| 25-337 |
City of Huntington Beach, California, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-23 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-structure first-amendment government-powers local-government official-capacity state-law |
1. Whether the Constitution categorically denies a
local government any capacity to invoke it against its
State, without first determining—by refere… |
| 25-5487 |
Joseph W. Wade v. Walter T. Mosley, New York Secretary of State, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
article-iii-standing compensatory-relief official-capacity race-conscious section-1983 sex-conscious |
1) Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, against state officials in 'official capacity, ' does Article III standing require proof that the final outcome of a 'discr… |
| 25-122 |
David Alan Carmichael, et al. v. Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-07-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
damages-liability due-process free-exercise official-capacity religious-freedom right-to-travel |
Does the "appropriate relief ' of the Religious
Freedom Restoration Act allow for damages liability,
or nominal damages where other damages cannot b… |
| 24-5654 |
Vincent L. Hepburn v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
damages-claim establishment-clause federal-tort-claims-act first-amendment official-capacity religious-freedom |
1. Where federal employees acting in their official capacity violate 76 OK Stat § 1 and the First Amendment's Establishment Clause by harming Mr. Hepb… |
| 23-1302 |
Kevin Hardaway v. Dwight Hamilton, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-13 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-rights eleventh-amendment-immunity monell-claim monell-v-department-of-social-services official-capacity section-1983 use-of-force |
This is a Section 1983 case, based on Eighth Amendment violations stemming from the DeKalb County, Georgia Sheriff's Office's custom and policy of per… |
| 23-1070 |
In Re Palani Karupaiyan |
|
2024-04-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-liability jurisdictional-challenge mandamus multi-party-litigation official-capacity standing writ-of-prohibition |
Petitioners ' prayed over 16 reliefs which were as Writ of Mandamus or Prohibition or alternative so the questions were part of three test condition r… |
| 23-5816 |
Henry Jo Ward v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-presumption fourteenth-amendment official-capacity |
The West Virginia Supreme Court interpreted a statute to create an unconstitutional evidentiary presumption. Specifically, the West Virginia Supreme C… |
| 22-178 |
Robert R. Cushing, Individually and in His Capacity as the Minority Leader of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, et al. v. Sherman Packard, Speaker of the House of the New Hampshire House of Representatives |
First Circuit |
2022-08-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ada circuit-split civil-rights legislative-immunity official-capacity rehabilitation-act |
What is the scope of the "extraordinary character" exception to legislative immunity?
Does legislative immunity insulate state legislatures and/or le… |
| 21-1138 |
Sherry Treppa, et al. v. George Hengle, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-02-16 |
Denied |
|
arbitration-agreement arbitration-clause choice-of-law delegation-clause official-capacity sovereign-immunity state-law tribal-government tribal-officials |
1. Whether a court can invalidate an agreement to
have an arbitrator resolve questions of arbitrability (a
"delegation clause") based on the court's i… |
| 21-5417 |
Alfred E. Caraffa v. Tempe Police Department, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process official-capacity pleading-standards qualified-immunity standing |
I Address the Arizona District court's Refusal to trial iN CCSC No.2:I9-CV-O5492-PHx-MTL-ESW) when IrAppendix B pg-2of8 pt. It states Plainti f has cl… |
| 20-7848 |
Astarte Davis v. Joseph Wilson, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Judge, Superior Court of California, Marin County, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process extrinsic-fraud individual-capacity judicial-jurisdiction non-judicial-acts official-capacity |
1. Is non-judicial conduct/actions/decisions by judges and clerk in their official capacity under color of law, and in their individual capacity for n… |
| 20-7760 |
John Worthington v. Office of National Drug Control Policy, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure-act agency-action civil-procedure docket-management final-agency-action level-playing-field local-rule-7b official-capacity summons-and-complaint tort-claim tort-claims trial-court-arguments |
1. Whether the trial court erred by failing to apply local rule 7(b), the local "docket management tool", to keep a "level playing field."
2. Whether… |
| 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… |
| 20-84 |
Teresita A. Canuto v. Troy Alexander, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-07-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
acting-official civil-procedure due-process foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act immunity-doctrine individual-liability jurisdictional-challenge official-capacity standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a foreign state's immunity from suit under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1604 extends to an individual for acts taken i… |
| 19-1122 |
Hong Tang v. University of Baltimore, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-13 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-injunctive-relief declaratory-relief due-process eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young jurisdictional-grounds official-capacity pro-se-litigant service-of-process sovereign-immunity standing |
1. Whether the lower courts should have liberally construed the pro se litigant's claims against the state officials' offices (the University of Balti… |
| 19-971 |
Angela James, et al. v. JW Gaming Development, LLC, a California Limited Liability Company |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights congress federal-courts individual-liability legal-standing official-capacity sovereign-immunity state-courts tribal-governance tribal-sovereignty |
Whether an Indian tribe's governing body can be stripped of its sovereign immunity from suit for actions taken by its members in their official capaci… |
| 19-736 |
Andrew Clarke v. Russell R. McMurray, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Transportation |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights civil-suit due-process government-official individual-capacity legal-standing official-capacity pleading-defect sovereign-immunity standing state-immunity |
Government officials may be sued in their individual capacity. Such a suit does not represent a suit against the government entity for which he is ass… |
| 18A1228 |
Kalev Mutond, et al. v. Darryl Lewis |
District of Columbia |
2019-05-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
diplomatic-immunity foreign-official-immunity human-rights individual-capacity official-capacity torture-victim-protection-act |
Question not identified. |
| 18-1056 |
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… |
| 18-544 |
Teresita A. Canuto v. Department of Defense, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1604 28-usc-1605 acting-official foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity foreign-state government-liability individual-capacity individual-liability official-capacity service-of-process sovereign-immunity state-immunity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether a foreign state's immunity from suit under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1604 extends to an individual for acts taken in t… |
| 18-10 |
Stephen J. Anderson, et ux. v. Gary L. Rainsdon, Chapter 7 Trustee |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-02 |
Denied |
|
appeal-time-limits appeals bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-trustee chapter-7-bankruptcy civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure official-capacity standing statutory-interpretation time-to-appeal united-states-officer |
Whether a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Trustee is "a United States officer or employee sued in an official capacity" for the purposes of Fed. R. App. 4(a)(1)(… |