Plaintiff:	J.E. Pendleton
Defendant:	United States of America, United States Department of State, Marco Rubio, in his official capacity as Secretary of State, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Kash Patel, in his official capacity as Director of the FBI, Paul Ferguson, in his individual capacity as Clerk of the Circuit Court of Arlington County, Leonie M. Brinkema, in her individual capacity as District Judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Roderick Young, in his individual capacity as District Judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Jason Miyares, in his individual capacity as Attorney General for the State of Virginia, Andrew N. Ferguson, in his individual capacity as Solicitor General for the State of Virginia, Erika Maley, in her individual capacity as Principal Deputy Solicitor General for the State of Virginia, Kevin Matthew Gallagher, in his individual capacity as Deputy Solicitor General for the State of Virginia, Nelson Smith, in his individual capacity as Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, Robert King, in his individual capacity as Circuit Judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, James Wynn, in his individual capacity as Circuit Judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, William B. Traxler, Jr., in his individual capacity as Senior Judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Albert Diaz, in his individual capacity as Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Robert Pittman, in his individual capacity as District Judge in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, SME, initials of an unknown individual in the Clerks Office of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, James Graves, Jr., in his individual capacity as Circuit Judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Priscilla Richman, in her individual capacity as Circuit Judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Irma Carillo Ramirez, in her individual capacity as Circuit Judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Tyler Cowen, in his individual capacity as employee of an unknown federal agency, Unknown Officials from George Mason University, and its police department, John Lynch, in his individual capacity as the prosecuting Commonwealth Attorney in Arlington, Virginia and Washington Post, a District of Columbia publication
Case Number:	25-5399
Filed:	November 10, 2025
Court:	U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit
Nature of Suit:	Other Civil Rights

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