state-actors
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6797 | Eshawn Jessica Scipio v. Finklea, Hendrick & Blake, LLC, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-12 | Pending | IFP | circuit-conflict federal-questions fraud-upon-court judicial-records state-actors | Question not identified. |
| 25-933 | Daniel N. Arbeeny, as the Administrator for the Estate of Norman Arbeeny, et al. v. Andrew M. Cuomo, former Governor of New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | administrative-law constitutional-rights covid-directive nursing-home-deaths qualified-immunity state-actors | 1. How could the Second Circuit have reasonably concluded that the State Respondents Governor Cuomo and Ms. DeRosa, his Chief of Staff, could not have… | |
| 25-890 | Arkansas United, et al. v. John Thurston, in His Official Capacity as the Secretary of State of Arkansas et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2026-01-29 | Pending | Response Waived | declaratory-relief injunctive-relief preemption private-plaintiffs state-actors voting-rights-act | 1. Whether private plaintiffs may maintain a suit in equity for declaratory and injunctive relief against state actors to prevent the continued enfo… |
| 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… |
| 24-6656 | Derek Burns v. Georgia | Georgia | 2025-02-26 | Denied | IFP | attorney-client-privilege evidence-intrusion legal-communications procedural-matters sixth-amendment state-actors | The Georgia Supreme Court held that attorney-client communications about bond strategy and hearing preparation were merely "procedural scheduling matt… |
| 23-6540 | Jennifer Agnes Lopez v. California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-immunity state-actors statute-of-limitations | 1. Whether the State actors can deprive the individual of a fair treatment which violates the guarantees of the Fifth Fourteenth Amendment; 2. Whethe… |
| 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… |
| 23-6093 | George H. Finn v. New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2023-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction obstruction-of-court-orders obstruction-of-justice perjury standing state-actors | 1. Can a Motion for Dismissal, argued upon an Amended Complaint, be granted if the Court dismisses the Amended Complaint in its entirety and then gran… |
| 22-732 | Kaeun Kim v. Michael Saccento, et al. | Second Circuit | 2023-02-06 | Denied | civil-rights due-process fabricated-evidence fabrication-of-evidence fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution standing state-actors unreasonable-arrest | Does an individual's Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable arrest and detention continue beyond legal process so as to allow a malicious… | |
| 22-152 | Thomas Earl Dunn v. Elizabeth Post, Magistrate, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-17 | Denied | Response Waived | 11th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-accountability due-process eleventh-amendment nominal-damages public-trust sovereign-immunity state-actors state-public-trust | 1. Shall the lower Courts, District Court followed by the Appellate Court, deliberately stand a Constitutional conflict in law, by judicially shield… |
| 22-83 | B&G Foods North America, Inc. v. Kim Embry, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-07-28 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-enforcement declaratory-relief injunctive-relief legal-immunity noerr-pennington noerr-pennington-doctrine standing state-actors unconstitutional-laws | Whether the judge-made Noerr-Pennington doctrine immunizes state actors who seek to enforce unconstitutional laws and regulations. |
| 21-1522 | Wayne Torcivia v. Suffolk County, New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-06-03 | Denied | Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-entry qualified-immunity special-needs-exception state-actors warrant-requirement | (1) Whether a so-called "special-needs exception" to the Fourth Amendment exists and allows warrantless entry into the home of someone who is not subj… |
| 21-6598 | Glen Plourde v. Northern Light Acadia Hospital, et al. | First Circuit | 2021-12-15 | Dismissed | Relisted (2)IFP | abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process procedural-dismissal standing state-actors torture-allegations | 1. "Does the Fact that the Courts ' Decision conflicts with Law mean that the Federal Courts have abused their discretion? " The Petitioner argues it… |
| 21-6545 | Debra A. Nichols v. William Paul Nichols, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2021-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment ada americans-with-disabilities-act equal-protection fifth-amendment government-employees medical-privacy state-actors warrantless-search warrantless-searches | Can state actors, and/or government employees violate the equal protection Clause of the 5th Amendment of people considered disabled under the ADA? W… |
| 21-794 | Pamela Reilly, Personal Representative of the Estate of Rosemarie Reilly v. Ottawa County, Michigan, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2021-11-30 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment civil-rights deshaney-test deshaney-v-winnebago domestic-violence due-process fourteenth-amendment state-actors state-created-danger substantive-due-process third-party-harm | 1. Whether an abused woman who faces increased danger from her abuser because State Actors have emboldened and condoned the abuser's violently escalat… |
