| 25-875 |
Fort Bend Independent School District v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas |
Texas |
2026-01-22 |
Pending |
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cell-phone-logs confidential-records fourth-amendment government-disclosure privacy-rights public-records |
The Fourth Amendment protects "the right of the people to be secure in their . . . papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures." U… |
| 25-6099 |
Christopher J. Rahaim v. Ken Burke, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Clerk of the Circuit Court for Pinellas County, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process false-imprisonment judicial-discretion public-records rights-violations |
1. Should the established, freestanding public records rights be revisited for settling the
states conflicting, questionable lawful authority to frau… |
| 25-437 |
Public Interest Legal Foundation v. Jocelyn Benson, in Her Official Capacity as Michigan Secretary of State, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-10-09 |
Pending |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
deceased-registrants election-integrity national-voter-registration-act public-records standing voter-registration |
Congress enacted the National Voter Registration Act ("NVRA") to increase and enhance registration and voting by "eligible citizens," "protect the int… |
| 25-379 |
Public Interest Legal Foundation v. Al Schmidt, Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-09-30 |
Pending |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law article-three-standing election-integrity public-records statutory-interpretation voter-registration |
Congress enacted the National Voter Registration Act ("NVRA") to increase and enhance registration and voting by "eligible citizens," "protect the int… |
| 25-39 |
John Does 1-2, et al. v. Seattle Police Department, et al. |
Washington |
2025-07-10 |
Dismissed |
|
anonymous-expression first-amendment government-disclosure political-association privacy-rights public-records |
(1) Whether compelled public disclosure of politically sensitive information, including compelled statements regarding political beliefs, motivations,… |
| 24-7457 |
Thomas Lee Gudinas v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-06-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights death-penalty eighth-amendment executive-discretion fourteenth-amendment public-records |
1. Whether Florida abused its discretion in denying Gudinas's demand for public records from the Executive Office of the Governor, in violation of Gud… |
| 24A552 |
Barbara Kowal v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-12-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-appeals federal-agencies foia information-request public-records statutory-exemptions |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7112 |
Christopher J. Barnett v. Doug Drummond, District Judge, District Court of Tulsa County, Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2024-04-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provision due-process elected-official freedom-of-information judicial-records legal-standing oklahoma-supreme-court public-record public-records |
Whether the District Court violated the First Amendment and the Oklahoma Open Records Act by sealing a public court record containing a police report … |
| 23-7020 |
Donovan A. Reid v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law case-statement civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process freedom-of-information government-transparency jurisdiction legal-provisions public-records writ-petition |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6625 |
Wayne Frazer v. Bakery & Drivers Local 550, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-01-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process freedom-of-information government-transparency jurisdiction legal-review procedural-rules public-records standing supreme-court writ |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6379 |
Terrence LaFaive v. Records Custodian, Waukesha County District Attorney |
Wisconsin |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-work-product civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment plea-negotiations public-records standing |
1. Does the Common-Law exception recognized in State ex rel. Richards v. Foust
- that doesn't require a response from a Records Custodian to a public… |
| 23-6053 |
Nathan Nixon v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process first-district-court florida-supreme-court free-speech jurisdiction public-records standing |
Did the First District Court of Appeal of Florida violate questions in the Petition alleging that it conflicts with relevant decisions of this court?
… |
| 23-378 |
Joel Douglas, et al. v. David Hirshon, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure district-court extrinsic-documents extrinsic-evidence judicial-discretion legal-procedure motion-to-dismiss pleadings public-records standard-of-review |
Was the District Court required to consider extrinsic documents that were public records, or not directly challenged by anyone attached to the Respons… |
| 22-7865 |
Tiffany Recinos v. Mike Kreidler, et al. |
Washington |
2023-06-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights disclosure-requirements due-process government-accountability government-liability government-transparency official-immunity public-records public-records-exemption vicarious-liability |
Whether or not laws exist without documents when public disclosure is exempted?
