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Anthony W. Knights v. United States

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, No. 19-10083 · judgment March 10, 2021

Certiorari denied · December 13, 2021
Pre-decision estimate: 7% cert probability (95% interval 4%–12%)

Before the decision, about 1.8× the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a circuit split argued in the petition, an Eleventh Circuit decision below, and a petition citing three to ten dissents.

Questions presented

A Fourth Amendment seizure occurs when, “in view of all the circumstances surrounding the incident, a reasonable person would have believed that he was not free to leave.” Brendlin v. California, 551 U.S. 249, 255 (2007). The questions presented are:

  1. Whether a court analyzing if a Fourth Amendment seizure has occurred is categorically barred from considering a person’s race.

  2. Whether a seizure occurred under all the circumstances of this case.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Aliza Hochman Bloom
New England School of Law

For respondent
Elizabeth B. Prelogar
Solicitor General

Case

Subject area
Criminal Procedure (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Amicus briefs
2 cert-stage

Order
Order list, December 13, 2021 · Certiorari denied

Proceedings

  1. Dec 13 2021
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Nov 23 2021
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/10/2021.
  3. Nov 23 2021
    Reply of petitioner Anthony W. Knights filed. (Distributed)
    Main DocumentProof of ServiceCertificate of Word Count
  4. Nov 09 2021
    Brief of respondent United States in opposition filed.
    Proof of ServiceMain Document
  5. Oct 07 2021
    Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted in part and the time is further extended to and including November 9, 2021.
  6. Oct 06 2021
    Motion to extend the time to file a response from October 12, 2021 to November 12, 2021, submitted to The Clerk.
    Main Document
  7. Sep 10 2021
    Brief amicus curiae of National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers filed.
    Main DocumentProof of ServiceCertificate of Word Count
  8. Sep 02 2021
    Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including October 12, 2021.
  9. Sep 01 2021
    Motion to extend the time to file a response from September 10, 2021 to October 12, 2021, submitted to The Clerk.
    Main Document
  10. Aug 30 2021
    Amicus brief of Anthony W. Knights not accepted for filing. (September 02, 2021)
  11. Aug 30 2021
    Brief amici curiae of Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law, et al. filed.
    Main DocumentCertificate of Word CountProof of Service
  12. Aug 06 2021
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 10, 2021)
    PetitionAppendixCertificate of Word CountProof of Service