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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
Before the decision, modestly above the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a Fifth Circuit decision below, a petition filed soon after the judgment below, and counsel who has filed here before.
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
Subject area
Civil Rights (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Order
Order list, May 26, 2020 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- May 26 2020Petition DENIED.
- May 05 2020DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/21/2020.
- Apr 29 2020Waiver of right of respondent John Wells, M.D. to respond filed.
- Apr 27 2020Waiver of right of respondent Desera Roberts to respond filed.
- Apr 27 2020Waiver of right of respondents McLennan County and Kimberly Riendfliesch to respond filed.
- Apr 13 2020Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due May 18, 2020)