| 25-216 |
Mathew Grashorn v. Wendy Love, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
clearly-established-law imminent-danger jurisdiction objective-reasonableness qualified-immunity tenth-circuit |
Under this Court's well-established qualified-immunity framework, courts conduct a two-part analysis to resolve an officer's qualified-immunity defens… |
| 25-5229 |
David Loren Waldeck v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-amendment heien-standard judicial-gloss law-enforcement objective-reasonableness statutory-interpretation |
Is a reviewing court permitted to insert a "judicial gloss" in construing an unambiguous statute when determining whether a law enforcement officer's … |
| 23-1297 |
Michael Roane v. Tina Ray |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-12 |
Denied |
|
clearly-established-law fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-seizure objective-reasonableness personal-property qualified-immunity self-defense summary-judgment unreasonable-seizure |
1. Whether Roane's act had to be the "necessary" or "unavoidable" act, rather than within a range of objective reasonableness, to be considered an act… |
| 23-410 |
Estate of Gabriel Strickland, et al. v. Nevada County, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-19 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 civil-rights deadly-force graham-factors graham-v-connor objective-reasonableness section-1983 totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances use-of-force |
This case presents a unique question of law under 42 U.S.C. §1983 concerning the application of the "totality of the circumstances" test adopted in Gr… |
| 23-400 |
Travis Palmer Curran, et al. v. Janet Turner O'Kelley, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-17 |
Dismissed |
Response Waived |
civil-rights curtilage due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment objective-reasonableness qualified-immunity seizure |
1. Whether the Fourth Amendment objective reasonableness standard for exigency, and the availability of qualified immunity itself, remain questions of… |
| 23-317 |
Otis Crandel, as Dependent Administrator of and on Behalf of Billy Wayne Worl, Jr., et al. v. Dalena Hall, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-27 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
including failure to protect from the risk of sui civil-rights constitutional-rights custody-conditions due-process failure-to-protect objective-reasonableness pretrial-detainee pretrial-detainees suicide-risk |
Whether the objective reasonableness test of Kingsley v. Hendrickson, 576 U.S. 389 (2015), applies to pretrial detainees' claims about their treatment… |
| 23-150 |
Ronald Preston Harper v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2023-08-16 |
Denied |
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civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech objective-reasonableness police-conduct swatting |
Is it illegal to criticize police in North Carolina? Do citizens, using their God-given rights of life, liberty and pursuing their happiness, have the… |
| 22-1157 |
Craig Roper v. De'On Crane, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment civil-rights deadly-force excessive-force objective-reasonableness officer-safety police-conduct police-intervention qualified-immunity use-of-force vehicle-stop |
1. Whether an objective police officer could have believed it reasonable to shoot a person who had warrants for his arrest, had locked the doors and r… |
| 22-513 |
Hyrum James Geddes v. Weber County, Utah, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-12-02 |
Denied |
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civil-rights detention-facility due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment objective-reasonableness section-1983 |
I.
