No. 21-10

Lori Braun v. Brian Burke, Arkansas State Trooper, et al.

Lower Court: Eighth Circuit
Docketed: 2021-07-07
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process emergency-response high-speed-driving intent-to-harm objective-test police-liability
Key Terms:
SocialSecurity DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2021-09-27
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Whether a court should apply the intent-to-harm standard of liability to all police high-speed driving, as have the Eighth and Ninth Circuits, or instead employ an analysis which examines the facts of individual cases to decide whether there was an opportunity to deliberate and apply the standard of deliberate indifference or another standard other than intent-to-harm, as have the Third, Fourth, Seventh, and Tenth Circuits.

2. Whether a court reviewing high-speed driving by a police officer should use an objective test to determine whether an emergency existed, as have the Third, Fourth, and Seventh Circuits, or rely merely on the asserted claim of an officer that he subjectively believed there to be an emergency, as has the Eighth Circuit.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a court should apply the intent-to-harm standard of liability to all police high-speed driving

Docket Entries

2021-10-04
Petition DENIED.
2021-09-08
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/27/2021.
2021-08-31
Reply of petitioner Lori Braun filed.
2021-08-23
Brief of respondent Bill Bryant in opposition filed.
2021-08-20
Brief of respondent Brian Ray Burke in opposition filed.
2021-07-27
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including August 23, 2021, for all respondents.
2021-07-23
Motion to extend the time to file a response from August 6, 2021 to August 23, 2021, submitted to The Clerk.
2021-07-01
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 6, 2021)

Attorneys

Bill Bryant
Nicholas Jacob BronniSolicitor General of Arkansas, Respondent
Brian Ray Burke
Brian Wayne RayCollins, Collins & Ray. P.A., Respondent
Lori Braun
Michael Aaron AveryMichael Avery, Petitioner
Andrew C. ClarkeThe Cochran Firm Midsouth, Petitioner