individual-capacity

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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…
25-5639 Fathiree Uddin Ali v. Stephen E. Adamson, Chaplain, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-09-16 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP first-amendment individual-capacity injunctive-relief mootness religious-freedom rluipa Congress has enacted two "sister" statutes to protect religious exercise: the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA) 42 U.S.C. 2000bb et seq…
24-1213 In Re Bahig Bishay 2025-05-29 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-violations declaratory-relief individual-capacity judicial-immunity official-immunity A. Whether government employees classified as judicial officers are absolutely immune from prosecution for declaratory relief only, if they are sued s…
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…
23A995 Tina Gerlach v. Todd Rokita, Attorney General of Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-05-08 Presumed Complete eleventh-amendment individual-capacity just-compensation section-1983 sovereign-immunity takings-clause Question not identified.
22-1245 Brent A. Ristow v. Douglas R. Peterson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-06-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-law bad-faith civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process individual-capacity prosecutorial-immunity standing Whether state civil administrative agency staff, in prosecuting an application to their agency for a license, are acting in the character of the crimi…
22-6330 Billy Ray Jackson v. Bryan Daniel, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-review civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment individual-capacity liberty property section-1983 sovereign-immunity state-action unemployment-benefits Whether petitioner Billy Ray Jackson's allegations in his 42 U.S.C. 1983 complaint brought against the respondent(s) state official(s) of the Texas Wo…
20-7848 Astarte Davis v. Joseph Wilson, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Judge, Superior Court of California, Marin County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-26 Denied IFP 5th-amendment civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process extrinsic-fraud individual-capacity judicial-jurisdiction non-judicial-acts official-capacity 1. Is non-judicial conduct/actions/decisions by judges and clerk in their official capacity under color of law, and in their individual capacity for n…
20-24 Great Lakes Minerals, LLC v. Ohio, et al. Kentucky 2020-07-15 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure comity declaratory-relief individual-capacity injunctive-relief minimum-contacts sovereign-immunity state-jurisdiction state-sovereign-immunity I. Whether the Court's decision in Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt, 139 S.Ct. 1485 (2019) extends a state's sovereign immunity to declarato…
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…
18A1228 Kalev Mutond, et al. v. Darryl Lewis District of Columbia 2019-05-29 Presumed Complete diplomatic-immunity foreign-official-immunity human-rights individual-capacity official-capacity torture-victim-protection-act Question not identified.
18-544 Teresita A. Canuto v. Department of Defense, et al. District of Columbia 2018-10-25 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1604 28-usc-1605 acting-official foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity foreign-state government-liability individual-capacity individual-liability official-capacity service-of-process sovereign-immunity state-immunity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a foreign state's immunity from suit under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1604 extends to an individual for acts taken in t…