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Parents for Privacy, et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 18-35708 · judgment February 12, 2020
Before the decision, modestly above the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a Ninth Circuit decision below, a circuit split argued in the petition, and a dissent in the court below (flagged in the petition).
Questions presented
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Whether parents surrender their fundamental right to direct the upbringing of their children by enrolling them in public school so that a school district can compel children to disregard biological reality by requiring that they expose their bodies to classmates of the opposite sex and affirm that a child is the sex with which he or she selfidentifies.
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Whether schoolchildren’s rights to bodily privacy are violated when they are compelled to undress and engage in intimate bodily functions in the presence of members of the opposite sex who selfidentify as something other than their sex while using privacy facilities.
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Whether a school district can compel children to violate sincerely held religious beliefs that sex is based on biological reality by being forced to affirm that members of one biological sex are members of the opposite sex if they self-identify as that sex.
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Whether a school district violates Title IX when it compels children to accept into sex-separate privacy facilities members of the opposite sex who self-identify as something other than their sex and to affirm that students are members of whatever sex with which they self-identify.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Mary Elizabeth McAlister
Child & Parental Rights Campaign, Inc.
For respondent
James D. Esseks
American Civil Liberties Union
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Dec 07 2020Petition DENIED.
- Nov 10 2020DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/4/2020.
- Nov 06 2020Reply of petitioners Parents for Privacy, et al. filed. (Distributed)
- Oct 23 2020Memorandum of Federal Respondents filed.
- Oct 23 2020Brief of respondent Dallas School District No. 2 in opposition filed.
- Oct 23 2020Brief of respondent Basic Rights Oregon in opposition filed.
- Jul 31 2020Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including October 23, 2020, for all respondents.
- Jul 30 2020Motion of Basic Rights Oregon, et al. to extend the time to file a response from August 24, 2020 to October 23, 2020, submitted to The Clerk.
- Jul 10 2020Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 24, 2020)