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Tracey E. George, et al. v. Tre Hargett, Tennessee Secretary of State, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, No. 16-5563 · judgment January 9, 2018

Certiorari denied · October 1, 2018

Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

Whether state actor defendants may defend and foreclose a federal action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by suing civil rights plaintiffs in a subsequentlyfiled state court declaratory judgment lawsuit seeking to declare the state actors’ actions lawful.
Whether state actors’ administering an election in a manner that is not neutral to that election’s outcome violates the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection and due process clauses. (i)

For petitioner
William L. Harbison
Sherrard Roe Voigt & Harbison, PLC

For respondent
Sarah Keeton Campbell
Office of the Tennessee Attorney General

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Linked docket
17A1284

Oct 01 2018
Petition DENIED.
Aug 29 2018
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/24/2018.
Aug 13 2018
Waiver of right of respondents William Edward "Bill" Haslam, et al. to respond filed.
Jul 13 2018
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 15, 2018)
May 21 2018
Application (17A1284) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until July 13, 2018.
May 18 2018
Application (17A1284) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from May 29, 2018 to July 13, 2018, submitted to Justice Kagan.
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