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Marianne Baptiste, et al. v. Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services, et al.

Paid petition · Appeals Court of Massachusetts, No. 18-P-1353 · judgment February 28, 2020

Certiorari denied · May 17, 2021
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

  1. Whether a juvenile committed to the custody of the State enjoys the protection of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process clause when evaluating the juvenile’s right to adequate medical treatment in an action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 or whether the juvenile is relegated to the lesser protection of the Eighth Amendment?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Ira H. Zaleznik
Lawson & Weitzen, LLP

For respondent
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Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. May 17 2021
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Apr 21 2021
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/13/2021.
  3. Mar 03 2021
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due April 7, 2021)