graham-factors

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-403 Kenneth D. Anderson, et al. v. Crystal Estrada, Deputy, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-10-03 Denied Response Waived constitutional-violation excessive-force fifth-circuit graham-factors qualified-immunity rule-12b6 The Fourth Amendment requires courts to evaluate excessive force claims based on the totality of the circumstances by sloshing through a "factbound mo…
23-410 Estate of Gabriel Strickland, et al. v. Nevada County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-19 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights deadly-force graham-factors graham-v-connor objective-reasonableness section-1983 totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances use-of-force This case presents a unique question of law under 42 U.S.C. §1983 concerning the application of the "totality of the circumstances" test adopted in Gr…
20-1690 Ramon Cortesluna v. Daniel Rivas-Villegas, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights due-process excessive-force graham-factors material-facts police-shooting qualified-immunity scott-v-harris summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton video-evidence Did the Ninth Circuit depart from longstanding procedure and precedent and fail to view video and other evidence in the light most favorable to the pl…
20-1471 Jonathan Lozada, Deputy Sheriff, in His Individual Capacity v. Dudley Teel, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Susan Teel Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-20 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-factors law-enforcement obvious-factual-clarity-rule qualified-immunity use-of-force Whether this Court should clarify the application of the Graham factors to a law enforcement officer's use of force during a call for service that doe…
20-1119 Amarin Pharma, Inc., et al. v. Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 35-usc-103 graham-factors graham-v-john-deere hindsight-bias innovation innovation-protection nonobviousness-indicia objective-indicia obviousness-standard patent patent-law Whether a court must consider objective indicia of nonobviousness together with the other factors bearing on an obviousness challenge before making an…
19-657 Virgil Brewer v. Kristina Myers Tenth Circuit 2019-11-21 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force graham-factors law-enforcement police-use-of-force qualified-immunity summary-judgment use-of-force While conducting a house-to-house search for a suspect who had threatened people in a bar with a shotgun after being thrown out of that bar for fighti…
18-692 Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc., et al. v. UCB, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived 35-usc-103 double-patenting federal-circuit graham-factors graham-v-john-deere invention-disclosure lead-compound-test obviousness patent-eligibility patent-law patent-law-doctrine-of-double-patenting patent-validity prior-art 1. This Court has long held that "no patent can issue for an invention actually covered by a former patent, especially to the same patentee." Miller v…