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Robert Doyle v. Douglas Palmer, Clerk, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, No. 19-939 · judgment December 16, 2019

Certiorari denied · June 22, 2020
Pre-decision estimate: 4% cert probability

Before the decision, roughly the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for counsel with five or more prior petitions here and a Second Circuit decision below.

Questions presented

  1. Whether Congress may delegate, to the Judicial Branch, the power to enact federal-court baradmission requirements that Congress lacks the power to enact directly.

  2. Whether a federal district court may, consistent with the First Amendment, force a bar applicant to associate with a member of the bar of that court and engage, with that member, in a significant amount of expressive conduct.

  3. Whether a federal district court may, consistent with the First Amendment, force a bar applicant to waive his freedom of conscience.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Todd Charles Bank
Todd C. Bank; Todd C. Bank, Attorney at Law, P.C.

For respondent
Noel John Francisco
Jones Day

Case

Subject area
Attorneys (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Order
Order list, June 22, 2020 · Certiorari denied

Proceedings

  1. Jun 22 2020
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jun 02 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/18/2020.
  3. Apr 15 2020
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due May 20, 2020)