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Equal Means Equal, et al. v. David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, No. 20-1802

Certiorari denied · October 13, 2020

Pre-decision estimate: 4% cert probability

Before the decision, roughly the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a First Circuit decision below.

Questions presented

Whether the Equal Rights Amendment is now the Twenty-Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution because three-fourths of the States have ratified it?
Whether the Archivist of the United States violated his duty under Article V of the Constitution and 1 U.S.C. § 106b by refusing to publish the Equal Rights Amendment after he was notified that threefourths of the States ratified it?
Whether Petitioners have Article III standing?

For petitioner
Wendy J. Murphy
New Englland School of Law

For respondent
Jeffrey B. Wall
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Amicus briefs
1 cert-stage

Oct 13 2020
Petition DENIED.
Oct 02 2020
Amicus brief of Eighty Diverse. not accepted for filing. (October 08, 2020)(Corrected version submitted)
Oct 02 2020
Brief amici curiae of Eighty Diverse filed. (Distributed)(10/2/2020)
Sep 23 2020
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/9/2020.
Sep 17 2020
Waiver of right of respondent Ferriero, David S. to respond filed.
Sep 02 2020
Petition for a writ of certiorari before judgment filed. (Response due October 13, 2020)