parties If a Defamation per se claim is bl…
19-6442 William Conrad Yeager, II v. National Public Radio, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights defamation defamation-law first-amendment free-speech libel libel-standards media-access newsworthiness public-controversy public-figure public-figure-doctrine public-interest Whether the petitioner, an unknown musician and independent filmmaker (NPR stated: "Nobody's ever heard of this guy. "), who fails to meet the require…
19-548 Joseph R. Mullins v. Joseph E. Corcoran, et al. Massachusetts 2019-10-29 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights commercial-dispute first-amendment minority-shareholder-rights noerr-pennington noerr-pennington-doctrine petition right-to-petition sham-litigation Whether, under the First Amendment, a court may award damages against a party for the act of filing suit in a commercial dispute without finding that …
19-6392 Jeffrey F. Evers v. Brian Foster, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts first-amendment free-exercise habeas-corpus merits-based-decision new-trial procedural-default public-accommodation religious-freedom same-sex-marriage standing state-licensing me issues responding to a no-merit repart that doesint sion with respect of allclaims raised by Evers' ere was never a weapon pruduce. the Sixth Amend…
19-6330 Vicki Corona v. Mariyam Gasparyan California 2019-10-22 Denied IFP 1st-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fair-trial first-amendment judicial-misconduct legal-remedy malice petition-clause remedy standing Where actors of a Superior Court, including the Judge, defense attorney, and clerks, violate the rule of law as announced in the Due Process Clause, a…
19-511 Facebook, Inc. v. Noah Duguid, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-21 Judgment Issued Amici (25)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) automatic-telephone-dialing-system circuit-split content-discrimination first-amendment first-amendment-free-speech government-debt-collection-exception speech-restriction statutory-interpretation telephone-consumer-protection-act Congress enacted the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 ("TCPA") to prohibit calls made to a cell phone without consent using an "automatic tel…
19-6274 Sergei Kovalev v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2019-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employee-immunity first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-information freedom-of-speech government-accountability government-liability municipal-liability public-access qualified-immunity On December 10, 2015, the City of Philadelphia and its officials denied constitutionally protected human rights of the United States Citizen, who had …
19-484 John Doe 1, et al. v. Federal Election Commission District of Columbia 2019-10-15 Denied Relisted (2) administrative-enforcement confidential-investigation constitutional-avoidance disclosure disclosure-limitations federal-election-campaign-act federal-election-commission first-amendment rulemaking-power statutory-interpretation Whether, notwithstanding FECA's express bar on prohibiting the disclosure of any investigation, and its careful constraints on the FEC's disclosure po…
19-474 Respect Washington v. Global Neighborhood, et al. Washington 2019-10-10 Denied Response Waived agenda-setting ballot ballot-access civil-rights first-amendment free-speech initiative initiative-process injunction sanctuary-city standing voting voting-rights Whether the First Amendment protects citizens' interests in voting on an initiative that has met all time, place and manner requirements for an initia…
19-465 Peter B. Chiafalo, Levi Jennet Guerra, and Esther Virginia John v. Washington Washington 2019-10-09 Judgment Issued Amici (3)Relisted (3) civil-rights constitutional-discretion constitutional-rights due-process electoral-college first-amendment presidential-election presidential-electors standing state-law voting voting-rights A Washington State law threatens a fine for presidential electors who vote contrary to how the law directs. RCW 29A.56.340 (2016). Petitioners are thr…
19-6214 Luis Fuquen v. Trina Everitt Maryland 2019-10-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP best-interest-of-the-child child-custody divorce due-process family-privacy family-privacy-rights family-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association freedom-of-religion parent-child-rights parental-rights Whether Luis and his children are entitled to due process protections for their individual intimate and expressive, close family, parent-child speech,…
19-458 John Schickel, et al. v. George C. Troutman, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied campaign-finance campaign-speech civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech legislative-ethics standing strict-scrutiny 1. Whether incumbents and candidates for political office have standing to assert First and Fourteenth Amendment claims regarding: i) pure campaign sp…
19-6158 William A. White v. Todd Sloop, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-10-03 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process first-amendment free-speech hate-speech judicial-circuit-split judicial-interpretation prison prison-regulations religion 1) In ruling that the statement that Judaism is a "doctrine of hate", with to "violence and murder" nothing more, is so equivalent that literature mak…
19-439 CTIA - The Wireless Association v. City of Berkeley, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Amici (6) commercial-speech compelled-disclosure compelled-speech consumer-protection disclosure-requirements first-amendment government-regulation intermediate-scrutiny zauderer zauderer-standard In Zauderer v. Office of Disciplinary Counsel of Supreme Court of Ohio, 471 U.S. 626 (1985), this Court held that, although government regulation of c…
19-6083 Michael M. Molinaro v. Bertha A. Molinaro California 2019-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-vagueness content-based-restriction domestic-violence-prevention-act due-process family-law first-amendment free-speech overbroad separation-of-powers vagueness void-for-vagueness 1. Is California's Domestic Violence Prevention Act's (DVPA's) severable residual clause defining "abuse" (Family Code (F.C.) § 6203(a)(4)) unconstitu…
19-6100 Melvyn Perry Sprowson, Jr. v. Nevada Nevada 2019-10-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ashcroft-v-free-speech-coalition child-pornography constitutional-limits facial-challenge first-amendment free-speech new-york-v-ferber obscenity obscenity-standards overbreadth sexual-abuse state-regulation Nevada defines "child pornography" to include any depiction of a minor that "appeals to a shameful or morbid interest in the sexuality of the minor an…
19-417 EMW Women's Surgical Center, P.S.C., et al. v. Adam Meier Sixth Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied Amici (3) abortion circuit-conflict circuit-split compelled-speech constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech informed-consent medical-consent physician-autonomy ultrasound ultrasound-law The Kentucky Ultrasound Informed Consent Act (House Bill 2) requires a physician, while performing a pre-abortion ultrasound, to (i) describe the ultr…
19-6071 Demetrius Desean Morgan v. Michigan Michigan 2019-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-association impartial-jury ineffective-assistance insufficient-evidence physical-characteristics reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment surveillance-video video-surveillance 1. Was the evidence of Petitioner's identity as the shooter sufficient to sustain the first-degree murder conviction where that evidence consisted of …
19-405 Nicholas Schiano, dba HotWireMedia.com, et al. v. Matt Friedman, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied civil-rights constitutional-law defamation due-process eleventh-circuit federal-law first-amendment free-speech legal-defense motives substantial-truth Whether substantial truth is a complete defense to defamation under the First Amendment, regardless of the motives of the speaker?
19-396 Charles Simon v. Department of Justice, et al. First Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-procedure-act civil-rights civil-rights-act discriminatory-practices due-process employment first-amendment judicial-review preliminary-injunction standing unlawful-termination 1. Whether the Three Judge Panel's ruling invites judicial review for Petition for Writ of Certiorari where the ruling conflicts with the Supreme Cour…
19-390 William James, et al. v. Barbara Hunt, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rico collateral-estoppel constitutional-amendments due-process federal-procedure final-judgment-act first-amendment fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court interlocutory-appeal jury-trial obstruction-of-justice 1. Whether district court orders dedicate any section of the opinion(s) to deny petitioner's Civil RICO 18 U.S.C. 1961-1964, in the verified complaint…
19-383 Joseph Raimondo v. Denise Page Hood, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-09-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech government-action political-affiliation political-discrimination taxation Question 1. Can the United States Federal Government signal out citizens and demand taxation and then deprive the citizens, Constitutional Equal Prote…
19-381 Rainbow Ridge Resort, LLC, et al. v. Branch Banking and Trust Company Tennessee 2019-09-20 Denied Response Waived affirmative-defense civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process examination-limitations first-amendment petition petition-rights pleading standing statutory-interpretation takings 1. Is Tennessee Code Annotated Sec. 35-5-118 unconstitutional as applied, given the lack of due process created by artificially limiting a Defendant's…
19-366 Walter C. Lange v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Fifth Circuit 2019-09-19 Denied Response Waived due-process eighth-amendment excise fifth-amendment first-amendment income-tax indirect-tax tax-code title-26 vagueness Whether the income tax under Title 26 of the U.S. Code is an indirect tax and therefore exclusively an excise, duty or impost arising from the exercis…
19-371 Stephen S. Wise Temple v. Julie Su California 2019-09-19 Dismissed Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived employment-discrimination first-amendment first-amendment-free-exercise free-exercise functional-approach hosanna-tabor hosanna-tabor-v-eeoc judicial-interpretation ministerial-exception religious-education religious-institutions transmitting-faith Whether courts should apply a functional approach to the ministerial exception that does not punish religious institutions for employing non-adherents…
19-5999 Natasha Delima v. YouTube, Inc., et al. First Circuit 2019-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust censorship civil-procedure civil-rights digital-property due-process first-amendment platform-censorship retaliation standing virtual-property website-regulation Why did the judge issue a "Motion for Leave " on all of the Petitioners pleadings? Why did the judge not issue a default ruling for the Respondents th…
19-343 New York Republican State Committee v. Securities and Exchange Commission District of Columbia 2019-09-17 Denied administrative-law first-amendment free-association free-speech investment-advisers political-contributions sec sec-rule-2030 On August 25, 2016, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (hereinafter "Respondent" or "Commission" or "SEC") approved Rule 2030, repro…
19-348 St. James School v. Darryl Biel, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Kristen Biel Ninth Circuit 2019-09-17 Judgment Issued Amici (4) civil-courts civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise free-speech hosanna-tabor ministerial-exception religion-clauses Whether the Religion Clauses prevent civil courts from adjudicating employment discrimination claims brought by an employee against her religious empl…
19-342 Mark F. McCaffrey v. Michael L. Chapman, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech free-speech-balancing law-enforcement law-enforcement-discretion partisan-politics patronage-termination pickering-connick political-retaliation public-employee public-employee-speech public-employment In Elrod v. Burns, 427 U.S. 347 (1976) and Branti v. Finkel, 445 U.S. 507 (1980), the Court recognized a patronage exemption from First Amendment prot…
19-333 Arlene's Flowers, Inc., dba Arlene's Flowers and Gifts, et al. v. Washington, et al. Washington 2019-09-12 Rehearing Amici (10)Relisted (13) civil-rights compelled-speech content-based first-amendment free-exercise free-speech public-accommodation religious-freedom religious-hostility same-sex-marriage state-action strict-scrutiny Barronelle Stutzman is a Christian artist who imagines, designs, and creates floral art. She serves everyone and sells pre-arranged flowers for use in…
19-5884 Kevin Carson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-vagueness due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth pornography pornography-prohibition supervised-release vagueness The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld a lifetime supervised release condition prohibiting Kevin Carson from possessing or h…
19-5896 Mitchell Dinnerstein v. Burlington County College Third Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment judicial-misconduct seventh-amendment summary-judgment trial The question's I am presenting to the court are, If the application of rule 56(d) is unreasonably used to quickly end a proceedings and denies a petit…
19-5876 Joachim Dressler v. Circuit Court of Wisconsin, Racine County Wisconsin 2019-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP censorship civil-rights content-seizure criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence first-amendment free-speech freedman-v-maryland judicial-review prior-restraint procedural-safeguards southeastern-promotions-ltd-v-conrad Do this Court's First Amendment "prior restraint" holdings that command "strict procedural safeguards" designed to obviate the dangers of a freewheeli…
19-309 John C. Carney, Governor of Delaware v. James R. Adams Third Circuit 2019-09-06 Judgment Issued Amici (20)Relisted (4) civil-rights constitutional-law due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-appointments judicial-independence judicial-qualifications judicial-selection party-affiliation political-balance political-party standing state-constitution state-sovereignty 1. Does the First Amendment invalidate a longstanding state constitutional provision that limits judges affiliated with any one political party to no …
19-5841 Shahram Shakouri v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied IFP due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause masterpiece-cakeshop religious-discrimination religious-hostility religious-neutrality scriptural-interpretation thirteenth-amendment Whether district court's lack of religious neutrality violated Petitioner's right to the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment or Free Exercise Cla…
19-5845 Shawn M. Thomas v. Karen Slusher, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit affidavit-evidence civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-claim district-court-dismissal due-process first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation free-speech retaliation sixth-circuit-appeal standing summary-judgment (1) Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals make the right decision in dismissing Plaintiff Thomas ' appeal and affirming the dismissal of the District…
19-5808 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-09-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech labor-anti-injunction-act retaliation retaliatory-prosecution second-amendment selective-prosecution standing takings ARE THE ACTIONS DESCRIBED IN THE EMAIL IN QUESTION ARE 1. PROTECTED BY THE US SECOND AMENDMENT? SUGGESTED ANSWER: YES 2. IS THE LANGUAGE USED IN THE …
19-291 Anne K. Block v. Washington State Bar Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response Waived bar-association civil-rights constitutional-rights disassociation due-process first-amendment janus-v-afscme judicial-bias judicial-bias-recusal judicial-disqualification motion-on-pleadings retaliation standing A. Did the trial court err when the district court judge and the reviewing judge refused to disqualify themselves because of their membership in the d…
19-5797 Richard Joseph Martin v. Texas Texas 2019-09-03 Denied IFP association civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-association free-expression free-speech standing Question not identified.
