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Eboni Nicole Baldwin v. Latoisha Dorsey

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 19-20465 · judgment July 1, 2020

Certiorari denied · February 22, 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.

Questions presented

  1. How many hours of delayed mental health care is reasonable before a state actor can be held liable for deliberately indifferent or objectively unreasonable for inadequate medical care for an preGerstein arrestee’s serious medical condition under the U.S. Constitution, Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments?

  2. Can a state actor be granted immunity from deliberate indifference to a pre-Gerstein arrestee's serious medical need under the U.S. Constitution, Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments if the state actor delays medical care of the pre-Gerstein arrestee to collect non-medical information to fulfil the state actor's governmental objectives and is “abating a risk” the same as providing medical treatment under the U.S. Constitution, Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Eboni Nicole Baldwin

For respondent
Suzanne Rene Bradley
Harris County Attorney's Office

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Feb 22 2021
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jan 27 2021
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/19/2021.
  3. Jan 11 2021
    Waiver of right of respondent Latoisha Dorsey to respond filed.
  4. Nov 30 2020
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 11, 2021)