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Pamela D. Stark v. Joe Edward Stark

Paid petition · Court of Appeals of Tennessee, Western Division, No. W2019-00650-COA-R3-CV · judgment January 31, 2020

Certiorari denied · March 22, 2021
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Questions presented

  1. Whether a state trial court can create a hybrid form of contempt which avoids traditional consti­ tutional and legislative safeguards and prevents appellate review through creating mootness.

  2. Whether the application of mootness to a con­ tempt finding allows for a denial of appellate re­ view of the underlying restraining order that constitutes a prior restraint of speech and a disen­ franchisement of the right to petition when doing so forecloses any future review as well.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Pamela Diane Stark

For respondent
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Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Mar 22 2021
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Mar 03 2021
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/19/2021.
  3. Jan 07 2021
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 12, 2021)