graham-v-connor

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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…