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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
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate: the model weighted this down for a self-represented petitioner.
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
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, February 19, 2019 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Feb 19 2019Petition DENIED.
- Jan 23 2019DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/15/2019.
- Jan 08 2019Waiver of right of respondent Amy Way, et al. to respond filed.
- Oct 12 2017Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 10, 2019)