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25-6794 Robert Emert v. Andrea Schuck, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending IFP due-process ineffective-assistance plea-breach prosecutorial-misconduct santobello-precedent section-1983 Whether a court of appeals may dismiss as "frivolous" a § 1983 plea-breach claim supported by recorded evidence and governed by Santobello v. New York…
25-6781 Stacy Gene Hall v. Buddy Myotte, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending IFP due-process evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction rule-60b section-1983 1. Procedural Due Process I Rule 60(b) Jurisdiction Whether the Due Process Clause pennits a lower court to refuse to consider a Rule 60(b) motion be…
25-6754 Kendrick Simpson v. Christe Quick, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2026-02-09 Denied IFP eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young federal-civil-rights rooker-feldman section-1983 state-procedural-rule Whether Rooker-Feldman and the Eleventh Amendment jurisdictionally bar a § 1983 challenge to a state procedural rule announced in a state court decisi…
25A895 Charles Kakembo Sessanga v. City of DeSoto Police Department, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-02-06 Application civil-rights criminal-prosecution malicious-prosecution pro-se-plaintiff probable-cause section-1983 Question not identified. The provided text is an Application for Extension of Time to File Petition for a Writ of Certiorari and includes the Fifth C…
25A857 John Paul Gomez v. David Ryan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-01-30 Application civil-rights dismissal judicial-procedure pro-se section-1983 vexatious-litigant Question not identified.
25A854 Piper Partridge, Individually and as Mother and Next of Kin to Keagan Schweikle and as Special Administratrix of the Estate of Keagan Schweikle, et al. v. City of Benton, Arkansas, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-01-30 Application constitutional-violation excessive-force jury-verdict municipal-liability section-1983 supervisory-liability Question not identified.
25-894 Abiel Brathwaite v. Anthony Georgiades, Police Officer, Maryland Transportation Authority, et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending civil-rights fourth-amendment pleading-standards pro-se-litigation probable-cause section-1983 In §1983 claims for unconstitutional false arrest (a Fourth Amendment violation), the existence of probable cause is often treated as an absolute defe…
25-6632 Alveto Rivera v. Mark Gray Eighth Circuit 2026-01-21 Pending IFP attorney-misconduct civil-commitment civil-rights legal-malpractice section-1983 state-action Whether the pla intiff 'is allow to sue his formal attorney under the color of state law, and to where the violation occurred while the defendant acte…
25-6617 Naquea Elaine Johnson v. New Jersey, et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-01-20 Pending IFP due-process fundamental-rights in-forma-pauperis jurisdictional-challenge section-1983 state-actors I. Whether federal courts violate due process and equal protection by denying in forma pauperis status based on gross income that includes mandatory p…
25-6603 David Martin v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2026-01-16 Pending Response WaivedIFP abstention-doctrine constitutional-rights due-process personal-jurisdiction section-1983 state-court 1. Whether federal abstention doctrines bar § 1983 claims challenging a state court default judgment entered without constitutionally adequate notice …
25-822 Thomas DeCola v. Indiana Indiana 2026-01-12 Pending Response Waived bill-of-rights constitutional-claims fourteenth-amendment legal-estoppel section-1983 state-liability Whether 42 U.S.C. § 1983 is the congressional consent for asserting individual God-granted rights that are acknowledged within the U.S. Bill of Rights…
25-6484 Donald N. S. Mortvedt v. Charles E. Clawson, III, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-01-06 Pending IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-liberty pro-se section-1983 sua-sponte 1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment excludes equity from jurisdiction over deprivations of liberty, including parental liber…
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…
25A745 Abiel Brathwaite v. Anthony Georgiades, Police Officer, Maryland Transportation Authority, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-12-23 Application circuit-split false-arrest fourth-amendment pro-se probable-cause section-1983 Question not identified.
25-696 Jennie V. Wright, on Behalf of Jawand Lyle and Brendon Burnett, et al. v. Louisville Metro Government, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-16 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived civil-rights federal-claims federal-remedy limitations-period section-1983 statute-of-limitations 1. Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1658(a)'s uniform residual limitations period provides a "suitable" federal rule to govern federal claims brought under 42 U.S.…
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 Pending 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…
25-607 Miami Township Board of Trustees v. Roger Dean Gillispie, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-11-24 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived civil-rights indemnification local-government respondeat-superior section-1983 supremacy-clause Whether, as applied, Ohio Revised Code § 2744.07(B) violates the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution because it creates de facto respon…
25A563 Rodney Vance Frith v. Kyle Smith Fourth Circuit 2025-11-14 Application cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment medical-indifference prisoner-rights section-1983 serious-medical-needs Question not identified.
25-6029 Keith Baldwin, Jr. v. Jamey Fletcher, Captain, Maiden Police Department Fourth Circuit 2025-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmative-defenses civil-rights constitutional-violations discovery-rights rule-12b6 section-1983 1. Discovery Rights in § 1983 Cases: Whether federal district courts must allow § 1983 plaintiffs reasonable discovery to develop facts regarding defe…
25-5979 Hubert Arvie v. Cathedral of Faith Missionary Baptist Church, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process federal-intervention judicial-immunity section-1983 younger-abstention Questions have risen out of state and federal court final judgments involving retaliatory, fraudulent, conspiratorial, and ultra vires acts or omissi…
25-464 Philip G. Potter v. Incorporated Village of Ocean Beach, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-10-16 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process land-use section-1983 takings-claims Whether the accrual rule for takings claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 applies to procedural due process claims asserted in land-use disputes.
25-5881 John Fakla v. Matthew Geist, Middlesex Borough Police Chief, Individually and in His Official Capacity, et al. Third Circuit 2025-10-15 Denied IFP civil-rights favorable-termination heck-doctrine judicial-procedure malicious-prosecution section-1983 1. Whether the district court and court of appeals erred by applying Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994), to bar petitioner's § 1983 malicious prose…
25-443 Ted Velleff v. Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff, Cook County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-10-10 Denied Response Waived due-process fourteenth-amendment governmental-policy property-rights section-1983 state-remedies 1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment forbids the government from depriving individuals of personal property by applying a pol…
25-5826 Dover Davis, Jr. v. Officer Aaron Swann Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-court-conflict fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution material-facts section-1983 statute-of-limitations 1. WHETHER THERE WAS A CONFLICT BETWEEN THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ' DECISION AND THE NORTHERN DISTRICT COURT OF GEORGIA 'S DECISION REGARD…
25-408 Tamara Baines v. City of Atlanta, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-06 Denied Response Waived employment-discrimination equal-protection hostile-work-environment section-1983 sexual-harassment title-vii To Respondent Robin Shahar: Whether the "some harm" standard articulated by this Court in Muldrow v. City of St. Louis , 601 U.S. 346 (2024) applies…
25-378 Donald Olsen v. Aaron Salter Sixth Circuit 2025-09-30 Pending 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…
25-5753 Eddie Scott v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-29 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP anti-injunction-statute federal-rule-60b habeas-corpus mandate-rule section-1983 younger-doctrine I. The question presented is whether a Judge can keep a case closed even after the plaintiff overcame the Younger Doctrine by being acquitted after a …
25-366 Lathfield Investments, LLC, et al. v. City of Lathrup Village, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2025-09-29 Denied Response Waived circuit-split constitutional-law contracts-clause lease-licensing property-rights section-1983 Whether 42 U.S.C. § 1983 provides a cause of action for a Contracts Clause claim.
25A344 Jennie V. Wright, on Behalf of Jawand Lyle and Brendon Burnett, et al. v. Louisville Metro Government, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-09-25 Presumed Complete civil-rights federal-interests judicial-tolling relate-back section-1983 statute-of-limitations Question not identified.
25-309 Kaeun Kim v. Mark Ali, et al. Third Circuit 2025-09-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights due-process fabricated-evidence prosecutorial-immunity section-1983 state-action 1. Whether a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim that state officials fabricated evidence against the petitioner accrues only upon favorable termination of the cri…
25-5604 Christopher J. Rahaim v. Nancy M. Ley, former Judge, Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-11 Denied IFP civil-prisoner-litigation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-immunity section-1983 stare-decisis 1. Is the deprivation of due process rights, in underlying state criminal litigation, exempt from the civil prisoner litigation clause 28 U.S.C. § 191…
25A263 Christopher J. Rahaim v. Bruce Bartlett, Individually and in His Official Capacity as State Attorney for the Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-04 Presumed Complete actual-innocence civil-rights heck-doctrine judicial-review section-1983 wrongful-detention Question not identified.
25-253 Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, et al. v. Michael Howe, Secretary of State of North Dakota Eighth Circuit 2025-09-04 Pending Amici (12)Relisted (2) civil-rights implied-right-of-action private-plaintiffs section-1983 statutory-interpretation voting-rights Whether Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, 52 U.S.C. § 10301, is enforceable by private plaintiffs through 42 U.S.C. § 1983, an implied right of acti…
25-251 Hung Dang v. Kimberly Moore, M.D., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-04 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-challenges pleading-standards section-1981 section-1983 summary-judgment In the Ninth Circuit's opinion, Petitioner must allege a prima facie case of discrimination and "the requisite meeting of the minds to establish a con…
25-5511 Matthew Thomas Parkins, By and Through His Guardian ad Litem and Next Friend, Cecil Matt Parkins, et al. v. Henry Dargan McMaster, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process family-rights fourteenth-amendment intellectually-disabled section-1983 state-removal Question I. Whether the state's removal of an intellectually disabled adult from his home and family by application of a standard of proof lower than …
25-5487 Joseph W. Wade v. Walter T. Mosley, New York Secretary of State, et al. Second Circuit 2025-08-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-iii-standing compensatory-relief official-capacity race-conscious section-1983 sex-conscious 1) Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, against state officials in 'official capacity, ' does Article III standing require proof that the final outcome of a 'discr…
25A186 Charles Brooks, et al. v. Jeremy James Allen Eighth Circuit 2025-08-15 Presumed Complete amended-complaint eighth-amendment interlocutory-review plra-exhaustion prisoner-litigation section-1983 Question not identified.
25-5314 Theodore Justice v. McAngus Goudelock & Courie LLC, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-08-08 Denied IFP access-to-courts constitutional-claims due-process judicial-admission procedural-limitations section-1983 I. Whether federal appellate courts may dismiss 42 U.S.C. § 1983 constitutional claims through procedural limitations when the underlying due process …
25A148 Harry Barnett v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-08-05 Presumed Complete fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause property-seizure section-1983 warrantless-arrest Question not identified.
25A130 Philip G. Potter v. Incorporated Village of Ocean Beach, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-07-31 Presumed Complete certificate-of-occupancy federalism land-use procedural-due-process section-1983 statute-of-limitations 1. Just two Terms ago, this Court held that the statute of limitations for a procedural due process claim under 42 U.S.C. §1983 begins to run "only wh…
25-124 Theresa Maria Laws v. Borough of Lansdale, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2025-07-31 Denied Response Waived fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine malicious-prosecution monell-claim probable-cause section-1983 1. Whether lack of probable cause as an element of malicious prosecution under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 is a factual question for the jury? 2. Whether dism…
25A106 Nelson Mickens, Jr. v. William Danforth Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-25 Presumed Complete administrative-remedies civil-rights exhaustion-requirement prison-litigation-reform-act pro-se-complaint section-1983 Question not identified.
25-97 Susan M. Smith v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security Tenth Circuit 2025-07-24 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process judicial-immunity section-1983 Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit erred in affirming the district courts June 11, 2024, frivolous and/or vexatious dock…
25-73 Ali Al-Maqablh v. Crystal Heinz, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as County Attorney of Trimble County, Kentucky, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-07-22 Denied Response Waived district-court judicial-mandate malicious-prosecution section-1983 sixth-circuit thompson-case After this Court granted certiorari, vacated the judgment, and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with Thompson v. Clark, 596 U.S. 3…
25A62 Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, et al. v. Michael Howe, Secretary of State of North Dakota Eighth Circuit 2025-07-15 Presumed Complete Amici (2) private-right-of-action redistricting section-1983 section-2 voting-dilution voting-rights-act Question not identified.
25A59 LaTausha Simmons v. Officer Louis Swafford, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-07-15 Presumed Complete civil-rights due-process excessive-force first-amendment-retaliation in-forma-pauperis section-1983 Question not identified.
25-5098 Elizabeth Nelson, et al. v. Service Towing, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process municipal-liability property-rights section-1983 towing-dispute 1) Do pro'se appellants ' state a 42 USC Sec 1983 claim under 4, 5,14ft Amendment when appellee city of Warren MI property and maintenance employees,…
25-43 Freedom Foundation, a Washington Nonprofit Corporation v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 117, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-07-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights first-amendment janus-precedent section-1983 state-action union-dues Whether public-sector unions that invoke the aid of state officials to deduct union dues from a nonconsenting public-sector employee act "under color …
25-5074 Michael Horton v. Captain Gilchrist, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP discovery-rights federal-rules prisoner-litigation pro-se-litigant section-1983 summary-judgment This Court's precedent is clear that federal courts "should generally not depart from the usual practice under the Federal Rules on the basis of perce…
25-9 Keith M. Wilkins v. Steve Herron, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-07-02 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived emergency-use-authorization experimental-drugs food-drug-cosmetic-act informed-consent private-right-of-action section-1983 May an individual bring a lawsuit via 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violation of his right to informed consent to the administration of an EUA experimental dru…
24-7517 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. City of Miami, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-26 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion section-1983 Did the US Court of Appeal for the 11th Circuit error when it dismissed Petitioner's appeal and denying a rehearing on the appeal challenging US Distr…
24-1306 Terry Klee v. International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 501, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-24 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) first-amendment janus-decision section-1983 sovereign-immunity state-action union-dues Whether a public-sector union that invokes the aid of state officials to deduct union dues from a nonconsenting public-sector employee acts "under col…
24-1301 Calvin Allen, Sr., et al. v. Seth Gomez, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-06-24 Denied Response Waived dismissal-judgment public-accommodation race-discrimination section-1981 section-1983 section-1985 Whether Eighth Circuit erred in holding and affirming dismissal judgment overlooking District Court manifested errors and abuses of discretion entered…
24-1274 R. Michael Cestaro v. Clarissa M. Rodriguez, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as Chair of the New York State Workers' Compensation Board, et al. Second Circuit 2025-06-13 Denied Response Waived first-amendment mt-healthy public-employee retaliation section-1983 subjective-intent 1. In a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in which a public employee alleges First Amendment retaliation, does the government successfully Court in Mt. Hea…
24A1223 Lathfield Investments, LLC, et al. v. City of Lathrup Village, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2025-06-12 Presumed Complete constitutional-claim contracts-clause federal-court-jurisdiction section-1983 sixth-circuit statutory-remedy Question not identified.
