pretrial-detainee

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24-5851 Elizabeth Johnson, on Behalf of Aaron Johnson, Jr. v. Deshawn Hector Maryland 2024-10-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP corrections-staff exhaustion-doctrine inmate-grievance power-of-attorney pretrial-detainee protective-order 1. IS THE INMATE GRIEVANCE PROCESS THE "EXCLUSIVE REMEDY " AVAILABLE TO PRETRIAL DETAINEES AND CONVICTED PERSONS FOR PROTECTION FROM ABUSE? 2. CAN …
24-5850 Elizabeth Johnson, on Behalf of Aaron Johnson, Jr. v. Shannon Blackwell Maryland 2024-10-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP corrections-staff exhaustion-doctrine inmate-grievance pretrial-detainee protective-order state-custody 1. IS THE INMATE GRIEVANCE PROCESS THE "EXCLUSIVE REMEDY" AVAILABLE TO PRETRIAL DETAINEES AND CONVICTED PERSONS FOR PROTECTION FROM ABUSE? 2. CAN A…
24-5849 Elizabeth Johnson, on Behalf of Aaron Johnson, Jr. v. Jeremiah Kinney Maryland 2024-10-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP exhaustion-doctrine inmate-grievance power-of-attorney pretrial-detainee protective-order state-custody 1. IS THE INMATE GRIEVANCE PROCESS THE "EXCLUSIVE REMEDY " AVAILABLE TO PRETRIAL DETAINEES AND CONVICTED PERSONS FOR PROTECTION FROM ABUSE? 2. CAN …
24-5848 Elizabeth Johnson, on Behalf of Aaron Johnson, Jr. v. Tiara Thomas Maryland 2024-10-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP corrections-personnel exhaustion-doctrine inmate-grievance pretrial-detainee protective-order state-custody 1. IS THE INMATE GRIEVANCE PROCESS THE "EXCLUSIVE REMEDY " AVAILABLE TO PRETRIAL DETAINEES AND CONVICTED PERSONS FOR PROTECTION FROM ABUSE? 2. CAN …
23A1005 Eric Cruz v. Officer Cervantez Fifth Circuit 2024-05-10 Presumed Complete cellmate-violence constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference pretrial-detainee qualified-immunity section-1983 Question not identified.
23-1097 J. D. Hartman, Individually and in his Official Capacity as Sheriff of Davie County, North Carolina, et al. v. Charles Willis Short, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Victoria Christine Short Fourth Circuit 2024-04-09 Denied Amici (1) 8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment objective-knowledge pretrial-detainee pretrial-detention prison-officials Whether a pretrial detainee alleging deliberate indifference must prove the defendant actually knew of a significant risk of harm, as five circuits ha…
23-317 Otis Crandel, as Dependent Administrator of and on Behalf of Billy Wayne Worl, Jr., et al. v. Dalena Hall, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-27 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) including failure to protect from the risk of sui civil-rights constitutional-rights custody-conditions due-process failure-to-protect objective-reasonableness pretrial-detainee pretrial-detainees suicide-risk Whether the objective reasonableness test of Kingsley v. Hendrickson, 576 U.S. 389 (2015), applies to pretrial detainees' claims about their treatment…
23-260 Daniel Erwin v. Karla Howell, as Administratrix of the Estate of Cornelius Pierre Howell Sixth Circuit 2023-09-18 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-standard deliberate-indifference due-process farmer-v-brennan fourteenth-amendment kingsley-v-hendrickson medical-need pretrial-detainee section-1983 Whether Kingsley v. Hendrickson, 576 U.S. 389, 135 S.Ct. 2466 (2015), applies to claims for deliberate indifference to a serious medical need brought …
23-259 Lewis County, Kentucky, et al. v. Julie Helphenstine, Administratrix of the Estate of Christopher Dale Helphenstine and Guardian of B. D. H., the Minor Son of Christopher Dale Helphenstine Sixth Circuit 2023-09-18 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment objective-knowledge pretrial-detainee prison-officials qualified-immunity separation-of-powers Whether a pretrial detainee alleging deliberate indifference must prove the defendant actually knew of a significant risk of harm, as six circuits hav…
23-210 Christina Jordan v. Karla Howell, as Administratrix of the Estate of Cornelius Pierre Howell Sixth Circuit 2023-09-06 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-claim deliberate-indifference due-process excessive-force kingsley-v-hendrickson medical-care objective-standard pretrial-detainee To successfully state a constitutional claim for inadequate medical care, a pretrial detainee must show that a correctional healthcare provider was de…
22-6911 In Re Bradley M. Cunningham 2023-03-02 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-defendant due-process extraordinary-circumstances pretrial-detainee standing state-law void-judgment Is the Petitioner entitled to benefit from existing state law and state supreme court decisions that all clearly provide for a finding of VOID JUDGME…
22-6618 Josiah E. v. Arizona Department of Child Safety, et al. Arizona 2023-01-24 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights covid-19-impact due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights pretrial-detainee standing statutory-interpretation termination-proceeding Did the Arizona Court of Appeals Division One Err by affirming the Termination of Paternal Parental rights over his two biological Children in a Maric…
21-7555 Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Nevada Nevada 2022-04-05 Denied IFP double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel liberty-interest pretrial-detainee pretrial-detention reversed-conviction state-statute unlawful-restraint Whether the liberty interest created by state statute extends to prisoners whose convictions are reversed and remanded back to class of pretial detain…
21-1210 Scott County, Tennessee v. Tammy Brawner Sixth Circuit 2022-03-04 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process medical-care objective-standard pretrial-detainee pretrial-detention subjective-test Whether this Court should apply the subjective test for deliberate indifference set forth in Farmer v. Brennan to claims by pretrial detainees of inad…
