| 25-1015 |
Nicholas Robles, West Covina Police Officer, et al. v. Ronnie Parham |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-24 |
Pending |
|
clearly-established-law evading-arrest fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity traffic-stop |
1. Does probable cause exist to stop, search, arrest, and prosecute a criminal suspect for evading arrest where unrefuted video evidence and the suspe… |
| 25-991 |
Samantha Lee-Ann Sealey v. Arturo Mancias, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-19 |
Pending |
|
civil-rights-action clearly-established-law constitutional-violation excessive-force qualified-immunity section-1983 |
I. To avoid dismissal of a § 1983 excessive-force suit, must a plaintiff plead, as an element of her claim, that the officer had a "superior alternati… |
| 25-985 |
Evan Norman v. Deputy Lee Ingle, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-19 |
Pending |
|
appellate-jurisdiction genuine-issue-of-fact interlocutory-appeal qualified-immunity summary-judgment video-evidence |
In an interlocutory qualified immunity appeal involving video evidence, under what circumstances, if any, may an appellate court review a district cou… |
| 25-981 |
Kyler Newby v. Gabriel J. Bassford |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-19 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
false-arrest first-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity retaliatory-arrest |
The question presented is whether a police officer is entitled to qualified immunity from a retaliatory arrest claim when the officer could have reaso… |
| 25-960 |
Oregon, et al. v. Paul Maney, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-13 |
Pending |
|
corrections-leadership covid-19-response cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment public-health-emergency qualified-immunity |
1. Whether the Eighth Amendment requires state corrections leadership to implement an overall "reasonable" statewide response to a public-health emerg… |
| 25-943 |
Antonio M. Smith v. John Kind, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2026-02-09 |
Pending |
|
clearly-established-law constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment government-official qualified-immunity |
When a government official acts in an obviously unconstitutional manner, is that sufficient for the violation to be clearly established, as this Court… |
| 25-933 |
Daniel N. Arbeeny, as the Administrator for the Estate of Norman Arbeeny, et al. v. Andrew M. Cuomo, former Governor of New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2026-02-06 |
Pending |
|
administrative-law constitutional-rights covid-directive nursing-home-deaths qualified-immunity state-actors |
1. How could the Second Circuit have reasonably concluded that the State Respondents Governor Cuomo and Ms. DeRosa, his Chief of Staff, could not have… |
| 25A859 |
Ulysses Lee Feagin v. Mansfield Police Department, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-30 |
Application |
|
excessive-force party-presentation qualified-immunity sixth-circuit summary-judgment taser-use |
Question not identified. |
| 25-859 |
Chelesy Eastep, as Surviving Spouse and Next of Kin of Landon Dwayne Eastep v. Steven Carrick, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-20 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor qualified-immunity reasonableness-standard |
1. Whether or how police officers' own creation of, or contribution to, a dangerous situation prior to the use of deadly force factors into the Fourth… |
| 25-6625 |
Roman V. Serpik v. Jill Weedon, former Judge, Second Judicial District Court of Oklahoma, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2026-01-20 |
Pending |
IFP |
access-to-courts due-process judicial-bias jurisdictional-threshold qualified-immunity sovereign-citizen |
1. Did the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals err by failing to address threshold State v. 'Roman Serpik LLC CROMAN SERPIK "), Beckham County Okla. Distri… |
| 25-838 |
Joseph Heid v. Mark Rutkoski, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-01-15 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
brady-violation civil-rights evidence-suppression excessive-force franks-challenge qualified-immunity |
1. Whether Petitioner Heid's two grounds for
challenging the arresting officers' defense of qualified
immunity defense constitute a valid "Franks
chal… |
| 25-826 |
Lesly Pompy v. Lieutenant Marc Moore, MANTIS, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-13 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
bivens-action constitutional-tort fourth-amendment home-entry qualified-immunity warrantless-search |
1. Bivens and the Fourth Amendment— Whether a warrantless, post-warrant home entry—conducted hours after the original warrant was executed and without… |
| 25A769 |
Jeffrey L. Clemens v. W. Michael Stewart, et al. |
First Circuit |
2026-01-05 |
Application |
|
civil-rights clerk-magistrate harm-to-party nondiscretionary-actions qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Question not identified. |
| 25-760 |
Hamdi A. Mohamud v. Heather Weyker, St. Paul Police Officer |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Pending |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
bivens-action cross-deputization fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 state-action state-action-doctrine |
1. Whether a local police officer wielding both state and federal authority can act under color of state law for purposes of 42 U.S.C. 1983.
2. If no… |
| 25-738 |
Nick Kosmalski v. Sherrell King |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
excessive-force fourth-amendment handcuffing qualified-immunity reasonableness-standard traffic-stop |
Whether the Sixth Circuit's three-factor tight handcuffing test, a brightline rule as stated and as applied in this case to deny qualified immunity, f… |
| 25A696 |
Samantha Lee-Ann Sealey v. Arturo Mancias, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-15 |
Application |
|
bodyworn-camera excessive-force fourth-amendment qualified-immunity seizure use-of-force |
Question not identified. |
| 25-688 |
Veronica W. Ogunsula v. Michael Warrenfeltz |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-12 |
Denied |
|
law-enforcement pro-se-litigation probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion traffic-violation |
1. Does a police officer observing an undisputed legal act(s) or something that is not illegal, without more, provide probable cause or a reasonable i… |
| 25-6325 |
Steven R. DeWitt v. Ceressa Haney, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-U.S.C.-§-1983 clearly-established-right constitutional-rights first-amendment government-official-recording qualified-immunity |
1. Should the Court abolish or substantially reform qualified immunity?
2. If qualified immunity survives, what constitutes a clearly established rig… |
| 25A677 |
Evan Norman v. Lee Ingle, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-09 |
Application |
|
appellate-review excessive-force qualified-immunity scott-v-harris summary-judgment video-evidence |
1. This case presents an important question dividing the circuits: Whether an appellate court has jurisdiction under Johnson v. Jones, 515 U.S. 304 (1… |
| 25-662 |
Erika Mabes, Individually and on Behalf of L. M., J. R. M., and J. A. M., Minor Children, et al. v. Shannon Thompson, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
child-protection civil-rights constitutional-violation investigative-errors qualified-immunity section-1983 |
This section 1983 civil rights case arises from the devastating consequences of medical and investigative errors in a child protection proceeding. Aft… |
| 25A661 |
Oregon, et al. v. Paul Maney, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-04 |
Application |
|
communicable-disease covid-19 deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment prison-conditions qualified-immunity |
Question not identified. |
| 25-637 |
Mark Hanneman, Minneapolis Police Officer, et al. v. Karen Wells, as Co-Trustee for the Next of Kin of Amir Rahkare Locke, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-12-03 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
appellate-jurisdiction deadly-force fourth-amendment no-knock-warrant qualified-immunity use-of-force |
1. When the Respondents' own factual allegations, the facts assumed by the courts, and the undisputedly authentic video footage, show the officer was … |
| 25-623 |
Ronald Smith v. Bexar County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-02 |
Denied |
|
community-caretaking constitutional-seizure fourth-amendment law-enforcement mental-health-detention qualified-immunity |
Under the 4th Amendment, a warrantless emergency mental health detention constitutes a physical seizure. Police often misconstrue ordinary street enco… |
| 25A618 |
Antonio M. Smith v. John Kind, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-11-25 |
Application |
|
constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment excessive-force prison-conditions qualified-immunity |
1. This case presents a significant question of law—namely, what circumstances must exist for the "obvious violation" doctrine to preclude application… |
| 25-6224 |
Latoya K. Benton, Administrator of the Estate of Xzavier D. Hill, Deceased v. Seth W. Layton, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a State Trooper for the State of Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
excessive-force fourth-amendment police-conduct qualified-immunity racial-bias summary-judgment |
1. Whether the Fourth Amendment requires courts to apply a holistic, totality-of-the-circumstances analysis to excessive force claims, including all p… |
| 25-604 |
Drew Craig, et al. v. John Krueger, Individually and as Co-Administrator of the Estate of Jeffery Krueger, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-11-24 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights de-novo-review excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity |
This case involves an attempt by several law enforcement officers to detain and arrest Respondents' decedent Jeffery Krueger on July 1, 2019. On that … |
| 25-594 |
Elizabeth Crockett, et al. v. John Krueger, Individually and as Co-Administrator of the Estate of Jeffery Krueger, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-11-21 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
clearly-established-right excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity reasonable-officer |
On the evening of July 1, 2019, Wagoner County Lieutenant Elizabeth Crockett and Deputy Matthew Lott responded to a call from deputies requesting assi… |
| 25-572 |
James Stuart Faller, II v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-11-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
absolute-immunity due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pro-se-litigant qualified-immunity |
1. Whether persistent and categorical judicial bias
and procedural disregard toward pro se litigants,
resulting in dismissal despite detailed factual … |
| 25-564 |
Scott Meyer v. Gayla Rahn, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-11-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion qualified-immunity second-amendment sovereign-immunity |
1. Whether the grant of the motion to dismiss was
an abuse of discretion, not based upon the undisputed
facts presented, and supported by only the e… |
| 25-6032 |
Thomas E. Nidiffer, et al. v. Officer David Lovato, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-11-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
curtilage fourth-amendment knock-and-talk law-enforcement qualified-immunity warrant |
1. Whether a locked gate surrounding the curtilage of a home clearly revokes the implied
social license for law enforcement officers to enter the pro… |
| 25-538 |
City of Los Angeles, California, et al. v. Estate of Daniel Hernandez, By and Through Successors in Interest, Manuel Hernandez, Maria Hernandez, and M. L. H., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-11-03 |
Pending |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
body-camera excessive-force fourth-amendment moment-of-threat police-shooting qualified-immunity |
This case arises from a split-second police encounter in which an officer fired six shots in six seconds at a suspect armed with a knife who appeared … |
| 25-532 |
Diana Snow, et al. v. Dennis Wiertella, as Father and Administrator of the Estate of Randy Wiertella, Deceased |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-10-31 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference medical-care prison-liability qualified-immunity subjective-awareness |
1. Did the Sixth Circuit depart from this Court's decision in Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825 (1994) in denying qualified immunity to Petitioners, des… |
| 25-472 |
Angelic Salgado, as Personal Representative of the Wrongful Death Estate of Jonathan Molina v. Kevin Smith |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-10-17 |
Denied |
|
clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment police-shooting qualified-immunity use-of-force |
1. Second-volley rule. When an officer shoots a suspect once in the chest, steps back for cover to reload, six to eight seconds pass, and the suspect … |
| 25-427 |
Walid Abdelaziz, in His Individual Capacity as a Police Officer for the City of Oakland, California, et al. v. Estate of Decedent Lolomania Soakai, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-08 |
Pending |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
due-process fourteenth-amendment police-liability qualified-immunity state-created-danger substantive-due-process |
1. Whether bystanders injured when a fleeing criminal suspect lost control of his car and crashed into them have a Fourteenth Amendment substantive du… |
| 25A401 |
Steven R. DeWitt v. Ceressa Haney, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-07 |
Application |
|
constitutional-rights first-amendment government-office public-officials qualified-immunity recording-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 25-403 |
Kenneth D. Anderson, et al. v. Crystal Estrada, Deputy, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-violation excessive-force fifth-circuit graham-factors qualified-immunity rule-12b6 |
The Fourth Amendment requires courts to evaluate excessive force claims based on the totality of the circumstances by sloshing through a "factbound mo… |
| 25-378 |
Donald Olsen v. Aaron Salter |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-09-30 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
brady-violation exculpatory-evidence fair-trial-rights identification-procedure qualified-immunity section-1983 |
The Circuit Courts of Appeals are in conflict on the
question of whether and when a police officer may be held
liable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for a v… |
| 25A295 |
Lesly Pompy v. Lt. Marc Moore, MANTIS, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-09-15 |
Application |
|
bivens-remedy fourth-amendment joint-task-force qualified-immunity warrantless-search westfall-act |
1. Bivens / Fourth Amendment: Whether, after Egbert v. Boule, 596 U.S. 482 (2022), a Bivens remedy remains available for warrantless searches and seiz… |
| 25-297 |
Jacob P. Zorn v. Shela M. Linton |
Second Circuit |
2025-09-15 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) |
civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity specificity |
Whether the Second Circuit's qualified immunity analysis conflicts with this Court's repeated instruction that courts must define rights with specific… |
| 25A292 |
Larce Spikes v. Lesley Wheat, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-minimum deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-care prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
1. This case presents an important question of federal law to resolve: in order to overcome qualified immunity and proceed on a claim of deliberate in… |
| 25-277 |
Aden Rusfeldt v. Officer Cristian Morar, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-09-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
fighting-words first-amendment free-speech heckler's-veto public-forum qualified-immunity |
Under the First Amendment, street preachers and counter-protesters can speak in front of a crowd but not to a crowd, or to any person therein, or else… |
| 25-267 |
Milton Green v. Christopher Tanner, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-09-09 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
constitutional-rights excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity reasonableness-standard summary-judgment |
1. In a case alleging that an officer used excessive force based on a mistake of fact, is the reasonableness of the officer's mistake a legal question… |
| 25-216 |
Mathew Grashorn v. Wendy Love, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
clearly-established-law imminent-danger jurisdiction objective-reasonableness qualified-immunity tenth-circuit |
Under this Court's well-established qualified-immunity framework, courts conduct a two-part analysis to resolve an officer's qualified-immunity defens… |
| 25-186 |
Alejandro Estevis v. Ignacio Cantu, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment police-shooting qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether Officers Ignacio Cantu and Eduardo Guajardo should be denied qualified immunity before trial for shooting six times at Alejandro Estevis while… |
| 25-179 |
Officer Phillip Reinink, in His Individual and Official Capacity v. Sean Hart, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-08-14 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity seizure use-of-force |
1. In the Fourth Amendment reasonableness of a seizure context, whether a law enforcement officer's intended level of force is relevant to determining… |
| 25A119 |
Donald Olsen v. Aaron Salter |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-rights due-process eyewitness-testimony law-enforcement qualified-immunity show-up-identification |
Question not identified. |
| 25-102 |
Jayne Swinford v. Officer Joshua Santos, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-07-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process jury-trial procedural-rules qualified-immunity seventh-amendment |
1. Seventh Amendment and Due Process:
Whether the lower courts violated the Seventh
Amendment's guarantee of a jury trial and the Fifth
Amendment's D… |
| 25-71 |
Matthew Farney, et al. v. Michael Rose, as Personal Representative for the Estate of Bradley Rose and on Behalf of all Statutory Beneficiaries of Bradley Rose, Deceased |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment police-encounter qualified-immunity summary-judgment |
1. This Court has never applied the obvious case exception to qualified immunity's second prong in the Fourth Amendment context. Although the Court ha… |
| 25A41 |
Mathew Grashorn v. Wendy Love, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-07-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights domestic-disturbance excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Question not identified. |
| 25-29 |
Priscilla Villarreal v. Isidro R. Alaniz, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-09 |
Pending |
Amici (11)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) |
arrest-without-cause civil-rights first-amendment free-speech government-officials qualified-immunity |
1. Whether it obviously violates the First Amendment to arrest someone for asking government officials questions and publishing the information they v… |
| 25A3 |
Milton Green v. Christopher Tanner, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-07-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment qualified-immunity reasonable-officer second-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 24-1310 |
David Engstrom, et al. v. James W. Denby |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment property-damage qualified-immunity warrant-execution |
1a. Three Officers executing a warrant used various degrees of force on a third party's residence in an effort to safely remove an admittedly dangerou… |
| 24-1229 |
Denise A. Canzoneri v. Prescott Unified School District, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-03 |
Denied |
|
clearly-established factual-allegations first-amendment light-most-favorable motion-to-dismiss qualified-immunity |
1. At the motion to dismiss stage, all factual allegations in the complaint must be viewed as true and resolved in a light most favorable for the plai… |
| 24-1214 |
Jared Cosper, in His Individual Capacity, et al. v. Perla Enriquez Baca, as Personal Representative of Amelia Baca, Deceased |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-05-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
deadly-force edged-weapon excessive-force qualified-immunity tenth-circuit use-of-force |
1. Whether the Tenth Circuit may establish a bright line rule for an officer's use of deadly force against a suspect armed with an edged weapon as in … |
| 24A1119 |
Curtis Levar Wells, Jr. v. Javier Fuentes, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-05-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
consent fourth-amendment inventory-search probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Question not identified. |
| 24-1124 |
Christopher Thomas v. Tracy Pachote |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-05-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
fourth-amendment officer-assistance qualified-immunity split-second-decision supreme-court-precedent use-of-force |
This petition poses important, but unresolved, questions of federal law regarding whether the Fourth Amendment permits an officer to use force based o… |
| 24-1099 |
Kyle Smith, et al. v. Rochelle Scott, Individually, and as Co-Special Administrator of the Estate of Roy Anthony Scott, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-22 |
Pending |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (14) |
bodily-pressure fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity restraint use-of-force |
1. Viewing the facts from the officers' perspective at the time, did the officers act reasonably under the Fourth Amendment by using bodyweight pressu… |
| 24-1091 |
Christopher Kiely, et al. v. Sherene Fagon, Administrator of the Estate of Zoe Dowdell |
Second Circuit |
2025-04-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction qualified-immunity second-circuit trial-court undisputed-facts |
1. Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in declining to exercise jurisdiction over Defendants' interlocutory appeal of the trial courts d… |
| 24-1079 |
Geoffrey Gray, et al. v. Washington State Department of Transportation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure ex-parte-young injunctive-relief qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity |
1. Should this Court grant certiorari to correct the error of the Court of Appeals below, where the Court of Appeals, contrary to binding authority of… |
| 24-1067 |
John Wetzel, et al. v. Roy L. Williams |
Third Circuit |
2025-04-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-rights death-row eighth-amendment mental-illness qualified-immunity solitary-confinement |
Was it clearly established for qualified immunity purposes that long-term solitary confinement for a death-row inmate with a mental illness violated t… |
| 24-1051 |
Michael Nissen v. Javier Ambler, Sr., Individually and on Behalf of All Wrongful Death Beneficiaries of Javier Ambler, II, the Estate of Javier Ambler, II, and as Next Friend of J. R. A., minor child, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-04 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force |
After a crash filled 20-minute high-speed car chase—
caught on video by police helicopter—Javier Ambler II
died while resisting being handcuffed due … |
| 24-1050 |
Estate of Te’Juan Johnson v. Amanda Rakes, Administrator of the Estate of Amylyn Slaymaker and Next Friend to the Minor Children G. C. and M. C. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-04-04 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment police-duty qualified-immunity state-created-danger |
Faced with a Section 1983 substantive due process claim under a "state-created danger" exception to the general rule that there is no constitutional d… |
| 24-1047 |
Ethel "Laverne" McVae, Individually and on Behalf of the Estate of Marcus McVae, Deceased, et al. v. Jesse Perez |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
deadly-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity totality-of-circumstances use-of-force |
Nearly four decades ago, this Court drew a constitutional line: law enforcement may not use deadly force against an unarmed, fleeing suspect who poses… |
| 24-998 |
Officer Eddie Boyd, III, et al. v. Fred Watson |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-03-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
causation-standard clearly-established-law first-amendment qualified-immunity retaliatory-force section-1983 |
The Eighth Circuit affirmed summary judgment in favor of Petitioner Officer Eddie Boyd as to all of Respondent Fred Watson's 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claims e… |
| 24-980 |
William Jones, Jr., Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Police Officer for the Los Angeles Police Department v. Ymelda Elena, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
excessive-force law-enforcement ninth-circuit qualified-immunity summary-judgment video-evidence |
In ruling on a claim for qualified immunity raised in a motion for summary judgment, does a court's obligation to view the evidence in the light most … |
| 24-919 |
Mike Miller v. Dillon Rock |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-canine qualified-immunity use-of-force |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit depart from this
Court's decisions in Graham v. Connor, 490 U.S.
386 (1989) and Plumhoff v. Rickard, 572 U.S. 765
(2014) in d… |
| 24A800 |
Officer Eddie Boyd, III, et al. v. Fred Watson |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-02-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
clearly-established-law first-amendment fourth-amendment objective-reasonableness qualified-immunity retaliatory-use-of-force |
Whether the First Amendment affords a right to be free from a retaliatory use-of-force that is otherwise objectively reasonable under the circumstance… |
| 24-891 |
Warren Balogh v. Chief Al Thomas, Jr., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-02-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights first-amendment government-violence monell-liability qualified-immunity speech-rights |
Whether the First Amendment protects speech amid violence left deliberately unchecked by the local government because such violence serves as useful p… |
| 24-887 |
Johnny Moats, Sheriff, Polk County, Georgia, et al. v. Stephen Jarrard |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-19 |
Denied |
|
first-amendment jail-ministry pickering-garcetti-framework qualified-immunity unbridled-discretion volunteer-religious-work |
1. Whether the Court's Pickering-Garcetti framework applies to a First Amendment claim by an applicant for volunteer religious work in a local jail's … |
| 24-886 |
Christopher Schurr v. Peter Lyoya, Personal Representative for the Estate of Patrick Lyoya, Deceased |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-02-18 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
deadly-force law-enforcement pleading-stage qualified-immunity summary-judgment video-evidence |
1. Whether Scott v. Harris permits courts to resolve qualified immunity at the pleading stage based on objective video evidence that demonstrates the … |
| 24-837 |
Anne Francisco, et al. v. Jason England, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-02-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
corrections-staff deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment mental-health qualified-immunity suicide-watch |
The Eighth Amendment prohibits prison guards from intentionally denying or delaying access to medical care. Respondents failed to immediately start su… |
| 24-823 |
Benjamin Benfer v. City of Baytown, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment police-force qualified-immunity |
1. Whether the Fourth Amendment can countenance an extended bite by a police attack dog where no adequate warning was given, and the suspect was unarm… |
| 24A752 |
Kyle Smith, et al. v. Rochelle Scott, Individually, and as Co-Special Administrator of the Estate of Roy Anthony Scott, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-31 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Question not identified. |
| 24A735 |
Latrisha Winder, as Next Friend of J. W., a Minor and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Stephen Wayne Winder, Deceased, et al. v. Joshua M. Gallardo, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
excessive-force fourth-amendment high-speed-pursuit qualified-immunity seizure use-of-force |
a. Whether the Court should reexamine and overrule its precedent on qualified immunity in civil actions under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Appendix A at 6) in li… |
| 24A693 |
Estate of Te’Juan Johnson v. Amanda Rakes, Administrator of the Estate of Amylyn Slaymaker and Next Friend to the Minor Children G. C. and M. C. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-01-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
deadline-extension petition-extension qualified-immunity substantive-due-process supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6315 |
Eric St. George v. City of Lakewood, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-01-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process police-shooting qualified-immunity tenth-circuit |
In the grant of Qualified Immunity, the Tenth Circuit applied the 2017 vacatur of Pauly I by White v. Pauly, 580 U.S. @ 78 to the 2016 shooting of Mr.… |
| 24-673 |
Randal M. Hall v. Travis Trochessett, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-20 |
Denied |
|
arrest-basis circuit-split first-amendment interference-statute qualified-immunity speech-protection |
1. Whether the First Amendment can countenance an arrest based on a husband's advice to his wife to take a clearly non-criminal action.
