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Carter Stephens v. City of Pasadena Fire Department

IFP petition · Supreme Court of California, No. S290200 · judgment May 28, 2025


Pending

Questions presented

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Whether the allowance of damaging evidence that Petitioner was prohibited from questioning on cross-examination violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

  4. IFP was not sought in any other court

  5. Why has the City of Pasadena denied injury claims, analyst, evaluation, treatment, compensation, and future medical to petitioner Stephens, to this day.

  6. 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.

  7. 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

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Jun 18 2026
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2026.
  2. Aug 13 2025
    Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due June 4, 2026)