injunctive-relief

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25A959 Ashlesha A. Nesarikar v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. Tenth Circuit 2026-02-27 Application 35-USC-123 administrative-procedure injunctive-relief inventor-ownership patent-standing USPTO-agency-action Question not identified.
25-890 Arkansas United, et al. v. John Thurston, in His Official Capacity as the Secretary of State of Arkansas et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending Response Waived declaratory-relief injunctive-relief preemption private-plaintiffs state-actors voting-rights-act 1. Whether private plaintiffs may maintain a suit in equity for declaratory and injunctive relief against state actors to prevent the continued enfo…
25-6474 Anthony Dove v. Dr. Broadwell, et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-01-05 Pending IFP constitutional-rights federal-jurisdiction imminent-danger injunctive-relief plra-three-strikes prisoner-litigation I. Did Plaintiff's July 12, 2029 "Motion To Reinstate Proceeding Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g) and Rule 10(b)(1), (2), and (d)" with Affidavit Suffi…
25-521 Google LLC, et al. v. Epic Games, Inc., a Maryland Corporation Ninth Circuit 2025-10-29 Pending Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse Waived antitrust-law article-iii-standing injunctive-relief market-competition procompetitive-conduct rule-of-reason In this antitrust case, the court instructed the jury that it could find Google liable for antitrust violations even if no less restrictive alternativ…
25-5702 In Re Justin Paul Sulzner 2025-09-23 Denied IFP constitutional-rights extraordinary-writ federal-intelligence injunctive-relief odni-operations religious-freedom 1. Whether the 8th Circuit Appellate Court and the Iowa Northern District Court should have granted emergency injunctive reliefs and monetary damages …
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…
25-5261 Byron Black v. Frank Strada, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Corrections, et al. Tennessee 2025-08-01 Denied IFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment execution-method injunctive-relief medical-procedure 1. Where a state government facilitated the implantation of a cardiac defibrillator that has been shown to be very likely to result in severe pain dur…
24-1198 Association for Government Accountability, et al. v. Steve Simon, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Minnesota Secretary of State, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-05-22 Denied Response Waived drivers-privacy-act ex-parte-young federal-court injunctive-relief seminole-tribe state-officials Whether the Ex Parte Young exception for prospective injunctive relief applies in federal court actions against state officials in their official capa…
24-1197 Tarek Farag v. Joseph R. Biden, former President of the United States, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-05-22 Denied Response Waived appellate-review climate-change declaratory-relief injunctive-relief judicial-procedure scientific-evidence I. The Appellate Court erred in not reversing the District Court's ruling that Farag's motion for a declaratory relief is frivolous, and not reversing…
24-1079 Geoffrey Gray, et al. v. Washington State Department of Transportation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-04-16 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure ex-parte-young injunctive-relief qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity 1. Should this Court grant certiorari to correct the error of the Court of Appeals below, where the Court of Appeals, contrary to binding authority of…
24-1019 Kurt Kanam v. Doug Burgum, Secretary of the Interior, et al. District of Columbia 2025-03-24 Denied administrative-law declaratory-relief federal-indian-law injunctive-relief mandamus tribal-recognition This case concerns whether the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act ("List Act") of 1994, still has judiciary branch tribal recognition or wheth…
24-6685 Rodney Douglas Eaves v. Ms. Kory, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-03-03 Denied IFP covid-19 eighth-amendment injunctive-relief mootness prisoner-rights pro-se-complaint 1. Was the exposure to COVID-19 sufficiently serious enough to trigger an Eighth Amendment protection? 2. Does the permanent loss of the sense of sme…
24-934 Edward Turnbull, IV v. Board of Directors of the State Bar of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-02-27 Denied Response Waived administrative-proceedings civil-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment injunctive-relief standing Petitioner sued state bar officials after they mishandled his grievances against attorneys who falsely accused him of illegal conduct. His suit allege…
24-930 Arturo S. Lopez, Sr. v. Frank Kendall, Secretary of the Air Force, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-02-27 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure civil-rights codified-federal-regulations due-process federal-employee-rights injunctive-relief 1. Pursuant to 29 C.F.R 1614.105 a(2) Does this C.F.R allow the petitioner or any Federal employee to file his or her complaint after they have clearl…
24-6619 Mutaz Al Shara v. United States Federal Circuit 2025-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-procedure due-process government-accountability injunctive-relief judicial-misconduct subject-matter-jurisdiction Capital Case. Questions presented where The Judge is wrong: This was supposed to have been a human rights defender who protect and defend the human …
24-792 Christine Reule, et al. v. Austin Reeve Jackson, Judge, District Court of Texas, 114th District, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-24 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing constitutional-challenge declaratory-relief injunctive-relief ministerial-capacity state-court-officials This is a case that, as in the Court's Whole Woman's Health proceeding, the state's actors, affirmed by the Fifth Circuit, claim that Petitioners cann…
24A717 Gabriel Olivier v. City of Brandon, Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-21 Presumed Complete circuit-split constitutional-rights first-amendment heck-doctrine injunctive-relief section-1983 1. This case presents an important, recurring question that has divided circuits regarding the reach of this Court's decision in Heck v. Humphrey, 512…
24-714 T. W. v. New York State Board of Law Examiners, et al. Second Circuit 2025-01-03 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) disability-discrimination ex-parte-young federal-law injunctive-relief ongoing-violation sovereign-immunity Whether a plaintiff who suffers ongoing harm caused by a state official's prior unlawful conduct is subject to an "ongoing violation" of federal law, …
24-6151 James Gregory Howell, Jr. v. The Morehouse School of Medicine, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act disability-discrimination injunctive-relief intentional-discrimination medical-education rehabilitation-act Whether, under Sec. 504 and Title III, a student with disabilities may obtain as relief an injunction permitting him to restart his medical education …
24A532 Mahfooz Ahmad v. Colin Day, et al. Second Circuit 2024-12-02 Denied business-tort employment-retaliation injunctive-relief intellectual-property software-misappropriation trade-secrets Question not identified.
