No. 21-264

San Diego County, California, et al. v. Ana Sandoval, et al.

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2021-08-24
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Amici (1)
Tags: circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established-rights deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-care medical-needs pretrial-detainee qualified-immunity
Key Terms:
DueProcess Punishment CriminalProcedure
Latest Conference: 2021-12-10
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a pretrial detainee must show subjective awareness of medical needs or only objective unreasonableness

Question Presented (from Petition)

question presented is: Under the Fourteenth Amendment, must a pretrial detainee alleging deliberate indifference to medical needs prove that the defendant was subjectively aware of his or her medical needs? Or is it sufficient that the defendant’s actions were objectively unreasonable? 2. The events at issue in this action occurred in 2014. At the time, the Ninth Circuit applied a subjective deliberate indifference test. In 2018, the Ninth Circuit changed course, and adopted its objective deliberate indifference test. The second question presented is: In determining whether a right is “clearly established” for purposes of qualified immunity, must courts address the elements of the claim that existed at the time of the events at issue? Or may they ignore elements based on subsequent changes to the law, as the majority held below?

Docket Entries

2021-12-13
Petition DENIED.
2021-11-23
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/10/2021.
2021-11-22
Reply of petitioners County of San Diego, et al. filed. (Distributed)
2021-11-09
Brief of respondents Ana Sandoval, et al. in opposition filed.
2021-10-21
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted in part and the time is further extended to and including November 9, 2021.
2021-10-20
Motion to extend the time to file a response from October 25, 2021 to November 24, 2021, submitted to The Clerk.
2021-09-23
Brief amici curiae of California State Association of Counties, et al. filed.
2021-09-14
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including October 25, 2021.
2021-09-13
Motion to extend the time to file a response from September 23, 2021 to October 25, 2021, submitted to The Clerk.
2021-08-20
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 23, 2021)

Attorneys

Ana Sandoval, et al.
Paul Whitfield HughesMcDermott Will & Emery, Respondent
Paul Whitfield HughesMcDermott Will & Emery, Respondent
California State Association of Counties, et al.
Jennifer Bacon HenningCounty Counsels' Association of California, Amicus
Jennifer Bacon HenningCounty Counsels' Association of California, Amicus
County of San Diego, et al.
Morris Gerard HillOffice of County Counsel, Petitioner
Morris Gerard HillOffice of County Counsel, Petitioner