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Melvin G. Perry v. VHS San Antonio Partners, L.L.C., dba North Central Baptist Hospital
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 20-50356 · judgment March 10, 2021
Before the decision, about 2.1× the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for counsel with five or more prior petitions here, a Fifth Circuit decision below, and a circuit split argued in the petition, and down for a business respondent.
Question presented
Section 1981 gives every person “the same right . . . to make and enforce contracts . . . as is enjoyed by white citizens. . . .” The question presented is: Does section 1981 prohibit a third party from interfering, on the basis of race, with the right of an individual to make or enforce a contract?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Eric Schnapper
Univ. of Washington School of Law
For respondent
David Lawrence Schenberg
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, PC
Case
Subject area
Civil Rights (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Order
Order list, November 22, 2021 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Nov 22 2021Petition DENIED.
- Nov 02 2021DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/19/2021.
- Nov 02 2021Reply of petitioner Melvin G. Perry filed. (Distributed)
- Oct 18 2021Brief of respondent VHS San Antonio Partners, L.L.C. in opposition filed.
- Aug 25 2021Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including October 18, 2021.
- Aug 19 2021Motion to extend the time to file a response from September 2, 2021 to October 18, 2021, submitted to The Clerk.
- Aug 03 2021Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 2, 2021)