tennessee-v-garner
6 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23-1257 | Santos Argueta, et al. v. Derrick S. Jaradi | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-31 | Denied | Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights deadly-force factual-question qualified-immunity tennessee-v-garner use-of-force | In Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1 (1985), this Court held that unarmed, nondangerous suspects fleeing officers can't simply be shot. But the decision… |
| 22-768 | Angie Waller, et al. v. Richard Hoeppner, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-02-15 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights-act fourth-amendment graham-v-connor municipal-liability reasonableness reasonableness-standard search-and-seizure tennessee-v-garner totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances | 1. Does the Fifth Circuit's "narrowed" test of reasonableness of a search or seizure under the Fourth Amendment, which deems as irrelevant any of th… |
| 22-563 | Randall Greer, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Christopher Greer, Deceased v. James Haman, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-12-20 | Denied | Response Waived | deadly-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor jury-instruction law-enforcement probable-cause self-defense tennessee-v-garner use-of-force | A law enforcement officer's use of deadly force in self-defense is not constitutionally unreasonable. Courts throughout the nation universally agree t… |
| 21-789 | Casey Benton v. Mary Bradley, as Administrator of the Estate of Troy Robinson, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-29 | Denied | clearly-established-law constitutional-rights deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity taser-deployment tennessee-v-garner | The issue in this case is whether a police officer who deployed a taser to stop a fleeing person on top of an eight-foot wall is entitled to qualified… | |
| 20-1362 | Davdrin Goffin v. Robbie K. Ashcraft, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-03-30 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment police-shooting probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure tennessee-v-garner use-of-force | Is an officer entitled to qualified immunity if she shoots a fleeing suspect in the back without warning after watching another officer search the sus… |
| 18-323 | Suzan Evans, Individually and as Wife and Next of Kin of Scott Evans, Deceased v. United States, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2018-09-12 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split constitutional-law excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor police-conduct reasonableness-standard tennessee-v-garner totality-of-circumstances use-of-force | Whether the totality of the circumstances test for assessing the reasonableness of a use of force under this Court's decisions in Tennessee v. Garner,… |