21-783 Patsy K. Cope, et al. v. Leslie W. Cogdill, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (13) civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process inadequate-medical-care jail-official pretrial-detainee pretrial-detainees qualified-immunity suicide-prevention suicide-risk Upon arriving in jail, pretrial detainee Derrek Monroe informed jail officials that he was suicidal and attempted to hang himself twice in his cell. J…
21-264 San Diego County, California, et al. v. Ana Sandoval, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Amici (1) circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established-rights deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-care medical-needs pretrial-detainee qualified-immunity Under the Fourteenth Amendment, must a pretrial detainee alleging deliberate indifference to medical needs prove that the defendant was subjectively a…
21-235 Gary Heidel, et al. v. Anthony Mazzola, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-08-17 Denied civil-rights due-process failure-to-enforce fourteenth-amendment kingsley-standard medical-treatment predictable-consequence pretrial-detainee recklessness suicide-prevention 1. Whether pursuant to Kingsley v. Hendrickson, 135 S.Ct. 2466 (2015), jail officials violate a pretrial detainee's Fourteenth Amendment right to medi…
20-1562 Faye Strain, as Guardian of Thomas Benjamin Pratt v. Vic Regalado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Amici (5) 8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process jail jail-official medical-care pretrial-detainee pretrial-detainees subjective-knowledge Whether a pretrial detainee can prevail against a jail official who disregarded an obvious risk of serious harm or whether the pretrial detainee must …
20-7543 Victor Real-Alomar, aka Toston v. United States First Circuit 2021-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure first-amendment ninth-amendment plea-agreement plea-bargaining pretrial-detainee waiver A. Whether a criminal defendant must raise the issue of nonapplicability of a waiver of appeal in his opening brief or whether it falls upon the gover…
20-7368 Antonio Dewayne Hooks v. Kayodi Atoki, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process excessive-force failure-to-protect fourteenth-amendment medical-needs objective-reasonableness pretrial-detainee In Kingsley v. Hendrickson, 576 U.S. 389 (2015), this Court held that "pretrial detainees (unlike convicted prisoners) cannot be punished at all, much…
20-7044 Gregory Bartunek v. Hall County, Nebraska, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause pretrial-detainee pretrial-detainees religious-freedom Whether failing to provide consistent and reliable opportunities for pretrial detainees to exercise their religious freedoms is a violation of the Fir…
20-990 Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff, Cook County, Illinois v. Anthony Mays, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bell-v-wolfish civil-rights conditions-of-confinement due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment pretrial-detainee pretrial-detainees In 2015, this Court decided Kingsley v. Hendrickson, 135 S. Ct. 2566 (2015), announcing for the first time that Fourteenth Amendment due process claim…
20-982 Sharon Lynn Brown v. Polk County, Wisconsin, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-01-25 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (3) body-cavity-search civil-rights exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment pre-trial-detainee pretrial-detainee probable-cause search search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether the Fourth Amendment permits jail officials to conduct a physical, penetrative search of the vagina and/or anus of a pretrial detainee without…
20-465 Young County, Texas, et al. v. Nichole Sanchez, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-10-09 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 42-usc-1983 bell-v-wolfish civil-rights conditions-of-confinement judicial-management monell-v-dept-of-soc-servs municipal-liability pretrial-detainee respondeat-superior section-1983 In Monell v. Dep't of Soc. Servs. and subsequent precedent, the Court articulated stringent requirements for imposing liability on municipalities unde…
19-6550 Christian James Gieseke v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-U.S.C-2255 28-usc-2255 6th-amendment counsel-misfeasance defenses duty-to-mitigate evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction pretrial-detainee When a post-conviction movant proceeding under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 raises claims which, if true, would entitle him to relief, does the fact that movant d…
19-76 Martin Marquardt, Deputy Sheriff v. William Fletcher Ninth Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied circuit-precedent civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process excessive-force ninth-circuit pretrial-detainee qualified-immunity use-of-force 1. Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit correctly held that Petitioner does not have qualified immunity on the ground that "[t]he l…
18-9359 Emmanuel Diaz v. New York New York 2019-05-20 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process fourth-amendment pretrial-detainee pretrial-detention prison prison-security recordings search-and-seizure telephone telephone-recording telephone-recordings warrant-requirement Whether absent a warrant, notice, or suspicion the Fourth Amendment permits the government to obtain recordings of telephone conversations from pretri…
18-337 County of Orange, California, et al. v. Mary Gordon, Individually and as Successor in Interest to Matthew Shawn Gordon, Deceased Ninth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied Amici (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-standard due-process eighth-amendment fourth-amendment medical-care objective-reasonableness pretrial-detainee qualified-immunity section-1983 standard-of-care Whether a pretrial detainee's "inadequate medical care" claim pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 requires a showing of a jail professional's subjective inte…