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Vdare Foundation v. City of Colorado Springs, Colorado

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, No. 20-1162 · judgment August 23, 2021


Certiorari denied · February 28, 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

Whether a complaint based on a local government’s public announcement that the plaintiff’s speech may be illegal “hate speech” and that, therefore, the government would withhold “any” municipal services to the private facility hosting the speech assembly gives rise to a plausible claim for relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and for First Amendment Retaliation.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Joseph David Sibley IV
Camara & Sibley, LLP

For respondent

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Feb 28 2022
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Feb 09 2022
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/25/2022.
  3. Dec 20 2021
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 24, 2022)