No. 24-398

Jantzen Verastique, et al. v. City of Dallas, Texas, et al.

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2024-10-09
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: constitutional-violations deliberate-indifference governmental-entity legal-precedent pattern-requirement section-1983
Key Terms:
SocialSecurity CriminalProcedure JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2024-12-06
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether Leatherman v. Tarrant County precedent applies to deliberate indifference claims under § 1983 and whether pattern of constitutional violations requires factually identical prior incidents

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED The Questions Presented are: I. Whether this Court’s holding in Leatherman v. Tarrant Cnty. Narcotics Intel. and Coordination Unit, 507 U.S. 163 (1993) is applicable to a § 1983 pleading in which deliberate indifference of a governmental entity is asserted because of a pattern of constitutional violations committed by the same officer. I. Whether the similarity requirement to show an actionable pattern of constitutional violations under this Court’s interpretation of § 1983’s deliberate indifference in Connick v. Thompson, 563 U.S. 51 (2011) only requires the same _ constitutional violations committed in the same way, or whether those previous actions must be factually identical. i

Docket Entries

2024-12-09
Petition DENIED.
2024-11-19
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/6/2024.
2024-10-10
Waiver of City of Dallas, Texas of right to respond submitted.
2024-10-10
Waiver of right of respondent City of Dallas, Texas to respond filed.
2024-10-07

Attorneys

City of Dallas, Texas
Nicholas Dane PalmerDallas City Attorney's Office, Respondent
Jantzen Verastique, et al.
Sara Wyn KaneValli Kane & Vagnini LLP, Petitioner