19-281 Capital Associated Industries, Inc. v. Josh Stein, Attorney General of North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights content-based-restriction content-based-speech first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-association legal-assistance legal-services non-profit non-profit-organizations professional-licensing strict-scrutiny 1. Do the North Carolina statutes prohibiting the Association's attorneys from providing legal assistance to its members violate the freedom of associ…
19-285 Jerud Butler v. Board of County Commissioners for San Miguel County, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied Amici (5) such that it is entitled to protection under the civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-speech judicial-proceeding judicial-system judicial-testimony public-concern public-employee speech-protection Whether a government employee's truthful testimony at a judicial hearing qualifies as speech on a matter of public concern, such that it is entitled t…
19-274 Teresa Buchanan v. F. King Alexander, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived academic-freedom constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth public-university sexual-harassment tenure title-ix vagueness Petitioner, Dr. Teresa Buchanan, was terminated from her tenured position at Louisiana State University under the school's sexual harassment policies.…
19-5771 Eric Allen Haensgen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2252a age-of-consent child-pornography constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-amendment free-speech statutory-interpretation unconstitutional Whether amendments to the child pornography law set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(2)(A) have rendered the current version of the statute unconstitutio…
19-5748 Seth Mitchell v. Macy's, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights denial-of-motion disability-accommodation due-process employment-discrimination erisa federal-rules-of-civil-procedure first-amendment hipaa magistrate-judge motion-to-amend timeliness title-vii 1. When, if ever, can a magistrate judge assigned to handle nondispositive matters in a Federal lawsuit intentionally violate Federal Rule of Civil Pr…
19-267 Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Agnes Morrissey-Berru Ninth Circuit 2019-08-29 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Relisted (2) civil-court-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination first-amendment first-amendment-religion-clauses free-speech hosanna-tabor hosanna-tabor-precedent ministerial-exception religious-employer religious-employment religious-freedom religious-functions standing Whether the Religion Clauses prevent civil courts from adjudicating employment discrimination claims brought by an employee against her religious empl…
19-251 Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California Ninth Circuit 2019-08-26 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (14)Relisted (5) association civil-rights constitutional-rights donor-privacy due-process exacting-scrutiny first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association freedom-of-speech law-enforcement-interest naacp-v-alabama narrow-tailoring nonprofit nonprofit-association nonprofit-organizations standing Whether the exacting scrutiny this Court has long required of laws that abridge the freedoms of speech and association outside the election context—as…
19-255 Thomas More Law Center v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California Ninth Circuit 2019-08-26 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (5) charitable-organizations circuit-split civil-rights disclosure-requirements donor-anonymity due-process exacting-scrutiny first-amendment freedom-of-association freedom-of-speech nonprofit strict-scrutiny 1. Whether exacting scrutiny or strict scrutiny applies to disclosure requirements that burden non-electoral, expressive association rights. 2. Wheth…
19-245 GEFT Outdoor L.L.C. v. City of Westfield, Hamilton County, Indiana Seventh Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process facial-unconstitutionality first-amendment free-speech injunction ordinance-validity prior-restraint speech-rights standing Whether a citizen who seeks to exercise core First Amendment rights must first seek and obtain an order from a court of competent jurisdiction invalid…
19-234 Libertarian National Committee, Inc. v. Federal Election Commission District of Columbia 2019-08-22 Denied Amici (3) campaign-finance content-based-restrictions deceased-donor federal-election-commission first-amendment first-amendment-rights free-speech political-contributions political-parties testamentary-bequest testamentary-bequests 1. In the asserted interest of preventing quid pro quo corruption, the Federal Election Commission limits the amount of money that a political party m…
19-5636 Roger Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver due-process first-amendment overbreadth-doctrine plea-bargain procedural-bar special-condition special-conditions waiver-of-appeal 1. Does a waiver of appeal, included in a written plea bargain agreement, procedurally bar the Petitioner's appeal to the Fifth Circuit wherein he arg…
19-194 Daniel Delacruz, Sr. v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-14 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment noerr-pennington noerr-pennington-doctrine racial-discrimination rooker-feldman-doctrine Does a dismissal of claims based on the Rooker-Feldman doctrine and First Amendment rights under the Noerr-Pennington doctrine violate the equal prote…
19-5577 Spencer Salcedo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP community-standards constitutional-protection due-process first-amendment free-speech hard-core-sexual-conduct obscenity obscenity-standard pornography sexual-content Whether a still image of an erect penis portrays the kind of "patently offensive," "hard core sexual conduct" that qualifies as constitutionally unpro…
19-5573 Monte Whitehead v. Greg Marcantel, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1997e civil-rights court-access due-process equal-protection first-amendment grievance-process physical-injury prison-litigation-reform-act redress-of-grievances standing 1. Do Federal Statutes 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a) & (e) abridge the First Amendment rights of prisoners by requiring them to meet certain standards before t…
19-5507 David Fennell v. Charles Munger, et al. California 2019-08-08 Denied IFP 1st-amendment assembly civil-rights due-process election-interference first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech freedom-of-assembly petition-for-redress political-speech As part of the #Resist movement, the California Attorney General instituted a policy of arresting his Republican political opponents and banning them …
19-177 Agency for International Development, et al. v. Alliance for Open Society International, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2019-08-08 Judgment Issued Amici (6) civil-rights federal-funding first-amendment foreign-policy free-speech funding-conditions hiv-aids overseas-affiliates prostitution speech-restriction standing statutory-interpretation Respondents are United States-based organizations that receive federal funds to fight HIV/AIDS abroad. In Agency for International Development v. Alli…
19-172 Edina Harsay v. University of Kansas Kansas 2019-08-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) academic-deference academic-freedom civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings judicial-review Whether a rule-like application of federal case law that accords a nearly-insurmountable level of deference to academic administrators in breach-of-co…
19-171 In Re Jack R. Finnegan 2019-08-06 Denied 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment goldberg-v-kelly government-redress judicial-procedure Was Petitioner denied his Constitutional guaranteed rights, power, privilege, or immunity guaranteed under the Constitution, and of Due Process and Eq…
19-158 Marcus Turner, Sr., et al. v. Alva C. Hines, et al. District of Columbia 2019-08-02 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) church-dispute church-governance coercive-intrusion first-amendment judicial-inquiry neutral-principles neutral-principles-of-law religious-doctrine state-interference This case presents two important questions concerning the First Amendment's protection of churches against the power of the state. A disaffected facti…
19-5424 Terry James Sullivan v. City of Missoula, Montana Montana 2019-08-01 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction disorderly-conduct due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech Does Petitioner's conviction for disorderly conduct by allegedly uttering the word "effing" violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments.
19-5364 In Re Carl A. Courtright, III 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP Abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights court-access due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines first-amendment judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-litigant sanctions 1) Absent statutory authority nor provision in the Federal Rules, Did the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals clearly abuse its discretion when it ORDE…
19-5345 Mustafa Kamel Mustafa v. United States Second Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP classified-information constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure defense-investigation due-process first-amendment national-security overbreadth separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether Section 5(a) of the Classified Information Procedures Act, 18 U.S.C. App. 3, is unconstitutionally vague or overbroad due to its potential to …
19-123 Sharonell Fulton, et al. v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2019-07-25 Judgment Issued Amici (87)Relisted (7) circuit-split civil-rights discrimination employment-division-v-smith first-amendment foster-care free-exercise general-applicability government-neutrality neutral-and-generally-applicable neutral-laws religious-discrimination religious-liberty unconstitutional-conditions The City of Philadelphia chose to exclude a religious agency from the City's foster care system unless the agency agreed to act and speak in a manner …
19-122 David Thompson, et al. v. Heather Hebdon, Executive Director of the Alaska Public Offices Commission, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (4) campaign-finance contribution-limits electoral-law first-amendment ninth-circuit procedural-history randall-v-sorrell regulatory-background standing supreme-court-precedent Whether Alaska's $500 individual-to-candidate and individual-to-group contribution limits violate the First Amendment.
19-115 Frank J. Lawrence, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan Sixth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied Response Waived Abuse-of-discretion Admission-to-practice bar-admission constitutional-rights Criticism-of-officials due-process expressive-activities First-Amendment free-speech judicial-discretion judicial-review law-practice-admission sixth-circuit standing uniformity-of-decisions Within a four month span, Petitioner filed applications for admission to the bars of eight federal courts, including the United States Court of Appeal…
19-111 Fernando I. v. Margarita O. Connecticut 2019-07-23 Denied Response Waived 2nd-amendment civil-restraining-order civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment parental-rights property-rights second-amendment This is a protected speech as well as parental and property rights case addressing jurisdictional issues of constitutional nature through a civil rest…
19-90 Lexington H-L Services, Inc., dba Lexington Herald Leader v. Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government Sixth Circuit 2019-07-17 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived civil-rights driveway-delivery first-amendment free-press free-speech municipal-ordinance news-distribution print-news time-place-manner time-place-manner-restriction Whether a municipal ordinance flatly prohibiting driveway delivery of a community newspaper but specifying alternative methods of hand delivery repres…
19-80 Shreveport Chapter #237 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy v. Caddo Parish Commission Fifth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment monument-preservation standing treaty-rights In a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action, the Petitioner Shreve port Chapter #237 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy ("UDC") filed its lawsuit in response…
19-5179 Susan E. Pattishall v. Vinton G. Cerf, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-religion freedom-of-speech intellectual-property statute-of-limitations takings The Plaintiff-Appellee does not find the value of the Virginia statutory limitation law Va. Code § 8.01-243(B) holds true for intellectual property. I…
19-66 George Q. Ricks v. Idaho Contractors Board, et al. Idaho 2019-07-12 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law employment-division-v-smith first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause generally-applicable neutral-law neutral-laws religious-exemption religious-exemptions religious-freedom stare-decisis Whether the Court should revisit its holding in Employment Division v. Smith, 494 U.S. 872 (1990), that the Free Exercise Clause generally requires no…
19-67 United States v. Evelyn Sineneng-Smith Ninth Circuit 2019-07-12 Judgment Issued Amici (11) civil-rights commercial-activity constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute facial-challenge financial-gain first-amendment free-speech immigration immigration-law ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation Whether the federal criminal prohibition against encouraging or inducing illegal immigration for commercial advantage or private financial gain, in vi…
19-63 Murphy J. Painter v. Shane Evans Louisiana 2019-07-11 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-protection defamation first-amendment government-speech new-york-times-v-sullivan public-figure 1. Does the First Amendment to the United States Constitution apply to government speech, such that defamatory government speech constitutes an act in…
19-5147 Flordeliza A. Hawkins v. SunTrust Bank, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-07-11 Denied IFP 1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech public-forum standing Why I was denied fer money daage?
