government-policy
12 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5833 | Braun Thompson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-10-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights government-policy judicial-review legal-access prisoners-rights procedural-protections | 1. Do Citizens have a Constitutional right to clarity of the law, and thus access to the Courts? 2. May prisoners issue the right/as violated by the … |
| 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criminal-procedure district-attorney first-amendment government-policy petition-rights | This petition addresses an unpublished dismissal of a constitutional challenge to a goyernment.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… |
| 24-6005 | Aaron Abadi v. Joseph R. Biden, President of the United States, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | concrete-injury constitutional-injury government-policy judicial-review pro-se-litigant standing | 1. Does a plaintiff have standing when they allege personal, concrete injuries stemming from government policies, even when such policies cause widely… |
| 22-1201 | Captain Mariella Creaghan v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense, et al. | District of Columbia | 2023-06-12 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process government-policy judicial-review legal-standard mootness-doctrine standing voluntary-cessation | Whether under the voluntary cessation exception to mootness the government must satisfy the "absolutely clear" standard if it maintains the authority … |
| 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… |
| 20-5101 | Timothy Visage v. R. E. Woodall, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-07-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment arbitrary-action arbitrary-and-abusive-conduct civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process fourteenth-amendment government-liability government-policy state-created-danger state-custody | Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment imposes upon the State an affirmative duty of care and protection to confined persons held … |
| 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… |
| 19-726 | 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.… |
| 19-6598 | Robert Hercenberger v. Gary A. Martin | Oregon | 2019-11-13 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-policy legal-equality state-government state-jurisdiction | Where Equal Protection of the laws definition apply for all: A phrase in the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution requiring that st… |
| 19-5396 | Vincent Anzalone v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-41(b) federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-faith-exception government-policy judicial-authority jurisdiction procedural-violation warrant warrant-application | 1. Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule is categorically inapplicable to a warrant issued in violation of Federal Rule of Crimina… |
| 18-9545 | Robert Hercenberger v. Kathy Proctor | Oregon | 2019-06-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-policy legal-equality state-action state-jurisdiction | Where Equal Protection of the laws definition apply for all: A phrase in the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution requiring that s… |
| 18-963 | Terrence Hill v. City of Jackson, Michigan, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | demolition demolition-notice due-process government-action government-policy municipal-liability notice opportunity-for-hearing parratt-v-taylor procedural-fairness property-rights | 1. Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank requires the government provide the owner "notice and opportunity for hearing appropriate to the nature of the case… |