Macias v. Nichols
Petition for certiorari denied on April 20, 2020
Issues: (1) Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit departed from the Supreme Court’s qualified-immunity decisions by finding the officers violated a clearly-established
right without acknowledging the governing
standard, defining the right specifically or
identifying a case involving similar facts; and (2) whether the 9th Circuit’s rule that “civil
disputes cannot give rise to probable cause” is
overly broad, as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit has suggested, and inconsistent with District of Columbia v. Wesby.
