government-official
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-943 | Antonio M. Smith v. John Kind, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2026-02-09 | Pending | clearly-established-law constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment government-official qualified-immunity | When a government official acts in an obviously unconstitutional manner, is that sufficient for the violation to be clearly established, as this Court… | |
| 25-6517 | Ammon Ra Sumrall v. Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-08 | Pending | IFP | damages government-official individual-capacity religious-freedom rluipa statutory-interpretation | The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA), 42 U.S.C. 2000cc et seq., like the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 199… |
| 25-461 | Edward Mangano v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-10-15 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | criminal-conviction fiduciary-duty government-official honest-services-fraud official-action political-influence | Whether an official in one government may be convicted of honest services fraud when his only alleged "official action" was using his "tremendous poli… |
| 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… |
| 24-229 | Sanjay Tripathy v. Jeff McKoy, Deputy Commissioner, New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-08-29 | Pending | Relisted (3) | constitutional-law damages-remedy government-official individual-capacity religious-freedom statutory-interpretation | Congress has enacted two "sister" statutes to protect religious exercise: the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA), 42 U.S.C. 2000bb et se… |
| 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… |
| 22-611 | 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 … |
| 21-1552 | Central Specialties, Inc. v. Jonathan Large | Eighth Circuit | 2022-06-10 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-official legal-standard qualified-immunity scope-of-authority standing traffic-stops | Whether, before proceeding to the qualified immunity analysis, courts must determine that a government official was acting within the scope of his aut… |
| 20-1554 | Citizens Against Corporate Crime, LLC v. Lennar Corporation | Third Circuit | 2021-05-07 | Denied | Response Waived | bankruptcy bankruptcy-law claim-release false-claims-act government-investigation government-official investigation public-interest qui-tam release | This petition for a writ of certiorari raises a matter of exceptional importance — whether or not a false claims act qui tam claim on behalf of the pu… |
| 20-1002 | Cody William Cox v. Don Wilson | Tenth Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Amici (1) | circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process fair-notice fair-warning government-official legal-standard precedent-comparison qualified-immunity | Whether a court may uphold a qualified immunity claim on the ground that qualified immunity had been granted in a prior case in which the "impropriety… |
| 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, … | |
| 20-197 | 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… |
| 19-736 | Andrew Clarke v. Russell R. McMurray, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Transportation | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-10 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights civil-suit due-process government-official individual-capacity legal-standing official-capacity pleading-defect sovereign-immunity standing state-immunity | Government officials may be sued in their individual capacity. Such a suit does not represent a suit against the government entity for which he is ass… |
| 18-6789 | Delroy McLean v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-115 brady-violation constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-judiciary government-official immigration-judge judicial-officer protected-person statutory-interpretation vagueness | IMMIGRATION JUDGE IS NOT A PROTECTED PERSON UNDER THE STATUE OF 18 U.S.C.S. § 115 (a)(1)(B) THE IMMIGRATION JUDGE IS AS WE HAVE SAID, AN OFFICER CREA… |