| 21-6392 | Janet Berry v. William Paul Nichols, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2021-11-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment bivens-claim civil-rights digital-privacy fourth-amendment medical-records search-and-seizure standing state-actors warrantless-search | Where a right created by the Panied with private entities acting as state actors under the color of law, via an invalid warrantless search and seizure… |
| 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… |
| 20-6649 | El Aemer El Mujaddid v. Andrew Brewer, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-12-17 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | abuse-of-process civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights damages damages-remedy due-process state-actors statute-of-limitations subpoena subpoena-abuse | Does both 42 U. S. C. § 1983 and 18 U.S.C. § 1595 create a damages remedy against I. state actors for issuing, enforcing, adopting, aiding or abetting… |
| 20-744 | Michael Wigginton, Jr. v. The University of Mississippi, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-30 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established-right due-process fifth-circuit hope-v-pelzer qualified-immunity state-actors supreme-court-precedent | Whether the Fifth Circuit's grant of qualified immunity to the state actors named in the instant matter was violative of Supreme Court precedent estab… |
| 20-6351 | Johnny Tippins v. Patricia Caruso, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2020-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-law legal-compliance standing state-actors statutory-interpretation | Should the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recall its mandate to prevent a miscarriage of justice because the Sixth Circuit and the Distri… |
| 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… |
| 20-329 | Julie M. Sowell, et al. v. Tinley, Renehan & Dost, LLP, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-09-11 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-actors | I. In the district court petitioners sought prospective declaratory relief, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, from a Connecticut Superior Court protective… |
| 19-1291 | Charles Hamner v. Danny Burls, Warden, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2020-05-14 | Denied | Amici (7) | affirmative-defense circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-prong due-process federal-appellate-courts qualified-immunity standing state-actors sua-sponte | "Since qualified immunity is a defense, the burden of pleading it rests with the defendant." Gomez v. Toledo, 446 U.S. 635, 640 (1980). Nonetheless, t… |
| 19-1205 | Anthony J. Lucero v. Paul Gordon, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2020-04-09 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment certificate-of-review civil-procedure due-process federal-review legal-malpractice rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine sham-affidavit state-actor state-actors state-court-judgments | 1. Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine permit this United States Supreme Court to review state trial court documents and judgments in this case within … |
| 19-7015 | In Re Michael F. Harris | 2019-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-justice-system due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial judicial-misconduct malicious-prosecution presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-jury state-actors witness-tampering | (1). Whether, in fairness to judicial proceedings, can an attorney of record brazenly ignore his client's instructions during the Direct Appeal proces… | |
| 19-408 | Garey R. Nehrke v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. | Florida | 2019-09-26 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-rights federal-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction-banking foreclosure-fraud gse-state-actors gses mortgage-securitization national-bank-act national-banks securities-law state-actors state-preemption takings-clause whistleblower-retaliation | 1. Whether Wells Fargo and others under National Bank Act, 12 U.S.C. 1 et seq. exclusive federal regulation and pre-emption, along with restrictions o… |
| 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… | |
| 18-7486 | Frank Monte v. Cyrus R. Vance, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-challenge criminal-charges due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct standing state-actors | Constitutionality, of the entire docket vanishing from the public records of the Supreme Court of New York, New York County. Shortly after filing the … |
| 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-… |
| 18-259 | City of East Cleveland, Ohio, et al. v. Derrick Wheatt, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2018-08-30 | Denied | civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-deadline due-process indemnification motion-to-amend qualified-immunity settlement-agreement standing state-actors wrongful-conviction | 1. Whether the Court abused its discretion in denying Petitioner City Defendants Qualified Immunity defense when it became implicated during Discovery… | |
| 18-5613 | 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 … |
| 18-76 | 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… |