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25-992 Reginald Johnson v. City of Satsuma, Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-19 Pending 42-usc-1983 civil-rights-act equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment racial-discrimination state-action Whether the City of Satsuma, acting in concert with Maurice Kirk Harless, individually and collectively, under color of law, deprived the plaintiff of…
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…
25-854 Adam Holley v. Benjamin M. Lepak, in His Official Capacity as Oklahoma Secretary of State, et al. Tenth Circuit 2026-01-16 Pending Response Waived ballot-access constitutional-rights elections-clause eleventh-amendment primary-election state-action 1. Whether, under the Elections Clause, U.S. Constitution Article I § 4 Clause 1, and this Court's decision in U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton, 514…
25-760 Hamdi A. Mohamud v. Heather Weyker, St. Paul Police Officer Eighth Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending Amici (2)Response Waived bivens-action cross-deputization fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 state-action state-action-doctrine 1. Whether a local police officer wielding both state and federal authority can act under color of state law for purposes of 42 U.S.C. 1983. 2. If no…
25-717 Carlos Jackson v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-12-18 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus incarceration judicial-order state-action Whether the State of Mississippi can effectively suspend habeas corpus and incarcerate Carlos Jackson using an invalid order.
25-606 John Stockton, et al. v. Nick Brown, Attorney General of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-11-24 Pending Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived first-amendment judicial-review medical-board-regulation state-action viewpoint-discrimination younger-abstention 1. On September 16, 2025, the Washington Court of Appeals held that the State Medical Commission's COVID-19 misinformation enforcement policy targe…
25-481 Jennifer Bridges, et al. v. The Methodist Hospital, dba The Methodist Hospital System, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-10-20 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived due-process federal-funding informed-consent liberty-interest medical-treatment state-action Since the passage of the 1974 National Research Act, federal policy has ensured that no individual faces penalties or loss of benefits for refusing un…
25-411 John Doe v. Illinois Illinois 2025-10-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-records due-process expungement-rights fourteenth-amendment state-action statutory-interpretation 1. Does the Illinois scheme for the sealing and expungement of criminal records create, confer, or otherwise entail an interest protected under the Fo…
25-376 Dustin Thomas House Darden v. Crowd Management Service Ninth Circuit 2025-09-30 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 constitutional-accountability first-amendment government-contractors police-powers state-action Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, private actors constitute state actors when they exercise governmental authority or act jointly with state officials. Courts h…
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…
25A252 Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. v. Enbridge Energy, LP, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-09-02 Presumed Complete certiorari constitutional-interpretation federal-law michigan-officials sixth-circuit state-action Question not identified.
25-5422 Lamont Johnson v. Michele Dauzat, Warden Fifth Circuit 2025-08-21 Denied IFP federal-statute habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-bar second-successive-application state-action Whether a second in time habeas application which raises a claim that the petitioner was prevented by state action from raising in a prior application…
25-204 Jeri Pearson, et al. v. Shriners Hospitals for Children, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-08-20 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived due-process fourteenth-amendment informed-consent medical-treatment research-ethics state-action Since Congress enacted the 1974 National Research Act, it has been the federal government's policy that no individual can be subjected to a penalty or…
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 …
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…
24-1305 Marcus Todd v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Council 5 Eighth Circuit 2025-06-24 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) consent-diversion employee-rights first-amendment janus-standard public-sector-union state-action In Janus v. AFSCME, this Court held that a public-sector union cannot obtain direct payroll deductions from a nonmember unless it has "clear and compe…
24-7202 Iris L. Anderson v. City of Jasper, Florida, et al. Florida 2025-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-murder-act constitutional-rights due-process florida-supreme-court state-action statutory-interpretation I cannot reliably extract the "Question(s) Presented" section from this document. While the OCR text contains a "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED" header, the ha…
24-1087 David B. Porter v. F. Tyler Sergent, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-04-17 Denied Response Waived disciplinary-hearing due-process federal-funding procedural-fairness state-action title-ix May a private college which receives federal funding always rely upon a "no state action" defense in denying its employee due process or procedural fa…
24A979 Terry Klee v. International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 501, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-04-14 Presumed Complete dues-deductions first-amendment janus-doctrine public-sector-unions section-1983-liability state-action Question not identified.
24-6948 Pamela Anai Carrillo v. Texas Juvenile Justice Department, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-04-09 Denied IFP civil-rights federal-rules-procedure section-1981 section-2000e state-action vicarious-liability Whether the lower courts abused their discretion by failing to apply the vicarious liability principle enunciated in Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662 (…
24-955 Gabino Ramos Hernandez v. Phillip Causey Fifth Circuit 2025-03-06 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 bivens-action constitutional-rights federal-employee state-action willful-participation 1. Is the rule expressed in Lugar v Edmondson Oil Co., 457 U.S. 922, 102 S. Ct.2744, 73 L. Ed. 2d 482 (1982), that a challenged activity is deemed sta…
24-946 Olympic Collection, Inc., et al. v. Aklilu Yohannes Ninth Circuit 2025-03-04 Denied Response Waived certiorari-review constitutional-claim due-process garnishment-writ interlocutory-order state-action Whether Petitioner Akilu Yohannes's ("Yohannes") challenge to an interlocutory order provides a basis for certiorari. Whether certiorari should be gr…
24-6699 Reginald Lee Clark v. Bryan Collier, Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-03-04 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel state-action 1. Does Equitable Tolling or the Accrual Rule apply to the application of 28 USC §2244(d), upon discovery of previously concealed material information…
24-6665 Craig LaFayette Stingley v. John Laczkowski, et al. Wisconsin 2025-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment due-process equal-protection medical-malpractice non-economic-damages state-action I. Petitioner respectfully asserts that this SCOTUS will recognize these questions expose an "Unconstitutional and Discriminatory " matter of national…
24-6530 Timothy P. Dasler, Individually and on Behalf of T.D. v. Dalene Washburn Second Circuit 2025-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights domestic-relations due-process federal-jurisdiction state-action younger-abstention 1. Whether the Federal Court's "virtually unflagging obligation" to exercise jurisdiction prohibits Domestic Relations or Younger abstention when: A. …
24-6532 Timothy P. Dasler v. Jennifer Knapp, fka Jennifer Dasler Second Circuit 2025-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights domestic-relations federal-jurisdiction state-action younger-abstention 1. Whether the Federal Court's "virtually unflagging obligation" to exercise jurisdiction prohibits Domestic Relations or Younger abstention when: A. …
24-732 Children's Health Defense v. Meta Platforms, Inc., a Delaware corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-13 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) content-moderation first-amendment government-collaboration interactive-platform speech-suppression state-action Does Skinner v. Ry. Labor Executives' Ass'n, 489 U.S. 602 (1989), mandate that Meta, an interactive computer service provider which receives 47 U.S.C.…