24-5622 Elaine Mickman v. Superior Court of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2024-09-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-conflict constitutional-rights district-court fundamental-rights injunctive-relief judicial-overreach 1. Whether the U.S. District Court erred in denying injunctive relief seeking restoration of usurped constitutional rights, despite clear evidence of …
24-306 Michael Bush, et al. v. Linda Fantasia, et al. First Circuit 2024-09-18 Denied Response Waived injunctive-relief mootness pro-se-plaintiffs rule-12-procedure standing sua-sponte-dismissal Town administrators imposed two distinct face mask mandates that included various secular exemptions. Certain aggrieved residents sued pro se for fail…
24-294 Norwich Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd., et al. Federal Circuit 2024-09-13 Denied fda-approval generic-drugs hatch-waxman-act injunctive-relief patent-law statutory-interpretation Whether 35 U.S.C. § 271(e)(4)(A) requires courts to issue injunctive orders that are broader in scope than the underlying infringement, thereby delayi…
24-293 Mohammed Jibril, et ux., Individually and on Behalf of Their Minor Children Y. J. and O. J., et al. v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. District of Columbia 2024-09-13 Denied Response Waived administrative-law dhs-trip due-process injunctive-relief standing-doctrine terrorist-screening-dataset The lower courts endorsed the agency defendants' assertion that all seven Jibril family members lacked standing to sue for injunctive relief challengi…
24-265 Heidi Stirrup, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as a Member of the Board of Visitors for the Air Force Academy, et al. v. Department of Defense, et al. District of Columbia 2024-09-09 Denied Response Waived administrative-law advisory-board-independence injunctive-relief mootness-doctrine presidential-removal-power separation-of-powers Petitioners were appointed to the Boards of Visitors of the three United States military academies. These Boards are advisory groups subject to the Fe…
24-91 Targeted Justice, Incorporated, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-07-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process injunctive-relief national-security redress-mechanism standing subject-matter-jurisdiction terrorist-watchlist The No-Fly and Selectee lists of the Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB) known as "handling codes 1 and 2" make up the terrorism watchlist that contai…
24A29 Rosalind Holmes v. United States, et al. Ohio 2024-07-11 Denied conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights federal-defendants injunctive-relief pro-se-litigation sixth-circuit Question not identified.
24A15 Bobby Tatum v. Correctional Officer Hunter, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied constitutional-protection cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment injunctive-relief prisoner-rights sexual-assault Question not identified.
23-7842 Lateshia Patillo v. Iowa District Court for Scott County Iowa 2024-07-02 Denied IFP 14th-amendment access-to-courts constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection injunctive-relief state-court-procedure substantive-harm 1. Whether the Superior Court [tolljing procedures of execution by its Order upon the termination day of the Petitioner 's statutory duties, deprived …
23-1356 Justin K. Holder v. Mark Duvall Thomas Fourth Circuit 2024-06-28 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-statute injunctive-relief pro-se standing sua-sponte subject-matter-jurisdiction A. Did the District Court judge error in law, or abuse his discretion when he sua sponte dismissed Petitioner's pro se complaint for lack of subject m…
23-1292 Judy A. Brannberg v. Colorado Civil Rights Division, et al. Colorado 2024-06-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure-act antitrust charter-school-regulation constitutional-review domestic-terrorism due-process employment-discrimination federal-rules-civil-procedure injunctive-relief school-district-authority whistle-blower The questions presented are: Question One: Whether pursuant to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 65; Rules 22 and 23 of this Court; the All Writs …
23-1206 Elite IT Partners, Inc., dba Elite IT Home, et al. v. Federal Trade Commission Tenth Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied change-in-law civil-procedure consent-judgment decisional-law equitable-monetary-relief equitable-relief federal-trade-commission injunctive-relief rule-60(b)(6) In 2019 the Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint under seal and obtained an ex parte temporary restraining order against Petitioners —a (now-shu…
23-1063 Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. v. Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-28 Denied antitrust-law class-action competition-restraint injunctive-relief private-enforcement prospective-waiver settlement-agreement Whether settlement agreements may immunize ongoing restraints on competition from private enforcement under the federal antitrust laws by releasing ce…
23A562 Tarun Surti v. Fleet Engineers, Inc. Federal Circuit 2023-12-18 Presumed Complete evidence-exclusion federal-circuit injunctive-relief mudflap-design patent-infringement patent-remedies Question not identified.
