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Lara Bush-Pensy v. Timothy Pflieger

Paid petition · Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, District III, No. 2018AP1794 · judgment September 17, 2019

Certiorari denied · November 2, 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

Whether basic First Amendment and Due Process freedom of speech is infringed where a state court restrains a person's private email absent any evidence the e-mail content was unprotected speech intentionally sent.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Timothy Alan Provis
Attorney at Law

For respondent
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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, November 2, 2020 · Certiorari denied

Proceedings

  1. Nov 02 2020
    Petition DENIED. Justice Barrett took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.
  2. Oct 07 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/30/2020.
  3. Aug 11 2020
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 21, 2020)