42 U.S.C. § 1983

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• Lee v. City of Gulfport & James O'Reilly
  M.D. Fla.· 2025-11-13 ·via 42 U.S.C. § 1983 Civil Rights Action
  The court granted summary judgment for the defendants on most counts, dismissing others for lack of standing, finding the plaintiff forfeited any protected liberty interest in accessing city property due to his trespass violations.
• Lewis v. Blackwater River Correctional Rehabilitation Facility
  N.D. Fla.· 2025-11-12
  The court held that a pro se plaintiff's failure to truthfully disclose his litigation history on the court's complaint form warrants dismissal of his civil rights action without prejudice.
• Scott v. Shaw
  N.D. Fla.· 2025-11-12
  The court held that it should abstain from exercising jurisdiction over the plaintiff's claims under the domestic relations exception because the case is intertwined with ongoing state court child custody and divorce proceedings.
• Outler v. Cooper
  11th Cir.· 2025-11-10 ·via 42 U.S.C. § 1983 Civil Rights Action
  The court held that it has jurisdiction over the appeal because the denial of qualified immunity presents issues of law, not solely issues of fact.
• Alexander-Marquis: Johnson v. Tampa Police Dep't
  M.D. Fla.· 2025-11-09
  The court recommended denying the plaintiff's motion to proceed in forma pauperis and dismissing the complaint without prejudice because it failed to comply with federal pleading rules and the plaintiff's financial information was inconsistent.
• Noel v. Westlake Fin. Servs.
  M.D. Fla.· 2025-11-07
  The court held that plaintiffs failed to establish irreparable harm, a prerequisite for injunctive relief.
• Butler v. Marion Cnty. Sheriff's Off.
  M.D. Fla.· 2025-11-06
  The court held that the plaintiff's second amended complaint was an impermissible shotgun pleading and dismissed the federal claims with prejudice, declining to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over the state law claims.
• Neighbors & Neighbors Ass'n, Inc. v. Keon Hardemon
  S.D. Fla.· 2025-11-06
  The court held that the plaintiff has standing, but the defendant commissioner is protected by legislative immunity for his actions related to the housing program.
• Henderson v. Judge Elisabeth Timothy
  N.D. Fla.· 2025-11-06
  The court held that the plaintiff's complaint should be dismissed with prejudice because the defendants are entitled to judicial immunity, the plaintiff is a "three-striker" who failed to pay the filing fee and did not allege imminent danger, and the plaintiff failed to truthfull
• Green v. Dixon
  M.D. Fla.· 2025-11-06
  The court held that the plaintiff failed to state a plausible § 1983 claim against the defendant in his official capacity due to sovereign immunity and failed to establish supervisory liability. The court also held that state law claims for punitive damages against the defendant
• Sahrow v. Correctional
  M.D. Fla.· 2025-11-05
  The court held that the plaintiff's complaint failed to state a claim for violation of civil rights due to insufficient factual allegations and improper defendant identification.
• Durance v. The Sch. Bd. of Glades Cnty.
  M.D. Fla.· 2025-11-04
  The court held that Plaintiff failed to state a plausible claim for retaliation under the ADA, FCRA, and the First Amendment, and that the school board could not be held liable under § 1983 on theories of ratification or delegation.
• Clemente Javier Aguirre-Jarquin v. Hemmert
  11th Cir.· 2025-11-04
  Aguirre-Jarquin, who was convicted of two murders in 2006 and sentenced to death based partly on a latent fingerprint expert's identification of his palmprint on the murder weapon, was exonerated in 2018 when post-conviction DNA testing and newly discovered evidence pointing to a
• Rones Sagesse v. Nurse Jones
  N.D. Fla.· 2025-11-04
  A pro se prisoner's failure to accurately disclose their litigation history on the court-approved complaint form, as required by local rules, warrants dismissal without prejudice.
• Soto v. Sheriff Chad Chronister
  M.D. Fla.· 2025-11-03
  The court held that certain counts of the plaintiff's amended complaint were impermissible shotgun pleadings and dismissed them without prejudice, granting leave to amend.
• Dunning v. Officer Arturo Gonzales
  M.D. Fla.· 2025-11-03
  The court held that the plaintiff's complaint failed to state a claim for relief against the officers in their official capacities because it did not allege facts showing a custom or policy caused the constitutional violation.