23-608 In Re Joseph Gothard, et al. 2023-12-06 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-overreach civil-rights due-process equal-protection injunctive-relief mandamus property-rights standing 1. Whether the Supreme Court of United States grants certiorari for extraordinary writ considering the major questions of national significance to pre…
23-601 John and Jane Parents 1, et al. v. Montgomery County Board of Education, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-12-05 Denied Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process gender-transition injunctive-relief parental-rights policy public-school school-policy standing standing-doctrine Like a multitude of other school districts across the nation, the Montgomery County (Md.) Board of Education ( "MCBE" ) has recently adopted a policy …
23-579 Shenzen Sanlida Electrical Technology Company, Limited, et al. v. Whirlpool Corporation, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-11-29 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure district-court injunctive-relief notice-requirement personal-jurisdiction preliminary-injunction rule-65 Should the district court consider personal jurisdiction when issuing a preliminary injunction order under Rule 65?
23-431 Eileen Mendez, Individually and as Legal Guardian of A. C., et al. v. David C. Banks, Chancellor, New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied Response Waived administrative-process automatic-injunction cooperative-federalism idea-act individuals-with-disabilities-education-act injunctive-relief pendency pendency-placement special-education stay-put stay-put-provision The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) preserves the rights of children with disabilities to a free, appropriate, public education. Th…
23-344 Apple Inc. v. Epic Games, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Amici (5) civil-rights class-certification constitutional-limitations due-process federal-court injunction injunctive-relief judicial-scope ninth-circuit nonparties nonparty-impact standing Whether, in the absence of class certification, a federal court is precluded from entering an injunction that extends to nonparties without a specific…
23-183 Eastern Pacific Shipping PTE, Limited, dba EPS v. Kholkar Vishveshwar Ganpat Fifth Circuit 2023-08-28 Denied civil-procedure conflict federal-court-jurisdiction foreign-anti-suit-injunction foreign-anti-suit-injunctions frustration hardship injunctive-relief litigation-hardship procedural-conflict standard u.s.-litigation Whether a federal court may properly issue an injunction requiring the termination of litigation in a foreign court based solely on a conclusion that …
23-5452 In Re Reinard Smith 2023-08-25 Denied IFP attorney-misconduct civil-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process fraud fraud-upon-court injunctive-relief judicial-misconduct perjury standing • Did the District Court conspire to have jurisdiction over Petitioner's Motion for Injunctive Relief where, Petitioner sought to file his Motion for …
23-5108 Cassandra McGuire v. Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-07-14 Denied IFP abuse-of-process civil-rights court-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts federal-question injunctive-relief judicial-misconduct judicial-orders section-1983 standing state-agencies 1. Did the Appeals Courts err by Affirming the District Court in complete disregard for the Supreme Court rulings regarding State agencies can be sued…
23-35 City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. v. Ivana Kirola, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Ninth Circuit 2023-07-12 Denied civil-procedure class-action injunctive-relief legal-injury standing trial-record unnamed-class-members unnamed-plaintiffs Whether a court may order injunctive relief in a case where the sole named plaintiff failed to prove she suffered any legal injury at trial but the tr…
22-1251 Simon V. Kinsella v. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, et al. District of Columbia 2023-06-29 Denied Response Waived administrative-fraud administrative-law agency-review civil-rights due-process federal-procedure fraud injunctive-relief regulatory-misconduct standing The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) knowingly falsified its review of an offshore wind farm, concealing contamination harmful to human h…
