pandemic-restrictions
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-110 | Sally Priester v. Puerto Rico Department of Health, et al. | First Circuit | 2025-07-29 | Denied | Relisted (2) | first-amendment free-speech government-interference healthcare-speech licensing-board pandemic-restrictions | Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, Dr. Priester, M.D., exerted her rights under the Free Speech, Freedom of Association, and Free… |
| 23-7232 | Quotez Tyvick Pair v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitution constitutional-rights covid-19 district-court due-process federal-courts judicial-procedure pandemic-restrictions sixth-amendment speedy-trial | 1. CAN A UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT'S GENERAL ORDER SUSPEND RIGHTS UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA? 2. DID THE COVID-19 PAND… |
| 23-6886 | Paul Francisco Torres, III v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial jury-trials pandemic pandemic-restrictions sixth-amendment speedy-trial | Did prolonged jury-trial bans during the pandemic violate the Sixth Amendment's Speedy Trial Clause, especially as to those accused who were jailed du… |
| 23-627 | Chad Parker, et al. v. Governor of Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-12-11 | Denied | Response Waived | capable-of-repetition civil-rights constitutional-challenge contact-tracing covid-mask-mandate due-process mootness pandemic-restrictions privacy-rights standing standing-doctrine voluntary-cessation | 1. Is this constitutional challenge to the Pennsylvania "mask mandate" moot when the restriction is capable of repetition yet so short in duration tha… |
| 22-250 | Matthew Brach, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-09-16 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | article-iii article-three case-or-controversy civil-rights due-process emergency-powers executive-action mootness pandemic-restrictions standing | Is a case moot under Article III's case or controversy requirement when the governor rescinds the offending policy after it is challenged in court, bu… |
| 21-698 | Butler County, Pennsylvania, et al. v. Tom Wolf, Governor of Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-11-12 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | capable-of-repetition civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 due-process government-response mootness-doctrine pandemic-response pandemic-restrictions standing takings voluntary-cessation | Whether the doctrine of mootness applies; Whether the "voluntary cessation" exception or "capable of repetition yet evading review" exception to moot… |
| 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… |
| 20-1346 | Calvary Chapel of Bangor v. Janet T. Mills, Governor of Maine | First Circuit | 2021-03-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | employment-division-v-smith establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause government-discrimination jacobson-v-massachusetts pandemic-restrictions preliminary-injunction religious-liberty strict-scrutiny temporary-restraining-order | (1) Whether the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment prohibits the government from discriminating against houses of worship by restricting the … |
| 20-746 | South Bay United Pentecostal Church, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-11-30 | GVR | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived | civil-rights constitutional-review first-amendment free-exercise free-speech jacobson-v-massachusetts pandemic-restrictions religious-liberty strict-scrutiny | Once again, Petitioners South Bay United Pentecostal Church and Bishop Arthur Hodges III ("South Bay") must seek relief from this Court. California, i… |