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Matthew Neidermeyer v. Michael Caldwell

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 16-55233 · judgment December 5, 2017


Certiorari denied · October 1, 2018
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

Whether Respondent California Highway Patrol, not the reasonable officer, but an unreasonable officer, can be shielded by qualified immunity, after pulling over the Petitioner motorist for weaving, violated Petitioner's constitutional rights when Respondent arrested the Petitioner for the sole reason that Petitioner refused to tell Respondent officer where Petitioner , was going. On the dash cam video at 14:41 [htt2s:!/youtu.be/8enFYbXtBrA1 after the final time Petitioner declined to answer, Respondent stated: "You haven't answered any questions. All I wanted to know is where you're going. Now I know where you're going, you're going to jail, just because you didn't wanna answer questions." LIST OF PARTIES MATTHEW NEIDERMEYER, Plaintiff and Petitioner, pro se MICHAEL CALD WELL, Respondent and Respondent -11-

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Matthew Neidermeyer

For respondent
David Adida
California Office of the Attorney General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 01 2018
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jun 13 2018
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/24/2018.
  3. May 30 2018
    Waiver of right of respondent Michael Caldwell to respond filed.
  4. Feb 27 2018
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due May 31, 2018)