22-1230 Carolyn Fjord, et al. v. American Airlines Group, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2023-06-22 Denied antitrust-law antitrust-merger civil-procedure clayton-act competition injunctive-relief judicial-precedent market-competition merger section-7 standing This Court's opinion in Brown Shoe, 370 U.S. 294 (1962) and its progeny have since the late 1960's set the quantum of evidence necessary to prove a vi…
22-1103 Edward Bronson v. Securities and Exchange Commission Second Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-court-order civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-sanctions due-process injunctive-relief penalties punitive-sanctions standing statutory-penalties supreme-court-precedent Whether the Summary Order of the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit conflicts with decisions of this Court in: Kokesh v. S.E.C., Liu v. S.E.C., a…
22-1039 In Re Gary Pfeffer, Jr. Maryland 2023-04-25 Denied common-law constitutional-rights due-process failure-to-state-a-claim injunctive-relief judicial-review notice-and-opportunity pro-se-litigation redress-of-grievances Was the trial court's dismissal of the Appellant's Petition for Emergency Injunctive Relief filed as a Common Law case based on "failure to state a cl…
22-7099 Dana Simmons v. Andrew Beshear, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 advisory-opinion civil-rights color-of-state-law constitutional-challenge due-process injunctive-relief section-1983 standing state-law summary-judgment Article III of the Constitution of the United States of America limits federal courts I. to hearing the actual case or controversy before them. May lo…
22-815 Victor B. Skaar v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Amici (4) administrative-law all-writs-act class-action exhaustion exhaustion-requirement federal-circuit injunctive-relief judicial-jurisdiction statutory-authority veterans-affairs veterans-court Does the Veterans Court have statutory or inherent authority to include veterans whose individual claims are not yet exhausted in a class seeking inju…
22-778 Danielle Howard Martinez, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-02-17 Denied covid-19-education declaratory-relief disability-rights free-appropriate-public-education idea-compliance individuals-with-disabilities-education-act injunctive-relief mootness mootness-doctrine school-closures state-educational-agencies 1. Whether Petitioners' claims that the CDE Defendants violated federal law by (i) effectively waiving LEAs' compliance with the IDEA after forced sch…
22-764 Hrair Kaladjian v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-02-14 Denied Response Waived administrative-law case-or-controversy civil-rights constitutional-standing equal-protection fifth-amendment freedom-support-act injunctive-relief presidential-waiver separation-of-powers standing 1. Whether the President's violation of Section 907 of the Freedom Support Act is actionable by a private citizen under the Fifth Amendment Equal Prot…
22-637 In Re Larry Elliot Klayman 2023-01-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure civil-rights court-intervention due-process injunctive-relief judicial-misconduct judicial-review mandamus new-trial standing Petitioner Larry Klayman filed a lawsuit styled Klayman v. Rao et al., 21-cv-2473 (D.D.C.) (the "Rao Case") in the U.S. District Court for the Distric…
22-5688 Michael G. Peters v. David Hittner, Judge, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-09-28 Denied IFP abortion civil-rights constitutional-rights declaratory-relief due-process free-speech injunctive-relief judicial-interpretation legal-standing procedural-law standing Question not identified.
22-282 Randall Pavlock, et al. v. Eric J. Holcomb, Governor of Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-09-26 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment injunctive-relief judicial-taking property-rights standing state-court-decision takings 1. Whether a "judicial taking" under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments is a cognizable cause of action. 2. Whether a property owner who is deprived…
22-83 B&G Foods North America, Inc. v. Kim Embry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-28 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-enforcement declaratory-relief injunctive-relief legal-immunity noerr-pennington noerr-pennington-doctrine standing state-actors unconstitutional-laws Whether the judge-made Noerr-Pennington doctrine immunizes state actors who seek to enforce unconstitutional laws and regulations.
