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25A854 Piper Partridge, Individually and as Mother and Next of Kin to Keagan Schweikle and as Special Administratrix of the Estate of Keagan Schweikle, et al. v. City of Benton, Arkansas, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-01-30 Application constitutional-violation excessive-force jury-verdict municipal-liability section-1983 supervisory-liability Question not identified.
25-6333 Cameron Kemp v. Michael Powers, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-12-10 Pending IFP access-to-courts due-process equal-protection judicial-immunity municipal-liability self-help-eviction 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the denial of Petitioner's statutory right to appeal, despite Judge Sims' knowledge of a self-help evi…
25A288 Miami Township Board of Trustees v. Roger Dean Gillispie, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-09-11 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-violation law-enforcement municipal-liability sixth-circuit summary-judgment Question not identified.
25-5098 Elizabeth Nelson, et al. v. Service Towing, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process municipal-liability property-rights section-1983 towing-dispute 1) Do pro'se appellants ' state a 42 USC Sec 1983 claim under 4, 5,14ft Amendment when appellee city of Warren MI property and maintenance employees,…
24-956 Los Angeles County, California, et al. v. Peter Woods Nyarecha, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-03-06 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived cell-check-policy constitutional-violation monell-doctrine municipal-liability section-1983 summary-judgment The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's official policy requires deputy officers to regularly check inmates' cells for signs of life. It is undi…
24A579 City of Los Angeles, California v. Jesus Pimentel, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-13 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-violation law-enforcement municipal-liability ninth-circuit section-1983 Question not identified.
24-573 Coleman County, Texas v. Patsy K. Cope, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-11-22 Denied Response Waived bell-v-wolfish detainee-suicide fifth-circuit monell-standard municipal-liability qualified-immunity 1. Does a Bell v. Wolfish conditions-of-confinement claim for detainee suicide allow a plaintiff to bypass the traditional Monell test for imposing li…
24A506 Marc M. Susselman v. Washtenaw County Sheriff's Office, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-11-21 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-violations law-enforcement municipal-liability qualified-immunity sixth-circuit Question not identified.
24A487 City of Los Angeles, California, et al. v. Hasmik Jasmine Chinaryan, Individually and as Guardian ad Litem for NEC, a Minor, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-15 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-violations excessive-force law-enforcement municipal-liability ninth-circuit Question not identified.
24A352 Coleman County, Texas v. Patsy K. Cope, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-15 Presumed Complete 42-usc-1983 conditions-of-confinement eighth-amendment municipal-liability pre-trial-detainee suicide-prevention Question not identified.
24-122 Michael Craine v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Council 36, Local 119, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-02 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights first-amendment free-association free-speech municipal-liability public-employee state-action union-dues union-membership 1. Whether the First Amendment's guarantee of free association protects a public employee's right to resign membership in a union. 2. Whether the Fir…
24-70 Ilya Kovalchuk v. City of Decherd, Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2024-07-23 Denied civil-rights discovery-standard due-process fourth-amendment monell-claim monell-liability municipal-liability plausibility-standard section-1983 twombly-iqbal This dispute concerns municipal liability in a § 1983 action against the City of Decherd, Tennessee ("City"), and a Decherd police officer. The office…
23A1108 Stacy Williams, on Behalf of Her Minor Grandson, J.J. v. Andrew Williams, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-06-12 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights due-process emergency-medical-care municipal-liability paramedic-duty section-1983 Question not identified.
23-1190 Alexsey Predybaylo v. Sacramento County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-03 Denied civil-rights due-process excessive-force municipal-liability pre-trial-detainee qualified-immunity strip-search 1. Is an officer's intentional use of substantial and aggressive force against a pre-trialdetainee in response to mere passive resistance to a strip …
23A891 Vicki Baker v. City of McKinney, Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-04-08 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment municipal-liability police-conduct Question not identified.
23A715 Kevin Rashaan Golden v. City of Longview, Public Works Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-02-02 Presumed Complete ada disability-discrimination employment-discrimination municipal-liability reasonable-accommodation wrongful-termination Question not identified.
