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William Henry Starrett, Jr. v. City of Richardson, Texas

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 18-11088 · judgment April 1, 2019


Certiorari denied · October 7, 2019
Pre-decision estimate: 8% cert probability (95% interval 5%–12%)

Before the decision, about 1.9× the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a petition filed soon after the judgment below, a Fifth Circuit decision below, and a circuit split argued in the petition, and down for a state or local-government respondent.

Question presented

Whether, in an initiating pleading or complaint, allegations are sufficient in the absence of explicit facts as to the one or more official policies or customs corresponding to its claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the specific manner and means of conspiracy controversial under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1985(2)-(3) that each provided cause to employees of a municipality and the federal government to act with outcome of injury. Whether, for causes of action under federal law, a Texas municipality's liability arising from its police and fire protection and control is limited by the Texas Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act or the Texas Tort Claims Act, and, does such violate right to substantive due process under light of this Court's precedent and the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. Whether coordinating practices between municipality and state police department officials with federal investigative units could now be so permanent and well settled as to constitute a custom or usage with the force of law for causes of action applicable to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Whether a police department of a municipality acts as a civil authority to which military must

Counsel of record

For petitioner
William Starrett

For respondent

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 07 2019
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jul 31 2019
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
  3. Jun 07 2019
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due July 11, 2019)