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Tettus Davis, et ux. v. Jonathon Hodgkiss

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 20-50917 · judgment August 25, 2021


Certiorari denied · February 22, 2022
Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability

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

Questions presented

  1. In a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 lawsuit alleging a Franks v. Delaware violation of the Fourth Amendment, where the plaintiff has made at least one substantial preliminary showing of false information, does the availability of “false in one, false in all” necessitate a civil jury to determine which other facts of the subject affidavit are also false before a judicial determination on the issue of probable cause is appropriate?

  2. In a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 lawsuit alleging a Franks v. Delaware, 438 U.S. 154, 98 S. Ct. 2674, 57 L. Ed. 667

  3. violation of the Fourth Amendment, when a Defendant’s summary judgment motion is denied upon the District Court’s findings that there is an issue of material fact as to whether the Defendant recklessly, knowingly, or intentionally made a material misstatement in a search warrant affidavit, should a Court of Appeals take and decide an interlocutory appeal on the order on the summary judgment or should the Court of Appeals decline to take this matter on interlocutory appeal, in accordance with Johnson v. Jones, 515 U.S. 304 at 309-12 (1995) and summary judgment be denied without activating the qualified immunity exception to 28 U.S.C. § 1291?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Patrick John McLain
Law Office of Patrick J. McLain, PLLC

For respondent
Kelli Burris Smith
Germer PLLC

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Linked docket
21A234

Proceedings

  1. Feb 22 2022
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jan 19 2022
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/18/2022.
  3. Jan 11 2022
    Waiver of right of respondent Jonathon Hodgkiss to respond filed.
  4. Dec 22 2021
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 27, 2022)
  5. Dec 21 2021
    Application (21A234) denied by Justice Alito.
  6. Dec 14 2021
    Application (21A234) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from December 22, 2021 to February 18, 2022, submitted to Justice Alito.