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Johanna Ong, et al. v. Hudson County Superior Court, et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, No. 18-1213 · judgment October 2, 2018
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
Did the lower courts repeatedly violate the Petitioners' Constitutional protections, including Fifth] Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Rights and Eighth Amendment Rights? Should this court direct an award of damages to the Petitioners due to the bodily harm inflicted by Sherriff's Officers? Were the Petitioners' claims improperly time barred by the statute of limitations? Should the Government Respondents be stripped of sovereign immunity due to their repeated constitutional violations?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Johanna Ong
For respondent
Michael L. Dermody
Hudson County Counsel Office
Proceedings
- Apr 29 2019Petition DENIED.
- Apr 10 2019DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/26/2019.
- Mar 27 2019Waiver of right of respondent Jefferson City Medical Center to respond filed.
- Mar 21 2019Waiver of right of respondents Hudson County Superior Court, Hudson County Prosecutor's Office, NJ Dep't of Human Services, and Trenton Psychiatric Hospital to respond filed.
- Mar 12 2019Waiver of right of respondent Hudson County Sheriff's Department to respond filed.
- Mar 01 2019Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due April 4, 2019)
- Dec 12 2018Application (18A609) granted by Justice Alito extending the time to file until March 1, 2019.
- Dec 06 2018Application (18A609) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from December 31, 2018 to March 1, 2019, submitted to Justice Alito.