24-663 Joseph Rued v. Catrina Rued Minnesota 2024-12-19 Denied child-welfare constitutional-rights custody-rights due-process judicial-discretion state-action Do state courts have discretion to take state action to willfully sustain deprivations of protected rights in violation of requirements under U.S. Con…
24-662 Richard Rynn, Next Friend and Parent of M. R., a Minor v. Gregory A. McKay, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Director of the Arizona Department of Child Safety, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) child-custody constitutional-rights deprivation-of-rights due-process ex-parte-injunction state-action 1. Critical contradictions between district court decision an order from doctor and state court Division One decision of no doctor order arising case …
24-566 Edgar Dale Dillon v. Westmoreland Department of Social Services Virginia 2024-11-20 Denied child-removal due-process habeas-petition ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parental-rights state-action 1. Whether the Virginia Supreme Court correctly applied due process rights of Lassiter to the Habeas Petition relief alleging ineffective assistance o…
24-5813 In Re Thomas Critton 2024-10-23 Denied IFP amendment-violation constitutional-rights federal-status jurisdictional-principles preemption-doctrine state-action 1. Why am I Petitioning The U.S. Supreme Court? 2. Why I didn't I exhaust state court remedies? 3. Why I didn't file in The U.S.District Court? 4. …
24-438 Benjamin S. Goldberg v. Ralph Northam, former Governor of Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-10-18 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights covid-19 emergency-orders fourth-amendment mask-mandate state-action I. Did the District Court and United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in finding that Respondent Governor Ralph Northam's COVID-19 e…
24-396 St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Gentner Drummond, Attorney General of Oklahoma, ex rel. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-10-09 Judgment Issued Relisted (3) charter-schools establishment-clause free-exercise-clause pedagogical-choice religious-discrimination state-action 1. Whether the academic and pedagogical choices of a privately owned and run school constitute state action simply because it contracts with the state…
24-394 Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board, et al. v. Gentner Drummond, Attorney General of Oklahoma, ex rel. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-10-09 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Relisted (3) charter-schools educational-rights establishment-clause free-exercise-clause religious-discrimination state-action This Court has "repeatedly held that a State violates the Free Exercise Clause when it excludes religious observers from otherwise available public be…
24-5603 Freddie Owens v. Bryan Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-09-20 Denied IFP due-process execution-methods informed-choice lethal-injection procedural-rights state-action Question not identified.
24-307 Kirsti Parde v. Service Employees International Union, Local 721, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-18 Denied Response Waived constitutional-injury due-process first-amendment payroll-deduction state-action union-dues 1) Whether, to properly plead a procedural due process claim under the Fourteenth Amendment, a plaintiff must allege a government actor had actual or …
24-122 Michael Craine v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Council 36, Local 119, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-02 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights first-amendment free-association free-speech municipal-liability public-employee state-action union-dues union-membership 1. Whether the First Amendment's guarantee of free association protects a public employee's right to resign membership in a union. 2. Whether the Fir…
24A83 Rian G. Waters v. Meta Platforms, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-23 Presumed Complete civil-rights-conspiracy federal-proceeding pro-se-litigation section-1985 state-action witness-intimidation 1.) Did the Ninth Circuit err by disregarding this court's case law without any reasoning including; A. All injuries to a party's person or property …
24A64 Grace Bible Fellowship, et al. v. Jared Polis, Governor of Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-07-19 Presumed Complete covid-restrictions first-amendment free-exercise public-health religious-liberty state-action Question not identified.
23-1254 Stephen Ollar, et al. v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2024-05-31 Denied Response Waived bodily-integrity evidence-fabrication fabricated-evidence fifth-amendment fourth-amendment medical-procedure parental-consent parental-rights seizure state-action Whether the Fourth Amendment assures parents that, in the absence of parental consent or judicial authorization, painful and medically unnecessary pro…
23-1227 Rachael Eubanks, et al. v. Dennis O'Connor Sixth Circuit 2024-05-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abandoned-property civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process property-rights qualified-immunity state-action takings 1. Where the State recovers abandoned property and later returns that property or its equivalent value to the former owner, does the former owner reta…
23-1214 Tanishia Hubbard v. Service Employees International Union Local 2015, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-14 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-rights compelled-speech due-process first-amendment free-speech government-deduction janus-v-afscme labor-union labor-unions public-employee state-action union-dues Petitioners, individual providers Tanishia Hubbard and Kristy Jimenez, never agreed to join a union or pay dues. Despite this, their public employers …
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.
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.
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.
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…
23-895 Richard Rogalinski v. Meta Platforms, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-21 Denied Response Waived censorship civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech protected-speech social-media standing state-action The Executive Branch of the United States Government acted in concert with Meta Platforms, Inc., to censor protected speech. The questions presented …
23-6270 Tony French v. Washington Washington 2023-12-15 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence police-misconduct property-rights search-and-seizure self-defense state-action vehicle-destruction vehicle-seizure Question not identified.
23-634 Pollyanna Burns, et al. v. Service Employees International Union Local 284, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied Response Waived dues-deduction first-amendment janus janus-precedent opt-out public-sector public-sector-employees state-action state-actors union-dues (1) Whether the First Amendment waiver requirement identified by the Supreme Court in Janus applies to public-sector employees at the time they sign a…
23-521 Denise Fisher v. Jodi M. Moore, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-11-16 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment qualified-immunity state-action state-created-danger Whether the Court should hold that it was clearly established by November 2019 that the Due Process Clause prohibits state officials from knowingly pl…
23-462 Glen Wilkofsky v. American Federation of Musicians, Local 45, et al. Third Circuit 2023-11-01 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-claim fourteenth-amendment governmental-purpose judicial-deference legislative-determination public-employer public-entity state-action statutory-designation 1. When applying the Fourteenth Amendment's requirement of "state action" as a predicate for constitutional claims, should federal courts defer to a s…
23-444 Steven Lee Moss v. Gary Miniard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-10-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 6th-amendment counsel-denial cronic-exception effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance prejudice sixth-amendment state-action strickland-standard strickland-v-washington united-states-v-cronic The question presented is whether, when counsel is physically present, state action is required before a court may find a complete denial of counsel u…
23-5884 Gregory Ifesinachi Ezeani v. Melinda H. Reagan, President, Amberton University Fifth Circuit 2023-10-25 Denied IFP 14th-amendment academic-credits civil-rights due-process equal-protection private-university racial-discrimination state-action 1. The Pro se presents that the decision of the fifth circuit court of appeal violates due process right of 14th amend right of the pro se for failure…
23-5799 Donald L. Missimer, Jr. v. Jay Forshey, Warden Ohio 2023-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process establishment-clause free-exercise standing state-action Question not identified.
