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Travis Morse, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Police Officer for the Town of Orono, Maine, et al. v. Christopher French
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, No. 20-1650 · judgment October 1, 2021
Before the decision, roughly the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a First Circuit decision below and a dissent in the court below.
Questions presented
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Did the First Circuit depart from this Court’s qualified immunity precedent by defining clearly established law at a high level of generality and failing to consider the particular facts of the case?
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Did the First Circuit disrupt the careful balance struck by this Court’s formulation of qualified immunity when it denied Officers Morse and Gray qualified immunity notwithstanding the absence of clearly established law as to the lawful bounds of the knock and talk exception to the warrant requirement?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Amy Kay Olfene
Drummond Woodsum & MacMahon, P.A.
For respondent
Bernard J. Kubetz
Eaton Peabody
Case
Subject area
Civil Rights (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 3 conferences
Order
Order list, October 11, 2022 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Oct 11 2022Petition DENIED.
- Oct 03 2022DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/7/2022.
- Sep 22 2022Rescheduled.
- Aug 19 2022Reply of petitioners Travis Morse, et al. filed. (Distributed)
- Aug 10 2022DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2022.
- Jul 21 2022Brief of respondent Christopher French in opposition filed.
- Jun 21 2022Response Requested. (Due July 21, 2022)
- Jun 07 2022DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/23/2022.
- Jun 01 2022Waiver of right of respondent Christopher French to respond filed.
- Apr 28 2022Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 1, 2022)