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Rev. Barry D. Bilder v. Rev. Beth Mathers, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, No. 17-5082 · judgment November 28, 2018

Certiorari denied · June 3, 2019
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

Is a Search Warrant (for DNA) "reasonable" under the Fourth (4th) Amendment? Was the Petitioner's Sixth (6th) Amendment, "Right to Counsel," violated when Petitioner was denied counsel while he was detained, served with a Search Warrant (for DNA), and had his DNA seized? Is the Fourteenth (14th) Amendment, "Due Process" clause, violated under 42 U.S.C. §14132(d), "Expungement of Records", a statute which provides for an Arrestee to expunge his DNA records, • but does not provide for a Non-Arrestee to expunge his DNA record?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Barry D. Bilder

For respondent
Gerald Matthew Bender
City of Tulsa Legal Department

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Jun 03 2019
    Petition DENIED.
  2. May 14 2019
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/30/2019.
  3. Apr 29 2019
    Brief of respondent City of Tulsa in opposition filed.
  4. Apr 29 2019
    Brief of respondents Rev. Beth Mathers, Ruth Bilder in opposition filed.
  5. Mar 26 2019
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due April 29, 2019)