24-7256 John Douglas v. Wexford Health Sources, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discovery-sanction federal-procedure judicial-discretion pro-se section-1983 Whether a dismissal of a meritorious and complex de-consolidated Federal Section 1983 lawsuit is appropriate as a discovery sanction pursuant to FRCP …
24-1146 Gilda Ryan, et al. v. County of Imperial, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights due-process judicial-supervision ninth-circuit pro-se-litigation section-1983 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals sanctioning of The District Court 's effective use of a pro-se litigants §1983 based civil action as a…
24-1138 Rafael Beltre v. Fit Guys Walk, LLC, dba Planet Fitness Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-07 Denied Relisted (2) case-management civil-rights dismissal-with-prejudice due-process jurisdiction section-1983 Opposing counsels ' motion to dismiss on misnomer Cause of action. The district courts discretion in determining factors on appointing counsel. Case…
24-1110 Saint Anthony Hospital v. Elizabeth M. Whitehorn, Director, Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-04-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) federal-enforcement hospital-rights medicaid-law prompt-payment-rule section-1983 spending-clause In determining whether Saint Anthony Hospital has a right to sue to enforce the prompt payment rule, should the court of appeals have treated Wilder a…
24A969 Judy A. Brannberg, et al. v. Jefferson County Public Schools, et al. Colorado 2025-04-11 Presumed Complete charter-schools due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct section-1983 sherman-antitrust-act 1. Whether this Court should grant an emergency injunction to prevent Douglas County School District (""DCSD"), Jefferson County Public Schools ("Jeff…
24A923 Cecil Jerome Quinn, Jr. v. J. Mark Hayes, II, Judge, Circuit Court of South Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-03-26 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights magistrate-recommendation prisoner-litigation pro-se section-1983 summary-dismissal Question not identified.
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…
24-993 Gabriel Olivier v. City of Brandon, Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-03-18 Granted Amici (32)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment heck-v-humphrey prospective-relief section-1983 Gabriel Olivier is a Christian who feels called to share the gospel with his fellow citizens. After being arrested and fined for violating an ordinanc…
24-956 Los Angeles County, California, et al. v. Peter Woods Nyarecha, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-03-06 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived cell-check-policy constitutional-violation monell-doctrine municipal-liability section-1983 summary-judgment The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's official policy requires deputy officers to regularly check inmates' cells for signs of life. It is undi…
24-6568 Andrivia Frances Wells v. Mecklenburg County Clerk of Probate Estates, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-02-14 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-distribution probate-law section-1983 Congress enacted 42 U.S.C. § 1983 Blessing v. Freestone, 520 U.S. 329 (1997) to hold state actors accountable for violating federal constitutional and…
24-857 Brian Estrada v. Jacob Smart Tenth Circuit 2025-02-11 Denied administrative-exhaustion civil-rights excessive-force jury-trial section-1983 seventh-amendment 1. Whether the Seventh Amendment's right to a trial by jury extends to issues of fact related to the exhaustion of administrative remedies. This quest…
24-852 Alan Rodemaker v. City of Valdosta Board of Education, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-11 Denied civil-rights claim-preclusion res-judicata section-1983 title-vii workplace-discrimination The Panel required petitioner to include within his § 1983 complaint for racial discrimination against School Board members individually his separate …
24A749 Frederick Luehring v. Los Angeles County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-31 Presumed Complete civil-rights court-order dismissal pro-se section-1983 service-of-process Question not identified.
24-802 Aleksandr J. Stoyanov v. Howard County, Maryland, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-01-28 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment fraud-upon-court malicious-prosecution section-1983 (1) a material factual and legal matter was overlooked or ignored by the 4th-Circuit Court of Appeals; (2) the opinion of the 4th-Circuit Court confl…
24A717 Gabriel Olivier v. City of Brandon, Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-21 Presumed Complete circuit-split constitutional-rights first-amendment heck-doctrine injunctive-relief section-1983 1. This case presents an important, recurring question that has divided circuits regarding the reach of this Court's decision in Heck v. Humphrey, 512…
24-6252 Rebecca Wu v. Gina Carreon, et al. California 2025-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process government-tort-claims preemption section-1983 whistleblower-protection 1. Can a state require under CCP 1714.10 a Pre-Filing in Conspiracy to sue an Attorney under 42 USC 1983 or is it a violation of the Preemption or Sup…
24-703 Ryan Haygood, et al. v. Camp Morrison, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-02 Denied attorney-fees civil-rights due-process frivolity section-1983 time-bar 1. Is it proper to deem an otherwise meritorious § 1983 claim "so clearly time-barred" that it is frivolous under § 1988 based solely on an uncertain …
24A624 Molly Vogt, as Trustee for the Heirs and Next of Kin of Joshua Vogt, Deceased v. CO Robert Anderson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-12-26 Presumed Complete adverse-inference civil-rights jury-trial section-1983 spoliation summary-judgment Question not identified.
24-672 Erma Wilson v. Midland County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-12-20 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus section-1983 statutory-interpretation 1. If a person never had access to § 2254 to impugn the constitutionality of her state criminal proceeding, is § 1983 presumptively available (as in s…
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 …
24A579 City of Los Angeles, California v. Jesus Pimentel, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-13 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-violation law-enforcement municipal-liability ninth-circuit section-1983 Question not identified.
24-597 Jonathan Eugene Brunson v. Joshua H. Stein, Attorney General of North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied circuit-split heck-dismissal in-forma-pauperis prison-litigation-reform-act section-1983 three-strikes-rule Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in holding that dismissals under Heck categorically constitute strikes under the PLRA.
24-6017 Hanoi Hormachea v. Haridas Bhadja, in His Official Capacity as Chief Medical Officer at Okeechobee Correctional Institution Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-exhaustion civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment section-1983 WHETHER THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ERRED BY DISMISSING THE APPEAL WHEN PETITIONER HAD IN FACT PROPERLY EXHAUS…
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…
24A503 Latausha Simmons v. City of Southfield, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-11-20 Presumed Complete civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-litigant property-deprivation section-1983 Question not identified.
24A502 Robert R. Turner v. Sharon W. Jordan, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-20 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-claim eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction pro-bono-representation section-1983 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. …
24-5954 In Re Tony Gooch 2024-11-12 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel monell-liability section-1983 writ-of-mandamus I. "Whether a local government or Municipal Corporation could be held liable under 42 U.S.C.S. 1983, or held responsible under Monell Liability, for i…
24-521 Bethany Farber v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-07 Denied Response Waived fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment section-1983 substantive-due-process unreasonable-seizures wrongful-detention 1. Whether the right against wrongful detention falls under the Fourth Amendment's proscription against unreasonable seizures, or the Fourteenth Amend…
24-513 Darryl Carter, et al. v. James E. Stewart, Sr., in his Official Capacity as District Attorney of Caddo Parish, Louisiana Fifth Circuit 2024-11-05 Denied civil-rights jury-discrimination peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias section-1983 1. Does a prospective juror who alleges they were struck as the result of a policy, custom, or usage of racial discrimination have a cause of action u…
24-5845 Jackie Robinson v. Jerry Spatny, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-10-29 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation federal-statute judicial-interpretation remedies section-1983 Question not identified.
24-5846 Andrey L. Bridges v. Patricia Blackmon, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-10-29 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-deprivation due-process eleventh-amendment government-immunity section-1983 Whether this court should resolve the longstanding conflict among the right to sue officials in their individual or official capacity, where the offic…
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…
24-5833 Douglas Fauconier v. Virginia Fourth Circuit 2024-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment parole-eligibility section-1983 strict-scrutiny A. Did the substantive component of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments ' Due Process Clauses require the United States Court of Appeals for the Four…
24A395 Onyinye Jideani v. Robert R. Rigsby, Judge, District of Columbia Superior Court District of Columbia 2024-10-23 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-violation federal-jurisdiction judicial-capacity judicial-immunity section-1983 Question not identified.
24-398 Jantzen Verastique, et al. v. City of Dallas, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-09 Denied Response Waived constitutional-violations deliberate-indifference governmental-entity legal-precedent pattern-requirement section-1983 I. Whether this Court's holding in Leatherman v. Tarrant Cnty. Narcotics Intel. and Coordination Unit, 507 U.S. 163 (1993) is applicable to a § 1983 p…
24A311 Donna Chisesi, Administratrix of the Estate of Jonathon Victor, Deceased v. Matthew Hunady, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-01 Presumed Complete 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…
24-313 Christine A. Arakelian v. City of Falls Church, Virginia, et al. Virginia 2024-09-19 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment comity-doctrine due-process jurisdictional-challenge section-1983 tax-injunction-act 1. Did the Supreme Court of Virginia err as a matter of federal, constitutional law by dismissing Petitioner's appeal for failure "to timely file the …
24-5518 Mark E. Brown v. Unified School District No. 501 Tenth Circuit 2024-09-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP burden-shifting-analysis civil-rights employment-discrimination retaliation section-1981 section-1983 WAS APPELLANT/PLAINTIFF REQUIRED TO FILE $1981 CLAIM OPPOSED TO $1983 CLAIM
24-5444 Delano Medina v. Jennifer Murphy, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-09-04 Dismissed IFP detention-challenge habeas-corpus judicial-remedy parole-eligibility section-1983 sentence-miscalculation In 1973, this Court announced an exception to the broad language of § 1983 when it held that a prisoner must bring a suit for equitable relief that ch…
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.
24-5395 Daniel Luke Meier v. Allstate Property & Casualty Insurance Company Sixth Circuit 2024-08-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process insurance-claim judicial-misconduct section-1983 Did all lower state courts and the District Court, and now the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, err in committing multiple outrageous and flagrantly cr…
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 …
24A92 Christine A. Arakelian v. City of Falls Church, Virginia, et al. Virginia 2024-07-25 Presumed Complete board-of-equalization due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment property-tax section-1983 Question not identified.
24-70 Ilya Kovalchuk v. City of Decherd, Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2024-07-23 Denied civil-rights discovery-standard due-process fourth-amendment monell-claim monell-liability municipal-liability plausibility-standard section-1983 twombly-iqbal This dispute concerns municipal liability in a § 1983 action against the City of Decherd, Tennessee ("City"), and a Decherd police officer. The office…
24-5099 Brandan C. Bellamy v. Chanse Houghton, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-07-17 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process hipaa hipaa-privacy malicious-prosecution privacy section-1983 standing summary-dismissal 1. Whether Petitioner should be given another chance to make another amended complaint. 2. Whether Respondents shall be held liable for violating Pet…
24A32 Marino Scafidi v. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-11 Presumed Complete appellate-review civil-rights ninth-circuit pro-se section-1983 summary-judgment Whether the Ninth Circuit, when granting summary judgment to the movants, clearly ignoring Nevada state court judgments that concluded the LVMPD viola…
24-5038 Larry D. Ford v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-07-10 Denied IFP assisted-suicide emtala emtala-rights-1983 federal-rights fnhra medical-rights nursing-home-care nursing-home-reform-act section-1983 social-security-act spending-clause 1. Whether the The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) gives rise to federal rights under § 1983? 2. Whether the Federal Nursin…
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…
24-14 James R. Zuegel v. Marco Garcia, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-claim conviction conviction-challenge probation section-1983 spencer-v-kemna standing Does this Court's opinion in Spencer v. Kemna, 523 U.S. 1 (1998), permit an individual, who has completed his probation, to pursue a 42 U.S.C. section…
24-16 Anthony Monroe v. Terry Conner, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-claims federal-interests owens-v-okure personal-injury section-1983 state-law-borrowing statute-of-limitations Whether applying a state's one-year statute of limitations to Section 1983 claims is inconsistent with the federal statutory scheme and the interests …
24-2 Camille Bourque v. Engineers and Architects Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-03 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech government-employer janus-v-afscme labor-unions public-sector section-1983 union-dues wage-deduction 1. Is the First Amendment violated when a union causes a government employer to seize full union dues from the wages of a nonconsenting employee? 2. …
23-1375 Anthony Italo Provitola v. Dennis L. Comer, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-02 Denied Response Waived color-of-state-law constitutional-rights federal-jurisdiction litigation-privilege rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 After Petitioner's State Action for declaratory judgment was corruptly terminated without any adjudication of the issues related to the declaration of…
23-1372 Dave Wayne Erlanson, Sr. v. Environmental Protection Agency Ninth Circuit 2024-07-02 Denied Response Waived 9th-amendment bill-of-rights cause-of-action civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process environmental-protection-agency federal-mining-claim ninth-amendment section-1983 1. Can 42 U.S.C. § 1983 be considered a tort claim action? 2. Can 42 U.S.C. § 1983 be considered a cause of action to sue the U.S. Environmental Prot…
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,…
23-1332 Jarius Brown v. Javarrea Pouncy, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-06-21 Denied Amici (4) 28-usc-1658 civil-rights civil-rights-claims federal-interests owens-v-okure personal-injury section-1983 state-law statute-of-limitations Because 42 U.S.C. § 1983 does not itself provide a statute of limitations, federal courts have borrowed from state law to determine the timeliness of …
23-1302 Kevin Hardaway v. Dwight Hamilton, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-13 Denied 42-usc-1983 eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-rights eleventh-amendment-immunity monell-claim monell-v-department-of-social-services official-capacity section-1983 use-of-force This is a Section 1983 case, based on Eighth Amendment violations stemming from the DeKalb County, Georgia Sheriff's Office's custom and policy of per…
23-1301 Ben Brinkmann, et al. v. Town of Southold, New York Second Circuit 2024-06-13 Denied Amici (5)Relisted (3) bad-faith bad-faith-taking constitutional-protection pretext property-rights public-use section-1983 state-federal-split takings-clause The Second Circuit, in a 2-1 decision over a dissent by Judge Menashi, held that the Public Use Clause does not prohibit taking property when the asse…
23A1108 Stacy Williams, on Behalf of Her Minor Grandson, J.J. v. Andrew Williams, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-06-12 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights due-process emergency-medical-care municipal-liability paramedic-duty section-1983 Question not identified.
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 …
23A1098 Douglas Fauconier v. Virginia Fourth Circuit 2024-06-07 Presumed Complete access-to-courts civil-rights legal-research prisoner-rights pro-se section-1983 Question not identified.
23-1273 Catherine Brennan v. Cass County Health, Human and Veteran Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-06-05 Denied Response Waived civil-commitment civil-rights due-process heck-precedent heck-v-humphrey psychotropic-drugs section-1983 willful-indifference 1. Is Heck v. Humphrey precedent to require persons subject to civil commitment proceedings not related to a criminal proceeding to vacate the commitm…
23-1275 Eunice Medina, Director, South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-06-05 Judgment Issued Amici (48)Relisted (9) circuit-split medicaid-act o'bannon-v-town-court private-right provider-choice section-1983 statutory-interpretation unambiguous-right More than 30 years ago, this Court first applied what would become known as the "Blessing factors," holding that a Medicaid Act provision created a pr…
23-1260 Douglas Bruce v. Ogden City Corporation, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-06-03 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process municipal-action property-rights section-1983 standing statute-of-limitations takings takings-claim Whether the statute of limitations for a Section 1983 takings claim for the unconstitutional deprivation of private property (specifically real estate…
23A1077 Anthony Monroe v. Terry Conner, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-31 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-protections federal-interests section-1983 state-law-borrowing statute-of-limitations 1. This case raises an important question of federal law regarding the appropriate statute of limitations for claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983: whether a…
23A1017 James LeBlanc v. Brian McNeal Fifth Circuit 2024-05-16 Presumed Complete federal-remedies habeas-corpus judicial-precedent prisoner-rights section-1983 wrongful-detention Question not identified.
23A1013 Jean Coulter v. James P. Coulter, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-15 Presumed Complete administrative-judge conspiracy due-process judicial-immunity property-rights section-1983 Question not identified.
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.
