police-accountability
9 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-1245 | Masika Brown Ray v. Anthony Boone, Chief, Longview Police Department, Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-05 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection police-accountability selective-enforcement wrongful-detention | 1. Constitutional Violations of Due Process and Equal Protection: Did the Fifth Circuit err in affirming the district court's dismissal, where substan… |
| 23-385 | Clayton R. Hulbert, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Jeffrey W. Hulbert, et al. v. Brian T. Pope | Fourth Circuit | 2023-10-12 | Denied | Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 1983 civil-rights civil-rights-act first-amendment notwithstanding-clause police-accountability police-activity qualified-immunity section-1983 | 1. Whether any qualified immunity is abrogated by the Notwithstanding Clause of the Civil Rights Act of 1871, which provides that individuals are liab… |
| 23-319 | Evelyn Newey v. Orange County, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-09-27 | Denied | Response Waived | 1983-claims civil-rights decertification due-process heck-doctrine judicial-conduct judicial-policy law-enforcement police-accountability sb-2 | Of legal and national significance, important to real-world impact in law and order decision making, is the Peace Officers Decertification process all… |
| 23-276 | Dijon Sharpe v. Winterville Police Department, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-09-21 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (2) | civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement-interaction police-accountability police-filming public-recording qualified-immunity | This case presents a stark circuit conflict over a nationally important First Amendment question. By 2011, this Court had definitively held that gener… |
| 22-116 | Connecticut State Police Union v. James Rovella, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection | Second Circuit | 2022-08-08 | Denied | Response Waived | collective-bargaining contracts-clause freedom-of-information police-accountability police-misconduct public-accountability public-sector retroactive-legislation | Whether Connecticut Public Act 20-1, "An Act Concerning Police Accountability," violates the Contracts Clause, Article I, Section 10, of the United St… |
| 20-1022 | Jean Coulter v. Jamsan Hotel Management, Inc., et al. | Massachusetts | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | bias civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review legal-procedure massachusetts-police-accountability police-accountability standing | 1. Was Coulter denied Due Process because of Bias? 2. Is Pervasive Bias responsible for the denial of Due Process to Coulter and others? 3. Is the n… |
| 20-21 | Billy Duane Card Fleshner v. Matthew Tiedt, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2020-07-14 | Denied | Response Waived | 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process excessive-force law-enforcement police-accountability police-misconduct qualified-immunity | Can Peace Officers use excessive force when the force is objectively unreasonable and it violates well established case law and department policies? … |
| 19-1001 | Noble Cooper, et al. v. Officer Oliver Flaig, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-10 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (7) | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force law-enforcement police-accountability qualified-immunity | Should the Court eliminate or significantly revise the judicially created doctrine of qualified immunity to protect the people's core constitutional r… |
| 18-348 | Robert Weisler, III v. Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-17 | Denied | 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights Devenpeck-v-Alford fourth-amendment heck-v-humphrey police-accountability qualified-immunity warrantless-arrest | Whether Devenpeck, which only protects officers who either incompetently or maliciously arrest a person for a crime the arrestee did not commit, shoul… |