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No. 12-1117

Officer Vance Plumhoff, et al. v. Whitne Rickard, a Minor Child, Individually, and as Surviving Daughter of Donald Rickard, Deceased, By and Through Her Mother Samantha Rickard, as Parent and Next Friend

from the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

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Docket Entries

Record Returned for U.S.D.C. Western District of Tennessee.

JUDGMENT ISSUED.

Judgment REVERSED and case REMANDED. Alito, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Roberts, C. J., and Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, Sotomayor, and Kagan, JJ., joined, in which Ginsburg, J., joined as to the judgment and Parts I, II, and III-C, and in which Breyer, J., joined except as to Part III-B-2.

Argued. For petitioners: Michael Mosley, North Little Rock, Ark.; and John F. Bash, Assistant to the Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. (for United States, as amicus curiae.) For respondent: Gary K. Smith, Memphis, Tenn.

Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument GRANTED.

Reply of petitioners Officer Vance Plumhoff, et al. filed. (Distributed)

Brief amicus curiae of National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers filed. (Distributed)

Brief amici curiae of National Police Accountability Project, et al. filed. (Distributed)

Brief amicus curiae of Professor Jonathan R. Nash filed. (Distributed).

Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument filed.

Brief of respondent Whitne Rickard, a Minor Child, Individually, and as Surviving Daughter of Donald Rickard, Deceased, By and Through Her Mother Samantha Rickard, as Parent and Next Friend filed. (Distributed)

CIRCULATED

Record received from U.S.D.C. Western District of Tennessee (Memphis)

Brief amicus curiae of the United States filed.

Brief amici curiae of National Conference of State Legislatures, et al. filed. (Distributed)

Brief amici curiae of Ohio and 21 Other States filed.

Record received from U.S.D.C. Western District of Tennessee Western Division. (1 Box)

Joint appendix filed. (Statement of costs filed)

Brief of petitioners Officer Vance Plumhoff, et al. filed.

Record received from U.S.C.A. 6th Circuit, the record is electronic.

SET FOR ARGUMENT ON Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Petition GRANTED.

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of November 15, 2013.

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of November 8, 2013.

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of November 1, 2013.

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of October 18, 2013.

Record received from the United States District Court Western District of Tennessee (3 DVDs).

Record Requested .

Reply of petitioners Officer Vance Plumhoff, et al. filed. (Distributed)

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of September 30, 2013.

Record received from the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Record Requested .

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of September 30, 2013.

Brief of respondent Whitne Rickard, a Minor Child, Individually, and as Surviving Daughter of Donald Rickard, Deceased, By and Through Her Mother Samantha Rickard, as Parent and Next Friend in opposition filed.

Response Requested . (Due June 7, 2013)

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of May 16, 2013.

Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due April 15, 2013)

Parties

Officer Vance Plumhoff, et al., Petitioner, represented by Philip W. Savrin

Officer Vance Plumhoff, et al., Petitioner, represented by Michael A. Mosley

Whitne Rickard, a Minor Child, Individually, and as Surviving Daughter of Donald Rickard, Deceased, By and Through Her Mother Samantha Rickard, as Parent and Next Friend, Respondent, represented by Gary K. Smith

Amici Curiae

National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Amicus Curiae, represented by Eric Schnapper

National Conference of State Legislatures, et al., Amicus Curiae, represented by Peter Julian Keith

National Police Accountability Project, et al., Amicus Curiae, represented by Christopher Wimmer

Ohio and 21 Other States, Amicus Curiae, represented by Eric E. Murphy

Professor Jonathan R. Nash, Amicus Curiae, represented by Jonathan Remy Nash

the United States, Amicus Curiae, represented by Donald B. Verrilli Jr.

the United States, Amicus Curiae, represented by John F. Bash

 
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