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Jefferson Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Vernon Madison

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, No. 16-12279 · judgment March 15, 2017

Summarily reversed · November 6, 2017
Pre-decision estimate: 4% cert probability

Before the decision, roughly the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a state or local-government petitioner and an Eleventh Circuit decision below.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Andrew L. Brasher
Office of the Alabama Attorney General

For respondent
Angela Leigh Setzer

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 5 conferences

Order
Order list, January 8, 2018 · Rehearing denied

Proceedings

  1. Jan 09 2018
    JUDGMENT ISSUED.
  2. Jan 08 2018
    Rehearing DENIED.
  3. Nov 29 2017
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/5/2018.
  4. Nov 16 2017
    Petition for Rehearing filed.
  5. Nov 06 2017
    Motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed by respondent GRANTED.
  6. Nov 06 2017
    Petition for certiorari GRANTED, judgment REVERSED. Opinion per curiam. (Detached Opinion). Justice Ginsburg, concurring. (Detached Opinion). Justice Breyer, concurring. (Detached Opinion).
  7. Oct 30 2017
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/3/2017.
  8. Oct 23 2017
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/27/2017.
  9. Oct 10 2017
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/13/2017.
  10. Sep 20 2017
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/6/2017.
  11. Sep 14 2017
    Reply of petitioner Jefferson Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections filed.
  12. Sep 05 2017
    Brief of respondent Vernon Madison in opposition filed.
  13. Sep 05 2017
    Motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed by respondent Vernon Madison.
  14. Aug 02 2017
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 5, 2017)