23-372 Torey Jarrett v. Service Employees International Union Local 503, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-06 Denied Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-U.S.C.-§-1983 civil-rights consent due-process public-employees public-sector-unions state-action state-actor union-dues wage-deduction wage-deductions 1. Is a state-designated exclusive representative a state actor under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when it directs a public employer to deduct dues from non-union…
23-299 ATM Shafiqul Khalid v. Citrix Systems, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-interpretation copyright due-process exclusive-right inventor-protection patent patent-rights standing state-action statutory-interpretation takings 1. Whether "the exclusive Right" in inventions as written in the Constitution is a fundamental Right or Constitutional privilege separate from common …
23-270 County of Tulare, California, et al. v. Jose Murguia, Individually and on Behalf of the Estates of Mason and Maddox Murguia, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied Amici (3) deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment private-violence shocks-the-conscience state-action state-created-danger substantive-due-process Whether, and under what circumstances, a State's failure to protect an individual who is not in state custody from violence by a private person consti…
23-5500 Le'Troy D. Merritt v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-09-01 Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-rules fair-trial federal-appeal habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process state-action Question not identified.
23-179 Alaska, et al. v. Alaska State Employees Association/American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 52, AFL-CIO Alaska 2023-08-25 Denied Amici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) civil-rights due-process employee-rights first-amendment free-speech paycheck-deduction public-sector-unions state-action union union-speech voluntary-waiver waiver Whether the First Amendment prohibits a state from taking money from employees' paychecks to subsidize union speech when the state lacks sufficient ev…
23-5416 Curtis Benjamin Hollingsworth v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction state-action Does the federal courts have to oversee States and individuals, acting in those official capacity and/or the authority of the States, do not violate i…
23-5361 Andrew Slabon v. Angelo R. Sanchez, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech jury-trial procedural-rules seventh-amendment standing state-action trial-by-jury Whether the original intent of die founders of the United States Constitution allowed for the appli cation of local rules, which were carefully crafte…
23-73 Colleen Huber v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied Response Waived censorship civil-rights conspiracy first-amendment free-speech pleading-stage pleading-standards social-media-regulation state-action twombly-iqbal Petitioner Dr. Colleen Huber sued President Biden (in his official capacity) and Twitter for censoring Dr. Huber's speech on Twitter critical of the B…
23-29 CLA Estate Services, Inc., et al. v. Washington Washington 2023-07-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights commercial-speech consumer-protection due-process fair-notice first-amendment free-speech state-action state-regulation vagueness 1. Whether a company has fair notice under the Due Process Clause that it is barred from engaging in certain speech under a state consumer protection …
22-1199 Rogan O'Handley v. Shirley N. Weber, California Secretary of State, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) censorship first-amendment free-speech government-speech online-censorship political-speech social-media social-media-regulation state-action In 2018, California created the Office of Election Cybersecurity. State law empowers the Office "[t]o monitor and counteract false or misleading infor…
22-1099 Barry Clarke v. Fine Housing, Inc. South Carolina 2023-05-10 Denied Response Waived allied-structural-steel allied-structural-steel-co-v-spannaus art-i-sec-10 constitutional-law contract-impairment due-process obligation-of-contracts state-action state-supreme-court Did the South Carolina Supreme Court's invalidation of Petitioner's contract based on its sudden adoption of a universal rule of decision constitute a…
22-7406 Shawn Henry v. Florida Florida 2023-04-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial false-evidence fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct state-action state-court-discrimination WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED SUBSTANTIAL EQUALITY AND FAIR PROCESS WHERE STATE COURT ARBITRARILY DISCRIMINATED BETWEEN PERSONS APPLYING FOR RELIEF IN…
22-928 Roger Swartz v. Board of Trustees of University of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2023-03-23 Denied academic-freedom civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances scienter state-action state-actor university-funding 1. When effectively unrestricted research funding —requiring nothing more than a yearly progress update —by the state enables a party such as a Univer…
22-921 Dan Cherner v. Westchester Jewish Community Services, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2023-03-21 Denied civil-rights court-appointed court-immunity custody-proceeding due-process family-court forensic-evaluator judicial-immunity qualified-immunity state-action state-actor Are respondents, who were appointed as forensic evaluator in a custody proceeding by the Family Court of the State of New York, by court order which d…
22-902 Sara Gonzalez Flavell v. Tracy Jane Marshall, et al. District of Columbia 2023-03-17 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts immunity international-organizations judicial-immunity judicial-power procedural-rights state-action Whether the two federal courts may in this manner and by issuing these rulings deprive a litigant of the right to pursue their state action in state c…
22-779 Jeffrey Wills Lusk, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Dorothy Jean Ross Lusk, Deceased v. Alsata Salimatu Lamin, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-02-17 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1985-3 civil-rights class-based-animus congressional-power conspiracy constitutional-law discrimination discriminatory-intent federal-jurisdiction state-action statutory-interpretation Should a conspiracy motivated by invidiously discrim inatory intent other than racial bias be actionable un der 42 U.S.C. § 1985(3), the possibility o…
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 …
22-711 Arthur Lopez v. Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church, et al. California 2023-01-31 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ex-parte judicial-system state-action 1. Should State of California Judicial System (including judges) and the Catholic Church adhere to the rights of civilians guaranteed by the United St…
22-611 Kevin Lindke v. James R. Freed Sixth Circuit 2023-01-04 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Relisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-scrutiny first-amendment free-speech government-duty government-official public-forum public-official social-media state-action Whether a public official's social media activity can constitute state action only if the official used the account to perform a governmental duty or …
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…
22-539 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…
