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Kari Leanne Riggin v. North Dakota

Paid petition · Supreme Court of North Dakota, No. 20200293 · judgment May 20, 2021

Certiorari denied · January 10, 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

ISSUE 1: Whether Kari Riggin’s federal constitutional rights to conduct business, engage in employment, and earn a living were denied by the state governor’s executive orders shutting down all salons and cosmetologists. ISSUE 2: Whether Kari Riggin’s federal constitutional rights to conduct business, engage in employment, and earn a living were denied by the state governor’s use of executive orders to legislate where state law provides him only the power to suspend statutes.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Lynn M. Boughey
Boughey Law Firm

For respondent
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Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

Jan 10 2022
Petition DENIED.
Dec 08 2021
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/7/2022.
Oct 18 2021
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 22, 2021)
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