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Travis Palmer Curran, et al. v. Janet Turner O'Kelley, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, No. 22-10600 · judgment April 11, 2023


Dismissed · January 22, 2024
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. W hether the Four th A mendment objective reasonableness standard for exigency, and the availability of qualified immunity itself, remain questions of law applied to the facts after disputes are resolved in favor of the nonmoving party; or whether and to what extent they implicate questions which must be left to the jury.

  2. Whether, in light of (1), the Eleventh Circuit Panel erred by denying qualified immunity on grounds that a jury could find the officers could not objectively believe the circumstances they faced constituted exigency as an exception to the Fourth Amendment’s requirements for lawful seizure.

  3. Whether the Fourth Amendment’s objective reasonableness standard for exigency, and the question of whether an officer violated a clearly established right, have evolved to include consideration of subjective elements contrary to this Court’s established precedent.

  4. Whether, in light of (3), the Eleventh Circuit Panel erred by holding that a jury should determine what officers subjectively understood in order to establish the reasonableness of their actions under the Fourth Amendment, and that evidence of an officer’s subjective state of mind as to whether a suspect posed a threat precluded the grant of qualified immunity.

  5. Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in holding that a general principal of law, that the Fourth Amendment prohibits seizure within the curtilage of the home absent a warrant or exigent circumstances, established with the

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Russell Alan Britt
Hall Booth Smith, P.C.

For respondent
Sidney Leighton Moore III
The Moore Law Firm, PC

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Jan 22 2024
    Petition Dismissed - Rule 46.
  2. Jan 04 2024
    Rescheduled.
  3. Jan 03 2024
    Joint stipulation to dismiss the petition pursuant to Rule 46 filed.
  4. Nov 29 2023
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/5/2024.
  5. Nov 09 2023
    Waiver of right of respondents Janet T. O'Kelley, et al. to respond filed.
  6. Oct 12 2023
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 16, 2023)