22-6227 Peter Corines v. New York New York 2022-12-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-amendments due-process equal-protection false-testimony indictment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain state-action Was Petitioner denied due process and equal protection of the law in violation of Constitutional Amendments V and XIV when the State used known false …
22-6146 In Re Maria Navarro-Martin 2022-11-23 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing state-action Whether a former President is withholding, desclassifying, concealing or depriving of records and evidences in an offered proceeding where the prosecu…
22-5948 Brett W. Cormier v. Florida Florida 2022-10-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law contract-clause contract-impairment contracts-clause criminal-law due-process grand-theft impairment-of-contracts state-action state-prosecution DID THE STATE OF FLORIDA VIOLATE ART. I, SECT. 10 OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION WHEN IT IMPAIRED THE OBLIGATION OF PETITIONER'S CONTRACTS BY CHARG…
22-5907 Ronald J. Brooking v. Daniel Moloney Maryland 2022-10-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights fairness fourteenth-amendment judicial-decision maryland-rules privileges-or-immunities procedural-due-process state-action 1. Did the Circuit Court, Court of Special Appeals, and the Court of Appeals err in violations against the Petitioner's rights in the 14th. Amendment …
22-373 David Schaszberger, et al. v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Council 13 Third Circuit 2022-10-20 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights damages-liability due-process good-faith good-faith-defense qualified-immunity retroactivity state-action Is there a "good faith " defense under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that shields a defendant from damages liability for depriving citizens of their constitutional…
22-324 Michelle O’Connor-Ratcliff, et al. v. Christopher Garnier, et ux. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-06 Judgment Issued Amici (12)Relisted (3) blocking-access circuit-split civil-rights first-amendment free-speech public-official social-media standing state-action Whether a public official engages in state action subject to the First Amendment by blocking an individual from the official's personal social-media a…
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 …
22-238 Charter Day School, Inc., et al. v. Bonnie Peltier, as Guardian of A. P., a Minor Child, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-09-14 Denied CVSGAmici (8)Relisted (2) charter-school charter-schools civil-rights educational-policy government-contract government-contracts nonprofit-corporation policy-formulation private-entities public-education state-action Whether a private entity that contracts with the State to operate a charter school engages in state action when it formulates a policy without coercio…
22-5579 William Baham v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance state-action supremacy-clause Whether the 14% Amendment, imposes upon the States of Louisiana the obligation to refrain from systemic, purposeful deprivations of substantive federa…
22-213 Delores Polk, et al. v. Betty Yee, in Her Official Capacity as State Controller of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 first-amendment nonmembers state-action union-speech waiver The Court in Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31 held that it violates the First Amendment for a state and union to seize payments for union speech from nonme…
22-5487 Gabriel Paul Hall v. Texas Texas 2022-09-01 Denied IFP capital-murder criminal-procedure evidence-admission massiah-v-united-states penalty-phase right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-action state-agent Did the TCCA err in holding that the State upheld its "affirmative obligation to not act in a manner that circumvents the [Sixth Amendment] protection…
22-173 Roger Swartz v. Board of Trustees of University of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2022-08-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment-rights bar-admission child-representation-rights civil-rights due-process experiential-legal-learning legal-education non-traditional-legal-representation standing state-action state-actor-interference tort-case-representation 1. When one learns the practice of law limited through experiential learning because they have been deprived of their 14th Amendment Rights and many o…
22-91 Stephanie Logsdon Smith, et al. v. Kentucky Sixth Circuit 2022-07-29 Denied Response Waived 13th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation involuntary-servitude private-right-of-action probation-officer sexual-slavery slavery sovereign-immunity state-action thirteenth-amendment Borrowing the form of Justice Alito's framing of the question presented in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, No. 19-1392 (June 24, 2022), …
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…
21-8028 Ryricka Nikita Custis v. Virginia Virginia 2022-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection state-action 1) Wheather The petitioner constitutional Rights violated Under The Constitution of Vircinia and the United STAtes Constitution?
21-7845 Jennifer C. Rundle v. Windsor Manor, Inc. Virginia 2022-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP amended-petition circuit-court civil-procedure due-process liberty liberty-interest motion-to-compel precedent property property-rights state-action A. Should the Norfolk Circuit Court have GRANTED the petitioner's Motion to Compel Discovery and Continue the Trial , to ensure access to Due Process …
21-7591 Donald Morris Lee v. Washington Washington 2022-04-11 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-remedy judicial-review resentencing sentencing sentencing-error state-action Can the court void the illegally obtained J&S? Can the court reverse and dismiss the conviction? Can the court order Lee released? Can the court di…
21-1205 Eric E. v. Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services California 2022-03-03 Denied child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law jury-trial mootness-doctrine parental-rights standing state-action 1. Whether, under the incorporation doctrine, the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial should apply to the States for parents in quasi-prosecutoria…
21-1181 Lyndsey Ballinger, et al. v. City of Oakland, California Ninth Circuit 2022-02-28 Denied Amici (3) dolan-v-city-of-tigard due-process fourth-amendment nollan-v-california-coastal-commission property-rights seizure state-action takings tenant-rights unconstitutional-conditions 1. Whether the unconstitutional conditions tests in Nollan v. California Coastal Commission, 483 U.S. 825 (1987), and Dolan v. City of Tigard, 512 U.S…
21-1092 Aaron Evan Perry v. Tennessee Tennessee 2022-02-07 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment agency-law civil-rights constitutional-protections constitutional-rights fourth-amendment loss-prevention private-enforcement private-search public-interest state-action state-action-doctrine Whether, as private corporations and law enforce- ment agencies increasingly cooperate to investigate and prosecute retail crimes, the distinction b…
21-1073 Kourosh Kenneth Hamidi, et al. v. Service Employees International Union, Local 1000 Ninth Circuit 2022-02-02 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights employee-protections first-amendment fourteenth-amendment good-faith state-action union-rights waiver 1. May a labor union acting in concert with State officials, consistent with the First and Fourteenth Amendments, seize for union political speech pay…
21-844 Jim Carmack v. Mark Janny, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-12-07 Dismissed civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech housing-services parole parole-conditions religious-freedom state-action state-actor summary-judgment Whether the employee of a private, religious nonprofit may be held liable, as a state actor, for making pro bono housing and social services at the no…
21-6408 James A. Harnage v. Janine Brennan, et al. Second Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation contract criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-discretion plea-agreement settlement-agreement state-action 1. Whether A state violates The Express Terms of A settlement Agreament By Failing To Inform The Decison Maker of Ther Authorlty To Grant Approvals Th…
21-6275 David Wayne Dooley v. Kentucky Kentucky 2021-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP arizona-v-youngblood burden-of-proof civil-procedure confrontation-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-spoliation separation-of-witnesses state-action 1. Is Due Process violated when a criminal defendant must bear the burden of showing bad faith in order to be entitled to a missing evidence instructi…
21-695 Bennie Anderson v. New Jersey New Jersey 2021-11-12 Denied Response Waived constitutional-scrutiny eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause national-importance pension-seizure public-pensions punitive-forfeiture punitive-forfeitures state-action Can a state insulate its punitive forfeitures from federal constitutional scrutiny by limiting the definition of what constitutes a "fine" for purpose…
21-639 Mark R. Smith v. Kate Bieker, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied Response Waived dues-seizure employee-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment johnson-v-zerbst state-action union-speech waiver waiver-of-rights In Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31, this Court held that public employees have a right to refuse to subsidize union speech, that "States and public-sector…
21-615 Christopher A. Woods, et al. v. Alaska State Employees Association, AFSCME Local 52, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied Amici (1) first-amendment free-speech public-sector state-action union-dues waiver The Court in Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31 held that public employees have a First Amendment right not to subsidize union speech. 138 S. Ct. 2448, 2486 …
21-609 Loriann Anderson, et al. v. Service Employees International Union Local 503, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech nonmember-employees public-employees state-action union-dues union-membership waiver 1. Under the First Amendment, to seize payments for union speech from employees who resigned union membership, became nonmembers, and objected to subs…
21-575 Freedom Foundation v. Washington Department of Ecology, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-rights first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech public-employee-unions public-employees right-to-work state-action unions viewpoint-discrimination Does state action that supports speech by public employee unions to public employees advocating union membership and disfavors speech by right-to-work…
21-537 Adir International, LLC, et al. v. Starr Indemnity and Liability Company Ninth Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Amici (2) civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment insurance insurance-proceeds legal-defense standing state-action state-litigation Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits a State to prohibit private parties from using untainted funds, such as otherwise l…
21-392 Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, Inc., et al. v. Eric Holcomb, Governor of Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-09-10 Denied Response Waived circuit-split dormant-commerce-clause governmental-authority highway-tolling interstate-commerce market-participant-exception state-action state-discrimination The dormant Commerce Clause authorizes judicial intervention to address state discrimination to and undue burdens upon interstate commerce. The "marke…
21-5429 Pedro Reyes v. Jeff Jensen, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment notice notice-requirement standing state-action 1. Whether State action is implied by the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) anomalous codification of C.R.S. § 34-32.5-112 (9) (c) into the Division o…
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…
20-1773 Pasadena Republican Club v. Western Justice Center, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 civil-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-management state-action state-actor viewpoint-discrimination While it is managing the city-owned property, is the Western Justice Center a State Actor for purposes of the First and Fourteenth Amendments and 42 U…
20-7938 Cherie Phillips v. Charo Rowley Idaho 2021-05-05 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process guardianship-rights hospice-mandate judicial-bias judicial-misconduct pro-se standing state-action 1. Whether the Idaho Courts denied the fairness and justice of Due Process when my pro se pleadings were not reviewed and were summarily dismissed whi…
20-1413 Debra M. Brown v. Federal National Mortgage Association Massachusetts 2021-04-09 Denied Response Waived constitutional-constraints delegation-of-authority due-process equal-protection foreclosure housing-court land-court mortgage-backed-securities servicer-responsibilities state-action takings Question not identified.
20-1378 Linda Rizzo-Rupon, et al. v. International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO District 141, Local 914, et al. Third Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied agency-fees first-amendment janus-v-afscme private-sector-employees railway-labor-act state-action union-representation 1. Does this Court's recent First Amendment agency fee ban announced in Janus v. AFSCME, 138 S.Ct. 2448 (2018), apply to matters involving private-sec…
20-7555 Anthony A. Patel v. Patricia Miller, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP asian-americans civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection mental-health political-speech state-action 1. Do the federal civil rights laws passed for the benefit of Americans of African descent after the U.S. Civil War also apply with equal force and ef…
20-1294 Simon Campbell, et al. v. Pennsylvania School Boards Association, et al. Third Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) 42-u-s-c-1983 civil-rights first-amendment free-speech petitioning petitioning-immunity retaliation retaliation-claim sham-litigation state-action state-actors 1. Are state actors, acting under color of state law, entitled to claim petitioning immunity from liability for a First Amendment retaliation claim br…
20-1287 Recovery Innovations, Inc., et al. v. Kenneth Rawson Ninth Circuit 2021-03-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-law involuntary-commitment mental-health mental-health-services state-action state-action-doctrine Whether through the provision of mental health services, a private, non-profit hospital and private healthcare providers become state actors, subject …
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…
20-1001 Columbia MHC East, LLC, et al. v. Melody Stewart, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment just-compensation mootness state-action takings The Northern District of Ohio Trial Court dismissed with prejudice, prior to the issuance of summons, the complaint seeking redress against official s…
20-878 Michael Edwards v. Indiana University Seventh Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment public-employment state-action workplace-termination Was my 14th Amendment United States Constitutional Rights violated when I was fired by Indiana University?