19-5143 S. T. v. Washington Department of Social and Health Services Washington 2019-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,mental-health,public-bene constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment government-agency mental-health mental-health-evaluation public-benefits standing takings I. Can a state agency require participation in mental health evaluation and treatment in order to qualify for public benefits when those mental health…
19-62 Michelle Carter v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-07-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitrary-enforcement assisted-suicide common-law criminal-conviction due-process first-amendment free-speech involuntary-manslaughter suicide-encouragement Michelle Carter's conviction for involuntary manslaughter in connection with Conrad Roy III's suicide is unprecedented. Massachusetts is the only stat…
19-51 Ben Branch, et al. v. Massachusetts Department of Labor Relations, et al. Massachusetts 2019-07-08 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bargaining-representative civil-rights compelled-speech constitutional-rights due-process exclusive-representation first-amendment free-speech political-activity political-autonomy public-employee state-action union-representation When a public employee union uses its government-granted authority as employees' exclusive bargaining representative to compel employees to choose bet…
19-40 Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. v. J. W., a Minor California 2019-07-05 Denied church-governance civil-liability clergy-privilege first-amendment fourteenth-amendment intra-faith-communications religious-doctrine religious-freedom religious-practice For decades this Court has safeguarded the First Amendment rights of freedom of religion, speech, and press from state infringement. Jehovah's Witness…
19-5075 Grace Makau v. Louise Meyer, Judge, District Court of North Carolina, Wake County, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-reunification family-rights federal-question first-amendment ncgs-50-13.5(d)(3) sibling-rights I. THE REHEARING PANEL DENIAL DISREGARDED RULE OF LAW, LAW {NCGS 50-13.5(d)(3)}, AND/OR FEDERAL QUESTION (14% Amendment, EXTENDING THE INJUSTICE AND T…
19-5052 John P. Greiner v. Macomb County, Michigan, et al. Michigan 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process fraud-on-the-court retaliation administrative-hearing civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment first-amendment fraud-on-the-court free-speech labor-law wrongful-termination My name is John Greiner. I am a wrongfully terminated employee. I was terminated in violation of the first amendment of the United States Constitution…
19-5039 Carlos Ortiz v. Delaware Delaware 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation j/.J ni>h +/-s,vf A*?C*UCtf£SyCi'O (p&aJuZ) /**> Jfa ;>&£> A> c**<?/}M^ Ctm^>/* y/t&ri; 2 Jj dtyf£4t4es dzpu-^/ OA^UC^ ?'/ >/ s!s»y/A^
19-34 Paul Maravelias v. David DePamphilis New Hampshire 2019-07-03 Denied attorney-fees civil-procedure due-process equal-protection extraordinary-sanction findings-of-fact first-amendment original-jurisdiction pre-deprivation-hearing retaliation rule-of-law standing supreme-court vagueness 1. Did the NHSC violate the Due Process Clause to deny Petitioner's requested pre-deprivation hearing and by failing to make a single finding of fact …
19-5042 Charles Edward Jones, Sr. v. Josephine T. Griffin, Circuit Clerk, Chicot County, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-court access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-civil-procedure first-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-remedy petition-filing standing IF THE ORDER FROM THE DISTRICT COURT DOCUMENT SEVENTEEN ALLOWED PETITIONER TO PROCEEDED WITH HIS COLORABLE CAUSE OF ACTION OF ACCESS TO THE COURT WHEN…
19-5016 Michael A. Salazar v. HEB Grocery Company, LP, et al. Texas 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fraud judicial-procedure petition-clause right-to-petition right-to-sue standing In this case the Texas Supreme Court did not reject, but accepted the decision of the Fourth Court of Appeals in affirming the judgement of the Judge …
19-17 Alexander Collin Baker v. Clara Veseliza Baker California 2019-07-01 Denied civil-rights domestic-violence-prevention-act due-process federal-supremacy first-amendment free-speech prior-restraint right-to-petition separation-of-powers strict-scrutiny vagueness vagueness-doctrine 1. Is the DVPA's severable residual clause definition of "abuse" unconstitutionally vague and/or overbroad? 2. Is the "abuse" definition in conflict …
19-12 Kevin Sewell v. Maryland Maryland 2019-07-01 Denied Response Waived compelled-speech confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment-self-incrimination first-amendment first-amendment-compelled-speech overbreadth self-incrimination sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-confrontation-clause 1. Whether Maryland's law imposing a duty to report suspected child abuse or neglect on all persons in the State violates the First Amendment where it…
18-9753 Jason Brooks v. Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-access-to-courts,first-amendment,four court-access due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech lewis-v-casey pleading-standard prisoners-rights section-1983 standing (1) Whether a federal district court's adoption of a Department of Corrections Administrative Regulation and implementing it in D.C.COLO. L. Civ. Rule…
18-1563 Ronald Bias v. Tangipahoa Parish School Board Fifth Circuit 2019-06-21 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-law chapter-13 chapter-13-bankruptcy constitutional-amendments constitutional-rights debtor-standing disclosure-requirements due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-estoppel post-confirmation-claims standing Does the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal's precedent that all Chapter 13 debtors have a continuing duty to disclose all post-confirmation claims offend …
18-1555 Scott A. Boyler v. City of Lackawanna, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response Waived aggravated-harassment constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech free-speech,civil-rights,retaliation,qualified-imm malicious-prosecution qualified-immunity retaliation social-media summary-judgment 1. Did the Second Circuit err in adopting a subjective test for whether retaliation chilled free speech, contrary to at least six other Circuits that …
18-1557 William James, et al. v. Barbara Hunt, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rico copyright-act copyright-infringement creative-rights due-process fair-use first-amendment intellectual-property licensing plagiarism A. Whether the U.S. Copyright Act and Clause 17 U.S.C. 501, the Copyright Act Clause and the First Amendment of the U.S. Const., Art. 1, Sec. 8, equal…
18-1558 Marshall Spiegel v. Corrine McClintic, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-expression law-enforcement-liability municipal-liability public-photography qualified-immunity standing Does the First Amendment protect a person's right to photograph or videotape in public? If so, where officers threaten to arrest a person for photogra…
18A1334 Robert E. Carter, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Correction, Robert E v. Roman Lee Jones Seventh Circuit 2019-06-19 Presumed Complete diet-restriction first-amendment prisoner-rights religious-accommodation rluipa substantial-burden Question not identified.
18-9702 Cathrin Funk-Vaughn v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services Tennessee 2019-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-overreach child-custody child-jurisdiction child-removal diversion-plea document-fraud due-process evidence-suppression federal-funding first-amendment food-recall free-speech interstate-custody jurisdiction kidnapping law-enforcement parental-rights rescission unreasonable-search [III] Douse the Department of Children Services "AGENCY "haveany legal right to e a child from the parent / legal garden well the parent / legal garde…
18A1321 Capital Associated Industries, Inc. v. Josh Stein, Attorney General of North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-06-18 Presumed Complete first-amendment freedom-of-association intermediate-scrutiny professional-conduct trade-association unauthorized-practice-of-law Question not identified.
18-9688 Emanuel Rivera-Martinez v. Illinois Illinois 2019-06-17 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment habeas-corpus standing Whether the trial judge's pending unrelated lawsuit or egregious violations by the Chicago Police Department in an unrelated criminal case constituted…
18-9662 Mark Alan Lane v. Josias Salazar, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP bureau-of-prisons due-process first-amendment penological-interests prisoner-speech prisoners-rights procunier-v-martinez prohibited-act-code-203 true-threats void-for-vagueness As construed to apply to statements in outgoing mail that are not true threats, is Prohibited Act Code 203 crafted so that its "limitation of First Am…
18-9598 James W. Guy v. Ohio Ohio 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech jury-bias jury-selection prejudice religion religious-discrimination religious-freedom sixth-amendment Did the trial court violate a Muslim defendant's Constitutional Rights under the First, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitut…
18-9605 Don Ferguson v. Florida Florida 2019-06-11 Denied IFP 7th-amendment compelled-speech content-neutrality criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial first-amendment free-speech government-regulation jury-instructions private-entities Whether A Great Public Importance Exists Of Florida Courts' Denied Pro Se Petitioner's Representing Himself At Jury Trial, Of His (7th) Amendment Cons…
18-9629 Matthew Hale v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process first-amendment free-exercise-clause free-speech religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act standing Whether the Tenth Circuit's usage of a determining test for whether factor-driven belief system qualifies a particular religion for the purposes of th…
18-1517 Mehrdad Hosseini v. Kevin McAleenan, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-06-07 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-procedures-act civil-rights first-amendment free-speech immigration immigration-law material-support national-security overbreadth political-advocacy standing terrorism tier-iii-terrorist-organization I. Whether an individual's non-violent, independent political advocacy—that was not affiliated with any foreign material support for terrorism under t…
18-1523 Michael Gannon v. City of Eugene, Oregon Oregon 2019-06-07 Denied Response Waived 1st-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment free-speech liberty-interest proportionality public-forum public-university 1) Do the First Amendment's protections to public streets as the archetype of a traditional public forumextend to city and state public streets and pu…
18-1524 Michelle MacDonald Shimota, et vir v. Bob Wegner, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-06-07 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech probable-cause retaliation retaliatory-arrest retaliatory-prosecution In Neives v. Bartlett, this court held that probable cause is not an absolute bar to a First Amendment retaliatory- arrest claim under 42 U.S.C. § 198…
18-1516 Veronica Price, et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-06-06 Denied Amici (8)Relisted (2) abortion abortion-clinic buffer-zone civil-rights content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech narrow-tailoring precedent speech-restriction Chicago has made it a crime for a speaker to approach within eight feet of another person "for the purpose of passing a leaflet or handbill, displayin…
18-1518 Save Tacoma Water v. Port of Tacoma, et al. Washington 2019-06-06 Denied Response Waived ballot-access content-based content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech initiative-power judicial-veto political-speech prior-restraint vagueness Whether the First Amendment prohibits a state court from enjoining a qualified initiative from appearing on the ballot because the court believes that…
18A1268 Thomas More Law Center v. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General of California Ninth Circuit 2019-06-05 Presumed Complete associational-rights attorney-general-enforcement california-law donor-privacy first-amendment nonprofit-disclosure Question not identified.
18A1261 Marcus Turner, Sr., et al. v. Alva C. Hines, et al. District of Columbia 2019-06-04 Presumed Complete church-autonomy civil-courts ecclesiastical-abstention fiduciary-duties first-amendment religious-doctrine Question not identified.
18A1258 Michigan Senate, et al. v. League of Women Voters of Michigan, et al. Michigan 2019-06-04 Presumed Complete equal-protection first-amendment justiciability partisan-gerrymandering redistricting vote-dilution Question not identified.
18A1255 Lee Chatfield, et al. v. League of Women Voters of Michigan, et al. Michigan 2019-06-03 Presumed Complete first-amendment fourteenth-amendment legislative-districts partisan-gerrymandering political-discrimination voting-rights Question not identified.
18-9498 Mark Alan Lane v. Cynthia Swain, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights disciplinary-code due-process first-amendment free-speech inmate-communication ninth-circuit prison-regulation prison-regulations procunier-test procunier-v-martinez standing Is Section 203's prohibition against threatening another with any offense a close fit to a legitimate penological interest?
18-9486 Clifford Abshire v. Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections Louisiana 2019-05-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest property-interest sandin-v-conner Are prison disciplinary hearings considered "communicative acts," entitled to the protections of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution…
18-1492 Katherine Miller v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) associational-freedom childcare-providers civil-rights compulsory-representation due-process exclusive-representation first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association labor-relations mandatory-representation public-policy state-mandated-representation state-policy union-representation The Court recently held that a state "requir[ing] that a union serve as exclusive bargaining agent for its employees [is] itself a significant impinge…
18-1477 Competitive Enterprise Institute, et al. v. Michael E. Mann District of Columbia 2019-05-28 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) constitutional-law defamation first-amendment free-speech opinion provably-false public-concern public-figure question-of-law-or-fact subjective-commentary Under the First Amendment, "a statement of opinion relating to matters of public concern which does not contain a provably false factual connotation w…
18A1224 Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General of California Ninth Circuit 2019-05-28 Presumed Complete associational-rights attorney-general charitable-organizations compelled-disclosure donor-privacy first-amendment Question not identified.
18-9419 Mario Laron Waiters v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourth-amendment Whether the Virginia Statute 1.2-72 violates due process and equal protection and is unconstitutional as it applied to this case. The requirements are…
18-9383 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 1st-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection erroneous-decisions first-amendment judicial-misconduct patent-law patent-rights Whether the lower court vacating hearings and arbitrarily ordering Petitioner to amend her complaint and the Judge acting as attorney to Defendants or…
18-1455 Archdiocese of Washington v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, et al. District of Columbia 2019-05-22 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (5) civil-rights content-discrimination establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech government-speech public-forum religious-freedom viewpoint-discrimination 1. Whether WMATA's policy of refusing to accept advertisements that promote or oppose religion or reflect a religious perspective violates the First A…
18-1451 National Review, Inc. v. Michael E. Mann District of Columbia 2019-05-21 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) defamation first-amendment free-speech matter-of-public-concern opinion-speech provably-false provably-false-factual-connotation public-concern public-policy-debate scientific-controversy scientific-misconduct subjective-opinion Under Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc. v. Hepps, 475 U.S. 767 (1986), and Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co., 497 U.S. 1 (1990), a plaintiff seeking to impo…
18-1445 Theresa Seeberger v. Davenport Civil Rights Commission, et al. Iowa 2019-05-20 Denied Amici (2) civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-law civil-rights-ordinance commercial-speech content-discrimination discrimination due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech landlord-tenant viewpoint-discrimination 1. Was the imposition of liability for the landlord's speech a violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendment s to the United States Constitution ? …
18-9358 Robert Joe Long v. Florida Florida 2019-05-20 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process execution-witness fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-due-process first-amendment first-amendment-free-speech fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-equal-protection religious-freedom sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel WHETHER THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION'S RESTRICTIONS ON MR. LONG'S EXECTUION WITNESS AND REFUSING TO ALLOW HIM TO HAVE A NON-CLERGYMAN AS HIS S…
18-1441 Presbyterian Church U.S.A. v. Brian Edwards, Judge, Jefferson Circuit Court, et al. Kentucky 2019-05-17 Denied Relisted (2) church-autonomy church-constitution civil-rights defamation ecclesiastical-abstention first-amendment free-speech ministerial-role religious-doctrine supremacy-clause Whether, under the Supremacy Clause, the First Amendment requires state courts, despite their own procedures, to dismiss suits immediately upon a show…
18-1438 Caleigh Wood v. Evelyn Arnold, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 1st-amendment compelled-speech curriculum establishment-clause First-Amendment free-speech Lemon-Test lemon-v-kurtzman preferential-treatment public-school Public-School-Curriculum public-schools religion Religious-Freedom religious-practices For the past several decades, courts have struggled to determine when public schools may permissively teach about religion and when public schools cro…
18-1435 Matthew Wayne Minard, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Taylor Police Officer v. Debra Lee Cruise-Gulyas Sixth Circuit 2019-05-15 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights discretion discretionary-action discretionary-enforcement due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement qualified-immunity retaliation retaliatory-arrest traffic-stop I. Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals define the "clearly established" constitutional rights at issue in this qualified immunity case at too high …
18-1428 Gatehouse Media New York Holdings, Inc., et al. v. New York, et al. New York 2019-05-15 Denied criminal-procedure first-amendment press press-access press-rights public public-access public-right standing voir-dire Whether an application to a trial court by the press, as a surrogate for the public, in exercising its constitutionally required ability to be heard i…
18-9246 Anthony G. Bryant v. Department of Education, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure asset-seizure civil-forfeiture civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines first-amendment fourteenth-amendment tenth-amendment Petitioner cites Errors by US Court of Appeals for the Fourth District clear of Eighth Amendment regarding excessive fines Tyson Timbs v State of Indi…
18-9254 Larry B. Rubin v. Hector Sanchez, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment qualified-immunity standing Question not identified.
