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Geoffrey M. Young v. Sannie L. Overly, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, No. 17-6242 · judgment July 2, 2018


Certiorari denied · February 19, 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

If the decision in Rosenberg v. Republican Party of Jefferson County, 270 S.W2d 171 (Ky. 1954) is not overturned, will the Republican and Democratic Parties in Kentucky forevermore be allowed by the courts to commit election fraud in their own primary elections? If Democratic and Republican Party organizations in the Sixth District violate KRS 118.105 (1) and their most important bylaws, should they be immune from all lawsuits that could cause their violative practices to be reviewed and possibly overturned by the courts? Do the Kentucky Attorney General and Secretary of State have permanent, absolute immunity from civil liability no matter what they do or fail to do? In civil rights cases where the plaintiff alleges that a conspiracy violated one or more criminal statutes in addition to the plaintiffs constitutional rights, should this Court's decision in Linda R.S. v. Richard D., 410 U.S. 614, 619 (1973) overrule the plain language of 42 U.S.C. § 1983? May a district court dismiss a complaint before discovery, with prejudice, for failure to state a claim, without fairly analyzing and discussing the specific factual allegations the plaintiff committed to writing in his or her complaint?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Geoffrey M. Young

For respondent
Bailey Roese
Dentons Bingham Greenebaum LLP

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Feb 19 2019
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jan 09 2019
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/15/2019.
  3. Dec 14 2018
    Waiver of right of respondents Sannie L. Overly, et al. to respond filed.
  4. Dec 13 2018
    Waiver of right of respondent Alison Lundergan Grimes to respond filed.
  5. Dec 11 2018
    Waiver of right of respondent Andy Beshear, Kentucky Attorney General to respond filed.
  6. Nov 20 2018
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 3, 2019)