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Mark French v. Blair Jones, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 15-35990 · judgment December 7, 2017

Certiorari denied · April 23, 2018
Pre-decision estimate: 4% cert probability

Before the decision, roughly the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a Ninth Circuit decision below, a petition filed soon after the judgment below, and a petition citing one or two dissents.

Question presented

Whether a state violates the First Amendment by prohibiting a judicial candidate from seeking, accepting, or using an endorsement from a political party.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Matthew Gerald Monforton
Monforton Law Offices

For respondent
Dale Michael Schowengerdt
Landmark Law, PLLC

Case

Subject area
First Amendment (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Amicus briefs
1 cert-stage

Order
Order list, April 23, 2018 · Certiorari denied

Proceedings

  1. Apr 23 2018
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Apr 06 2018
    Brief amicus curiae of Institute for Free Speech filed. (Distributed)
  3. Apr 04 2018
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/20/2018.
  4. Mar 29 2018
    Waiver of right of respondents Blair Jones, et al. to respond filed.
  5. Mar 05 2018
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due April 6, 2018)