18-9179 Tony B. Thomas v. C. Blake, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech standing Why did the UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT overlook petitioner arguments pertaining to First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, Eighth…
18-1405 Robert N. Taylor, III v. United States Third Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment good-faith income-tax standing tax tax-liability waiver waiver-of-rights Whether a citizen who is standing upon his constitutionally protected rights can be compelled, against his good faith understanding of his liability u…
18-9068 Dennis Rydbom v. Lisa Boggs, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied IFP access-to-information catalog-ban censorship civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech mail-censorship penological-objectives prisoner-rights Prison officials withheld mail addressed to prisoner Dennis Rydbom; such mail being (1) an Edward R. Hamilton book catalog, and (2) a National Academy…
18-9089 Itoffee Gayle v. Home Box Office, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure copyright-infringement due-process fair-use federal-jurisdiction first-amendment intellectual-property motion-to-dismiss second-circuit standing The plaintiff's intellectual property was featured in defendant's (HBO) series, Vinyl. Judge Jesse M. Furman of the New York Southern District granted…
18-1375 Douglas Walter Greene v. Independent Pilots Association, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied abuse-of-discretion civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fraud free-speech freedom-of-religion freedom-of-speech judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct jury-trial rule-of-law A National precedent setting question is asked, may Federal District & Appellate Courts render a Decision abridging First Amendment Rights to Freedom …
18-1365 Mogul Media, Inc., et al. v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2019-04-30 Denied Response Waived commercial-speech content-based-restriction content-based-restrictions equal-protection first-amendment free-speech government-speech municipal-government public-forum public-property zoning-resolution The Second Circuit affirmed, en banc, the Second Circuit's prior affirmance of the district court's dismissal, at the pleading stage, of the Amended C…
18-1360 Robert G. Thornton v. United States, et al. District of Columbia 2019-04-30 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment standing administrative-law civil-rights due-process fair-hearing first-amendment fraud judicial-review obstruction-of-justice standing veterans-affairs veterans-rights Whether a veteran has a right to meaningful access to the courts and administrative agencies under the First Amendment of the Constitution when the go…
18-1358 Douglas Echols v. Spencer Lawton Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-violation due-process first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation libel-per-se presumption-of-innocence qualified-immunity retaliation substantive-due-process Where the Eleventh Circuit found a constitutional violation in a prosecutor's use of libel per se to retaliate against a wrongfully convicted person w…
18-1345 Charles G. Kinney v. Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-fraud civil-rights creditor-liability creditors discharged-debtor due-process federal-officers first-amendment fraud judges-and-justices judicial-crimes judicial-misconduct jurisdictional-challenge statutory-violation This is about crimes due to ongoing bankruptcy fraud, and judicial accessories-after-the-fact. Crimes are being committed not only by listed creditors…
18-1351 Charles G. Kinney v. Michele Renee Clark Ninth Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-fraud bankruptcy-law civil-rights creditor-misconduct criminal-concealment discharge-injunction due-process enforcement-duty first-amendment fraud judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct statutory-violation The counter-claim was because of the crimes (e.g. fraud) and judicial accessories-after-the-fact. Crimes are being committed not only by listed credit…
18-8995 Maurice Anderson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure first-amendment judicial-discretion legitimate-government-purpose plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing type-c-agreement 1. When a judge induces a defendant to plead guilty by reassuring him that if his plea is accepted the court is bound to impose a sentence specified i…
18-8979 Lisa Jacobs v. Lorraine MacDonald, et vir New Hampshire 2019-04-24 Denied IFP actual-malice constitutional-rights defamation defamation-damages first-amendment negligence-per-se presumptive-damages punitive-damages Whether enhanced compensatory damages in connection with an action for negligence per se requires proof of "actual malice" consistent with St. Amant v…
18-8933 Zaamar Bersan Stevenson v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied IFP appeal appeal-process certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rehabilitation-process right-to-counsel subject-matter-jurisdiction 1) Whether Mr. Stevenson was entitled to relief, or in the alternative an evidentiary hearing, on his claim of ineffective assistance of counsel, wher…
18-8926 Donald C. Jackson v. Priye T. Mukoro, et al. Texas 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights de-minimis due-process first-amendment qualified-immunity retaliation retaliation-claim summary-judgment Whether the Court of Appeals for the First District Texas reversibly erred when it reversed the Judgment of the trial court and rendered judgment gran…
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…
18-8905 Anthony G. Bryant v. Army Corps of Engineers, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process first-amendment sixth-amendment 10th-amendment 14th-amendment administrative-procedure asset-seizure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourth-amendment Petitioner cites Errors by US Court of Appeals for the Fourth District clear of Eighth Amendment regarding excessive fines Tyson limbs v State of Indi…
18-8882 Kevin L. Donaldson v. United States Second Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 access-to-courts certificate-of-appealability civil-rights clerk-of-court clerk-of-court-error district-court-procedure due-process first-amendment government-liability standing Did the Second Circuit Court of Appeals abuse its discretion when it denied the Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability? Did the Clerk of the U.S. …
18-8883 James E. Jessup v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment prisoner-rights racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing Question not identified.
18-8859 LaShunda Borden v. Cheaha Regional Mental Health Center, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-perjury criminal-procedure due-process employment-law first-amendment fraud free-speech freedom-of-speech legal-ethics perjury standing Is it Illegal for a company to commit perjury to win a lawsuit? The first Amendment gives everyone the right of freedom of speech does, not that incl…
18-1309 Booking.com B.V. v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-04-16 GVR Amici (4)Relisted (3) administrative-law american-rule attorneys-fees civil-procedure civil-procedure-costs first-amendment government-fees government-litigation patent statutory-interpretation trademark trademark-registration Applicants for trademark registration dissatisfied with a decision of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board can commence a civil action seeking de novo…
18-1293 Evergreen Freedom Foundation, dba Freedom Foundation v. Washington Washington 2019-04-12 Denied Amici (5)Response WaivedRelisted (2) ballot-initiative ballot-initiatives campaign-finance constitutional-vagueness due-process fair-campaign-practices-act first-amendment free-speech vagueness vagueness-doctrine Petitioner presents two issues for review: 1. Do Washington campaign finance statutes Wash. Rev. Code §§ 42.17A.255 and 42.17A.005 violate Due Proces…
18-8817 Michael Clark v. United States District Court for the Northern District of New York Second Circuit 2019-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP bradley-v-fisher civil-rights color-of-law common-law-rights due-process federal-procedure federalism first-amendment first-amendment-rights free-speech judicial-immunity nixon-v-warner standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the Northern District and Second Circuit Courts violated the Clark Family First Amendment and Common Law Rights related to the two fraudulent cour…
18-8752 Kulwant Singh Sandhu v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law circuit-split criminal-law criminal-speech first-amendment free-speech harassment public-policy statutory-interpretation telecommunications telephone-harassment (1) Does 47 U.S.C. subsection 223(a)(1)(D) prohibit only the harassment caused by repeatedly ringing a telephone or does it also prohibit repeated ver…
18-8755 Matthew Ryan Murdoch v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-restrictions due-process first-amendment freedom-of-speech liberty liberty-interest sentencing sex-offender statutory-interpretation Whether a lifetime prohibition on going to "locations where any form of pornography, sexually stimulating performances, or sexually oriented material,…
18-8774 John Elvin Turner v. Nevada, et al. Nevada 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-exercise jurisdiction religious-freedom standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
18-8764 Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-hearing calfresh-benefits civil-procedure civil-rights compelled-speech county-notice establishment-clause first-amendment food-stamps free-speech hearing-rights notice public-assistance state-hearing utility-allowance wedding-services welfare-assistance Question not identified.
18-8669 James Paul Arlotta v. David Anthony Heraty, et al. Second Circuit 2019-04-02 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,standing,civil-procedure, due-process establishment-clause excessive-entanglement first-amendment in-forma-pauperis section-1983-violation standing Why did the U.S. C .A. 2d Cir. cite the S. Ct. Case Npitzke v. Williams, 490 U.S. (1989); when the petitioner's in forma pauperis motion was approved …
18-8615 In Re Patrick Henry Murphy 2019-03-28 Denied IFP capital-punishment civil-rights due-process equal-protection establishment-clause execution-protocol first-amendment free-exercise religious-accommodation religious-freedom state-procedure When a State permits members of some faiths (e.g., Christians) to be accompanied in the execution chamber during the execution by a clergyperson of th…
18-1244 David Pickup, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-25 Denied Response Waived abrogation civil-rights content-based content-based-regulation content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech irreparable-harm mandate-recall recall-mandate supreme-court-precedent When this Court ruled that California's Reproductive FAC T Act violates t he First Amendment, National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becer…
18-1235 Joe Ribakoff v. City of Long Beach, California, et al. California 2019-03-22 Denied 1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights content-based-regulation content-based-speech expert-testimony first-amendment free-speech government-speech public-forum speech-restriction 1) Is a rule abridging speech by members of the public at an open public meeting of a city government a presumptively unconstitutional content-based s…
18-1203 Courthouse News Service v. Dorothy Brown, Clerk, Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County Seventh Circuit 2019-03-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) from hearing First-Amendment-access on the basis of general principles of comity and access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights comity comity-doctrine court-access federal-courts federalism first-amendment younger-abstention Whether Younger and its progeny permit federal courts to abstain, on the basis of general principles of comity and federalism, from hearing First Amen…
18-1195 Kendra Espinoza, et al. v. Montana Department of Revenue, et al. Montana 2019-03-14 Judgment Issued Amici (64)Relisted (2) constitutional-law equal-protection establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise religion-clauses religious-schools school-choice student-aid Does it violate the Religion Clauses or Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution to invalidate a generally available and religiously …
18-1185 Charter Communications, Inc. v. National Association of African American-Owned Media, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-13 GVR Relisted (5) 1981 but-for but-for-causation causation civil-rights civil-rights-act editorial-decisions editorial-discretion first-amendment hurley hurley-v-irish-american motivating-factor section-1981 Twice now in the context of federal anti discrimination laws, this Court has instructed that the rule of but -for causation is the "default rule[]" ag…
18-1178 Christopher Paige, et ux. v. Lerner Master Fund, LLC, et al. Third Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied bankruptcy-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment judicial-discrimination judicial-review procedural-fairness speedy-trial When the lower courts deny important substantive and procedural rights to protected minorities, may they simply refuse to explain their rationale(s) f…
18-1182 Scott Ogle v. Texas Texas 2019-03-12 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights content-based-regulation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process electronic-communication electronic-communications first-amendment free-speech intent-standard overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine Does a statute criminalizing electronically communicated speech that is both intended and reasonably likely to annoy, alarm, or embarrass another pers…
18-8381 Christopher D. Schneider v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP censorship courthouse-access due-process Equal-access first-amendment hobsons-choice jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge jurisdiction-over-individual prior-restraint standing Structural-error Did the Ninth Circuit Court and Tax Court choose to ignore the fact that both court lacked jurisdiction of Christopher David Schneider? Is it an unco…
18-8382 Guy Ennis Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment fourth-circuit free-speech military military-medals ninth-circuit speech-restrictions standing stolen-valor-act supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court's decision in United States v. Alvarez, 132 S. Ct. 2357 (2012), which found the false speech and writing subsection of the Stolen V…
18-8335 Lamar C. Chapman, III v. Barack Hussein Obama District of Columbia 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ballot-access civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-districts due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech religious-freedom signature-requirements standing takings voting-rights DID THE LOWER COUETS AUD JUDGES VIOLATE APPELANT RISHT TOBE PRCES?? BOTH THE LOWE DISTRICT AUD CeCUT COUETS INOUTOUALLY MECGRED PELAT'S BIVEUS - TYPE,…
18-1164 In Re Alan Giordani 2019-03-07 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court-procedure due-process first-amendment judicial-review property-rights right-to-petition rooker-feldman-doctrine second-amendment second-amendment-review special-master sua-sponte-review takings Whether the failure of the District Court to appoint a federal monitor, or special master to review the matter was error. Whether the District Court'…
18-1155 James Michael Murphy v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights claim-preclusion defamation discovery due-process first-amendment government-liability judicial-estoppel litigation-strategy res-judicata Is a second defamation lawsuit precluded by res judicata after dismissal of the first lawsuit, where key information about additional, later, widespre…
18-1138 Charles Kinney v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2019-03-04 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-rights constitutional-vagueness due-process first-amendment judicial-bias judicial-discretion retaliation standing vexatious-litigant Cal. vexatious litigant law is unconstitutionally vague on its face. The language is unclear as to: (a) what is "litigation"; (b) what has or doesn't …
18-8224 Antonio Dickerson, aka Girbaud v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP child-pornography constitutional-challenge fifth-amendment first-amendment mandatory-minimum mens-rea strict-liability In Elonis v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2001 (2015), this Court recently held that a federal criminal threats statute required a knowingly mens rea and…
18-8174 Jack D. Hall v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan Sixth Circuit 2019-02-28 Dismissed IFP brady-violation cheney-v-u.s.district-court due-process equal-protection federal-habeas-corpus fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus magistrate-judge townsend-v-sain writ-of-mandamus written-order Should this Supreme Court Grant Certiorari, to determine this question of first impression "Dose the specific langauge of Federal Habeas Corpus Rule 8…
18-8192 James Anthony Barnett, Jr. v. Alamance County Sheriff Office Detention Center, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied IFP 18-usc-3582 access-to-courts administrative-law civil-rights compassionate-release due-process federal-courts first-amendment prison-conditions standing Question not identified.
