tennessee-v-garner

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-1257 Santos Argueta, et al. v. Derrick S. Jaradi Fifth Circuit 2024-05-31 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights deadly-force factual-question qualified-immunity tennessee-v-garner use-of-force Whether the Fourth Amendment permits police to shoot a fleeing suspect who might be holding a gun but exhibits no other signs of dangerousness
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…
21-789 Casey Benton v. Mary Bradley, as Administrator of the Estate of Troy Robinson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-29 Denied clearly-established-law constitutional-rights deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity taser-deployment tennessee-v-garner Whether a police officer is entitled to qualified immunity for deploying a taser to stop a fleeing person on top of an eight-foot wall
20-1362 Davdrin Goffin v. Robbie K. Ashcraft, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-03-30 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment police-shooting probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure tennessee-v-garner use-of-force Is an officer entitled to qualified immunity for shooting an unarmed fleeing suspect?
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…