constitutional-obligations

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
19-8471 Eddie Gene Vaughn v. Timothy Hawkins, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-05-15 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-obligations due-process equal-protection excessive-force poverty prisoner-rights standing Whether correctional staff are free to physically beat prisoners due to their appearance and demeanor of illiteracy and/or being too poor to employ ci…
18-684 Patti Stevens-Rucker, Administrator of the Estate of Jason White, Deceased v. John Frenz, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 8th-amendment arrest-procedure circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-obligations due-process eighth-amendment police-duty-of-care police-use-of-force qualified-immunity tenth-amendment Are there circumstances in which police officers are constitutionally obligated to help a person injured during arrest, as the Eighth and Tenth Circui…
18-6274 Robert Klein v. Centennial Ranch and Aspen Mountain Ranch Association Colorado 2018-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-obligations constitutional-rights court-orders discrimination due-process judicial-deference judicial-interpretation judicial-review legal-procedure legislative-intent prevailing-party-rights pro-se-litigation standing state-courts-interpretation statutory-interpretation Whether state courts are following what the legislators have put in place