18-8203 Darryl Burghardt v. Renee Stein-Graham Ninth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis pro-se service-of-process standing Is anincarcerated prose Petitioner's First & Fourteenth Amendment U.S. Constitutional rights violated if they're under In Forma Pauperis (IFP) status …
18-1120 Theresa Riffey, et al. v. J. B. Pritzker, Governor of Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights class-action constitutional-rights damages due-process first-amendment free-speech harris-precedent janus-precedent janus-v-afscme standing subjective-opposition union-fees Under Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31, 138 S. Ct. 2448, 2486 (2018), and Harris v. Quinn, 134 S. Ct. 2618 (2014), do individuals from whom union fees were…
18-8128 Cynthia E. Collie v. South Carolina Commission on Lawyer Conduct South Carolina 2019-02-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech frivolous-proceedings seventh-amendment standing statutory-interpretation I. Whether the revised South Carolina Frivolous Proceedings Act (SCFPA), S.C. Code § 15-36-10, is unconstitutional on its face and as applied and is a…
18-8142 Michael Williamson v. Karen Slusher, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech jurisdiction official-misconduct prisoner-lawsuit standing Is the holding of the 6th Circuit court of appeals in King v. Zatdara, 733 F. no 1 (80 W. 201.5), cert. Sen., Z&niaray.King, 20115 U.S. LSXtS IS? (201…
18-8105 Alicja Herriott v. Paul Herriott California 2019-02-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-court access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-overbreadth discrimination due-process first-amendment first-amendment-right-to-petition overbreadth petition-rights privileges-immunities standing vexatious-litigant vexatious-litigant-statute In Be & K Constr. Co. v. NLRB (2002) 536 U.S. 516, 53, this Court held, that "The First Amendment provides, in relevant part, that "Congress shall mak…
18-1096 Charles G. Kinney v. Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied as-applied-challenge civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process facial-challenge first-amendment free-speech judicial-discretion pro-se-litigation retaliation standing vexatious-litigant Calif. vexatious litigant law is unconstitutionally vague on its face. The language is unclear as to: (a) what is "litigation"; (b) what has or doesn'…
18-1098 Daniel E. Witte v. Jayden H. Huynh, nka Jayden Scacco Utah 2019-02-22 Denied 14th-amendment civil-litigation civil-rights constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process faretta-v-california first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech pro-se-representation self-representation strict-scrutiny In Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806, 829-32, 830 n.39, 833-34, 834 n.46 (1975), this Court held that state courts may not compel pro se litigants i…
18-1092 Associated Builders and Contractors of California Cooperation Committee, Inc. v. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights collective-bargaining first-amendment free-speech government-speech legislative-amendment private-donation private-speech proxy subsidy viewpoint-discrimination 1. Does a plausible allegation that a facially "neutral" law acts as a proxy for viewpoint discrimination state a valid claim for relief under the Fir…
18-8021 Charles R. Baker v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-20 Denied IFP anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act anti-terrorism-effective-death-penalty-act constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel first-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations Whether thenewly discovered evidence presented to the lower Court's was sufficient to toll the one year statute of limitation set-forth in title 28 u.…
18-1073 Tara King, et al. v. Phil Murphy, Governor of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Response Waived civil-rights content-based-regulation content-based-restriction due-process extraordinary-circumstances first-amendment free-speech irreparable-harm mandate-recall standing supreme-court-precedent takings 1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred when it refused to recall its mandate after this Court explicitly abrogated its opinion by name. 2. Whether a l…
18-7977 James Mowery v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit first-amendment free-speech internet-access internet-restrictions packingham-precedent packingham-v-north-carolina social-media-access standing supervised-release I. In Packingham v. North Carolina, 137 S. Ct. 1730 (2017), this Court found unconstitutional a criminal statute prohibiting sex offenders from access…
18-7981 Santos Peter Murillo, aka Peter Santos Murillo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson batson-hearing civil-rights discrimination first-amendment fourth-amendment jury-selection public-trial sixth-amendment standing triviality-exception warrantless-search 1. Is there a "triviality " exception to the First Amendment's and Sixth Amendment's public trial requir ement, and, if so, was a hearing regarding Go…
18-7942 Shannon Lancaster v. James Ruane Fourth Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process homeland-security standing takings civil-rights compelled-speech due-process first-amendment free-speech religious-freedom Renwi Ac? \1-5c- vi
18-7946 Robert Hawkins v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise free-speech separation-of-church-and-state standing takings (l) Whether Petitioner's sentence of 324 months violates due process because the district court failed to rely upon Georgia's state law to interpret a…
18-7824 John C. Killingbeck v. United States Second Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights computer-search digital-privacy due-process first-amendment free-speech government-search internet-forums internet-speech interstate-commerce prosecution search-and-seizure standing title-28-usc Question not identified.
18-7832 Jason Lee Harris v. Karen A. Mullins, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied IFP access-to-courts appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-law first-amendment in-forma-pauperis ninth-circuit sentencing-guidelines service-of-process standing they roled that the three strickes proursion under 28 U.S.C.S Pauperis regardin Petitoners civil rights complaint alleging he was blatantly deried the…
18-1001 Casey Brandon Sibley v. Arizona Arizona 2019-02-01 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law criminal-prosecution first-amendment free-speech overbreadth-vagueness strict-scrutiny subjective-intent true-threat Whether the First Amendment requires proof of a speaker's subjective wrongful intent in order for speech to be deemed a "true threat" subject to crimi…
18-1000 American Freedom Defense Initiative, et al. v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, et al. District of Columbia 2019-01-31 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech government-censorship government-speech public-forum speech-restriction transit-advertising transit-authority viewpoint-discrimination 1. Is the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority's advertising space a public forum for Petitioner's "Support Free Speech" ads such that Respo…
18-7701 Christopher D. Schneider v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP conspiracy courthouse-access discrimination due-process falsification first-amendment seventh-amendment structural-error transcript trial Is it a denial of fundamental due process, petitioner's First and Seventh Amendment rights, and a "structural error"—requiring inter alia a new trial—…
18-996 Charles Lavel Stringer v. Storesonline, Inc., et al. Mississippi 2019-01-31 Denied Response Waived chancery-court civil-procedure civil-procedure-28-usc-1654 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se pro-se-representation sixth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation DID THE MISSISSIPPI SUPREME COURT REFUSE TO APPLY THE MANDATORY LANGUAGE IN THE USE OF THE, WORD OF SHALL IN MISSISSIPPI CODE OF ANN § 11-1-17 IN VIOL…
18-990 R. S. Raghavendra v. Jane E. Booth, et al. Second Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response Waived anti-injunction-act arbitration-act chevron-doctrine civil-rights employment-discrimination federal-arbitration-act first-amendment fraud judicial-recusal title-vii (1) Whether, after this U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, 138, S. Ct. 42 (2017), the jurisdiction-lacking district …
18-978 Josephenie Robertson v. Republic of Nicaragua, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process due-process,equal-protection,first-amendment,sixth equal-protection first-amendment political-question-doctrine sixth-amendment standing Whether the Petitioner was deprived of an independent, neutral, and impartial tribunal in violation of the First and Sixth Amendments under the Equal …
18-7647 Lynn Smith, et vir v. Manasquan Savings Bank New Jersey 2019-01-29 Denied Relisted (3)IFP association codes-of-judicial-conduct first-amendment judicial-conduct new-jersey new-jersey-state-court political-speech revised-code-of-judicial-conduct rules-governing-the-courts-of-the-state-of-new-jer standards-of-behavior state-courts Codes of Judicial Conduct and related sources of authority provide standards of behavior for judges and others within the New Jersey state court famil…
18-7613 David Ackell v. United States First Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied IFP circuit-split content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-challenge speech-regulation stalking-statute united-states-v-stevens Whether the First Circuit erred in upholding 18 U.S.C. § 2261A (2)(B) (2013) against a First Amendment challenge by holding that the statute "regulate…
18-975 Mark Stuart v. Jim Lane, et al. Arizona 2019-01-28 Denied due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech petition petition-rights rule-68 Whether Sanctioning Stuart under Rule 68, Arizona rules of civil procedure, and taxing him with the city of Scottsdale's costs, violated his First Ame…
18-964 Father John Gallagher v. Diocese of Palm Beach, Inc. Florida 2019-01-25 Denied Amici (2) church-doctrine civil-rights defamation first-amendment free-speech legal-immunity public-safety religious-speech standing Whether the priest is barred by the First Amendment from bringing a defamation action against a church when the defamatory statements are published ou…
18-7515 Jafaria Deforrest Newton v. Illinois Illinois 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-penalty due-process equal-protection establishment-clause first-amendment presumption religious-worship statutory-presumption 1. Whether the presumption in § 407(b)(2) —that structures with traditional characteristics associated with churches or synagogues are places used pri…
18-955 Alberto Fernandez v. School Board of Miami-Dade County, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-23 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech garcetti-standard garcetti-v-ceballos public-employee restatement-of-agency scope-of-employment 1. For purposes of First Amendment freedom of speech for public employees, whether scope of employment is a threshold question to be resolved before c…
18-949 Jamal Knox v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-01-22 Denied Amici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-threat first-amendment free-speech reasonable-person speech-protection subjective-intent terroristic-threats true-threat true-threats Under Watts v. United States, 394 U.S. 705 (1969) (per curiam), the First Amendment does not protect "true threats." Federal courts of appeals and sta…
18-7456 Jonathan Sebert v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process erotica first-amendment free-speech free-speech 18-7455" overbreadth overbroad overbroad-condition Question not identified. supervised-release vague vagueness WHETHER THE SPECIAL CONDITION OF SUPERVISED RELEASE IMPOSED UPON MR. SEBERT, WHICH (FOR EXAMPLE) WOULD PREVENT HIM FROM SHOPPING AT WAL-MART BECAUSE I…
18-921 Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Juan, Puerto Rico v. Yali Acevedo Feliciano, et al. Puerto Rico 2019-01-16 GVR CVSGAmici (5)Relisted (16) church-autonomy church-hierarchy church-structure civil-courts civil-rights ecclesiastical-rights ecclesiastical-structure establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech religious-organization Whether the First Amendment empowers courts to override the chosen legal structure of a religious organization and declare all of its constituent part…
18-906 Charles G. Kinney v. Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-discretion separation-of-powers standing vexatious-litigant The vexatious litigant ("VL") laws are being used by state and federal courts to "punish" Kinney. Similar types of punishment have been imposed on lis…
18-907 Charles G. Kinney v. Three Arch Bay Community Services District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights clean-water-act due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-discretion property-rights separation-of-powers standing vexatious-litigant Vexatious litigant ("VL") laws are being used by the courts to "punish" Kinney to the detriment of the environment. Punishment occurs even though Kinn…
18-908 Charles G. Kinney v. Frances Rothschild, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied Response Waived ada-violations civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts first-amendment free-speech judicial-misconduct separation-of-powers standing takings vexatious-litigant whistleblower The vexatious litigant ("VL") laws are being used by state and federal courts to "punish" Kinney. Similar types of punishment have been imposed on lis…
18-910 City of San Diego, California v. Public Employment Relations Board California 2019-01-14 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived citizens-initiative civil-rights content-based content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech government-code pension-reform preemption prior-restraint public-official viewpoint-based Whether California Government Code section 3505, the "meet-and-confer" provision of the California Meyers-Milias-Brown Act [Cal. Gov't Code section 35…
18-7400 Damion Sleugh v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review co-defendant-testimony criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence fifth-amendment first-amendment impeachment impeachment-evidence witness-credibility Does the need for sealing a co-defendant's subpoena applications end once the co-defendant changes his plea and testifies for the Government at trial?…
18-7404 John Laake v. Turning Stone Resort Casino Second Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violation first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-religion indian-land jurisdiction religious-freedom tribal-sovereign-immunity tribal-sovereignty Whether the established clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution as it pertains to Free Speech and Freedom of Religion effectiv…
18-896 Missouri Ethics Commission, et al. v. Free and Fair Election Fund, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) campaign-finance constitutional-law contribution-caps corruption first-amendment free-speech political-action-committee political-action-committees state-regulation transparency Under the First Amendment, may a state prohibit political action committees from transferring money to other political action committees?