23-756 Angela Robinson, et al. v. Midland County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-01-12 Denied Response Waived actual-knowledge civil-rights civil-rights-violation constructive-knowledge county-liability monell monell-claim municipal-liability section-1983 To successfully assert a Section 1983 Monell claim against a county based on a pattern of unconstitutional conduct by the county's contractor, must th…
23-738 Leasa Marie Wright v. City of Ponca City, Oklahoma, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-01-09 Denied civil-rights civil-rights-violation discovery due-process emergency-medical-care medical-negligence municipal-liability qualified-immunity spinal-cord-injury substantive-due-process 1. Is it a violation of substantive due process for state medical personnel to actively and affirmatively inflict injury on a patient? 2. Is it an ob…
23-540 Laura Covington v. City of Madisonville, Texas Fifth Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights municipal-liability official-policy police-chief policymaker section-1983 state-law To obtain relief against a municipality under §1983, a plaintiff must show an official policy from a policymaker was the moving force behind a violati…
23-481 Temple of 1001 Buddhas, et al. v. City of Fremont, California Ninth Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights disparate-treatment first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause municipal-liability searching-review section-1983 1. Whether a state municipality can be held liable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when decision rights and associated impingements on free exercise are distri…
23A224 Eugenie Henning v. City of Jackson, Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2023-09-08 Presumed Complete employment-discrimination municipal-liability racial-discrimination retaliation sixth-circuit title-vii Question not identified.
23-165 Bob Johnson, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of Santa Rosa County, Florida v. Jessica N. Rogers, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Jose F. Escano-Reyes and as Parent and Natural Guardian of Y. C., a Minor Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-21 Denied Amici (1) 42-usc-1983 city-of-los-angeles-v-heller civil-rights constitutional-harm deliberate-indifference jury-finding monell-liability monell-v-new-york-city municipal-liability section-1983 1. Where a jury exonerates jail deputies of all 42 U.S.C. §1983 claims for deliberate indifference to risk of an inmate's suicide, does the jury's fin…
23A47 Bronson McClelland v. Katy Independent School District, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-07-18 Presumed Complete due-process first-amendment municipal-liability parental-rights school-discipline student-speech Question not identified.
22-1151 City of Arlington, Texas v. De'On Crane, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-05-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arrest-warrant fourth-amendment municipal-liability qualified-immunity reasonable-officer-standard traffic-stop use-of-force whren-v-united-states Rather than submit to arrest pursuant to multiple lawfully issued arrest warrants, a suspect who was pulled over for a traffic violation refused to ex…
22-768 Angie Waller, et al. v. Richard Hoeppner, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-02-15 Denied Response Waived civil-rights-act fourth-amendment graham-v-connor municipal-liability reasonableness reasonableness-standard search-and-seizure tennessee-v-garner totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances 1. Does the Fifth Circuit's "narrowed" test of reasonableness of a search or seizure under the Fourth Amendment, which deems as irrelevant any of th…
22-724 San Juan County, Utah v. Rosalie Chilcoat Tenth Circuit 2023-02-02 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process monell monell-doctrine municipal-liability section-1983 state-action state-actor unconstitutional-action A prosecutor in San Juan County, Utah, acted on behalf of the State of Utah when he made allegedly false statements at the preliminary hearing in the …
22-612 Marshall Spiegel v. 1618 Sheridan Road Condominium Association, Inc., et al. Illinois 2023-01-04 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech municipal-liability public-photography Question not identified.
22-5728 Glenn Spradley v. Pat Frank, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-of-action circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights court-precedent due-process municipal-liability precedent standing venue-selection 1. Whether a complaint's conclusory allegations of municipal liability state a cause of action, according to this Court's prior precedent. 2. Whether…
22-104 Martin Rugamba v. CRST Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied cat's-paw-theory civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-reporting free-speech monell-liability municipal-custom municipal-liability police-retaliation retaliation standing Whether the police retaliation against an individual who reports their misconducts to FBI/DOJ constitutes municipality custom or practice for the purp…
21-1324 John Zarba, et ux. v. Town of Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2022-04-04 Denied appellate civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process hearing municipal-liability rule-12b6 section-1983 standing 1. Should this Court resolve the long standing problem that Rulel2(b)(6) motions should be dramatically modified due to the following; 1) the rule dem…
21-6983 Shahid L. A. Majid, aka Arthur Moseley v. RN Richards, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-01-27 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process excessive-force municipal-liability qualified-immunity Question not identified.