22-27 Alyssa Jones v. Riot Hospitality Group, LLC, nka Noatoz LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-08 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction cell-phone-privacy cell-phones civil-litigation civil-rights due-process injunctive-relief privacy privacy-interests riley-v-california standing sua-sponte-order 1. Whether Orders requiring the turn over of the cell phones themselves for cloning and global searching are Orders having the practical effect of gra…
22-5021 Palani Karupaiyan v. L. Naganda, et al. Third Circuit 2022-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights conjugal-rights due-process false-arrest guardian-ad-litem injunctive-relief parental-rights pro-bono-counsel right-of-access-to-courts A) DISTRICT COURT DENYING PLAINTIFF(S) REQUEST TO APPOINT PRO BONO ATTORNEY AND/OR GUARDIAN AD LITEM IS ERROR. B) DIST COURT DENYING AN ORDER PROHIBI…
21-8282 Allan M. Leavitt v. United Services Automobile Association, et al. First Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights contract-dispute declaratory-relief due-process federal-jurisdiction injunctive-relief lance-v-dennis rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine specific-performance standing Did the Court of Appeals violate Petitioner's rights when it relied on the Rooker-Feldman doctrine as authority and affirmed dismissal his Complaints …
21-8242 Michael David Webb v. Anthony S. Fauci, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure agency-response civil-rights due-process face-act foia free-exercise freedom-of-information-act injunctive-relief judicial-discretion procedural-due-process standing Whether, on a valid claim arising under the FOIA, a Trial Court may not properly dismiss, sua sponte, a case, without decision, where the requested Ag…
21-7946 Jesse Manuel Skinner v. GPCH-GP, Inc., et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-05-23 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure injunctive-relief pro-se section-1983 standing without-prejudice 1) Whether Pro se Plaintiff has a lawful statutory right pursuant to Federal Civil Rule 41 to withdraw "without prejudice" an earlier filed Section 19…
21-7881 In Re Justin Paul Sulzner 2022-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights covert-operations due-process foreign-intelligence injunctive-relief national-intelligence national-security religious-freedom religious-organization standing surveillance surveillance-court 1. Whether the FISC should have followed its own established rules concerning action taken on the Movant's two complaints and should have granted emer…
21-1162 Erika Bailey-Johnson v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-02-23 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act court-of-federal-claims federal-jurisdiction injunctive-relief jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tohono-o'odham-nation tohono-precedent united-states-court-of-federal-claims united-states-v-tohono-o'odham-nation Should the Court revisit its holding in Tohono to determine whether, under 28 U.S.C. § 1500, a U.S. District Court action solely for injunctive or dec…
21-1155 Natalia Marshall v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-02-22 Denied Response Waived civil-rights declaratory-judgment fourth-circuit injunctive-relief mootness second-amendment standing I. Whether a suit seeking a declaratory judgment and injunctive relief is rendered moot on appeal if the plaintiff remains negatively impacted by the …
21-1159 Balubhai Patel, et al. v. Julie A. Su, et al. California 2022-02-22 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights declaratory-relief federal-courts-improvement-act injunctive-relief judicial-immunity quasi-judicial-officers section-1983 Prior to the 1996 amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, this Court held that judicial immunity for state defendants does not extend to actions for declarator…
21-1113 Brock Fredin v. Lindsey E. Middlecamp, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-02-11 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights district-court first-amendment free-speech inherent-judicial-powers inherent-powers injunctive-relief prior-restraint public-officials On November 10, 2021, the Eighth Circuit ignored two-hundred and fifty years of First Amendment precedent and issued a breathtakingly unconstitutional…
21-1004 Leon Cody, et ux. v. Superior Court of California, Trinity County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment fair-trial fourteenth-amendment injunctive-relief section-1983 state-law 1. Whether a State has an Eleventh Amendment right to arbitrarily enforce or not enforce a State Law having significant interest to federal Fourteenth…
21-997 Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. v. Arizona Attorneys for Criminal Justice, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied Amici (1) civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-judgment federal-courts first-amendment free-speech injunctive-relief standing state-criminal-proceedings state-sovereignty younger-abstention In 1990, Arizona voters amended the Arizona Constitution to include the Victims' Bill of Rights. See Ariz. Const. art. II, §2.1. Arizona then passed t…
21-979 Carla Young v. Brian Lundstrom, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Relisted (2) abstention abstention-doctrine circuit-split federal-jurisdiction inextricably-intertwined injunctive-relief rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgment In Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Saudi Basic Industries Corp., 544 U.S. 280 (2005), this Court recognized the departure lower courts had taken from this Court'…
21-833 David Louis Whitehead v. Traveler's Insurance Company, et al. Second Circuit 2021-12-06 Denied Relisted (2) attorney-general circuit-court civil-procedure copyright-infringement due-process injunctive-relief judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus-writ recusal standing Whether the Second Circuit Court had jurisdiction to hear the case: appeal or writ of mandamus. Whether the Second Circuit Court erred in denying to …
