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David T. Smith, et al. v. Raymond Berthiaume
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, No. 16-16345 · judgment November 22, 2017
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
Whether it is reversible error to not question a jury pool about sexual orientation bias, any time it is requested by a gay ligtigant, due to the country’s “long history of cultural disapprobation and prior legal condemnation of same-sex relationships”, and does such a ruling directly into conflict with this Court’s holding in Rosales-Lopez v. United States, 451 U.S. 182, 101 S.Ct. 1629, 68 L.Ed. 2d 22 (1981).
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Michael T. Burke
Johnson Anselmo Murdoch Burke Piper & Hochman, P.A
For respondent
Katherine Eastmoore Giddings
Akerman LLP
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- May 21 2018Petition DENIED.
- May 01 2018DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/17/2018.
- Apr 23 2018Waiver of right of respondent Raymond Berthiaume to respond filed.
- Apr 17 2017Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due May 23, 2018)