graham-v-connor
14 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-859 | Chelesy Eastep, as Surviving Spouse and Next of Kin of Landon Dwayne Eastep v. Steven Carrick, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2026-01-20 | Pending | Response Waived | deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor qualified-immunity reasonableness-standard | 1. Whether or how police officers' own creation of, or contribution to, a dangerous situation prior to the use of deadly force factors into the Fourth… |
| 23-1239 | Janice Hughes Barnes, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Ashtian Barnes, Deceased v. Roberto Felix, Jr., et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-24 | Judgment Issued | Amici (36)Response Waived | circuit-split civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor moment-of-threat-doctrine police-use-of-force totality-of-the-circumstances | Whether courts should apply the moment of the threat doctrine when evaluating an excessive-force claim under the Fourth-Amendment |
| 23A608 | J. W., et al. v. Elvin Paley, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-02 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split constitutional-standard excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor school-officials | Whether the Fourth Amendment governs excessive force claims by students against school officials, resolving a circuit split on the appropriate constit… | |
| 23-410 | Estate of Gabriel Strickland, et al. v. Nevada County, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-10-19 | Denied | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights deadly-force graham-factors graham-v-connor objective-reasonableness section-1983 totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances use-of-force | Whether the reasonableness of an officer's use of deadly force should be evaluated solely upon the circumstances of the final moment or upon the 'tota… | |
| 22-1003 | Mucio Ramirez v. Christopher Martin | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-14 | Denied | civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-standard graham-v-connor police-brutality police-misconduct qualified-immunity reasonable-force use-of-force | Whether Petitioner's initial non-compliance followed by surrender permitted Respondent to reject the then-existing circumstances and slam Petitioner's… | |
| 22-848 | James Douglas Fox v. Mark Campbell, et ux. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-03-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | county-of-sacramento-v-lewis excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment graham-v-connor law-enforcement qualified-immunity seizure self-defense unreasonable-force | Whether the Fourth Amendment standard for evaluating unreasonable force claims or the Fourteenth Amendment standard applies when law enforcement shoot… |
| 22-768 | Angie Waller, et al. v. Richard Hoeppner, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-02-15 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights-act fourth-amendment graham-v-connor municipal-liability reasonableness reasonableness-standard search-and-seizure tennessee-v-garner totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances | Does the Fifth Circuit's 'narrowed' test of reasonableness of a search or seizure under the Fourth Amendment conflict with the Supreme Court's decisio… |
| 22-563 | Randall Greer, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Christopher Greer, Deceased v. James Haman, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-12-20 | Denied | Response Waived | deadly-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor jury-instruction law-enforcement probable-cause self-defense tennessee-v-garner use-of-force | Whether a jury should be instructed on the core principle that a law enforcement officer's use of deadly force in self-defense is not constitutionally… |
| 22-564 | Juan Carlos Salazar v. Juan Rene Molina | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-20 | Denied | Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment circuit-split excessive-force graham-v-connor law-enforcement qualified-immunity reasonableness-of-force surrender-protocol use-of-force | Whether a suspect's dangerous past flight, without more, authorizes officers to doubt the sincerity of a subsequent surrender |
| 20-1539 | Daniel Rivas-Villegas v. Ramon Cortesluna | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-05 | Judgment Issued | Amici (1)Relisted (3) | civil-rights constitutional-violation excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor law-enforcement ninth-circuit plumhoff-v-rickard qualified-immunity supreme-court-precedent | Did the Ninth Circuit depart from this Court's decisions in Graham v. Connor and Plumhoff v. Rickard in denying qualified immunity to petitioner based… |
| 20-183 | Billy D. Stair, III v. Charles Jackson | Eighth Circuit | 2020-08-19 | Denied | excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor law-enforcement plumhoff-v-rickard qualified-immunity reasonableness-standard totality-of-the-circumstances use-of-force | Did the Eighth Circuit depart from this Court's decisions in Graham v. Connor and Plumhoff v. Rickard in denying qualified immunity to petitioner base… | |
| 19-8613 | Abdul Shabazz Wiggins v. Virginia | Virginia | 2020-06-05 | Denied | IFP | anderson-v-creighton civil-rights due-process graham-v-connor hope-v-pelzer hudson-v-mcmillian qualified-immunity strickland-v-washington supreme-court-precedent use-of-force | Whether the General District and Circuit Courts of Suffolk ignored the defendant's right to Qualified-Immunity |
| 19-626 | Robert Huff, et al. v. Michele Choate | Tenth Circuit | 2019-11-15 | Denied | 4th-amendment civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor pre-seizure-conduct qualified-immunity reckless-creation | Whether the Tenth Circuit's 'reckless creation' theory, which imposes liability for the creation of the need to use force, should be barred because it… | |
| 18-323 | Suzan Evans, Individually and as Wife and Next of Kin of Scott Evans, Deceased v. United States, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2018-09-12 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split constitutional-law excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor police-conduct reasonableness-standard tennessee-v-garner totality-of-circumstances use-of-force | Whether the totality of the circumstances test for assessing the reasonableness of a use of force under Tennessee v. Garner and Graham v. Connor requi… |