• Marques A. Johnson v. Nocco
  M.D. Fla.· 2025-11-03 ·via 42 U.S.C. § 1983 Claim
  The court granted partial summary judgment for the plaintiff on the constitutional violation issue, finding no probable cause for his arrest, but denied summary judgment on the Monell claim due to disputed facts regarding policy or custom.
• Tomasz Kosowski v. Vonderheide
  M.D. Fla.· 2025-11-03
  The court held that it must abstain from hearing the civil-rights action under the Younger abstention doctrine due to an ongoing state criminal proceeding.
• Reece Shoup v. Deputy W. Ingersoll
  M.D. Fla.· 2025-10-31
  The court held that the plaintiff's complaint must be dismissed without prejudice because it is duplicative of an earlier action and therefore malicious under the Prison Litigation Reform Act.
• Eli Schanley v. City of Sarasota
  M.D. Fla.· 2025-10-31
  A police officer employed by the City of Sarasota alleged she was terminated because of her transgender status and gender dysphoria, bringing claims for gender and disability discrimination, First Amendment retaliation, due process violations, and retaliation under Title VII and
• Brumbaugh v. Lee Cnty. Jail
  M.D. Fla.· 2025-10-31
  The court held that the plaintiff's complaint failed to state a claim for denial of access to the courts because he did not allege actual injury or identify a policy or custom causing the alleged deprivation.
• Ciara Dormeus v. Miami-Dade Cnty.
  S.D. Fla.· 2025-10-30
  The court held that the officers had probable cause to arrest the plaintiff based on observed actions, thus granting qualified immunity and dismissing the § 1983 claims. State law claims were also dismissed as a result.
• Frazier v. Bay Cnty. Sheriff's Dep't
  N.D. Fla.· 2025-10-30
  The court held that a pro se prisoner's failure to fully and accurately disclose his litigation history on the court's standardized complaint form, as required by local rules and under penalty of perjury, warrants dismissal of the case without prejudice.
• Sheets v. Woelk
  M.D. Fla.· 2025-10-30
  The court held that a prior dismissal without prejudice for failure to pay a filing fee does not preserve a cause of action outside the statute of limitations, nor does it warrant equitable tolling.
• Elston v. Fla. Dep't of Child. & Families
  M.D. Fla.· 2025-10-28
  The court denied the motion for a temporary restraining order and dismissed the case with prejudice, finding that Younger abstention applied to the plaintiff's claims.
• Sheets v. Angelini
  M.D. Fla.· 2025-10-28
  The court held that a plaintiff's false arrest claim is barred by Heck v. Humphrey when convicted of the underlying offense, even if adjudication was withheld, and that retaliation and viewpoint discrimination claims require adequate comparators, which were not sufficiently alleg
• Sheets v. Martin
  M.D. Fla.· 2025-10-28
  The court held that the plaintiff's second amended complaint was a shotgun pleading and failed to state plausible claims for relief, warranting dismissal.
• Pike v. City of Fort Pierce
  S.D. Fla.· 2025-10-28
  The court accepted the Magistrate Judge's Report and Recommendation, denying the Plaintiff's motions for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction.
• Level Francois v. City of N. Miami Beach Police Dept.
  S.D. Fla.· 2025-10-27
  The court held that the plaintiff's complaint failed to state a claim upon which relief could be granted for various causes of action, including conspiracy, malicious prosecution, defamation, false imprisonment, and others.
• Dawson v. Head
  N.D. Fla.· 2025-10-24 ·via 42 U.S.C. § 1983 Action
  The court held that a plaintiff's Fourth Amendment claims are barred by collateral estoppel because the issue of probable cause was fully litigated and decided in a prior state criminal proceeding. The court also recommended declining supplemental jurisdiction over the state law
• Scott v. Satz
  N.D. Fla.· 2025-10-24
  The court held that the plaintiff's claims must be dismissed because the Northern District of Florida is an improper venue and the defendants are immune from suit.
• Borgese v. Sheriff T.K. Waters
  M.D. Fla.· 2025-10-24
  The court recommends denying the application to proceed in forma pauperis and dismissing the case without prejudice due to the plaintiff's failure to cure deficiencies and pay the filing fee.
• Rodriguez v. City of Port Richey
  M.D. Fla.· 2025-10-23
  The court recommended denial of the motion to proceed in forma pauperis and dismissal of the complaint without prejudice because the plaintiff failed to state a claim upon which relief could be granted under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.