23A995 Tina Gerlach v. Todd Rokita, Attorney General of Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-05-08 Presumed Complete eleventh-amendment individual-capacity just-compensation section-1983 sovereign-immunity takings-clause Question not identified.
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…
23-1138 Angela Williams, et al. v. Joseph Lombardo, Governor of Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied Response Waived 13th-amendment article-iii-standing causation civil-procedure civil-rights government-liability section-1983 standing thirteenth-amendment trafficking-victims-protection-act Petitioners were sex trafficked within Nevada's legalized prostitution system, and sued the businesses that trafficked them, and the government entiti…
23A937 Azariah M. Ellington v. Mary Thornton House, Judge, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-18 Presumed Complete de-novo-review en-banc-petition judicial-misconduct ninth-circuit section-1983 trust-litigation Question not identified.
23-1116 Daniel Creger v. Andrew Tucker, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-04-15 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution material-misrepresentation probable-cause section-1983 warrant-affidavit 1) Whether, in the context of evaluating a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 Fourth Amendment malicious prosecution claim, state law citations showing that a rational …
23-1107 Joan Ghougoian, et al. v. Lamarr Monson Sixth Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-standard devenpeck fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution manuel pre-trial-detention probable-cause section-1983 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment's objective standard applies to all claims arising thereunder, such that there is no violation so long as probable cau…
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 …
23A873 Jose Luis Garcia v. Kyeong Park Ninth Circuit 2024-04-01 Presumed Complete deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-needs prison-conditions section-1983 summary-judgment Question not identified.
23A855 Willie James Pye v. Tyrone Oliver, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-20 Denied due-process equal-protection preliminary-injunction res-judicata section-1983 sua-sponte Whether a federal court may raise a procedural affirmative defense sua sponte in the absence of any special circumstances, and, if so, whether it may …
23-7041 Willie James Pye v. Tyrone Oliver, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-20 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection preliminary-injunction procedural-defense res-judicata section-1983 stay-of-execution sua-sponte Mr. Pye brought an action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1983 and contemporaneously sought a temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction to restrain…
23A848 Carlos Vega v. Terence B. Tekoh Ninth Circuit 2024-03-19 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-violation evidence-admissibility law-enforcement miranda-rights section-1983 Question not identified.
23-6940 Michael Marrara, et al. v. Philip D. Murphy, et al. Third Circuit 2024-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge habeas-corpus preiser-doctrine preiser-v-rodriguez section-1983 time-credits unconstitutional-legislation Preiser v. Rodriguez , 411 U.S. 475, 487-88 (1973) held that claims seeking the restoration of time credits were not cognizable in a § 1983 action, m…
23-941 In Re First Choice Women's Resource Centers, Inc. 2024-02-28 Denied Amici (4) civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech investigatory-demand pre-litigation-challenge ripeness section-1983 standing state-official Whether a section 1983 suit to enjoin an unlawful investigatory demand by a state official is ripe only after a state court has enforced the demand.
23A795 Atishma Kant, et al. v. Service Employees International Union Local 721, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-27 Presumed Complete collective-bargaining first-amendment janus-precedent section-1983 state-action union-dues Question not identified.
23A778 Kristy L. Jimenez v. Service Employees International Union Local 775, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-26 Presumed Complete compelled-speech first-amendment janus-precedent section-1983 state-action union-dues Question not identified.
23A775 Tanishia Hubbard v. Service Employees International Union Local 2015, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-26 Presumed Complete compelled-speech first-amendment janus-precedent section-1983 state-action union-dues Question not identified.
23A771 Boston Parent Coalition for Academic Excellence Corp. v. The School Committee for the City of Boston, et al. First Circuit 2024-02-23 Presumed Complete civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment race-discrimination school-admissions section-1983 Question not identified.
23A773 Carolyn Crouthamel, et al. v. Walla Walla Public Schools, a Washington Public School District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-23 Presumed Complete first-amendment janus-precedent payroll-deduction section-1983 state-action union-dues This document is an Application for Extension of Time to File a Petition for a Writ of Certiorari, not a petition itself. It does not contain a "Quest…
23-881 Douglas Bruce v. City of Miamisburg, Ohio Sixth Circuit 2024-02-15 Denied Response Waived constitutional-deprivation due-process municipal-action notice property-rights section-1983 statute-of-limitations takings Whether under existing due process law, the statute of limitations on a Section 1983 claim for the unconstitutional deprivation of private property ca…
23-6683 Antoine Poteat v. Gerald Lydon, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Pennsylvania State Police, et al. Third Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-process civil-rights fabrication-of-evidence legal-standard malicious-prosecution pro-se pro-se-pleading section-1983 speedy-trial 1. Whether the Third Circuit's decision should be vacated and remanded for reconsideration in light of Thompson and McDonough? 2. Whether a Speedy Tr…
23A728 John Doe v. University of Iowa, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-02-06 Presumed Complete mixed-motives procedural-due-process section-1983 sex-discrimination summary-judgment title-ix Question not identified.
23-821 Michelle Smith v. Peter B. Krupp, Judge, Superior Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk County, et al. First Circuit 2024-01-30 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fraud fraud-of-court jurisdiction rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 state-court-proceedings title-42 usurpation-of-power 1. Whether the Rooker Feldman Doctrine was intended to shield Defendants; in a Title 42 section 1983 claim, in immunity for their actions of fraudulen…
23-756 Angela Robinson, et al. v. Midland County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-01-12 Denied Response Waived actual-knowledge civil-rights civil-rights-violation constructive-knowledge county-liability monell monell-claim municipal-liability section-1983 To successfully assert a Section 1983 Monell claim against a county based on a pattern of unconstitutional conduct by the county's contractor, must th…
23A634 Mary A. Harris v. Monroe County Public Library Board of Trustees, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-09 Presumed Complete circuit-split constitutional-rights discrimination equal-protection retaliation section-1983 Question not identified.
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 …
23-6324 Louis Bonanno, Sr. v. Virginia, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-12-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada americans-with-disabilities civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination section-1981 section-1983 title-vii Did the Virginia (Defe ndant 's) violated the requirements of the U.S. Constitution under the Americans with Disabilities, Title VII, 1964,1990. And, …
23-6268 Clifford A. Gooden, III v. United States, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-12-15 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment government-immunity judicial-activism judicial-immunity ku-klux-klan section-1983 1. Is the original scope and purpose of a section 1983 action is to allow black citizens the right to sue racist government where it has been infiltr…
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…
23-630 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 …
23-6144 Susanne Aspley v. Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights color-of-law covid-pandemic due-process emergency-orders fourteenth-amendment nursing-home-deaths right-to-life section-1983 In March, 2020, during the height of the COvid Pandemic, MN Governor Tim Walz and Minnesota Health Department (MDH) Commissioner egregiously created t…
23-540 Laura Covington v. City of Madisonville, Texas Fifth Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights municipal-liability official-policy police-chief policymaker section-1983 state-law To obtain relief against a municipality under §1983, a plaintiff must show an official policy from a policymaker was the moving force behind a violati…
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…
23-480 Richard Stogsdill, et al. v. South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Fourth Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied americans-with-disabilities-act due-process fundamental-alteration medicaid-act olmstead-v-l-c-by-zimring olmstead-v-lc rehabilitation-act section-1983 1. Whether the lower court's orders dismissing claims alleging violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act conflic…
23-481 Temple of 1001 Buddhas, et al. v. City of Fremont, California Ninth Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights disparate-treatment first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause municipal-liability searching-review section-1983 1. Whether a state municipality can be held liable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when decision rights and associated impingements on free exercise are distri…
23A404 Lisa Price v. Montgomery County, Kentucky, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-03 Presumed Complete circuit-split court-order exculpatory-evidence judicial-process prosecutorial-immunity section-1983 Question not identified.
23A393 Alexzandria Orta v. Mark E. Repp, Judge, Tiffin-Fostoria Municipal Court, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-01 Presumed Complete circuit-split constitutional-violation contempt-order judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct section-1983 Question not identified.
23A392 Brenda Dawson Battle v. Atty Creel, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-10-31 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-violation dismissal judicial-immunity pro-se section-1983 Question not identified.
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…
23-440 S. B., on Behalf of Her Minor Daughter, S. B. v. Jefferson Parish School Board, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied Amici (1) 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-scrutiny corporal-punishment due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment section-1983 1. Is unconstitutionally excessive corporal punishment by a public-school employee cognizable under § 1983 (as nine circuits hold), or is it not (as o…
23-429 Brett C. Kimberlin v. Department of Justice, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-10-25 Denied Response Waived civil-rights dna-evidence fraud-based-discovery heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey official-corruption section-1983 statute-of-limitations I. Whether this case should be remanded for consideration in light of Reed v. Goertz, _ _U.S._ _ (April 19, 2023) to consider l) Petitioner 's 1983 ac…
23-426 Ralph Lisby, as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Ashlynn Lisby, Deceased v. Jonathan Henderson, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Police Officer, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-10-23 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-claim discovery discovery-rights judgment-on-pleadings pleadings police-misconduct procedural-posture section-1983 summary-judgment 1. Whether, in light of the procedural posture of this case, the Court should convert Respondents' Motion for Partial Judgment on the Pleadings to a M…
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.
23-410 Estate of Gabriel Strickland, et al. v. Nevada County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-19 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights deadly-force graham-factors graham-v-connor objective-reasonableness section-1983 totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances use-of-force This case presents a unique question of law under 42 U.S.C. §1983 concerning the application of the "totality of the circumstances" test adopted in Gr…
23-409 Henri N. Beaulieu, Jr. v. Samuel Powell, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a State Trooper for the State of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment pleading-requirements pleading-standards section-1983 shotgun-pleading twombly-iqbal 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's application of the "shotgun pleading" standard to affirm the dismissal of the Petitioner's complaint for violations …
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…
23-336 Keith Allen Kiefer v. Isanti County, Minnesota Eighth Circuit 2023-09-29 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment mens-rea postconviction-incarceration section-1983 unreasonable-seizure After a criminal trial under a county's civil solid waste ordinance specific to solid-waste management opera-tions, the county incarcerated the petiti…
23-304 Thomas Neilsen v. John Kellner, in His Official Capacity as District Attorney, et al. Colorado 2023-09-26 Denied Response Waived black-letter-law brady-rule civil-rights declaratory-relief due-process heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey mooney-v-holohan prosecutorial-misconduct section-1983 supreme-court-precedent In this case, Prosecutors for the 18th Judicial District in Colorado, acting as advocates for the State of Colorado convicted an innocent man by withh…
23A267 Patricia L. Harrison v. South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-26 Presumed Complete americans-with-disabilities-act medicaid-act retaliation-claims section-1983 statute-of-limitations title-ii-ada Question not identified.
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…
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…
23-260 Daniel Erwin v. Karla Howell, as Administratrix of the Estate of Cornelius Pierre Howell Sixth Circuit 2023-09-18 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-standard deliberate-indifference due-process farmer-v-brennan fourteenth-amendment kingsley-v-hendrickson medical-need pretrial-detainee section-1983 Whether Kingsley v. Hendrickson, 576 U.S. 389, 135 S.Ct. 2466 (2015), applies to claims for deliberate indifference to a serious medical need brought …
23-5582 Juan Manuel Reyes v. Washington County, Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment accrual-of-discovery civil-rights constitutional-rights constructive-notice due-process fourth-amendment governmental-action section-1983 statute-of-limitations A.) Does a Fourth Amendment or any other United States Constitutional Amendment violation have a federal expiration date or time limitation other than…
23-229 Bronson McClelland v. Katy Independent School District, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation final-policymaking-authority first-amendment monell-liability public-school-district public-school-speech section-1983 true-threat 1. In a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, does Monell liability exist for a public school district when an official who committed a constitu…
23A216 Brett Kimberlin v. Department of Justice, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-09-06 Presumed Complete civil-rights-action declaratory-relief DNA-testing heck-bar innocence-claim section-1983 Question not identified.
23-5529 Abdalla Elehamir Mousa v. Christina Greve, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1997e administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies civil-rights due-process eighth-circuit-rule equal-protection prison-grievance prison-officials section-1983 Whether an Applicant for Relief Under 42 U.S.C. §1983 is Required to Exhaust Administrative Remedies Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1997e(a) If the Prison Off…
23-191 Nancy Williams, et al. v. Greg Reed, Secretary, Alabama Department of Workforce Alabama 2023-08-29 Judgment Issued Amici (8)Relisted (2) administrative-exhaustion administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-remedies section-1983 standing state-court state-courts statutory-interpretation Whether exhaustion of state administrative remedies is required to bring claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in state court.
23-186 Nevada Department of Corrections, et al. v. Philip Roy Galanti Ninth Circuit 2023-08-29 Denied Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-claim custody ex-prisoner-plaintiff favorable-termination-rule habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey section-1983 Under Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994), a plaintiff asserting a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that questions the validity of his conviction or the…
23-5433 Kingsley Azubuike Ononuju v. Virginia Housing Development Authority, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 agency-regulation constitutional-rights fourth-circuit improper-eviction rule-12b6 rule-60(b)(4) rule-60b4 section-1983 tila tila-claim void-judgment A. Did the Fourth Circuit err in affirming the ruling of the district Court in which granted "Rule 12(b)(6) motion " of the Respondent against TILA cl…
23A166 Richard Stogsdill, et al. v. South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Fourth Circuit 2023-08-23 Presumed Complete americans-with-disabilities-act due-process fair-hearing-procedures home-and-community-based-services medicaid-act section-1983 Question not identified.
23-165 Bob Johnson, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of Santa Rosa County, Florida v. Jessica N. Rogers, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Jose F. Escano-Reyes and as Parent and Natural Guardian of Y. C., a Minor Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-21 Denied Amici (1) 42-usc-1983 city-of-los-angeles-v-heller civil-rights constitutional-harm deliberate-indifference jury-finding monell-liability monell-v-new-york-city municipal-liability section-1983 1. Where a jury exonerates jail deputies of all 42 U.S.C. §1983 claims for deliberate indifference to risk of an inmate's suicide, does the jury's fin…
23-5401 Rayshawn J. Christmas v. Unknown Wedd, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure magistrate-judge pro-se pro-se-litigation section-1983 standing Why did Erin Wilder-Doomes, U.S. Magistrate Judge grant service by U.S. Marshall's office Rule (4)(c)(3)i then said that cleric of court is directed t…
23-5335 Young Bok Song v. Tony Parker, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-08-10 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights claim-interpretation constitutional-rights court-of-appeals district-court due-process section-1983 standing tax-fraud WHETHER THE TN U.S. DISTRICT COURT AND U.S. COURT OF APPEALS ARE INCORRECT IN READING SCHOLL V. MNUCHIN, # 20-CV-05309 (N.D. CAL. SEP. 24, 2020), 489 …
23A114 Jillian Ostrewich v. Clifford Tatum, in His Official Capacity as the Harris County Elections Administrator, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-08 Presumed Complete electioneering-statutes first-amendment polling-places section-1983 unreviewable-discretion voter-apparel Question not identified.
