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Brent Ristow v. Amanda Cunningham

Paid petition · Court of Appeals of Minnesota, No. A21-1204 · judgment April 18, 2022

Certiorari denied · December 5, 2022

Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

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

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

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

Dec 05 2022
Petition DENIED.
Nov 15 2022
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/2/2022.
Sep 13 2022
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 28, 2022)
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