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John Anthony Gentry v. Tennessee, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, No. 17-6171 · judgment March 26, 2018


Certiorari denied · October 1, 2018
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

This is a profound case challenging Tennessee's sovereignty, being used as a false cloak to usurp and subvert constitutionally protected rights so as to advance corrupted interests. This petition raises questions of constitutional and federal court authority, to effect reform of a state government that is no longer republican in character or form and whether attorneys, in collusion with judges, can violate constitutionally protected rights and perpetrate crimes under color of law with impunity. The facts of this case are not disputed and clearly evidence rights violations and federal crimes perpetrated against Petitioner by Respondents. The questions presented are: Whether a state's sovereign immunity is vitiated when the state government is no longer republican in character or form. Whether a citizen of a state has a right to effect reform of the state government through suit in federal court, when a state's constitution expressly guarantees its citizens an unalienable and indefeasible right to reform the government in such manner as they may think proper and the imperative for reform is undeniable. Whether attorneys are held above the law when state and federal courts wrongfully abrogate jurisdiction, and .wrongfully deny fair due process, in cases alleging civil and criminal law and rights violations perpetrated by licensed attorneys.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
John A. Gentry

For respondent
Michael D. Risley
Stites & Harbison

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 3 conferences

Linked docket
17M88

Proceedings

  1. Nov 13 2018
    Rehearing DENIED.
  2. Oct 24 2018
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/9/2018.
  3. Oct 15 2018
    Petition for Rehearing filed.
  4. Oct 01 2018
    Motion to expedite consideration of the petition for a writ of certiorari DENIED.
  5. Oct 01 2018
    Petition DENIED.
  6. Sep 05 2018
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/24/2018.
  7. Aug 31 2018
    Waiver of right of respondent Tennessee, et al. to respond filed.
  8. Aug 20 2018
    Motion to expedite consideration of the petition for a writ of certiorari filed by petitioner John Gentry.
  9. Aug 14 2018
    Waiver of right of respondent Sarah Perky to respond filed.
  10. Aug 08 2018
    Waiver of right of respondents Pamela Anderson Taylor; Brenton Hall Lankford to respond filed.
  11. Aug 01 2018
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 6, 2018)
  12. Mar 19 2018
    Motion (17M88) for leave to proceed as a veteran Denied.
  13. Feb 21 2018
    MOTION (17M88) DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/16/2018.
  14. Feb 15 2018
    Request for recusal received from petitioner.
  15. Jan 16 2018
    Motion (17M88) for leave to proceed as a veteran filed.