20-751 Ashley Ann Krapacs v. The Florida Bar Florida 2020-12-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abstract-idea administrative-law bar-discipline civil-rights disbarment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech free-speech 20-7519" integrated-bar intellectual-property judicial-corruption patent-law political-speech professional-conduct state-action supreme-court-precedent Whether the Supreme Court will address alleged jud The Florida Bar, an integrated Bar system under the jurisdiction of the Florida Supreme Court, has disbarred an attorney who has posted what amounts t…
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…
20-485 Michael Torrence v. Kentucky Kentucky 2020-10-14 Denied 14th-amendment cell-phone-evidence cell-phone-tower-evidence confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process lay-witness pretrial-identification state-action WHETHER THE COURT'S RULING THAT CELL PHONE TOWER LOCATION DATA AND INTERPRETATION MAY BE PRESENTED BY AN UNQUALIFIED LAY WITNESS WHO IS UNABLE TO ANSW…
20-387 Lewana Howard v. Gabriel DeFrates, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights equal-protection federal-remedy retaliation state-action state-employees (1) When state employees acting in their personal capacity rather than agents of the state, violate the 14,h Amendment Equal Protection rights of a ci…
20-381 Hamilton County Job and Family Services, et al. v. Joseph Siefert, et ux. Sixth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied 42-usc-1983 child-services circuit-conflict civil-rights due-process medical-care qualified-immunity state-action state-actor A. Did the Sixth Circuit err when it failed to conduct an individualized analysis of Petitioners' actions before blanketly rejecting their asserted de…
20-373 Richard Lee Abrams v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California Ninth Circuit 2020-09-23 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-challenge discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss standing state-action 1. Did the district court and the Ninth Circuit abuse their discretion by not allowing Petitioner to even argue that the behavior of the Commission on…
20-5724 Justin Lamar Johnson v. Joseph Gibson, Judge, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-conspiracy civil-rights court-appointed-attorneys fraud immunity judicial-immunity res-judicata state-action state-actors I. The trial and appellate court ruled that the plaintiffs court appointed attorneys were not state actors subject to the court's jurisdiction in a 42…
20-5211 Michael Anthony Dobson v. Colin D. Stolle, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-07-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-client-privilege civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process informant-relationship personal-safety prison-administration race-restrictions state-action state-custody Where speihionce i Vis Gonplasit aequested Rebvikal phone alls, beluees Pahbonee PD Dein dats to weillenr elaias depMorieg Ore was Yas enge by Deeidau…
19-8858 Xavier Deshawn Lymas v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process excessive-fines incorporation state-action takings OR weoNg thAt thE Fouet ciRlunt (ouet of AppEAb Afteming thE ctenal of A GEetificatE sf Arprelatility By the Jstect (ouet wher : A) EVEEy CASE HHAT H…
19-1347 LaDawn Douglas v. Kondaur Capital Corporation Michigan 2020-06-09 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment as applied and enforced in the courts below constitutes state-action due-process foreclosure MCL § 600.3201 et seq. property-rights 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process foreclosure foreclosure-by-advertisement michigan-statute property-law state-action takings Whether Michigan's foreclosure by advertisement statute, MCL § 600.3201 et seq., as applied and enforced in the courts below, constitutes state action…
19-7674 Kyle K. Clark v. Kevin Lindsay, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-02-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP competency-hearing criminal-procedure criminal-responsibility cronic-standard right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-action united-states-v-cronic DID THE SIXTH CIRCUIT DEPART FROM THIS COURT'S PRIOR DECISIONS AND CREATE A CONFLICT WITH ITS OWN PRECEDENT AND A SPLIT WITH OTHER CIRCUITS REQUIRING …
19-7591 Leo Lionel Payne v. Jessica Mangum Fourth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-deprivation due-process failure-to-defend fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction right-to-travel standing state-action travel WHEN MS. MANGUM ACTiNG UNDER COLOR OF STATE LAW DEPRIVED PETITIONER CONSTiTUTiONAL RiGHT TO TRAVEL BY THE FOuateenth Amendment Of the United STATES CO…
19-7499 Susan Skipp v. United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Second Circuit 2020-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 9th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-amendments discrimination due-process equal-protection fatherhood-initiative federal-funding multi-agency-agreement state-action (1) Does the implemented Section 17b-27a - John S. Martinez Fatherhood Initiative, Objectives, Reports, Funding, Grant program, programming and tenacl…
19-918 Anthony J. Lucero v. James R. Koncilja, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-bias legal-malpractice motion-for-default-judgment res-judicata state-action Pursuant to Rule 14 of Supreme Court of the United States Rules effective July 1, 2019 Preface: Petitioner reiterated his multiple complaints against…
19-7229 Asata D. Lowe v. Mike Parris, et al. Tennessee 2020-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process procedural-due-process property-interest state-action state-court-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction substantive-due-process Does the Petitioner have a property interest in (1) Rule 13 and 36 of the Tennessee Rules of Appellate Procedure and the (2) Right to relief secured b…
19-856 Los Angeles County, California v. Trina Ray, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-law due-process fair-labor-standards-act federal-preemption labor-law non-enforcement-policy overtime-wages sovereign-immunity state-action state-agency Respondents, on behalf of themselves and other similarly situated home care workers in the State of California's In-Home Supportive Services ("IHSS") …
19-853 Sandra R., et al. v. Arizona Department of Child Safety Arizona 2020-01-06 Denied Response Waived child-custody clear-and-convincing-evidence constitutional-standard due-process family-law parental-rights state-action state-intervention termination Whether, in order to terminate a parent's parental rights to their child, the due process Clause of the United States constitution requires that a Sta…
19-821 Isaac M. Nsejjere v. Reuben Smith, et ux. Washington 2019-12-31 Denied constitutional-law constitutional-rights deprivation deprivation-of-rights due-process equal-protection legal-principles state-action unequal-protection 1. Is a state action constitutional when it leads to deprivation by denying a process that is "due", and premised on unequal protection under the law?…
19-793 Institute for Free Speech v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California Ninth Circuit 2019-12-20 GVR Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) civil-rights compelled-disclosure donor-disclosure exacting-scrutiny first-amendment free-speech nonprofit nonprofit-association standing state-action strict-scrutiny 1. Whether a state official's demand for all significant donors to a nonprofit organization, as a precondition to engaging in constitutionally-protect…
19-6927 Tony Egbuna Ford v. Texas Texas 2019-12-12 Denied IFP arbitrary-state-action criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus merits-consideration state-action state-created-right state-created-rights statutory-criteria subsequent-application subsequent-habeas-application Whether the Tex as Court of Criminal Appeals' unex plained dismissal of claims raised in a subsequent application for writ of habeas corpus, where the…
19-6879 Salim Abdul-Malik v. City Government Office of Court Administration, et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-06 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-accessibility due-process immigration-procedures judicial-reform pleading-standards prisoner-litigation-reform-act pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation state-action 1) As a first, pro se litigants have the Constitutional right to represent themselves in which this notion has its origins which stem from the Judicia…