2. Whether th… |
| 24-6187 |
Joe Willie Cannon v. Michael Dehner, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court factual-findings interlocutory-appeal qualified-immunity section-1983 |
In actions brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, it is well-established that interlocutory review of a denied motion for summary judgment can only be … |
| 24-648 |
Officer Layau Eulizier v. Jose Vega-Colon, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Anthony Vega-Cruz, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-12-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review constitutional-violation law-enforcement material-facts objectively-reasonable-officer qualified-immunity |
1. Whether a court can deny qualified immunity when there are no material disputed issues of fact and all the United States Supreme Court and Circuit … |
| 24-618 |
Erin Wade, et al. v. City of Houston, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-05 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights fifth-circuit first-amendment mass-arrests pleading-standards qualified-immunity |
1. Whether this Court should correct the Fifth Circuit's departure from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings by selectively eliminati… |
| 24-573 |
Coleman County, Texas v. Patsy K. Cope, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-11-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bell-v-wolfish detainee-suicide fifth-circuit monell-standard municipal-liability qualified-immunity |
1. Does a Bell v. Wolfish conditions-of-confinement claim for detainee suicide allow a plaintiff to bypass the traditional Monell test for imposing li… |
| 24-570 |
Mary Dawes, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Decedent Genevive A. Dawes, et al. v. City of Dallas, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-11-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) |
body-camera-evidence officer-testimony qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment use-of-deadly-force |
In a qualified immunity determination on summary judgment, did the officer's testimony that he subjectively believed there was a danger justifying the… |
| 24A506 |
Marc M. Susselman v. Washtenaw County Sheriff's Office, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-11-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights constitutional-violations law-enforcement municipal-liability qualified-immunity sixth-circuit |
Question not identified. |
| 24-538 |
Donna Chisesi, Administratrix of the Estate of Jonathon Victor, Deceased v. Matthew Hunady, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-11-13 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights interlocutory-appeal law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment |
After a police officer fatally shot Jonathan Victor, Victor's estate sued the officer and his supervisor, Sherriff Huey Mack, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. … |
| 24-5917 |
Myrna De Jesus v. Dignity Health Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-11-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-malice defamation private-citizen publication qualified-immunity slander-per-se |
Whether the concepts of actual malice and excessive publication are required elements of defamation slander per se for a private citizen to prove that… |
| 24-504 |
Joseph M. Hoskins v. Jared Withers, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-11-04 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-retaliation due-process first-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity |
1. Whether qualified immunity shields government officials from liability even in cases where they retaliate against a person for exercising a clearly… |
| 24-5856 |
Anthony Shane Martin v. Erin Gaffney, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process first-amendment qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment |
Did the lower courts error in ruling to dismiss plaintiffs ' case(s) numbered above on grounds of error of law and misapplied rulings of the courts :1… |
| 24-473 |
Karen Jimerson, et al. v. Mike Lewis |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-29 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (4) |
circuit-split constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity search-warrant |
Whether Maryland v. Garrison clearly established that officers violate the Fourth Amendment when they search the wrong house without checking the addr… |
| 24-463 |
Marta Sanchez, et al. v. Anthony Guzman, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-10-24 |
Denied |
|
affirmative-defense burden-of-proof civil-rights governmental-defendants legal-standard qualified-immunity |
Whether a civil rights plaintiff bears the burden of disproving the affirmative defense of qualified immunity for governmental defendants or whether g… |
| 24-406 |
Matthew Hunady v. Donna Chisesi, Administratrix of the Estate of Jonathon Victor, Deceased |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-court deadly-force interlocutory-review law-enforcement qualified-immunity standard-of-review |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision that relied on the district court's use of a reasonable jury standard in a case arising from a law enforcement… |
| 24-383 |
For Our Rights, Inc., et al. v. David Y. Ige |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-U.S.C.-§-1983 constitutional-rights due-process emergency-powers qualified-immunity state-law-restrictions |
In 2020, it was clearly established that Americans had constitutional rights to liberty, to work, and to travel, among others. Moreover, it was clearl… |
| 24-378 |
Muzafar Babakr v. Jacob T. Fowles, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-10-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-shifting civil-procedure excusable-neglect pioneer-factors qualified-immunity summary-judgment |
Under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, a moving party is allowed an out-of-time filing if they establish excusable neglect. Fed. R. Civ. P. 6(b)(1)(B… |
| 24A311 |
Donna Chisesi, Administratrix of the Estate of Jonathon Victor, Deceased v. Matthew Hunady, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-01 |
Denied |
|
common-law-immunity excessive-force failure-to-train qualified-immunity reconstruction-era-law section-1983 |
1. This § 1983 case raises two serious questions related to the doctrine of qualified immunity. The case arises from the shooting death of Jonathan Vi… |
| 24-266 |
Calisia Kelley and Johnnie Mae Kelley, Co-Administrators of the Estate of Bruce Kelley, Jr. v. Brian O'Malley and Dominic Rivotti, in Their Individual Capacities as Police Officers for the Allegheny County Port Authority |
Third Circuit |
2024-09-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
deadly-force factual-context graham-connor qualified-immunity tolan-cotton use-of-force |
I. In this deadly force case, the Third Circuit removed altogether from its definition of the 'specific factual context' of this case the Autopsy Repo… |
| 24A226 |
Corey Cunningham, on Behalf of Kodi Gaines, a Minor v. Baltimore County, Maryland, et al. |
Maryland |
2024-08-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Question not identified. |
| 24-230 |
Kathleen Wright-Gottshall, et al. v. New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-08-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bodily-integrity fourth-amendment government-employment medical-testing mootness qualified-immunity |
On August 6, 2021, New Jersey Supreme Court Justice Stuart Rabner and Judge Glenn Grant, in their administrative capacities as the heads of the New Je… |
| 24-5416 |
Christopher Dominguez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-rights excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Question not identified. |
| 24-193 |
Yoel Weisshaus v. Steve Coy Teichelman, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights law-enforcement material-fact qualified-immunity summary-judgment |
1. In Tolan, involving qualified immunity, the Court held, "Summary judgment is appropriate only if the movant shows that there is no genuine issue as… |
| 24-173 |
Malcolm Johnson, et al. v. Tina Kotek, Governor of Oregon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-16 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
due-process emergency-use-authorization experimental-vaccine fourteenth-amendment informed-consent qualified-immunity |
The well-established law is that medical experimentation on humans cannot be performed without informed consent, or with any degree of duress or coerc… |
| 24-172 |
Marques A. Johnson v. James Dunn |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arrest circuit-split constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity |
1. Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits arresting a passenger in a car not suspected of any wrongdoing solely for failing to immediately provide ide… |
| 24-152 |
Michael Pina v. Estate of Jacob Dominguez |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) |
armed-robbery excessive-force fourth-amendment investigative-stop police-use-of-force qualified-immunity |
San Jose police stopped decedent Jacob Dominguez, who was wanted for armed robbery, after tailing the ordered Dominguez to put his hands up. Dominguez… |
| 24A166 |
Tidera Harris v. Gregory Harvey |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-12 |
Denied |
|
deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Question not identified. |
| 24A140 |
Christopher Harry West v. Mark Emig, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-08-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment mattress-removal mental-health prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5247 |
Eric Cruz v. Officer Domingo Cervantez |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment brady-rule brady-rule-of-evidence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment evidence evidence-exclusion qualified-immunity safe-prison-act |
(I)
Did the U S District courts ,failure to allow relevant evidence
into trial proceeding violate ,Brady Rule of Evidence under
Brad
■Out.iv v Maryl… |
| 24-132 |
Mark Bambach, et al. v. Gina Moegle, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-08-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure-jurisdiction constitutional-rights due-process johnson-v-jones jurisdiction qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton |
Whether a Court fails to follow the law, is a legal question. Whether a Court's holding expands jurisdiction is a matter of law. Where the only issue … |
| 24-130 |
Desiree Martinez v. Channon High |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-06 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-violation domestic-violence due-process fair-warning police-conduct police-liability qualified-immunity |
Whether an officer can be fairly warned about the unconstitutionality of her conduct even when the facts of previous cases are not materially identica… |
| 24-117 |
Todd Berman v. Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, dba Fedloan Servicing |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
affirmative-defense circuit-conflict federal-contractor federal-contractor-liability government-instructions merits-trial qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity |
Whether derivative sovereign immunity is an affirmative defense to be proven on the merits at trial.
Whether the court of appeals erred in holding th… |
| 24-5174 |
Michael D. Carver v. City of Kalamazoo, Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
absolute-immunity fabricated-evidence false-arrest fourth-amendment franks-doctrine investigative-conduct malicious-prosecution probable-cause qualified-immunity |
Whether Franks applies to material omissions, and assuming that the customary practice of lower courts that apply that rule is correct:
a. Whether pro… |
| 24-73 |
Sherry L. Burt, et al. v. Jimmie Leon Gordon |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-07-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
constitutional-rights covid-19 pandemic-response precedent prison-conditions prison-officials qualified-immunity sixth-circuit |
Did the Sixth Circuit improperly deny qualified immunity to prison officials based on their response to the unprecedented COVID-19 global pandemic by … |
| 24A74 |
Curtrina Martin, Individually and as Parent and Next Friend of G.W., a Minor, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
discretionary-function federal-tort-claims-act fourth-amendment qualified-immunity search-warrant supremacy-clause |
First, does the FTCA's discretionary function exception immunize the United States from liability for torts committed by its law enforcement officers … |
| 24A59 |
Kathleen Wright-Gottshall, et al. v. New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-07-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-search covid-19 fourth-amendment government-mandate medical-testing qualified-immunity |
This case presents important constitutional questions concerning whether weekly government mandated medical testing of public workers violates the wor… |
| 24A55 |
Karen Jimerson, et al. v. Mike Lewis |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
clearly-established-law fourth-amendment qualified-immunity reasonable-efforts search-warrant wrong-house-raid |
Does an officer violate clearly established law when he executes a search warrant at the wrong house without ascertaining the address or conspicuous f… |
| 24-5056 |
Tyrone Stafford v. Arnold S. Zwicke, Executive Sheriff, Guadalupe County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement malicious-prosecution police-misconduct qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Does sitting with hands on steering wheel constitute the use of force that allows for officers to grab your neck and choke you in 2022, when the arres… |
| 24-15 |
Paulette Smith, Individually and as Successor in Interest to Albert Dorsey, Deceased v. Edward Agdeppa |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
|
clearly-established excessive-force fourth-amendment police-shooting qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment use-of-force |
In the context of Fourth Amendment claims alleging excessive force, the determination of a police officer's entitlement to qualified immunity in summa… |
| 24A4 |
Joseph M. Hoskins v. Jared Withers, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-07-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity retaliation |
Whether, in a retaliation case, to overcome qualified immunity a plaintiff need only establish that the right retaliated against was clearly establish… |
| 24A3 |
Darnell Anderson v. Aaron Fuson, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-07-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
Bivens eighth-amendment excessive-force federal-tort prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1374 |
Keyvon Sellers v. Jerry Nelson, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Eddie Lee Nelson, Jr., Deceased, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-02 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-duty deliberate-indifference due-process equal-protection jail-intake procedural-guideposts procedure qualified-immunity racial-segregation |
(1) Whether a jail intake officer with no responsibility
for classification or cell assignments nevertheless
had a clearly established constitutiona… |
| 23-1367 |
Pamela Quinlan v. Joseph P. Lopinto, III, Sheriff, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-02 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process fair-warning fifth-circuit malicious-prosecution qualified-immunity section-1983 thompson-v-clark |
Whether the United States Fifth Circuit cases of Guerra v. Castillo, 22-40196 (5th Cir. Sep 7, 2023) and Wallace v. Taylor, 22-20342 (5th Cir. Apr 24,… |
| 23-1333 |
Sami Azmi, et al. v. John Sylvester Penny |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-21 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights clearly-established excessive-force law-enforcement ninth-circuit qualified-immunity summary-judgment undisputed-evidence video-evidence |
In ruling on a claim for qualified immunity raised in a motion for summary judgment, does a court's obligation to view the evidence in the light most … |
| 23-7770 |
Jerry A. Smith v. John Galipeau |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process excessive-force judicial-review legal-procedure qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7723 |
Barbara Martin v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2024-06-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
change-of-venue civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-withholding prosecutorial-misconduct qualified-immunity standing witness-tampering |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1297 |
Michael Roane v. Tina Ray |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-12 |
Denied |
|
clearly-established-law fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-seizure objective-reasonableness personal-property qualified-immunity self-defense summary-judgment unreasonable-seizure |
1. Whether Roane's act had to be the "necessary" or "unavoidable" act, rather than within a range of objective reasonableness, to be considered an act… |
| 23-1282 |
John C. Baer v. Larry Trent Roberts, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
buckley-v-fitzsimmons circuit-conflict civil-rights due-process evidence-marshaling prosecutorial-immunity qualified-immunity section-1983 |
1. Whether prosecutors are always absolutely immune from 42 U.S.C. § 1983 liability for (1) post-charge acts (2) taken to marshal evidence to present … |
| 23-1285 |
Shawn T. Swindell v. Kenneth Bailey |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment civil-rights exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement-entry misdemeanor misdemeanor-arrest payton-rule payton-v-new-york probable-cause qualified-immunity |
1. Was it clearly established in 2014 that a law enforcement officer violates the Fourth Amendment when he witnesses a person commit a misdemeanor off… |
| 23-1257 |
Santos Argueta, et al. v. Derrick S. Jaradi |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-31 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights deadly-force factual-question qualified-immunity tennessee-v-garner use-of-force |
In Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1 (1985), this Court held that unarmed, nondangerous suspects fleeing officers can't simply be shot. But the decision… |
| 23A1046 |
Desiree Martinez v. Channon High |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-rights domestic-violence due-process precedent-interpretation qualified-immunity state-created-danger |
Are government officials entitled to qualified immunity in cases not involving time-pressured decisions so long as there is no prior precedent recogni… |
| 23-7538 |
Jose Luis Garcia v. Kyeong Park |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process judicial-discretion medical-care medical-malpractice qualified-immunity standard-of-care summary-judgment |
Did the Court of Appeals Erred in Affirming Summary Judgment When There Is Evidence of Deliberate Indifference of Dr* Park? |
| 23-7529 |
Reginald Andrew Paulk, Sr. v. L. Benson, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights counsel due-process federal-law judicial-review probable-cause qualified-immunity racial-animus sovereign-immunity standard-of-review |
Did the District Court and the Eleventh Circuit use the incorrect standard to review the issues and thus incorrectly apply the law under Tolau v. Cott… |
| 23-1232 |
Estate of Allan George, et al. v. City of Rifle, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-05-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights due-process factual-findings interlocutory-appeal jurisdictional-limits qualified-immunity scott-v-harris summary-judgment |
1. Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in expanding this Court's decision in Scott v. Harris to swallow the rule of limited jurisdiction on interlocutory … |
| 23-1227 |
Rachael Eubanks, et al. v. Dennis O'Connor |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
abandoned-property civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process property-rights qualified-immunity state-action takings |
1. Where the State recovers abandoned property
and later returns that property or its equivalent value
to the former owner, does the former owner reta… |
| 23A1023 |
Marques A. Johnson v. Chris Nocco, in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of Pasco County, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
fourth-amendment identification law-enforcement passenger-rights qualified-immunity traffic-stop |
Whether, consistent with the Fourth Amendment, a passenger in a car not suspected of any wrongdoing may be arrested solely for refusing to immediately… |
| 23A1005 |
Eric Cruz v. Officer Cervantez |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
cellmate-violence constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference pretrial-detainee qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1204 |
Daniel Kinsinger v. Sherelle Thomas, Administrator of the Estate of Terelle Thomas, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
arrestee-rights civil-rights constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference due-process law-enforcement medical-care qualified-immunity summary-reversal |
1. Whether the Third Circuit erred in holding that law enforcement officers' decision to transport an arrestee they believed had ingested drugs, but d… |
| 23A996 |
Yoel Weisshaus v. Steve Coy Teichelman, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split constitutional-rights qualified-immunity racial-profiling reasonable-suspicion summary-judgment |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1197 |
Damon Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-07 |
Granted |
CVSGAmici (37)Relisted (3) |
civil-rights constitutional-law damages government-official-liability individual-capacity-damages qualified-immunity religious-freedom religious-land-use spending-clause statutory-interpretation |
The question presented is whether an individual may sue a government official in his individual capacity for damages for violations of RLUIPA. |
| 23-1190 |
Alexsey Predybaylo v. Sacramento County, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-03 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process excessive-force municipal-liability pre-trial-detainee qualified-immunity strip-search |
1. Is an officer's intentional use of
substantial and aggressive force against a pre-trialdetainee in response to mere
passive resistance to a
strip … |
| 23-1158 |
Ryan Morrison v. Alvaro Ramos, Individually and in His Official Capacity, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-24 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 civil-rights fourth-amendment home-privacy privacy-rights qualified-immunity search-and-seizure section-1983 unreasonable-search |
Whether a federal court deciding a civil rights claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for deprivation of rights can find that the Officers were entitled to qua… |
| 23-1155 |
Priscilla Villarreal v. Isidro R. Alaniz, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-24 |
GVR |
Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
arrest-without-cause civil-rights criminal-procedure first-amendment free-speech government-officials news-reporting public-officials qualified-immunity |
1. Whether it obviously violates the First Amendment to arrest someone for asking government officials questions and publishing the information they v… |
| 23A951 |
Keyvon Sellers v. Jerry Nelson, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Eddie Lee Nelson, Jr., Deceased, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
deliberate-indifference fourteenth-amendment inmate-safety jail-intake qualified-immunity racial-animus |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7269 |
Willis Maxi v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1131 |
Marcus Traylor v. Gideon Yorka |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-fabrication fabrication-of-evidence felony fourteenth-amendment misdemeanor qualified-immunity |
Respondent is a police officer who fabricated evidence used to bring misdemeanor criminal charges against Petitioner, which were subsequently dismisse… |
| 23-1108 |
Daril Foose, et al. v. Sherelle Thomas, Administrator of the Estate of Terelle Thomas, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-04-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights constitutional-violation custody drug-toxicity due-process fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement law-enforcement-custody medical-care qualified-immunity |
Whether the police officers' decision to transport a detainee who they suspected had ingested drugs to a nearby prison where he was evaluated by the p… |
| 23-1102 |
Timothy Allen Davis, Sr. v. City of Apopka, Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process false-arrest immunity law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure section-1983 stand-your-ground |
I. Whether the federal court denied effect to the immunity provision of the state statute when it concluded that the arrest of Mr. Davis was objective… |
| 23A882 |
Daniel Kinsinger v. Sherelle Thomas, as Administrator of the Estate of Terelle Thomas, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-04-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
deliberate-indifference drug-toxicity fourteenth-amendment medical-care qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether officers violate the Fourteenth Amendment by transporting an arrestee who denies ingesting drugs, declines medical care, and shows no obvious … |
| 23-7052 |
Shirron Jozette Gayles-Zanders v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2024-03-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction qualified-immunity standing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7034 |
Michael Carter v. Megan Hayes, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-03-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process government-employee judicial-misconduct judicial-proceeding qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity witness-immunity |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1014 |
Diyonne L. McGraw v. Khanh-Lien Banko, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process qualified-immunity separation-of-powers state-officials supremacy-clause |
Whether the Supremacy Clause and the Separation of Powers doctrine preclude the federal judiciary from relying upon the federal common law defense of … |
| 23-6996 |
Brian Anderson v. Jeff Long, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation court-order due-process inmate-rights prison-warden qualified-immunity standing state-prisons |
(1). If a State Prison Warden refuse s to obey a Court Order & refuses to
obey the Governor & refuses to obey the Executive Director Of Colorado Pris… |
| 23-991 |
City of Long Beach, New York, et al. v. Ricky Joshua Benny |
Second Circuit |
2024-03-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-court civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process excessive-force law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity |
1. Whether the Second Circuit departed from this Court's precedents, none of which it cited or discussed, when it concluded that two police officers r… |
| 23-6844 |
In Re Deborah E. Gouch-Onassis |
|
2024-02-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6832 |
Willie Levens, II v. Louisiana Insurance Guaranty Association, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity racial-discrimination standing |
I. What is the test of Levans Vs (Las pad invites, vi cld-ionkUMMb. rights.
2. kklhir an Off Mil OfFi'air sfill fliiairfto for ..fjjiflliTi'di immunf… |
| 23-915 |
Pleasant View Baptist Church, et al. v. Andrew Beshear |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19-restrictions free-exercise free-exercise-clause qualified-immunity state-actor |
1. Whether qualified immunity applies to a state
actor who, despite multiple circuit court decisions
directing him not to burden religious activities … |
| 23-896 |
Sean Garnand, et al. v. Greg Moore, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction jurisdictional-limitation legal-question qualified-immunity |
Can a Circuit Court of Appeals simply elect not to
decide purely legal qualified immunity questions over
which it has interlocutory appellate jurisdic… |
| 23-872 |
Josh Patrick v. LaRhonda Dunlap Perez |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity taser taser-use |
1. Is there variance among federal judicial circuits regarding how they apply Fourth Amendment law in excessive force cases involving taser use?
2. S… |
| 23-860 |
Brandon Holtan, et al. v. Mark Edward Nieters |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-09 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity unlawful-assembly warrantless-arrest |
In the aftermath of the 2020 killing of George Floyd, civil unrest broke out across the country, including in Des Moines, Iowa. Mark Nieters, a freela… |
| 23-842 |
Patricia Polanco, et al. v. Ralph Diaz, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-07 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process government-liability immunity judicial-doctrine law-enforcement legal-standard qualified-immunity standing |
Whether the Court should reverse or recalibrate the doctrine of qualified immunity. |
| 23-837 |
Casey Campbell v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
de-novo-review federal-employee first-amendment judicial-admissions qualified-immunity religious-discrimination title-vii workplace |
1. Are employer statements on religious dis crimination that are included in the complaint and
admitted in the answer binding judicial admissions in … |
| 23-738 |
Leasa Marie Wright v. City of Ponca City, Oklahoma, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-01-09 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights civil-rights-violation discovery due-process emergency-medical-care medical-negligence municipal-liability qualified-immunity spinal-cord-injury substantive-due-process |
1. Is it a violation of substantive due process for state medical personnel to actively and affirmatively inflict injury on a patient?
2. Is it an ob… |
| 23-6414 |
In Re Joseph Raimondo |
|
2024-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice qualified-immunity |
Whether the United State Eastern District of MI Court Errored when granting Respondents in civil cases No. 2:01-cv-71353, and Case No. 2:02-cv-71696, … |
| 23-722 |
Ralph Diaz, et al. v. Patricia Polanco, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation covid-19 due-process ninth-circuit prison-conditions qualified-immunity substantive-due-process |
Whether the Ninth Circuit improperly denied qualified immunity to prison officials in these cases by defining the relevant law at a high level of gene… |
| 23-695 |
Samantha Taczak, et al. v. Nicolette Cremeans, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment qualified-immunity section-1983 state-court state-court-precedent u.s-constitution |
This case arises from a question this Court has repeatedly declined to answer over the last four decades: what sources of law constitute "controlling … |
| 23-690 |
Brant Putnam, et al. v. Timothy Ryan |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 adverse-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech investigation medical-staff qualified-immunity standing |
This Court has frequently reversed erroneous denials of qualified immunity before trial, especially when lower courts have defined clearly-established… |
| 23-689 |
City of Los Angeles, California, et al. v. M. A. R., a Minor, By and Through His Guardian ad Litem, Elisabeth Barragan, Individually and as a Successor in Interest to Daniel Rivera, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights clearly-established excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity summary-judgment undisputed-evidence video-evidence |
In ruling on a claim for qualified immunity raised in a motion for summary judgment, does a court's obligation to view the evidence in the light most … |
| 23-688 |
Travis Scott King, By and Through His Guardian ad Litem, Breanna Raymundo, et al. v. DeMichael Dews, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bodily-harm civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment excessive-force hudson-v-mcmillian prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
This case arises out of the use of force for seven minutes on Petitioner Travis King by three correc-tional officers that ultimately resulted in King'… |
| 23-684 |
Andrew Knapp, et al. v. Janice Brown |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adverse-effects-for-police clearly-established-law constitutional-rights detention law-enforcement probable-cause probable-cause-determination qualified-immunity sixth-circuit warrantless-arrest |
1. Did the Sixth Circuit err in denying qualified immunity to four police officers involved in a warrantless arrest and detention in the absence of cl… |
| 23-664 |
Ralph Harrison Benning v. Tyrone Oliver, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-20 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-U.S.C.-§-1983 civil-rights constitutional-safeguards correspondence correspondence-interception due-process email prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
1. Where the Supreme Court has required that a prisoner is entitled to procedural safeguards if their "correspondence" is intercepted, are respondents… |
| 23-6287 |
Parnell R. May v. Kawhun Tims, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process excessive-force federal-procedure judicial-review qualified-immunity standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 23-649 |
Lisa Price, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Nickie Miller v. Montgomery County, Kentucky, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (13) |
42-usc-1983 brady-v-maryland civil-rights court-order due-process exculpatory-evidence legal-discretion prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Nickie Miller was wrongly incarcerated for two years for a murder he did not commit. The charges were based on a coerced confession from a woman who l… |
| 23-644 |
City of Charlotte, North Carolina, et al. v. Azucena Zamorano Aleman, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Rubin Galindo Chavez |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement precedent qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in the process it used to find a "clearly established" Fourth Amendment right because it used cases: (1) decided afte… |
| 23-630 |
James E. Pietrangelo, II v. Christopher T. Sununu, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Governor of New Hampshire, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-12-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-policy equal-protection qualified-immunity race-discrimination racial-discrimination section-1983 standing standing-doctrine |
Recently, Justice Thomas remarked how, despite the clear constitutional prohibition against racial classifications, government actors continue to "go … |
| 23-611 |
Adrian Martinez v. Sean Jenneiahn, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-07 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process excessive-force police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment use-of-force |
1. Whether the Court should reverse or recalibrate the doctrine of qualified immunity.
2. Whether the Tenth Circuit correctly decided that the office… |
| 23-587 |
Mark Jakob, et al. v. Clara Cheeks |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-12-01 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process evading-arrest medical-care police-apprehension qualified-immunity |
This Court has held, "The Due Process Clause. . . does require the responsible government agency to provide medical care to persons. . . who have been… |
| 23-6132 |
Chamone Ranell Russell v. Stark County Job and Family Services, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
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| 23-572 |
Dustin Williams, et al. v. Randall McElhaney |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split civil-rights extracurricular-activities first-amendment free-speech parent-speech-rights qualified-immunity school-rules |
Where a parent who has voluntarily agreed to be bound by team rules for their minor to play in an extracurricular academic setting including rules tha… |
| 23A481 |
Pleasant View Baptist Church, et al. v. Andrew Beshear |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
covid-19-restrictions first-amendment free-exercise hybrid-rights qualified-immunity religious-schools |
Whether this Court should limit qualified immunity for executive branch officials who have the benefit of deliberative process and legal counsel, part… |
| 23-541 |
Michael Donnellon, Deputy, et al. v. John Jordan |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-11-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
arrest civil-rights excessive-force first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity |
1. Whether the Tenth Circuit's use of Hill's First Amendment analysis negated the objective Fourth Amendment standard of Maryland v. Pringle, 540 U.S.… |
| 23-530 |
Terrence R. Yoast v. Pottstown Borough, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
|
excessive-bail false-arrest false-imprisonment fourth-amendment heck-doctrine malicious-prosecution probable-cause qualified-immunity section-1983 warrantless-arrest warrantless-entry |
1. Under the Fourth Amendment's in-presence requirement, a police officer who conducts a warrantless arrest on a person accused of a misdemeanor, or l… |
| 23-514 |
Kim Jackson v. Chris Dutra, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-16 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-law due-process judicial-system qualified-immunity standing stare-decisis |
Whether the Court should reverse or recalibrate the doctrine of qualified immunity. |
| 23-521 |
Denise Fisher v. Jodi M. Moore, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment qualified-immunity state-action state-created-danger |
Whether the Court should hold that it was clearly established by November 2019 that the Due Process Clause prohibits state officials from knowingly pl… |
| 23-513 |
Randy Smith, Sheriff, et al. v. Jerry Rogers, Jr. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-U.S.C.-§-1983 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights discretionary-functions government-officials harlow-v-fitzgerald legal-doctrine qualified-immunity statutory-rights |
1. What does it mean for a statutory or constitutional right to be "clearly established," beyond debate for purposes of § 1983 qualified immunity?
