| 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 … |
| 24-6444 |
Samuel T. Whatley, II, et al. v. City of North Charleston, South Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-02-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights election-interference federal-jurisdiction freedom-of-information governmental-immunity search-and-seizure |
1. Are intergovernmental agencies, organizations, and or individual governmental
employees immune to federal law prosecutions, lawsuits, and sanction… |
| 24-39 |
Christopher Glenn White v. Donald T. Sloan, Sheriff, Lynchburg, Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-16 |
Denied |
|
booking-photo booking-photos civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-prospects freedom-of-information government-decision-making internet-publication law-enforcement public-disclosure |
In the United States today, law enforcement acting on their own accord engaging in arbitrary government decision making, can destroy an individual's p… |
| 23A1032 |
William Edward Powell v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-05-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-law agency-disclosure federal-records freedom-of-information privacy-rights tax-records |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7112 |
Christopher J. Barnett v. Doug Drummond, District Judge, District Court of Tulsa County, Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2024-04-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provision due-process elected-official freedom-of-information judicial-records legal-standing oklahoma-supreme-court public-record public-records |
Whether the District Court violated the First Amendment and the Oklahoma Open Records Act by sealing a public court record containing a police report … |
| 23-7020 |
Donovan A. Reid v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law case-statement civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process freedom-of-information government-transparency jurisdiction legal-provisions public-records writ-petition |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6625 |
Wayne Frazer v. Bakery & Drivers Local 550, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-01-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process freedom-of-information government-transparency jurisdiction legal-review procedural-rules public-records standing supreme-court writ |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6516 |
Samuel T. Whatley, et al. v. City of North Charleston, South Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process election-interference federal-jurisdiction freedom-of-information governmental-immunity search-and-seizure transparency treason |
1. Are intergovernmental agencies, organizations, and or individual governmental employees immune to federal law prosecutions, lawsuits, and sanction … |
| 22-116 |
Connecticut State Police Union v. James Rovella, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection |
Second Circuit |
2022-08-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
collective-bargaining contracts-clause freedom-of-information police-accountability police-misconduct public-accountability public-sector retroactive-legislation |
Whether Connecticut Public Act 20-1, "An Act Concerning Police Accountability," violates the Contracts Clause, Article I, Section 10, of the United St… |
| 21-305 |
Angela DeBose v. University of South Florida Board of Trustees |
Florida |
2021-08-31 |
Denied |
|
agency-records constitutional-access exemptions fee-waiver foia foia-exemptions freedom-of-information privileges-and-immunities public-information public-records |
1. Whether the agency records at issue in this case are exempt from disclosure under any of the nine exemptions under the FOIA.
2. Whether non-exempt… |
| 20-7741 |
Wen Dong Zhao v. Department of State |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure civil-rights department-of-state due-process embassy-communication federal-investigation freedom-of-information government-misconduct intellectual-property judicial-review letter-disposition standing |
(1) I went to American Embassy in Thailand twice with two letters. I mailed two letters through post office. Why Department of State deny? Money?
(2)… |
| 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… |
| 19-777 |
Electronic Privacy Information Center v. Department of Commerce, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
|
administrative-procedure article-iii article-iii-standing census-citizenship-question e-government-act federal-election-commission freedom-of-information informational-injury injury-in-fact mootness munsingwear-vacatur privacy-impact-assessment public-information standing-injury-in-fact statutory-disclosure vacatur |
1. Does a plaintiff suffer an Article III injury in fact "when the plaintiff fails to obtain information which must be publicly disclosed pursuant to … |
| 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 … |
| 19-6135 |
Kelvin Townsend v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process freedom-of-information government-transparency grand-jury indictment judicial-oversight sealed-records standing |
IS THE EOVERNMENT REQUIRED TD DBTAIN
A
COURT BRDER FROM THE COURT TO UNSEAL
A
"SEALED CRiMiNAL INDICTMENT |
| 18-8255 |
David E. Ponder v. Avalon Correctional Services, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-court-split civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violations constitutional-protections due-process foia-exemption freedom-of-information inmate-rights prison prison-transparency private-prisons standing takings |
Private for profit prisons are allowed to deny Foia and State Open Records laws.
(a.) State Courts rulings as to Open Records reqirements involving p… |
| 18-8006 |
In Re Curtis Evans |
|
2019-02-15 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process freedom-of-information jurisdiction private-company public-records standing statutory-provisions |
Question not identified. |
| 18-7980 |
Joseph Michael Ladeairous v. Department of Justice |
District of Columbia |
2019-02-14 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding due-process foia-request foreign-intelligence-surveillance foreign-intelligence-surveillance-act freedom-of-information freedom-of-information-act national-security standing summary-judgment surveillance terrorist-designation |
The petitioner confronted respondent by way of the United States Freedom Of Information Act and its subsequent civil action, for information relating … |
| 18-795 |
William J. Bush v. Department of Agriculture, Risk Management Agency, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-records chevron-deference circuit-split de-novo-review due-process foia-request freedom-of-information freedom-of-information-act freedom-of-information-act-foia |
Whether the Eighth Circuit's standard for agency records pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. §552 et seq., that an agency must… |
| 18-5638 |
Deborah A. Purnell v. St. Mary's Hospital, et al. |
California |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process elder-abuse equal-protection freedom-of-information judicial-discrimination life-threatening-conditions medical-negligence reckless-medical-care reporter's-transcript |
Whether statutory elder abuse inherently includes acts of violence and brutalization, reckless medical care that causes life-threatening conditions su… |