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Melinda Mitchell, et al. v. City of New York, et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, No. 18-588-cv · judgment January 31, 2019
Before the decision, roughly the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a Second Circuit decision below, a circuit split argued in the petition, and a dissent in the court below (flagged in the petition), and down for a state or local-government respondent.
Questions presented
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Did the Second Circuit err in applying District of Columbia v. Wesby, 138 S. Ct. 577 (2018), to grant qualified immunity to the police defendants who arrested the plaintiff partygoers for trespass where, unlike the officers in Wesby, the police defendants submitted perjured statements concerning the factual basis for the arrests and never determined whether the partygoers had permission to be present in the property; and where there were numerous disputes of material fact as to the condition of the premises?
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Did the Second Circuit err in holding that a civil rights plaintiff must show subjective malice by police defendants in order to assert a Fourth Amendment post-arrest, pre-trial wrongful seizure claim, since the Fourth Amendment employs a standard of objective reasonableness, and there is a split of circuit authority on the need to show malice?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Jeffrey Adam Rothman
Jeffrey A. Rothman, Attorney at Law
For respondent
Melanie Tharamangalam West
Assistant Corpartion Counsel
Proceedings
- Oct 15 2019Petition DENIED.
- Sep 25 2019DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/11/2019.
- Sep 11 2019Waiver of right of respondents City of New York, et al. to respond filed.
- Sep 06 2019Application (19A26) granted by Justice Ginsburg extending the time to file until September 6, 2019.
- Sep 06 2019Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 10, 2019)
- Jun 26 2019Application (19A26) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from July 8, 2019 to September 6, 2019, submitted to Justice Ginsburg.