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Chelsea C. Eline, et al. v. Town of Ocean City, Maryland
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, No. 20-1530 · judgment August 4, 2021
Before the decision, roughly the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a circuit split argued in the petition, counsel who has filed here before, and a petition citing one or two dissents, and down for a state or local-government respondent.
Question presented
Is protecting traditional moral sensibilities an important governmental interest on which the government may lawfully base a discriminatory gender-based classification as the Fourth and Seventh Circuits held, or not an important governmental interest as the Tenth Circuit (and this Court) held? Is the all-encompassing sex and gender classification of “female,” provided in Ocean City’s ordinance, sufficiently tailored to achieve an important governmental interest?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Devon Myles Jacob
Jacob Litigation, Inc.
For respondent
Bruce F. Bright
Ayres, Jenkins, Gordy & Almand, P.A.
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, February 22, 2022 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Feb 22 2022Petition DENIED.
- Jan 12 2022DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/18/2022.
- Jan 03 2022Waiver of right of respondent Town of Ocean City, Maryland, et al. to respond filed.
- Dec 01 2021Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 7, 2022)