| 25-984 |
Dan McCaleb v. Michelle Long, Director, Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-02-19 |
Pending |
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administrative-transparency court-closure first-amendment freedom-of-information judicial-proceedings public-access |
1. In determining whether the public has a right to access meetings of the Tennessee Judicial Advisory Commission, must a court apply the "experience … |
| 25A817 |
Dan McCaleb v. Michelle Long, Director, Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-14 |
Application |
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advisory-body experience-and-logic first-amendment government-proceedings public-access richmond-newspapers |
This case concerns whether, in determining whether the public has a right to access meetings of the Tennessee Judicial Advisory Commission, a court mu… |
| 24-7382 |
Issac Jermale Fisher v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2025-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-significance courtroom-closure public-access structural-error trial-court-standards waller-v-georgia |
When do intentional actions designed to restrict the public's entry to the courtroom constitute a closure of constitutional significance that, unless … |
| 24-6692 |
Barbara Kowal v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-03-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split evidence-admission freedom-of-information-act government-custody judicial-records public-access |
Whether a judicial record admitted into evidence as an unsealed exhibit at a
public trial ceases to be a public record if the Government takes custody… |
| 24A685 |
Deandre Swain v. Martavious Kincaide, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-01-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
cooperation-agreement criminal-proceeding first-amendment plea-supplement public-access right-of-access |
Question not identified. |
| 24-338 |
Troy A. Minter v. Alexander Falconi, et al. |
Nevada |
2024-09-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights divorce-proceedings family-court first-amendment public-access strict-scrutiny |
1. Whether a state statute permitting the closing of a hearing in a divorce case upon the request of one party violates an implied First Amendment con… |
| 24A188 |
Troy A. Minter v. Alexander Falconi, et al. |
Nevada |
2024-08-21 |
Presumed Complete |
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closure-rules constitutional-right court-proceedings family-law judicial-discretion public-access |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7786 |
Christine H. Scott v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assembly-rights constitutional-rights contract first-amendment free-speech government-property petition-rights private-property public-access public-forum |
Whether the right to petition, assemble and speak freely on government-owned property held open to the public exists when the publicly held land is co… |
| 23-6437 |
In Re Tony Weems |
|
2024-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fifth-amendment just-compensation private-property public-access regulatory-takings takings-clause |
Question not identified. |
| 23A575 |
Elizabeth Stafford v. International Business Machines Corporation |
Second Circuit |
2023-12-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
age-discrimination arbitration-agreement confidentiality employment-law first-amendment public-access |
Question not identified. |
| 23A360 |
Michael S. Barth v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-23 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-intervention first-amendment judicial-records public-access search-warrant special-counsel |
Question not identified. |
| 23-129 |
Eddie Tardy v. Corrections Corporation of America, nka CoreCivic, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-10 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
civil-procedure court-records first-amendment intervention judicial-records judicial-standing public-access sealed-documents standing transparency transparency-rights |
Whether an intervenor's interest in transparency is sufficient to confer standing to seek access to sealed or protected judicial records (as the First… |
| 22-7208 |
Sherry Rock v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2023-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-disclosure common-law common-law-access first-amendment judicial-records police-reports public-access public-access-to-judicial-records sealing-order standing standing-to-challenge-sealing-orders |
1. Whether Petitioner (Member Of Public) Lacks Standing To Bring First Amendment Challenge To 1978 Judicial Order Sealing Police Reports Because She W… |
| 22-5650 |
In Re Bobby D. Hathaway-Bey |
|
2022-09-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure first-amendment public-access public-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
should this court isr s lowik toGrant alrit of Haks Corpus Jo a Moorish AMKican SovErig Man wHo has No wvaila forum to raiss his Comlilling clam of Di… |
| 22-5302 |
Michael G. Peters v. Actual Innocent Clinic |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech public-access standing |
Question not identified. |
| 21-764 |
Patrick Huff v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-rights courtroom-closure criminal-procedure first-amendment public-access sixth-amendment trial-procedure waller-analysis waller-v-georgia |