2.… |
| 23-5953 |
Michael Muthee Munywe v. Julie Dier, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Question not identified. |
| 23-459 |
Mark Sami Ibrahim v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2023-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-procedure federal-law-enforcement federal-officer interlocutory-appeal law-enforcement-immunity motion-to-dismiss qualified-immunity regulation statute statutory-interpretation |
Whether DEA Special Agent Mark Sami Ibrahim raised a colorable claim of a legislated immunity in the text of the statute and regulation granting Feder… |
| 23-5931 |
Donald Lee Kissner v. Joseph Michael Orr, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony judicial-error medical-care ninth-circuit pretrial-detention qualified-immunity |
I. Did the Sixth Circuit United States Court of Appeals commit clear error when it affirmed the motion to dismiss?
II. Did the Sixth Circuit United S… |
| 23-447 |
Jeremy Johnson v. Andre D. Boyd |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-court-precedent civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights fifth-circuit legal-standard qualified-immunity split-second-use-of-force use-of-force |
I. Whether circuit court precedent can clearly establish the law for the purpose of qualified immunity analysis, and, if so, under what circumstances … |
| 23-433 |
Joyce Daniels, as the Administrator of the Estate of Mark Daniels, Deceased v. City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-10-26 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process judicial-procedure law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment unsworn-testimony wrongful-death |
A police officer, Gino Macioce, shot and killed Mark Daniels. Shortly after the shooting, Officer Macioce was interviewed by other police officers. Of… |
| 23A376 |
Ralph Harrison Benning v. Tyrone Oliver, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
due-process email-censorship first-amendment prisoner-rights procedural-safeguards qualified-immunity |
Whether censorship of prisoner emails, without any notice that the emails are being censored, nor any opportunity to challenge the decision before a n… |
| 23A368 |
Adrian Martinez v. Sean Jenneiahn, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-10-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-canine qualified-immunity |
Question not identified. |
| 23A357 |
Brant Putnam, et al. v. Timothy Ryan |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
adverse-employment-action clearly-established-law first-amendment peer-review qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Question not identified. |
| 23-400 |
Travis Palmer Curran, et al. v. Janet Turner O'Kelley, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-17 |
Dismissed |
Response Waived |
civil-rights curtilage due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment objective-reasonableness qualified-immunity seizure |
1. Whether the Fourth Amendment objective reasonableness standard for exigency, and the availability of qualified immunity itself, remain questions of… |
| 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… |
| 23-387 |
Taylor Carlisle, Individually and as Representative Member of a Class, et al. v. Joseph P. Lopinto, III, Sheriff, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights drug-court due-process habeas heck-doctrine over-detention preiser-doctrine qualified-immunity |
1. In the absence of judicial proceedings conducted on the record with due process, are the minute entries "orders" and are the sanctions within the c… |
| 23-377 |
Chris Dutra, et al. v. Kim Jackson |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
|
circuit-court-precedent clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment ninth-circuit police-conduct qualified-immunity supreme-court-precedent |
The meaning of "clearly established" for qualified immunity purposes is not, itself, clearly established. There is a split among this Court's preceden… |
| 23A310 |
Casondra Pollreis, on Behalf of Herself and Her Minor Children, W.Y. and S.Y. v. Lamont Marzolf, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-10-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
dashcam-footage excessive-force qualified-immunity scott-v-harris summary-judgment taser-threat |
Question not identified. |
| 23-331 |
James Doe v. Gladys Pisani, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-09-29 |
Denied |
|
abuse-of-discretion disputed-facts interlocutory-appeal jury-trial material-facts probable-cause qualified-immunity summary-judgment |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding that "arguable probable cause" can support a claim for qualified immunity on summary judgment after t… |
| 23-324 |
Gerald L. Ferreyra, et al. v. Nathaniel Hicks |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-28 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
bivens circuit-split federal-officers fourth-amendment qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
1. Whether a cause of action exists under Bivens for Fourth Amendment claims against federal officers operating under a different legal mandate than t… |
| 23-274 |
William Felkner v. John Nazarian, et al. |
Rhode Island |
2023-09-21 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights clearly-established-law first-amendment free-speech legal-standard policy qualified-immunity section-1983 supreme-court |
Whether the judge-made "clearly established law" qualified immunity standard, which lacks textual, historical, and logical support, and which does not… |
| 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… |
| 23A255 |
Denise Fisher v. Jodi M. Moore, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
clearly-established-law deliberate-indifference fourteenth-amendment qualified-immunity section-1983 state-created-danger-doctrine |
Whether the state-created danger doctrine was "clearly established" when ten circuits unanimously recognized the doctrine, and whether the doctrine sh… |
| 23-5625 |
Gale L. Davis v. Chester James Walker, Jr., Father |
Second Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-259 |
Lewis County, Kentucky, et al. v. Julie Helphenstine, Administratrix of the Estate of Christopher Dale Helphenstine and Guardian of B. D. H., the Minor Son of Christopher Dale Helphenstine |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-18 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment objective-knowledge pretrial-detainee prison-officials qualified-immunity separation-of-powers |
Whether a pretrial detainee alleging deliberate indifference must prove the defendant actually knew of a significant risk of harm, as six circuits hav… |
| 23-227 |
Sarah K. Molina, et al. v. Daniel Book, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-09-12 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
circuit-split civil-rights clothing-expression first-amendment free-speech particularized-message police-observation qualified-immunity speech-rights |
1. Whether words printed on clothing are pure speech, and thus presumptively entitled to First Amendment protection—as the Fourth, Fifth, and Ninth Ci… |
| 23-5470 |
Cedric Adams v. Nick Diamond, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force governmental-tort-liability qualified-immunity standing |
Should a local government be dismissed from acceptance of claims and the very beginning of a suit with prejudice giving absolute immunity without allo… |
| 23A167 |
Erik Carrasco v. Terry Henkell |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-24 |
Denied |
|
affidavit exculpatory-information fourth-amendment omission qualified-immunity search-warrant |
Question not identified. |
| 23A133 |
Gerald L. Ferreyra, et al. v. Nathaniel Hicks |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
bivens-action circuit-split damages-remedy fourth-amendment qualified-immunity warrantless-search |
1. Because recognizing a Bivens action "is 'a disfavored judicial activity," it is settled that no Bivens claim may lie where "there is any rational r… |
| 23-93 |
Kevion Rogers v. Jeffrey Jarrett, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
civil-rights codification common-law-immunity congressional-intent due-process qualified-immunity section-1983 statutory-interpretation traditional-common-law |
This Court's qualified-immunity precedent derives from the premise that there is "no evidence that Congress intended to abrogate the traditional commo… |
| 23A94 |
Michael Boresky v. Jeremy Graber |
Third Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
bivens-claim collateral-order-doctrine false-arrest fourth-amendment qualified-immunity separation-of-powers |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5204 |
Larry David Davis v. Anna Catherine Cargile, Prosecutor, Pulaski County Prosecutor's Office, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-filing criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-document petition police-misconduct qualified-immunity search-and-seizure statutory-provisions |
Question not identified. |
| 23A61 |
Chris Dutra, et al. v. Kim Jackson |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity second-story-railing summary-judgment use-of-force |
Question not identified. |
| 23A42 |
Sarah K. Molina, et al. v. City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-07-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
clearly-established first-amendment legal-observers qualified-immunity retaliation section-1983 |
(1) whether wearing a hat identifying one as a "National Lawyers Guild legal observer" is protected speech under the First Amendment, or as the panel … |
| 23-37 |
Kyle Cardenas v. Josiah Saladen, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 unlawful-arrest |
Regularizing qualified immunity. In 42 U.S.C. § 1983 excessive-force and unlawful-arrest litigation, should this Court regularize the process for usin… |
| 23-7 |
Lynn Hamlet v. Officer Hoxie |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-rights conditions-of-confinement cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment prison-conditions procunier-v-navarette qualified-immunity section-1983 |
I. Whether it is "clearly established" for purposes of qualified immunity that the Eighth Amendment bars a prison official from forcing a person with … |
| 22-7887 |
Kevin W. Dunigan v. Raybon C. Johnson, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 22-1223 |
Gwendolyn D. Gabriel, et al. v. Merry Outlaw, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process obstruction-of-justice predicate-acts public-corruption qualified-immunity racketeering rico-statute witness-tampering |
After a Defendant/Respondent committed Fraud and Obstruction of Justice by Perjury, the other (comprised of both Defendant's Attorneys, Plaintiffs' At… |
| 22-7726 |
Gary Leon Webster v. John Thurston, Arkansas Secretary of State |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Question not identified. |
| 22-1171 |
James LeBlanc, et al. v. Jessie Crittindon, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment overdetention prisoner-rights qualified-immunity section-1983 state-officials supervisory-liability |
(1) Do high-ranking state prison officials violate a prisoner's constitutional rights by failing to promulgate policies cajoling independent, locally-… |
| 22-1163 |
Charles Anthony Dread v. Maryland State Police |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-hearing civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process malicious-intention qualified-immunity racial-discrimination summary-judgment |
(1) Was the Trial Court's denial of the Petitioner's
Motion for Summary Judgment and Request for Hearing without granting the Petitioner a Hearing he … |
| 22-1166 |
D. K. Williams, Warden, et al. v. Rafiq Sabir, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-06-01 |
Dismissed |
|
civil-rights constitutional-precedent due-process group-prayer inmate-rights prison-policy qualified-immunity religious-freedom-restoration-act |
1. Are RFRA claims exempt from the normally applicable qualified immunity requirement not to define clearly established law at a high level of general… |
| 22-1157 |
Craig Roper v. De'On Crane, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment civil-rights deadly-force excessive-force objective-reasonableness officer-safety police-conduct police-intervention qualified-immunity use-of-force vehicle-stop |
1. Whether an objective police officer could have believed it reasonable to shoot a person who had warrants for his arrest, had locked the doors and r… |
| 22-1151 |
City of Arlington, Texas v. De'On Crane, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
arrest-warrant fourth-amendment municipal-liability qualified-immunity reasonable-officer-standard traffic-stop use-of-force whren-v-united-states |
Rather than submit to arrest pursuant to multiple lawfully issued arrest warrants, a suspect who was pulled over for a traffic violation refused to ex… |
| 22-7614 |
Lisa A. Biron v. Jody Upton, Warden, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
christian-faith constitutional-rights federal-inmate first-amendment legitimate-penological-interests prison-regulations qualified-immunity religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act substantial-burden |
Does the Religious Freedom Restoration Act ("RFRA" ) and its compelling
government interest/least restrictive means-test apply to protect a
federal … |
| 22-7602 |
James Franklin Snyder v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2023-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process judicial-review police-misconduct property-seizure qualified-immunity standing state-court-jurisdiction |
Question not identified. |
| 22-1107 |
Officer Matthew Gregory, et al. v. Elise Brown |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law constitutional-rights department-policies excessive-force law-enforcement police-procedure police-training qualified-immunity |
1. A unanimous Ninth Circuit panel upheld qualified immunity for two police officers who followed department policies and training when they ordered t… |
| 22-1092 |
Onoyom Ukpong v. International Leadership of Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-09 |
Denied |
|
employment-discrimination federal-laws final-pretrial-judgment qualified-immunity section-1981 statute-of-limitations summary-judgment supremacy-clause title-vii |
1. Did the Fifth Circuit deviate from paramountcy of Supremacy Clause, federal laws and this Court's on-the merits-based final pretrial judgment prece… |
| 22-1062 |
Hinkle Family Fun Center, LLC, et al. v. Michelle Lujan Grisham, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-05-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-servitude inverse-condemnation property-rights qualified-immunity section-1983 taking takings |
This Court has recognized that when state governments require landowners to allow entry of persons on a landowner's property that placement of that se… |
| 22-1041 |
Kevin Brunner v. Megan Marie McMurry, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment child-welfare children civil-rights due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement protective-custody qualified-immunity |
"[C]ases involving unattended young children inside a home" fall within the exigent circumstances doctrine. Children need adult supervision.
This cas… |
| 22-1025 |
Sylvia Gonzalez v. Edward Trevino, II, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-24 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (23)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
arrest circuit-split civil-rights first-amendment free-speech government-record probable-cause qualified-immunity retaliation retaliatory-arrest standing |
1. Whether the Nieves probable cause exception can be satisfied by objective evidence other than specific examples of arrests that never happened.
2.… |
| 22-1005 |
Cornelius L. Emily, et al. v. Christopher Welters |
Minnesota |
2023-04-17 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement law-generality legal-standard precedent qualified-immunity supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Minnesota Supreme Court depart from this Court's decisions in City of Tahlequah v. Bond, 142 S. Ct. 9 (2021) (per curiam), Rivas-Villegas v. C… |
| 22-1003 |
Mucio Ramirez v. Christopher Martin |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-standard graham-v-connor police-brutality police-misconduct qualified-immunity reasonable-force use-of-force |
No dispute exists that Petitioner was intoxicated when Respondent assaulted him, but the police tried to stop Petitioner for a broken taillight. Petit… |
| 22-959 |
Gwendolyn Carswell, Individually and as Dependent Administrator of and on Behalf of the Estate of Gary Valdez Lynch, III and Gary Valdez Lynch, III's Heirs at Law v. George A. Camp, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights discovery immediate-appeal interlocutory-appeal motion-to-dismiss procedural-law qualified-immunity standing |
1. Whether a district court can defer ruling on qualified immunity at the motion-to-dismiss stage without triggering an immediate appeal.
2. Whether … |
| 22-949 |
Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Diana Hagen, Justice, Supreme Court of Utah, et al. |
Utah |
2023-03-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process forum human-trafficking judicial-misconduct qualified-immunity recusal sexual-harassment standing statute-of-limitations |
If Mr. Howell's mom knows the Court, is that a fair forum for Petitioner?
Should the Speak Out Act result in nationwide expansion of sexual harassmen… |
| 22-933 |
Jean Henderson, as Next Friend and Guardian of Christopher Henderson v. Harris County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment police-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 unreasonable-force |
Does qualified immunity shield an officer who uses unreasonable force against a fleeing misdemeanor suspect who complies with an officer's order to st… |
| 22-7081 |
Tamir Abdullah v. Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction qualified-immunity standing |
1. Does petitioner have the right to have his patrons heaped and his allegations disputed by Respondents?
2. Should there Bank on £ then Writ -#e7t/ … |
| 22-921 |
Dan Cherner v. Westchester Jewish Community Services, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-03-21 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights court-appointed court-immunity custody-proceeding due-process family-court forensic-evaluator judicial-immunity qualified-immunity state-action state-actor |
Are respondents, who were appointed as forensic evaluator in a custody proceeding by the Family Court of the State of New York, by court order which d… |
| 22-848 |
James Douglas Fox v. Mark Campbell, et ux. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
county-of-sacramento-v-lewis excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment graham-v-connor law-enforcement qualified-immunity seizure self-defense unreasonable-force |
Petitioner James Fox performed a welfare check at the home of Respondents Mark Campbell and Sherrie Campbell. Mark stated through the closed front doo… |
| 22-793 |
Paul Donald Davis, et al. v. Paul Waller, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split civil-rights deadly-force due-process hostage law-enforcement non-suspect-seizure qualified-immunity seizure use-of-force |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit misapplied the test for the constitutional use of deadly force set forth by this Court in Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1… |
| 22-756 |
Lannette Linthicum, et al. v. Robin Wayne Smith |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit medical-needs qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment summary-reversal |
1. Whether the Fifth Circuit manifestly departed
from this Court's precedent by holding that authority
that postdates the defendant's alleged acts can… |
| 22-735 |
Kori Anderson, et al. v. Tristen Calder, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Coby Lee Paugh |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-02-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
alcohol-withdrawal civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-violation due-process law-enforcement medical-needs qualified-immunity |
Is qualified immunity wrongfully denied to Petitioners in an alcohol withdrawal case based upon a general determination that ignoring serious medical … |
| 22-728 |
Daniel Cameron Wilkey, et al. v. William Eugene Klaver |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights clearly-established-law clearly-established-right fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop |
1. This Court has repeatedly instructed the lower courts that in determining whether a right is clearly established for purposes of qualified immunity… |
| 22-696 |
Reginald L. Gundy v. City of Jacksonville, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-01-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights first-amendment free-exercise free-speech government-speech qualified-immunity retaliation |
1. Whether Petitioner's invited invocation before the City Council, without any instructions or limitations, was private speech as the district court … |
| 22-675 |
Vicki Jo Lewis, et vir, Individually and as Co-Personal Representatives of the Estate of Isaiah Mark Lewis, Deceased v. City of Edmond, Oklahoma, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-01-20 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-reversal |
1. Whether this Court should reconsider the judge made doctrine of qualified immunity.
2. Whether qualified immunity insulates a law enforcement offi… |
| 22-640 |
David Wellington v. Fernando Daza, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-01-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
1st-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights content-seizure first-amendment fourth-amendment overbreadth qualified-immunity search-warrant tax-code |
In 2017 Respondents executed a search warrant (which had no affidavit) at Petitioner's home. It authorized a search for violations of 26 U.S.C. §7201 … |
| 22-632 |
Anthony Haworth v. City of Walla Walla, Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 absolute-immunity brady-violation civil-rights civil-rights-act common-law ku-klux-klan-act prosecutorial-immunity qualified-immunity section-1983 |
1. Whether this Court should overrule a halfcentury of precedent that has inaccurately interpreted the intent and purpose of Section 1983 by affirming… |
| 22-625 |
W.A. Griffin v. Blue Cross Blue Shield Healthcare Plan of Georgia, Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether the state of Georgia's mandatory provider assignment of benefit law drafted under Insurance Title 33 (Georgia § 33-24-54) is preempted by the … |
| 22-610 |
Warren Adam Taylor v. Augusta-Richmond County Consolidated Commissioners, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
|
case-controversy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss public-interest qualified-immunity standing statute-of-limitations |
1. Does Congress give this Court the authority under 28 U.S.C. 1292(e) to review the Fourteenth Amendment mandates under the case or controversy juris… |
| 22-6455 |
Michael Joseph DeMarco, Jr. v. Jeremy J. Bynum |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech government-accountability prison-grievance prisoners-rights property-destruction qualified-immunity retaliation |
1. Does the Plaintiff's First Amendment right to redress in the form of a prison grievance exposing corruption and illegal acts give the government em… |
| 22-589 |
Daryl Holloway v. City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-12-27 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification identification-procedure law-enforcement lineup qualified-immunity |
1. Whether the Court should address
ambiguity among the circuits on whether an unduly
suggestive identification procedure violated the Due
Process Cla… |
| 22-564 |
Juan Carlos Salazar v. Juan Rene Molina |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-20 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment circuit-split excessive-force graham-v-connor law-enforcement qualified-immunity reasonableness-of-force surrender-protocol use-of-force |
After initially fleeing from police who suspected him of speeding, petitioner encountered a roadblock, pulled his car over, exited, and lay face down … |
| 22-6352 |
Anson Paape v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-liability qualified-immunity |
Whether a Lewanal Oeerdon*S Oser Proceas Rags s Provilore bovernmen\ Xnkentvornol Ase 68% False. "Vestwwmory "Yo forand Suey Regordless hen Diectover … |
| 22-556 |
N. S., Only Child of Decedent, Ryan Stokes, By and Through Her Natural Mother and Next Friend, Brittany Lee, et al. v. Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-12-19 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (12) |
42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement legal-precedent qualified-immunity section-1983 |
1. Whether qualified immunity insulates a law enforcement officer from liability under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 if there is no factually identical precedent e… |
| 22-533 |
Ifrah Yassin v. Heather Weyker |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-12-09 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 bivens-action civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights federal-cross-deputization qualified-immunity section-1983 task-force |
Whether state and local police officers are immune
from suit under 42 U.S.C. 1983 whenever they are
federally cross-deputized as members of joint stat… |
| 22-509 |
J. T. H., et al. v. Spring Cook |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-30 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment hartman-v-moore law-enforcement qualified-immunity retaliatory-investigation retaliatory-investigations |
Whether investigations—even when they lack probable cause—are so categorically different from other retaliatory acts that they cannot be the basis for… |
| 22-510 |
Jody Lombardo, et al. v. City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-30 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights detainee-death due-process excessive-force law-enforcement police-misconduct police-restraint qualified-immunity |
When officers put a handcuffed and shackled person face-down on the floor and push into his back until he dies, are they entitled to qualified immunit… |
| 22-6146 |
In Re Maria Navarro-Martin |
|
2022-11-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing state-action |
Whether a former President is withholding, desclassifying, concealing or depriving of records and evidences in an offered proceeding where the prosecu… |
| 22-6131 |
Andrew Guy Moret v. Poornima Ranganathan, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process government-standard legal-procedure malpractice-standard medical-malpractice medical-professionals mental-health professional-liability qualified-immunity state-standards |
Whether the standard for mental health professionals to receive qualified immunity is higher, lower, or the same as other medical professionals?
II. … |
| 22-6118 |
Wilbert Glover v. Matt Bostrom, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection inmate-treatment prison-conditions qualified-immunity racial-discrimination |
RE. GLOVER NV. BOSTEM, TAL.
PETITIONER WILBERT GROVER AND OTHER INMATES OF ADC RAMSEY COUNTY JAIL SEND SEVERAL INTERNAL GRIEVANCES THAT WERE REJECTED… |
| 22-474 |
Laddie Huffman, et al. v. Rachel Harris |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-duties criminal-procedure detention due-process fifth-circuit mental-health qualified-immunity schizophrenic-inmate section-1983 |
In a Section 1983 action against county sheriffs arising from the detention of an incompetent criminal defendant, a court must grant qualified immunit… |
| 22-438 |
Glow In One Mini Golf, L.L.C., et al. v. Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-10 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
5th-amendment constitutional-rights covid-19 covid-19-shutdown emergency-powers equal-protection equal-protection-clause fifth-amendment qualified-immunity takings-clause |
1. Whether Minnesota's Governor has qualified immunity against Petitioners' Fifth Amendment Takings Clause claims for ordering the shut-down of their … |
| 22-5954 |
David Florence v. S. Frauenheim, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts amending-complaint civil-rights complaint-amendment court-retaliation due-process grievance-filing legal-procedure qualified-immunity retaliation |
CAN RESPONDENT INTENTIONALLY FALSIFY THEIR REPORT TO THE COURT TO OBTAIN QUALIFY IMMUNITY.