18-7339 Earl Reyes v. Michael Duggan, et al. District of Columbia 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-amendments court-access due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment intentional-discrimination judicial-discretion seventh-amendment Whether the alleged facts that Defendant Duggan intentionally discriminated against Reyes (suspect class) whereby impeding the timely filing of his pe…
18-7280 Michael Wappler v. Wayne Ivey, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied IFP civil-rights confinement-conditions constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pre-trial-detention pretrial-detention standing three-strikes-rule WAS PETITIONER, AN INDIGENT PRETRIAL DETAINEE, PREVENTED FROM CHALLENGING PRETRIAL CONDITIONS OF CONFINEMENT BY THE IMPROPER ASSESSMENT OF A STRIKE UN…
18-7286 Johnathan Masters v. Kentucky Kentucky 2019-01-08 Denied Amici (2)Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution criminal-statute first-amendment free-speech good-order-and-discipline school-speech vagueness void-for-vagueness One area where free speech is under significant attack is within this country's school system, where perhaps the most vulnerable class of individuals …
18-7253 Eugene E. Forte v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-disobedience civil-rights collateral-bar-rule constitutional-order criminal-enforcement due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-precedent unconstitutional-orders walker-v-birmingham Should this Court reverse Walker v. City of Birmingham, 388 U.S. 307, 87 S.Ct. 1824, 18 L-Ed.2d 1210 (1967) on the ground that the collateral bar rule…
18-7275 Thomas Powers v. Jennifer Block, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-detainee civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-appointment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-health mental-health-treatment retaliation standing treatment-program 1. WHETHER THE MOST HONORABLE COURT OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT WILL DEFINE THE ELEMENTS OF THE CONSTITUTIONS' ADEQUATE CIVIL DETAINEE TREATMEN…
18-858 James McCullars v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response Waived advertisement advertising-statute communication-privacy criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-interpretation notice notice-and-advertisement private-communications statutory-interpretation trial-evidence Whether the proof at trial which established that petitioner was only engaged in private, closed communications - either one-to-one, or among a small …
18-860 Larry Edward Parrish v. Board of Professional Responsibility Tennessee 2019-01-07 Denied Response Waived arbitrary-punishment civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech lawyer-sanctions professional-conduct recusal-motion sanctions standing 1. Should the judgment of the Tennessee Supreme Court below be reversed because the Tennessee Supreme Court arbitrarily punished Petitioner/lawyer as …
18-864 John Tatum, et ux. v. The Dallas Morning News, Inc., et al. Texas 2019-01-07 Denied Response Waived constitutional-protection defamation first-amendment free-speech milkovich-precedent milkovich-v-lorain omnicare-v-laborers opinion opinion-piece opinion-speech Whether this Court's decisions in Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co. and Omnicare, Inc. v. Laborers Dist. Council Const. Industry Pension Fund hold that …
18-846 David Allen Anderton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Response Waived criminal-statute due-process first-amendment freedom-of-speech immigration-law overbreadth separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether to "encourage" or "induce" an alien to come to, enter, or reside in the United States in reckless disregard of the alien's "in violation of la…
18-851 Bryan Christopher Marshall v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Response Waived armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-sentencing drug-distribution drug-statute due-process federal-law first-amendment law-enforcement predicate-offense sentencing speech-protection statutory-interpretation 1. Whether a state drug statute that lists a variety of means by which it can be violated, including one which does not meet the definition of a drug …
18-857 Patrick Boyd v. Mississippi Department of Public Safety, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-law first-amendment free-speech government-employment government-overreach governmental-supervision law-enforcement public-concern Whether law enforcement and governmental supervisors, by mere announcement of some collective fear, without any factual basis whatsoever, may override…
18-830 Township of Millburn, New Jersey, et al. v. Michael J. Palardy, Jr. Third Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (4) circuit-conflict circuit-split civil-rights connick-v-myers constitutional-rights first-amendment public-employee retaliation retaliation-claim union-association In Connick v. Myers, 461 U.S. 138 (1983), this Court set out a two-step framework for addressing First Amendment retaliation claims by public employee…
18-841 Michale Anthony Hoffman v. Florida Florida 2019-01-03 Denied Response Waived airport aviation-authority civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment forum-analysis free-speech non-public-forum public-forum public-sidewalk public-street standing Whether the shoulder of a public street, owned by the Jacksonville Aviation Authority, but approximately one mile from the Jacksonville International …
18-826 Kenneth Shelton v. Anthonee Patterson Pennsylvania 2019-01-02 Denied Response Waived church-autonomy first-amendment hosanna-tabor hosanna-tabor-v-eeoc intra-church-disputes intra-church-litigation jones-v-wolf judicial-scrutiny leadership-succession neutral-principles religious-dispute serbian-eastern-orthodox-diocese-v-milivojevich Whether this Court should clarify Jones v. Wolf and Hosanna-Tabor v. E.E.O.C., given the doctrinal uncertainty and unpredictability reflected in incon…
18-822 Steven G. Cohen v. Grievance Administrator, Attorney Grievance Commission of Michigan Michigan 2018-12-28 Denied Response Waived attorney-discipline civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech free-speech-petition judicial-corruption judicial-misconduct petition petition-clause professional-ethics professional-misconduct rosa-parks-estate WHETHER THE ARBITRARY, CONTRADICTORY AND FACT-FREE PROCEEDINGS CONDUCTED BY THE MICHIGAN ATTORNEY DISCIPLINE BOARD VIOLATED PETITIONER'S RIGHTS UNDER …
18-7170 Jonathan Yancey v. Alabama Alabama 2018-12-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection exculpatory-evidence first-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment standing takings THIS APPEAL IS SUCH IMPORTANCE TO THE PUBLIL CITIZEN'S THAT ARE X SEX OFFENIDERS UNDER (ASORCNA) AS TO JUSTIFY DEVIATION FROM NORMAL APPELLATE PRACTIC…
18-810 John Maguire, et al. v. Anika Edrei, et al. Second Circuit 2018-12-26 Denied acoustic-device civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement lrad police-tactics protest-control qualified-immunity Did the Second Circuit err in finding a potential constitutional violation for excessive force and denying the officers qualified immunity, particular…
18-7153 J. E., aka J. E. C. v. Oregon Department of Human Services Oregon 2018-12-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP agency-deference agency-discretion chevron-doctrine civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment human-services parental-rights standing Did the Supreme Court of Oregon have the opportunity to consider every possible situation which might arise from a Termination of Parental Rights? Di…
18-7162 Muna Osman Jama v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process first-amendment foreign-terrorist-organization free-speech freedom-of-speech material-support peaceable-assembly terrorism vagueness Does section, 18 Usc § 2339B(a) [material support of foreign terrorist organization(s)] impose an unconstitutionally vague provision in times of peace…
18-773 Daniel Sullivan v. City of Frederick, Maryland, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied 42-usc-1983 assembly civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech monell monell-doctrine municipal-immunity retaliation Three questions are presented: 1. Did the court below err in affirming that a sixmonth criminal investigation of police officer Dan Sullivan, for his…
18-780 Lisa Marie Kerr v. Marshall University Board of Governors, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response Waived 12(b)(6)-motion academic-deference civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process first-amended-complaint first-amendment leave-to-amend savings-statute sex-discrimination sexual-orientation sexual-orientation-discrimination Under the Civil Rights Act, is sexual orientation discrimination unlawful "on the basis of sex," and/or "because of.. . sex," as held by the Second an…
18-7093 Deidre Holmes Clark v. Allen & Overy, LLP New York 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emotional-stability first-amendment free-speech psychiatric-evaluation sexual-harassment standing Whether a sexual harassment motion can be dismissed, solely on the basis of her right to free speech. Whether a requirement that a sexual harassment …
18-766 Teresa Bierman, et al. v. Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied Amici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) exclusive-representation expressive-association first-amendment government-speech heightened-scrutiny individual-rights mandatory-expressive-association mandatory-representation public-employees rational-basis The State of Minnesota compels individuals who are not public employees, namely individual Medicaid providers, to accept an exclusive representative f…
18-761 D. Dahne v. Thomas W. S. Richey Ninth Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (4) civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech grievance inmate-rights ninth-circuit prison prison-grievance qualified-immunity Inmates in state and federal prisons file hundreds of thousands of grievances every year, and grievance programs peacefully resolve countless disputes…
18-755 Illinois Liberty PAC, et al. v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-12-13 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) buckley-standard buckley-v-valeo campaign-finance civil-rights contribution-limits due-process equal-protection first-amendment political-contributions political-speech strict-scrutiny 1. Should political contribution limits that favor one type of speaker over another receive strict scrutiny? 2. Should the holding in Buckley v. Vale…
18-741 Emily M. Odermatt v. Amy Way, et al. Second Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech government-benefits pickering pickering-test public-employment public-service public-services Whether, consistent with the First Amendment and Pickering, the government's ability to remove a valuable financial benefit on the basis of the benefi…
18-733 1A Auto, Inc., et al. v. Michael Sullivan, Director, Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance Massachusetts 2018-12-10 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedRelisted (2) association campaign-finance contribution-limits equal-protection first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association freedom-of-speech intermediate-scrutiny political-contributions strict-scrutiny 1. Should Beaumont be overruled because it conflicts with more recent decisions of this Court and insufficiently protects freedom of speech and associ…
18-6939 Jonathan S. Nelson v. Joe Norwood, Secretary, Kansas Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography conviction-reversal de-novo-review due-process first-amendment obscenity scienter Concerning a violation of KSA 21-3516a(2), given that the images' nature was reasonably disputed, does the right to a de novo review demand the revers…
18-731 Stefany Vega Duron, a Minor, et al. v. Ron Johnson, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response Waived administrative-remedy constitutional-rights fifth-amendment first-amendment iirira immigration immigration-law judicial-review selective-prosecution I. Is there an administrative remedy in the immigration courts to decide American citizens' claims of a violation of their First and Fifth Amendment c…
18-720 Ronald Duhe, et al. v. City of Little Rock, Arkansas, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-vagueness detention-policy disorderly-conduct due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-precedent overbreadth probable-cause vagueness On summary judgment: 1. Whether precedent by this Court together with the Eighth Circuit, other circuits and state courts of last resort had clearly …
18-719 Kathleen Uradnik v. Inter Faculty Organization, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-12-04 Denied Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) association associational-freedoms compelled-association constitutional-scrutiny exclusive-representation first-amendment free-speech labor-union labor-unions public-sector public-sector-employees Whether it violates the First Amendment to appoint a labor union to represent and speak for public-sector employees who have declined to join the unio…
18-704 Ross Abbott, et al. v. Harris Pastides, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-11-29 Denied Amici (6) campus-speech civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth qualified-immunity standing vagueness 1. Whether a student and student organizations investigated for possibly violating a public university's regulations governing on-campus speech hav…
18-691 Lonnie Snelling v. Kevin Segbers, et al. Missouri 2018-11-27 Denied access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment Did the State of Missouri through its Judicial Officials, deny Petitioner, one of its Citizens, and a Citizen of the United States, Rights Guarantees …
18-696 Center for Medical Progress, et al. v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) anti-SLAPP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-procedure federalism first-amendment free-speech heightened-pleading investigative-journalism protected-speech 1. Should the Ninth Circuit have reversed itself and exacerbated an unsettled and widening split among the First, Fifth, Tenth, and D.C. Circuits by f…
18-676 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Ryan Karnoski, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-23 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) due-process equal-protection first-amendment gender-dysphoria military-service military-service-policy transgender transgender-individuals transgender-policy Whether the district court erred in preliminarily enjoining the military from implementing the Mattis policy nationwide.
