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