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Erin Wade, et al. v. City of Houston, Texas, et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 24-20026 · judgment August 6, 2024
Before the decision, roughly the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for counsel with five or more prior petitions here, a Fifth Circuit decision below, and a petition citing one or two dissents, and down for a state or local-government respondent.
Questions presented
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Whether this Court should correct the Fifth Circuit’s departure from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings by selectively eliminating key factual allegations in order to reach its desired conclusion.
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Whether this Court should correct the Fifth Circuit’s departure from the other Circuit Courts of Appeals with respect to the pleading standards in civil rights cases, effectively creating a new and unique requirement for civil rights plaintiffs to affirmatively prove the absence of probable cause at the pleading stage.
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Whether this Court should correct the Fifth Circuit’s conflict with the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals’ decision with respect to the application of the First Amendment in mass arrest and protest cases.
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Whether this Court should revisit the propriety and scope of the qualified immunity defense.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Randall Lee Kallinen
Law Office of Randall L Kallinen PLLC
For respondent
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Case
Subject area
Civil Rights (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Order
Order list, February 24, 2025 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Feb 24 2025Petition DENIED.
- Jan 22 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/21/2025.
- Dec 03 2024Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 6, 2025)