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Jonathan Granado v. Juanita Ramirez, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Estevan Ramirez
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 24-10755 · judgment December 10, 2025
(petition-stage, structural)
About 3.5× the 4.1% base rate. The model weights this up for a Fifth Circuit decision below, a circuit split argued in the petition, and a petition citing three to ten dissents.
Questions presented
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Whether Officer Jonathan Granado’s use of deadly force on September 3, 2021 violated the Fourth Amendment when, after a high-speed chase, Estevan Ramirez emerged from the vehicle with gun in hand, refused an order to “get on the ground,” physically resisted an officer’s attempt to arrest, and attempted to escape towards the darkness of a residential neighborhood with gun still in hand. a. Did the panel correctly set forth the elements of an excessive force claim? b. Did the panel invert the qualified immunity analysis by shifting the burden from Ramirez to Officer Granado? c. Does the panel’s approach to qualified immunity force officers “to play roulette with their own existence”?
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Whether any court other than the Supreme Court can clearly establish the law for purposes of qualified immunity, and if so, whether the panel majority correctly identified the clearly established law applicable to this case.
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Whether this Court should resolve the controversies regarding qualified immunity by examining the source of qualified immunity as of 1791, when the Bill of Rights was ratified, and/or, by applying statutory stare decisis to Pierson v. Ray and its progeny.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Thomas Phillip Brandt
Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, LL P
For respondent
Blerim Elmazi
The Law Offices of Blerim Elmazi, PLLC
Case
Subject area
Civil Rights (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences
Amicus briefs
1 cert-stage
Proceedings
- Oct 07 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/6/2026.
- Sep 28 2026Electronic record received from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas.
- Sep 23 2026The record for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is available on PACER.
- Sep 22 2026Record Requested.
- Sep 17 2026Docket entry of 9/17/2026 requesting a response to the petition entered in error and entry removed from docket. (9/22/2026)
- Sep 02 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2026.
- Aug 17 2026Brief of respondent Juanita Ramirez in opposition filed.
- Jul 29 2026Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including August 17, 2026.
- Jul 28 2026Motion to extend the time to file a response from July 31, 2026 to August 17, 2026, submitted to The Clerk.
- Jun 30 2026Brief amici curiae of Texas Association of Counties, et al. filed.
- Jun 22 2026Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including July 31, 2026.
- Jun 18 2026Motion to extend the time to file a response from July 1, 2026 to July 31, 2026, submitted to The Clerk.
- May 21 2026Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due July 1, 2026)