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Calisia Kelley and Johnnie Mae Kelley, Co-Administrators of the Estate of Bruce Kelley, Jr. v. Brian O'Malley and Dominic Rivotti, in Their Individual Capacities as Police Officers for the Allegheny County Port Authority
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, No. 22-1688 · judgment March 21, 2024
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
I. In this deadly force case, the Third Circuit removed altogether from its definition of the ‘specific factual context’ of this case the Autopsy Report findings that the Officers shot Petitioners’ deceased twice in the back - which the Officers explicitly deny doing. The Third Circuit compounded the above error by sanctioning the District Court’s making of the identical error. Do these errors violate this Court’s directive in Tolan vs. Cotton, 572 U.S. 650, 657 (2014) that “Courts must take care not to define a case’s context in a manner that imports genuinely disputed factual propositions.” Tolan vs. Cotton, at 657. and warrant the granting of this Court’s supervisory authority? II. Did the Third Circuit eliminate in the decision under review the lynchpin requirement of Graham vs. Connor, 490 U.S. 386 (1989) that to justify the use of deadly force, there must exist a significant and immediate threat of death or serious bodily injury to the officer(s) or another human being?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Noah Geary
Noah Geary, Attorney at Law
For respondent
Nicholas Jason Evashavik
Evashavik Law, LLC
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Oct 21 2024Petition DENIED.
- Oct 02 2024DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/18/2024.
- Sep 27 2024Waiver of right of respondent Brian O'Malley, et al. to respond filed.
- Sep 05 2024Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 9, 2024)