18-6780 Joan E. Farr v. Daryl Davis, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-11-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech homeowners-association retaliation section-1983 Whether the Huckleberry Homeowners Association and its individual members denied Joan Farr her rights under 42 Usc 1983 and retaliated against her to …
18-665 James Michael Alvis v. Leland W. Schilling Tenth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied 14th-amendment child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity state-court-action state-law 1. Whether Respondent, a state court judge, was entitled to judicial immunity when he took action in a child custody matter in contravention of state …
18-644 David Carl Cottingham v. Washington State Bar Association, et al. Washington 2018-11-19 Denied Response Waived attorney-conduct bar-discipline due-process first-amendment objective-analysis petitioning petitioning-rights pro-se-representation professional-discipline regulatory-approval split state-court strict-scrutiny A Washington State Bar disciplinary investigation continued through to suspension, notwithstanding Attorney David C. Cottingham's opposition to unlawf…
18-6715 Cortney John Edstrom v. Minnesota Minnesota 2018-11-19 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment apartment-dwellers apartment-search circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights curtilage drug-detection-dog drug-detection-dogs due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech reasonable-expectation-of-privacy standing Whether a drug-detection dog's sniff of the doorway of an apartment constitutes a "search" under the Fourth Amendment when the apartment is located in…
18-6736 James E. Whitney v. Cindy Glover, Clerk, Circuit Court of Lincoln County, Arkansas, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-11-19 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech religious-freedom standing Should and Individuals secured and protected Constitutional Right under the First Amendment to redress the Government for wrongs perpetuated against t…
18-636 The Pure Presbyterian Church of Washington, et al. v. The Grace of God Presbyterian Church Virginia 2018-11-16 Dismissed church-property civil-procedure constitutional-competence ecclesiastical-abstention establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise merger-analysis neutral-principles religious-freedom religious-organizations subject-matter-jurisdiction The trial court entered its Final Order disposing, inter alia, of Church Property, predicated upon a judicial determination that Grace Presbyterian wa…
18-630 Charles Allen Richards v. City of Des Moines Police Department, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-11-15 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-clinic police-department retaliation standing 1. Did Charles Richards exercise a right protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States when he approached the legal clinic…
18-622 Whole Woman's Health, et al. v. Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-procedure-appeal discovery discovery-order first-amendment interlocutory-appeal judicial-conduct judicial-review mohawk-industries mootness privilege supervisory-power (1) Whether the court of appeals' decision to exercise jurisdiction over an interlocutory appeal from a discovery order rejecting a claim of privilege…
18-6634 Leandro Leonel Gonzalez v. F. Armenta, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights correctional-officers due-process evidence first-amendment free-speech Is there a right to have-a-witness in the Due-Proc mail-communication prisoner-rights witness-testimony In an action in which petitioner was forbidding to write letters to Tamara Ecclestone, is there a right to out-going mail in the First Amendment of th…
18-602 Jodi A. Smith v. Lakewood Ranch Gymnastics LLC, et al. Florida 2018-11-07 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure defamation enhanced-appellate-review first-amendment jurisdiction legal-procedure new-york-times-v-sullivan non-media-defendant private-plaintiff standing supreme-court Whether the enhanced appellate review reiterated in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan is required for First Amendment protection in a defamation case wit…
18-584 Angela Engle Horne v. WTVR, LLC, dba CBS6 Fourth Circuit 2018-11-05 Denied Response Waived actual-malice civil-rights constitutional-standard defamation first-amendment free-speech media-law public-figure public-official sullivan 1. Whether this Court should overrule New York Times v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964). 2. Whether even if this Court elects not overrule Sullivan in …
18-6522 Robert Prunty v. DeSoto County School Board, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-interpretation civil-procedure civil-rights due-process education educational-rights federal-regulations first-amendment free-speech standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent DOES THE 11TH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS THREE JUDGE PANEL HAVE THE RIGHT TO CREATE CONFLICTS AMONGST THE CIRCUITS WHEN IT UNILATERALLY CHANGED THE SUPR…
18-547 Melissa Elaine Klein, et vir v. Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries Oregon 2018-10-26 GVR Amici (10)Relisted (13) commercial-art compelled-speech employment-division-v-smith expressive-conduct first-amendment free-exercise free-speech hybrid-rights public-accommodations religious-liberty 1. Whether Oregon violated the Free Speech and Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment by compelling the Kleins to design and create a custom wed…
18-538 Wendy A. Nora v. Wisconsin Office of Lawyer Regulation Wisconsin 2018-10-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) due-process due-process-clause exculpatory-evidence fair-hearing first-amendment fourteenth-amendment lawyer-discipline petition-for-redress petition-rights procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a lawyer can be disciplined based on evidence known by the state to be false and when the state suppresses exculpatory evidence. Whether the …
18-6421 Alexis D. Negron-Cruz v. United States First Circuit 2018-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel internet-access internet-restrictions plea-agreement plea-bargaining pornography-ban sentencing supervised-release supervised-release-conditions Whether District Court erred in imposing overbroad conditions of Supervised Release, limiting Petitioner's access to the Internet, for the term of sai…
18-522 Michael Ishee v. Mississippi Mississippi 2018-10-19 Denied Response Waived child-pornography civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech mens-rea scienter separation-of-powers void-ab-initio Governmental regulation of First Amendment rights, particularly freedom of speech and expression, draws close constitutional scrutiny since these righ…
18-511 Austin Gates v. Hassan Khokhar, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied arrest-standard civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech probable-cause qualified-immunity standing state-law supreme-court 1. Whether a court, in determining whether arguable probable cause exists to arrest for a state-law crime, must consider any narrowing decisions by th…
18-509 Charles G. Kinney v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response Waived anti-trust civil-rights civil-rights-violations color-of-authority due-process first-amendment free-speech interstate-commerce judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct professional-speech standing state-bar-regulation vexatious-litigant By simultaneously dismissing 8 of Kinney's pending appeals, did these same 3 Judges on a Ninth Circuit panel abuse their discretion by covering-up act…
18-504 Charles G. Kinney v. Roger W. Boren, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment Hobbs-Act Janus judicial-misconduct NIFLA professional-speech section-1983 vexatious-litigant By simultaneously dismissing 8 of Kinney's pending appeals, did this 3 Judge Ninth Circuit panel abuse its discretion to cover-up acts by Justice Roge…
18-502 William Kinney, et ux. v. Anderson Lumber Company, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction first-amendment fraud post-removal-statute remand remand-order removal vacatur Does the post removal statute, Title 28 Section 1447, bar the vacatur of a remand order obtained by attorney misconduct and fraud? Plaintiffs were uns…
18-500 The First Presbyterian Church U. S. A. of Tulsa, Oklahoma, et al. v. John Doe Oklahoma 2018-10-18 Denied Amici (3) affirmative-defense church-discipline church-doctrine church-government church-member-disputes consent consent-based first-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-doctrine membership membership-dispute religious-autonomy 1. Whether the religious autonomy doctrine derives from the First Amendment or rather is a consent-based doctrine applicable only to disputes between …
18-6379 Ramess Nakhleh v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech postal-regulations public-forum vagueness vagueness-doctrine Is a regulation criminalizing the creation of a "loud and unusual noise" unconstitutionally vague?
18-6339 Michael T. Willan v. Petitioner Wisconsin 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights clear-and-present-danger constitutional-rights domestic-abuse due-process first-amendment free-speech injunction mens-rea notice The question is whether the Wisconsin sec. 813.12 Domestic Abuse statute requires Mens Rea, that the respondent be aware of the threatening nature of …
18-6348 Eric M. Pence v. Illinois Illinois 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-prosecution criminal-statute disorderly-conduct due-process electronic-communication fighting-words first-amendment free-speech true-threat true-threats This case presents an important question involving the application of the First Amendment to the Constitution to state disorderly conduct statutes pro…
18-480 R. S. Raghavendra v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Second Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-act civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-opportunity federal-arbitration-act first-amendment free-speech judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice recusal-law standing Did the Appeals Court Err or Violate Petitioner's First Amendment Right to Petition the Courts by Failing to Issue a Writ of Mandamus for Reversing th…
18-474 LeFloris Lyon v. Canadian National Railway Company, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) bivens bivens-action civil-rights first-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause retaliatory-prosecution seventh-circuit-conflict Whether the Seventh Circuit decision conflicts with all Courts of appeals, and Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach, 138 S. Ct. 1945 (2018); Manuel v. City…
18-451 Aloha Bed & Breakfast v. Diane Cervelli, et al. Hawaii 2018-10-11 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) due-process fair-notice first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise intimate-association privacy prohibitory public-accommodation public-accommodations quasi-criminal religious-beliefs religious-liberty stigmatizing Phyllis Young, a retiree, rents three bedrooms in her family home using the name Aloha Bed & Breakfast to make ends meet. She welcomes everyone as gue…
18-450 Utah Republican Party v. Spencer J. Cox, Lieutenant Governor of Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-10-11 Denied Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) candidate-selection expressive-association first-amendment political-parties political-party standard-bearer state-regulation viewpoint-discrimination As a private expressive association, "[a] political party" enjoys a general First Amendment right "to choose a candidate-selection process that will i…
18-453 Olivia de Havilland v. FX Networks, LLC, et al. California 2018-10-11 Denied artistic-license civil-rights defamation docudrama false-statements first-amendment free-speech pleading-stage public-figure right-of-publicity Are reckless or knowing false statements about a living public figure, published in docudrama format, entitled to absolute First Amendment protection …
18-6296 Alexander Robert Jacome v. California California 2018-10-11 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 9th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law Constitutional-Rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment Fourth-Amendment free-speech ninth-amendment Parole-Conditions Will this Court reverse the lower Courts substantial violations of the Fourth Amendment's substantive due process clause, or allow the respondent's co…
18-409 Lewis Y. Liu v. Paul Ryan, et al. Second Circuit 2018-10-02 Denied Response Waived civil-rights comity-clause congress constitutional-standing due-process electoral-college equal-protection equal-voting-right equal-voting-rights fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review standing voting-rights Whether Petitioner has the standing to "invoke a right to constitutional protection when he or she is harmed... even if the legislature refuses to act…
18-6154 Donald Lee Easley v. Oregon Oregon 2018-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitution due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech lack-of-counsel lack-of-evidence life-liberty (1) Seltdefence SOB Inability to testidy= lack of Doepnociss My Constitiounal rights dimuished. sllard representation - expenos? Nat 8luen, (S) Duepr…
18-6127 Timothy Warren Vallier v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP anonymous-speech civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech jurisdiction online-speech patent standing takings The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals issued it's opinion on February 20, 2018, and on June 18, 2018 this Honorable Court entered it's judgement in Rosales…
18-6129 Arika Matelyan v. CD Baby Distribution Co. Ninth Circuit 2018-09-28 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights copyright copyright-infringement due-process fair-use first-amendment intellectual-property standing Question not identified.
