| 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… |
| 25A626 |
Rajeh A. Saadeh v. New Jersey State Bar Association |
New Jersey |
2025-11-26 |
Application |
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bar-association diversity-quotas equal-protection first-amendment freedom-of-association status-based-discrimination |
Question not identified. |
| 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 … |
| 24-71 |
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… |
| 23-523 |
Board of Supervisors of San Bernardino County v. Lynna Monell, Clerk, Board of Supervisors of San Bernardino County, et al. |
California |
2023-11-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ballot-access candidate-restrictions civil-rights constitutional-scrutiny equal-protection freedom-of-association political-association term-limits voting-rights |
Does a term limit that bans incumbents from ever running for reelection merit heightened scrutiny? |
| 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… |
| 22-1123 |
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… |
| 22-498 |
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? |
| 21-7436 |
Kevin D. Loggins, Sr. v. Jeff Zmuda, Secretary, Kansas Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-03-23 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-post-facto freedom-of-association miscarriage-of-justice section-1983 turner-v-safely |
I. WHETHER THE U.S. DISTRICT COURT AND U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN FINDING PLAINTIFF FAILED TO STATE A CLAIM REGARDING ENCROA… |
| 21-6316 |
Clayton G. Walker v. Steve Barnett, South Dakota Secretary of State, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
ballot-access candidate-selection constitutional-rights election-law election-process equal-protection freedom-of-association independent-candidates major-parties third-party |
1. Should Walker as a Governor Candidate be able to choose from any party to join him in
the nomination to be on the ballot just as the rights of Majo… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 20-1574 |
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… |
| 20-7108 |
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… |
| 20-5310 |
Benjamin Franklin v. Glenna S. Blair |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech freedom-of-association judicial-review presumption-of-intent presumption-of-reasonableness procedural-due-process standing |
FOUND SEVErAl argUAbE ClAMS UNdER thE R.L.U.I. P.A.?
Exhibit):
C AND E; CouD the Court see PresumptioN of intent to the Respondent
Blair's
Contributor… |
| 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… |
| 19-1233 |
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… |
| 19-6214 |
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,… |
| 19-6071 |
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 … |
| 19-281 |
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… |
| 19-255 |
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… |
| 19-251 |
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… |
| 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. |
| 18-1492 |
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… |
| 18-9012 |
Marc Anthony Lowell Endsley, aka Marc Endsley v. Edmund G. Brown, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-detention civil-rights due-process freedom-of-association fundamental-rights informed-consent privacy professional-judgment reproductive-choice youngberg-v-romeo |
Do civilly detained persons retain their fundamental rights to engage in voluntary sexual relations -- i.e., privacy, freedom of association, reproduc… |
| 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… |