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George Wingate v. Scott Fulford, et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, No. 19-1700 · judgment February 5, 2021
Before the decision, roughly the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a petition citing three to ten dissents, counsel who has filed here before, and a petition filed soon after the judgment below.
Questions presented
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Whether the Court should permit the qualified immunity defense to extend to a court-invented, hypothetical and demonstrably counter-factual justification for a law enforcement officer’s unconstitutional arrest, where the arresting officer concededly neither had nor ever articulated such justification at the time of the arrest or thereafter in court.
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Whether the Court should further limit the scope of its qualified immunity jurisprudence, which has been increasingly criticized for contributing to a culture of law enforcement that tolerates and facilitates police misconduct.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Victor Michael Glasberg
Victor M. Glasberg & Associates
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
Related
Vide, 20-1685
Order
Order list, October 4, 2021 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Oct 04 2021Petition DENIED.
- Jul 07 2021DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/27/2021.
- May 18 2021Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 21, 2021)