18-404 The Colorado Independent v. District Court for the Eighteenth Judicial District of Colorado, et al. Colorado 2018-09-28 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) capital-murder court-records criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment first-amendment-access judicial-proceedings press-enterprise press-enterprise-co-v-superior-court press-enterprise-doctrine public-access qualified-right Does the public's qualified First Amendment right of access defined by this Court in a series of cases culminating in Press-Enterprise Co. v. Superior…
18-6080 Abraham J. Bonowitz, Douglas A. Pagitt, Lisa S. Harper, Suezann K. Bosler, Arthur J. Laffin, Randy Gardner, Derrick W. Jamison, Thomas W. Muther, Jr., Shane A. Claiborne, Sam R. Sheppard, and John M. Travers v. United States District of Columbia 2018-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 40-usc-6135 assembly constitutional-law display first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine public-forum statutory-interpretation 1. Is the open-air, public space surrounding the Supreme Court a traditional public forum, despite a flawed, constitutionally suspect challenged law t…
18-377 Montanans for Community Development v. Jeffrey A. Mangan, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-09-24 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) buckley-test buckley-v-valeo campaign-finance circuit-split citizens-united-v-fec entity-based-burdens first-amendment first-amendment-free-speech free-speech major-purpose ninth-circuit-split nonprecedential-decisions political-committee political-committees 1. Whether states are barred by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution from imposing PAC-status, with its resulting entity-based burdens, on gro…
18-364 Morris County Board of Chosen Freeholders, et al. v. Freedom From Religion Foundation, et al. New Jersey 2018-09-20 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (6) civil-rights establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause free-speech government-funding historic-preservation public-funding religious-status status-based-discrimination trinity-lutheran trinity-lutheran-precedent 1. Whether using generally available historic preservation funds to repair or restore a house of worship constitutes a "religious use" that falls outs…
18-355 Prison Legal News v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-19 Denied Amici (9) 1st-amendment censorship civil-rights content-restriction corrections-policy due-process first-amendment free-speech media-rights prior-restraint prison prison-censorship Petitioner produces an award-winning monthly publication, Prison Legal News, featuring content directed to the specialized interests of inmates, inclu…
18-351 City of Pensacola, Florida, et al. v. Amanda Kondrat'yev, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-18 GVR Amici (5)Relisted (3) constitutional-law endorsement establishment-clause first-amendment historical-pedigree lemon-test passive-display passive-religious-display religious-display standing town-of-greece 1. Whether plaintiffs have standing to sue under the Establishment Clause when their only alleged injury consists of the feelings of "offense" produce…
18-336 Thaddeus Jones, et al. v. Michelle Markiewicz-Qualkinbush, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied 15th-amendment 1st-amendment class-of-one constitutional-challenge Engquist equal-protection first-amendment municipal-referendum political-animus referendum-rights strict-scrutiny 1. Whether the reasoning and decision of Engquist v. Oregon Department of Agriculture, 553 U.S. 591 (2008), extends to the political context, where po…
18-340 In-N-Out Burger, Incorporated v. National Labor Relations Board Fifth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law compelled-speech constitutional-rights-free-speech employer-rights first-amendment free-speech janus-v-afscme labor-relations national-institute-of-family-and-life-advocates-v- nlrb-doctrine special-circumstances special-circumstances-doctrine 1. Whether the Board's order compelling speech of a private employer violates the First Amendment, in light of this Court's recent holdings in Janus v…
18-331 Rafael Pabon Ortega v. Isabel Llompart Zeno, et al. First Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-stay civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-law ex-parte-young first-amendment insular-cases promesa puerto-rico section-1983 Whether the automatic stay provisions of the Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C. §§ 362, 922, as incorporated into PROMESA are unconstitutional as applied by t…
18-322 Steven A. Miner v. Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission Illinois 2018-09-12 Denied attorney-disciplinary-proceedings attorney-discipline burden-of-proof clear-and-convincing-evidence due-process due-process-clause first-amendment misappropriation personal-relationships private-relationships professional-misconduct 1. In an attorney disciplinary matter in which charges against a lawyer must be proven by clear and convincing evidence, and there is no positive evid…
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…
18-5921 Jeffrey Allen Stevens v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights civil-unrest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-trial law-enforcement-misconduct standing Are Predictions, Prognostications or any synonym thereof of any sort, and specifically i-n'this case, Predictions of. Civil , Unrest or-even of violen…
18-5844 Rocco Tinoco v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-875 civil-rights criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation whether a mental state of recklessness - absent Subjective intent to threaten - in conveying a threat is sufficient to support a conviction under 18 U…
18-300 Delano Farms Company, et al. v. California Table Grape Commission California 2018-09-07 Denied Amici (2) attribution commercial-speech compelled-speech compelled-subsidy first-amendment government-speech industry-advertising industry-group oversight speech-attribution Whether the compelled subsidy of promotional advertising by an industry group may be deemed "government speech," and thus shielded from First Amendmen…
18-302 Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, Patent and Trademark Office v. Erik Brunetti Federal Circuit 2018-09-07 Judgment Issued Amici (11) commercial-speech first-amendment free-speech government-speech immoral immoral-marks lanham-act scandalous scandalous-marks trademark trademark-registration Whether Section 1052(a)'s prohibition on the federal registration of "immoral" or "scandalous" marks is facially invalid under the Free Speech Clause …
18-282 Kelly H. Tucker v. Patrick Atwater, Jr., et al. Georgia 2018-09-05 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-interests Pickering-balancing-test pickering-test public-employee-speech public-employment public-interest qualified-immunity section-1983 1) If Pickering and its progeny are applicable to cases involving off-duty public employees who are speaking to matters of public interest which are n…
18-5881 Vamsidhar Vurimindi v. The Hoopskirt Lofts Condominium Association Pennsylvania 2018-09-05 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights condominium-law constitutional-violations due-process fair-housing-act fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-rights racial-discrimination Whether the Pennsylvania Uniform Condominium Act enables racially motivated majority members of a condominium association to purge a minority member o…
18-5870 Matthew Prow v. Tom Roy, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment art-censorship civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech prison prison-policies prison-restrictions reasonable-relationship-standard standing turner-analysis turner-standard Petitioner is an artist currently in the custody of the Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC). He commenced this civil rights action under 42 U.S.…
18-5850 In Re Christopher D. Schneider 2018-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appearance-of-impropriety civil-rights courthouse-access discrimination due-process economic-status first-amendment judicial-bias mandamus retaliation self-censorship standing Does Mr. Schneider have a right to both the appearance and actuality of neutrality; and does mandamus he when that fundamental right is going to be mo…
18-262 Xiu Jian Sun v. Stephen Mullkoff Second Circuit 2018-08-30 Denied civil-complaint civil-procedure civil-rights divine-directive divine-intervention doctrine-and-covenants due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-interpretation legal-action legal-standing religious-doctrine religious-freedom spiritual-claim spiritual-messenger standing widow-parable The complaint of the plaintiff, -god's servant, Xiu Jian Sun, the spiritual Adam respectfully shows and alleges as follows Lord god of host Jehovah s…
18-245 Marlon Penn v. New York Methodist Hospital, et al. Second Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied civil-rights employment-discrimination first-amendment free-speech hosanna-tabor ministerial-exception religious-institution title-vii Since Hosanna-Tabor did not address how to decide if an employer is "religious," should the Court review this case and define the proper analysis in d…
18-228 Western Radio Services Company, Inc. v. John Allen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedures-act agency-discrimination bivens-claim class-of-one equal-protection first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation permitting-actions retaliation Where a company alleges that, after it began filing legal challenges against Forest Service decisions, the agency singled it out for delay and inactio…
18-226 Eric G. Zahnd v. Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel, Supreme Court of Missouri Missouri 2018-08-22 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived attorney-discipline attorney-ethics criminal-case due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-transparency professional-conduct prosecutorial-speech public-record public-records After the conclusion of a child sexual abuse criminal case, the Prosecuting Attorney of Platte County, Missouri, Eric G. Zahnd, issued a news release …
18-5579 In Re Brent Cole 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP common-law common-law-right constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment justice petition-clause right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing 1. Is a court's refusal to allow an accused person any opportunity to be heard by themself and counsel a substantive violation of due process, common …
18-5529 Dewey Steven Terry v. Phillip Earley, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process employment employment-retaliation first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech Question not identified. question-not-identified retaliation settlement-negotiations Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals 'error' when the court concluded that Petitioner's First & Fourteenth Amendment Right was not violated during t…
18-173 Xiu Jian Sun v. Oren L. Zeve Second Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights divine-intervention due-process ecclesiastical-claim ecclesiastical-dispute first-amendment jurisdictional-challenge legal-notice legal-promise mandamus messenger-claim property-rights religious-communication religious-freedom spiritual-testimony standing The complaint of the plaintiff, -god's servant, Xiu Jian Sun, the spiritual Adam respectfully shows and alleges as follows On the date of December 29…
18-171 Robert R. Snyder v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights color-of-state-law constitutional-rights Cruel-and-unusual-punishment Due-process Eighth-amendment First-amendment immunity law-library-access Preliminary-injunction prisoner-rights retaliation section-1983 Does a person or entity have immunity from prosecution under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when rights that have been secured by the United States Constitution hav…
18-5473 Justin Michael Credico v. United States Third Circuit 2018-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-instructions sentencing subjective-intent" After a colorable attack was made to the government's case-in-chief evidence, an audio forensics expert was provided to the petitioner, causing the go…
18-160 Charles G. Kinney v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Ninth Circuit 2018-08-06 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion civil-rights civil-rights-violation civil-rights-violations due-process first-amendment hobbs-act honest-services judicial-discretion pre-filing-order prosecutorial-acts prosecutorial-misconduct Did this Ninth Circuit panel abuse its discretion when acting as prosecutors of Kinney by issuing a global pre-filing review order only 22 days after …
18-155 James H. Brady v. Associated Press Telecom, et al. Second Circuit 2018-08-03 Denied Response Waived accountability civil-procedure civil-rights contract-interference due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-misconduct media media-liability press-freedom standing takings 1. Was it wrong and a direct conflict with this Court when the Court of Appeals affirmed the District Court Decision that stated that News Agencies ha…
18-149 Doug Lair, et al. v. Jeff Mangan, in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of Political Practices, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-02 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) campaign-finance campaign-finance-regulation civil-rights constitutional-rights contribution-limits election-law first-amendment free-speech political-contributions political-parties political-speech quid-pro-quo-corruption randall-v-sorrell standing 1. Whether Montana's base candidate contribution limits on individual and political committees are unconstitutional under the First Amendment. 2. Whe…
18-122 Michael Sinegal v. Dawn Polk Fifth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) 1st-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-law employment-retaliation first-amendment free-speech political-candidacy qualified-immunity standing County Commissioner Michael Sinegal terminated Dawn Polk for being a bad employee. The terminationoccurred after she had unsuccessfully run for office…
18-125 Miriam Grussgott v. Milwaukee Jewish Day School, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ada church-governance civil-rights employment-discrimination first-amendment grussgott hosanna-tabor ministerial-exception non-discrimination non-discrimination-policy religious-institution waiver waiver-doctrine Does the definition of "religious institution" in the two prong test for "ministerial exception" in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and Sch.…
18-112 Vance D. Day, Judge, Circuit Court of Oregon, Third Judicial District v. Oregon Commission on Judicial Fitness and Disability Oregon 2018-07-25 Denied Amici (2) 14th-amendment constitutional-defenses due-process first-amendment free-exercise free-speech judicial-ethics oregon-supreme-court original-jurisdiction procedural-due-process (1) Whether it is a Due Process violation for a court of original jurisdiction to refuse to consider, or to reject without sufficient analysis, substa…
18-111 Timothy M. Barrett v. Valerie Jill Minor Virginia 2018-07-24 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment child-custody civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process family-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment parental-rights standing state-law I. Are Virginia's Child Custody Statutes Facially Unconstitutional? II. Are the Parties' 2006, 2010 and 2012 Child Custody Orders Unconstitutional as…
18-93 Donald Zimmerman v. City of Austin, Texas Fifth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) aggregate-limit austin base-limit campaign-contributions campaign-finance civil-rights constitutional-law contribution-limits due-process election-law first-amendment standing Whether Austin's $350 base limit on campaign contributions violates the First Amendment; and Whether Zimmerman established standing to challenge Aust…
18-84 ConAgra Grocery Products Company, et al. v. California California 2018-07-18 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (3) causation century-old-conduct civil-procedure due-process due-process-clause first-amendment injury massive-liability no-proof-of-injury public-nuisance retroactive-liability speech-liability 1. Whether imposing massive and retroactive "public nuisance" liability without requiring proof that the defendant's nearly century-old conduct caused…
18-86 The Sherwin-Williams Company v. California California 2018-07-18 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) causation civil-rights consumer-protection due-process first-amendment free-speech product-promotion public-nuisance retroactive-liability 1. In conflict with decisions of this Court and the Third Circuit, does the First Amendment permit Cal-ifornia to impose tort liability for truthfully…
18-70 William H. Cosby, Jr. v. Janice Dickinson California 2018-07-12 Denied attorney-client attorney-speech attorney-statements california-court-of-appeal client-representation constitutional-protection defamation first-amendment first-amendment-protection free-speech milkovich public-accusations public-figure third-circuit Whether, contrary to the decision of the California Court of Appeal, an attorney's statement denying wrongdoing on behalf of a client who has been pub…
18-60 Amira Olivia Gunn v. North Dakota North Dakota 2018-07-11 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech speech-protection Whether Gunn was convicted of speech protected by the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment, applicable to the States under the Due Process Clause…
18-43 Jesse Loor v. Jenny Bailey, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied Response Waived as-applied-challenge censorship civil-rights correctional-institutions due-process facial-challenge first-amendment mail-regulations prison-mail prison-regulations thornburgh-v-abbott Whether the facial validity of a mail regulation automatically defeats an as-applied challenge to a jail's censorship of particular publications?
18-18 Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission v. American Humanist Association, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-07-03 Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (5) civil-rights constitutional-interpretation establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech government-speech monument public-display reasonable-observer religious-symbol standing war-memorial Whether the Establishment Clause requires the removal or destruction of a 93-year-old memorial to American servicemen who died in World War I solely b…
18-17 Rodney Keister v. Stuart Bell, in His Official Capacity as President of the University of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied Amici (2) 1st-amendment campus-speech civil-rights college-campus constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech public-forum public-sidewalk public-street sidewalk sidewalk-access sidewalk-restrictions Except in the unique setting of a military installation, this Court has never held that a public sidewalk running alongside a public street was anythi…
18-12 Joseph A. Kennedy v. Bremerton School District Ninth Circuit 2018-07-02 Denied Amici (7)Relisted (12) coaches constitutional-rights employment-rights establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech public-employment public-forum public-school religious-expression school-speech teachers tinker-v-des-moines Whether public school teachers and coaches retain any First Amendment rights when at work and "in the general presence of" students.
18-5058 Deante Drake, aka Panama, aka Shawn, aka Papa Bear v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-timeliness appellate-procedure court-of-appeals criminal-procedure-rule-18-usc-3742-f-1-a en-banc-review federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure first-amendment incoming-prison-mail legal-mail-delays mandamus-or-certiorari petition-clause rehearing-en-banc statutory-construction timeliness Whether when a Fed.R.Crim.P. 18 U.S.C. § 3742(f)(1).(A) Brief is. filed for rehearing en banc, that the Court of Appeals governed under Fed.R.App.P. 4…
18-3 Robbie Ohlendorf, et al. v. Local 876, United Food & Commercial Workers International Union Sixth Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied alexander-v-sandoval check-off-authorization duty-of-fair-representation federal-jurisdiction first-amendment labor-management-relations labor-management-relations-act private-right-of-action revocation statutory-interpretation 1) Labor Management Relations Act Section 302(e) grants federal courts jurisdiction to restrain violations of the statute. 29 U.S.C. § 186(e). The Cou…
19A1052 Ruben Gutierrez v. Luis V. Saenz, et al. Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete Amici (1) execution-chamber first-amendment free-exercise-clause religious-chaplain RLUIPA substantial-burden Question not identified.
25A249 Feifei Gu v. Michael Sher, New York City Police Officer, et al. Second Circuit Application access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-rights first-amendment judicial-restraint pre-emptive-injunction Question not identified.
24A542 Free Speech Coalition, Inc., et al. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech online-expression sexual-content state-regulation Question not identified.