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Great Lakes Minerals, LLC v. Ohio, et al.

Paid petition · Supreme Court of Kentucky, No. 2018-SC-000161-TG · judgment December 19, 2019


Certiorari denied · October 5, 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

I. Whether the Court’s decision in Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt, 139 S.Ct. 1485 (2019) extends a state’s sovereign immunity to declaratory and/or injunctive relief and to individuals sued in their individual capacity. II. Whether an individual or business that does not have sufficient minimum contacts to be subject to the jurisdiction of a foreign state may seek declaratory or injunctive relief within their home state. III. Whether a state court can employ principles of comity to dismiss an action properly brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C.A. 1983 against a state official in his individual capacity.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Thomas D. Bullock
Bullock & Coffman, LLP

For respondent
Benjamin Michael Flowers
Ashbrook Byrne Kresge Flowers LLC

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 05 2020
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Aug 05 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2020.
  3. Jul 28 2020
    Waiver of right of respondents Ohio, et al. to respond filed.
  4. Jul 10 2020
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 14, 2020)