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Rodney Keister v. Stuart Bell, in His Official Capacity as President of the University of Alabama, et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, No. 17-11347 · judgment January 23, 2018
Before the decision, about 1.6× the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a circuit split argued in the petition, an Eleventh Circuit decision below, and counsel who has filed here before.
Questions presented
Except in the unique setting of a military installation, this Court has never held that a public sidewalk running alongside a public street was anything but a traditional public forum. Here, the Eleventh Circuit reached a contrary result. The questions presented are:
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Does the presence of adjacent college campus buildings negate the First Amendment public forum status of a sidewalk running along a public street?
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Did the Eleventh Circuit err by holding that a virtual ban on leafletting and street preaching on a public sidewalk is not likely to violate the First Amendment right to free speech?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Jay Alan Sekulow
American Center for Law and Justice
For respondent
Sybil Vogtle Newton
Starnes, Davis, Florie LLP
Case
Subject area
First Amendment (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Order
Order list, October 1, 2018 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Oct 01 2018Motion for leave to file amici brief filed by Alliance Defending Freedom, et al. GRANTED.
- Oct 01 2018Petition DENIED.
- Aug 22 2018DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/24/2018.
- Aug 20 2018Reply of petitioner Rodney Keister filed.
- Aug 02 2018Brief of respondents Stuart Bell, et al. in opposition filed.
- Aug 02 2018Motion for leave to file amici brief filed by Alliance Defending Freedom, et al.
- Jul 02 2018Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 2, 2018)