CAN PETITIONER BE RETALIATE AGAINST FOR FILING GRIVANCES B… |
| 22-373 |
David Schaszberger, et al. v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Council 13 |
Third Circuit |
2022-10-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights damages-liability due-process good-faith good-faith-defense qualified-immunity retroactivity state-action |
Is there a "good faith " defense under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that shields a defendant from damages liability for depriving citizens of their constitutional… |
| 22-5766 |
Clifford Benjamin Kinkade v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing |
Whether the district Court's order denying a certificate of appealability for petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to vacate, set aside, or correct th… |
| 22-5745 |
Deron Devaughn Mahone v. Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment material-omission probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-application |
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| 22-293 |
Anthony Novak v. City of Parma, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-09-28 |
Denied |
Amici (5) |
circuit-split civil-rights first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement parody parody-speech police-misconduct qualified-immunity |
Petitioner Anthony Novak created a parody Facebook page to mock his local police department in Parma, Ohio. Novak published six posts on the page, der… |
| 22-5646 |
Fred Freeman v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-09-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights classification-error court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion procedural-review qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5583 |
John Doe v. Harris County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Question not identified. |
| 22-223 |
County of Riverside, California, et al. v. Estate of Clemente Najera-Aguirre, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
9th-circuit clearly-established-law constitutional-rights deadly-force excessive-force law-enforcement ninth-circuit particularized-consideration qualified-immunity use-of-force |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit's panel decision denying qualified immunity contravene this Court's mandate that courts should not hold officers to a standar… |
| 22-224 |
Brent Stroman, et al. v. John Wilson, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights false-arrest franks-v-delaware franks-violation grand-jury law-enforcement pleading-standards qualified-immunity section-1983 |
This case involves issues relating to the arrest of respondents on the charge of engaging in organized criminal activity and the sufficiency of respon… |
| 22-183 |
Bryan Cowan, et al. v. Masa Nathaniel Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
1983-action civil-rights criminal-plea excessive-force heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey judicial-estoppel qualified-immunity section-1983 |
1. Plaintiff pled no contest to California Penal Code §69 prior to bringing this §1983 action against all three officers who were involved in his arre… |
| 22-5274 |
Joseph Covell Brown v. Marcus Porter, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process higher-education ministerial-tasks procedural-due-process qualified-immunity |
Whether the right to procedural due process in disciplinary proceedings involving suspension, expulsion or loss of housing in publicly funded institut… |
| 22-80 |
Frank Napolitano, et al. v. Laurence Washington |
Second Circuit |
2022-07-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split credibility criminal-investigation law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity subjective-intent warrant-application |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals improperly denied qualified immunity by requiring an officer to disclose his subjective intent and state of mind in a … |
| 22-5144 |
Khaled Shabani v. Tony Evers, Governor of Wisconsin, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-07-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction qualified-immunity standing |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5124 |
Michael Jerrial Ibenyenwa v. Elroddrock B. Wells, Sr., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process frivolous frivolous-claims in-forma-pauperis pleadings prisoner-plaintiff qualified-immunity twombly |
QUESTION: ONE
WHETHER ADEFENDANT SUFFIUIENTLY ANDPROPERLY INVOKES
ENTITLEMENT TO QUALIFIED IMMUNITY DEFENSE INAQZU.S.L.S19B3
CIVIL RIGHTS ACTION LAWSU… |
| 22-5121 |
Barbara Marie Frantz v. Kansas, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-07-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process medical-care qualified-immunity |
Whether the United States Supreme Court should decide, or further investigate, a case of Respondent's death, dependent on deliberate indifference to A… |
| 22-7 |
Joe Carollo v. William O. Fuller, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-07-01 |
Denied |
|
discretionary-function eleventh-circuit legislative-immunity mitchell-v-forsyth municipal-elected-official municipal-official policy-making qualified-immunity scott-v-harris |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals' narrow application of the legislative immunity doctrine to a municipal elected official departs from an… |
| 22-5011 |
Randolph Mays v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-liability law-enforcement qualified-immunity |
Question not identified. |
| 22-8 |
Anthony Momphard, Jr., Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Deputy Sheriff of the Macon County Sheriff's Department, et al. v. Melissa B. Knibbs, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Michael Scott Knibbs |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-force due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-use-of-force qualified-immunity use-of-force |
1. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in finding that a reasonable officer in Deputy Momphard's position would not have perceived a danger that justifie… |
| 21-8283 |
Sushila Gaur v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-force police-misconduct qualified-immunity |
Question not identified. |
| 21-8241 |
Randy Lassiter v. Gerald Jenkins, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment |
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| 21-1559 |
Sharon Powell, as Executrix of the Estate of William David Powell, et al. v. Jennifer Snook, as Executrix for the Estate of Patrick Snook |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-force due-process fair-notice fourth-amendment qualified-immunity totality-of-the-circumstances use-of-force |
1. When the unconstitutionality of an officer's conduct is obvious, must the court, in addressing the "clearly established law" prong of a qualified i… |
| 21-1552 |
Central Specialties, Inc. v. Jonathan Large |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-06-10 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-official legal-standard qualified-immunity scope-of-authority standing traffic-stops |
Whether, before proceeding to the qualified immunity analysis, courts must determine that a government official was acting within the scope of his aut… |
| 21-1540 |
Nita Gordon, Personal Representative of the Estate of Antonio Gordon v. Keith Bierenga |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-06-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation excessive-force fourth-amendment police-misconduct police-use-of-force precedent qualified-immunity section-1983 |
1. Does qualified immunity protect government officials so long as no prior precedent exists recognizing the unconstitutionality of a fact pattern exa… |
| 21-1522 |
Wayne Torcivia v. Suffolk County, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-06-03 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-entry qualified-immunity special-needs-exception state-actors warrant-requirement |
(1) Whether a so-called "special-needs exception" to the Fourth Amendment exists and allows warrantless entry into the home of someone who is not subj… |
| 21-8040 |
Dominique Brown v. Burgess McCowan, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-tort due-process prosecutorial-immunity qualified-immunity section-1983 standing state-action |
1. Can Court-appointed attorney's be sued under
Statite 1983 clain when they
violate or deprive an person of
thier constitutional rights"
2. Are prose… |
| 21-1502 |
Jeff Swanson v. Couy Griffin, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
|
civil-liberties first-amendment free-speech public-forum qualified-immunity social-media viewpoint-discrimination |
Did the Tenth Circuit err in reversing the decision of the District Court that Commissioner Couy Griffin was not entitled to qualified immunity after … |
| 21-1495 |
Jimmy Baldea v. City of New York License Division of the NYPD |
New York |
2022-05-31 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
2nd-amendment administrative-procedure civil-rights concealed-carry due-process handgun-regulation law-enforcement licensing-rights police-officer police-powers qualified-immunity |
1. Is License Division empowered to deny an unrestricted concealed carry license to a qualified police officer, as defined by 18 U.S.C. § 926B (2017),… |
| 21-1501 |
Orrilyln Maxwell Stallworth v. Rodney W. Hurst, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-31 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity section-1983 standing |
Whether the Court should recalibrate or reverse the doctrine of qualified immunity. |
| 21-1492 |
Anas Elhady v. Blake Bradley |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-05-27 |
Denied |
|
bivens bivens-remedy border-enforcement civil-rights collateral-order-doctrine due-process federal-law-enforcement interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction qualified-immunity |
For decades, this Court has vigilantly enforced the final judgment rule codified at 28 U.S.C. § 1291, emphasizing the "modest scope" of the "small cla… |
| 21-1466 |
Lenard Johnson v. Richard Winfrey, Jr., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-20 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment affidavit civil-rights damages-claim franks-v-delaware law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity section-1983 warrant-affidavit |
In Franks v. Delaware, 438 U.S. 154, 155-56 (1978), the Court identified a right of "limited scope" "that [applies], where [a criminal] defendant make… |
| 21-7926 |
Jonathan D. Stephen, Jr. v. Palestine Police Department, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation covid-19 due-process eleventh-amendment federal-jurisdiction qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing state-officials |
Why did Ashton Rodriguez $ Zachary smith ofte Palestine Police Dept. aCt Under color ofstate law, custom, or usAge, subjeets qnother to the depriation… |
| 21-7899 |
Francis Paul Sicola v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Question not identified. |
| 21-1422 |
Brett Ferris v. Chrystal Scism, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Joshua Scism |
Second Circuit |
2022-05-05 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
2nd-amendment civil-rights deadly-force due-process fourth-amendment lethal-force police-procedure qualified-immunity self-defense standing use-of-force |
Does the doctrine of qualified immunity shield a police officer from suit (not merely from judgment) where his/her split-second decision to deploy let… |
| 21-1403 |
Travis Morse, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Police Officer for the Town of Orono, Maine, et al. v. Christopher French |
First Circuit |
2022-05-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
circuit-court civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process knock-and-talk law-enforcement qualified-immunity warrant-requirement |
1. Did the First Circuit depart from this Court's qualified immunity precedent by defining clearly established law at a high level of generality and f… |
| 21-1396 |
Dustin Dillard, et al. v. Vicki Timpa, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Anthony Timpa, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment bystander-liability civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement-liability mental-health-intervention qualified-immunity section-1983 |
1. Whether the Fifth Circuit misapplied the
Court's qualified immunity jurisprudence in holding
that a police officer who held a mentally ill subject
… |
| 21-7580 |
Amos Lamar Burch v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech post-conviction-relief qualified-immunity standing |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7571 |
Anton F. Liverpool v. Reggie Cleveland, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-04-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process excessive-force habeas-corpus judicial-review qualified-immunity standing |
present an argument of genvine dispute ldissagrement to officer cleveland
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indicent exposure andy thecelore admitedly the delendent to havino knowla… |
| 21-1242 |
Chad Chronister, Sheriff, Hillsborough County, Florida, et al. v. Andrew Joseph, Jr., as Natural Father, Next Friend, and Personal Representative of the Estate of Andrew Joseph, III, Deceased |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-14 |
Denied |
|
article-iii article-iii-standing case-or-controversy circuit-court circuit-court-precedent probable-cause qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing supreme-court-precedent |
(1) This Court and several Circuit Courts of Appeals have held that federal courts should not reach the merits of a case, including issues such as sov… |
| 21-1229 |
Saved Magazine, et al. v. Spokane Police Department, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights content-based-censorship content-based-restrictions due-process dueling-protests first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech press-freedom public-forum qualified-immunity |
Police kept opposing protestors on separate sides of a street at an event called "Drag Queen Story Hour" held at a public library. A journalist for a … |
| 21-1225 |
The Estate of Dillon Taylor, et al. v. Salt Lake City, Utah, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-03-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights excessive-force jury law-enforcement material-dispute qualified-immunity summary-judgment tenth-circuit |
1. Whether the Tenth Circuit impermissibly expanded
the judicially-created doctrine of qualified immunity to
shield an officer where there is a subs… |
| 21-1220 |
County of Sacramento, California, et al. v. Kenard Thomas |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-violation due-process fact-determination law-enforcement qualified-immunity reviewing-standard section-1983 |
1. In deciding whether qualified immunity applies, the court is to view the evidence in the light most favorable to the plaintiff. Is it appropriate, … |
| 21-7311 |
Linda Baldwin v. Office of Injured Employee Counsel |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process federal-statute qualified-immunity reckless-conduct section-1983 |
1. Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, is a public official, whose reckless conduct proximately injured another violate a plaintiff 's federally protected right '… |
| 21-7313 |
Domonick Deshay Wright v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Question not identified. |
| 21-1204 |
City of Chico, California, et al. v. Estate of Tyler S. Rushing, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-03 |
Denied |
|
arrest-procedure civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity use-of-force |
1. As a matter of first impression, does the
Fourth Amendment prevent law enforcement
officers from deploying a Taser to safely arrest
a suspect who v… |
| 21-7232 |
Lance Reberger v. Michael Koehn, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protections cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-treatment prison prison-medical-care prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Are all U.S. prison officials required to provide all prisoners with healing spiritual medication for epilepsy, to prevent seizures that cause death?
… |
| 21-1163 |
Carolyn L. Baburka v. Township of Hazlet, New Jersey, et al. |
New Jersey |
2022-02-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1988 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-amendments federal-law qualified-immunity search-and-seizure state-law |
1. Did the courts below commit error by deciding
the case based solely on New Jersey State law,
failing to give any recognition to federal law such … |
| 21-1141 |
Charles Wade v. Gordon Lewis |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-violation due-process fair-warning medical-treatment prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Whether this Court's qualified immunity doctrine demands a nearly identical fact pattern before a case can clearly establish the law—as the Eleventh a… |
| 21-1125 |
Matthew Schantz v. Benny Deloach |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights deadly-force fourth-amendment objective-reasonableness police-pursuit qualified-immunity summary-judgment traffic-stop use-of-force |
1. Does the Fourth Amendment entitle police to seize all speeding motorists by shooting them, regardless of the circumstances and independently of any… |
| 21-1128 |
John Turnure v. Latrent Redrick |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process excessive-force qualified-immunity scott-v-harris sixth-circuit summary-judgment use-of-force |
I. Did the Sixth Circuit contravene Scott v. Harris, 550 U.S. 372 (2007) by ignoring record admissions, videos, and photographs to credit to Redrick w… |
| 21-1104 |
John Davis v. City of Andrews, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-09 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-statements law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity |
The Fifth Circuit ignored its own precedent and the controlling standards of law arriving at a decision upholding the doctrine of qualified immunity a… |
| 21-1075 |
Mandy England, in Her Individual Capacity v. Annissa Colson |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights correctional-officer due-process eighth-amendment inmate-treatment medical-determination medical-treatment qualified-immunity |
1. Whether a correctional officer violated a constitutional right of an inmate for not requesting further treatment for a non-life-threatening injury … |
| 21-6983 |
Shahid L. A. Majid, aka Arthur Moseley v. RN Richards, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-01-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process excessive-force municipal-liability qualified-immunity |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6947 |
Rayshawn J. Christmas, aka Rayshaun J. Christmas v. Jeff Jackson, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-law fifth-circuit jurisdiction mandamus qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing |
1) Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying die appellants writ of mandamus.
2) Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in dismissing… |
| 21-6904 |
Michel Thomas v. Stafflink, Inc., dba Link Staffing Services, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure |
X. What is the proper standard of review when it comes to the question of a void judgment and/or a constitutional question, and/or question of law, an… |
| 21-1014 |
T. O., a Child, et al. v. Fort Bend Independent School District, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment pedagogical-purpose public-school qualified-immunity school-officials |
1. Whether a public school student is barred from bringing an excessive-force claim alleging a violation of his federal constitutional rights whenever… |
| 21-6878 |
Ronald Cox v. Benjie Nobles, Deputy Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment prea-regulations prison-rape-elimination-act qualified-immunity transgender transgender-vulnerability |
Should the requirements of the Prison Rape Elimination Act, 34 U.S.C. §§ 30301 et seq. and PREA regulations be followed to protect the vulnerability o… |
| 21-6778 |
In Re Mark Thomas Garrett |
|
2022-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights court-discretion due-process equal-protection exceptional-circumstances extraordinary-relief legal-remedy qualified-immunity standing writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 21-973 |
John Colangelo, et al. v. Nicole Chase |
Second Circuit |
2022-01-06 |
Dismissed |
Response Requested |
civil-rights criminal-charges due-process false-statement malicious-prosecution police-investigation procedural-grounds qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Canton police officers investigated a complaint of alleged sexual misconduct wherein the complainant provided various versions of the incident and, af… |
| 21-6756 |
Tracy Clare Micks-Harm v. William Paul Nichols, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
absolute-immunity administrative-function civil-rights constitutional-rights HIPAA hipaa-immunity judicial-immunity proprietary-functions qualified-immunity retaliation search-and-seizure third-party-doctrine |
I. Does iralice, retaliation, deliberate indifference to the constitutional rights, acts committed within the scope of administrative function, acts c… |
| 21-947 |
Tettus Davis, et ux. v. Jonathon Hodgkiss |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights fourth-amendment franks-challenge interlocutory-appeal probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant section-1983 summary-judgment |
1. In a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 lawsuit alleging a Franks v. Delaware violation of the Fourth Amendment, where the plaintiff has made at least one substantia… |
| 21-860 |
Jane Doe v. Timothy White, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-09 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
due-process fourteenth-amendment goss-standard goss-v-lopez higher-education liberty-interest procedural-due-process property-interest qualified-immunity |
When State actors threaten to deprive individuals of liberty or property, the Fourteenth Amendment requires procedural protections that comport with m… |
| 21-837 |
Robert Bohanon, et al. v. Jacqueline Lawrence, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure district-court federal-courts interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction qualified-immunity summary-judgment |
Whether, and in what circumstances, a federal court of appeals has jurisdiction over an immediate appeal from a district court's summary-judgment orde… |
| 21-6488 |
Bertram S. Mann v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-12-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing |
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| 21-786 |
James P. Crocker v. Steven Eric Beatty, Deputy Sheriff, Martin County, Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-29 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech police-activity public-recording public-space qualified-immunity recording-rights |
1. Whether a First Amendment right to record police activities in public has been clearly established so as to preclude application of qualified immun… |
| 21-789 |
Casey Benton v. Mary Bradley, as Administrator of the Estate of Troy Robinson, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-29 |
Denied |
|
clearly-established-law constitutional-rights deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity taser-deployment tennessee-v-garner |
The issue in this case is whether a police officer who deployed a taser to stop a fleeing person on top of an eight-foot wall is entitled to qualified… |
| 21-770 |
Shelby Hawkins v. Johnny Banks, III |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights eighth-circuit excessive-force fourth-amendment police-conduct probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-force use-of-force |
1. Whether the Eighth Circuit wrongly denied qualified immunity to Officer Hawkins by finding the use of force was not reasonable as a matter of law w… |
| 21-774 |
Michelle Munger, et al. v. Brenda Davis, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights federal-rights inmate-rights inmate-services prison private-contractor qualified-immunity |
Can an employee of a private contractor providing constitutionally-required services to inmates in a county jail or state prison facility assert quali… |
| 21-778 |
Selina Marie Ramirez, et al. v. Jeremias Guadarrama, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (16) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force mental-health-crisis motion-to-dismiss police-conduct qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment |
To defeat a motion to dismiss in a Section 1983 suit alleging that officers used excessive force, must plaintiffs plead as an element of their claim t… |
| 21-783 |
Patsy K. Cope, et al. v. Leslie W. Cogdill, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (13) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process inadequate-medical-care jail-official pretrial-detainee pretrial-detainees qualified-immunity suicide-prevention suicide-risk |
Upon arriving in jail, pretrial detainee Derrek Monroe informed jail officials that he was suicidal and attempted to hang himself twice in his cell. J… |
| 21-6381 |
Russell Tinsley v. Merrill Main, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech qualified-immunity retaliation standing |
WHEATHER THE NEW JERSEY UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DENIED MR. TINSLEY 'S HIS FIRST AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION (RETALIATION CLAIM AG… |
| 21-709 |
Jacob Clark, et ux. v. Bernadette Stone, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment burden-of-proof child-protective-services civil-rights home-invasion home-privacy qualified-immunity warrantless-search warrantless-searches |
1. Whether qualified immunity applies to shield
from liability child protective services case
workers who repeatedly conduct warrantless
searches of a… |
| 21-6153 |
Suran Wije v. David A. Burns, et al. |
Texas |
2021-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-liberties due-process equal-protection equal-rights fourteenth-amendment immunity leave-to-amend liberty nondisclosure qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity |
Despite the freedoms and privileges of U.S. citizenship, for over 17 years, petitioner has been imprisoned within an illiberal democracy 1, having los… |
| 21-6075 |
James Frei v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment |
Question not identified. |
| 21-617 |
Christopher N. Payne v. Jahal Taslimi, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment inmate-privacy medical-confidentiality penological-interests prejudice privacy qualified-immunity |
Do inmates have a constitutional right to privacy in their HIV status, as the Second, Third, and Sixth Circuits have held (subject to legitimate penol… |
| 21-606 |
Donald Shooter v. Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech legislative-immunity legislative-procedure qualified-immunity standing |
1. Does this case present an important question not previously decided by the Supreme Court in which an elected member of the Arizona Legislature enga… |
| 21-6013 |
Zachary Scott Reed v. Michael Dixon, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights clear-error due-process judicial-fairness pro-se-plaintiff qualified-immunity standing |
If a district court applies qualified immunity to a case upon adopting a factual basis containing a clear error of fact, with such clear error being d… |
| 21-569 |
Gregory V. Tucker v. City of Shreveport, Louisiana, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights excessive-force fair-warning qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Respondents are police officers who tackled, punched, and kicked Petitioner Gregory Tucker after they pulled him over for non-functioning brake and li… |
| 21-6016 |
Zelda Ware v. City of Atlanta, Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity search-warrant state-agency |
1. Whether, consistent with the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, a court order directing a state agency to pick up a child is the f… |
| 21-549 |
Nicole Hutcheson, et al. v. Dallas County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights discovery discovery-standard municipal-liability plausibility-pleading qualified-immunity summary-judgment training |
1a. This Court has permitted "limited discovery" in cases where the defendant has asserted the affirmative defense of qualified immunity in its answer… |
| 21-533 |
Brad Martin, Individually and as an Employee of the Arizona Department of Public Safety, et al. v. Carlos Castro |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
clearly-established-law fourth-amendment k9-deployment law-enforcement qualified-immunity reasonable-force totality-of-circumstances use-of-force violent-crime |
1. When a law enforcement officer reasonably deploys a police K9 to restrain a fleeing suspect known to have a history of violent crime and believed t… |
| 21-5885 |
Michael Alan Webb v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment arbitration-award civil-rights district-court due-process federal-law legal-precedent manifest-disregard motion-to-vacate qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5733 |
Eric Westry v. Victor Leon |
Second Circuit |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
brady-violation civil-rights due-process excessive-force police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment |
1. How is it proper and legal for the court to state there were undisputed facts of physical assault, threatening behavior, and physical resistance of… |
| 21-423 |
Jason Cunningham, Individually and as Administrator ad Litem and Personal Representative of the Estate of Nancy Jane Lewellyn, Deceased v. Robert Paschal, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-09-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights due-process excessive-force material-fact qualified-immunity summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton use-of-force |
1. Does the ruling in this case by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit violate basic fundamental principles of Rule 56 of the Federal Rule… |
| 21-314 |
Ed Reynolds, et al. v. Karri Dalton, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Nikki Bascom, and Next Friend to M. B., a Minor Child and A. C.. a Minor Child |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-08-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
10th-circuit civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights domestic-violence equal-protection police-duty police-protection qualified-immunity Question not identified. section-1983
21-313" section-1983
21-313" |
I. Did the Tenth Circuit err in denying
Petitioners qualified immunity on Dalton's
Equal Protection claim where it was not
clearly established that po… |
| 21-317 |
Dean Koch v. Ohio Department of Natural Resources, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11th-amendment 42-usc-1983 bostock-v-clayton-county civil-rights-act civil-rights-act-of-1871 constitutional-interpretation eleventh-amendment judicial-doctrine qualified-immunity statutory-construction |
1. Does the Decision of the Sixth Circuit herein violate the canons of statutory construction especially those enunciated in Bostock v. Clayton County… |
| 21-264 |
San Diego County, California, et al. v. Ana Sandoval, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established-rights deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-care medical-needs pretrial-detainee qualified-immunity |
Under the Fourteenth Amendment, must a pretrial detainee alleging deliberate indifference to medical needs prove that the defendant was subjectively a… |
| 21-5417 |
Alfred E. Caraffa v. Tempe Police Department, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process official-capacity pleading-standards qualified-immunity standing |
I Address the Arizona District court's Refusal to trial iN CCSC No.2:I9-CV-O5492-PHx-MTL-ESW) when IrAppendix B pg-2of8 pt. It states Plainti f has cl… |
| 21-217 |
Marcy Britton v. Tim Keller, Mayor of the City of Albuquerque, New Mexico, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-08-16 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process inverse-condemnation penn-central-test property-rights qualified-immunity regulatory-taking regulatory-takings takings takings-clause |
As a threshold matter, did the lower courts err in light of this Court's recent ruling in of Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid , 141 S. Ct. 2063, (2021) t… |
| 21-187 |
Hamdi Mohamud v. Heather Weyker |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-10 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
bivens bivens-remedy circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-violation fourth-amendment law-enforcement-overreach qualified-immunity ziglar-v-abbasi |
Whether a constitutional remedy is available
against federal officers for individual instances of
law enforcement overreach in violation of the Fourth… |
| 21-152 |
Estate of Madison Jody Jensen, by Her Personal Representative Jared Jensen v. Kennon Tubbs |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights correctional-facilities due-process medical-personnel mental-health mental-health-facilities qualified-immunity |
Whether private medical personnel working in correctional or mental-health facilities can assert qualified immunity. |
| 21-149 |
Rodolfo Rivera, Jr. v. John Granillo |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-08-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process judicial-proceedings legal-standard material-facts probable-cause qualified-immunity |
The questions presented are whether the lower Court err in their decision granting Qualified Immunity and Probable Cause on grounds, which conflicts w… |
| 21-5267 |
Robert Drawn, IV v. Robert Neuschmid, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-claims district-court-assessment due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-standard qualified-immunity reasonable-jurists summary-judgment writ-of-certiorari |
DID PETITIONER DEMONSTRATE THAT REASONABLE JURISTS WOULD FIND
THE DISTRICT COURT'S ASSESSMENT OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL CLAIMS
DEBATABLE OR WRONG ... |
| 21-57 |
Levi Frasier v. Christopher L. Evans, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-15 |
Denied |
Amici (7) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement police-conduct police-recording public-conduct qualified-immunity |
1. Whether training or law enforcement policies can be relevant to whether a police officer is entitled to qualified immunity.
