En Banc Review Denied in Kennedy v. City of Ridgefield
March 07, 2006
Today the Ninth Circuit refused to rehear Kennedy v. Ridgefield en banc. (The dissent of 8 judges, who would have voted to rehear it en banc, via Bashman, is here.) That's somewhat surprising to me, since the case was wrongly decided. Although I don't have an exact sense on how interested the Supreme Court is in the state-created danger doctrine, I do predict that the Court will grant cert. If the Court does grant cert, I'll give 10-1 odds that it reverses the Ninth Circuit. You can read my brief discussion of Ridgefield here.