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Rahim Caldwell v. City of Providence, Rhode Island, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, No. 23-1547 · judgment March 14, 2024


Certiorari denied · June 30, 2025
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

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

Question presented

Question 1 When the litigants are prose, should inferior courts be required to specify deficiencies to be corrected when a prose litigant is subjected to emergency certification by an individual that has not personally first-hand eyewitness prose petitioner engaged in any actions other than acting within under the constitution? Question 2 Is a prose litigant acting under the constitution subjected to application for emergency certification entitled to any right, whatsoever? Question 3 Is a prose litigant subjected to application for emergency certification entitled to any rights whatsoever? Question 4 Is respondent authorized by law to diagnose? Question 5 What law authorizes respondent to diagnose? Question 6 Is it justice for prose petitioner to be defeated due to inability to meet the standards of time constraints, and allow respondents to avoid justice

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Rahim Caldwell

For respondent

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Linked docket
23A1103

Proceedings

  1. Jun 30 2025
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jun 10 2025
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/26/2025.
  3. Aug 12 2024
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due May 30, 2025)
  4. Jun 11 2024
    Application (23A1103) granted by Justice Jackson extending the time to file until August 11, 2024.
  5. Jun 03 2024
    Application (23A1103) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from June 12, 2024 to August 11, 2024, submitted to Justice Jackson.