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Troy Chrisman, et al. v. Estate of Seth Michael Zakora, et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, No. 21-1620 · judgment August 10, 2022
Certiorari denied · June 12, 2023
Pre-decision estimate: 3% cert probability
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
- Whether a prisoner’s criminal act of voluntarily ingesting an illegal drug banned within the prison can give rise to that prisoner’s federal constitutional claim that under the Eighth Amendment state corrections officials failed to protect him by not preventing the influx of illegal drugs into the prison or failed to supervise other employees to protect him.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Ann Maurine Sherman
Michigan Department of Attorney General
For respondent
Christopher Patrick Desmond
Johnson Law, PLC
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 4 conferences
Amicus briefs
1 cert-stage
Proceedings
- Jun 12 2023Petition DENIED.
- Jun 05 2023DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/8/2023.
- May 31 2023Rescheduled.
- May 30 2023DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/1/2023.
- May 23 2023Rescheduled.
- May 09 2023DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/25/2023.
- May 04 2023Reply of petitioners Troy Chrisman, et al. filed.
- Apr 24 2023Brief of respondents Estate of Seth Zakora, et al. in opposition filed.
- Mar 22 2023Brief amici curiae of Ohio, et al.
- Mar 15 2023Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including April 24, 2023.
- Mar 14 2023Motion to extend the time to file a response from March 24, 2023 to April 24, 2023, submitted to The Clerk.
- Feb 22 2023Response Requested. (Due March 24, 2023)
- Feb 08 2023DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/24/2023.
- Feb 01 2023Waiver of right of respondent Estate of Seth Zakora, et al. to respond filed.
- Jan 03 2023Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 6, 2023)