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Keepers, Inc. v. City of Milford, Connecticut

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, No. 18-2965 · judgment September 10, 2019

Certiorari denied · January 13, 2020
Pre-decision estimate: 3% cert probability

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

Question presented

Whether the district court erred in refusing to grant Petitioner relief from summary judgment based on the Supreme Court’s superseding decision in Reed v. Town of Gilbert, which requires lower courts to employ strict scrutiny in analyzing content-based restrictions on speech.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Jennifer Kinsley
Kinsley Law Office

For respondent
Scott D. Bergthold
Law Office of Scott D. Bergthold, P.L.L.C.

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, January 13, 2020 · Certiorari denied

Proceedings

  1. Jan 13 2020
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Dec 18 2019
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/10/2020.
  3. Dec 09 2019
    Waiver of right of respondent City of Milford, Connecticut to respond filed.
  4. Dec 05 2019
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 8, 2020)