Whether Commissioners of the government are held to obeying the laws … |
| 22-1109 |
Irving F. Rounds, Jr. v. Maura T. Healey, Governor of Massachusetts, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2023-05-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process evidence evidence-weighing judicial-recusal public-records recusal |
Has Irving Rounds, Jr. (hereinafter "Petitioner") been deprived of his due process rights under the 5th and 14th Amendments to the Constitution of the… |
| 22-1046 |
Thomas J. Kelly v. University of Florida Board of Trustees, et al. |
Florida |
2023-04-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-misconduct mandamus-petition presumption-of-innocence public-records separation-of-powers |
Whether when considering a petition for a writ of mandamus regarding a public records request, can a state civil, not criminal, circuit trial court ju… |
| 22-5056 |
Rosa Serrano v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review case-dismissal civil-procedure court-record disclosure due-process first-amendment judicial-procedure legal-standards procedural-dismissal public-records standing |
Question not identified. |
| 21-1555 |
Derek Allen, et al. v. Vertafore, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights disclosure driver-privacy-protection-act driver's-privacy-protection-act due-process fifth-circuit motor-vehicle-record personal-information public-records standing statutory-interpretation |
The Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994 makes it "unlawful for any person knowingly to obtain or disclose personal information, from a motor vehic… |
| 21-6603 |
Joanna Blauch v. City of Westminster, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-injury due-process equal-protection false-statements justiciability pro-se public-records standing supervisory-liability |
1. Whether ignoring live controversies defies U.S. Supreme Court justiciability standards requiring cause applied to injury-in-fact?
2. Whether condo… |
| 21-614 |
Brian Green v. Pierce County, Washington |
Washington |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
citizen-journalism citizen-journalist corporate-personhood first-amendment free-speech media-access press press-freedom public-records |
Whether barring individual citizen-journalists from accessing public records otherwise made available to news media, for lack of corporate personhood,… |
| 21-305 |
Angela DeBose v. University of South Florida Board of Trustees |
Florida |
2021-08-31 |
Denied |
|
agency-records constitutional-access exemptions fee-waiver foia foia-exemptions freedom-of-information privileges-and-immunities public-information public-records |
1. Whether the agency records at issue in this case are exempt from disclosure under any of the nine exemptions under the FOIA.
2. Whether non-exempt… |
| 21-5207 |
In Re David Martin |
|
2021-07-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech public-records standing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-8009 |
David Calhoun v. Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-12 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claim discovery due-process habeas-corpus habeas-petition judicial-review public-record public-records state-supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 20-1334 |
Bradley Boardman, et al. v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-24 |
Denied |
Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
first-amendment harris-v-quinn information-access opt-out-rights public-records public-sector-unions speech-rights viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether a law that skews the debate over the value of public-sector unions and undermines public sector employees' opt-out rights by giving incumbent … |
| 20-1091 |
Robert L. Schulz v. Town Board of the Town of Queensbury, et al. |
New York |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment government-accountability government-obligations petition-clause public-records republican-form-of-government state-statute |
1. Whether the lower Court has misapplied Minne
sota State Bd. for Community Colls, v. Knight, 465
U.S. 271 (1984) in ruling Respondent Town Board
… |
| 20-527 |
Kevin Guskiewicz, in His Official Capacity as Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, et al. v. DTH Media Corporation, et al. |
North Carolina |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
disciplinary-records discretion education-records educational-privacy ferpa public-records sexual-assault sexual-assault-disciplinary-records supremacy-clause |
Does the Supremacy Clause permit a state public-records law to override the discretion that FERPA grants universities over the disclosure of sexual as… |
| 20-5553 |
Joseph E. Lawrence v. Montana |
Montana |
2020-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech government-accountability judicial-misconduct public-records standing state-accountability subject-matter-jurisdiction |
(1) Are the Montana Supreme Court, Montana Attorney General and Montana's lower courts obligated and/or accountable to abide by the express provisions… |
| 20-5525 |
Larry R. Bailey v. United States, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law agency-discretion discovery-rights due-process federal-lands fee-authority fees judicial-procedure public-lands public-records standing |
(Due to cognitive issues from a previous stroke lam addressing questions in
