No. 23A882

Daniel Kinsinger v. Sherelle Thomas, as Administrator of the Estate of Terelle Thomas, et al.

Lower Court: Third Circuit
Docketed: 2024-04-04
Status: Presumed Complete
Type: A
Experienced Counsel
Tags: deliberate-indifference drug-toxicity fourteenth-amendment medical-care qualified-immunity section-1983
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (from Petition)

Whether officers violate the Fourteenth Amendment by transporting an arrestee who denies ingesting drugs, declines medical care, and shows no obvious signs of overdose or poisoning to a county jail with a medical unit for evaluation, rather than directly to a hospital, when the arrestee subsequently dies from drug toxicity.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a law enforcement officer's decision to transport a potentially drug-intoxicated arrestee to a jail medical facility instead of a hospital constitutes deliberate indifference to serious medical needs under the Fourteenth Amendment

Docket Entries

2024-04-05
Application (23A882) granted by Justice Alito extending the time to file until May 7, 2024.
2024-03-28
Application (23A882) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from April 7, 2024 to June 6, 2024, submitted to Justice Alito.

Attorneys

Daniel Kinsinger
Andrew Timothy TuttArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, Petitioner