Is the test of objective reasonableness applicable to a claim of excessive force enunciated by this court in Kingsley v. Hendrickson, 576 U.S. 389 … |
| 22-374 |
Troy Olhausen v. Arriva Medical, LLC, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-21 |
GVR |
Relisted (5) |
circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act knowingly objective-reasonableness objective-standard scienter statutory-interpretation subjective-standard |
Whether a False Claims Act defendant alleged to
have "knowingly" violated a provision of federal law
can escape liability by articulating, after the f… |
| 21-1125 |
Matthew Schantz v. Benny Deloach |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights deadly-force fourth-amendment objective-reasonableness police-pursuit qualified-immunity summary-judgment traffic-stop use-of-force |
1. Does the Fourth Amendment entitle police to seize all speeding motorists by shooting them, regardless of the circumstances and independently of any… |
| 20-7368 |
Antonio Dewayne Hooks v. Kayodi Atoki, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process excessive-force failure-to-protect fourteenth-amendment medical-needs objective-reasonableness pretrial-detainee |
In Kingsley v. Hendrickson, 576 U.S. 389 (2015), this Court held that "pretrial detainees (unlike convicted prisoners) cannot be punished at all, much… |
| 20-1172 |
George Ponik, et al. v. Jamie Williams, Individually and as Administratrix ad Prosequendum of the Estate of Peter Lee Williams, Deceased, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-force law-enforcement objective-reasonableness qualified-immunity summary-judgment |
1. May a Court refuse to engage in the requisite two step qualified immunity analysis, based solely on a decision that the more general liability ques… |
| 20-738 |
Donald Grochowski, as Administrator of the Estate of Kenneth Grochowski, Deceased, et al. v. Clayton County, Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cell-design civil-rights detainee-safety due-process inadequate-staffing jail-conditions legislative-immunity objective-reasonableness qualified-immunity substantial-risk |
Jail supervisor policymakers and Clayton County, Georgia were sued by detainee Grochowski's representatives for the known conditions and systems they … |
| 20-5846 |
Anthony C. Green v. Kelly Lake, Sheriff, Carlton County, Minnesota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
8th-circuit civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-standard due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment objective-reasonableness qualified-immunity |
The question presented is whether the 8th Circuits ' decision is contrary to this Court 's decision in Kingsley. |
| 20-83 |
Jacob Jones, et al. v. Wayne Duke Kalbaugh |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement objective-reasonableness police-conduct qualified-immunity tenth-circuit |
I. Did the Tenth Circuit improperly focus on the knowledge and intentions of the suspect, rather than the facts knowable to the officers, in reversing… |
| 19-1266 |
H. B., a Minor, Individually and as Successor in Interest to Michelle Lee Shirley, By and Through His Guardian ad Litem, Ronnie Shirley v. City of Torrance, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment objective-reasonableness police-conduct qualified-immunity scott-v-harris summary-judgment use-of-force |
In a 42 USC § 1983 action where videos capturing the claimed use of excessive force are open to multiple interpretations as to whether the use of leth… |
| 19-1099 |
City of Bakersfield, California, et al. v. Leslie Laray Crawford |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment mental-illness negligence objective-reasonableness police-procedure prior-knowledge reasonable-officer use-of-force |
Did the Ninth Circuit err when it held that evidence of prior incidents which indicate that an individual may be mentally ill could be introduced for … |
| 19-7790 |
Brenda Mason, Individually and on Behalf of Quamaine Dwayne Mason, et vir v. Martin Faul |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (6)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fifth-circuit objective-reasonableness police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing use-of-force |
This case involves the use of excessive force by a police officer that was determined by a jury to be "objectively unreasonable" but nonetheless resul… |
| 19-326 |
Melinda Mitchell, et al. v. City of New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights fourth-amendment malice material-facts objective-reasonableness perjury police-misconduct qualified-immunity trespass wrongful-seizure |
1. Did the Second Circuit err in applying District
of Columbia v. Wesby, 138 S. Ct. 577 (2018), to grant
qualified immunity to the police defendants w… |
| 19-33 |
Kevin Wallace v. Andeavor Corporation |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights employee-protection federal-prohibitions matter-of-law objective-reasonableness sarbanes-oxley sarbanes-oxley-act trier-of-fact whistleblower whistleblower-protection whistleblower-retaliation |
The anti-retaliation provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1514A(a), forbids retaliation against an employee because he or she disclosed t… |
| 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 … |
| 18-395 |
Corning Optical Communications RF LLC v. PPC Broadband, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-09-27 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
civil-procedure egregious-conduct fee-shifting halo-standard halo-v-pulse intentional-knowing notice-requirement objective-reasonableness patent-damages willful-infringement |
1. In determining whether to enhance damages for "egregious" infringement under §284, must courts consider all relevant circumstances, including evide… |
| 18-337 |
County of Orange, California, et al. v. Mary Gordon, Individually and as Successor in Interest to Matthew Shawn Gordon, Deceased |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-standard due-process eighth-amendment fourth-amendment medical-care objective-reasonableness pretrial-detainee qualified-immunity section-1983 standard-of-care |
Whether a pretrial detainee's "inadequate medical care" claim pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 requires a showing of a jail professional's subjective inte… |
| 18-5414 |
Keith William Deichert v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception jurisdiction objective-reasonableness rule-41 search-warrant void-ab-initio |
Does the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply to a search warrant that is issued by a judge without jurisdiction, rendering the warrant… |