2. Whether it has been… |
| 21-5079 |
Donnell Bledsoe v. Richard J. Guiliani, Judge, Superior Court of California, San Joaquin County, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights color-of-law criminal-procedure due-process qualified-immunity |
A material point of fact or law was overlooked in the decision; 18 U.S.C. 242 |
| 21-5033 |
Relonzo Phillips v. Melody M. Maddox, Sheriff, Dekalb County, Georgia |
Georgia |
2021-07-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-economy malicious-prosecution patent pendent-jurisdiction qualified-immunity standing state-law-claims summary-judgment takings |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5051 |
Shangia Washington v. Cedric Taylor, Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit precedent prison prison-conditions qualified-immunity risk-of-harm subjective-knowledge |
1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit is following its precedent prior to Hope v. Pelzer to require a prior case on a… |
| 21-5038 |
Donnell Bledsoe v. Stockton Police Department, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process excessive-force exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment police-misconduct qualified-immunity search-and-seizure section-1983 |
The lower court(s) ruled that a federal criminal statute that enforces constitutional limits on conduct by law enforcement officers, provided in relev… |
| 20-1806 |
Kim R. Helper v. Patrick H. Stockdale, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-06-25 |
Denied |
|
absolute-immunity civil-rights first-amendment giglio-disclosure giglio-v-united-states law-enforcement qualified-immunity retaliation |
Did the Sixth Circuit err in denying Helper absolute immunity for communicating to the officers' employer her decision regarding them under Giglio v. … |
| 20-1796 |
Justin Strolis v. Lucas Heise |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-24 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights co-defendant-identification fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause qualified-immunity summary-judgment witness-identification |
I. In this civil malicious prosecution claim, is it error to replace the Fourth Amendment's totality-of-the-circumstances test for probable cause as t… |
| 20-1768 |
Ron Fenn v. City of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech government-accountability government-actor qualified-immunity standing supreme-court-precedent |
As the jurisprudence becomes broader on when a government actor enjoys qualified immunity and the instances where a citizen can hold that government a… |
| 20-1752 |
Devar Hurd v. Stacey Fredenburgh |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
civil-rights constitutional-deprivation due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest prolonged-incarceration qualified-immunity |
1. Whether prolonged incarceration past a statutorily-mandated release date is an objectively serious deprivation under clearly established Eighth Ame… |
| 20-1696 |
Jeriel Edwards v. Steven Harmon, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-06-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bodycam-evidence bodycam-video civil-rights civil-rights
20-1695" civil-rights-litigation de-novo-standard excessive-force fifth-circuit-review frcp-60b4-motion inherent-court-powers jurisdictional-requirements qualified-immunity rule-54-attorney-fees section-1983 summary-judgment Whether the Fifth Circuit can refuse to review the |
Does Scott v. Harris alter, or merely implement, traditional summary-judgment requirements—especially when a nonmovant § 1983 plaintiff relies on mova… |
| 20-1690 |
Ramon Cortesluna v. Daniel Rivas-Villegas, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights due-process excessive-force graham-factors material-facts police-shooting qualified-immunity scott-v-harris summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton video-evidence |
Did the Ninth Circuit depart from longstanding procedure and precedent and fail to view video and other evidence in the light most favorable to the pl… |
| 20-1685 |
Scott Fulford, et al. v. George Wingate |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-04 |
Denied |
|
civil-liability fourth-amendment law-enforcement-training qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion terry-stop totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances |
The Fourth Amendment requires that a Terry stop be supported by some minimal level of objective justification for the stop. In conducting a Fourth Ame… |
| 20-1668 |
City of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, et al. v. Austin P. Bond, as Special Administrator of the Estate of Dominic F. Rollice, Deceased |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-06-01 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6)Relisted (4) |
deadly-force fourth-amendment intoxicated-individual officer-safety police-conduct qualified-immunity seizure use-of-force |
1. Whether use of force that is reasonable at the moment it is employed can nonetheless violate the Fourth Amendment if the officers recklessly or del… |
| 20-8159 |
Craig S. Robledo-Valdez v. Aramark Correctional Services, LLC, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-05-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights county-deputy due-process employment-status government-immunity law-enforcement legal-standing notice-of-intent qualified-immunity standing state-government state-law |
1. DOES A COUNTY JAIL DEPUTY QUALIFY AS A "STATE EMPLOYER"?
2. DOES A NOTICE OF INTENT SENT TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF A STATE QUALIFY AS NOTICE UNDE… |
| 20-1632 |
Patrick H. Stockdale, et al. v. Kim R. Helper |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-24 |
Denied |
|
absolute-immunity clearly-established constitutional-rights first-amendment petition-clause public-employee qualified-immunity retaliation |
1. Whether the decisional law regarding retaliation under the Petition Clause of the First Amendment was clearly established to place a public officia… |
| 20-1629 |
George Wingate v. Scott Fulford, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-arrest due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing |
1. Whether the Court should permit the qualified immunity defense to extend to a court-invented, hypothetical and demonstrably counter-factual justifi… |
| 20-8089 |
Emem Ufot Udoh v. Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights davis-v-monroe-county-board due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment haines-v-kerner municipal-liability pro-se-litigation qualified-immunity standing |
Question One: In the (a) Denial of Plaintiffs Motions, Whether "Pro Se Litigants " are Held to the Same Legal Standards as "Counseled Litigants " in l… |
| 20-1591 |
Ashwin Khobragade v. Covidien LP |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment employment-law federal-rules fraud qualified-immunity rico stare-decisis white-collar-litigation |
1. Is the Defendant Covidien LP entitled to the
absolute qualified immunity? Which is luring,
hiding, lying, cheating, stealing, RICO and
committing f… |
| 20-1592 |
Caitlin McCann, et al. v. Sheila Garcia, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process legal-principles precedent qualified-immunity social-workers standing |
1. Whether a plaintiff satisfies the "clearly established law" prong of qualified immunity by identifying prior authority that articulates general leg… |
| 20-1578 |
William A. Graven v. Arizona |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11th-amendment civil-rights criminal-acts due-process qualified-immunity respondeat-superior service-of-process sovereign-immunity state-official-immunity state-officials |
It is long settled that a Complaint against State Officials is not a Complaint against the State, but that it is in-fact against the Officials, e.g., … |
| 20-1539 |
Daniel Rivas-Villegas v. Ramon Cortesluna |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-05 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
civil-rights constitutional-violation excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor law-enforcement ninth-circuit plumhoff-v-rickard qualified-immunity supreme-court-precedent |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit depart from this Court's
decisions in Graham v. Connor, 490 U.S. 386
(1989) and Plumhoff v. Rickard, 572 U.S. 765
(2014) in d… |
| 20-1540 |
Victor J. Edney v. Eondra Lamone Hines, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights court-jurisdiction default-judgment government-liability governmental-immunity legal-action motion-for-default qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity |
Why should the petitioners ' motion of frivolous claims be granted by this court?
Why did the petitioner not negate the respondents qualified immunit… |
| 20-1524 |
Advantageous Community Services, LLC, et al. v. Gary King, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-05-03 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process hope-v-pelzer legal-immunity medicaid-fraud qualified-immunity state-employees |
1. Should the doctrine of qualified immunity be limited to defenses at common law when the Civil Rights Act was adopted or should it be abolished by t… |
| 20-7906 |
Gerald J. Silva v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Question not identified. |
| 20-1519 |
Ismael Rivera v. Glennis Gelabert-De-Peguero, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-04-29 |
Dismissed |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process judicial-doctrine police-conduct police-officer qualified-immunity standing |
1. Whether Police Officer Ismael Rivera was correctly denied his entitlement to qualified immunity?
2. Whether the District Court correctly applied c… |
| 20-1471 |
Jonathan Lozada, Deputy Sheriff, in His Individual Capacity v. Dudley Teel, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Susan Teel |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-04-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-factors law-enforcement obvious-factual-clarity-rule qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether this Court should clarify the application of the Graham factors to a law enforcement officer's use of force during a call for service that doe… |
| 20-7799 |
Susan W. Vaughan v. Shannon Foltz, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process familial-association family-law fourth-amendment liberty-deprivation qualified-immunity standing state-statute |
Is Troxel v Granville correctly applied to a case that has nothing to do with grandparents' visitation requests, but is used, nevertheless, as grounds… |
| 20-1461 |
Jairo Acosta, Police Officer for the City of Los Banos v. Tan Lam, as Successor-in-Interest to Decedent Sonny Lam, aka Son Tung Lam |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights due-process evidence officer-credibility plain-error police-use-of-force ptsd ptsd-evidence qualified-immunity reasonable-officer threat-assessment use-of-force |
1. Is it plain error to admit evidence of a police officer's remote PTSD diagnosis to challenge the officer's credibility and prove he was more likely… |
| 20-1438 |
Tina Cates v. Bruce D. Stroud, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-law courts-of-appeals due-process fourth-amendment legal-doctrine precedent qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing |
1. Whether the unanimous conclusion of multiple other courts of appeals suffices to clearly establish the law for purposes of qualified immunity.
2. … |
| 20-7698 |
Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. Town of Cary Police Department, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity standing |
WHETHER DISMISSAL AS AN ACTION AGAINST THE TOWN OF CARY'S POLICE AND POLICE CHIEF TONI DEZONITS IS ADEQUATE WHEN PETITIONER PROVE FACTS TO SUPPORT HIS… |
| 20-7704 |
Daghrib Shaheed, et al. v. Stephan Kroski, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-entry-order civil-rights family-court fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure new-york-state probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant |
1. Is a civil New York State Family Court Investigation Entry Order the
equivalent of a search warrant, thereby authorizing the police to use force to… |
| 20-1402 |
Stephen Hammonds v. Robert Theakston, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-04-07 |
Denied |
|
11th-circuit 8th-amendment appellate-precedent civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process medical-care qualified-immunity section-1983 |
1. When the unconstitutionality of an officials' conduct is reasonably obvious, does that suffice to render the violation of those constitutional righ… |
| 20-1392 |
Jason Fowler, et al. v. Brittany Irish, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-04-05 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (3) |
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-duty due-process law-enforcement qualified-immunity state-created-danger |
Did the First Circuit err in denying qualified immunity to Petitioners where neither this Court nor the First Circuit had ever before recognized the s… |
| 20-1384 |
Amy Everett v. Cobb County, Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-04-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cease-and-desist civil-rights constitutional-rights custom-and-practice due-process first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement-discretion malicious-prosecution qualified-immunity speech-protection |
1. In the face of clear law, under Reno v. ACLU and traditional categories of unprotected speech, was it error to treat Everett's email s, which she c… |
| 20-7627 |
Khaled Shabani v. City of Madison, Wisconsin, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process federal-court free-speech judgment malicious-prosecution police-department qualified-immunity related-cases state-court |
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| 20-1362 |
Davdrin Goffin v. Robbie K. Ashcraft, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-30 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment police-shooting probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure tennessee-v-garner use-of-force |
Is an officer entitled to qualified immunity if she shoots a fleeing suspect in the back without warning after watching another officer search the sus… |
| 20-1336 |
Denis Quinette v. Dilmus Reed, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process fourth-amendment inmate-abuse qualified-immunity supervisory-liability |
Petitioner Denis Quinette was violently attacked by a jailer at the Cobb County Jail who had a terrifying history of violence and inmate abuse.1 Despi… |
| 20-1324 |
Charles McManemy v. Bruce Tierney, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-23 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process eighth-circuit excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement-conduct qualified-immunity standing |
I. A split exists within the Eighth Circuit concerning how narrowly or broadly existing precedent is to be applied in finding clearly established law … |
| 20-1318 |
Vincent W. Shack v. NBC Universal Media, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-22 |
Denied |
|
bivens-action civil-rights civil-rights-violation constitutional-rights due-process federal-agents governmental-immunity qualified-immunity |
Does the law afford the means to prevent and redress alleged civil right abuse by public officers and agencies? " The court allowed the use of United … |
| 20-7490 |
Martin Stanley Ivie v. Washington |
Washington |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights commerce-clause due-process excessive-force false-charges interstate-commerce medical-cannabis police-misconduct qualified-immunity regulatory-burden state-licensing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-1276 |
Stephen B. McKinney v. Felicia Harkness Dean, Guardian and Conservator for and on Behalf of Janel Harkness, an Incapacitated Adult |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
|
circuit-court-of-appeals clearly-established-law deliberate-indifference due-process intent-to-harm parratt-hudson parratt-hudson-doctrine qualified-immunity substantive-due-process |
1. Did the Circuit Court of Appeals err in failing to apply the Parratt-Hudson doctrine to the Respondent's substantive due process claim?
2. Did the… |
| 20-1280 |
Joseph Cotropia v. Mary Chapman |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-law fair-warning fourth-amendment government-immunity per-se-unreasonable probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure warrantless-search warrantless-searches |
Is the presumption that warrantless searches are per se unreasonable so obvious a violation of the Fourth Amendment that the presumption gives governm… |
| 20-1269 |
Amanda Kay Renfroe, et al. v. Robert Denver Parker, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-doctrine qualified-immunity separation-of-powers standing |
I. QUALIFIED IMMUNITY VIOLATES THE SEPARATION OF POWERS, IS REPUGNANT TO THE CONSTITUTION, AND IS VOID.
II. IS A FACTUAL REASONABLENESS FOR A JURY TO… |
| 20-7355 |
Cleophus Reed, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7332 |
Justin Laster v. Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-amendment civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity standing takings unidentified-issue |
Why would the United States Court of Appeals Eleventh Circuit express conduct that has so far departed the accepted and usual course of judicial proce… |
| 20-1172 |
George Ponik, et al. v. Jamie Williams, Individually and as Administratrix ad Prosequendum of the Estate of Peter Lee Williams, Deceased, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-force law-enforcement objective-reasonableness qualified-immunity summary-judgment |
1. May a Court refuse to engage in the requisite two step qualified immunity analysis, based solely on a decision that the more general liability ques… |
| 20-1128 |
Ralph Clay Walsh, Jr. v. Lisa Hodge, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law cross-examination due-process qualified-immunity title-ix |
Justice Thomas and Justice Sotomayor have criticized the "clearly established" prong of the qualified immunity test and would revisit the Court's prec… |
| 20-1082 |
Raymond Gardner v. Matthew T. Mglej |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-02-08 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search identification identification-statute law-enforcement qualified-immunity terry-stop |
Whether it was clearly established in 2011 that an arrest under Utah Code Section 76-8-301.5(1) for refusal to hand over an identification document vi… |
| 20-1066 |
Ashlyn Hoggard v. Ron Rhodes, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Amici (6)Relisted (8) |
case-precedent circuit-split constitutional-rights factual-similarity first-amendment higher-standard legal-standard public-university qualified-immunity |
1. Whether qualified immunity shields public university officials from liability when the reasoning—but not the holding—of a binding decision gave the… |
| 20-1006 |
City of Hayward, California, et al. v. Jessie Lee Jetmore Stoddard-Nunez |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-27 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment qualified-immunity section-1983 seizure use-of-force |
1. Whether an accelerating fleeing driver's sudden turn deprives a threatened shooting officer of qualified immunity?
2. Whether an unintended victim… |
| 20-1002 |
Cody William Cox v. Don Wilson |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process fair-notice fair-warning government-official legal-standard precedent-comparison qualified-immunity |
Whether a court may uphold a qualified immunity claim on the ground that qualified immunity had been granted in a prior case in which the "impropriety… |
| 20-997 |
Arlane James, et al. v. Noah Bartelt |
Third Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) |
civil-procedure civil-rights deadly-force johnson-v-jones law-enforcement officer-involved-shooting qualified-immunity self-defense summary-judgment third-circuit use-of-force |
1. Whether the Third Circuit's decision to exercise jurisdiction over an appeal of the District Court's denial of qualified immunity on a motion for s… |
| 20-951 |
Mary Stewart, as Administrator of the Estate of Luke O. Stewart, Sr., Deceased v. City of Euclid, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-15 |
Denied |
Amici (6) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference fourth-amendment municipal-liability qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Where a municipal employee has violated the Constitution, must a plaintiff point to "clearly established law" (such as would overcome a defense of qua… |
| 20-896 |
Teresa M. Graham v. Shannon L. Barnette, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-01-07 |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split community-caretaking fourth-amendment home-entry home-search qualified-immunity search-and-seizure warrant-requirement |
1. WHETHER THE "COMMUNITY CARETAKING" EXCEPTION TO THE FOURTH AMENDMENT'S WARRANT REQUIREMENT EXTENDS TO THE HOME?
2. WHETHER THE "COMMUNITY CARETAKI… |
| 20-6763 |
Arnold Maurice Mathis v. Zulaika Zoe Vizcarrondo |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compensatory-damages false-arrest fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment qualified-immunity statute-of-limitations warrantless-search |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit correctly dismissed Petitioners Counts II2 and II4 of the Original Complaint "For false arrest" … |
| 20-879 |
Arthur Lopez v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-torts federal-officials federal-tort-claims-act qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity |
Should the United States of America be subject to Liability under the Federal Tort Claims act for 1946 C Personal ligenions sustained by United States… |
| 20-870 |
John W. Orem, et ux. v. Matthew Gillmore, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights fourth-amendment medical-privacy probable-cause qualified-immunity search search-and-seizure |
Whether the Respondent State Trooper's lack of probable cause to search was sufficiently clear, when all reasonable inferences are made in Petitioner'… |
| 20-872 |
Shane Davis v. Mike Carroll, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
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42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process factual-reasonableness judicial-interpretation legal-standard qualified-immunity |
Though unstated in 42 U.S.C. § 1983 or the common law, qualified immunity doctrine sets forth a two-prong test for claims of qualified immunity: (i) w… |
| 20-875 |
Sok Kong, Trustee for Next of Kin of Map Kong, Decedent v. City of Burnsville, Minnesota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review circuit-split district-court genuine-issue-of-material-fact interlocutory-appeal material-fact qualified-immunity standard-of-review summary-judgment |
Whether, on interlocutory review of a denial of qualified immunity, an appellate court may reject a district court's determination of a genuine issue … |
| 20-876 |
Jeanine Liberti, et vir v. City of Scottsdale, Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights common-law constitutional-rights due-process legal-doctrine police-liability police-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 |
1. For 42 U.S.C. § 1983 cases, this Court has created a qualified-immunity doctrine. It lacks support in the common law, in this Court's pre-1974 case… |
| 20-877 |
Trinell King v. Ricky Pridmore, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
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civil-rights clearly-established excessive-force hope-v-peltzer police-misconduct qualified-immunity racial-bias summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton |
Respondents Ricky Pridmore, Corey Archer, and Andrew Hill are White police officers who treated Petitioner Trinell King, a young Black citizen, as a t… |
| 20-6716 |
Mack Calvin Martin v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
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| 20-825 |
Christopher Brewer v. Teresa Hooks, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-18 |
Denied |
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4th-amendment causal-connection fourth-amendment informant informant-testimony probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant section-1983 |
1. Whether probable cause or arguable probable cause exists to seek a search warrant where an officer relies upon an informant who turns himself in, a… |
| 20-811 |
Kathy Contreras, on Behalf of Her Minor Child A. L. v. Dona Ana County Board of County Commissioners, dba Dona Ana County Detention Center, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
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civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process monell-claim monell-claims qualified-immunity section-1983 |
1. Whether this Court should resolve the confusion in the circuit courts about what constitutes "clearly established" law with a clear rule and guidan… |
| 20-6614 |
Derek Jarvis v. Isiah Leggett, et al. |
Maryland |
2020-12-11 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights county-liability due-process government-liability legal-precedent malicious-conduct malicious-prosecution official-immunity qualified-immunity stare-decisis venue-transfer |
1- Md. Gen. Provision, 1-104, is not authority, nor based
on precedent within the rule of 'stare decisis', nor persuasive
authority. Maryland General … |
| 20-6573 |
Ellis Keyes v. Matt Wilson, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
11th-circuit civil-rights deadly-force due-process judicial-intervention municipal-liability order-to-show-cause police-restraint police-use-of-force qualified-immunity standing |
Continuing prosecution I ask the court grant motion for order to show cause why defendant police should not be restrained from deadly force? |
| 20-741 |
Tacara Anderson, on Behalf of Minor Child M. A. v. Officer Jonathan Vazquez |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment bodily-injury civil-rights due-process excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Are federal courts required to afford qualified immunity to a law enforcement officer who released a K9 on a child who weighed 75 pounds and was 4 fee… |
| 20-744 |
Michael Wigginton, Jr. v. The University of Mississippi, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established-right due-process fifth-circuit hope-v-pelzer qualified-immunity state-actors supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's grant of qualified immunity to the state actors named in the instant matter was violative of Supreme Court precedent estab… |
| 20-738 |
Donald Grochowski, as Administrator of the Estate of Kenneth Grochowski, Deceased, et al. v. Clayton County, Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cell-design civil-rights detainee-safety due-process inadequate-staffing jail-conditions legislative-immunity objective-reasonableness qualified-immunity substantial-risk |
Jail supervisor policymakers and Clayton County, Georgia were sued by detainee Grochowski's representatives for the known conditions and systems they … |
| 20-6431 |
John L. Howell v. David Adler, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
article-iii-powers bankruptcy barton-injunctions civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-immunity non-core-claims qualified-immunity quasi-judicial-immunity |
To deny a plaintiff's constitutional right to due process and prohibit suit against a particular set of defendants who it wishes to shield from liabil… |
| 20-726 |
In Re Stephanie Michael |
|
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act forum-non-conveniens judicial-review mandamus qualified-immunity res-judicata va-benefits veterans-claims veterans-judicial-review-act |
1. Whether agency actions affecting the provision of VA benefits under applicable law may be reviewed by any other official or by any court of compete… |
| 20-6416 |
Devon M. Byrd v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity standing takings-clause |
Does Martinez v. Ryan bar procedurally defaulted substantial ineffective assistance of counsel claims under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)?
Are the precedents i… |
| 20-676 |
J. P., By and Through His Guardian Ad Litem, Shannon Villanueva v. Alameda County, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
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civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emotional-harm fair-notice first-amendment foster-care fourteenth-amendment qualified-immunity |
I.
Emotional harm alone triggers 42 U.S.C. §1983 liability. The Ninth
Circuit granted qualified immunity on J.P.s First and Fourteenth
Amendment claim… |
| 20-670 |
Jill Dillard, et al. v. Kathy O'Kelley, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-11-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split constitutional-right constitutional-rights digital-age informational-privacy precedent-analysis qualified-immunity sexual-abuse supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether the Court's opinion in National Aeronautics and Space Administrator, et al. v. Nelson, 562 U.S. 134 (2011), diverged from its previous hold… |
| 20-636 |
Shase Howse v. Thomas Hodous, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-10 |
Denied |
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and strike him in the neck when he poses no threa and whether a Fourth Amendment malicious prosecut tackle him circuit-split civil-rights excessive-force false-arrest fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution qualified-immunity unlawful-arrest |
1. Whether the law is clearly established that an officer cannot arrest a person whom the officer has no reason to believe committed a crime, tackle h… |
| 20-605 |
Kiernan Wholean, et al. v. CSEA SEIU Local 2001, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights damages-liability good-faith-defense qualified-immunity unconstitutional |
Is there a "good faith defense" to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that shields a defendant from damages liability for depriving citizens of their constitutional rig… |
| 20-600 |
Anthony Sevy v. Philip Barach |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-04 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights excessive-force first-amendment free-speech government-official qualified-immunity retaliation retaliatory-force symbolic-protest |
Does the First Amendment, which prohibits government officials from subjecting an individual to retaliatory actions, including criminal prosecutions, … |
| 20-582 |
Shadreck Kifayatuthelezi v. South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights compensation eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment incarceration qualified-immunity release-date seventh-amendment state-law |
I. Whether the Eighth Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment, and/or state law provide a source of compensation when an inmate is incarcerated past his l… |
| 20-585 |
Greg Vasquez, et al. v. Maritza Amador, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Gilbert Flores and as Next Friend of Minor R. M. F., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights deadly-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-intervention police-use-of-force qualified-immunity reasonableness-standard suicide-by-cop use-of-force |
1. Viewing the facts from the officers' perspective at the time of the incident, did they act reasonably, under the Fourth Amendment, when an officer … |
| 20-578 |
Sergeant Gary Hedger, et al. v. Ronald Graves |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (7) |
deadly-force fourth-amendment homicidal-suspect law-enforcement perceived-threat qualified-immunity taser-deployment use-of-force violent-suspect |
Did the Sixth Circuit misapply or disregard this Court's precedent by holding that a law enforcement officer violates the Fourth Amendment and clearly… |
| 20-6177 |
John Leo Davis v. Goodyear Police Department, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process law-enforcement prisoner-rights qualified-immunity retaliation sexual-abuse standing |
1. Whether it is proper for a district court to dismiss a Complaint, sua sponte, before the parties have had an opportunity to conduct discovery or en… |
| 20-498 |
Sonia Garcia, et vir v. Wesley Blevins, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights deadly-force fourth-amendment qualified-immunity stare-decisis unpublished-decisions unpublished-opinions |
1. The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted qualified immunity reasoning facts demonstrating that a person shot and killed by … |
| 20-508 |
Brandon S. LaVergne v. Michael Vaughn, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech mail-restriction qualified-immunity religious-freedom solitary-confinement turner-test |
1) Can a prisoner's 1st amendment right to correspondence be totally "revoked" without a hearing or due process? This included all religious mail, edu… |
| 20-476 |
Rafael Martinez, et al. v. Bryheim Jamar Baskin |
New Jersey |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
|
42-u.s.c.a.-§-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process law-enforcement municipal-liability police-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Is the petitioner/Police Detective Rafael Martinez protected by "qualified immunity" in this action brought under the jurisprudence of 42 U.S.C.A. § 1… |
| 20-477 |
Shanika Day, et al. v. Franklin Wooten, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
asphyxiation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement positional-asphyxiation qualified-immunity section-1983 |
A law enforcement officer is not entitled to qualified immunity in a § 1983 excessive force action if he violated a constitutional right which was cle… |
| 20-5955 |
Charles Lynch Pettis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing |
IS A DEFENDANT'S PLEA OF GUILTY VALID WHERE THERE IS NO UNDERSTANDING OF THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENT OF A STATUTE OR THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENT AT THE TIME OF TH… |
| 20-5946 |
Roberto Antoine Darden v. Barbara Von Blanckensee, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights disciplinary-notice district-court due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus liberty-interest prisoner-rights procedural-grounds qualified-immunity |
