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Gary Heidel, et al. v. Anthony Mazzola, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, No. 20-1067 · judgment March 23, 2021


Certiorari denied · November 15, 2021
Pre-decision estimate: 2% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Questions presented

  1. Whether pursuant to Kingsley v. Hendrickson, 135 S.Ct. 2466 (2015), jail officials violate a pretrial detainee’s Fourteenth Amendment right to medical treatment by being reckless to, without actually knowing of, the detainee’s substantial risk of suicide.

  2. Whether the Tenth Circuit erred by concluding, contrary to other jurisdictions, that suicide is not a highly predictable consequence of a detention center’s failure to enforce a suicide prevention program.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
J. Keith Killian
Killian Davis Richter & Kraniak, PC

For respondent
Jeffrey Lynn Driscoll
Williams, Turner & Holmes, P.C.

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Nov 15 2021
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Oct 29 2021
    Reply of petitioners Gary Heidel, et al. filed. (Distributed)
  3. Oct 27 2021
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/12/2021.
  4. Oct 12 2021
    Brief of respondents Anthony Mazzola, et al. in opposition filed.
  5. Aug 27 2021
    Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including October 15, 2021.
  6. Aug 26 2021
    Motion to extend the time to file a response from September 16, 2021 to October 15, 2021, submitted to The Clerk.
  7. Aug 13 2021
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 16, 2021)