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Demetrias Taylor, as Representative of the Estate of Iretha Jean Lilly, Deceased, et al. v. McLennan County, Texas, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 18-51066 · judgment January 20, 2020

Certiorari denied · May 26, 2020
Pre-decision estimate: 3% cert probability

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

Question presented

Does the provision of three EKGs, an aspirin, and a nitroglycerin pill over the course of three hours to a pre-trial detainee (who then died from an otherwise untreated myocardial infarction) constitute sufficient “medical care” entitling jail nurses, the jail’s only doctor, and the municipality to summary judgment in § 1983 cases, particularly where the nurses’ refusals to transfer said detainee to a hospital was caused by municipal “policy” or “procedure”?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
William Pieratt Demond
Demond Law, PLLC

For respondent
Thomas Phillip Brandt
Fanning Harper Martinson Brandt & Kutchin, PC

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. May 26 2020
    Petition DENIED.
  2. May 05 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/21/2020.
  3. Apr 29 2020
    Waiver of right of respondent John Wells, M.D. to respond filed.
  4. Apr 27 2020
    Waiver of right of respondent Desera Roberts to respond filed.
  5. Apr 27 2020
    Waiver of right of respondents McLennan County and Kimberly Riendfliesch to respond filed.
  6. Apr 13 2020
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due May 18, 2020)