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Nicholas Robles, West Covina Police Officer, et al. v. Ronnie Parham
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 24-5205 · judgment December 18, 2025
Before the decision, roughly the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a petition filed soon after the judgment below, a Ninth Circuit decision below, and counsel who has filed here before.
Questions presented
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Does probable cause exist to stop, search, arrest, and prosecute a criminal suspect for evading arrest where unrefuted video evidence and the suspect’s own admissions demonstrate that he refused to yield to the traffic stop, subsequently briefly stopped, and then accelerated away again?
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Where an appellate panel is not in agreement about whether an underlying constitutional violation has occurred, how can the panel subsequently conclude that the law is “clearly established” such that a law enforcement officer is not entitled to qualified immunity for the claimed constitutional violation?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Scott William Davenport
Jones Mayer
For respondent
Adam Ross Pulver
Public Citizen Litigation Group
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences
Proceedings
- Jun 08 2026Petition DENIED.
- May 19 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/4/2026.
- Apr 30 2026Brief of respondent Ronnie Parham in opposition filed.
- Apr 09 2026Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including May 6, 2026.
- Apr 08 2026Motion to extend the time to file a response from April 22, 2026 to May 6, 2026, submitted to The Clerk.
- Mar 23 2026Response Requested. (Due April 22, 2026)
- Mar 11 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/27/2026.
- Feb 27 2026Waiver of right of respondent Ronnie Parham to respond filed.
- Feb 20 2026Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 26, 2026)