police-accountability

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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…