Whether, as the court below and two other states hold, trial courts may close a courtroom pursuant to a closure statute without undertaking the Waller… |
| 21-659 |
Asociación de Periodistas de Puerto Rico v. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, et al. |
Puerto Rico |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
Amici (5) |
civil-procedure civil-rights court-closure domestic-violence due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-proceedings press-rights public-access standing |
1. Whether courts may summarily close judicial proceedings and deny access to the official recordings of those proceedings without determining whether… |
| 20-1499 |
American Civil Liberties Union v. United States |
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court |
2021-04-27 |
Denied |
Amici (7)Relisted (3) |
article-iii-court article-iii-courts constitutional-law first-amendment foreign-intelligence-surveillance-court judicial-jurisdiction public-access statutory-interpretation |
Congress created the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ("FISC") in 1978 to oversee electronic surveillance conducted for foreign intelligence pu… |
| 20-6069 |
Jeff Howell v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-rule civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-discretion due-process indiana-statute information-access juror-access juror-deliberation public-access trial-procedure trial-proceedings |
1. Whether the lower courts erred by denying Howell's right to access of information on jurors who deliberated at his trial
2. Whether the lower cour… |
| 19-7826 |
Marlon R. Miller v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure document-sealing due-process first-amendment judicial-transparency law-enforcement-misconduct public-access public-access-to-courts right-to-fair-trial sealed-records |
Whether the district court correctly sealed an entire category of information from public access, including preventing Mr. Miller from having meaningf… |
| 19-890 |
Tom Jensen v. Hannah Blumenstiel, Judge, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-misconduct bankruptcy-court declaratory-relief due-process injunctive-relief judicial-immunity public-access |
Is a Bankruptcy Court judge absolutely immune from a complaint for injunctive and declaratory relief for denial of public access to the court?
Should… |
| 19-874 |
William Alan Pesnell, et al. v. Jill Sessions, et al. |
Louisiana |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-access criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights public-access public-records sixth-amendment trial-recording |
1. Whether La. R.S. 44:4(47) and the local rule of the 26th Judicial District Court in and for Bossier Parish can bar public access to the digital rec… |
| 19-630 |
Kyle Ray Hurst, Personal Representative of the Estate of Andrew James Hurst and on Behalf of the Estate of Andrew James Hurst Deceased and the Statutory Wrongful Death Survivor of Andrew James Hurst v. United States, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights commercial-area commercial-use due-process eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction federal-jurisprudence federal-lands-management fee-charged liability public-access standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment takings |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit wrongfully absolved
Respondent of liability when it determined that Moore
Lake was not an "area" where a fee was charged,… |
| 19-6274 |
Sergei Kovalev v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employee-immunity first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-information freedom-of-speech government-accountability government-liability municipal-liability public-access qualified-immunity |
On December 10, 2015, the City of Philadelphia and its officials denied constitutionally protected human rights of the United States Citizen, who had … |
| 18-1428 |
Gatehouse Media New York Holdings, Inc., et al. v. New York, et al. |
New York |
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
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criminal-procedure first-amendment press press-access press-rights public public-access public-right standing voir-dire |
Whether an application to a trial court by the press, as a surrogate for the public, in exercising its constitutionally required ability to be heard i… |
| 18-404 |
The Colorado Independent v. District Court for the Eighteenth Judicial District of Colorado, et al. |
Colorado |
2018-09-28 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
capital-murder court-records criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment first-amendment-access judicial-proceedings press-enterprise press-enterprise-co-v-superior-court press-enterprise-doctrine public-access qualified-right |
Does the public's qualified First Amendment right of access defined by this Court in a series of cases culminating in Press-Enterprise Co. v. Superior… |
| 18-358 |
Richard Roe v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights contempt document-sealing due-process first-amendment-right free-speech judicial-records judicial-records-access lower-court-authority lower-court-orders public-access public-docketing redactions standing supervisory-power supreme-court-supervisory-power |
In May 2012, by interlocutory petition from the same docket below, petitioner sought certiorari here in a case concerning the court-ordered concealmen… |