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City of Fort Worth, Texas v. Darden

Petition for certiorari denied on October 1, 2018

Docket No. Argument Opinion Vote Author Term
17-1476 N/A N/A N/A N/A OT 2018

Issue: (1) Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit erred in reversing the district court"s grant of qualified immunity to the officers by basing its analysis only on Darden"s subjective reasons for resisting; and (2) whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit erred by failing to identify any appropriate clearly established law, given it effectively declared a fact issue to exist only as to why (not if) Darden struggled against the officers, and then defined clearly established law only by the high-level and inapplicable proposition that officers cannot use force against a non-resisting suspect.

DateProceedings and Orders (key to color coding)
04/23/2018Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due May 29, 2018)
04/30/2018Waiver of right of respondent Eric C. Darden to respond filed.
05/08/2018DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/24/2018.
05/14/2018Response Requested. (Due June 13, 2018)
06/12/2018Motion to extend the time to file a response from June 13, 2018 to July 13, 2018, submitted to The Clerk.
06/19/2018Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including July 13, 2018.
07/13/2018Brief of respondent Eric C. Darden in opposition filed.
07/30/2018Reply of petitioners City of Fort Worth, Texas, et al. filed. (Distributed)
08/01/2018DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/24/2018.
10/01/2018Petition DENIED.