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Jantzen Verastique, et al. v. City of Dallas, Texas, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 23-10395 · judgment July 8, 2024


Certiorari denied · December 9, 2024
Pre-decision estimate: 7% cert probability (95% interval 5%–10%)

Before the decision, about 1.7× the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a Fifth Circuit decision below, a circuit split argued in the petition, and a dissent in the court below (flagged in the petition), and down for a state or local-government respondent.

Question presented

The Questions Presented are: I. Whether this Court’s holding in Leatherman v. Tarrant Cnty. Narcotics Intel. and Coordination Unit, 507 U.S. 163 (1993) is applicable to a § 1983 pleading in which deliberate indifference of a governmental entity is asserted because of a pattern of constitutional violations committed by the same officer. II. Whether the similarity requirement to show an actionable pattern of constitutional violations under this Court’s interpretation of § 1983’s deliberate indifference in Connick v. Thompson, 563 U.S. 51 (2011) only requires the same constitutional violations committed in the same way, or whether those previous actions must be factually identical.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Sara Wyn Kane
Valli Kane & Vagnini LLP

For respondent
Nicholas Dane Palmer
Dallas City Attorney's Office

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Dec 09 2024
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Nov 19 2024
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/6/2024.
  3. Oct 10 2024
    Waiver of right of respondent City of Dallas, Texas to respond filed.
  4. Oct 07 2024
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 8, 2024)