I. May a personal locker be a disciplinary notice wrote in fact if nothing wrote links the sulprit to it?
II. May a tribunal limit its review of a pr… |
| 20-445 |
Matthew Anderson v. John Bonnewell, et al. |
Delaware |
2020-10-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment civil-rights correctional-officers due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force intent prison-conditions qualified-immunity summary-judgment |
1. Whether a trial court can disregard the five factors set forth in Whitley v. Albers, 475 U.S. 312 (1986), in an Eighth Amendment excessive force ca… |
| 20-5911 |
Josh Albritton v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Question not identified. |
| 20-422 |
Sarah R. Lee v. Ohio Education Association, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights good-faith-defense private-entities qualified-immunity restitution restitutionary-remedies retroactivity section-1983 |
Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31, 138 S. Ct. 2448 (2018), held that the Constitution forbids public-… |
| 20-5846 |
Anthony C. Green v. Kelly Lake, Sheriff, Carlton County, Minnesota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
8th-circuit civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-standard due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment objective-reasonableness qualified-immunity |
The question presented is whether the 8th Circuits ' decision is contrary to this Court 's decision in Kingsley. |
| 20-391 |
Jody Lombardo, et al. v. City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (21) |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity reasonable-jury |
Whether a reasonable jury could find that officers used excessive force when they put a handcuffed and shackled person face-down on the ground and pre… |
| 20-381 |
Hamilton County Job and Family Services, et al. v. Joseph Siefert, et ux. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 child-services circuit-conflict civil-rights due-process medical-care qualified-immunity state-action state-actor |
A. Did the Sixth Circuit err when it failed to conduct
an individualized analysis of Petitioners' actions
before blanketly rejecting their asserted de… |
| 20-5789 |
Gerard Nguedi v. Brian Caulfield, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity |
Are police officers entitled to qualified immunity as a matter of law—even if they use substantial force against non-threatening suspected misdemeanan… |
| 20-5745 |
Bradley William Monical v. Christina Towers, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process government-employees governmental-powers judicial-review legal-standards park-county-orders qualified-immunity statutory-provisions |
Question not identified. |
| 20-353 |
J. H., By Conservator, Betty Harris v. Williamson County, Tennessee, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-16 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-warning hope-v-pelzer qualified-immunity reasonable-standard state-actor |
1. Is Hope v. Pelzer dead in the Court's analysis of qualified immunity? If Hope v. Pelzer is dead, the lower courts, the federal court bar, and the l… |
| 20-346 |
D. Ashley Pennington v. Beattie I. Butler |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-termination first-amendment fourth-circuit public-defender qualified-immunity scott-v-harris standing |
1. Whether the Fourth Circuit, consistent with this Court's decision in Scott v. Harris, 550 U.S. 372 (2007), should have exercised jurisdiction and c… |
| 20-283 |
Austin J. Bass v. Patrick M. Greve, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) |
4th-amendment arrest arrest-justification civil-rights criminal-intent due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement-discretion probable-cause qualified-immunity |
Officer Austin Bass ("Officer Bass") responded to a burglar alarm and found Patrick Greve ("Greve") outside a locked and closed nightclub, wrapped in … |
| 20-263 |
Nanette Blanchard-Daigle, Representative of the Estate of Lyle Blanchard v. Shane Geers, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
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civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fifth-circuit law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity use-of-force |
1. Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by overlooking precedent in determining whether an officer enjoys qualified immunity after applying deadly excessiv… |
| 20-5573 |
In Re Abdul Mahhadie Underwood |
|
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection exhaustion-of-remedies qualified-immunity standing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-253 |
Christopher Castagna, et al. v. Harry Jean, et al. |
First Circuit |
2020-09-01 |
Denied |
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community-caretaking fourth-amendment home-sanctity police-intrusion qualified-immunity sanctity-of-home search-and-seizure warrantless-entry |
The Third and Seventh Circuits have held that the community caretaking exception established by Cady v. Dombrowski, 413 U.S. 433 (1973) does not apply… |
| 20-245 |
Patricia Nelson v. Esteban Rivera |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-31 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights excessive-force eyewitness-testimony qualified-immunity summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton |
Whether the Sixth Circuit erred when it conspicuously disregarded the standard set forth in Tolan v. Cotton, 572 U.S. 650 (2014) by granting qualified… |
| 20-5550 |
Robert Kelvin Lindbloom v. Manatee County, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights false-evidence legal-procedure motion-to-dismiss perjury qualified-immunity standing |
Do specific and particular allegations of perjury and submitting false evidence overcome a presumption of qualified immunity in a Motion to Dismiss? |
| 20-5526 |
Norman Paul Blanco v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process municipal-liability qualified-immunity supervisory-liability |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5504 |
Kevin L. Martin v. Cathleen Capron, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights court-discretion due-process equal-protection federal-pleading jurisdictional-review pleading-standards procedural-standards qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the court of appeals dealt with the merit and merits due in good faith process protection protect mactin in this case.
2) District court abus… |
| 20-226 |
Kenneth Ratliff v. Aransas County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-force municipal-liability pleading-standard qualified-immunity summary-judgment |
1. Instead of relying on discovery control and summary judgments to weed out frivolous claims, should the lower federal courts nonetheless be allowed … |
| 20-202 |
Robert Massie v. Basilea Mena |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights clearly-established-law detention excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity use-of-force |
(1) Under the particular facts and circumstances
of this case, did the Ninth Circuit err in finding
that Massie's actions constitute an excessive use
… |
| 20-182 |
Rita Stanback, et al. v. Ginny Humphrey, as Parent and Legal Guardian of Minor Child, O. H., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
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civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process law-enforcement police-investigation qualified-immunity sexual-misconduct sixth-circuit supervisory-liability takings |
Whether the Sixth Circuit contradicted a fundamental principle of this Court's qualified immunity precedent when it denied qualified immunity to Petit… |
| 20-183 |
Billy D. Stair, III v. Charles Jackson |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
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excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor law-enforcement plumhoff-v-rickard qualified-immunity reasonableness-standard totality-of-the-circumstances use-of-force |
Did the Eighth Circuit depart from this Court's decisions in Graham v. Connor, 490 U.S. 386 (1989) and Plumhoff v. Rickard, 572 U.S. 765 (2014) in den… |
| 20-5400 |
Gary Allen Kachina v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
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| 20-5350 |
Jordan Duke Venable v. City of Phoenix, Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts administrative-remedies civil-rights due-process prison-mail qualified-immunity |
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| 20-5353 |
Ramone L. Wright v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
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| 20-5230 |
Arthur Lopez v. Newport Beach Police Department, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Question not identified. |
| 20-83 |
Jacob Jones, et al. v. Wayne Duke Kalbaugh |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement objective-reasonableness police-conduct qualified-immunity tenth-circuit |
I. Did the Tenth Circuit improperly focus on the knowledge and intentions of the suspect, rather than the facts knowable to the officers, in reversing… |
| 20-5140 |
Wilfredo Torres v. City of New York, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process judicial-procedure petition-for-certiorari qualified-immunity standing warrantless-raids warrantless-search |
On 7-08-2029 I filed case 19CV6332 at the U.S. District Court-Southern District of New York, against the domestic assassinations program of the U.S. C… |
| 20-50 |
Monica Voss v. Gregory G. Goode |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-21 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-right due-process fourth-amendment qualified-immunity section-1983 standing sua-sponte |
1. Whether an appellate court may, sua sponte, impute the actions of a third party to a § 1983 claimant as the sole basis for extending qualified immu… |
| 20-43 |
Amanda N. Reich, et al. v. City of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-17 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process police-shooting qualified-immunity section-1983 sham-affidavit summary-judgment |
In this Section 1983 police-shooting case, the district court struck the sworn affidavit of petitioner Amanda Reich from the summary judgment record, … |
| 20-31 |
Prince McCoy, Sr. v. Tajudeen Alamu |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-16 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights eighth-amendment excessive-force hudson-factors prison-conditions prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Respondent is a prison guard who attacked an asthmatic prisoner in the face with a can of mace "for no reason at all." The Fifth Circuit held that Res… |
| 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?
… |
| 20-13 |
Brandon S. Lavergne v. Burl Cain, Warden, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-action due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech legal-correspondence prisoner-mail qualified-immunity standing |
1. Did the state actors Paul Smith, Amber Vittorio and Michael Vaughn violate my 6th and 14th Amendment rights by finding me guilty of a rule violatio… |
| 19-8930 |
Reginald L. Dunahue v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review prison-conditions qualified-immunity standing |
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| 19-1466 |
Tammy Korthals v. Bradley Strozeski |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process hope-v-pelzer non-decisional-evidence police police-liability qualified-immunity standing |
Whether non-decisional evidence must be considered when determining the protections of qualified immunity for a police officer as originally held in H… |
| 19-1430 |
Richard Polidi v. Michelle K. Lee, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
absolute-immunity brady-v-maryland civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ethics-prosecution exculpatory-evidence federal-circuit-jurisdiction fifth-amendment immunity qualified-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides a legal or declaratory remedy, consistent with Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agen… |
| 19-1416 |
Mateusz Fijalkowski v. M. Wheeler, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-doctrine law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing takings western-political-theory |
Whether the Court should revisit its qualified immunity doctrine, which stands in derogation of over three hundred years of Western political theory a… |
| 19-8785 |
Brandon Williams v. Roy Cooper, Governor of North Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
bill-of-rights civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-ethics qualified-immunity standing |
I. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit exceed its enumerated
powers and violate basic principles of federalism which seemed … |
| 19-1379 |
Andrew McKinley v. Christopher Lee-Murray Bey |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-16 |
Dismissed |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights equal-protection fourth-amendment investigation investigatory-detention law-enforcement pre-contact qualified-immunity race race-discrimination |
Does the Equal Protection clause require an officer who initiated a pre-contact investigation for non-race-related reasons to break off the investigat… |
| 19-8699 |
Jeremy P. Spencer v. Lieutenant Minter, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force qualified-immunity unlawful-arrest |
Jeremy P. Spencer - Petitioner seeking Relief in each defendant's Individual Capacity, for Compensatory Damages and Punitive Damages for Physical, Men… |
| 19-1370 |
Kimberley Thames v. City of Westland, Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
|
abortions brandenburg-test criminal-threat first-amendment free-speech monell-claim municipal-liability naacp-v-claiborne-hardware qualified-immunity true-threats westland |
1. Did Petitioner's arrest and subsequent detention based on her speech violate her clearly established rights as set forth in Watts v. United States,… |
| 19-8613 |
Abdul Shabazz Wiggins v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2020-06-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
anderson-v-creighton civil-rights due-process graham-v-connor hope-v-pelzer hudson-v-mcmillian qualified-immunity strickland-v-washington supreme-court-precedent use-of-force |
1. Whether the General District and Circuit Courts of Suffolk ignored the defendant's right to Qualified Immunity as set forth in Hudson v. McMillian … |
| 19-8511 |
Herbert W. Morrison, Jr. v. Andrew J. Hale |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-action collateral-estoppel fourth-amendment heck-doctrine Heck-v-Humphrey illegal-search-and-seizure qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether a 42 U.S.C. §1983 civil rights action based on Fourth Amendment illegal search and seizure claims are barred under the Doctrine of Heck v. Hum… |
| 19-8512 |
Alexander P. Mhlanga v. Jennifer Hicks |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights damages due-process qualified-immunity |
I -DID DEFENDANT VIOLATE PLAINTIFF'S RIANTS UNDEL THE FOURTH TIOKETS UNDER COCOR OF LAW AND COST PEAINTIFF TWO SEPARATE ARRESTS
2-DD ERENDANT DEPRIVE… |
| 19-8506 |
David James Ward v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8495 |
Misbah Abdul-Kareem v. Vermont Department of Health |
Second Circuit |
2020-05-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech qualified-immunity standing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-1291 |
Charles Hamner v. Danny Burls, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-14 |
Denied |
Amici (7) |
affirmative-defense circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-prong due-process federal-appellate-courts qualified-immunity standing state-actors sua-sponte |
"Since qualified immunity is a defense, the burden of pleading it rests with the defendant." Gomez v. Toledo, 446 U.S. 635, 640 (1980). Nonetheless, t… |
| 19-1277 |
David Thorpe v. Dexter Dumas, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 absolute-immunity administrative-acts civil-rights due-process investigative-acts probable-cause prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Question 1. Whether a supervising Deputy District Attorney who assigned three (4) District Attorneys over a two-year period to a case that lacked prob… |
| 19-1266 |
H. B., a Minor, Individually and as Successor in Interest to Michelle Lee Shirley, By and Through His Guardian ad Litem, Ronnie Shirley v. City of Torrance, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment objective-reasonableness police-conduct qualified-immunity scott-v-harris summary-judgment use-of-force |
In a 42 USC § 1983 action where videos capturing the claimed use of excessive force are open to multiple interpretations as to whether the use of leth… |
| 19-1261 |
Trent Michael Taylor v. Robert Riojas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-04-30 |
GVR |
Amici (2)Relisted (4) |
42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment government-officials obvious-violation prisoner-rights qualified-immunity section-1983 standing |
Respondents are prison officials who deliberately left Petitioner Trent Taylor naked for six days in two filthy cells; the first cell was covered from… |
| 19-1225 |
Paul Hunt v. Board of Regents of the University of New Mexico, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-04-17 |
Denied |
Amici (8)Relisted (7) |
constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech off-campus-speech political-speech professional-conduct professional-norms public-university qualified-immunity student-speech university-policy |
Whether Respondents violated Mr. Hunt's clearly established rights as a private citizen under the First Amendment by punishing him for his off-campus,… |
| 19-8265 |
Jerry Wilson Hartley v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation damages due-process judicial-review legal-scope procedural-rights qualified-immunity standing state-actor |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8224 |
James William Neuman v. Nathan Callahan, et al. |
Iowa |
2020-04-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights clerk-conspiracy court-records document-tampering due-process fraud fraud-allegations judicial-misconduct qualified-immunity retaliation theft |
1. Do the Black Hawk County Clerks have qualified
Immunity when they conspired to delete or erase a
200 dollar payment to the clerk's office under
rec… |
| 19-8083 |
Antwune Washington v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity standing takings |
I. Justification of necessity is not excluded as a defense to the offense of possession of a firearm by a felon, nor has it been excluded as a defense… |
| 19-1130 |
Dale Danielson, et al. v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (9) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 constitutional-rights court-ruling good-faith-defense private-entities qualified-immunity restitution retroactivity takings |
In Wyatt v. Cole, 504 U.S. 158 (1992), this Court held that qualified immunity is categorically unavailable to private entities who violate 42 U.S.C. … |
| 19-1126 |
Stacey Mooney v. Illinois Education Association, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-03-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (9) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 constitutional-rights good-faith-defense private-entities qualified-immunity restitution restitutionary-remedies retroactivity section-1983 takings |
Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31, 138 S. Ct. 2448 (2018), held that the Constitution forbids public-… |
| 19-7902 |
In Re Darnell W. Moon |
|
2020-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct qualified-immunity standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 19-1093 |
Aleashia Clarkston, et al. v. John White |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit government-officials legal-standard qualified-immunity section-1983 standing takings |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in holding that there is a second type of qualified immunity—that government officials are also entitled to qualified immuni… |
| 19-1083 |
Jeffrey A. Clouser v. Kim Doherty, et al. |
Delaware |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection official-misconduct qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity state-tort-claims state-tort-claims-act whistleblower-protection |
I. A Delaware Department of Education official, sued in his official and individual-capacities, knowingly disregarded available results of a State Pol… |
| 19-1085 |
Shannon Deasey, et al. v. Daniella Slater, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
7th-circuit 9th-circuit civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law closely-analogous constitutional-rights due-process legal-precedent ninth-circuit qualified-immunity seventh-circuit sufficiently-analogous |
This petition presents the question whether, for purposes of qualified immunity, a merely "sufficiently analogous" case is enough to show that the law… |
| 19-1067 |
Neal N. Browder, et al. v. S. R. Nehad, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-28 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights deadly-force due-process emergency-response fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct police-shooting qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Shortly before midnight on April 29, 2015, a bookstore clerk saw Fridoon Rawshan Nehad in an alley. Nehad, who was incoherent, pulled a knife out of h… |
| 19-7790 |
Brenda Mason, Individually and on Behalf of Quamaine Dwayne Mason, et vir v. Martin Faul |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (6)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fifth-circuit objective-reasonableness police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing use-of-force |
This case involves the use of excessive force by a police officer that was determined by a jury to be "objectively unreasonable" but nonetheless resul… |
| 19-1042 |
Euince J. Winzer, Individually and on Behalf of the Statutory Beneficiaries of Gabriel A. Winzer v. Kaufman County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fifth-circuit law-enforcement qualified-immunity |
1. According to the Fifth Circuit, a reasonable juror could conclude that it was clearly unreasonable for a law-enforcement officer to fire multiple b… |
| 19-1033 |
Daniel Enrique Cantú v. James M. Moody, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
|
bivens bivens-claim civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process evidence-fabrication fabricated-evidence federal-officer qualified-immunity standing |
The question presented is whether a plaintiff may pursue a claim under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S.… |
| 19-7709 |
John A. Toth v. Peter Antonacci, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance qualified-immunity treaty |
Question not identified. |
| 19-1021 |
Micah Jessop, et al. v. City of Fresno, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-18 |
Denied |
Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct property-rights property-seizure qualified-immunity search-and-seizure search-warrant seizure |
Whether it is clearly established that the Fourth Amendment prohibits police officers from stealing property listed in a search warrant. |
| 19-7657 |
Marion L. Sherrod v. Sidney D. Harkelroad, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity seizure seizure-disorder standing warrantless-search |
Whether the s. Corto Appes appction f the discretona waiver doctrine prejidiced M. Sherod a pro e petitionn
Whether under Artice of the Constittion o… |
| 19-7619 |
Therian Cornelia Wimbush v. R. L. Conway, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-liability law-enforcement qualified-immunity |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 19-7554 |
Roger Hillygus v. Frances Doherty, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983,false-arrest,due-process, due-process false-arrest guardianship-fraud judicial-procedure qualified-immunity standing |
1. Did the trial court err when it dismissed with prejudice all of Plaintiffs' claims under 42 USC § 1983 when Plaintiff Roger Hillygus has suffered f… |
| 19-7565 |
Tyree Wright v. S. Alvarez, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference diagnostic-imaging due-process eighth-amendment inmate-rights medical-care medical-records prison-healthcare qualified-immunity |
1. While you are incarcerated in the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC), how are you supposed to notify Medical of your prior medical history/he… |
| 19-7508 |
Jeffrey D. Leiser v. Karen Kloth, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-01-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
by triggering PTSD symptoms rise to a level that is cognizable under the Eigh that caused psychological harm civil-rights correctional-officer correctional-officer-duties due-process eighth-amendment emotional-distress inmate-rights intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress psychological-harm ptsd qualified-immunity |
1. Does the intentional infliction of severe emotional distress, by triggering
PTSD symptoms, that caused psychological harm, rise to a level that is… |
| 19-956 |
Donald E. Craig, et al. v. Janet Turner O'Kelley, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of John Harley Turner, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-30 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process government-officers harlow-standard harlow-v-fitzgerald moore-v-pederson panel-decision qualified-immunity timing-circumstance |
1. Whether a panel decision decided nine days before the relevant conduct in question constitutes clearly established law to deprive government office… |
| 19-7444 |
Ameen Abdullah Muhammad v. John Kozelski, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7452 |
Jeffrey R. Golin, et ux. v. San Andreas Regional Center, et al. |
California |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 constitutional-violation developmental-disability due-process government-officials governmental-duties governmental-immunity harmless-error jury-determination qualified-immunity standing |
Whether persons who are not government officials and not performing governmental duties can claim qualified immunity from suit in a civil rights actio… |
| 19-7453 |
Nancy Delaney v. San Andreas Regional Center, et al. |
California |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 constitutional-violation developmental-disability due-process government-officials governmental-duties harmless-error involuntary-confinement jury-determination qualified-immunity standing |
1. Whether persons who are not government officials and not performing
governmental duties can claim qualified immunity from suit in a civil rights
ac… |
| 19-926 |
Kim Davis v. David Ermold, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) |
ashcroft-v-al-kidd civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process obergefell-v-hodges qualified-immunity religious-freedom same-sex-marriage sixth-circuit zablocki-v-redhail |
1. Whether the Sixth Circuit erred when, citing Obergefell v. Hodges, it created a special standard for a same-sex couple's claimed temporary burden o… |
| 19-7366 |
In Re Andrew J. Johnston |
|
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing takings |
Does the court of appeals' circuit precedent in United States v. Bilanzich, 771 F.2d 292 (7th Cir. 1985) accurately reflect the legislative intent/his… |
| 19-899 |
Shaniz West v. Doug Winfield, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-21 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (6) |
4th-amendment civil-rights consent due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement property-damage property-rights qualified-immunity |
Whether an officer who has consent to "get inside"
a house but instead destroys it from the outside is entitled to qualified immunity in the absence o… |
| 19-889 |
Kaufman County, Texas, et al. v. Eunice J. Winzer, Individually and on Behalf of the Statutory Beneficiaries of Gabriel A. Winzer, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity summary-judgment use-of-force |
1. Did the Fifth Circuit panel majority err in reversing Kaufman County's summary judgment after concluding Officer Hinds did not violate clearly esta… |
| 19-7319 |
Thomas Bradford Waters v. John Stewart, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process evidentiary-standards excessive-force free-speech judicial-interpretation legal-procedure procedural-review qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment takings |
Question not identified. |
| 19-868 |
Aaron Miner, et al. v. Steven L. Picatti |
Idaho |
2020-01-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
42-U.S.C.-1983 42-usc-1983 civil-rights clearly-established-rights constitutional-rights excessive-force factual-disputes qualified-immunity summary-judgment |
In this excessive force case under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the defendant officials (petitioners here) moved for summary judgment arguing that, on the facts … |
| 19-872 |
Matthew Reid Hinson v. R. A. Bias, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure collateral-order district-court factual-review factual-sufficiency qualified-immunity summary-judgment surveillance-video |
Did the Eleventh Circuit exceed its limited jurisdiction when, on appeal from a denial of summary judgment in a qualified-immunity case, it vacated th… |
| 19-7226 |
Tony Robinson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
35-usc-101 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment patent qualified-immunity standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7252 |
Clarence Joseph Jason v. Robert Tanner, Warden, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process excessive-force inmate-safety prison-conditions qualified-immunity |
1). Whether a Prison "Too ontyo\ Poli [te ot O woon Oviso of fi ta 9 ya t\n Ve oi \i
2). What evidence must be adduced showing a prison officials "kn… |
| 19-7199 |
Paul Tooly v. John F. Schwaller |
Second Circuit |
2020-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process employee-rights first-amendment free-speech qualified-immunity retaliation standing university-administration workplace-violence |
John Schaller, the then President of The State University of New York (SUNY) at Potsdam, should not be allowed qualified immunity for many reasons.
