suicide

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-616 Estate of William Han Manstrom-Greening, Through Carol J. Manstrom, Personal Representative v. Lane County, Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-12-07 Denied Response Waived 2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-relevance expert-testimony free-speech gun-violence negligence psychological-impact standing suicide Is an expert's testimony about the psychological connection between the visible presence of unsecured firearms and death by suicide relevant to a jury…
22-688 Debbie Flowers, as Personal Representative of Toby Kristopher Payne v. James Sutterfield, Mental Health Manager, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-01-24 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights disability-law due-process equitable-claims mental-health-treatment prison-conditions pro-se-complaint procedural-due-process standing suicide Does the courts' abdication of several procedural and substantive legal principles merit summary reversal?
21-1376 Mary Alexandre v. National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, PA First Circuit 2022-04-25 Denied accidental-death civil-procedure employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa insurance insurance-policy presumption state-of-mind suicide suicide-presumption trial-procedure Should the trial court apply presumptions against suicide and in favor of an accident when the insured's state of mind is contested in an ERISA-covere…
20-1818 Ashlee R. Hull, Individually and in Her Capacity as Co-Executrix of the Estate of John Edward Hull, Sr., et al. v. Muhammed Samar Nasher-Alneam, et al. West Virginia 2021-06-30 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-rights court-precedent due-process motion-to-dismiss standing suicide suicide-litigation wrongful-death Whether the denial of a person's right to pursue litigation based solely on the fact that the person died via suicide is a violation of the 14th-Amend…
19-5318 Marilee Brown v. David Bernhardt, Secretary of the Interior, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process employment equal-protection federal-employment federal-jurisdiction hostile-work-environment personnel-actions retaliation standing suicide whistleblower workplace-discrimination wrongful-removal Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims