No. 21-1403

Travis Morse, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Police Officer for the Town of Orono, Maine, et al. v. Christopher French

Lower Court: First Circuit
Docketed: 2022-05-02
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)
Tags: circuit-court civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process knock-and-talk law-enforcement qualified-immunity warrant-requirement
Key Terms:
SocialSecurity FourthAmendment JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2022-10-07 (distributed 3 times)
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Did the First Circuit depart from this Court's qualified immunity precedent?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Did the First Circuit depart from this Court’s qualified immunity precedent by defining clearly established law at a high level of generality and failing to consider the particular facts of the case? 2. Did the First Circuit disrupt the careful balance struck by this Court’s formulation of qualified immunity when it denied Officers Morse and Gray qualified immunity notwithstanding the absence of clearly established law as to the lawful bounds of the knock and talk exception to the warrant requirement?

Docket Entries

2022-10-11
Petition DENIED.
2022-10-03
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/7/2022.
2022-09-22
Rescheduled.
2022-08-19
Reply of petitioners Travis Morse, et al. filed. (Distributed)
2022-08-10
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2022.
2022-07-21
Brief of respondent Christopher French in opposition filed.
2022-06-21
Response Requested. (Due July 21, 2022)
2022-06-07
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/23/2022.
2022-06-01
Waiver of right of respondent Christopher French to respond filed.
2022-04-28
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 1, 2022)

Attorneys

Christopher French
Bernard J. KubetzEaton Peabody, Respondent
Timothy C. WoodcockEaton Peabody, Respondent
Travis Morse, et al.
Amy Kay OlfeneDrummond Woodsum & MacMahon, P.A., Petitioner