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…
23A74 Nevada Department of Corrections, et al. v. Philip Roy Galanti Ninth Circuit 2023-07-25 Presumed Complete civil-rights-damages former-inmate habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey section-1983 sentence-reduction-credits MILAN D. SMITH, JR. and JOHN B. OWENS, Circuit Judges, and ANDREW S. OLDHAM, District Judge.* MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judge: Philip Roy Galanti…
23-50 Jascha Chiaverini, et al. v. City of Napoleon, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-07-20 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 any-crime-rule charge-specific-rule circuit-split criminal-charges fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause section-1983 To make out a Fourth Amendment malicious prosecution claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, a plaintiff must show that legal process was instituted without pro…
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 …
23-5108 Cassandra McGuire v. Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-07-14 Denied IFP abuse-of-process civil-rights court-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts federal-question injunctive-relief judicial-misconduct judicial-orders section-1983 standing state-agencies 1. Did the Appeals Courts err by Affirming the District Court in complete disregard for the Supreme Court rulings regarding State agencies can be sued…
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…
23-25 Michael Charles Ward v. James V. Chafin, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-07 Denied absolute-immunity appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct section-1983 In 2010, Petitioner Charlie Ward was convicted of aggravated stalking and sentenced to 10 years in prison. The prosecutors who obtained that convictio…
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 …
23-5007 Alexis Carberry Benson, on Behalf of Minor Child K.C., Jr., et al. v. Fort Mill Schools/York County District 4, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-justice ada district-court-jurisdiction idea idea-law in-forma-pauperis individual-immunity pro-se right-to-counsel section-1983 Right to Counsel Preface: IDEA Procedural Safeguards 1415 states: "Any party * shall be accorded the right* to be accompanied and advised by counsel".…
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-…
22-7522 William Sim Spencer v. Joseph M. Gasper, Director, Michigan State Police Sixth Circuit 2023-05-11 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey judicial-proceedings section-1983 sex-offender-registration sixth-circuit supervisory-power supreme-court-review I. Does the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals extension of the § 1983 favorable habeas corpus termination rule announced in Heck v Humphrey, 512 US All (…
22-1084 Ernest J. Walker, et al. v. Dominion Voting Systems, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-05-08 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees attorney-sanctions civil-rights due-process inherent-authority sanctions section-1983 standing tenth-circuit voter-standing 1. Whether Petitioners were properly sanctioned under a district court's inherent authority for asserting standing on behalf of voters for damages aga…
22-1080 City of Stockton, California, et al. v. Francisco Duarte Ninth Circuit 2023-05-05 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-claim criminal-procedure due-process heck-bar heck-v-humphrey nolo-contendere plea-bargaining plea-deal pretrial-diversion section-1983 Whether the " Heck Bar," which this Court created in Heck v. Humphrey , 512 U.S. 477 (1994) , bars a 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 claim where the plaintiff …
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…
22-1050 Cedric Epple v. Albany Unified School District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-28 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 administrative-actions civil-rights due-process exhaustion federal-court judicial-exhaustion ninth-circuit section-1983 state-court-remedies summary-reversal 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding, in direct conflict with this Court's precedent, that litigants challenging administrative actions must …
22-1045 Robert R. Snyder v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-27 Denied Response Waived 12(b)(6) civil-procedure dismissal due-process pleading-standards pleadings prisoner-rights rule-12 section-1983 standing Does Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 12 permit a defendant to file successive, pre-answer Rule 12(b)(6) motion(s) to dismiss —each towards a sep…
22-7198 Richard Roy Blake v. Liliane Hong, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-04-04 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-assembly free-speech municipal-ordinance section-1983 void-for-vagueness 1.) Did the City of Northglenn, Colorado police department violate Petitioner's First Amendment rights to free speech and assembly on January 4, 2020 …
22-7107 In Re Jeffrey L. G. Johnson, et al. 2023-03-24 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ministerial-duty missouri-supreme-court res-judicata section-1983 standing state-actor When this case was before this Court in No. 21-7556 and this Court denying certiorari review on May 31, 2022. The Movant city of St. Louis ' removal t…
22-7099 Dana Simmons v. Andrew Beshear, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 advisory-opinion civil-rights color-of-state-law constitutional-challenge due-process injunctive-relief section-1983 standing state-law summary-judgment Article III of the Constitution of the United States of America limits federal courts I. to hearing the actual case or controversy before them. May lo…
22-7093 Walter Harris v. Neil Turner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights culer-v-adams due-process interstate-agreement-on-detainers prison-litigation-reform-act pro-se-litigant procedural-fairness section-1983 standing The petitioner 42 & 1983 complaint was dismissed for putting the wrong statutes the PRISON LITIGATION REFORMS ACT complaint forms need to be reinforce…
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…
22-895 Murphy Creek, LLC, et al. v. Murphy Creek Metropolitan District No. 3 Colorado 2023-03-16 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 attorneys-fees civil-rights common-nucleus common-nucleus-of-operative-fact judicial-relief prevailing-party section-1983 substantial-claim substantiality 1. Whether the Colorado Courts ignored the intent of Congress set forth in 42 U.S.C.A. § 1988 and binding precedents of this Court, and erred in holdi…
22-7018 Michael Wright v. Contra Costa County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process federal-court-denial heck-v-humphrey jackson-v-virginia Jackson-v-Virginia-standard section-1983 state-court-invalidation state-tribunal unlawful-conviction 1. In applying Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994), to a unlawful conviction in a Title 42 § 1983 civil action, can the federal court deny the suit …
22-857 Paulette H. Foster, et al. v. Michael Wearry Fifth Circuit 2023-03-08 Denied absolute-immunity buckley-v-fitzsimmons civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process functional-approach judicial-phase prosecutorial-immunity section-1983 witness-preparation After Respondent's murder conviction was reversed because the prosecution had failed to disclose evidence bearing on the credibility of its witnesses,…
22-836 Hiram I. Perez Soto v. Maite D. Oronoz-Rodriguez, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, et al. First Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied Response Waived civil-rights declaratory-judgment disbarment due-process ethical-complaints injunction judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct section-1983 standing I filed a complaint in the Federal District Court of Puerto Rico in March 2019 19CV-1266 Leading case, and 19CV-1774. I wanted to obtain a declaratory…
22-6883 Fairly W. Earls v. Kari Buske, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-claim constitutional-claim due-process jurisdiction screening section-1367 section-1983 standing supplemental-jurisdiction Whether the District Court and Court of Appeals Abused there Discretion on its Original and Supplemental Jurisdiction by an erroneous application of…
22-770 Ross M. Jackson v. Glenn Cowan, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-16 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 1983 civil-rights civil-rights-conspiracy equal-protection first-amendment-speech internal-policies probable-cause public-forum retroactive-application retroactivity section-1983 It is the rare decision that presents multiple conflicts with other circuits. The Eleventh Circuit's decision in this case presents four §1983 conflic…
22-766 Edward Pinkney v. Berrien County, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-02-15 Denied civil-rights criminal-proceedings due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause section-1983 unlawful-prosecution Petitioner was charged, subjected to pretrial proceedings, tried, convicted, and incarcerated for an act that the law does not make criminal. Petition…
22-723 Jonathan VanLoan v. Nation of Islam, et al. Third Circuit 2023-02-02 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights clearly-baseless-standard denton-v-hernandez dismissal-standard factual-allegations frivolous neitzke-v-williams section-1983 subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Is the legal standard for dismissal of a plaintiffs 42 U.S.C. § 1983 case, for factual allegations deemed "fantastical " by the court, the "clearly…
22-724 San Juan County, Utah v. Rosalie Chilcoat Tenth Circuit 2023-02-02 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process monell monell-doctrine municipal-liability section-1983 state-action state-actor unconstitutional-action A prosecutor in San Juan County, Utah, acted on behalf of the State of Utah when he made allegedly false statements at the preliminary hearing in the …
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…
22-677 Eric Miller v. City of Albuquerque Personnel Board New Mexico 2023-01-20 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-termination judicial-review nmsa-1978-30-16-10 section-1983 standing title-42-usc-1983 Whether the courts of New Mexico have so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings by denying the petitioner's certiorar…
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…
22-6454 Christine Chang v. Ezery Beauchamp, Captain and Commander for California Highway Patrol, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 abuse-of-discretion civil-rights dismissal dismissal-with-prejudice due-process fourteenth-amendment ninth-circuit pro-se section-1983 Whether the Ninth Circuit violates Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process rights when it decides in a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. Secti…
22-576 Cindy Ellen Ochoa v. Public Consulting Group, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 42-usc-1983 compelled-speech constitutional-violation due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment public-employee-rights public-sector-unions section-1983 union-dues Does a challenge to a statutory system alleging failure to provide due process under the Fourteenth Amendment and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 require an injured …
22-567 Gary Mattos, et al. v. AFSCME Council 3 Fourth Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 agency-fees civil-rights constitutional-rights damages first-amendment good-faith good-faith-defense section-1983 state-law state-law-immunity Section 1983 provides that "every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State" deprives a citizen of…
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…
22-6330 Billy Ray Jackson v. Bryan Daniel, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-review civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment individual-capacity liberty property section-1983 sovereign-immunity state-action unemployment-benefits Whether petitioner Billy Ray Jackson's allegations in his 42 U.S.C. 1983 complaint brought against the respondent(s) state official(s) of the Texas Wo…
22-6295 Jamisi Jermaine Calloway v. M. Martel, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-13 Denied IFP access-to-courts ada-discrimination civil-rights constitutional-rights continuing-violation-doctrine disability-rights due-process indigent-prisoner-rights legal-assistance pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation section-1983 1. When should a total disabled incarcerated indigent prisoner thats under the direct care and jurisdiction of the California department of correcti…
22-539 Juliet Anilao, et al. v. Thomas J. Spota, III, Individually and as District Attorney of Suffolk County, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2022-12-13 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation first-amendment prosecutorial-immunity section-1983 state-action thirteenth-amendment 1. Whether a plaintiff can defeat a prosecutor's absolute immunity from suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by demonstrating that the prosecutor lacked any co…
22-534 Theresa Eagleson, Director, Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services v. St. Anthony Hospital, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-12-09 GVR Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 42-usc-1983 contract-enforcement managed-care medicaid private-rights section-1983 spending-clause statutory-duty timely-payment 1. Whether Spending Clause legislation, including Section u-2(f), can impliedly create private rights enforceable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. 2. Whether,…
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…
22-522 Applied Underwriters, Inc., et al. v. Ricardo Lara, Commissioner, California Department of Insurance, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-05 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 abstention abstention-doctrine civil-rights constitutional-violations in-personam in-rem in-rem-jurisdiction prior-exclusive-jurisdiction section-1983 state-executive-officers "[W]hen one court is exercising in rem jurisdiction over a res, a second court will not assume in rem jurisdiction over the same res." Marshall v. Mar…
22-513 Hyrum James Geddes v. Weber County, Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-12-02 Denied civil-rights detention-facility due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment objective-reasonableness section-1983 I. Is the test of objective reasonableness applicable to a claim of excessive force enunciated by this court in Kingsley v. Hendrickson, 576 U.S. 389 …
22-6175 Nancy Abbie Tallent v. Phillip Knight, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-exclusion judicial-bias pro-se pro-se-litigation section-1983 supervisory-power supreme-court-intervention Where officers violated the Petitioner rights afforded by the Constitution of the United States, under 42 U.S. Code $ 1983 . after exhausting all know…
22-475 Binyamin I. Efreom, et al. v. Daniel McKee, Governor of Rhode Island, et al. First Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Response Waived civil-rights contract-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment pension-reform procedural-due-process rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 taking-without-compensation takings 1.) Whether Petitioners' procedural due process right and rights to sue for a taking without just compensation under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendmen…
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…
22-6069 Rufus Spearman v. Mary Parson, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violations district-court dolan-v-city-of-tigard due-process endangered-species-act federal-procedure judicial-dismissal nollan-v-california-coastal-commission section-1983 takings Question not identified.
22-6044 Jerlard Derek Rembert v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1983 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment federal-jurisdiction heck-doctrine section-1983 statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction Where the Lower Court held a de novo determination that the 1983 complaint at issue, claiming constitutional violations, was plaintiffs failing to sho…
22-5957 Calvin Kelsick Wilson v. Tampa Police Department Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-dismissal due-process frivolous-claim habeas-corpus prisoner-claim section-1983 standing statute-of-limitations (s).Th&. tovWfy1l<?&37&* petitioner SeeX to YtfUMh) led to kt$ prosecuti'cm * (n. Petitioner did exhausted his Steste- jtertedieS a£ eefyuYed in hJi…
22-394 Eric Brown, et al. v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 5, AFL-CIO, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-10-27 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 agency-fees civil-rights constitutional-rights damages-liability first-amendment good-faith good-faith-defense section-1983 Section 1983 provides that "every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State" deprives a citizen of…
22-376 Louisville-Jefferson County, Kentucky Metropolitan Government, et al. v. Johnetta Carr Sixth Circuit 2022-10-21 Denied Amici (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-action conviction criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey pardon section-1983 In 1994, this Court held that an individual convicted of a crime may not bring a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim unless "the conviction or sentence has been re…
22-366 County of Sonoma, California, et al. v. Gabbi Lemos Ninth Circuit 2022-10-19 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights comity conviction excessive-force heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey judicial-preclusion section-1983 Does Heck's "necessarily imply" standard bar a § 1983 suit only if, as some circuit courts have held, success would "necessarily require" plaintiff to…
22-363 Candice Hinton, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Rodrin Hinton and as Parent and Natural Guardian of Her Minor Children R. H. and C. H. and Next Friend of I. H. and K. H., et al. v. Harris County, Texas Fifth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference farmer-v-brennan governmental-liability medical-policy policymaker section-1983 Whether the Court's analysis in a 42 U.S. Code § 1983 - Civil action for deprivation of rights policy case should be restricted to a finding of delibe…
22-305 Kevin O'Rourke, et al. v. Dominion Voting Systems, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-09-29 Denied 1983 article-iii civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-rights free-speech section-1983 standing state-action voting 1.) Whether citizens have standing to sue private persons engaged in state action for relief under § 1983 for deprivations of their right to vote for …
22-255 Scott Wilford, et al. v. National Education Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-19 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process fair-share-fees free-speech good-faith-defense janus-precedent public-sector-unions retroactive-effect retroactivity section-1983 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred by basing a defense to § 1983 on "equality and fairness" rather than determining whether the common law in 1871 pro…
22-248 Larry Tawney, Jr. v. Portage County, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-09-15 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights eighth-amendment intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress monell-claim section-1983 summary-judgment Whether a trial court properly dismisses, as a matter of law, pursuant to Rule 56(c), F.R.C.P., a plaintiff's complaint wherein the plaintiff seeks co…
22-222 Abelino "Abel" Reyna, et al. v. John Wilson, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 criminal-procedure due-process franks-rule franks-v-delaware grand-jury judicial-procedure probable-cause search-warrant section-1983 In Franks v. Delaware, 438 U.S. 154 (1978), this Court announced a rule of "limited scope" which allowed a criminal defendant to attack the veracity o…
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…
22-5525 Terron Gerhard Dizzley v. Melvin Garrett Fourth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 accrual appellate-review civil-rights district-court federal-courts federal-law section-1983 statute-of-limitations supreme-court Whether The United States Court of Appeals, for the Fourth Circuit, affirmance of the District Court's order that the State law determines the time of…
22-187 County of Orange, California, et al. v. Kathy Craig, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-08-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights damages due-process federal-court section-1983 state-law survival-claim survival-claims Under controlling Supreme Court authority, must a federal court apply a state law prohibition on "loss of life" damages in survival claims pursued via…
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…
22-141 Michelle McDonald-Witherspoon, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Kenyada Jones v. Amber Browne, et al. Third Circuit 2022-08-15 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights disability due-process equal-protection mental-disability mental-health probation-officer section-1983 Whether a probation officer with no medical or psychiatric training who is in charge of a mentally disabled (schizophrenic) person (who is out of jail…
21-1598 City of Anaheim, California, et al. v. Fermin Vincent Valenzuela, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied Amici (2) 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1988 circuit-split civil-rights federal-court hedonic-damages robertson-v-wegmann section-1983 state-law survivorship-claim wrongful-death Under Robertson v. Wegmann, 436 U.S. 584 (1978) must a federal court apply a state law prohibition on hedonic damages to a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 survival c…
21-1569 SouthPointe Partners, LLC v. Louisville Metro Government, et al. Kentucky 2022-06-16 Denied 42-usc-1983 administrative-law administrative-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exclusive-remedy federal-claims section-1983 state-statute The Louisville Metro Planning Commission denied a developer's applications for approval of a minor plat and a related waiver after announcing their bi…
21-8122 Jeremiah Henderson v. Austin K. McClain Fourth Circuit 2022-06-10 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-tort first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement probable-cause retaliatory-arrest retaliatory-prosecution section-1983 Does probable cause defeat a retaliatory prosecution claim when there is strong circumstantial proof that a policeman initiated the prosecution to ret…
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…
21-8049 Thomas Tate Tunstall v. Hope Daigle, fka Hope D. Theriot Fifth Circuit 2022-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection ex-parte-young fourth-amendment section-1983 statute-of-limitations Respondent, a Louisiana state agent, procured the post-legal-process seizures of petitioner and his property (seaman's wages and tax refunds) through …
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…
21-1501 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.
