No. 24-5463

Ashley Wilkerson v. City of Houston, Texas

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2024-09-05
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP
Tags: 42-usc-1983 constitutional-violations due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment police-interference
Key Terms:
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Latest Conference: 2024-12-13 (distributed 2 times)
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Do the government's repeated First and Fourteenth Amendment violations, including police interference and intimidation, constitute actionable constitutional violations under 42 U.S.C. § 1983?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED Do the government’s repeated violations of the First and Fourteenth Amendments, as demonstrated by informal pressure from police officers such as, altering the Petitioner's report about a high-tech transnational terrorist group to portray it as unhinged, concealing the crime, sharing inaccurate reports with external parties, and using threats and intimidation to discourage reporting of actionable constitutional violations under 42 U.S.C. § . 1983? . Whether the failure of police, attorneys, and court officials to act upon knowledge of known interference by a high-tech transnational terrorist group undermines the integrity of the judicial process and constitutes violations of Due Process, and what remedies are available to parties harmed by such inaction? Did the Fifth Circuit and the district court fail to adequately consider the inculpatory evidence, including videos and audio recordings, as well as a successful Internal Affairs investigation that substantiated the practices and procedures which violated the Petitioner's constitutional rights as established by the Supreme Court? Did the lower courts misinterpret the requirements for ; establishing a direct causal connection between the . alleged actions of the police officers and the claimed constitutional violations? 8

Docket Entries

2024-12-16
Rehearing DENIED.
2024-11-26
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/13/2024.
2024-11-01
Petition for Rehearing filed.
2024-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2024-09-12
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/30/2024.
2024-09-05
Waiver of City of Houston, Texas of right to respond submitted.
2024-09-05
Waiver of right of respondent City of Houston, Texas to respond filed.
2024-06-06
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 7, 2024)

Attorneys

Ashley Wilkerson
Ashley Wilkerson — Petitioner
Ashley Wilkerson — Petitioner
City of Houston, Texas
William Craft HughesCity of Houston Legal Department, Respondent
William Craft HughesCity of Houston Legal Department, Respondent