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Penny Nichols Corn, et al. v. Mississippi Department of Public Safety, et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 19-60247 · judgment March 26, 2020
Before the decision, modestly above the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a Fifth Circuit decision below, a circuit split argued in the petition, and counsel who has filed here before, and down for a state or local-government respondent.
Question presented
Whether, after inconsistencies generated by Garcetti v. Ceballos, 547 U.S. 410 (2006) and Lane v. Franks, 573 U.S. 228 (2014), citizen public employees who were terminated from their employment should have First Amendment protection to make truthful reports, both to their superiors and to state and federal law enforcement, about fraudulent tickets issued by State troopers, when their failure to report would amount to misprision of a felony.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Shirley Payne
Horn & Payne, PLLC
For respondent
Krissy Casey Nobile
MS Office of Capital Post-Conviction Counsel
Case
Subject area
First Amendment (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Amicus briefs
1 cert-stage
Order
Order list, November 2, 2020 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Nov 02 2020Petition DENIED. Justice Barrett took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.
- Oct 26 2020Brief amici curiae of Stephen M. Sheppard and Michael H. Hoeflich filed. (Distributed)
- Oct 07 2020DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/30/2020.
- Oct 07 2020Blanket Consent filed by Respondent, Mississippi Department of Public Safety, et al.
- Oct 07 2020Blanket Consent filed by Petitioner, Penny Nichols Corn, et al.
- Oct 02 2020Waiver of right of respondents Mississippi Department of Public Safety, et al. to respond filed.
- Sep 17 2020Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 26, 2020)