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Dejenay Beckwith, et al. v. City of Houston, Texas, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 18-20611 · judgment October 16, 2019

Certiorari denied · February 24, 2020

Pre-decision estimate: 8% cert probability (95% interval 5%–13%)

Before the decision, about 2× the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a Fifth Circuit decision below, a circuit split argued in the petition, and counsel who has filed here before, and down for a state or local-government respondent.

Questions presented

Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming a statute of limitations defense on a motion to dismiss.
Whether this Court should clarify erratic application among the circuits of its precedent regarding government conspiracies to deny civil rights.
Whether the national rape kit backlog scandal, allowing serial rapists to proliferate, is a unique phenomenon that justifies this Court’s reconsideration of existing statute of limits jurisprudence.
Whether this Court should address the merits of this case, which raises important and novel Fourth and Fifth Amendment questions.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Randall Lee Kallinen
Kallinen Law PLLC

For respondent
Collyn A. Peddie
City of Houston Legal Department

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, February 24, 2020 · Certiorari denied

Proceedings

Feb 24 2020
Petition DENIED.
Feb 05 2020
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/21/2020.
Jan 28 2020
Waiver of right of respondents City of Houston, Texas, et al. to respond filed.
Jan 27 2020
Waiver of City of Houston, Texas, et al. of right to respond not accepted for filing. (January 29, 2020)
Jan 14 2020
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 21, 2020)