21-1022 Daniel Garza v. City of Los Angeles, California Ninth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied civil-rights constructive-notice due-process monell monell-doctrine municipal-liability policy-maker ratification unconstitutional-conduct 1) May a municipality be held liable for ratification, under Monell v. Department of Social Services, when the final policy maker has constructive not…
21-6678 Raul Mendez v. City of Boise, Idaho, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-21 Denied IFP 1983-statute 42-usc-1983 administrative-procedure due-process mandatory-billing municipal-liability pleading-standard pro-se property-tax-roll utility-services 1) Can local government entities take adverse actions against its citizens without Due Process for not using the provided utility services? 2) Can a…
21-593 Priscilla Everette-Oates v. Beth Wood, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-10-22 Denied Response Waived civil-rights civil-rights-action conspiracy due-process evidence-concealment immunity municipal-immunity municipal-liability prosecutorial-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment In a claim alleging conspiracy to conceal evidence against a public official who was falsely charged with embezzlement, can multiple municipal defenda…
21-549 Nicole Hutcheson, et al. v. Dallas County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Response Waived civil-rights discovery discovery-standard municipal-liability plausibility-pleading qualified-immunity summary-judgment training 1a. This Court has permitted "limited discovery" in cases where the defendant has asserted the affirmative defense of qualified immunity in its answer…
21-534 Roman Andy Janiec, et al. v. City of Glendora, California Ninth Circuit 2021-10-12 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights class-of-one monell monell-doctrine municipal-liability section-1983 selective-enforcement 1. Can a municipality be held liable under 42 U.S.C. §1983 pursuant to Monell v Dep't of Soc. Servs. of City of New York, 436 U.S. 658 (1978) for a "c…
21-414 First Midwest Bank, as Guardian of the Estate of Michael D. LaPorta v. City of Chicago, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights legal-causation municipal-liability off-duty off-duty-conduct official-policy section-1983 Can municipalities evade liability under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for unlawful acts that their official municipal policies undisputedly caused if the municipa…
21-5469 Ziahonna Teagan v. City of McDonough, Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process heck-doctrine judicial-authority judicial-power municipal-liability policy-practice-procedure-custom section-1983 state-law state-law-offense Can a Georgia Municipality be held liable for an official, agent, or entity actions that makes a deliberate choice to follow an internal official poli…
21-71 Washington County, Utah v. Martin Crowson Tenth Circuit 2021-07-20 Denied Response Waived deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment inmate-medical-care municipal-liability section-1983 supreme-court-precedents Whether a municipal government can be liable under the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution for a denial of inmate medical care under § …
20-1667 City of East Cleveland, Ohio, et al. v. Arnold Black Ohio 2021-06-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights discovery-sanctions due-process exemplary-damages municipal-liability police-misconduct section-1983 vicarious-liability The case below conflicts with the precedents of the Sixth Circuit, other circuits, fellow state supreme courts as well as is violative of constitution…
20-8089 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-05-20 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights davis-v-monroe-county-board due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment haines-v-kerner municipal-liability pro-se-litigation qualified-immunity standing Question One: In the (a) Denial of Plaintiffs Motions, Whether "Pro Se Litigants " are Held to the Same Legal Standards as "Counseled Litigants " in l…
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 …
20-951 Mary Stewart, as Administrator of the Estate of Luke O. Stewart, Sr., Deceased v. City of Euclid, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-01-15 Denied Amici (6) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference fourth-amendment municipal-liability qualified-immunity section-1983 Where a municipal employee has violated the Constitution, must a plaintiff point to "clearly established law" (such as would overcome a defense of qua…
20-6573 Ellis Keyes v. Matt Wilson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied IFP 11th-circuit civil-rights deadly-force due-process judicial-intervention municipal-liability order-to-show-cause police-restraint police-use-of-force qualified-immunity standing Continuing prosecution I ask the court grant motion for order to show cause why defendant police should not be restrained from deadly force?