21-6359 Corey J. Zinman v. Nova Southeastern University, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure court-access federal-magistrate-judges injunctive-relief judicial-administration judicial-jurisdiction magistrate-judges statutory-authority 1. Whether magistrate judges exceed the scope of their statutory authority by issuing orders which have the practical effect of granting or refusing i…
21-6172 Justin Paul Sulzner v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa Eighth Circuit 2021-11-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 8th-circuit civil-rights covert-operations due-process emergency-relief injunctive-relief judicial-review national-security odni standing granted emergency injunctive reliefs against an ODNI covert community operating inside the CCJW, when proof is available that past ODNI covert operati…
21-567 Horizon Christian School, et al. v. Kate Brown, Governor of Oregon Ninth Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech injunctive-relief mootness-doctrine pandemic pandemic-restrictions religious-schools standing takings 1. To obtain injunctive relief against a state governor during the pandemic—and to satisfy the exception to mootness for a controversy "capable of rep…
21-562 Kenneth A. Pruitt v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights default-judgment due-process government-authority injunctive-relief magistrate-judge paris-climate-accord standing ultra-vires uncac As used herein, "Respondent Ultra Vires Actor " (RUVA) means any Respondent, either individual or agency, not acting within authorized scope of offici…
21-218 John Pietsch, et al. v. Ward County, North Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-08-16 Denied dolan-v-city-of-tigard extortionate-exaction fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-takings injunctive-relief nollan-dolan-test nollan-v-california-coastal-commission remedy takings-clause unconstitutional-conditions 1. Does the violation of the "unconstitutional conditions doctrine" for an extortionate exaction under Nollan v. California Coastal Commission, 483 U.…
21-5343 Jimmie Washington, aka Jim Washington v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina Fourth Circuit 2021-08-11 Denied IFP appellate-procedure cheney-standard cheney-test civil-procedure immediate-relief injunction injunctive-relief judicial-review mandamus mandamus-petition stay writ-of-certiorari 1. Whether a court of appeals failure to grant a first and second amended petition for writ of mandamus conflicts with this court and other court of a…
21-48 Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center Commission v. John Doe 5, et al., By and Through Their Next Friend, Nelson Dolores Lopez, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Fourth Circuit 2021-07-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-standard due-process federal-custody immigrant-detainee injunctive-relief juvenile-detention medical-care professional-judgment standing (1) Whether professional judgment rather than deliberate indifference is the proper constitutional standard for a claim of inadequate medical care bro…
20-7736 John H. Schoppe v. Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-04-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-agencies administrative-law agency-misconduct civil-rights constitutional-rights damages damages-claim due-process injunctive-relief pro-se standing Petitioner, John H. Schoppe, Pro Se, files the following Complaint against defendants, the State of Utah ("Utah "), Workforce Services ("WFS" ). Medic…
20-1405 Tarek Farag v. Ali Waqas Illinois 2021-04-07 Denied civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech injunctive-relief judicial-discretion legal-procedure religious-freedom religious-law Whether Sharia is contrary to Our Constitution and laws? Whether Sharia is untouchable? Whether the Court erred in not granting the injunction and n…
20-7660 In Re Justin Paul Sulzner 2021-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-circuit civil-procedure civil-rights due-process indigent injunctive-relief mentally-disabled pro-se standing statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the 8th Cir. Appellate Court should have used "special care" when dealing with a mentally disabled, indigent, pro se Plaintiff under 28 U.S…
20-7127 Clyde Pontefract v. United States, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP bivens bivens-action civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment federal-prisoner federal-prisons injunctive-relief municipal-liability standing 1. Does Ziglar V Abbasi, 582 US_ 137 S Ct 198 L Ed 2d 290 (2017) in deciding a private right of action under Bivens, apply to a Federal Prisoner held …
20-6882 Bo Zou v. Linde Engineering North America, Inc. Tenth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-conflict civil-rights court-procedure due-process federal-courts injunctive-relief jurisdictional-challenge legal-precedent standing statutory-interpretation 1. How did the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit make its decision on injunctive reliefs in conflict with not only the U.S. Supreme…
20-941 Gregory Atkins, et al. v. Kenneth Williams, Medical Director, Tennessee Department of Correction Sixth Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied 8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment injunctive-relief lack-of-funds official-capacity prison-conditions subjective-component The Eighth Amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishments, including deliberate indifference to a convicted prisoner's serious medical needs and ot…
20-6355 Randall Thomas McArty v. Asa Hutchinson, Governor of Arkansas Arkansas 2020-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada ada-violations civil-action civil-rights declaratory-relief ex-parte-young injunctive-relief sovereign-immunity state-court 1. Does the opinion of the Supreme Court of Arkansas in a State Court Civil Action for violations of A.D.A. make an exception in opposition to this Co…
20-128 Big Port Service DMCC v. China Shipping Container Lines Co. Ltd. Second Circuit 2020-08-06 Denied all-writs-act anti-arbitration-injunction arbitration arbitration-injunction circuit-split equitable-relief federal-arbitration-act injunctive-relief remedial-power Petitioner Big Port Service DMCC ("BPS") was permanently enjoined from pursuing an arbitration against Respondent China Shipping Container Lines Co. L…