21-7946 Jesse Manuel Skinner v. GPCH-GP, Inc., et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-05-23 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure injunctive-relief pro-se section-1983 standing without-prejudice 1) Whether Pro se Plaintiff has a lawful statutory right pursuant to Federal Civil Rule 41 to withdraw "without prejudice" an earlier filed Section 19…
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…
21-1431 Robert M. Kerr, Director, South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-05-11 GVR Amici (6)Relisted (3) circuit-split civil-rights due-process medicaid medicaid-act private-right-of-action privately-enforceable-rights section-1983 spending-clause standing statutory-interpretation 1. Whether Spending Clause statutes ever give rise to privately enforceable rights under § 1983, and if so, what is the proper framework for deciding …
21-1425 Darvin Castro Santos v. Craig White, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-05-05 Denied Response Waived civil-rights correctional-officers due-process excessive-force heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey prison-disciplinary-proceedings prisoner-rights section-1983 Whether Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994), may bar a prisoner's excessive-force claim against correctional officers for damages under § 1983 where…
21-1419 Hong Tang v. Kurt L. Schmoke, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-05-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling federal-procedure jurisdictional-dismissal maryland-law saving-statute section-1983 statute-of-limitations 1. Whether in 42 U.S.C. § 1983 proceedings, when the lower court even specifically stated in the initial per curiam opinion and judgment that "[t]he c…
21-1399 Ali Al-Maqablh v. Crystal L. Heinz, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-05-02 GVR 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process favorable-termination legal-remedy malicious-prosecution section-1983 sixth-circuit standing thompson-v-clark After Respondents' prosecution of Petitioner terminated without a conviction, Petitioner brought a claim against them under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for malic…
21-1407 Symon Mandawala v. Northeast Baptist Hospital, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-05-02 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights conflict-of-interest conspiracy due-process judge judicial-bias lawyer section-1983 sixth-amendment The Petitioner was a student at the school owned by the Baptist churches in San Antonio named Baptist School of Health Professions run by TENET and wa…
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 …
21-7689 Deverick Scott v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-04-25 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discovery due-process eighth-amendment failure-to-protect prisoner-rights retaliation screening-process section-1983 1. On 4/24/18, 4/25/18 Did Defendants Malone, Sexton, Burchfield violate Scott s clearly establish right to be protected by Assault from other inmate …
21-1362 Timothy Gray v. Craig White, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-04-22 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-rights correctional-officers due-process excessive-force heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey prison-disciplinary-proceedings prisoner-rights section-1983 Whether Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994), may bar a prisoner's excessive-force claim against correctional officers for damages under § 1983 where…
21-1324 John Zarba, et ux. v. Town of Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2022-04-04 Denied appellate civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process hearing municipal-liability rule-12b6 section-1983 standing 1. Should this Court resolve the long standing problem that Rulel2(b)(6) motions should be dramatically modified due to the following; 1) the rule dem…
21-1300 Mark Gabriele, et al. v. Service Employees International Union, Local 1000, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-share-fees good-faith-defense janus-vs-afscme restitution retroactivity section-1983 union-fees Petitioners are employees of the State of California who declined to join a public union. They seek a refund of the fair-share fees that public-sector…
21-7436 Kevin D. Loggins, Sr. v. Jeff Zmuda, Secretary, Kansas Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-03-23 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-post-facto freedom-of-association miscarriage-of-justice section-1983 turner-v-safely I. WHETHER THE U.S. DISTRICT COURT AND U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN FINDING PLAINTIFF FAILED TO STATE A CLAIM REGARDING ENCROA…
21-1268 Joe Clarence Smith, Jr. v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-18 Denied 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty death-row eighth-amendment habeas-relief method-of-execution section-1983 1. Whether Mr. Smith's method-of-execution challenge is cognizable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. 2. Whether a method of execution involving 44 years of mos…
21-7397 Mario Derrell Jones v. Great Southern National Bank, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 administrative-decision administrative-law civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment section-1983 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with relevant de…
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 '…
21-1220 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, …
21-1159 Balubhai Patel, et al. v. Julie A. Su, et al. California 2022-02-22 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights declaratory-relief federal-courts-improvement-act injunctive-relief judicial-immunity quasi-judicial-officers section-1983 Prior to the 1996 amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, this Court held that judicial immunity for state defendants does not extend to actions for declarator…
21-7104 Jeffrey Ryan Simmermaker v. Cedar County Sheriff's Department, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights confidential-informant due-process fourth-amendment heck-bar heck-barr probable-cause search-warrant section-1983 standing 1. ) Did the court err in it's HECK BARR determination? 2. ) Did the magistrate rely on fraudulent, fabricated and uncorr oborated evidence? 3. ) W…
21-1004 Leon Cody, et ux. v. Superior Court of California, Trinity County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment fair-trial fourteenth-amendment injunctive-relief section-1983 state-law 1. Whether a State has an Eleventh Amendment right to arbitrarily enforce or not enforce a State Law having significant interest to federal Fourteenth…
21-988 Marla Crawford v. Henrico County Public School Board, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-01-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process en-banc-review governmental-immunity procedural-severance rehearing-en-banc section-1983 severance standing supplemental-jurisdiction 1)Did the Appeals Court of the Fourth Circuit error by refusal to pole the rehearing en bac and affirming the US District Court not to sever to Dr. Ma…
21-6794 John W. Winningham, Jr. v. City of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma Tenth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-rights federal-action federal-civil-rights-act kidnapping kidnapping-robbery property-rights robbery section-1983 Title 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 Federal Protected Civil Rights, Liberties, Property and Employment Rights Action When did kidnapping and robbery become L…
21-981 Lan Tu Trinh v. David Fineman Third Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied 12(b)(6) 12b6-motion appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-immunity pro-se-action quasi-judicial-immunity receiver-appointment section-1983 standing 1. Did the district court err by granting the receiver's motion to dismiss on immunity grounds under Rule 12(b)(6)? 2. Did the Third Circuit err by b…
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…
21-947 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…
21-933 Vdare Foundation v. City of Colorado Springs, Colorado Tenth Circuit 2021-12-23 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights first-amendment free-speech government-action hate-speech municipal-services retaliation retaliation-claim section-1983 Whether a complaint based on a local government's public announcement that the plaintiff's speech may be illegal "hate speech" and that, therefore, th…
21-878 Carl Michael Seibert v. Jeremy McIntire, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 state-court-judgments subject-matter-jurisdiction Federal question jurisdiction usually vests in the federal district courts under 28 U.S.C. § 1331. The Rooker-Feldman doctrine represents a narrow exc…
21-6535 Jennifer Smith v. William Paul Nichols, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment bivens bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-injury due-process extraterritorial-warrant fourth-amendment monell search-and-seizure search-warrant section-1983 Does forgery, drug distribution, perjured affidavits, defective extraterritorial search warrants, improper execution of search warrants, coupled with …
21-810 Luis Lorenzo Vargas v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-civil-litigation federal-civil-procedure heck-v-humphrey mcdononugh-v-smith preclusion preclusive-effect section-1983 state-criminal-conviction vacated-judgment Whether a wrongful state criminal conviction retains preclusive effect in a later federal action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 challenging the constitutional…
21-806 Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County, et al. v. Ivanka Talevski, Personal Representative of the Estate of Gorgi Talevski, Deceased Seventh Circuit 2021-12-01 Judgment Issued Amici (32)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction medicaid medical-malpractice nursing-home-amendments nursing-homes private-rights section-1983 spending-clause statutory-interpretation third-party-beneficiaries 1. Whether, in light of compelling historical evidence to the contrary, the Court should reexamine its holding that Spending Clause legislation gives …
21-790 Bradford Disney Lund v. David J. Cowan, Judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-29 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 ada civil-rights declaratory-relief judicial-immunity ninth-circuit respondeat-superior section-1983 title-ii-ada 1. Whether this Court should grant Certiorari to review the Ninth Circuit's holdings that because of Judge Cowan's judicial immunity, the doctrine of …
21-6430 Michael Cardora Roberson v. Joe Morgan, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-11-29 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process section-1983 serious-medical-needs under-color-of-state-law Section 1983 Lawsuits requlation, custom or usage, of any state or Territory, or the District of Columbia subjects, or causes to be subjeeted. any cit…
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…
21-737 David Saxon Bagley, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Jeremiah Ray Bagley v. Ramona Rogers, M.D., et al. Texas 2021-11-18 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights dismissal-with-prejudice excessive-force expert-report mandatory-dismissal medical-liability preemption section-1983 state-healthcare state-healthcare-institutions Whether the Texas Medical Liability Act's expert report and mandatory sanction of dismissal with prejudice for failure to serve an expert report provi…
21-593 Priscilla Everette-Oates v. Beth Wood, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-10-22 Denied Response Waived civil-rights civil-rights-action conspiracy due-process evidence-concealment immunity municipal-immunity municipal-liability prosecutorial-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment In a claim alleging conspiracy to conceal evidence against a public official who was falsely charged with embezzlement, can multiple municipal defenda…
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…
21-534 Roman Andy Janiec, et al. v. City of Glendora, California Ninth Circuit 2021-10-12 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights class-of-one monell monell-doctrine municipal-liability section-1983 selective-enforcement 1. Can a municipality be held liable under 42 U.S.C. §1983 pursuant to Monell v Dep't of Soc. Servs. of City of New York, 436 U.S. 658 (1978) for a "c…
21-492 Edeline Julmisse Prosper, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Junior Prosper v. Anthony Martin Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Response Waived civil-rights excessive-force scott-v-harris section-1983 summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton use-of-force video-evidence Under Scott and Tolan , must courts implement the traditional summary judgment requirement that all evidence be considered in the light most favorable…
21-499 Carlos Vega v. Terence B. Tekoh Ninth Circuit 2021-10-04 Judgment Issued Amici (14)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-act fifth-amendment law-enforcement miranda-v-arizona miranda-warnings police-liability section-1983 self-incrimination Whether a plaintiff may state a claim for relief against a law enforcement officer under Section 1983 based simply on an officer's failure to provide …
21-439 Michael Nance v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-22 Judgment Issued Amici (7)Relisted (2) alternative-execution civil-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus lethal-injection method-of-execution ripeness section-1983 successive-petition 1. Whether an inmate's as-applied method-of-execution challenge must be raised in a habeas petition instead of through a § 1983 action if the inmate p…
21-442 Rodney Reed v. Bryan Goertz Fifth Circuit 2021-09-22 Judgment Issued Amici (13)Relisted (8) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights dna-testing due-process postconviction-claim section-1983 state-court-litigation statute-of-limitations In Skinner v. Switzer, 562 U.S. 521, 524-25 (2011), this Court held that state prisoners may pursue postconviction claims for DNA testing of crime-sce…
21-5730 Shikeb Saddozai v. Kristen Esterheld, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction judicial-review section-1983 standing Whether plaintiff's claims are cognizable under 42 U.S.C.S. 1983; 1985; 1986; 1988, as well as Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments to th…
21-414 First Midwest Bank, as Guardian of the Estate of Michael D. LaPorta v. City of Chicago, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights legal-causation municipal-liability off-duty off-duty-conduct official-policy section-1983 Can municipalities evade liability under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for unlawful acts that their official municipal policies undisputedly caused if the municipa…
21-342 Hong Tang v. RuthAnne Visnauskas, Commissioner, New York Division of Housing and Community Renewal, et al. Second Circuit 2021-09-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 appellate-preservation bolling-v-sharpe due-process equal-protection liberty-interest motion-for-reconsideration pro-se-litigation section-1983 substantive-due-process 1. Whether in 42 U.S.C. § 1983 proceedings, when the pro se litigant initially only argued his property interest in the complaint and then claimed wit…
21-292 Robert H. Healy v. Ledura Watkins Sixth Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-tort due-process fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution section-1983 statute-of-limitations 1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's conclusion that "malicious prosecution" is a cognizable "tort" for purposes of…
21-5469 Ziahonna Teagan v. City of McDonough, Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process heck-doctrine judicial-authority judicial-power municipal-liability policy-practice-procedure-custom section-1983 state-law state-law-offense Can a Georgia Municipality be held liable for an official, agent, or entity actions that makes a deliberate choice to follow an internal official poli…
21-5465 Kent Glen Williams v. Alan Stewart, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied IFP civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-claim due-process equal-protection free-speech petition pro-se-litigant procedural-requirements section-1983 standing Does the United States District court for the District of Idaho Local Rule 342, which imposes only pro se litigants a twenty (20) page limit on civil …
21-5345 Leonard Thurman v. Medical Transportation Management, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2021-08-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-regulation chevron-deference circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-regulations federal-right medicaid medicaid-act section-1983 statutory-interpretation Petitioner Leonard Thurman filed suit against Respondent Medical Transportation Management, Inc. for failure to provide transportation, which is guara…
21-185 Scott Solomon v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, District Council 37, AFL-CIO Second Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied agency-fees civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment good-faith-defense janus-v-afscme restitution section-1983 state-law Section 1983 provides that "every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State" deprives a citizen of…
21-179 Nehemiah Rolle, Jr. v. Norman St. George Second Circuit 2021-08-06 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process equity equity-lawsuit federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jury-trial section-1983 1. Does a state court judicial officer like Respondent Norman St. George have the right to malicious criminally slander and libel and malicious defame…
21-96 Paul Daniels, et al. v. County of Alameda, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied Response Waived civil-rights federal-law malicious-prosecution probable-cause retaliation section-1983 state-law Where absence of probable cause to prosecute is an element of a federal section 1983 civil rights claim – for example a malicious or retaliatory prose…
