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Arlane James, et al. v. Noah Bartelt
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, No. 18-1432 · judgment April 21, 2020
Before the decision, about 1.5× the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a Third Circuit decision below, a circuit split argued in the petition, and a dissent in the court below (flagged in the petition).
Questions presented
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Whether the Third Circuit’s decision to exercise jurisdiction over an appeal of the District Court’s denial of qualified immunity on a motion for summary judgment is in conflict with Johnson v. Jones and its own precedent?
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Whether the Third Circuit’s ruling that inexplicably deviates from the Third Circuit’s precedent in Bennett v. Murphy is an error of law?
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Whether an officer who testifies that he was not in fear of his life or the lives of others nor did he feel threatened by Gibbons before fatally shooting a suspect be entitled to qualified immunity?
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Whether the Third Circuit erred as a matter of law when it interpreted this Court’s holdings in White v. Pauly and Kisela v. Hughes as creating a new standard of review to the established law when it granted Bartelt absolute immunity for his use of deadly force against a suicidal suspect?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Yvette Claudia Sterling
Sterling Law firm
For respondent
Jeremy Michael Feigenbaum
Office of the New Jersey Attorney General
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 5 conferences
Argument & decision
Decided October 4, 2021.
Proceedings
- Jan 28 2022Record returned to the U.S.C.A. Third Circuit (1 envelope).
- Oct 04 2021Petition DENIED. Justice Sotomayor, dissenting from denial of certiorari. (Detached Opinion)
- Sep 17 2021DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/27/2021.
- Jul 01 2021DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 7/1/2021.
- Jun 28 2021Record received from the U.S.C.A. Third Circuit (1 envelope). The remaining record is available on PACER.
- Jun 23 2021Record received from the U.S.D.C. District of New Jersey (sealed documents received electronically). The remaining record is available on PACER.
- Jun 21 2021DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/24/2021.
- Jun 17 2021Record Requested.
- Jun 01 2021DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/17/2021.
- May 12 2021Brief of respondent Noah Bartelt in opposition filed.
- Mar 22 2021Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including May 12, 2021.
- Mar 19 2021Motion to extend the time to file a response from April 12, 2021 to May 12, 2021, submitted to The Clerk.
- Mar 12 2021Response Requested. (Due April 12, 2021)
- Mar 10 2021DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/26/2021.
- Feb 17 2021Waiver of right of respondent Noah Bartelt to respond filed.
- Jan 04 2021Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 25, 2021)