police-liability

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-427 Walid Abdelaziz, in His Individual Capacity as a Police Officer for the City of Oakland, California, et al. v. Estate of Decedent Lolomania Soakai, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-10-08 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (3) due-process fourteenth-amendment police-liability qualified-immunity state-created-danger substantive-due-process 1. Whether bystanders injured when a fleeing criminal suspect lost control of his car and crashed into them have a Fourteenth Amendment substantive du…
24-130 Desiree Martinez v. Channon High Ninth Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-violation domestic-violence due-process fair-warning police-conduct police-liability qualified-immunity Whether an officer can be fairly warned about the unconstitutionality of her conduct even when the facts of previous cases are not materially identica…
21-499 Carlos Vega v. Terence B. Tekoh Ninth Circuit 2021-10-04 Judgment Issued Amici (14)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-act fifth-amendment law-enforcement miranda-v-arizona miranda-warnings police-liability section-1983 self-incrimination Whether a plaintiff may state a claim for relief against a law enforcement officer under Section 1983 based simply on an officer's failure to provide …
21-10 Lori Braun v. Brian Burke, Arkansas State Trooper, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-07-07 Denied circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process emergency-response high-speed-driving intent-to-harm objective-test police-liability 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 i…
20-876 Jeanine Liberti, et vir v. City of Scottsdale, Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights common-law constitutional-rights due-process legal-doctrine police-liability police-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 1. For 42 U.S.C. § 1983 cases, this Court has created a qualified-immunity doctrine. It lacks support in the common law, in this Court's pre-1974 case…
20-502 Ken Mascara, in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of St. Lucie County, Florida, et al. v. Viola Bryant, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Gregory Vaughn Hill, Jr. Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied civil-police-liability civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-admissibility harmless-error judicial-review police-liability probation probationary-status rules-of-evidence standard-of-review Whether this Court should adopt a more flexible standard of admissibility of evidence than what is required by Huddleston v. U.S., 485 U.S. 681 (1988)…
19-1466 Tammy Korthals v. Bradley Strozeski Sixth Circuit 2020-07-07 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process hope-v-pelzer non-decisional-evidence police police-liability qualified-immunity standing Whether non-decisional evidence must be considered when determining the protections of qualified immunity for a police officer as originally held in H…
19-800 Carlin Robinson, Individually, as Guardian and Next Friend of I. Y., M. Y., and A. Y., and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Veronica Williams, Deceased, et al. v. Daniel A. Lioi, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-12-23 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights deshhaney due-process fourth-amendment police-liability qualified-immunity state-created-danger 1. Which of the widely divergent approaches amongst the circuit courts of appeal, if any, appropriately applies the doctrine arising from this Court's…