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Carter Stephens v. City of Pasadena Fire Department
IFP petition · Supreme Court of California, No. S290200 · judgment May 28, 2025
Questions presented
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Whether the denial of petitioner’s right to present eight valid medical reports from his treating doctors at a California workers’ compensation trial violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Whether barring the petitioner from cross-examining Respondents’ key witnesses, while admitting false and unauthorized documents against his objections, violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments.
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Whether the allowance of damaging evidence that Petitioner was prohibited from questioning on cross-examination violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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IFP was not sought in any other court
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Why has the City of Pasadena denied injury claims, analyst, evaluation, treatment, compensation, and future medical to petitioner Stephens, to this day.
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Why has petitioner Stephens had to go and obtain authorized work comp doctors on his own, to get his injures analyzed, evaluated, treated, compensated for, and addressed for future medical.
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Why have not all injuries to Petitioner Stephens been accepted and covered by the City of Pasadena as valid injuries.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Carter Stephens
For respondent
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Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Jun 18 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2026.
- Aug 13 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due June 4, 2026)