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City of Camden, New Jersey v. Alanda Forrest

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, No. 16-4351 · judgment July 10, 2019

Certiorari denied · January 13, 2020
Pre-decision estimate: 5% cert probability

Before the decision, roughly the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a state or local-government petitioner and a Third Circuit decision below, and down for a petition filed soon after the judgment below.

Question presented

What, under Monell v. Dep’t of Soc. Servs., 436 U.S. 658 (1978), and its progeny, constitutes a pattern of similar constitutional violations by untrained and/or unsupervised employees? What constitutes the kind of notice for which a policymaker can be held liable under Monell’s “policy or custom” requirement?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Daniel Edward Rybeck
Weir & Partners LLP

For respondent
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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, January 13, 2020 · Certiorari denied

Proceedings

  1. Jan 13 2020
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Dec 18 2019
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/10/2020.
  3. Nov 04 2019
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 6, 2019)