A… |
| 19-842 |
Mark J. Schwartz v. Clark County, Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-03 |
Denied |
|
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-discretion federal-jurisdiction judicial-bias qualified-immunity section-1983 seniority-manipulation state-law supplemental-jurisdiction |
A. Does the di strict court abuse i ts discreti on
when i t fails to di fferenti ate between federal
and state l aw when exerci sing its authori ty
ov… |
| 19-811 |
Christine Almas Rose, Individually and as Mother of Jessie Lee Rose, et al. v. City of Utica, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force free-speech mental-health-intervention police-procedure qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Did the Second Circuit commit legal error when it granted qualified immunity to the police officer when:
a. the officer's testimony about being shot a… |
| 19-800 |
Carlin Robinson, Individually, as Guardian and Next Friend of I. Y., M. Y., and A. Y., and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Veronica Williams, Deceased, et al. v. Daniel A. Lioi, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights deshhaney due-process fourth-amendment police-liability qualified-immunity state-created-danger |
1. Which of the widely divergent approaches amongst the circuit courts of appeal, if any, appropriately applies the doctrine arising from this Court's… |
| 19-794 |
Daniel Macias, et al. v. Raymond Nichols, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split civil-dispute civil-procedure civil-rights district-of-columbia-v-wesby fourth-amendment law-enforcement ninth-circuit probable-cause qualified-immunity section-1983 wesby |
A magistrate judge granted Riverside police officers qualified immunity on a § 1983 unlawful arrest claim, finding there was probable cause for the ar… |
| 19-7028 |
Jess Lee Green v. Joe Errington |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction qualified-immunity standing statutory-provisions |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7036 |
Jeremy L. Dale v. Anthony Agresta, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-damages cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process excessive-force federal-tort-claims habeas-corpus medical-care prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
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| 19-6985 |
Boaz Pleasant-Bey v. Shelby County, Tennessee, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appropriate-relief circuit-court-conflict first-amendment-free-exercise inmate-led-religious-services inmate-rights qualified-immunity rluipa rluipa-appropriate-relief-clause sixth-circuit trial-on-merits trial-on-the-merits |
I.) WHETHER RLUIPA'S "APPROPRIATE RELIEF " CLAUSE ENCOMPASSES THE
REQUESTED RELIEF OF A TRIAL ON THE MERITS AND IF SO, DID PLAINTIFF'S
REQUEST OF A … |
| 19-6982 |
Ernest Collins v. Barnes & Thornburg LLP, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
1983-civil-rights-act case-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment incorporation judicial-discretion qualified-immunity section-1691 standing statutory-interpretation |
DOES THE DISCRETIONARY FUNCTIONS EXCEPTIONS IN 28 U.S.C. 2680(a) APPLY WHEN THE ALLEGED RIGHTS
DOES THE "COMMITTED TO AGENCY DISCRETION" EXCEPTION IN… |
| 19-771 |
Gerald Sensabaugh v. Kimberly Halliburton, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights common-law due-process first-amendment free-speech personnel-file protected-speech public-employee qualified-immunity retaliation standing takings |
1. Whether the Court should reconsider its qualified immunity jurisprudence to accord with the official's burden of establishing immunity entitlement … |
| 19-753 |
Michael Hunter, et al. v. Randy Cole, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) |
civil-rights clearly-established-law deadly-force deadly-weapon due-process dynamic-encounter excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment police-use-of-force qualified-immunity shooting-encounter use-of-force |
I. If the barrel of a gun is not yet pointed directly at an officer, does clearly established federal law prohibit police officers from firing to stop… |
| 19-725 |
JonMichael Guy v. Robert O. Lampert, Director, Wyoming Department of Corrections, et al. |
Wyoming |
2019-12-09 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights clearly-established due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-interpretation qualified-immunity religion-clauses religious-discrimination sincere-belief standing |
When a government official discriminates against a belief that is sincere and religious to the victim, and is therefore protected by the Religion Clau… |
| 19-701 |
Lloyd N. Johnson v. Karen Rimmer, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process immunity institutional-care medical-care medical-negligence mental-health professional-judgment qualified-immunity standing youngberg |
This petition poses two questions: first, whether the
"professional judgment standard" this court articulated in
Youngberg can be reduced to "whethe… |
| 19-6776 |
William Dawson v. Bryan K. Wells |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process excessive-force good-faith habeas-corpus jurisdiction police-misconduct qualified-immunity sentencing voluntary-manslaughter writ |
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| 19-682 |
Melanie Kelsay v. Matt Ernst |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment non-compliance police-misconduct qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Are police officers entitled to qualified immunity as a matter of law—even if they use substantial force against non-threatening suspected misdemeanan… |
| 19-680 |
Kenneth Sealey, et al. v. J. Duane Gilliam, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process summary-judgment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process fourth-circuit legal-analysis qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment |
The questions presented here are:
1. Did the Fourth Circuit err in holding that District Courts are not required to properly apply the qualified immu… |
| 19-679 |
Amy Corbitt v. Michael Vickers |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) |
burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force interlocutory-appeal law-enforcement pleading-requirement pleading-standards police-use-of-force qualified-immunity section-1983 use-of-force |
1) Whether qualified immunity is an affirmative defense (placing the burden on the defendant to raise and prove it) or whether it is a pleading requir… |
| 19-676 |
Joseph A. Zadeh, et al. v. Mari Robinson, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Granted |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-liability judicial-precedent law-enforcement legal-doctrine qualified-immunity section-1983 standing |
Whether the Court should recalibrate or reverse the doctrine of qualified immunity. |
| 19-661 |
Mynor Abdiel Tun-Cos, et al. v. B. Perrotte, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment bivens bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-law-enforcement federal-tort-claims-act immigration-enforcement law-enforcement qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether victims of an unconstitutional search and seizure, who were subjected to a home raid and detention without a warrant or suspicion, by law enfo… |
| 19-657 |
Virgil Brewer v. Kristina Myers |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-11-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force graham-factors law-enforcement police-use-of-force qualified-immunity summary-judgment use-of-force |
While conducting a house-to-house search for a suspect who had threatened people in a bar with a shotgun after being thrown out of that bar for fighti… |
| 19-656 |
William Anderson v. City of Minneapolis, Minnesota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) |
circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emergency-responders first-responders hypothermia hypothermia-treatment qualified-immunity state-created-danger |
The Fourteenth Amendment provides that the government may not deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny t… |
| 19-649 |
N. E. L., et al. v. Monica Gildner, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment child-custody civil-rights decisional-law due-process fourth-amendment jurisdiction post-removal-hearing post-seizure-hearing qualified-immunity uccjea |
Were Colorado's UCCJEA requirements detailed enough to defeat qualified immunity in a Fourth Amendment claim arising from the denial of a post-seizure… |
| 19-624 |
Mark Graf, et al. v. Hyung Seok Koh, et ux. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-11-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights coercive-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment interlocutory-appeal johnson-v-jones qualified-immunity seventh-circuit |
(1) Whether the Seventh Circuit's renouncement of jurisdiction over Petitioners' interlocutory appeal misapplied Johnson v. Jones, 515 U.S. 304 (1995)… |
| 19-626 |
Robert Huff, et al. v. Michele Choate |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-11-15 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor pre-seizure-conduct qualified-immunity reckless-creation |
Graham v. Connor commands an officer's use of force be assessed for reasonableness under the "totality of the circumstances." 490 U.S. 386, 396 (1989)… |
| 19A536 |
Octavio Diaz v. San Bernardino County, California |
California |
2019-11-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity self-defense summary-judgment |
Question not identified. |
| 19-6625 |
Samuel R. Jones v. Erica Huss |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity question-not-identified search-and-seizure standing takings |
WHERE THEY WERE STANDING P 2HH O NOIH7OIN NI H5L 9NOD2S HI GNTHL80 H0EL SNQD : C2ALMHD SNODLOU OHO2 U.S. C.ONST., AM I AND CONST. 1963 ART. 1$ 15 ?
F… |
| 19-614 |
Cesar Vizcarra, et al. v. Monica Ortiz, Individually and as Co-Successor in Interest to Decedent Christian Pena, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anderson-v-liberty-lobby armed-suspect civil-rights excessive-force interlocutory-appeal johnson-v-jones law-enforcement mitchell-v-forsyth qualified-immunity summary-judgment taser use-of-force |
1. Does Johnson v. Jones, 515 U.S. 304 (1995) foreclose interlocutory appeal of an order denying summary judgment on qualified immunity, where the und… |
| 19-609 |
Erin J. Shepherd, et al. v. Angela Studdard |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (3) |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity sixth-circuit summary-judgment use-of-force |
1. Police officers are entitled to qualified immunity unless they violate constitutional rights in factual situations squarely governed by controlling… |
| 19-6512 |
Michael Allen Channel, Sr. v. John Brinker, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process excessive-force judicial-review legal-precedent qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether The Defcndant's Knwingly with willful Misconduct
1.7
Dut due process of Law.
Yes s NO.
2.)
Whether The DeFendant's Volated A.R.s.4. b) MEMoRAu… |
| 19-580 |
Jun Xiao v. Regents of the University of Minnesota, et al. |
Minnesota |
2019-11-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process Fourteenth Amendment equal-protection qualified-immunity civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-rights qualified-immunity section-1983 standing takings |
Whether the state district court erred in dismissing Petitioner's 42 U.S.C. § 1983, Fourteenth Amendment equal protection claim for failure to state a… |
| 19-6480 |
Dario Rodriguez v. Rick Scott, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-review legal-dismissal procedural-fairness qualified-immunity retaliation standing |
1.) This Country built on Free speech and A55was ates Corstitution 15t, 4t2, 8114th. Anerchent.The right to protection against crnel & uushal paurshme… |
| 19-6371 |
Wesley Jefferson v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1505 18-usc-1515 18-usc-1519 civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery documentary-evidence due-process federal-procedure obstruction-of-justice qualified-immunity summary-judgment |
1. Would a United States Federal Court be in error, if it granted qualified immunity to a Defendant in a case, where video and/or documentary evidence… |
| 19-523 |
Victor Bernard Williams v. Baptist Health, dba Baptist Health Medical Center, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
2014 revocation of a medical license by the Arkan adverse-negative-reports adverse-reports civil-action civil-rights federal-cause-of-action federal-claims medical-license medical-license-revocation qualified-immunity res-judicata state-board |
1. Whether the April 3, 2014 revocation of Plaintiff's Arkansas medical license by the Arkansas State Board of Medical Examiners ("Medical Board") gav… |
| 19-529 |
Robert Sanchez Turner v. Al Thomas, Jr., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-knowledge-of-danger affirmative-act civil-rights constitutional-rights cut-off-all-avenues-of-recourse due-process law-enforcement public-safety qualified-immunity racial-violence shock-the-conscience specific-individual-or-public state-created-danger |
The following questions stem from the Fourth
Circuit's Published Opinion regarding claims asserted
by Mr. Turner:
1. What analytical framework appl… |
| 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 … |
| 19-6273 |
Henry Cyrus Lucas v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-10-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process liberty qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 19-486 |
Donnett M. Taffe, Personal Representative of the Estate of Steven Jerold Thompson, Deceased v. Gerald E. Wengert, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-rights due-process federal-claims findings-of-fact interlocutory-appeal interlocutory-ruling material-facts pendent-jurisdiction qualified-immunity qualified-immunity,civil-rights,civil-procedure,ap standard-of-review summary-judgment |
1. Under what circumstances may an appellate court review the findings of the district court with respect to the validity of the disputed material fac… |
| 19-466 |
Zachery Pittman v. Herman Harris |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established excessive-force fourth-amendment qualified-immunity scott-v-harris section-1983 summary-judgment use-of-force |
1. Whether in Scott U. Harris, 550 U.S. 372 (2007)
this Court announced an "exception" to the summary
judgment standard in cases commenced under 42
U.… |
| 19-409 |
City of Cleveland, Ohio, et al. v. Ricky Jackson, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 42-usc-1988 brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 federal-law municipal-liability personal-injury personal-injury-claims qualified-immunity section-1983 section-1988 state-law state-law-survival-rule survival |
1. Whether § 1988 requires the survival of § 1983 claims to be determined using the state-law survival rule for the most closely analogous state cause… |
| 19-6028 |
Adam Lane v. Adam Nading, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation fourth-amendment knock-and-announce parole-search parole-searches qualified-immunity |
1. With a Fourth Amendment knock-and-announce violation in Petitioner's parole search, and where no case in nearly 50 years ever held that knock-and-a… |
| 19-5991 |
Howard Lee White v. Romeo Aranas, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection judgment lower-court-decisions qualified-immunity standard-of-review standing summary-judgment |
(1) Did the lower Courts err in granting Summary judgment to the Defendants |
| 19-5966 |
Delbert Heard v. Andrew Tilden, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process electronic-evidence medical-care medical-malpractice medical-negligence negligence ostrich-defense prison-conditions prisoner-rights qualified-immunity surgical-delay |
Whether prison doctor can evade culpability for 8th Amendment violation for delay of prisoner's hernia surgery, by invoking ostrich defense and claimi… |
| 19-350 |
Stephen Busch, et al. v. Shari Guertin, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment bodily-integrity civil-rights due-process free-speech qualified-immunity regulatory-action standing |
1. Whether the 14th Amendment's constitutional right to "bodily integrity" extends to encapsulate a right to be protected by state regulators from a f… |
| 19-326 |
Melinda Mitchell, et al. v. City of New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights fourth-amendment malice material-facts objective-reasonableness perjury police-misconduct qualified-immunity trespass wrongful-seizure |
1. Did the Second Circuit err in applying District
of Columbia v. Wesby, 138 S. Ct. 577 (2018), to grant
qualified immunity to the police defendants w… |
| 19-308 |
Blanca Arizmendi v. Patrick Gabbert |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-representation fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware hicks-v-oklahoma law-enforcement qualified-immunity texas-code-of-criminal-procedure warrant-affidavit warrantless-arrest |
1. Was the following "clearly established law" at the time of the officer's arrest of Petitioner with a warrant: The officer made misleading and mater… |
| 19-289 |
County of San Diego, California, et al. v. James Soler |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
arrest arrest-procedure civil-rights due-process extradition-warrant fourteenth-amendment jail-staff mistaken-identity procedural-due-process qualified-immunity |
When a prisoner is held under authority of a facially valid warrant, do individual jail staff members have a duty under the Fourteenth Amendment to in… |
| 19-276 |
Jose Luis Garza, et al. v. City of Donna, Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights detainee-mistreatment due-process episodic-act-or-omission evidentiary-standard fact-question free-speech legal-interpretation municipal-liability municipal-policy qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment |
Did the panel err - in the summary judgment context in determining as a matter of law, on the basis of no articulated evidence or authority, that the … |
| 19-263 |
Cody Ross v. Johnnie Rochell, Jr. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-28 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment 8th-circuit assault-weapon civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-violation eighth-circuit excessive-force kisela-v-hughes law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force |
1. Did the Eighth Circuit depart from this Court's decision in Kisela v. Hughes, U.S. , 138 S. Ct. 1148 (2018) (per curiam) and numerous other cases b… |
| 19-222 |
Paul Anthony Valderas v. City of Lubbock, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-force due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct police-use-of-force qualified-immunity reasonable-force reasonable-inference use-of-force |
Whether an officer on the scene constrained by what he observes to use any force creates a reasonable inference that deadly force is excessive? |
| 19-215 |
Darrel Conell Nevels v. Piggly Wiggly Corporation, et al. |
Alabama |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process gross-negligence interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction premises-liability qualified-immunity |
1. In qualified liability cases, Supreme court prece dent shows an Appellate court has Jurisdiction to hear a Rights to Due Process, Gross Negligence,… |
| 19-5564 |
Montye Benjamin v. Lynn Thomas |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights disputed-facts due-process federal-court federal-courts law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 standing summary-judgment |
1. Whether a defense of qualified immunity raised by a law enforcement officer in a § 1983 action is a valid basis for a Federal court to resolve disp… |
| 19-188 |
Ikechukwu Hyginus Okorie v. Virginia M. Crawford, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
|
administrative-search arrest arrest-without-probable-cause detention detention-standards fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation law-enforcement-conduct probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant standard-of-review tolan-v-cotton |
A search of a medical clinic pursuant to an administrative search warrant that resulted in the doctor being detained for three to four hours under cir… |
| 19-5502 |
David Anderson v. Jackie T. Strode, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force inmate-rights law-enforcement prison-conditions prisoner-treatment qualified-immunity restraint-chair tasing-in-restraints |
WHY WAS I TASED IN A RESTRAINT CHAIR WITH ONLY ONE ARM LOOSE OUT|OF THE RESTAINTS.WHY IS THIS A LEGAL ACTION AGAINST INMATES, WHY IS THERE NOT A LAW A… |
| 19-174 |
Jeri Lynn Rich, Representative for Gavrila Covaci Dupuis-Mays, an Incapacitated Person v. Michael Palko, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-rights clearly-established collateral-order collateral-order-doctrine excessive-force fourth-amendment material-facts qualified-immunity seizure |
The Court's "collateral order" doctrine permits
interlocutory appeal with a two- pronged test for a
government official's claim to qualified immunity:… |
| 19-5475 |
Mitchell Taebel v. Maricopa County Attorney's Office, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing unreasonable-seizure |
Whether a Defendant has a primary Right of Self Representation and to Disclosure, by ithe Sat also Farottav California, Usi975)
whther plainif ha all… |
| 19-155 |
Lenard Johnson v. Megan Winfrey |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-01 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware immunity-analysis law-enforcement qualified-immunity |
When a claim is brought under Franks v. Delaware, does the Fourth Amendment alone fully define the dimensions of a law enforcement officer's qualified… |
| 19-5385 |
Darlene Rodgers v. Taura McDaniel, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
calumnious-decision civil-monetary-penalties civil-rights civil-rights,qualified-immunity,civil-procedure,du compensatory-settlement court-errors due-process judicial-misconduct legal-procedure miscarriage-of-justice qualified-immunity vicarious-liability |
(1) . In Rodgers, the Appellant 's case, "Whether " 8th Circuit Court is vicariously liable for dishonest
conduct, withholding the Federal District C… |
| 19-5338 |
Anna Maria Agolli v. District of Columbia, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-misconduct due-process false-imprisonment government-liability government-misconduct immunity-defense qualified-immunity statute-of-limitations |
Should Courts allow qualified immunity to protect governments and their employees in spite of evidence only because it is the first of such violations… |
| 19-5245 |
Michelle Renee Lamb v. Joe Norwood, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation |
1. This case represents a public issue to thousands of transgenders confined to state and federal institutions whom are being denied treatment despite… |
| 19-76 |
Martin Marquardt, Deputy Sheriff v. William Fletcher |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
|
circuit-precedent civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process excessive-force ninth-circuit pretrial-detainee qualified-immunity use-of-force |
1. Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit correctly held that Petitioner does not have qualified immunity on the ground that "[t]he l… |
| 19-56 |
Mark Milner, et al. v. Vincent Mares, Executive Director, New Mexico Racing Commission, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-U.S.C.-§-1983 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-accountability harlow-v-fitzgerald new-mexico qualified-immunity |
Did the lower courts err in dismissing Petitioners' cases on the basis of Qualified Immunity in the face of US Supreme Court precedent and New Mexico … |
| 18-1590 |
Corey Lamar Smith, et al. v. Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Governor of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment civil-rights clearly-established-test danger due-process helling-v-mckinney incident-rate-statistics ninth-circuit plata-receiver prison-conditions qualified-immunity standing state-officials |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit misapply the clearly
established test 's generality principles by analyzing
the issue so specifically as to create a logica… |
| 18-1558 |
Marshall Spiegel v. Corrine McClintic, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-06-20 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-expression law-enforcement-liability municipal-liability public-photography qualified-immunity standing |
Does the First Amendment protect a person's right to photograph or videotape in public? If so, where officers threaten to arrest a person for photogra… |
| 18-1555 |
Scott A. Boyler v. City of Lackawanna, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
aggravated-harassment constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech free-speech,civil-rights,retaliation,qualified-imm malicious-prosecution qualified-immunity retaliation social-media summary-judgment |
1. Did the Second Circuit err in adopting a subjective test for whether retaliation chilled free speech, contrary to at least six other Circuits that … |
| 18-1553 |
Cheri Marie Hanson, as Trustee for the Next of Kin of Andrew Derek Layton v. Daniel Best, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process excessive-force excited-delirium fourth-amendment police-practices police-restraint police-training positional-asphyxia qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Andrew Layton died after Respondents, six on duty police officers working as a team, kept him in maximum restraints on his stomach for thirty minutes … |
| 18-9714 |
John Stephen Routt v. Latanya Howard, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights conditions-of-confinement constitutional-rights disciplinary-segregation due-process eighth-amendment elder-v-holloway pretrial-detention qualified-immunity standing |
QUESTION 1
Is a Defendant entitled to qualified immunity when a Petitioner cites the "squarely governing '
case through a quote of a case with simila… |
| 18-9675 |
Tommy Dean Bullcoming v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights credibility-determination de-novo-review due-process evidence law-enforcement-testimony qualified-immunity scott-v-harris standard-of-review summary-judgment video-evidence |
As recognized in Scott v. Harris, 550 U.S. 372 (2007), should a video recording of the actual events that clearly contradicts the sworn testimony of a… |
| 18A1308 |
Liane Shekter-Smith, et al. v. Shari Guertin, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
|
bodily-integrity constitutional-rights drinking-water qualified-immunity state-regulators substantive-due-process |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9668 |
Miguel Angel Arias v. Ashley B. Moody, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fraud fraud-abuse government-immunity government-misconduct judicial-ethics official-immunity official-misconduct qualified-immunity takings |
Does a government official, e.g., .a Judge, or a CIA agent maintain their immunity after it has been discovered that they use their position to commit… |
| 18A1286 |
Paul Tooly v. John F. Schwaller |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-rights due-process hostile-work-environment qualified-immunity second-circuit workplace-violence |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9553 |
Marvin Eugene Jones v. California |
California |
2019-06-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing statutory-provisions |
If this Court would do a DE Nova review of this entire case, this court will find a clear violation of petitioner constitutional rights with the facts… |
| 18-1510 |
Fredesvindo Rodriguez-Garcia v. Fior Pichardo de Veloz, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-04 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights detention-facility due-process forfeiture gender-identification gender-identity medical-examination medical-treatment procedural-error qualified-immunity |
During a five-minute medical examination in a
detention facility, Dr. Fredesvindo Rodriguez-Garcia
mistakenly concluded that Fior Pichardo de Veloz, a… |
| 18A1251 |
City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. v. Maurice Lewis |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-06-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
accrual-of-claim false-arrest fourth-amendment legal-process qualified-immunity wrongful-detention |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9508 |
Floyd Dewaine Scott v. I. Jimenez |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment appeals civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process internal-bleeding medical-care medical-indifference ninth-circuit qualified-immunity summary-judgment triable-issues |
Reason number one is that the Petitioner did present a Medical Deliberate Indifference cause against the Respondent. Is it contrary to clearly establi… |
| 18-9391 |
Josephine McGowan v. Walmart Stores |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction qualified-immunity standing takings |
WHAT TREATMENT WAS I CAUSED TO BE TREATED IN THIS MANNER BY WAL-MART AND ALL OF THESE DOCTORS AND LAWYERS. WAS IT BECAUSE OF THE COLOR OF MY SKIN? WAS… |
| 18-1458 |
Charles J. Vernier v. Debra Gallegos |
New Mexico |
2019-05-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-search burden-of-proof circuit-precedent circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law consent consent-burden fourth-amendment implied-consent qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
On May 4, 2013, Respondent Debra Gallegos was stopped at a DWI checkpoint in New Mexico. Petitioner Charles Vernier, a New Mexico State Police Officer… |
| 18-1435 |
Matthew Wayne Minard, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Taylor Police Officer v. Debra Lee Cruise-Gulyas |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights discretion discretionary-action discretionary-enforcement due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement qualified-immunity retaliation retaliatory-arrest traffic-stop |
I. Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals define the "clearly established" constitutional rights at issue in this qualified immunity case at too high … |
| 18-9254 |
Larry B. Rubin v. Hector Sanchez, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment qualified-immunity standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9140 |
Michael Ray Ingram v. Frank Clements, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment injunctive-relief qualified-immunity standing supervisory-liability |
Whether dismissal of claims for injunctive relief requiring state officials to obey the Eighth Amendment pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1983 was error?