• Lutricia Lushan Brown Allen v. State
  S.D. Fla.· 2025-10-22
  The court held that the plaintiff's complaint was procedurally deficient, failed to state a claim, and constituted an improper shotgun pleading, warranting dismissal.
• Sheets v. Gorman
  M.D. Fla.· 2025-10-21
  The court held that the plaintiff's claims were time-barred because they were filed after the expiration of the applicable statute of limitations, and equitable tolling was not warranted.
• Thundathil v. United States
  M.D. Fla.· 2025-10-21
  The court recommended dismissal of the complaint without prejudice because it constituted an impermissible shotgun pleading and failed to state a claim under many cited statutes, and the motion to proceed in forma pauperis was denied without prejudice.
• State v. Armstrong
  N.D. Fla.· 2025-10-21
  A state criminal prosecution cannot be removed to federal court under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331, 1441(a), or 1443(1) because these statutes apply to civil actions or require rights related to racial equality, which the defendant did not demonstrate.
• Lexus Daniels v. Tampa Police Dep't
  M.D. Fla.· 2025-10-20
  The court held that the Tampa Police Department is not a proper defendant under § 1983 and that the plaintiff failed to state a claim for municipal liability or underlying constitutional violations. However, the pro se plaintiff is granted one final opportunity to amend her compl
• Mahan v. Officer Richard C. Samples, III
  M.D. Fla.· 2025-10-20 ·via Section 1983
  The court held that while a jury could find Officer Samples's use of deadly force was not objectively reasonable, he is entitled to qualified immunity because the right was not clearly established at the time of the incident.
• Johnson v. Palm Beach Cnty. Sheriff's Off.
  S.D. Fla.· 2025-10-17
  The court held that the pro se plaintiff's complaint failed to state a claim for deliberate indifference to serious medical needs because it lacked sufficient factual allegations regarding the seriousness of the medical need and the defendants' subjective awareness of risk.
• Bishop v. Harper
  S.D. Fla.· 2025-10-17
  The court adopted the Magistrate Judge's recommendation to dismiss the amended complaint without prejudice, overruling the plaintiff's objections.
• Bridges v. J.C. Poe, Jr.
  11th Cir.· 2025-10-17
  Six female former inmates of the Jasper City Jail sued jail supervisors and the city for sexual abuse perpetrated by jailers under the Eighth Amendment and federal trafficking statute, but the court affirmed summary judgment for the defendants because the plaintiffs failed to pro
• Lozano v. Collier Cnty.
  M.D. Fla.· 2025-10-16
  The court held that the plaintiff's amended complaint failed to state a claim under the Eighth Amendment and ADA for the same reasons as the original complaint.
• Kunkleman v. Dena Marie Kunkleman
  N.D. Fla.· 2025-10-15
  The court held that a pro se plaintiff's civil rights complaint must be dismissed because it constitutes an impermissible shotgun pleading, seeks relief barred by Younger abstention, fails to state a claim under federal law, and names state agencies immune under the Eleventh Amen
• Jarred Hyde v. City of Hollywood
  S.D. Fla.· 2025-10-15
  The court held that disabling comments on a government Facebook page for all users does not constitute viewpoint discrimination under the First Amendment.
• Lewis v. Campbell
  M.D. Fla.· 2025-10-14
  The court held that the officers are entitled to qualified immunity because they had arguable reasonable suspicion to detain the plaintiff, and the plaintiff failed to demonstrate that his right to be free from such detention was clearly established by binding precedent.
• McLaughlin v. Sunshine State Health Plan, Inc.
  M.D. Fla.· 2025-10-14
  The court denied the motion for a temporary restraining order because the plaintiff failed to demonstrate the necessary emergency circumstances for proceeding without notice to the defendants. The court deferred consideration of a preliminary injunction pending service and respon
• Coley-Pearson v. Martin
  11th Cir.· 2025-10-14
  The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment, holding that the plaintiff failed to establish the necessary causal connection between the actions of the election supervisor and the issuance of a trespass warning and arrest by a police sergeant.
• Engelhardt v. State
  M.D. Fla.· 2025-10-08
  Samuel Engelhardt, proceeding pro se, sued the State of Florida under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for civil rights violations. The district court dismissed the case without prejudice for failure to prosecute after Engelhardt failed to respond to motions to dismiss and failed to comply with
• Dusty Lee Bowman v. Dixon
  M.D. Fla.· 2025-10-08
  The court held that the plaintiff's Second Amended Complaint failed to state a claim upon which relief could be granted under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.