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Anne K. Block v. Washington State Bar Association, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 16-35461 · judgment February 11, 2019

Certiorari denied · December 9, 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

A. Did the trial court err when the district court judge and the reviewing judge refused to disqualify themselves because of their membership in the defendant, the Washington State Bar Association? B. Could the appellant’s first amendment claim survive a motion on the pleadings if an unbiased judge had been assigned? C. Did the defendants actions of retaliating against Block for resigning from the WSBA violate her constitutional right to disassociate as recently announced in Janus v. American Federation ofState, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31, No. 16-1466, 585 U.S.__ (2018)?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Anne K. Block

For respondent
Steven Joseph Bladek
Snohomish Cnty. Pros. Atty.

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Dec 09 2019
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Nov 20 2019
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/6/2019.
  3. Nov 13 2019
    Reply of petitioner Anne K. Block to Respondent Kenyon Disend and City of Gold Bars Opposition filed.
  4. Nov 04 2019
    Brief of respondents Joe Beavers, Linda Loen, Crystal Hill-Pennington, the City of Gold Bar, Port of Seattle, Kali Matuska, Julie Tanga, Sean Gillego and James Tuttle in opposition filed.
  5. Oct 15 2019
    Reply of petitioner Anne K. Block filed.
  6. Oct 03 2019
    Brief of respondents King County and Deputy Cary Coblantz in opposition filed.
  7. Oct 02 2019
    Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including November 4, 2019, for all respondents.
  8. Sep 30 2019
    Motion of respondents Kenyon Desend, PLLC, Gold Bar and Port of Seattle to extend the time to file a response from October 4, 2019 to November 4, 2019, submitted to The Clerk.
  9. Sep 26 2019
    Waiver of right of respondents City of Duvall and Sgt. Lori Batiot to respond filed.
  10. Sep 24 2019
    Waiver of right of respondents Washington State Bar Association, Sarah Andeen, Kevin Bank, et al. to respond filed.
  11. Sep 18 2019
    Waiver of right of respondents Snohomish County, Geoffrey Gibbs, Sara DiVittorio, Seth Fine, Brian Lewis, John Lovick, John Pennington, Sean Reay and Mark Roe to respond filed.
  12. Jul 01 2019
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 4, 2019)