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Jerome Kunkel, et al. v. Northern Kentucky Independent Health District, et al.

Paid petition · Supreme Court of Kentucky, No. 2019-SC-000359-I · judgment August 29, 2019


Certiorari denied · March 9, 2020
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

Does a Health Department and its employees violate the United States Constitution when they disparately treat and target private Catholic Elementary and High School students by imposing a ban on children from attending the school who refuse to be vaccinated for chicken pox, due to the students’ and parents’ sincerely held religious beliefs, and in retaliation from a threat of a lawsuit?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Robert Albert Winter Jr.
The Law Office of Robert A. Winter, Jr.

For respondent
Jeffrey C. Mando
Adams Law, PLLC

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences

Linked docket
19A466

Proceedings

  1. Mar 09 2020
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Mar 02 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/6/2020.
  3. Feb 27 2020
    Rescheduled.
  4. Feb 12 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/28/2020.
  5. Jan 29 2020
    Brief of respondents Northern Kentucky Independent Health District, et al. in opposition filed.
  6. Dec 27 2019
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 3, 2020)
  7. Oct 31 2019
    Application (19A466) granted by Justice Sotomayor extending the time to file until January 6, 2020.
  8. Oct 25 2019
    Application (19A466) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from November 27, 2019 to January 6, 2020, submitted to Justice Sotomayor.