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Mark Graf, et al. v. Hyung Seok Koh, et ux.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, No. 18-1809; 18-1821 · judgment August 13, 2019
Before the decision, roughly the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a circuit split argued in the petition and a petition filed soon after the judgment below.
Questions presented
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Whether the Seventh Circuit’s renouncement of jurisdiction over Petitioners’ interlocutory appeal misapplied Johnson v. Jones, 515 U.S. 304 (1995), where the denial of qualified immunity on Respondent’s Fifth Amendment coercive interrogation claim was based solely upon competing characterizations of otherwise undisputed facts from a fully videotaped interview.
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Whether Petitioners were entitled to qualified immunity on Respondent’s Fifth Amendment coercive interrogation claim based upon the absence of clearly established law prohibiting any of their interview tactics, either individually or collectively.
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Whether the state criminal court judge’s fully informed determination to admit Respondent’s statements at his criminal trial was a superceding event which severed the chain of causation on Respondent’s coercive interrogation claim, entitling Petitioners to qualified immunity.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
James G. Sotos
The Sotos Law Firm, P.C.
For respondent
Jonathan Loevy
Loevy and Loevy
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 21, 2020 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Jan 21 2020Petition DENIED.
- Dec 30 2019DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/17/2020.
- Dec 23 2019Reply of petitioners Mark Graf, et al. filed.
- Dec 16 2019Brief of respondents Hyung Seok Koh, et al. in opposition filed.
- Dec 10 2019Waiver of right of respondents Sung Phil Kim and the Village of Wheeling to respond filed.
- Nov 12 2019Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 16, 2019)