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Emily M. Odermatt v. Amy Way, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, No. 16-2237 · judgment June 1, 2017

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

Whether, consistent with the First Amendment and Pickering, the government's ability to remove a valuable financial benefit on the basis of the beneficiary's exercise of free speech exceeds the speaker's exchange or performance of public services on behalf of the government?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Emily Odermatt

For respondent
Devin Andrew Slack
New York City Law Department

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Feb 19 2019
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jan 23 2019
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/15/2019.
  3. Jan 08 2019
    Waiver of right of respondent Amy Way, et al. to respond filed.
  4. Oct 12 2017
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 10, 2019)