21-87 Jeffrey Angelo Campbell v. Sylvia Betta-Cole, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment child-custody civil-rights due-process family-law federal-jurisdiction parental-rights section-1983 state-court-jurisdiction state-courts 1. Kelson v. Springfield, 767 F 2d 651, HN2, HN3, A child cannot be removed unless the child's life is in danger. If there is no proof of any life-thr…
21-71 Washington County, Utah v. Martin Crowson Tenth Circuit 2021-07-20 Denied Response Waived deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment inmate-medical-care municipal-liability section-1983 supreme-court-precedents Whether a municipal government can be liable under the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution for a denial of inmate medical care under § …
21-5131 Paul Noel Negrito, fka Paul A. E. Noel v. James Buonaugurio Second Circuit 2021-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process false-arrest personal-service personal-use-vehicle probable-cause section-1983 traffic-infraction traffic-infractions Whether a user of a 'Personal Use Vehicle ', who was arrested absent Probable Cause of a crime, lose the right to maintain a section 1983 claim for fa…
21-65 Yvonne Bowers, Sr. v. Lynx Asset Services, LLC New Jersey 2021-07-16 Denied Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process equal-protection fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court section-1983 state-action state-actions 1. Whether violations of due process and equal protection of law by state actions present a constitutional challenge and violates Petitioner's civil r…
21-5084 Donald H. Kimball v. Altoona Police Department, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment abuse-of-discretion civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process party-presentation second-amendment section-1983 1) The Supreme Court recently upheld a ruling unanimously holding that the Ninth Circuit "departed so drastically from the principle of party presenta…
21-29 Blake Leitch, et al. v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Council 31, AFL-CIO Seventh Circuit 2021-07-09 Denied 42-usc-1983 agency-fees civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment good-faith-defense janus-v-afscme section-1983 state-law wyatt-v-cole Section 1983 provides that "every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State" deprives a citizen of…
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…
20-1782 Regina Therese Drexler v. Theresa Spahn, et al. Colorado 2021-06-23 Denied 2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-protection-order civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech prior-restraint section-1983 1. Whether the First Amendment permits the issuance of a civil protection order to (i) punish a "pattern" of conduct where such conduct includes only …
20-1788 City of New York, New York, et al. v. Jarrett Frost Second Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-fabrication fourth-amendment pretrial-detention probable-cause section-1983 In Manuel v. City of Joliet , 137 S. Ct. 911 (2017), this Court recognized that the Fourth Amendment, not the Due Process Clause, governs claims chall…
20-1734 Waseem Daker v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process filing-fees intervention joinder prison-litigation-reform-act section-1983 standing I. Whether the Prison Litigation Reform Act requires each prisoner filing a lawsuit to pay a separate filing fee. II. Whether the Prison Litigation R…
20-8303 Dong Sheng Huang v. Jalea Joechelle Hill, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights false-imprisonment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution section-1983 warrantless-arrest After warrantless arrest by officers, petitioner filed 42 U.S.C section 1983 fourth amendment and fourteenth amendment claims, false imprisonment and …
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…
20-1667 City of East Cleveland, Ohio, et al. v. Arnold Black Ohio 2021-06-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights discovery-sanctions due-process exemplary-damages municipal-liability police-misconduct section-1983 vicarious-liability The case below conflicts with the precedents of the Sixth Circuit, other circuits, fellow state supreme courts as well as is violative of constitution…
20-1534 Patrick Doughty, et al. v. State Employees’ Association of New Hampshire, SEIU Local 1984, CTW, CLC First Circuit 2021-05-04 Denied Amici (1) 42-usc-1983 agency-fees compelled-association compelled-speech damages first-amendment restitution section-1983 Does a First Amendment compelled speech and association claim for damages or restitution brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 require a plaintiff to prove m…
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…
20-1383 Arthur Diamond, et al. v. Pennsylvania State Education Association, et al. Third Circuit 2021-04-02 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights damages damages-liability first-amendment good-faith-defense retroactivity section-1983 union-fees 1. 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 ri…
20-1351 Phillip W. Hurd, et al. v. Joy Laskar Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process favorable-termination heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey legal-termination malicious-prosecution section-1983 termination-of-prosecution A plaintiff alleging malicious prosecution under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 must show that the broader prosecution against him was terminated in his favor. Heck…
20-7351 Sheena Shaw v. Sacramento County Sheriff's Department, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1988 circuit-court civil-rights federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation section-1983 statute-of-limitations statutes-of-limitations tolling-rules May the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ignore the goals of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when interpreting and applying state statute s of limitations and the coor…
20-1222 Julie Dalessio v. University of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights comprehensive-remedial-scheme due-process judicial-review ninth-circuit remedial-scheme section-1983 statutory-interpretation statutory-rights 1. Does a "comprehensive remedial scheme for the enforcement of a statutory right " under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) [42 U.S.C. 12101 e…
20-1120 Melissa Belgau, et al. v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 collective-bargaining color-of-law employee-rights first-amendment public-employees section-1983 union-dues 1. Whether it violates the First Amendment for a state and union to seize union dues or fees from employees' wages without proof the employees waived …
20-7054 Paul E. Weber v. Amy Arnott Quinlan, et al. Third Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-U.S.C-§1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief postconviction-remedy section-1983 state-action Is the refusal of state officials to afford a defendant existing postconviction remedies actionable under 42 U.S.C. §1983? Is 42 U.S.C. §1983 the pro…
20-1067 Maria M. Rosas v. Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation, dba Advocate Christ Medical Center, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-02-04 Denied Response Waived civil-rights damages disability equitable-tolling fourth-amendment section-1983 statute-of-limitations (1) WHETHER THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS, UPON A § 1983 CLAIM SEEKING DAMAGES UNDER THE FOURTH AMENDMMENT FOR DEPRIVATION OF LIBERTY, CAN BE EQUITABLY T…
20-1052 In Re Christopher Gary Baylor 2021-02-02 Denied civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigant section-1983 section-1983-claim Does a non-prisoner, indigent, pro se litigant to a Section 1983 claim who initially proceeds In Forma Pauperis but later pays for his appeal, lose th…
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…
20-1005 Sara Dees v. San Diego County, California Ninth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 child-seizure civil-rights due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty-interest parental-rights section-1983 Is it necessary, in order to prove a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violation of the Fourteenth Amendment concerning a parent's liberty interest in …
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…
20-6847 Christopher Bryan Torres v. Brad Livingston, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-01-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 13th-amendment civil-rights involuntary-servitude legal-rights prison-labor pro-se pro-se-complaint section-1983 thirteenth-amendment QUESTION #1: Do 13th Amendment slaves, or those under involuntary servitude, have legal rights when filing pro se § 1983 complaints for serious injuri…
20-910 Anthony M. Lee v. Heath Parshall Seventh Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion jury jury-selection racial-bias section-1983 standing voir-dire 1. Whether the district court's refusal to probe potential jurors for bias or prejudice was an abuse of discretion under Rule 47(a). 2. Whether the d…
20-6797 Kevin Sembrat v. Heather Stanton, fka Heather Sembrat New Jersey 2021-01-07 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-conduct judicial-impartiality property-rights section-1983 1. Whether, in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as well as The Civil Rights Act of 1871 "Sect…
20-906 Thomas Charles Horne, et al. v. Sheila Sullivan Polk Ninth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights due-process heck-rule property-rights section-1983 statute-of-limitations The question presented concerns the Heck rule of this Court (Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1964). In that case, this Court held, in the criminal con…
20-881 Huong L. Tran, et al. v. City of Holmes Beach, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 administrative-remedies civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-access equal-protection finality-requirement section-1983 shotgun-pleading The first broad question is whether strict shotgun pleading rules, a category of heightened standard, is permissible as used (excessively) in the Elev…
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…
20-851 Roger Hawes v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-12-28 Denied 42-usc-1983 commingled-funds disability-benefits due-process inmate-trust-fund preemption section-1983 section-5301 statutory-protection veterans-benefits 1. The Fifth Circuit held that veterans' disability benefits deposited in Petitioner's inmate trust fund (ITF) account are not protected from being us…
20-825 Christopher Brewer v. Teresa Hooks, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-18 Denied 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 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…
20-816 In Re Coreco Ja'Qan Pearson, et al. 2020-12-15 Dismissed Response Waived due-process election-fraud electoral-college equal-protection fraud illegality presidential-election section-1983 standing standing-doctrine A. Do presidential electors have standing to challenge the outcome of a presidential election for fraud and illegality that cause the defeat of their …
20-711 City of Fairbanks, Alaska, et al. v. Marvin Roberts, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-23 Denied Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights conviction-vacatur criminal-conviction due-process favorable-termination habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey section-1983 In Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994), this Court held that a plaintiff cannot bring a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for allegedly unconstitutional …
20-651 Cook Children's Medical Center v. T. L., a Minor, et al. Texas 2020-11-13 Denied Amici (1) civil-liability civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process hospital-review internal-review-process medical-ethics section-1983 state-action texas-advance-directives-act Whether, despite the lack of any state involvement, participation, coercion, input, or control of any kind, a private hospital is nevertheless a state…
20-659 Larry Thompson v. Pagiel Clark, et al. Second Circuit 2020-11-13 Judgment Issued Amici (17)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exigent-circumstances favorable-termination fourth-amendment section-1983 standing warrantless-entry I. Whether the rule that a plaintiff must await favorable termination before bringing a Section 1983 action alleging unreasonable seizure pursuant to …
20-634 Felicia Robinson v. Webster County, Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-claim constitutional-violation due-process government-liability private-actor-injury section-1983 standing state-created-danger Whether a person injured by a private actor can state a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against a state or local government actor who created the danger …
20-538 Rentberry, Inc., et al. v. City of Seattle, Washington Ninth Circuit 2020-10-23 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived civil-rights first-amendment mootness nominal-damages section-1983 standing voluntary-cessation Rentberry, which operates a website that allows landlords and potential tenants to communicate through an auction-style bidding process, and Delaney W…
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…
20-465 Young County, Texas, et al. v. Nichole Sanchez, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-10-09 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 42-usc-1983 bell-v-wolfish civil-rights conditions-of-confinement judicial-management monell-v-dept-of-soc-servs municipal-liability pretrial-detainee respondeat-superior section-1983 In Monell v. Dep't of Soc. Servs. and subsequent precedent, the Court articulated stringent requirements for imposing liability on municipalities unde…
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-…
20-427 Polk County, Wisconsin v. J. K. J., et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-10-02 Denied Amici (3) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violations failure-to-train monell-liability municipal-liability section-1983 single-incident-theory Whether the "single-incident" theory of Monell liability may be used to hold a municipality liable under §1983 on the theory that its failure to do mo…
20-372 Richard Louis Arnold Phillips v. Kevin Chappell, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights conviction-challenge due-process heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey partial-reversal section-1983 standing Is a plaintiff 'Heck barred' from seeking §1983 relief, when his conviction is partially reversed — thus vacating the only sentence imposed — but part…
20-351 Norris Paul Carey, Jr. v. Joanne Throwe, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) concealed-carry concealed-weapon first-amendment law-enforcement-officer-safety-act law-enforcement-safety-act public-employee public-employee-speech qualified-retired-law-enforcement-officer section-1983 social-media-posts In a reported opinion, the Fourth Circuit affirmed the district court's dismissal of claims brought by Norris Paul Carey, Jr., a retired twenty-six-ye…
20-198 Tamatrice Williams v. City of Sherwood, Arkansas Eighth Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied Response Waived arkansas-supreme-court civil-rights court-reorganization legal-jurisdiction municipal-courts municipal-liability rehearing section-1983 state-actor state-court state-law State law determines whether a n entity is a state or a local entity for purposes of Section 1983 liability . McMillian v. Monroe C ounty ., 520 U.S. …
20-192 Mary Louise Serafine v. Karin Crump, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-immunity prospective-relief section-1983 standing state-court-proceeding Whether City of Los Angeles v. Lyons may be expanded to bar Article III standing under Section 1983 in a suit for prospective relief against state jud…
20-161 City of Sacramento, California, et al. v. Robert Mann, Sr., et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment intimate-association section-1983 sibling-relationship sibling-relationships standing 1. Whether the First Amendment protects intimate associations absent expressive activity; 2. If so, whether that protection exceeds what the Due Proc…
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, …
19-8869 Robert Wade v. Monroe County District Attorney, et al. Third Circuit 2020-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-action District-Attorney's-Office-for-the-Third-Judicial- district-court-order due-process rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 Skinner-v-Switzer standing supreme-court-precedent WHETHER THE AMENDED ORDER OF THE COURT OF APPEALS VACATING THE ORDER OF THE DISTRICT COURT AND DISMISSING THE 1983 ACTION BASED ON THE ROOKER-FELDMAN …
19-1436 Denise DeMartini v. Town of Gulf Stream, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-30 Denied 42-usc-1983 causation civil-lawsuit civil-litigation civil-rights first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation municipal-liability probable-cause retaliation section-1983 Did the Eleventh Circuit err in importing a "lack of probable cause" requirement for a First Amendment retaliation claim under 42 U.S.C § 1983 arising…
19-8852 Madhu Sameer v. Sameer Khera California 2020-06-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights document-access due-process judicial-misconduct section-1983 standing transcript transcript-denial Whether dismissal of appeal for refusal of the lower courts to provide designated records and transcripts for appeal is unconstitutional, and constitu…
19-1380 Terry Lynn Olson v. Janis Amatuzio, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-06-16 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey incarceration incarceration-challenge section-1983 Whether a petitioner who has no available remedy in habeas, through no lack of diligence on his part, is barred by Heck from pursuing a Section 1983 c…
19-1367 Vernon Lee Havens, II v. Maureen O'Connor, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-guarantees due-process equal-protection equal-treatment federal-law judicial-immunity jurisdiction rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 section-1988 superior-courts 1. Do Mireles v. Waco, Brookings v. Clunk, and associated case law combine to grant absolute judicial immunity to all other regulation, Section 1983 …
