professional-judgment

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6419 Tonnie Nealy v. Donald Sawyer, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-23 Pending Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference institutional-liability prisoner-safety professional-judgment (1) Whether the 11th circuit failed to comply with this court's binding ruling in FARMER V. BRENNAN, 511 U.S. 825 (1994) in its finial opinion, since …
23-642 Kevin Scott Karsjens, et al. v. Jodi Harpstead, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-12-14 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts implied-waiver legal-standard professional-judgment waiver Whether federal courts have a duty to apply the correct legal standard to a due process claim or can the court apply the wrong legal standard based on…
21-48 Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center Commission v. John Doe 5, et al., By and Through Their Next Friend, Nelson Dolores Lopez, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Fourth Circuit 2021-07-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-standard due-process federal-custody immigrant-detainee injunctive-relief juvenile-detention medical-care professional-judgment standing Whether professional judgment rather than deliberate indifference is the proper constitutional standard for a claim of inadequate medical care
20-1662 William B. Trescott v. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-28 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment administrative-law agency-deference agency-rulemaking chevron-deference due-process interstate-commerce professional-judgment Is it Constitutional for a court to defer to a person lacking professional experience under Chevron-vs-NRDC-Inc
20-7717 Chadd A. Morris v. Shan Jumper, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-04-12 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process inadequate-treatment judicial-misconduct professional-judgment self-incrimination summary-judgment systemic-changes treatment-standards Whether the lower courts erred in granting summary judgment to the defendants despite the plaintiff's evidence of judicial-misconduct, failure-to-comp…
19-701 Lloyd N. Johnson v. Karen Rimmer, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process immunity institutional-care medical-care medical-negligence mental-health professional-judgment qualified-immunity standing youngberg Whether the 'professional judgment standard' articulated in Youngberg can be reduced to 'whether the worst doctor in America would say ok'
18-9012 Marc Anthony Lowell Endsley, aka Marc Endsley v. Edmund G. Brown, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-detention civil-rights due-process freedom-of-association fundamental-rights informed-consent privacy professional-judgment reproductive-choice youngberg-v-romeo Do civilly detained persons retain their fundamental rights to engage in voluntary sexual relations