Wheth… |
| 18-1388 |
Susan Lloyd v. City of Streetsboro, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-power civil-rights due-process government-misconduct property-damage qualified-immunity retaliation trespass wiretapping |
Are public officials allowed to show a repeated pattern of abuse and dereliction of duties and still maintain immunity towards a private citizen when … |
| 18-9096 |
Douglas A. Glaser v. City and County of Denver, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment jurisdiction qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9102 |
Michael Bazan v. Robert Whitfield, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process evidence excessive-force qualified-immunity standing |
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| 18-1366 |
Estate of Adriano Roman, Jr. v. City of Newark, New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-30 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights fourth-amendment joint-and-several-liability joint-several-liability pleading qualified-immunity section-1983 standing tort-law warrantless-search |
cepts of tort law. A fundamental concept of tort law is joint and several liability, which shifts the burden to plausible joint tortfeasors to apporti… |
| 18-1350 |
Maria S., as Next Friend for E. H. F. and S. H. F., Minors, and A. S. G. v. Ramiro Garza |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
bivens border-protection civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-tort immigration qualified-immunity retaliation standing wrongful-death |
Did the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit improperly weigh evidence and fail to draw factual inferences in favor of the nonmoving party when it d… |
| 18-1357 |
Randy Cummings, et al. v. Celina Bussey, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 clearly-established-law discretionary-function federal-court-interpretation federal-court-review ministerial-exception property-rights qualified-immunity state-law state-law-interpretation state-supreme-court-precedent statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a federal court interpreting a state statute can conclude that it grants the state agency discretion such that the "ministerial exception" … |
| 18-1358 |
Douglas Echols v. Spencer Lawton |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-violation due-process first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation libel-per-se presumption-of-innocence qualified-immunity retaliation substantive-due-process |
Where the Eleventh Circuit found a constitutional violation in a prosecutor's use of libel per se to retaliate against a wrongfully convicted person w… |
| 18-8926 |
Donald C. Jackson v. Priye T. Mukoro, et al. |
Texas |
2019-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights de-minimis due-process first-amendment qualified-immunity retaliation retaliation-claim summary-judgment |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the First District Texas reversibly erred when it reversed the Judgment of the trial court and rendered judgment gran… |
| 18-1326 |
Justin Shultz, et al. v. Jason Cole |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process first-amendment individual-assessment law-enforcement legal-standard police-conduct qualified-immunity retaliation summary-judgment |
1. When multiple police officers seek qualified immunity on a summary judgment motion, should their entitlement to qualified immunity be evaluated ind… |
| 18-8849 |
Keith Andre Robinson v. H. White, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing warrantless-search |
Did the Court of Appeals err in the application of the abstention doctrine in Younger v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37, 43 (1971) with this decision when exhibi… |
| 18-1287 |
Alexander L. Baxter v. Brad Bracey, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (11) |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force police-misconduct police-use-of-force qualified-immunity search-and-seizure seizure |
1. Does binding authority holding that a police officer violates the Fourth Amendment when he uses a police dog to apprehend a suspect who has surrend… |
| 18-8696 |
Cody R. Brown v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8596 |
Jose Bernazard v. Joseph Koch |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appeals-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies judicial-review legal-procedure procedural-error qualified-immunity section-1983 |
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| 18-8548 |
Marvin Belser v. Jeffrey Woods, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process grievances qualified-immunity standing |
Did the Sixth circuit court of appeals incorrectly decide the case? Yes; If so, what facts? |
| 18-8488 |
Ronald E. Mitchell v. Anne L. Precythe, Director, Missouri Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights damages due-process eighth-amendment false-arrest liberty-interest missouri-corrections missouri-statute qualified-immunity wrongful-imprisonment |
I was arrested and put in the jail (hole) on Oct. 25, 2016, for an altered ink pen with the APPERANCE OF DRUG RESIDUE, that was found on the top bunk,… |
| 18-8505 |
William L. Burrell, Jr. v. Patrick Loungo, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-03-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violations convict-leasing human-trafficking judicial-immunity judicial-immunity-doctrine qualified-immunity section-1983 slavery |
Should this great court reconsider the doctrine of Absolute Judicial immunity and allow judges to be liable under section 1983 via a qualified immunit… |
| 18-8474 |
John Henneberry v. County of Alameda, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment bench-warrant civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment mail-fraud qualified-immunity rico-statute service-of-process |
1. When deciding the matter of a no-bail bench warrant for failure to appear, can the court allow faulty and fabricated, misdirected service-by-mail o… |
| 18-8418 |
Marvin Waddleton, III v. Bernadette Rodriguez, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights cross-examination due-process force-application good-faith qualified-immunity summary-judgment |
The core of the inquiry.. .That once the provisions of 42 USCS 1997, and Clear Established Law has been properly satified to over come Quailfied Immun… |
| 18-1191 |
Carter Davenport v. Estate of Marquette F. Cummings, Jr. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-13 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights davis-v-scherer due-process legal-authority money-damages qualified-immunity standing state-law state-law-authority state-official takings |
Whether a state official's qualified immunity defense to a claim for money damages necessarily fails if he cannot first prove that he had authority un… |
| 18-8377 |
Walter D. Booker v. T. Johnson, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment investigative-detention probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion section-1983 seizure |
WHETHER THE OFFICERS HAD REASONABLE SUSPICION TO SEIZE MR. BOOKER SHABAZZALLAH?
WHETHER THE OFFICERS HAD PROBABLE CAUSE TO CONVERT SEIZURE INTO AN AR… |
| 18-1176 |
Eric Wenzel, et al. v. Carl Storm |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anderson-v-liberty-lobby civil-rights dash-camera-evidence dash-camera-video excessive-force fourth-amendment lytle-v-bexar-county police-use-of-force qualified-immunity scott-v-harris seizure-intrusive seizure-standard summary-judgment unarmed-suspect |
1. Did the Eighth Circuit err in holding that Respondent Officer Storm was entitled to qualified immunity on the Wenzel Petitioners' claim of excessiv… |
| 18-1173 |
I. B. and Jane Doe v. April Woodard, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
Amici (7) |
child-abuse child-protection circuit-split constitutional-rights fourth-amendment qualified-immunity strip-search warrant warrant-requirement |
Petitioner I.B. was four years old when respondent Woodard, a state caseworker, strip-searched and photographed her at preschool. Woodard had neither … |
| 18-1162 |
P. Swaney, et al. v. Hector Lopez |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights correctional-officers deliberate-indifference due-process medical-care prisoners-rights qualified-immunity |
Did the Ninth Circuit err when a divided panel of that court denied qualified immunity to correctional officers notwithstanding Third and Seventh Circ… |
| 18-1128 |
Curtis Minchuk v. Craig Strand |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split deadly-force deadly-force-justification excessive-force fourth-amendment police-use-of-force qualified-immunity self-defense totality-of-the-circumstances use-of-force |
1. Whether evidence of a dangerous and violent
suspect's sudden and unexpected gesture of
surrender immediately and objectively
terminates the deadly … |
| 18-8204 |
Eduardo Molina Bracero v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection exhaustion-of-remedies patent qualified-immunity standing takings |
any statutoriol or constitutional obligation related tothe protec2. it isnot the obligation of Dept. of corrections officials to vespond grievances an… |
| 18-1121 |
Captain James Linlor v. Michael Polson |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment bivens bivens-action civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment police-powers qualified-immunity sexual-battery tsa tsa-screener tsa-screening |
1. Whether the attested-as-intentional excessive and unreasonable force striking of a cooperative passenger's genitals by a TSA screener not meeting m… |
| 18-8092 |
Azaniah Blankumsee v. Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment |
1) Did the defendant's lower court err in granting Summary Judgment?
2) DID hE FOURTh CIBCUIT ERR In AFFIRMING IOWER COuRTS Dacision?
3 Did The Four… |
| 18-8034 |
Jesse Brewer v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-02-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure due-process eminent-domain property-rights standing takings 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-1063 |
John Cottam v. Douglas Pelton |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emotional-distress fabricated-evidence false-arrest law-enforcement-fabrication malicious-prosecution probable-cause qualified-immunity rule-56 summary-judgment |
1. The well documented criminal fabrication of a felony charge of eluding (car chase) against an innocent citizen has been protected at all levels of … |
| 18-7889 |
Ramon Romero v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-force police-misconduct qualified-immunity |
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| 18-1045 |
Nathaniel Brent, et al. v. Wayne County Department of Human Services, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment administrative-policy civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte-orders judicial-oversight qualified-immunity rooker-feldman-doctrine standing |
1. This Court has made clear that the RookerFeldman Doctrine is simply an application of 28 U.S.C. § 1257. Does the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine bar a 42 U… |
| 18-1024 |
Lenard Johnson v. Richard Winfrey, Jr. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment accrual-of-claim civil-rights false-statements fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure franks-analysis franks-v-delaware law-enforcement-misconduct legal-accrual material-omission probable-cause qualified-immunity warrant-application |
I. Does Franks v. Delaware1 analysis apply when a court
opines information omitted from a warrant application
is material to establishing probable c… |
| 18-7648 |
William R. Stevenson v. R. Cordova, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights civil-rights-violation-obvious-standard constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference directed-verdict-standard due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-deliberate-indifference judicial-bias perjured-testimony prison-conditions qualified-immunity summary-judgment summary-judgment-qualified-immunity |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding the law was not clearly established as to the conduct of Defendants Espinoza and Williams and in conc… |
| 18-986 |
Sara Huckaby, et al. v. Frank Halley, as Next Friend of J. H., a Minor Child |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-abuse child-welfare civil-rights due-process forensic-interview law-enforcement-procedure prosecutor-directives qualified-immunity search-and-seizure state-statute statutory-interpretation |
An Oklahoma social worker and two law enforcement officers investigating child abuse allegations contributed to the brief removal of a minor child fro… |
| 18-7589 |
William Lee Judy v. Kathy Williams, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment government-liability qualified-immunity administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process federal-officials government-liability medical-regulations ministerial-duties qualified-immunity |
Is the government, in its various guises and employments, entitled to the exception under 28 U.S.C. § 1983(b) and qualified immunity when they fail to… |
| 18-7530 |
Tonya Udoh, et vir v. Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 1983-claims 1985-claims 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights davis-v-monroe-county-board due-process emotional-distress false-arrest fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment haines-v-kerner minor-children miranda-rights monell-liability municipal-liability parental-rights pro-se-litigant qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing unconstitutional-statutes |
Question One: In the (a) Denial of Plaintiffs Motion to Amend the Complaint; (b) Dismissal of Plaintiffs Claims With and Without Prejudices; and (c) G… |
| 18-915 |
Gregory T. Christian v. K. A. Payne, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment audio-evidence coercion consent evidence-suppression fourth-amendment procedural-irregularities qualified-immunity search-and-seizure section-1983 suppression-of-evidence warrantless-search |
whether producing identification without being requested to justifies search for weapons several minutes later;
whether overt submission to and facil… |
| 18-7425 |
Jovan Cooper v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure due-process equal-protection standing 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-913 |
Joshua Brennan v. James Dawson, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (9) |
civil-liability civil-procedure civil-rights common-law constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement liability police-conduct qualified-immunity reasonable-reliance |
Whether a police officer may reasonably rely on a narrow exception to a specific and clearly established right to shield him from civil liability when… |
| 18-7246 |
Harold Shawgnessy Sims v. King, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process sentencing civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-force federal-law-enforcement qualified-immunity |
Question not identified. |
| 18-862 |
Michael J. Daugherty, et al. v. Alain H. Sheer, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process motion-to-dismiss pleading pleading-standard qualified-immunity rule-12(b)(6) standing |
May a court dismiss a complaint under Rule 12(b)(6) for failing to plead facts needed to overcome an anticipated qualified-immunity defense? |
| 18-7251 |
Consuelo Jordan v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process exclusionary-rule jurisdiction probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-840 |
Steven Leon Banks v. Vincent Myron Gore, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process medical-negligence personal-involvement pro-se-plaintiff pro-se-pleadings qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment supervisory-liability |
1. Can supervisors be liable for the constitutional violations of their subordinates even if the supervisor is not directly "personally involved"?
2.… |
| 18-825 |
Peggy Shumpert, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Antwun Shumpert, Sr., et al. v. City of Tupelo, Mississippi, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
canine-force civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-force due-process federal-appeals-conflict police-misconduct qualified-immunity state-created-danger use-of-force whether-the-court-of-appeals-erred-in-concluding-t whether-the-court-of-appeals-erred-in-finding-that |
I. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in finding that the state-created danger doctrine is not clearly established law and in failing to apply it, whe… |
| 18-810 |
John Maguire, et al. v. Anika Edrei, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-12-26 |
Denied |
|
acoustic-device civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement lrad police-tactics protest-control qualified-immunity |
Did the Second Circuit err in finding a potential constitutional violation for excessive force and denying the officers qualified immunity, particular… |
| 18-7163 |
Kent Mayfield, et ux. v. Harvey County Sheriff's Department, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights dog-seizure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement personal-property pet-dog property-rights qualified-immunity search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
DID THE DEFENDENTS VIOLATE THE PLAINTIFFS FOURTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS?
Does the 4th amendment protect authorized custodians of a private rural residence … |
| 18-775 |
Andrew Chien v. LeClairRyan, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-error civil-rights collateral-estoppel color-of-state-act due-process false-imprisonment fourth-amendment qualified-immunity res-judicata subject-matter-jurisdiction territorial-jurisdiction |
For No. 18-6346, the question is whether the order is void which committed administrative error, a nonjudicial act by not issuing summons to defendant… |
| 18-7063 |
In Re Charles A. Dread |
|
2018-12-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing official-responsibility qualified-immunity racial-discrimination standing summary-judgment |
Was the Trial Court's denial of the Appellant's Motion for Summary Judgment and the Request for Hearing without granting the Appellant a Hearing he re… |
| 18-760 |
Oberist Lee Saunders v. Wayne Ivey, Sheriff, Brevard County, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights conditions-of-confinement constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment hutto-v-finney kingsley-v-hendrickson pretrial-detention qualified-immunity rhodes-v-chapman sanitation-standards |
(1) Whether, consistent with Kingsley v. Hendrickson, 135 S. Ct. 2466 (2015), a Fourteenth Amendment conditions-of-confinement claim brought by a pret… |
| 18-761 |
D. Dahne v. Thomas W. S. Richey |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (4) |
civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech grievance inmate-rights ninth-circuit prison prison-grievance qualified-immunity |
Inmates in state and federal prisons file hundreds of thousands of grievances every year, and grievance programs peacefully resolve countless disputes… |
| 18-730 |
Moses McCormick, et al. v. Kim A. Browne, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 amendment amendment-futility civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process fourteenth-amendment injunctive-relief municipal-liability qualified-immunity section-1983 standing |
In light of this Court's recognition in Owen v. City of Independence, 445 U.S. 635-658 (1980), "A Municipality has no immunity from liability under 19… |
| 18-724 |
City of Sandpoint, Idaho, et al. v. Dana Maddox, on Behalf of Minor Children D. M. and D. M., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process interlocutory-appeal ninth-circuit qualified-immunity summary-judgment waiver-and-forfeiture |
1. Does the Ninth Circuit Panel's refusal to hear these petitioning police officers' interlocutory appeal on their claim of qualified immunity deny th… |
| 18-6908 |
Livingston Manners v. Ronald Cannella, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-U.S.C.-1983 Excessive-Force fleeing-and-eluding fourth-amendment Fourth-Amendment-Violation probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop |
Is there a violation of the fourth amendment where the arrest of a civilian stems from an illegal traffic stop - a traffic stop without either probabl… |
| 18-704 |
Ross Abbott, et al. v. Harris Pastides, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-29 |
Denied |
Amici (6) |
campus-speech civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth qualified-immunity standing vagueness |
1. Whether a student and student organizations
investigated for possibly violating a public
university's regulations governing on-campus
speech hav… |
| 18-695 |
Christopher Chung, et al. v. Gulstan E. Silva, Jr., as Personal Representative of the Estate of Sheldon Paul Haleck, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
civil-rights clearly-established-law community-caretaking due-process excessive-force law-enforcement ninth-circuit qualified-immunity reasonableness use-of-force |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying the officers qualified immunity by defining clearly established law at too high a level of generality ra… |
| 18-684 |
Patti Stevens-Rucker, Administrator of the Estate of Jason White, Deceased v. John Frenz, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment arrest-procedure circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-obligations due-process eighth-amendment police-duty-of-care police-use-of-force qualified-immunity tenth-amendment |
Are there circumstances in which police officers are constitutionally obligated to help a person injured during arrest, as the Eighth and Tenth Circui… |
| 18-648 |
Burdette Searcey, et al. v. James L. Dean, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
1989 civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-investigation criminal-trial due-process evidence false-evidence false-evidence-manufacture law-enforcement-liability manufacture-of-false-evidence municipal-liability qualified-immunity reckless-evidence-gathering substantive-due-process voluntary-plea |
Whether in 1989 a law-enforcement officer violated a plaintiff's substantive due-process rights merely by recklessly gathering "unreliable" evidence i… |
| 18-645 |
Marcella Winn v. Susan Mellen, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Dismissed |
Response Waived |
42-U.S.C-1983 42-usc-1983 bad-faith brady-v-maryland brady-violation circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process police-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 |
1.
Do claims against a police officer under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for failure to disclose material evidence under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) req… |
| 18-643 |
Janette Dunkle v. Jennifer Dale, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment child-seizure circuit-court-precedent circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment qualified-immunity warrantless-seizure |
This Court has deliberately left open whether a
U.S Supreme Court decision (as opposed to a Circuit
Court decision) is required to "clearly establish"… |
| 18-623 |
Katrina Walker v. Carl Weatherspoon, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment illinois-v-gates informant informant-tip probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant section-1983 seventh-circuit |
May a police officer, who secures a search warrant on the uncorroborated tip of a first-time informant by withholding from the issuing judge facts tha… |
| 18-591 |
Gary Dressler v. Bradford Rice, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
2nd-amendment civil-rights conspiracy fourth-amendment open-carry probable-cause qualified-immunity second-amendment |
Question I – Is an individual's Second Amendment
right to bear arms violated when he is told by a
security guard he cannot open carry in a store and i… |
| 18-6402 |
Elroy William Robinson v. California |
California |
2018-10-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection jurisdiction qualified-immunity standing statutory-provisions |
(1) WHEN A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER DELIBERATELY DELAYS AN ARREST IN ORDER TO BRING A SPOUSE BRING A PERSON OF INTEREST IN TO FOR QUESTIONING AND IN CO… |
| 18-503 |
N. E. L., et al. v. Douglas County, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process familial-association full-faith-and-credit interstate-agreement procedural-due-process qualified-immunity right-to-travel |
Qualified immunity, to many observers, has transmogrified into absolute immunity. Lawyers from across the ideological spectrum joined in remarkable am… |
| 18-511 |
Austin Gates v. Hassan Khokhar, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
|
arrest-standard civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech probable-cause qualified-immunity standing state-law supreme-court |
1. Whether a court, in determining whether arguable
probable cause exists to arrest for a state-law
crime, must consider any narrowing decisions by
th… |
| 18-368 |
Cedrick Thomas v. Jeffrey Cozzi |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights detective-thomas district-of-columbia-v-wesby eleventh-circuit false-arrest fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity |
1. Whether, in light of District of Columbia v. Wesby, 138 S. Ct. 577 (2018), the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred by affirming the denial of p… |
| 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… |
| 18-337 |
County of Orange, California, et al. v. Mary Gordon, Individually and as Successor in Interest to Matthew Shawn Gordon, Deceased |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-standard due-process eighth-amendment fourth-amendment medical-care objective-reasonableness pretrial-detainee qualified-immunity section-1983 standard-of-care |
Whether a pretrial detainee's "inadequate medical care" claim pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 requires a showing of a jail professional's subjective inte… |
| 18-5987 |
Ajohntae Hammond v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment circuit-split fourth-amendment officer-safety police-discretion pretext probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances warrantless-search |
When deciding whether a police officer's fear for his safety justified a warrantless search of a person not suspected of any crime, may courts limit t… |
| 18-5963 |
Steve Kassab v. S. Skinner, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process excessive-force law-enforcement-misconduct new-trial qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment trial-procedure |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT'S DISMISSAL OF ALL BUT 2 DEFENDANTS CAUSED PREJUDICE TO PETITIONER?
WHETHER THE JURY'S VERDICT IS CONTRARY TO THE CLEAR WE… |
| 18-5974 |
Levon Spaulding v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech qualified-immunity standing |
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4SS(A). SIINCE APRIL I9I5 THE LINITED STATES … |
| 18-309 |
Lonnie Swartz v. Araceli Rodriguez, Individually and as the Surviving Mother and Personal Representative of J. A. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-11 |
GVR |
CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (4) |
bivens bivens-remedy bivens-v-six-unknown-named-agents border-security cross-border-shooting extraterritorial-application foreign-relations fourth-amendment qualified-immunity separation-of-powers |
1. Whether the panel's decision to create an implied remedy for damages under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of the Fed. Bureau of Narcotics, 403 … |
| 18-282 |
Kelly H. Tucker v. Patrick Atwater, Jr., et al. |
Georgia |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-interests Pickering-balancing-test pickering-test public-employee-speech public-employment public-interest qualified-immunity section-1983 |
1) If Pickering and its progeny are applicable to cases involving off-duty public employees who are speaking to matters of public interest which are n… |
| 18-5856 |
David Gerard Jeep v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process eighth-circuit judicial-act judicial-immunity probable-cause qualified-immunity rico-act standing xiv-amendment |
Is the issuance, and support on appeal, of a court order without a "reasonable probable cause" a judicial act?
Is there a non-exigent exception to th… |
| 18-259 |
City of East Cleveland, Ohio, et al. v. Derrick Wheatt, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-deadline due-process indemnification motion-to-amend qualified-immunity settlement-agreement standing state-actors wrongful-conviction |
1. Whether the Court abused its discretion in denying Petitioner City Defendants Qualified Immunity defense when it became implicated during Discovery… |
| 18-257 |
Monty Bauch, Individually and as Father and Next Friend of O. B., a Minor, et al. v. Richland County Children Services, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
|
child-removal civil-rights complaining-witness due-process due-process-rights ex-parte ex-parte-order magistrate-testimony qualified-immunity removal-order social-worker social-worker-immunity standing witness-immunity |
1) Whether a social worker is entitled to absolute immunity when she makes false statements and omits highly relevant information as a complaining wit… |
| 18-5817 |
Jermaine Moorer v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-courts habeas-corpus qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5783 |
Robert A. Cotton v. County of San Bernardino, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-evidence brady-v-maryland brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process issue-preclusion judicial-immunity jury-trial manuel-v-city-of-joliet ninth-circuit preliminary-hearing qualified-immunity self-defense |
Was the Ninth Circuit in conflict with now, the Second, Third, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Tenth Circuits, and the California Court of Appeal, First an… |
| 18-236 |
Paul Weddle v. Alan Nutzman, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity seizure standing use-of-force |
(1) Whether under a qualified immunity analysis there existed clearly established precedent that taking down Weddle when he had surrendered, posed no … |
| 18-218 |
Trey Beam v. Robert F. Abercrombie, Jr. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
|
11th-circuit civil-rights due-process investigation misdemeanor probable-cause qualified-immunity willful-failure |
Whether an officer may lose qualified immunity based upon the allegation of "willful" failure to investigate even when the officer has established at … |
| 18-5584 |
Lawrence L. Thompson v. Pete Copeland, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-14 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment 8th-amendment arrest-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force failure-to-supervise fourth-amendment qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether Deputy Copeland's arrest of Mr. Thompson in (2011).. Nine years after Robinson v. Solano cty., 248 F. 3d 1007(9th Cir. 2002) was unconstitutio… |
| 18-5485 |
William N. Washington v. Eric Arnold, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-case civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process false-arrest habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey judicial-review malicious-prosecution parole qualified-immunity standing washington-v-diamond |
Whether a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right has been made by the petitioner, in light of the recent factual finding, by the … |
| 18-150 |
Phil Plummer, et al. v. David M. Hopper, Special Administrator of the Estate of Robert Andrew Richardson, Sr. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment civil-rights clearly-established-right deliberate-indifference detainee-rights due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement medical-intervention qualified-immunity |
1. Whether the Sixth Circuit defined the constitutional rights in question at too high a level of generality contrary to this Court's teachings on qua… |
| 18-122 |
Michael Sinegal v. Dawn Polk |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
1st-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-law employment-retaliation first-amendment free-speech political-candidacy qualified-immunity standing |
County Commissioner Michael Sinegal terminated
Dawn Polk for being a bad employee. The terminationoccurred after she had unsuccessfully run for office… |
| 18-114 |
G. Russell Rollyson, Jr., in His Official and Individual Capacity v. Jeffrey O'Neal, et ux. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-26 |
Dismissed |
|
constitutional-duty due-process notice notice-requirements property-rights qualified-immunity service-of-notice state-auditor statutory-interpretation tax-deed tax-lien tax-lien-purchaser |
1. Whether a Deputy State Auditor is entitled to qualified immunity because no previous court had interpreted the State's statutory scheme as imposing… |
| 18-110 |
Andrew Burningham, et al. v. John Morrison Raines, III, Guardian of the Estate of John Morrison Raines, IV |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
8th-circuit anderson-v-liberty-lobby civil-rights clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment interlocutory-appeal johnson-v-jones mitchell-v-forsyth qualified-immunity summary-judgment use-of-force |
1. Does Johnson v. Jones, 515 U.S. 304 (1995)
foreclose interlocutory appeal of an order
denying summary judgment on qualified immunity, where the und… |
| 18-99 |
Johnny Barnes v. Joseph Gerhart, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights confidential-informant drug-surveillance due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement law-enforcement-action police-misconduct qualified-immunity search-and-seizure unreasonable-search |
(1) Did the Fifth Circuit wrongly hold that Officer Barnes' mistake was "unreasonable" under the Fourth Amendment?
(2) In the alternative, did the Fi… |
| 18-5279 |
Jonathan Hayhoe v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement-conduct magistrate-powers qualified-immunity search-and-seizure suppression suppression-of-evidence void-ab-initio warrant-validity |
1. Whether conduct by law enforcement in securing a void in initio warrant in violation of the Fourth Amendment was grossly negligent, thereby preclud… |
| 18-46 |
City of Middletown, Connecticut, et al. v. William McKinney |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
4th-amendment active-resistance civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights detainee-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity reasonable-officer use-of-force |
Police officers were attempting to transfer a detainee to a padded cell where he could be appropriately monitored after he repeatedly obstructed the v… |
| 18-5130 |
Marlon L. Watford v. Erik Fossum, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent qualified-immunity standing takings |
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| 18-5131 |
Tu My Tong v. New Mexico, et al. |
New Mexico |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-action qualified-immunity standing state-action |
Was petitioner Curny Coy deprived of Due Process, Equal protection of The law and the privileges and immunities guaranteed to all us citizens by the i… |
| 18-7 |
Choctaw County, Mississippi, et al. v. Jessica Jauch |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (4) |
14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 capias county-liability due-process fourteenth-amendment pretrial-detention procedural-due-process qualified-immunity section-1983 |
The Sheriff's Department detained Respondent
for ninety-six days pursuant to a capias issued by the
state circuit court following a grand jury's indic… |
| 24A1078 |
Mike Miller v. Dillon Rock |
Ninth Circuit |
|
Denied |
|
canine-deployment excessive-force fourth-amendment irreparable-harm qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Question not identified. |