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Frank Straub v. City of Spokane, Washington, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 16-35545 · judgment June 15, 2018

Certiorari denied · January 7, 2019

Pre-decision estimate: 4% cert probability

Before the decision, roughly the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a circuit split argued in the petition and a Ninth Circuit decision below, and down for a state or local-government respondent.

Question presented

Whether a government that intends to publish professionally crippling charges against its employee on the internet during the course of an at-will termination must give that employee notice and an opportunity to respond before the publication as the constitutional process due.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Mary E. Schultz
Mary Schultz Law, P.S.

For respondent
Keller W. Allen
Law Firm of Keller W. Allen, P.C.

Case

Subject area
Due Process (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Order
Order list, January 7, 2019 · Certiorari denied

Proceedings

Jan 07 2019
Petition DENIED.
Dec 05 2018
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/4/2019.
Nov 08 2018
Waiver of right of respondent Mayor David Condon to respond filed.
Nov 07 2018
Waiver of right of respondent City of Spokane to respond filed.
Nov 07 2018
Waiver of right of respondent Nancy Isserlis to respond filed.
Nov 06 2018
Waiver of right of respondent Theresa Sanders to respond filed.
Oct 18 2018
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 21, 2018)