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Advantageous Community Services, LLC, et al. v. Gary King, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, No. 19-2211 · judgment February 5, 2021


Certiorari denied · October 4, 2021
Pre-decision estimate: 4% cert probability

Before the decision, roughly the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a dissent in the court below (flagged in the petition), a petition filed soon after the judgment below, and a business petitioner.

Questions presented

  1. Should the doctrine of qualified immunity be limited to defenses at common law when the Civil Rights Act was adopted or should it be abolished by this Court?

  2. If qualified immunity is not limited or abolished by this Court, are State Employees, including Attorneys and Investigator Employees of the Attorney General’s Office and/or the New Mexico Human Services Department (State Employees) entitled to qualified immunity when they knowingly create and use false documents to prosecute a civil state court proceeding?

  3. Are State Employees entitled to qualified immunity when they knowingly file that suit without probable cause and/or cause state court litigation to be prolonged because State Employees did not have vital documentation to support the case prior to its filing which is why State Employees created the false documents during the course of litigation?

  4. Are State Employees entitled to qualified immunity when they further cause a deprivation of property rights without due process by termination or non-renewal of Petitioners’ Medicaid contract based upon unsubstantiated allegations of Medicaid fraud?

  5. Are State Employees entitled to qualified immunity when they cause a violation of due process, either substantive or procedural by withholding money due to Petitioner Advantageous Community Services LLC on a subsequent contract on a claim of fraud involving a prior contract?

  6. Does the Tenth Circuit’s holding conflict with Hope v. Pelzer , 536 U.S. 730, 741 (2002), which “expressly rejected a requirement that previous cases be ‘fundamentally similar’” or involve “‘materially similar’ facts”?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Steven K. Sanders
Steven K. Sanders & Associates, LLC

For respondent

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 04 2021
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jun 16 2021
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/27/2021.
  3. Apr 28 2021
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 2, 2021)