19-1360 William Cannon, Sr., as Special Representative for Charles Cannon, et al. v. Johnnie Lee Savory Seventh Circuit 2020-06-11 Denied Amici (1) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights custody favorable-termination habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey preclusion-doctrines section-1983 statute-of-limitations statutes-of-limitations Heck v. Humphrey , 512 U.S. 477 (1994), held that, to prevent circumvention of habeas corpus's statutory exhaustion of state remedies requirement, a p…
19-1326 E. Thomas Scarborough, III v. Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Northampton County, et al. Third Circuit 2020-06-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) access-to-court civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-crimes parental-rights rooker-feldman section-1983 standing I. Whether District Court has jurisdiction over state deprivation of federal rights, under the color of state law? a. ) Whether Respondents are amen…
19-8533 Michael A. Lajeunesse v. Megan Anne Chambers, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-05-23 Denied IFP brady-violation civil-rights civil-rights-statute constitutional-rights due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence judicial-notice prosecutorial-misconduct section-1983 standing 1. WHETHER OR NOT I CAN PETITION THE COURT FOR RELIEF AND OR AN INJUNCTION UNDER OUR CIVIL RIGHTS STATUTE TITLE 42 USCS § 1983, 1985, OR 1986 WHEN TH…
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…
19-1277 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…
19-1261 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…
19-1223 Demetrias Taylor, as Representative of the Estate of Iretha Jean Lilly, Deceased, et al. v. McLennan County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-04-16 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process medical-care municipal-liability municipal-policy myocardial-infarction policy pre-trial-detainee procedure section-1983 summary-judgment Does the provision of three EKGs, an aspirin, and a nitroglycerin pill over the course of three hours to a pre-trial detainee (who then died from an o…
19-1169 Jonas Ybarra, Jr. v. Texas Health and Human Services Commission, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-03-26 Denied Response Waived administrative-remedy bivens-claim civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-remedy retaliatory-conduct section-1983 section-1985 sex-discrimination standing 1. Mr. Ybarra's Bivens claim has no administrative remedy and should not be construed to preclude a juridical remedy. 2. Mr. Ybarra's Section 1983 cl…
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-…
19-1086 Robert E. Garcia v. Michael Falk, et al. Second Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights compensable-injury constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process legal-injury nominal-damages procedural-due-process section-1983 standing Whether it is an error of law to dismiss a constitutional claim brought under 42 U.S.C. 1983 on the grounds that the plaintiff has failed to establish…
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…
19-1076 John L. Corrigan, Jr. v. City of Savage, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response Waived 1983-claim 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights custody due-process favorable-termination habeas habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey incarceration judicial-precedent section-1983 spencer-v-kemna standing Whether the court below erroneously held, in conflict with the decisions of seven other circuits, that the favorable termination rule applies even if …
19-1025 City of Ferguson, Missouri v. Keilee Fant, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-02-18 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure interlocutory-appeal required-entity rule-19 section-1983 sovereign-immunity standing state-law 1. An interlocutory appeal lies from a denial of sovereign immunity to protect the sovereign's dignitary interests. Under Fed.R.Civ.P. 19, a case may …
19-7634 Aimee Hankins v. Tim Lowe Seventh Circuit 2020-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey judicial-remedy section-1983 state-federal-proceedings unlawful-detention When habeous corpus relief is unavailable to an inmate or parolee who has been held beyond their lawful release or termination date, does this Court's…
19-7441 Anthony Earl Ridley v. Board of County Commissioners of Sedgwick County, Kansas, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation damages due-process exhaustion-of-remedies section-1983 sovereign-immunity standing state-employee 1.)Is Petitioner's request for Compensatory damages barred by U.S.C.1997e (e)? Punitive damages because He alleges no facts whatsoever establishing th…
19-7357 Chris Fordham v. Corrections Officer Manzola, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-remedies fourth-circuit judicial-procedure procedural-dismissal section-1983 standing Whether the USDO-EDAO erred in deciding that Plaintiff-Petitioner failed to exhaust and dismissing without prejudice the Petitioner's §1982 Complaint …
19-7342 Ray Turner v. Veronica Cadney, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied IFP 1983-complaint 4th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-act-1983 dismissal due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment section-1983 standing temporary-restraining-order 1. DID THE U.S. DISTRICT COURT ERROR BY NOT APPLY THE FOUR AMENDMENT EQUAL PROTECTION TO THE PETITIONER CASE WHEN HE APPLY FOR A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING…
19-885 Jamie Swartz, et ux. v. Heartland Equine Rescue, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment livestock livestock-seizure post-seizure-hearing pre-seizure-hearing rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 seizure subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the 7th Circuit err by finding the Rooker-Feldman doctrine applied when the complained of and appealed violation was a seizure of livestock on fal…
19-7311 Alphonso Vernell Frazier, II v. City of Omaha Police Department, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights color-of-law due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment search-and-seizure section-1983 unreasonable-search unreasonable-search-and-seizure This case is here by upon writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States. Honoring the life, liberty and property of CORPORATION ex-rel …
19-862 William Castro v. R. Fred Lewis, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process due-process-rights federal-constitutional-claims federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 state-court-judgment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars subject-matter jurisdiction in a federal district court over federal constitutional claims filed pursuant to …
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…
19-810 Avtar S. Badwal v. Ramandeep Badwal, et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-27 Denied Response Waived civil-rights divorce due-process judicial-bias judicial-complaint matrimonial matrimonial-law section-1983 Can the Petitioner request and receive a new trial from the Matrimonial Judge in a Divorce case whom acted against him with bias because he filed a ju…
19-797 City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. v. Mary R. Meier Eighth Circuit 2019-12-23 Denied 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment municipal-liability probable-cause section-1983 seizure wanted-bulletin warrantless-seizure Every year, thousands of automobiles are identified in law enforcement databases as stolen or wanted in connection with crimes. Warrants for seizure o…
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…
19-7019 Alvin Washington v. Justin Boder, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment procedural-due-process property-rights section-1983 standing takings unlawful-eviction unreasonable-search-and-seizure // Whether the extraodinary circumstances of a person being lawfully evicted by PFA order by the court one day after his unlawful eviction by state em…
19-6981 Vladik Bykov v. Steven G. Rosen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 absolute-immunity ada-title-ii americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights compensatory-damages declaratory-relief discriminatory-motive Does Title II of the Americans with Disabilities A section-1983 standing #1. Is absolute immunity a bar to declaratory relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983? #2. Does Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act require a plain…
19-6944 Bahman Khodayari v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights damages discovery due-process nominal-damages rule-26 rule-26(a)(1)(A)(ii) rule-37 rule-37(c)(1) rule-41 rule-41(b) sanctions section-1983 A. Does the Ninth Circuit's affirmance of the District Court's dismissal of Petitioner's 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim under Fed.R.Civ.P. Rule 41(b) due to R…
19-718 James King v. Douglas Brownback, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-12-06 Denied Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 bivens civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law due-process federal-law law-enforcement section-1983 state-law task-force The use of joint state-federal police task forces has expanded nationwide and along with it the related practice of federally deputizing state law enf…
19-6741 Jose Joaquin Ramirez v. Jeffrey C. Bloom, et al. Second Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction incompetence incompetency incompetency-determination judicial-discretion mental-health section-1983 standing state-action title-42-usc-1983 1 - Is a Governmental Paid - Governmental Mandated Lawyer that is forced upon an individual against will without consent acting as a Governmental Agen…
19-686 Snodgrass-King Pediatric Dental Associates, P.C., et al. v. DentaQuest USA Insurance Co., Inc. Sixth Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied Response Waived 1st-amendment 42-usc-1983 blum-v-yaretsky civil-rights first-amendment government-contractor government-directive private-contractor section-1983 significant-encouragement state-action 1. Whether a government directive made to a private contractor while the contractor is bidding on a lucrative and admittedly important government cont…
19-676 Joseph A. Zadeh, et al. v. Mari Robinson, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) 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.
19-679 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…
19-6690 Molly Ann Mahany v. City of Buffalo Police Department, et al. Second Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process false-evidence favorable-termination section-1983 statute-of-limitations Question 1: In a Section 1983 false-evidence claim, which involves the creation, use, and continued dissemination of fabricated evidence and upon whic…
19-6635 Matthew Paul Borowski v. Kimberly Bechelli, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process due-process-clause fifth-amendment judicial-remedial-structure judicial-remedies section-1983 section-2 standing ziglar-v-abbasi Is the judicial remedial structure created in Ziglar v. Abbasi constitutional under Article III, Section 2? Is the judicial remedial structure create…
19-6570 Ray Jefferson Cromartie v. Bradfield Shealy, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process habeas-corpus procedural-history section-1983 standing state-statute stay-of-execution In Skinner v. Switzer, 562 U.S. 521 (2011), this Court held that a prisoner who has been denied access to DNA testing under a state statute may bring …
19-6545 Bradly M. Cunningham v. Washington County, Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-07 Dismissed IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus illegal-sentence parole-board section-1983 sentencing torture 1. Am I able to pursue relief under 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983 against the Defendants/Respondents for pre-trial Torture? 2. Am I able to pursue relief under …
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…
19-6338 Gerald Nelson v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Second Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arbitration arbitration-award back-pay back-pay-settlement civil-rights due-process gross-income gross-income-taxation section-1983 tax tax-law tax-liability unemployment unemployment-benefits 1. 26 U.S.C 61 (a) , defines Gross income means all income from whatever source derived. Question: If gross income ,includes back pay settlements that…
19-6324 Taeng Yang v. Michael McNeill, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights conviction-vacatur due-process heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey leave-to-amend section-1983 statute-of-limitations wallace-v-kato 1. "Whether Yang's § 1983 claims begins to accrue on the date his conviction was "vacated and overturned" in light of Heck U. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477, …
19-485 Juan Perez, et al. v. City of Sweetwater, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-15 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 city-of-canton-v-harris civil-procedure civil-rights due-process municipal-liability police-misconduct reeves-v-sanderson reeves-v-sanderson-plumbing section-1983 seventh-amendment single-occurrence-rule I) Whether the Petitioner's Seventh Amendment rights were violated when the trial court weighed evidence and drew inferences against Petitioner in set…
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…
19-276 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 …
19-266 Seantrey Morris v. Joseph Mekdessie, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-attack due-process heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey judicial-estoppel pretrial-diversion section-1983 This Court held in Heck v. Humphrey that a plaintiff cannot bring a § 1983 claim based on "actions whose unlawfulness would render a [prior] convictio…
19-235 Richard Jordan, et al. v. Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied burden-of-proof civil-rights corrections-department death-penalty discovery discovery-rights due-process eighth-amendment glossip-standard glossip-v-gross lethal-injection method-of-execution section-1983 standing 1. Whether the burden of proof demanded by Glossip in method-of-execution challenges requires commensurately broad discovery rights to provide plainti…
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…
19-5561 Stephen Michael West v. Tony Parker, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-08-12 Denied IFP 8th-amendment bucklew-standard bucklew-v-precythe civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment lethal-injection method-of-execution res-judicata section-1983 standing When an inmate's § 1983 challenge to a state's method of execution meets the timeliness and pleading requirements of this Court's decision in Bucklew,…
19-5265 Benjamin E. Schreiber v. Nick Ludwick, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law administrative-remedies appeals bivens-action civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation dismissal due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-courts parties section-1983 standing 1. Did the Court of Appeals violate Petitioner's Due Process Rights when it "ADDED" extra Defendants not in the original lawsuit and in which the U.S.…
19-65 Jonna Corporation, dba Premier Recycling Company v. City of Sunnyvale, California Ninth Circuit 2019-07-12 Denied 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pleading pleading-standards property-rights section-1983 standing 1. Did Petitioner Premier Recycling adequately plead its Declaratory Judgment claim alleging a violation of 42 U.S.C. Section 1983, pursuant to FCRP 8…
19-47 Jeryme Morgan v. Minh Schott, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-07-08 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights criminal-sentence disciplinary-proceedings due-process edwards-v-balisok heck-bar heck-v-humphrey mixed-sanctions non-durational-sanctions section-1983 When an inmate is penalized for a disciplinary infraction, prison officials may impose durational sanctions (e.g., revoking good-time credits) or nond…
19-5021 Oliver M. Boling v. United States Parole Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2019-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-rights district-of-columbia due-process equal-protection federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure personal-capacity preclusion section-1983 1. WETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEAL FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA IS IN "CONFLICT" WITH THE CIRCUT COURTS CASE IN[ MICHAEL D. HURD V. DISTRICT …
18-9753 Jason Brooks v. Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-access-to-courts,first-amendment,four court-access due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech lewis-v-casey pleading-standard prisoners-rights section-1983 standing (1) Whether a federal district court's adoption of a Department of Corrections Administrative Regulation and implementing it in D.C.COLO. L. Civ. Rule…
18-9697 Dennis Gordon v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1983-action 28-usc-2254 civil-rights civil-rights-action due-process ex-post-facto federal-court-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ninth-circuit parole parole-hearing parole-release-hearings section-1983 section-2254 Does Dennis Gordon's ex post facto challenge to the eight-year increase in the interval between his parole release hearings fall within the Federal Co…
18-1533 William Henry Starrett, Jr. v. City of Richardson, Texas Fifth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 civil-rights-42-usc-1985 civil-rights-statute conspiracy conspiracy-claims due-process federal-jurisdiction municipal-liability pleading-standards pleading-sufficiency pleadings section-1983 texas-tort-claims-act Whether, in an initiating pleading or complaint, allegations are sufficient in the absence of explicit facts as to the one or more official policies o…
18A1296 Ameer Xenos Flippin v. DC Board of Elections & Ethics, et al. District of Columbia 2019-06-11 Presumed Complete candidate-exclusion civil-rights election-law municipal-election section-1983 write-in-candidate Question not identified.
18A1284 Ameer Xenos Flippin v. DC Metropolitan Police Department, et al. District of Columbia 2019-06-07 Presumed Complete abuse-of-discretion civil-rights constitutional-rights judicial-review police-misconduct section-1983 Question not identified.