20-6443 Scott Myers v. Patrolman Rowell, et al. Second Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 42-usc-section-1983 civil-rights false-arrest false-prosecution institutionalized-abuse malicious-prosecution municipal-liability 1. Don't the complete reversals affirm that malicious prosecution, inter alia, occurred and therefore requires, on the law, that the case be remanded …
20-580 Barry Damon Mallatere v. Town of Boone, North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2020-11-02 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 ashcroft-v-iqbal civil-rights fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution monell-v-dept-of-soc-servs municipal-liability policymaker-liability The Fourth Circuit affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded the district court's dismissal over the Petitioner's, Barry Damon Mallatre, causes …
20-476 Rafael Martinez, et al. v. Bryheim Jamar Baskin New Jersey 2020-10-13 Denied 42-u.s.c.a.-§-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process law-enforcement municipal-liability police-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 Is the petitioner/Police Detective Rafael Martinez protected by "qualified immunity" in this action brought under the jurisprudence of 42 U.S.C.A. § 1…
20-465 Young County, Texas, et al. v. Nichole Sanchez, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-10-09 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 42-usc-1983 bell-v-wolfish civil-rights conditions-of-confinement judicial-management monell-v-dept-of-soc-servs municipal-liability pretrial-detainee respondeat-superior section-1983 In Monell v. Dep't of Soc. Servs. and subsequent precedent, the Court articulated stringent requirements for imposing liability on municipalities unde…
20-427 Polk County, Wisconsin v. J. K. J., et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-10-02 Denied Amici (3) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violations failure-to-train monell-liability municipal-liability section-1983 single-incident-theory Whether the "single-incident" theory of Monell liability may be used to hold a municipality liable under §1983 on the theory that its failure to do mo…
20-5526 Norman Paul Blanco v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process municipal-liability qualified-immunity supervisory-liability Question not identified.
20-226 Kenneth Ratliff v. Aransas County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-08-26 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-force municipal-liability pleading-standard qualified-immunity summary-judgment 1. Instead of relying on discovery control and summary judgments to weed out frivolous claims, should the lower federal courts nonetheless be allowed …
20-198 Tamatrice Williams v. City of Sherwood, Arkansas Eighth Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied Response Waived arkansas-supreme-court civil-rights court-reorganization legal-jurisdiction municipal-courts municipal-liability rehearing section-1983 state-actor state-court state-law State law determines whether a n entity is a state or a local entity for purposes of Section 1983 liability . McMillian v. Monroe C ounty ., 520 U.S. …
19-1436 Denise DeMartini v. Town of Gulf Stream, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-30 Denied 42-usc-1983 causation civil-lawsuit civil-litigation civil-rights first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation municipal-liability probable-cause retaliation section-1983 Did the Eleventh Circuit err in importing a "lack of probable cause" requirement for a First Amendment retaliation claim under 42 U.S.C § 1983 arising…
19-1370 Kimberley Thames v. City of Westland, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied abortions brandenburg-test criminal-threat first-amendment free-speech monell-claim municipal-liability naacp-v-claiborne-hardware qualified-immunity true-threats westland 1. Did Petitioner's arrest and subsequent detention based on her speech violate her clearly established rights as set forth in Watts v. United States,…
19-1223 Demetrias Taylor, as Representative of the Estate of Iretha Jean Lilly, Deceased, et al. v. McLennan County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-04-16 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process medical-care municipal-liability municipal-policy myocardial-infarction policy pre-trial-detainee procedure section-1983 summary-judgment Does the provision of three EKGs, an aspirin, and a nitroglycerin pill over the course of three hours to a pre-trial detainee (who then died from an o…
19-7793 Michael Deuschel v. City of Long Beach, California California 2020-02-26 Denied IFP ada ada-accommodation civil-rights constitutional-violation discrimination due-process judicial-procedure municipal-liability retroactivity trial-exclusion unconstitutional-custom 1. Due Process: (a) Whether the City's 1 ½ year-long custom of illegal seizure, fraudulent post storage notice, denied hearing, turning a blind eye an…
19-1014 Teresa Berry v. Delaware County Sheriff's Office Sixth Circuit 2020-02-14 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights deliberate-indifference detainee-rights due-process jail-conditions medical-care medical-policy medical-training municipal-liability policy training withdrawal The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment from the United States District Court Southern District of Ohio Eastern Division finding that…
19-797 City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. v. Mary R. Meier Eighth Circuit 2019-12-23 Denied 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment municipal-liability probable-cause section-1983 seizure wanted-bulletin warrantless-seizure Every year, thousands of automobiles are identified in law enforcement databases as stolen or wanted in connection with crimes. Warrants for seizure o…