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…
20-12 Sheri Speer v. Seaport Capital Partners, LLC Connecticut 2020-07-13 Denied constitutional-rights counsel court-access due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hearing injunctive-relief liberty-interest property-interest The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments protect Americans from being having their liberty and property interests stripped from them unless they are afford…
19-8609 Madhu Sameer v. Sameer Khera, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights damages declarative-relief district-court due-process injunctive-relief legal-malpractice standing unconstitutional-judgment void-judgments 1. Whether District Court 's Characterisation of a suit seeking injunctive, declarative relief and damages against making of Unconstitutional and Void…
19-1263 Mark Thompson v. Chicago Board of Education, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-05-04 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment abstention administrative-hearing civil-procedure civil-rights claim-splitting constitutional-rights due-process injunctive-relief judicial-procedure ongoing-state-proceedings standing title-vii Did the lower federal courts err in not permitting petitioner's claims for injunctive relief against a state branch if the ongoing state proceedings v…
19-1194 Jiahao Kuang, et al. v. Department of Defense, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-04-02 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act administrative-procedure-act,civil-procedure,due-p due-process equal-protection injunctive-relief judicial-review military-affairs standing subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether courts can evade their constitutional and statutory duty to review military decisions under the so-called "Mindes test," or whether claims …
19-7959 John Tedesco v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Graterford, et al. Third Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts civil-rights court-access due-process grievance-process injunctive-relief personal-involvement retaliation (A) WAS THE PLAINTIFF ENTITLED TO INJUNCTIVE RELIEF ? (B) WAS THE PLAINTIFF PROVIDED WITH DUE PROCESS ? (C) WAS THE PLAINTIFF ALLEGEDLY RETALIATED A…
19-1079 M.W. Watermark, LLC, et al. v. Evoqua Water Technologies, LLC Sixth Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied civil-rights consent-decree contract-assignment contract-law due-process federal-court four-corners injunction injunctive-relief sixth-circuit standing This Court says that "the scope of a consent decree must be discerned within its four corners, and not by reference to what might satisfy the purposes…
19-914 Credit Bureau Center, LLC, et al. v. Federal Trade Commission Seventh Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Relisted (5) administrative-law consumer-protection consumer-redress enforcement-scheme federal-trade-commission ftc ftc-authority injunctive-relief permanent-injunction section-13(b) section-19 statutory-interpretation Whether Section 13(b)'s second proviso providing that the FTC "may seek" a permanent injunction is an independent grant of authority to "file suit" se…
19-890 Tom Jensen v. Hannah Blumenstiel, Judge, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied Response Waived attorney-misconduct bankruptcy-court declaratory-relief due-process injunctive-relief judicial-immunity public-access Is a Bankruptcy Court judge absolutely immune from a complaint for injunctive and declaratory relief for denial of public access to the court? Should…
19-878 Guy Gentile v. Securities and Exchange Commission Third Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied administrative-enforcement administrative-law circuit-split civil-penalties civil-procedure injunctions injunctive-relief penalty-bar securities-law statute-of-limitations Does the five-year statute of limitations in 28 U.S.C. § 2462 apply to "obey the law" injunctions and penny stock industry bars pursuant to 15 U.S.C. …
19-765 Michael Faust, Director, Arizona Department of Child Safety v. B. K., By Her Next Friend Margaret Tinsley, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied Amici (3) accountability civil-rights class-action commonality due-process federalism injunctive-relief rule-23 standing systemwide-failures In Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes, 564 U.S. 338 (2011), this Court held that a class action may not be certified unless a question central to each cla…
19-589 Rimini Street, Inc. v. Oracle USA, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived conscious-disregard copyright-infringement ebay-inc-v-mercexchange ebay-inc-vs-mercexchange ebay-v-mercexchange equitable-framework equitable-relief injunctive-relief jury-finding mental-state reexamination-clause seventh-amendment Whether courts must take into account a jury's finding of an infringer's mental state in considering injunctive relief under the Copyright Act.
19-508 AMG Capital Management, LLC, et al. v. Federal Trade Commission Ninth Circuit 2019-10-21 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Relisted (6) administrative-law circuit-split federal-trade-commission federal-trade-commission-act injunctions injunctive-relief monetary-relief permanent-injunction preliminary-injunction restitution statutory-construction statutory-interpretation unfair-or-deceptive-acts Whether § 13(b) of the Act, by authorizing "injunction[s]," also authorizes the Commission to demand monetary relief such as restitution—and if so, th…
19-5097 Danny Fabricant v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Ninth Circuit 2019-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals declaratory-relief injunctive-relief judicial-recusal procedural-due-process recusal standing May a Court of Appeals [the Ninth Circuit] ignore an appellant's Request to Recuse itself in an appeal of a district court's Order dismissing a lawsui…