19-6852 Matthew Tassone v. Zephynia Tassone Ohio 2019-12-04 Denied IFP 28-usc-1257a collateral-judgment constitutional-notice due-process extrinsic-fraud fair-notice fraud judicial-procedure state-action 1. Are the Due Process requirements of the Constitution of the United States violated when the state defrauds a litigant of fair notice and a meaningf…
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…
19-6741 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…
19-643 John Hurry, et al. v. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-law due-process finra immunity law-enforcement-powers private-corporation regulatory-authority securities-industry securities-regulation state-action state-actor tort-immunity 1. Whether FINRA, an ostensibly private corporation invested with vast powers to regulate the securities industry, is absolutely immune from any claim…
19-6191 K. N., et ux. v. Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services Montana 2019-10-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 1st-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1964 constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process fifth-amendment freedom-of-religion parental-rights religious-discrimination self-incrimination state-action state-overreach 1. Did the state's demands that the parents admit guilt violate their Constitutional rights under the 5th Amendment? Note: Both the Treatment Plan an…
19-6043 Larry Craig Cash v. Vance Laughlin, Warden Georgia 2019-09-25 Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process effective-assistance fourteenth-amendment jury-selection murder-trial racial-discrimination standing state-action trial-duty 1. Were The Rights Of A Defendant Under The Due Process Clause Of The Fourteenth Amendment Of The United States Constitution Properly Observed When Th…
19-333 Arlene's Flowers, Inc., dba Arlene's Flowers and Gifts, et al. v. Washington, et al. Washington 2019-09-12 Rehearing Amici (10)Relisted (13) civil-rights compelled-speech content-based first-amendment free-exercise free-speech public-accommodation religious-freedom religious-hostility same-sex-marriage state-action strict-scrutiny Barronelle Stutzman is a Christian artist who imagines, designs, and creates floral art. She serves everyone and sells pre-arranged flowers for use in…
19-325 Columbian Financial Corporation v. Tim Kemp, Bank Commissioner of Kansas, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment administrative-law constitutional-violations due-process fourteenth-amendment notice opportunity-to-be-heard preclusion property-rights res-judicata state-action 1) Whether Petitioner's due process rights were violated when the lower federal courts barred Petitioner's claim — alleging due process violations on …
19-5605 Stephen Alan Macomber v. Kansas Kansas 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment burden-of-proof civil-liberties constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment state-action use-of-force 1. 'Olb'THE COURTS, "Tb fe'DE ' ft 9^)ec\Ficl OS^-DF-'C )'=k'vx-^' FftRCe: -ceirsw^ncO X^stb'Actic^ lower Ttt^ l5u£D£b or orocF TOR "YHE STf^S /Fb \…
19-5493 David Ray Taylor v. Oregon Oregon 2019-08-07 Denied IFP 8th-amendment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment execution-moratorium extrajudicial-information juror-misconduct jury-instructions moratorium standing state-action voir-dire First Question Presented: The Eighth Amendment bars a jury from imposing a death sentence if it "has been led to believe that the responsibility for d…
19-5454 Melinda Scott v. Andrew Carlson, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech information-disclosure online-publication privacy privacy-act standing state-action state-actor (1) Are private citizens, who take over functions normally left to the state, by publishing information, on the Internet, about others from (a) courts…
19-5488 Loretta Jackson v. Joseph Barla, et al. Delaware 2019-08-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment animal-rights civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment property-rights state-action state-actor Whether The Supreme Court of the State of Delaware deprived Loretta Jackson of her Due Process rights under the 4th and 14th Amendment of the United S…
19-145 Vincent Mastanduno v. National Freight Industries, et al. North Carolina 2019-07-31 Denied Response Waived civil-rights compelling-state-interest constitutional-rights due-process health-information informational-privacy privacy public-disclosure public-interest state-action state-agency state-disclosure transparency Does a person have a constitutional right to privacy over his personal health information; and where the State publishes a person's private health inf…
19-51 Ben Branch, et al. v. Massachusetts Department of Labor Relations, et al. Massachusetts 2019-07-08 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bargaining-representative civil-rights compelled-speech constitutional-rights due-process exclusive-representation first-amendment free-speech political-activity political-autonomy public-employee state-action union-representation When a public employee union uses its government-granted authority as employees' exclusive bargaining representative to compel employees to choose bet…
18-9794 Paul Vallejo v. Texas Texas 2019-06-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fundamental-fairness state-action statute-of-limitations Does the ex post facto clause and 'fundamental fairness' prohibit the state from removing a potential statute of limitations defense?
18-1544 Hallmark Care Services, Inc., et al. v. Superior Court of Washington, Spokane County Washington 2019-06-14 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-rights court-appointed-guardian due-process ex-parte fourteenth-amendment guardianship predeprivation-rights professional-guardians property-interest property-rights state-action sua-sponte The Superior Court of Washington for Spokane County, initiated, sua sponte, and selfprosecuted an action against the Petitioners, who are professional…
18-9545 Robert Hercenberger v. Kathy Proctor Oregon 2019-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-policy legal-equality state-action state-jurisdiction Where Equal Protection of the laws definition apply for all: A phrase in the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution requiring that s…
18-9334 In Re Phillip S. Grigalanz 2019-05-17 Denied IFP access-to-courts access-to-process appellate-process civil-rights due-process prisoner-rights state-action state-actors unlawful-interference writ-of-certiorari Do State actors possess an inherent responsibility to protect a prisoner's right of access to process against unlawful interference? Should the Corne…
18-1440 Marby Hogen, et al. v. Steven C. Hogen, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Arline H. Hogen, Deceased, et al. North Dakota 2019-05-17 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure north-dakota probate property-rights state-action takings vested-interests 1. Does the decision of the Supreme Court of North Dakota deprive the Petitioners of established property rights in violation of the due process and e…
18-9204 Devon A. Brown v. Florida Department of Revenue, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights contract contract-enforcement due-process original-jurisdiction social-security-act state-action state-expenditure title-iv-d Can a state or its agency violates Appellant's constitutional protected rights to enforce upon him an obligation that his contractual in nature? The …
18-9166 Travis Michael Ortiz v. David Baughman, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing state-action takings Can California violate my freedom, and "Double Jeopardy Clauses? Can California violate The lawyer-client privilege? Can California () Framing of Th…
18-9128 Shawn R. Erpelding v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Nebraska 2019-05-03 Denied IFP 14th-amendment arbitrary-denial civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus prisoner-rights privileges-and-immunities standing state-action Does the State of Nebraska violate the 14th Amendment's privileges and immunities clause by arbitrarily denying committed offenders the privilege of a…
18-8984 Nathan Caetano v. Suzanne M. Peery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa burden-of-proof civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus mental-competency mental-incompetence ninth-circuit-precedent ninth-circuit-test retrospective-competency-determination retrospective-determination state-action structural-error Is AeDpA (i)(B) and ts determination actvally a retrospective determination where mental incompetence is the impediment? Competency DOES AEDPACISCB):…
