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Randy Johnson v. United States
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, No. 15-1366 · judgment October 27, 2017
Before the decision, roughly the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a petition citing three to ten dissents, a dissent in the court below, and counsel who has filed here before.
Question presented
Twenty-two years ago, the Court held in Whren v. United States, 517 U.S. 806 (1996), that police with probable cause to suspect a moving violation may stop and seize a motorist, even if the seizure is a pretext to search for evidence of other possible crimes. In this case, the en banc court of appeals held, over the dissent of three judges, that a mere parking infraction justifies a pretextual search. The question presented is: Whether the Fourth Amendment forbids a pretextual seizure of a motorist based solely on probable cause to suspect a civil parking infraction.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
David Michael Shapiro
Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center
For respondent
Noel John Francisco
Jones Day
Case
Subject area
Criminal Procedure (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Amicus briefs
3 cert-stage
Linked docket
17A716
Order
Order list, October 1, 2018 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Oct 01 2018Petition DENIED.
- Jul 11 2018DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/24/2018.
- Jul 10 2018Reply of petitioner Randy Johnson filed.
- Jun 25 2018Brief of respondent United States in opposition filed.
- May 11 2018Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including June 25, 2018.
- May 09 2018Motion to extend the time to file a response from May 25, 2018 to June 25, 2018, submitted to The Clerk.
- Apr 25 2018Brief amicus curiae of The Cato Institute filed.
- Apr 23 2018Brief amicus curiae of Howard Uninversity School of Law Civil and Human Rights Clinic filed.
- Apr 23 2018Brief amici curiae of Fourth Amendment Scholars filed.
- Apr 20 2018Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including May 25, 2018.
- Apr 19 2018Motion to extend the time to file a response from April 25, 2018 to May 25, 2018, submitted to The Clerk.
- Mar 23 2018Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due April 25, 2018)
- Jan 05 2018Application (17A716) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until March 26, 2018.
- Jan 03 2018Application (17A716) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from January 25, 2018 to March 26, 2018, submitted to Justice Kagan.