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Victor Hill v. United States
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, No. 23-10934 · judgment April 29, 2024
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
Whether any broad principle of law gives fair warning that it constitutes “excessive force” in violation of the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution for a correctional officer to use passive restraint chairs to restrain pretrial detainees whom the officer determined posed a threat to jail security based on their conduct before and during arrest, during booking and interviewing, and other specific indicators based on the officer’s experience, although the detainees were not actively resisting at the time of the restraint.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Donald F. Samuel
Garland & Samuel, P.C.
For respondent
D. John Sauer
Solicitor General
Proceedings
- May 19 2025Petition DENIED.
- Apr 29 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/15/2025.
- Apr 25 2025Reply of petitioner Victor Hill filed. (Distributed)
- Apr 11 2025Brief of respondent United States in opposition filed.
- Mar 21 2025Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including April 11, 2025.
- Mar 20 2025Motion to extend the time to file a response from March 28, 2025 to April 11, 2025, submitted to The Clerk.
- Feb 19 2025Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including March 28, 2025.
- Feb 18 2025Motion to extend the time to file a response from February 26, 2025 to March 28, 2025, submitted to The Clerk.
- Jan 13 2025Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including February 26, 2025.
- Jan 10 2025Motion to extend the time to file a response from January 27, 2025 to February 26, 2025, submitted to The Clerk.
- Dec 18 2024Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 27, 2025)
- Nov 12 2024Application (24A473) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until December 20, 2024.
- Nov 06 2024Application (24A473) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from November 20, 2024 to January 19, 2025, submitted to Justice Thomas.