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John T. Morris v. Texas, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 22-20348 · judgment February 6, 2023


Certiorari denied · June 20, 2023
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Questions presented

  1. Are frequent elections implied in Article 1, Section 2 Clause 1 of the United States Constitution that were meant by the Framers of the Constitution to allow } voters, sooner then later, to use their accumulated knowledge of a candidate from a previous election and term of office to vote in a subsequent election imply that a redistricting must allow as many voters who voted in a previous election to vote in a subsequent election and, if not, violate their First Amendment rights?

  2. Do districts, to the degree, they are not drawn to conform to Court recognized criteria, burden, to this same degree, the First and Fourteenth Amendment po­ litical rights of parties and their adherents?

  3. Is a right to honest information implied in the democratic process, in Article 1, Section 2, Clause 1, and the First Amendment of the United States Consti­ tution, obligate the State of Texas to use its police pow­ ers to sanction the press that purports to print the news, in behalf of its citizens, in respect to falsehoods and misinformation, and/or allow the citizens to treat this same press as a product purchased from a corpo­ ration operating in a for-profit, competitive market place subject to liabilities in respect to these same falsehoods and misinformation, and also require a re­ consideration ofN.Y. Times u. Sullivan?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
John T. Morris

For respondent
Leif Alexander Olson
Office of the Attorney General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Aug 21 2023
    Rehearing DENIED.
  2. Jul 27 2023
    DISTRIBUTED.
  3. Jul 17 2023
  4. Jun 20 2023
    Petition DENIED.
  5. May 30 2023
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/15/2023.
  6. May 23 2023
    Waiver of right of respondent Texas, et al. to respond filed.
  7. May 05 2023
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 8, 2023)