order that they appear in pleadings to limit confusion on my behalf)
Whe… |
| 19-1311 |
Douglas Lynn Kirk v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-05-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-defense due-process evidence-subpoena government-agency ineffective-assistance legal-procedure mitigating-evidence public-records subpoena |
In Rompilla v. Beard, 545 U.S. 374 (2005), this Court held that a criminal-defense attorney who investigated mitigating evidence but failed to find va… |
| 19-8110 |
DeVinche Javon AlBritton v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adequate-state-ground brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct public-records state-procedural-ground |
(1) Does the availability in Public Records qualify as an Irideperidetit or Adequate State procedural ground to bar a State prisoner's Claim of prosec… |
| 19-7406 |
Bartholomew Antonio Guzman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-jurisdiction first-amendment freedom-of-information government-transparency habeas-corpus public-records standing state-court state-court-interpretation state-court-proceedings |
Question/Issue No.l: Isthe juckgment of the
because the habeas petitiower's State
hebeas proceralie
Question/Issue No.2: Did the United Stctes Distri… |
| 19-876 |
Fernando A. Ramirez v. Dave Hogue, et al. |
North Dakota |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-rights court-integrity document-fraud due-process evidence evidence-tampering fraud judicial-misconduct legal-procedure public-records spoliation |
After a 911 call, the police officer makes a report of what happened; This is electronically recorded and is called CALL FOR SERVICE. This document, b… |
| 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… |
| 19-699 |
Albert D. Moustakis v. Wisconsin Department of Justice |
Wisconsin |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law case-law common-law discretion discretionary-power judicial-review mandamus open-records open-records-law public-official public-records strict-scrutiny |
1.) Whether the common law writ of mandamus may be issued when a public official exercises discretion outside the constraints placed upon the discreti… |
| 19-600 |
Jon Krakauer v. Clayton T. Christian, Montana Commissioner of Higher Education |
Montana |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
civil-rights due-process ferpa free-speech gonzaga-v-doe higher-education judicial-discretion privacy privacy-rights public-interest public-records student-privacy student-records university-athlete |
In the process of writing a book about sexual assault on a college campus, Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town, Petitioner and Aut… |
| 19-5633 |
James F. Johnson v. Richard S. Tischner, Director, Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custodial-authority due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review parole public-records sex-offender-registration standing |
1.
DID THE COURT BELOW WAIVE IT'S POLICY OF NOT TO REVIEW OR OVERTURN ANY
DECISION RENDERED BY AND FROM THE APPEALS COURT OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA IN … |
| 18-8006 |
In Re Curtis Evans |
|
2019-02-15 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process freedom-of-information jurisdiction private-company public-records standing statutory-provisions |
Question not identified. |
| 18-1014 |
In Re Rex E. Russo |
|
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment access-to-courts constitutional-right due-process equal-protection equal-rights florida-constitution judicial-administration judicial-records judicial-transparency mandamus public-records public-records-access |
Florida's Constitution provides every person with the right to inspect or copy any public record made or received by the judicial branch, except recor… |
| 18-226 |
Eric G. Zahnd v. Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel, Supreme Court of Missouri |
Missouri |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
attorney-discipline attorney-ethics criminal-case due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-transparency professional-conduct prosecutorial-speech public-record public-records |
After the conclusion of a child sexual abuse criminal case, the Prosecuting Attorney of Platte County, Missouri, Eric G. Zahnd, issued a news release … |
| 18-5250 |
Vincent Michael Marino v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2018-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-secrecy civil-rights document-disclosure due-process foia FOIA-access foia-exemptions foia-privacy-act Inadequate-search privacy-act Privacy-Act-amendment public-records Reimbursement-of-FOIA-fees search-fee statutory-compliance statutory-interpretation |
Ground One
The District Court, Appeals Court for the Districtof Columbia Circuit committed reversible legal error, by improperly categorizing and misa… |
| 18-5019 |
Bohdan G. Seniw v. Connecticut General Assembly, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-misconduct hipaa-violation hippa law-enforcement medical-information medical-privacy medical-records privacy public-records retaliation whistle-blower whistle-blower-protection whistleblower-protection |
Why it was done Purposely ?
Why Enforce Whistle Blower Protection ?
I'm certain you will be hearing from him ( Edwin Gomes, Senator ) soon. Why it w… |