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John Destin Alexander v. Department of the Army, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, No. 21-2131 · judgment December 22, 2021


Certiorari denied · October 3, 2022
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. Can the government impose and maintain thirty years of involuntary servitude imprisonment upon an American citizen without filing any charges against that citizen; an ordinary American citizen who has committed no offense against the government?

  2. Can the government for thirty years invade and deny privacy to the Petitioner (both in his private residence, and in public settings) for medical and psychological research purposes; for the punitive purpose of maintaining the Petitioner in involuntary servitude imprisonment?

  3. Can the government elicit the public apparatus of state and local government (employment centers, bus and rail transportation, and business establishments) in its involuntary servitude imprisonment of the Petitioner? Can it utilize interstate transportation to hinder the public privacy of the Petitioner? Can it nationally deploy "participant people" to hinder the public privacy of the Petitioner?

  4. Can the government impede a literary business, Tamarind Literary Works, from its ability to publish and sell books, because the government does not like some of its content; because Tamarind Literary Works provides a voice for the Petitioner amid the misuse of power by government?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
John Destin Alexander

For respondent
Elizabeth B. Prelogar
Solicitor General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 03 2022
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jun 29 2022
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2022.
  3. Jun 24 2022
    Waiver of right of respondent Department of the Army to respond filed.
  4. Mar 17 2022
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 24, 2022)