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Brent Ristow v. Amanda Cunningham
Paid petition · Court of Appeals of Minnesota, No. A21-1204 · judgment April 18, 2022
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate: the model weighted this down for a self-represented petitioner.
Question presented
Whether a private citizen who has submitted allegedly defamatory statements, to the government, ex parte, outside of any adversarial proceeding, about another private citizen, is entitled to assert absolute immunity as a defense for the making of such statements?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Brent Ristow
For respondent
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Case
Subject area
First Amendment (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Order
Order list, December 5, 2022 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Dec 05 2022Petition DENIED.
- Nov 15 2022DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/2/2022.
- Sep 13 2022Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 28, 2022)