18-1564 LAJIM, LLC, et al. v. General Electric Company Seventh Circuit 2019-06-21 Denied citizen-suit consent-order environmental-law federal-court-discretion federalism imminent-and-substantial-endangerment injunctive-relief rcra-citizen-suit resource-conservation-and-recovery-act state-consent-order statutory-interpretation Petitioners are private attorneys general who brought a Congressionally authorized Citizen Suit against Respondent under the Resource Conservation and…
18-9458 Elseddig Elmarioud Musa v. United States District Court for the District of Arizona Ninth Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emergency-relief federal-procedure injunctive-relief mandamus-writ standing writ-of-mandamus I- Whether The District Court improperly Violated Petitioner Musa's Constitutional right II- Whether Petitioner Musa's is Entitled to Emergency relie…
18-1487 Mercer County Board of Education, et al. v. Elizabeth Deal, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) case-or-controversy circuit-split civil-procedure exposure imminent-injury injunctive-relief mootness ripeness school school-program standing voluntary-cessation In Summers v. Earth Island Institute, 555 U.S. 488 (2009), this Court held that a "vague desire to return . . . without any description of concrete pl…
18-9401 Daniel H. Jones v. Kentucky, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure clearly-erroneous-findings injunctive-relief judicial-discretion jurisdictional-review legal-standards procedural-error sovereign-immunity wrong-legal-standards DID THE U.S. SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERR IN ALLOWING THE [U.S.] DISTRICT COURT TO ABUSE ITS DISCRETION WHEN RELYING ON CLEARLY ERRONEOUS FINDIN…
18-9317 Lena Lasher v. Naomi Reice Buchwald, Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Second Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure code-of-federal-regulations due-process federal-appeals-court federal-courts injunctive-relief judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal subject-matter-jurisdiction Should an injuctive relief be granted to address a federal appeals court's violation of the Code of Federal Regulations of Reconsideration Panel, 38 C…
18-9170 Cynthia Ortiz v. Charles Perry, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1292 abuse-of-discretion ambiguity appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure district-court injunctive-relief interlocutory-appeal jurisdictional-dispute objections transfer venue-transfer Whether the Tenth Circuit has jurisdiction to consider for Interlocutory Appeal, under 28 U.S.C. § 1292 (a) (1) and (b), denial of Injunctive Relief, …
18-9140 Michael Ray Ingram v. Frank Clements, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment injunctive-relief qualified-immunity standing supervisory-liability Whether dismissal of claims for injunctive relief requiring state officials to obey the Eighth Amendment pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1983 was error? Wheth…
18-8144 Sami Albra v. Selene Finance, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-circuit appellate-procedure circuit-rules civil-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure injunctive-relief judicial-discretion standing Does the 9th Circuit's circuit rules supersede the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedures, particularly when it results in depriving an individual due …
18-1104 Nina Ringgold v. Providence Health & Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied ada americans-with-disabilities-act associational-standing circuit-conflict circuit-split civil-rights disability-discrimination injunctive-relief mootness mootness-doctrine rehabilitation-act standing There is generally agreement among the courts of appeal that under 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act that a non-di…
18-7407 Azaniah Blankumsee v. Circuit Court of Maryland, Washington County, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence immunity injunctive-relief standing Q1) Did The lower Caurr ecc ia Qrantiag Ato se lute Trictonity to All deFendaocts, befFocuw aad re SSing nis Claims fac indenetive Calic&, ara (a fine…
18-834 Farzana Sheikh, et vir v. San Joaquin General Hospital Ninth Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied 28-usc-636 article-iii article-iii-standing civil-procedure civil-rights due-process injunctive-relief judicial-procedure magistrate magistrate-referral standing A federal court's "obligation" to hear and decide a case that implicates Constitutional and Civil Rights is "virtually unflagging". Parallel state-cou…
18-730 Moses McCormick, et al. v. Kim A. Browne, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 amendment amendment-futility civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process fourteenth-amendment injunctive-relief municipal-liability qualified-immunity section-1983 standing In light of this Court's recognition in Owen v. City of Independence, 445 U.S. 635-658 (1980), "A Municipality has no immunity from liability under 19…
18-304 Kimberly-Clark Corporation, et al. v. Jennifer Davidson Ninth Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied article-iii-standing consumer-protection consumer-standing deception declaratory-judgment false-advertising future-harm injunctive-relief product-misrepresentation standing Whether a consumer, who after using a product and determining that a representation concerning that product is allegedly misleading, can plausibly all…
18-5169 Clifton B. Davidson v. Federal Bureau of Prisons Sixth Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts administrative-remedies administrative-remedy bounds-v-smith circuit-split declarative-and-injunctive-relief declarative-relief declaratory-relief due-process fiduciary-duty injunctive-relief inmate-trust-funds lewis-v-casey mitchell-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent DID THE COURT OF APPEALS ("The Court") ERR WHEN IT TOTALLY REFUSED TO ADDRESS SUPREME COURT PRECEDENT FOUND IN UNITED STATES V. MITCHELL, 463 U.S. 206…
18-27 Estate of Juanita Jackson, et al. v. Rubin Schron Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied all-writs-act bankruptcy bankruptcy-jurisdiction consent injunctive-relief judicial-authority jurisdiction non-core-proceedings permanent-injunction state-law-claims Can bankruptcy courts use the All Writs Act to expand their jurisdiction and authority beyond the confines of the Bankruptcy Code? And if so, can they…