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Paula Steven v. Federal Way School District

Paid petition · Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 1, No. 820427 · judgment September 15, 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

The questions presented are below:

  1. Whether a Black mother of a public school student who walks her young Black, student into school every morning through the main entrance and not the side doors protected by the Fourteenth Amendment. All non-Black parents are allowed to walk in the front main entrance with their student and not receive truancy notices nor mandatory truancy conference notices for violation of the. Washington State truancy laws.

  2. Whether assuming a Black mother and her Black student and a White mother, and her white student, who all enter the school through the main entrance school doors. Should the Black parent and Black student be treated equally under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

  3. Whether the RAP 9.12 has authority over the Fourteenth Amendment.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Paula Steven

For respondent

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences

Proceedings

  1. Dec 05 2022
    Rehearing DENIED.
  2. Nov 09 2022
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/2/2022.
  3. Oct 28 2022
  4. Oct 03 2022
    Petition DENIED.
  5. Aug 10 2022
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2022.
  6. Jun 24 2022
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due July 29, 2022)
  7. Jun 24 2022
    Blanket Consent filed by Petitioner, Paula Steven