18-1483 Gene N. Barry v. Scott M. Freshour, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment administrative-law administrative-search civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment medical-records privacy privacy-interest property-rights section-1983 standing Dr. Gene Barry was subjected to a warrantless, non-consensual, and non-exigent administrative search and seizure of his medical records via a Texas Me…
18-1466 County of Sonoma, California, et al. v. Rafael Mateos Sandoval, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment constitutional-rights continued-detention detention due-process fourth-amendment lawful-seizure monell-liability municipal-liability property-rights property-seizure public-safety section-1983 seizure vehicle-impound This petition presents three issues of first impression in this Court, all of which arise out of a judgment for damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against…
18-1461 Dawn Marie Delebreau v. Cristina Danforth, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 bivens civil-rights constitutional-equality domestic-dependent-nations due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction native-american-rights section-1983 sovereign-immunity territorial-jurisdiction tribal-law tribal-sovereignty Are tribal laws considered territorial laws under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 such that Native Americans must also have an equal § 1983 remedy when Indians are c…
18-9396 Bobby Joe Long v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment lethal-injection res-judicata section-1983 stay WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN HOLDING THAT MR. LONG WAS NOT ENTITLED TO A STAY BECAUSE OF INEXCUSABLE DELAY IN BRINGING HIS L…
18-9351 Craig Bassett v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-act court-rule due-process federal-courts federal-law respondeat-superior section-1983 separation-of-powers standing state-law statutory-interpretation Can a rule of court contradict an act of congress without violating due process of law guarantees? Can 42 U.S.0 Sect. 1983 be used to resolve the con…
18-1411 Jeffrey Isaacs v. Trustees of Dartmouth College, et al. First Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion administrative-law due-process evidence evidence-spoliation medical-license medical-licensing protected-conduct rehabilitation-act retaliation section-1983 title-ix I. Did the NH District Court abuse its discretion in dismissing a proper Rehabilitation Act retaliation claim, when it incorrectly claimed a "scoured"…
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…
18-1333 Ronald Jones, et al. v. Michael Keitz, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 ashcroft-v-iqbal civil-rights county-liability heightened-pleading iqbal-standard malicious-prosecution monell-claim municipal-liability pleading-standard section-1983 sheriff-liability 1. What facts must a plaintiff allege to state a claim for malicious prosecution against a California county and its sheriff under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, e…
18-1268 Paras Jhokke v. City of Los Angeles, California California 2019-04-03 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-violation domestic-violence due-process equal-protection gender-bias gender-discrimination hate-crime police-misconduct section-1983 1. Whether States, Cities or its Police Officers knowingly or unknowingly Commit Hate Crime Acts motivated by Gender Bias while Enforcing Domestic Vio…
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 fle Coo4 c spea\s ntA c ros4IvW3 ?4oner Access -k n4ec VP?€cc 1JJ43 av c-c d creVton bb ?eAAoner c\ Ccxwi A0A ooccLv' je44tonec o exense h3 due ?roc…
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…
18-1205 Phillip B. Leiser, et al. v. Donald W. Lemon, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-relief due-process federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 standing state-court-judgment state-court-judgments subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Rooker-Feldman ("R-F") abstention doctrine applies to deprive the lower federal courts of subject matter jurisdiction ("SMJ") when a state…
18-1208 William M. Turner v. Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights continuing-wrong continuing-wrong-doctrine due-process heck-v-humphrey malicious-prosecution section-1983 statute-of-limitations tenth-circuit younger-abstention Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in finding that Appellant's 1983 and 1985 claims are barred by the Statute of Limitations. Whether the Tenth Circuit …
18-1186 Anthony Johnson v. Edward Winstead, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied Relisted (2) 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings due-process fifth-amendment heck-v-humphrey inculpatory-statement section-1983 statute-of-limitations unconstitutional-evidence unconstitutional-statement Does the statute of limitations for Section 1983 claim based on the use of an unconstitutional inculpatory statement begin to run when criminal procee…
18-8377 Walter D. Booker v. T. Johnson, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-03-11 Dismissed 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…
18-8283 Terry A. Burlison v. Pam Angus, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as a Marion County, Florida Court Deputy Clerk Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 absolute-immunity civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process immunity official-liability pre-seizure-conduct property-loss property-rights section-1983 seizure Under 42 U.S.C. 1983 when a public official violates clearly established law though her pre-seizure conduct and the conduct caused the loss of propert…
18-8248 Hersy Jones, Jr. v. Supreme Court of Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights default-judgment disbarment due-process judicial-review recusal rooker-feldman section-1983 standing Does Rooker Feldman bar a disbarred attorney from seeking damages and equitable relief under Sec. 1983, due to alleged violations of his federal right…
18-1093 City of Joliet, Illinois, et al. v. Elijah Manuel Seventh Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 accrual accrual-rule civil-rights fourth-amendment judicial-procedure manuel-v-city-of-joliet pretrial-detention section-1983 Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in holding that a Fourth Amendment claim for unlawful post-process, pretrial detention brought pursuant to §1983 is …
18-7962 Al-Rashid Muhammad Abdullah v. Plant City Police Department, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty-rights property-rights section-1983 takings Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments require that prior to the final termination of a property right/interest § 1983 …
18-7959 Paul David Maze v. Renea Terrell, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 12(b)(6) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion plra prisoner-rights pro-se-litigant section-1983 standing Does a prisoner's §1983 civil matter require a remand if a District Court wrongly equate the standard for frivolousness of a complaint under §1915(d) …
18-1056 Mitzi Johanknecht, Sheriff, King County, Washington v. Eva Moore, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young monell municipal-liability official-capacity prospective-relief section-1983 separation-of-powers standing state-court-orders Whether Ex parte Young establishes a novel and unprecedented judge-made cause of action, separate from § 1983, that can be used through an official ca…
18-7853 John Patrick Fletcher v. Celia Schwartz, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied IFP 28-usc-1915 42-U.S.C-1983 7th-amendment abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure due-process prisoner-complaint pro-se section-1915 section-1983 section-242 seventh-amendment standing takings Whether the Seventh Amendment allows an action to be dismissed under 28 U.S.C. § 1915— without a finding of factual error - six months after the issua…
18-1013 Edward Winstead, et al. v. Anthony Johnson Seventh Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) accrual accrual-rules circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-trial due-process heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey section-1983 self-incrimination self-incrimination-claims wallace-v-kato 1. Whether the Seventh Circuit's holding that accrual of self-incrimination claims based on statements used at a criminal trial is deferred under Heck…
18-7742 Luis A. Serna v. County of Hennepin, Minnesota Eighth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment civil-rights due-process foucha-v-louisiana future-dangerous-behavior heck-doctrine kingsley-v-hendrickson presumption-of-innocence section-1983 speculation state-speculation Is the "Petitioner" entitled to [a] defense of [the] "presumption of innocence" upon a State's assertion of "future dangerous behavior" via pure "spec…
18-7620 Emmanuel Adeyinka v. Harris County Jail, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights competency criminal-conviction cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment eleventh-amendment immunity mental-illness monetary-damages personal-involvement rational-understanding section-1983 standing Question not identified.
18-7472 Cynthia M. Yoder v. Good Will Steam Fire Engine Company No. 1, et al. Third Circuit 2019-01-17 Denied IFP civil-procedure contract-breach elder-abuse fair-debt-collections-act fraud procedural-violations section-1983 unjust-enrichment Has FRAUD been committed on the Court leading to numerous clear legal errors for unjust enrichment of Appellee? Failure to abide by Chester County Ru…
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…
18-7411 David H. Jacob v. Rosalyn Cotton, Chairperson, Nebraska Board of Parole, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 allen-v-mccurry civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-claims due-process failure-to-state-a-claim federal-petition haines-v-kerner parole-board section-1983 The Petitioner first filed a state court declaratory judgment action claiming that the state Parole Board had (1) made an ex post facto change to paro…
18-7375 Wayne Nicolaison v. County of Hennepin, Minnesota Eighth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment civil-rights clear-and-convincing-evidence constitutional-violation due-process foucha-standard foucha-v-louisiana indefinite-commitment presumption-of-innocence section-1983 Is the "Petitioner" entitled to [a] defense of [the] "presumption of innocence" upon a State's assertion of "future dangerous behavior" by purely mere…
18-7357 David T. Frazier v. Stephen Crump, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied IFP 1983-suit civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,civil-procedure,standing, due-process equal-protection favorable-termination heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey pro-se-litigant section-1983 time-bar (1). Is petitioners claims Time Barred Under The Favorable Termination Rule Founded under Heck V. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994) When he brought the 19…
18-7221 Kevin Abdul Gilbert v. Washington Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 assault-and-battery circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-litigation constitutional-claims constitutional-grounds due-process heck-doctrine section-1983 unlawful-arrest unlawful-imprisonment 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit of Appeals erred in affirming the Western U.S. District Court's ruling barring the Petitioner's 42 U.S.C. §1983 claims fo…
18-746 County of Los Angeles, California, et al. v. Angel Mendez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment causation circuit-review civil-rights clearly-erroneous fourth-amendment intervening-event proximate-causation proximate-cause reasonable-force remand search-warrant section-1983 standard-of-review use-of-force warrantless-search 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit disregarded this Court's clear directives on remand and whether, in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action, a plaintiff's injuries res…
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…
18-6921 Stevie J. Stevenson v. Craig Richman, Judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP discovery-materials discovery-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus liberty-interest post-conviction postconviction-relief postconviction-writ section-1983 statutory-interpretation Does California Penal Code Section §1054.9 create a Liberty Interest under Kentucky v. Thompson, 490 U.S. 454, 460-63 (1989)? If so, what process is d…
18-689 Mariano Moya, et al. v. Robert Garcia, Sheriff, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied 42-usc-1983 arraignment causation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights detention due-process section-1983 standing state-court When a jailer detains a person for an extended period with no access to a court hearing for arraignment and bail review, in violation of his or her Du…
18-6780 Joan E. Farr v. Daryl Davis, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-11-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech homeowners-association retaliation section-1983 Whether the Huckleberry Homeowners Association and its individual members denied Joan Farr her rights under 42 Usc 1983 and retaliated against her to …
18-655 Craig J. Spitzer v. Trisha A. Aljoe, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion attorney-misconduct barton-doctrine civil-procedure civil-procedure-discovery-sanctions-public-entity- discovery discovery-sanctions discretionary-review frcp-26 public-entity sanctions section-1983 state-court-receiver Does a district court have a duty under FRCP 26(g)(3) to sanction public entities and their attorneys for improper withholding of documents requested …
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…
18-647 Pulte Homes of New York LLC v. Town of Carmel, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights continuing-violation land-development-fees municipal-government municipal-liability section-1983 statute-of-limitations Whether a civil rights claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 accrues by a continuing violation theory when a municipality refuses, or attempts to condition, th…
18-625 City of Miami, Florida v. Taiwan Smart Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-14 Dismissed burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations custom-or-practice due-process municipal-liability non-state-actors section-1983 witness-testimony I.Whether the isolated alleged incidents of constitutional violations in Plaintiff's § 1983 claims, which are founded on the actions of non-state acto…
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…
18-6503 Thomas P. Richard, Sr. v. District Attorney of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2018-10-31 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus prohibited-punishment section-1983 standing structural-error Did the Courts below commit structural error by usurping Law to improperly re-characterize a Class Action §1983 Complaint as Habeas Corpus which serio…
18-6509 John Tedesco v. Monroe County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process heck-v-humphrey prosecutorial-immunity rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 standing younger-abstention (1ST QUESTION ) MR TEDESCO'S COMPLAINT WAS DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE AN IN IT'S ENTIRETY. (2ND QUESTION) PLAINTIFF'S MOTION FOR LEAVE TO AMEND WAS DIS…
18-6426 Jonathan Eugene Brunson v. North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-access exhaustion-requirement heck-v-humphrey muhammad-v-close pennsylvania-v-ritchie section-1983 state-prisoners I. WHETHER THE HECK V. HUMPHREY 514 U.S. 477, 486-87 (1994) REQUIREMENT FOR STATE PRISONERS TO EXHAUST THE STATE COURT REMEDY WHEN APPLIES TO A SECTIO…
18-6407 Ong Vue v. Frank X. Henke, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection judicial-review parole parole-procedures section-1983 standing Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that Petitioner Vue "failed to state a claim" is in contrary to the holding of Wilkinson v. Dotson, …
18-516 Charles G. Kinney v. Philip Gutierrez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-19 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process federal-procedure free-speech judicial-discretion professional-speech retaliation section-1983 vexatious-litigant By simultaneously dismissing 8 of Kinney's pending appeals, did this 3 Judge panel abuse its discretion to cover-up acts by Justice Gutierrez and othe…
18-517 Charles G. Kinney v. Philip Gutierrez Ninth Circuit 2018-10-19 Denied abuse-of-discretion bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process free-speech judicial-discretion professional-speech section-1983 vexatious-litigant By simultaneously dismissing 8 of Kinney's pending appeals, did this 3 Judge panel abuse its discretion to cover-up acts by federal Judge Gutierrez wh…
18-504 Charles G. Kinney v. Roger W. Boren, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment Hobbs-Act Janus judicial-misconduct NIFLA professional-speech section-1983 vexatious-litigant By simultaneously dismissing 8 of Kinney's pending appeals, did this 3 Judge Ninth Circuit panel abuse its discretion to cover-up acts by Justice Roge…
18-485 Edward G. McDonough v. Youel Smith, Individually and as Special District Attorney for the County of Rensselaer, New York, aka Trey Smith Second Circuit 2018-10-16 Judgment Issued Amici (14)Relisted (2) 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-proceedings due-process fabrication-of-evidence section-1983 statute-of-limitations Whether the statute of limitations for a Section 1983 claim based on fabrication of evidence in criminal proceedings begins to run when those proceedi…
18-476 Cowlitz County, Washington, et al. v. Jule Crowell, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-care monell monell-doctrine municipal-liability objective-reasonableness section-1983 serious-medical-needs subjective-intent 1. Whether a pretrial de tainee alleging Fourteenth Amendment claims of deliberate indifference to serious medical needs under 42 U.S. C. § 1983 must …
18-6239 Sean P. Reilly v. Guelsy M. Herrera, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey limitations-period prisoner-rights section-1983 Whether a Section 1983 Plaintiff, who diligently sought favorable termination according to the requirements of Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477, 114 S.C…
18-6263 Ilich Vargas v. John McMahon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-rights civil-rights-complaint constitutional-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct pleading pro-se-litigant recusal screening section-1983 standing 1. WHETHER A DISTRICT COURT JUDGE AND MAGISTRATE CONDUCTING A 28 U.S.C. § 1915 IFP SCREENING ACTS ON AN EXCESS OF JURISDICTION AND BEYOND THE LIMITS O…
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…
18-331 Rafael Pabon Ortega v. Isabel Llompart Zeno, et al. First Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-stay civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-law ex-parte-young first-amendment insular-cases promesa puerto-rico section-1983 Whether the automatic stay provisions of the Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C. §§ 362, 922, as incorporated into PROMESA are unconstitutional as applied by t…
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…
18-249 Madeleine Connor v. Eric Castro, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process federal-procedure free-speech government-retaliation lugar-v-edmondson rule-15-supplementation section-1983 standing state-action twombly-iqbal Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's denial of Petitioner's request as futile to supplement her pleading under Fed. R.…
18-171 Robert R. Snyder v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights color-of-state-law constitutional-rights Cruel-and-unusual-punishment Due-process Eighth-amendment First-amendment immunity law-library-access Preliminary-injunction prisoner-rights retaliation section-1983 Does a person or entity have immunity from prosecution under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when rights that have been secured by the United States Constitution hav…
18-73 Scott Carpenter v. Douglas Jordan Sixth Circuit 2018-07-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 brady-violation brady-vs-maryland civil-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence favorable-termination heck-doctrine heck-vs-humphrey invalidation section-1983 statute-of-limitations wrongful-conviction Does a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 wrongful conviction claim for unconstitutionally withholding exculpatory evidence "accrue" and thus the statute of limitations…
18-76 Tracey E. George, et al. v. Tre Hargett, Tennessee Secretary of State, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-07-16 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 declaratory-judgment due-process equal-protection federal-action section-1983 state-actors (1) Whether state actor defendants may defend and foreclose a federal action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by suing civil rights plaintiffs in a subs…
18-5219 Anthony Tyrone Campbell v. J. Mendez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-exhaustion administrative-procedure administrative-remedies circuit-court-of-appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-force exhaustion-of-remedies judicial-review litigation-reform prison-litigation-reform-act section-1983 standing statutory-interpretation 1. Did quH circuit Court of Appeals decision conflict with ioth circuit court of Appeals decision where determining factor significantly substantiate …
18-67 James Thomas Hurst, II v. James Caldwell, et al. Kentucky 2018-07-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-act deshaney deshaney-doctrine due-process government-liability police-misconduct section-1983 special-relationship special-relationship-rule state-actor-liability state-created-danger 1. Does the special relationship rule articulated by this Court in Deshaney, supra, apply to shield a state actor from liability under 42 U.S.C. § 198…
18-57 Gerald E. Vallejos v. Lovelace Medical Center, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure honest-services-fraud judicial-immunity misprision-of-felony obstruction-of-justice section-1983 standing statutory-standing 42 U.S.C. § 1983, allows a person whose constitutional rights have been deprived to bring an action to redress the constitutional deprivation. Article…
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 Presumed Complete canine-deployment excessive-force fourth-amendment irreparable-harm qualified-immunity section-1983 Question not identified.