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Kenneth Knowles v. Officer Jason Michael Hart
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, No. 20-11389 · judgment August 28, 2020
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Questions presented
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Does the Fourth Amendment authorize a police officer to use deadly force against a citizen exercising her Second Amendment right to wear a holstered, licensed handgun inside her own home when it is undisputed that the gun never left its holster and there is a factual dispute as to whether she reached for it when the officer unexpectedly entered her bedroom in response to a 911 ambulance call?
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Does the Fourth Amendment authorize the use of deadly force against someone in mere possession of a handgun which is holstered and has not yet been drawn, raised, or brandished in a threatening manner?
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Does 28 U.S.C. §1367 require a district court to weigh the factors set forth in United Mine Workers of Am. v. Gibbs, 383 U.S. 715 (1966) – and to articulate the process by which it weighed such factors – in exercising discretion to retain supplemental jurisdiction over state law claims after all federal claims have been dismissed when there are substantive differences between state and federal law, and the interests of federalism dictate that state courts be the ultimate arbiter of state law questions?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Craig Thomas Jones
For respondent
Terry E. Williams
Williams, Morris & Blum, LLC
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Mar 22 2021Petition DENIED.
- Feb 24 2021DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/19/2021.
- Feb 04 2021Brief of respondent Jason Hart in opposition filed.
- Jan 25 2021Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including February 4, 2021.
- Jan 19 2021Motion to extend the time to file a response from January 21, 2021 to February 4, 2021, submitted to The Clerk.
- Dec 17 2020Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 21, 2021)