18-1278 Corey A. Kerns, et al. v. Chesapeake Exploration, L.L.C., et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-04-08 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 due-process due-process-clause horizontal-drilling mineral-extraction mineral-rights permanent-physical-invasion property-rights regulatory-police-power state-action state-regulatory-police-power state-regulatory-power subsurface-rights takings-clause STATE REGULATORY POLICE POWER 1. Whether the Due Process and Takings Clauses are violated when a state official utilizes a state regulatory police po…
18-1245 Oglala Sioux Tribe, et al. v. Lisa Fleming, in Her Official Capacity, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) abstention child-welfare civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process irreparable-harm parental-rights procedural-rights standing state-action tribal-sovereignty younger-abstention 1. Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in holding, in conflict with decisions of this Court and three other courts of appeals , that the possibility of f…
18-1149 George A. Gallenthin, III v. Borough of Paulsboro, et al. New Jersey 2019-03-05 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process eminent-domain Fifth-Amendment Fourteenth-Amendment just-compensation procedural-due-process property property-rights state-action takings What protection do citizens of the United States enjoy under the Fifth Amendment's just compensation requirement in conjunction with the Fourteenth Am…
18-7983 Eric Joseph Laurson v. Colorado Colorado 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP claim-imputation collateral-review constitutional-entitlement due-process habeas-corpus imputation judicial-review procedural-default state-action state-regulation 1) May procedural default of the review of a claim of constitutional entitlement, which a state regulates to the collateral review venue, be properly …
18-7413 Billy Dean Smith v. Robert Corcoran, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied IFP alaska-statute brown-vs-board civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-statute disciplinary-actions due-process free-speech prison-discipline prison-regulations state-action state-law vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness 1. Does Full Faith and Credit as defined and as ordered by this Supreme Court in Steel v. Parson Inc., 474 U.S. 518 (1986) at 523-525, apply to Brando…
18-7405 Gary Lee Beason v. Indiana Indiana 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel-ineffectiveness appellate-review child-molestation collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-bias state-action trial-counsel trial-counsel-ineffectiveness I. Beason's trial judge made an election campaign promise to put more child molesters in jail before presiding over Beason's trial on child molestatio…
18-7298 Nicole M. Moore v. Florida Florida 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland civil-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony incarceration prison-sentence prosecutorial-misconduct state-action wrongful-conviction Whether the Due Process Clause excuses the State of Florida's use of false testimony in the procurement of a conviction and 13-year prison sentence wh…
18-886 Lillian M. Jones v. Hawaii Residency Programs, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied 14th-amendment civil-rights corporate-fraud due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud judicial-procedure private-corporation residency-program state-action state-actor technology Whether citizens should still be afforded protection under the 14th Amendment against state abuses committed when the State disguises itself as a priv…
18-7208 Nicholas Maslonka v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-02 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP constructive-denial critical-stage cronic-standard cronic-v-united-states habeas-corpus right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-action 1. Is there a requirement that state action contribute to counsel's absence from a critical stage of the proceedings in order for there to be a constr…
18-745 Alan Overton v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services Tennessee 2018-12-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process family-law fundamental-rights parental-rights state-action strict-scrutiny substantive-due-process Substantive Due Process limits the state's authority to deprive individuals of fundamental rights. The Tennessee courts in this case failed to conduct…
18-6966 Tina L. Wagoner v. New York New York 2018-12-07 Denied IFP abuse-of-power civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-tampering judicial-misconduct pauperis-exclusion standing state-action state-actor-immunity state-actors Pauperis exclusion from both State and Federal Constitutional rights is of extreme importance to the estimated ninety percent of this nation's active-…
18-6458 Eddie Williams, Jr. v. Tennessee Tennessee 2018-10-26 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process free-speech standing state-action takings Question not identified.
18-6410 Michael McKinzy v. Carletha Gaston (McKinzy) Missouri 2018-10-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection legal-notice notice procedural-fairness service service-of-process state-action state-court The Missouri Division of Child Support Enforcement (DcsE) was required under sections 464.4705 and 454.475.5 RSMo(2000) +omall a copy of its final Ord…
18-6365 Angel Bartlett v. Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-2332a 18-usc-2332h 18-usc-ch-13 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process government-conspiracy state-action torture weapons-of-mass-destruction IS it Wrongful or illegal to use weapons of mass destruction to radiate and torture Angel Bartlett in her home or her mother's home? Michigan is a non…
18-5977 Syed K. Rafi v. Yale University School of Medicine, et al. Second Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-restraints due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment spending-clause state-action state-actor 1 If Government Requires or Induces A Private Party to Engage in Law Enforcement, All Relevant Constitutional Restraints Do Apply? Does The Federal G…
18-332 Kevin Singson v. Sean Reyes, Attorney General of Utah Utah 2018-09-14 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-procedures civil-rights debt-collection due-process extraordinary-writ governmental-power sovereign-immunity standing state-action state-agency state-courts unfair-collection The Utah State Courts in this case evaluated Petitioner Kevin Singson's claim that the Utah Office of State Debt Collections collected a wage claim wh…
18-5927 J. A. v. New Jersey New Jersey 2018-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP attenuation coolidge-v-new-hampshire fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-entry lustig-v-united-states probable-cause reasonable-foreseeability search-and-seizure state-action I. DID A SEARCH INVOLVE STATE ACTION UNDER THE FOURTH AMENDMENT WHERE POLICE OFFICERS ENTERED A HOME ILLEGALLY, AN OFFICER THERE TOLD A N INQUIRING CI…
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.…
18-5613 Ladina Sykes v. Illinois Illinois 2018-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law custody fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct private-individual search-and-seizure state-action state-actors Whether on-duty police officers are state actors for Fourth Amendment purposes when they assist a private individual in searching a suspect in police …
18-139 Thomas E. Freeman, Jr. v. North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services North Carolina 2018-07-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-authority arbitrary-and-capricious civil-rights due-process equal-justice equal-protection exceeded-authority judicial-review prejudiced-rights procedural-rights state-action state-agency state-employee May a court deny due-process of Law and equal justice under the Law of a State employee, when it is suspected that a State agency, may have: prejudice…
18-5131 Tu My Tong v. New Mexico, et al. New Mexico 2018-07-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-action qualified-immunity standing state-action Was petitioner Curny Coy deprived of Due Process, Equal protection of The law and the privileges and immunities guaranteed to all us citizens by the i…