19-615 Elaine Ward v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection municipal-liability service-of-process state-court-proceedings transparency 1. Is there a violation of due process and equal protection under the 5th and 14th amendments as related to 42 U.S.C. 1983, when a municipality, fails…
19-593 City of Camden, New Jersey v. Alanda Forrest Third Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process legal-standard monell-doctrine monell-liability monell-v-department-of-social-services municipal-liability policy-custom policy-or-custom policymaker-notice untrained-or-unsupervised-employees What, under Monell v. Dep't of Soc. Serus., 436 U.S. 658 (1978), and its progeny, constitutes a pattern of similar constitutional violations by untrai…
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 …
19-485 Juan Perez, et al. v. City of Sweetwater, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-15 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 city-of-canton-v-harris civil-procedure civil-rights due-process municipal-liability police-misconduct reeves-v-sanderson reeves-v-sanderson-plumbing section-1983 seventh-amendment single-occurrence-rule I) Whether the Petitioner's Seventh Amendment rights were violated when the trial court weighed evidence and drew inferences against Petitioner in set…
19-6148 Cornelius Lorenzo Wilson v. Dennis Grimes, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment medical-care monell-doctrine monell-liability municipal-jail municipal-liability prison-conditions prisoner-rights serious-medical-need systemic-underfunding 1. Does systemic underfunding and understaffing of a municipal jail that knowingly causes significant delays for prisoners receiving access to outside…
19-409 City of Cleveland, Ohio, et al. v. Ricky Jackson, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1988 brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 federal-law municipal-liability personal-injury personal-injury-claims qualified-immunity section-1983 section-1988 state-law state-law-survival-rule survival 1. Whether § 1988 requires the survival of § 1983 claims to be determined using the state-law survival rule for the most closely analogous state cause…
19-316 Larry Drake Hansen v. Salt Lake City Corporation Tenth Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied Response Waived 10th-circuit civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-remedy due-process monell-claim municipal-liability Question not identified. standing state-law takings a) Petitioner questions the correctness of the Appeals Courts' access-to-the-courts cases as noted in Christopher v. Harbury, 536 U.S. 403 at n.9 (200…
19-276 Jose Luis Garza, et al. v. City of Donna, Texas Fifth Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights detainee-mistreatment due-process episodic-act-or-omission evidentiary-standard fact-question free-speech legal-interpretation municipal-liability municipal-policy qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment Did the panel err - in the summary judgment context in determining as a matter of law, on the basis of no articulated evidence or authority, that the …
18-1558 Marshall Spiegel v. Corrine McClintic, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-expression law-enforcement-liability municipal-liability public-photography qualified-immunity standing Does the First Amendment protect a person's right to photograph or videotape in public? If so, where officers threaten to arrest a person for photogra…
18A1299 Gavin B. Davis v. San Diego County Sheriff's Department Ninth Circuit 2019-06-12 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process municipal-liability pre-trial-detention sheriff-department Question not identified.
18-1533 William Henry Starrett, Jr. v. City of Richardson, Texas Fifth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 civil-rights-42-usc-1985 civil-rights-statute conspiracy conspiracy-claims due-process federal-jurisdiction municipal-liability pleading-standards pleading-sufficiency pleadings section-1983 texas-tort-claims-act Whether, in an initiating pleading or complaint, allegations are sufficient in the absence of explicit facts as to the one or more official policies o…
18-1465 County of San Diego, California v. Mark Mann, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied child-welfare due-process fourth-amendment medical-examination municipal-liability parental-consent parental-notice parental-rights shocks-the-conscience special-needs special-needs-doctrine substantive-due-process When children in the County of San Diego are temporarily removed from their parents' care based on suspicion that they have been abused or neglected, …
18-1466 County of Sonoma, California, et al. v. Rafael Mateos Sandoval, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment constitutional-rights continued-detention detention due-process fourth-amendment lawful-seizure monell-liability municipal-liability property-rights property-seizure public-safety section-1983 seizure vehicle-impound This petition presents three issues of first impression in this Court, all of which arise out of a judgment for damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against…
18-9090 Virginia Howard v. San Diego County Counsel, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-preemption homestead homestead-exemption lis-pendens mechanic-liens municipal-liability property-recording real-property supremacy-clause supremacy-of-federal-law title-42 title-42-section-1983 Question #1 Are the Recorders failure omissions to register, record, docket or index documents regarding real property) make offices, counties, paris…
