| 25-427 |
Walid Abdelaziz, in His Individual Capacity as a Police Officer for the City of Oakland, California, et al. v. Estate of Decedent Lolomania Soakai, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
due-process fourteenth-amendment police-liability qualified-immunity state-created-danger substantive-due-process |
1. Whether bystanders injured when a fleeing criminal suspect lost control of his car and crashed into them have a Fourteenth Amendment substantive du… |
| 24-1050 |
Estate of Te’Juan Johnson v. Amanda Rakes, Administrator of the Estate of Amylyn Slaymaker and Next Friend to the Minor Children G. C. and M. C. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-04-04 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment police-duty qualified-immunity state-created-danger |
Faced with a Section 1983 substantive due process claim under a "state-created danger" exception to the general rule that there is no constitutional d… |
| 24-6 |
Stacy Williams, on Behalf of Her Minor Grandson, J. J. v. Andrew Williams, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights deshaney-v-winnebago due-process federal-circuit-split fifth-circuit judicial-interpretation legal-doctrine standing state-created-danger |
Whether the Court should end the Fifth Circuit's decades-long refusal to rule on the viability of the "state-created-danger" doctrine by recognizing t… |
| 23A1046 |
Desiree Martinez v. Channon High |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-rights domestic-violence due-process precedent-interpretation qualified-immunity state-created-danger |
Are government officials entitled to qualified immunity in cases not involving time-pressured decisions so long as there is no prior precedent recogni… |
| 23-777 |
Herbert O. Chadbourne, Jr. v. Cumberland County District Court |
First Circuit |
2024-01-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-general civil-procedure default-judgment due-process equal-protection federal-rules honest-services-fraud judicial-procedure standing state-created-danger |
1. Since Maine's Attorney General: Aaron Frey, "declined to participate" for the entire 293-day duration of this case while it was before the United S… |
| 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… |
| 23-270 |
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… |
| 21-1606 |
Chase Yarbrough v. Santa Fe Independent School District, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-duty due-process nonstate-actor state-created-danger |
1. Whether this Court should resolve a Circuit split on the "state-created danger" theory of a constitutional duty to protect citizens from a nonstate… |
| 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… |
| 20-1392 |
Jason Fowler, et al. v. Brittany Irish, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-04-05 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (3) |
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-duty due-process law-enforcement qualified-immunity state-created-danger |
Did the First Circuit err in denying qualified immunity to Petitioners where neither this Court nor the First Circuit had ever before recognized the s… |
| 20-6555 |
Solomon Manamela v. Warden, Fort Dix FCI |
Third Circuit |
2020-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-uscs-1347 18-uscs-24(b) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process health-care-fraud jurisdiction pennsylvania-public-welfare-code standing state-created-danger statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether affirmative evidence exists to establish Congress' intention
under 18 USCS §24(b) to find City of Philadelphia-contracted non
medical fami… |
| 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 … |
| 20-320 |
Jane Doe, et vir, Individually and as the Natural Parents and Next of Kin of Minor Doe v. Jackson Local School District Board of Education, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-duty deliberate-indifference deshaney-exception due-process state-created-danger supreme-court-review |
1) Whether DeShaney v. Winnebago Cty. Dep't of Soc. Servs. created the exception of the State Created Danger Test?
2) What are the elements and facto… |
| 20-5101 |
Timothy Visage v. R. E. Woodall, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment arbitrary-action arbitrary-and-abusive-conduct civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process fourteenth-amendment government-liability government-policy state-created-danger state-custody |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment imposes upon the State an affirmative duty of care and protection to confined persons held … |
| 19-8017 |
Maria Mercedes Cancino, et al. v. Cameron County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-circuit civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process legal-error state-created-danger |
1. The District Court and the 5th Circuit erred, as a matter of law, in failing to find that Appellants have a constitutional right to be free from st… |
| 19-998 |
Vickie Cook, Individually and as Natural Mother to Deanna Cook, et al. v. Tonyita Hopkins, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment state-created-danger summary-judgment |
After making dozens of 911 calls concerning her abusive ex-husband during 2009-2012, and being promised assistance by police, in August 2012, Deanna C… |
| 19-826 |
The Estate of Swannie Her, et al. v. Craig Hoeppner, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment civil-rights culpable-intent due-process fourteenth-amendment intent liability life-liberty-property reasonable-protection state-created-danger |
This petition poses two questions: first, whether the state-created danger doctrine provides a due process claim; and second, what level of culpable i… |
| 19-800 |
Carlin Robinson, Individually, as Guardian and Next Friend of I. Y., M. Y., and A. Y., and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Veronica Williams, Deceased, et al. v. Daniel A. Lioi, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights deshhaney due-process fourth-amendment police-liability qualified-immunity state-created-danger |
1. Which of the widely divergent approaches amongst the circuit courts of appeal, if any, appropriately applies the doctrine arising from this Court's… |
| 19-656 |
William Anderson v. City of Minneapolis, Minnesota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) |
circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emergency-responders first-responders hypothermia hypothermia-treatment qualified-immunity state-created-danger |
The Fourteenth Amendment provides that the government may not deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny t… |
| 19-529 |
Robert Sanchez Turner v. Al Thomas, Jr., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-knowledge-of-danger affirmative-act civil-rights constitutional-rights cut-off-all-avenues-of-recourse due-process law-enforcement public-safety qualified-immunity racial-violence shock-the-conscience specific-individual-or-public state-created-danger |
The following questions stem from the Fourth
Circuit's Published Opinion regarding claims asserted
by Mr. Turner:
1. What analytical framework appl… |
| 18-825 |
Peggy Shumpert, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Antwun Shumpert, Sr., et al. v. City of Tupelo, Mississippi, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
canine-force civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-force due-process federal-appeals-conflict police-misconduct qualified-immunity state-created-danger use-of-force whether-the-court-of-appeals-erred-in-concluding-t whether-the-court-of-appeals-erred-in-finding-that |
I. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in finding that the state-created danger doctrine is not clearly established law and in failing to apply it, whe… |
| 18-6427 |
Jesus Valle v. Rusty Rogers, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-segregation circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process prisoner-assault prisoner-rights standing state-created-danger |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision denying relief represents a split in the Circuit Courts. Valle, a pro se litigant and prisoner in … |
| 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… |