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Maurice Walker, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. City of Calhoun, Georgia

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, No. 17-13139 · judgment August 22, 2018

Certiorari denied · April 1, 2019
Pre-decision estimate: 2% cert probability

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

Questions presented

  1. Whether heightened scrutiny under the Fourteenth Amendment applies to a government policy that keeps misdemeanor and traffic-offense arrestees in jail pretrial solely because they are poor.

  2. Whether the government can keep misdemeanor and traffic-offense arrestees in jail for up to 48 hours after arrest solely because they are poor when it has offered no reason for doing so. (i)

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Daniel Stephen Volchok
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

For respondent
Jesse Anderson Davis
Davis Lucas Carter LLP

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Amicus briefs
4 cert-stage

Linked docket
18A503

Proceedings

  1. Apr 01 2019
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Mar 13 2019
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/29/2019.
  3. Mar 12 2019
    Reply of petitioner Maurice Walker filed.
  4. Feb 27 2019
    Brief of respondent City of Calhoun, Georgia in opposition filed.
  5. Jan 28 2019
    Brief amicus curiae of American Bar Association filed.
  6. Jan 28 2019
    Brief amici curiae of Law Professors of Criminal, Procedural, et al. filed.
  7. Jan 28 2019
    Brief amici curiae of National Association of Pretrial Services Agencies, et al. filed.
  8. Jan 28 2019
    Brief amicus curiae of Cato Institute filed.
  9. Jan 17 2019
    Blanket Consent filed by Respondent, City of Calhoun, Georgia.
  10. Jan 08 2019
    Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including February 27, 2019.
  11. Jan 07 2019
    Blanket Consent filed by Petitioner, Maurice Walker.
  12. Jan 03 2019
    Motion to extend the time to file a response from January 28, 2019 to February 27, 2019, submitted to The Clerk.
  13. Dec 20 2018
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 28, 2019)
  14. Nov 09 2018
    Application (18A503) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until December 20, 2018.
  15. Nov 08 2018
    Application (18A503) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from November 20, 2018 to December 20, 2018, submitted to Justice Thomas.
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