Lowell T. Johnson v. Robert Lee Stinson

The questions presented herein are:

1. Whether Johnson v. Jones, 515 U.S. 304 (1995) precludes a Federal appellate court from exercising jurisdiction over a challenge to a denial of qualified immunity that turns not upon disputed facts, but upon the disputed application of the inferences drawn by the District Court from the facts, in concluding that a reasonable jury could find a violation of a Constitutional right which was clearly established.

2. Whether the Seventh Circuit, sitting en banc, applied an impermissibly broad reading of Johnson v. Jones, 515 U.S. 304 (1995) in vacating the opinion of the Seventh Circuit’s threejudge panel and denying jurisdiction over Dr. Lowell T. Johnson’s appeal, where the appeal sought review of the District Court’s determination that a reasonable jury could find that Dr. Johnson violated respondent’s right to due process.