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Linsay Lorine Gatsby, nka Linsay Lorine Wallace v. Kylee Diane Gatsby

Paid petition · Supreme Court of Idaho, No. 47710 · judgment September 24, 2021


Certiorari denied · May 16, 2022
Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability

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

Question presented

Whether both members of a same-sex married couple have the same fundamental right as oppositesex married couples to participate in the care, custody, and control of children they agree to conceive and together raise from birth.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Michael Evan Bern
Latham & Watkins LLP

For respondent
Michael Jim Doolittle
Michael Doolittle PC

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences

Linked docket
21M86, 21A232

Proceedings

  1. May 16 2022
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Apr 20 2022
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/12/2022.
  3. Apr 20 2022
    Reply of petitioner Linsay Lorine Gatsby filed. (Distributed)
  4. Apr 05 2022
    Brief of respondent Kylee Gatsby in opposition filed.
  5. Mar 07 2022
    Motion (21M86) for leave to file a petition for a writ of certiorari with the supplemental appendix under seal Granted.
  6. Feb 16 2022
    MOTION (21M86) DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/4/2022.
  7. Feb 07 2022
    Motion (21M86) for leave to file a petition for a writ of certiorari with the supplemental appendix under seal filed.
  8. Feb 07 2022
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due April 6, 2022)
  9. Dec 16 2021
    Application (21A232) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until February 7, 2022.
  10. Dec 13 2021
    Application (21A232) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from December 23, 2021 to February 7, 2022, submitted to Justice Kagan.