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Robert H. Healy v. Ledura Watkins

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, No. 20-1074 · judgment January 28, 2021


Certiorari denied · October 12, 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 the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court’s conclusion that “malicious prosecution” is a cognizable “tort” for purposes of a § 1983 suit under either the Fourth Amendment or Due Process Clauses of the Constitution?

  2. Whether the Court of Appeals correctly declined to exercise appellate jurisdiction over the issue that the three-year statute of limitations applicable to Respondent’s “malicious prosecution” claim under the Fourth Amendment accrued in 1979 at the latest? PARTIES TO THE PROCEEDING Petitioner, Robert H. Healy, is the DefendantAppellant below. Respondent, Ledura Watkins is the Plaintiff-Appellee. Defendant Ronald Badaczewski is an individual defendant in these proceedings. There are no corporate parties and no other parties to the proceedings.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Carson J. Tucker
Lex Fori PLLC

For respondent
Wolfgang Mueller
Mueller Law Firm

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 12 2021
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Sep 15 2021
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/8/2021.
  3. Sep 03 2021
    Waiver of right of respondent Ledura Watkins to respond filed.
  4. Aug 13 2021
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 29, 2021)