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25-875 Fort Bend Independent School District v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas Texas 2026-01-22 Pending 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…