Question Presented (from Petition)
Whether a prisoner challenging a prison official's sexual misconduct must plead that the prisoner's participation was coerced in order to state a claim under the Eighth Amendment (as the Eighth and Tenth Circuits have held) or whether a court may instead apply a rebuttable presumption that the prisoner's participation was coerced (as the Sixth and Ninth Circuits have held), or whether consent is not a defense to a prisoner's Eighth Amendment claim of sexual misconduct by a prison official (as district courts in the Second and Third Circuits have held).
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether a prisoner challenging a prison official's sexual misconduct must plead that the prisoner's participation was coerced in order to state a claim under the Eighth Amendment
2025-09-17
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/10/2025.
2025-09-08
Supplemental Letter of Angela Richardson submitted.
2025-09-08
Letter from Angela Richardson received.
2025-07-30
Response Requested. (Due August 29, 2025)
2025-07-16
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2025.
2025-06-26
Amicus brief of Expert Scholars, Psychologists, Psychiatrists, and Former Commissioners and Secretaries of Departments of Corrections submitted.
2025-06-26
Brief amici curiae of Expert Scholars, et al. filed.
2025-05-22
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 26, 2025)
2025-03-18
Application (24A898) granted by Justice Kavanaugh extending the time to file until May 22, 2025.
2025-03-14
Application (24A898) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from March 23, 2025 to May 22, 2025, submitted to Justice Kavanaugh.