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David Paul Bohler v. City of Fairview, Tennessee
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, No. 20-5016 · judgment November 4, 2020
Before the decision, roughly the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a circuit split argued in the petition, counsel who has filed here before, and a Sixth Circuit decision below, and down for a state or local-government respondent.
Question presented
I. Whether a rational juror could find that the Petitioner, a police officer, had a First Amendment right to speak to a local prosecutor about corruption in his police department
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Paul Andrew Justice III
The Justice Law Office
For respondent
Cassandra Marie Crane
Farrar and Bates, LLP
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, October 4, 2021 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Oct 04 2021Petition DENIED.
- Sep 14 2021Reply of petitioner David Bohler filed. (Distributed)
- Jul 07 2021DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/27/2021.
- Jun 19 2021Brief of respondent City of Fairview, Tennessee in opposition filed.
- Jun 17 2021Waiver of right of respondents Shane Dunning and Joseph Cox to respond filed.
- May 14 2021Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 21, 2021)