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Lion Raisins, Inc., et al. v. Karen Ross
Paid petition · Court of Appeal of California, Third Appellate District, No. C086205, C086206 · judgment May 25, 2021
Before the decision, about 3.4× the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for counsel who has won certiorari before, a circuit split argued in the petition, and a dissent in the court below (flagged in the petition).
Question presented
Whether this Court’s voting rights jurisprudence permits the government to empower a private association (here, an agricultural cooperative) to cast all its members’ votes as a bloc on the theory that such voting schemes are subject to rational-basis review and the government may “give greater influence to some voters as long as the apportionment of power is not ‘wholly irrelevant’ to the [government’s] objectives.”
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Michael W. McConnell
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, PC
For respondent
Aimee Athena Feinberg
California Department of Justice
Proceedings
- May 16 2022Petition DENIED.
- Apr 20 2022DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/12/2022.
- Apr 19 2022Reply of petitioners Lion Raisins, Inc., et al. filed. (Distributed)
- Apr 04 2022Brief of respondent Karen Ross, Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture in opposition filed.
- Feb 25 2022Brief amici curiae of Cato Institute, et al. filed.
- Feb 14 2022Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including April 4, 2022.
- Feb 11 2022Motion to extend the time to file a response from March 3, 2022 to April 4, 2022, submitted to The Clerk.
- Jan 28 2022Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 3, 2022)
- Nov 05 2021Application (21A136) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until January 28, 2022.
- Nov 02 2021Application (21A136) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from November 30, 2021 to January 28, 2022, submitted to Justice Kagan.