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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
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
Subject area
First Amendment (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences
Linked docket
19A466
Order
Order list, March 9, 2020 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Mar 09 2020Petition DENIED.
- Mar 02 2020DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/6/2020.
- Feb 27 2020Rescheduled.
- Feb 12 2020DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/28/2020.
- Jan 29 2020Brief of respondents Northern Kentucky Independent Health District, et al. in opposition filed.
- Dec 27 2019Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 3, 2020)
- Oct 31 2019Application (19A466) granted by Justice Sotomayor extending the time to file until January 6, 2020.
- Oct 25 2019Application (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.