18-1333 Ronald Jones, et al. v. Michael Keitz, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 ashcroft-v-iqbal civil-rights county-liability heightened-pleading iqbal-standard malicious-prosecution monell-claim municipal-liability pleading-standard section-1983 sheriff-liability 1. What facts must a plaintiff allege to state a claim for malicious prosecution against a California county and its sheriff under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, e…
18-1227 Alvin S. Kanofsky v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-03-20 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-process civil-procedure civil-rights conservatorship due-process free-speech government-corruption judicial-bias judicial-misconduct municipal-fraud municipal-liability property-rights standing takings Was Kanofsky Responsible for Building Damage? NO Is City of Bethlehem responsible for Damage to Building as Charged by Judge Leonard Zito? YES Did C…
18-1215 Alvin S. Kanofsky v. City of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-03-19 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-power civil-rights code-enforcement conflict-of-interest conservatorship due-process government-corruption government-misconduct judicial-misconduct municipal-liability property-rights trespass Was the city responsible for the so-called violations? Was the City fraudulently citing him numerous times for violations that they caused? Did City…
18-1056 Mitzi Johanknecht, Sheriff, King County, Washington v. Eva Moore, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young monell municipal-liability official-capacity prospective-relief section-1983 separation-of-powers standing state-court-orders Whether Ex parte Young establishes a novel and unprecedented judge-made cause of action, separate from § 1983, that can be used through an official ca…
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…
18-7530 Tonya Udoh, et vir v. Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-01-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 1983-claims 1985-claims 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights davis-v-monroe-county-board due-process emotional-distress false-arrest fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment haines-v-kerner minor-children miranda-rights monell-liability municipal-liability parental-rights pro-se-litigant qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing unconstitutional-statutes Question One: In the (a) Denial of Plaintiffs Motion to Amend the Complaint; (b) Dismissal of Plaintiffs Claims With and Without Prejudices; and (c) G…
18-854 George Alvarez v. City of Brownsville, Texas Fifth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence monell-liability municipal-liability plea-agreement plea-bargaining united-states-v-ruiz 1. In Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), this Court held that due process requires the government to disclose material exculpatory evidence to a c…
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…
18-647 Pulte Homes of New York LLC v. Town of Carmel, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights continuing-violation land-development-fees municipal-government municipal-liability section-1983 statute-of-limitations Whether a civil rights claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 accrues by a continuing violation theory when a municipality refuses, or attempts to condition, th…
18-648 Burdette Searcey, et al. v. James L. Dean, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 1989 civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-investigation criminal-trial due-process evidence false-evidence false-evidence-manufacture law-enforcement-liability manufacture-of-false-evidence municipal-liability qualified-immunity reckless-evidence-gathering substantive-due-process voluntary-plea Whether in 1989 a law-enforcement officer violated a plaintiff's substantive due-process rights merely by recklessly gathering "unreliable" evidence i…
18-625 City of Miami, Florida v. Taiwan Smart Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-14 Dismissed burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations custom-or-practice due-process municipal-liability non-state-actors section-1983 witness-testimony I.Whether the isolated alleged incidents of constitutional violations in Plaintiff's § 1983 claims, which are founded on the actions of non-state acto…
18-476 Cowlitz County, Washington, et al. v. Jule Crowell, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-care monell monell-doctrine municipal-liability objective-reasonableness section-1983 serious-medical-needs subjective-intent 1. Whether a pretrial de tainee alleging Fourteenth Amendment claims of deliberate indifference to serious medical needs under 42 U.S. C. § 1983 must …
18-342 City of Maplewood, Missouri v. Cecelia Roberts Webb, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied Response Waived arm-of-the-state constitutional-deprivation legal-definition mcmillian-v-monroe-county monell-liability monell-v-dept-of-soc-serv municipal-corporation-liability municipal-corporations municipal-court-divisions municipal-liability policy-custom real-party-in-interest sovereign-immunity state-entity unified-court-system I Sovereign immunity bars a lawsuit to the extent the relief sought would operate against the State, even if the State is not a formally-named defenda…
18-69 Yan Ping Xu v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2018-07-12 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process employee-retaliation equal-protection federal-defendants federal-jurisdiction legal-remedy municipal-authority municipal-liability retaliation Whether no remedy for the former municipal employee injured directly from her supervisors, federal defendants clothed with municipal authority power, …
24A412 Karyn D. Stanley v. City of Sanford, Florida Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete constitutional-violation emergency-response hurricane-impact municipal-liability natural-disaster public-safety Question not identified.