No. 20-1629

George Wingate v. Scott Fulford, et al.

Lower Court: Fourth Circuit
Docketed: 2021-05-20
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: civil-rights constitutional-arrest due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing
Latest Conference: 2021-09-27
Related Cases: 20-1685 (Vide)
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Whether the Court should permit the qualified immunity defense to extend to a court-invented, hypothetical and demonstrably counter-factual justification for a law enforcement officer's unconstitutional arrest, where the arresting officer concededly neither had nor ever articulated such justification at the time of the arrest or thereafter in court.

2. Whether the Court should further limit the scope of its qualified immunity jurisprudence, which has been increasingly criticized for contributing to a culture of law enforcement that tolerates and facilitates police misconduct.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Court should permit the qualified immunity defense to extend to a court-invented, hypothetical and demonstrably counter-factual justification for a law enforcement officer's unconstitutional arrest

Docket Entries

2021-10-04
Petition DENIED.
2021-07-07
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/27/2021.
2021-05-18
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 21, 2021)

Attorneys

George Wingate
Victor Michael GlasbergVictor M. Glasberg & Associates, Petitioner