first-amendment-retaliation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A59 LaTausha Simmons v. Officer Louis Swafford, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-07-15 Presumed Complete civil-rights due-process excessive-force first-amendment-retaliation in-forma-pauperis section-1983 Question not identified.
24-1272 William F. Kaetz v. United States Third Circuit 2025-06-13 Denied Response Waived constitutional-violations first-amendment-retaliation judicial-immunity self-representation separation-of-powers sixth-amendment-rights 1. First Amendment Retaliation: Did the lower courts, including District Judge Mark R. Hor- nak and the Third Circuit in its August 8, 2024, judgme…
24-5140 Frederick David Pina v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Ninth Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied IFP civil-procedure claim-preclusion commissioner-of-internal-revenue-v-sunnen constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment-retaliation fraud fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court hazel-atlas-glass-v-hartford-empire judicial-misconduct kremer-v-chemical-construction naacp-v-button res-judicata 1. Claim Preclusion and Due Process: Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the dismissal of petitioner's claims on the grounds of claim preclus…
23-1256 Donna Davis Javitz v. Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-30 Denied civil-rights confrontation confrontation-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel first-amendment-retaliation free-speech judicial-misconduct mistrial trial-fairness 1. Whether the Petitioner was denied the constitutional right to a fair trial in a First Amendment retaliation case when the judge: (1) struck Petitio…
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…
23-61 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…
22-6385 Peter Gakuba v. Rob Jeffreys Seventh Circuit 2022-12-22 Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts first-amendment-retaliation free-speech habeas habeas-corpus sanctions standing Gakuba's one—and only—§2254 habeas petition was not "frivolous" rendering the USCA-7's sanction against Gakuba of "$500" and bar from any future feder…
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 …
21-147 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 …
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…
20-6014 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…
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…
19-5845 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…
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…
18-228 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…