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Scott Troogstad, et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, No. 21-3371 · judgment August 29, 2022

Certiorari denied · January 17, 2023
Pre-decision estimate: 2% cert probability

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

Question presented

I. Whether the City of Chicago violated substantive due process in requiring employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of their employment. II. Whether the City of Chicago violated the First Amendment in conditioning religious exemptions to its vaccination policy on its appraisal of the correctness of the religious bases for requests for religious exceptions.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Jonathan David Lubin

For respondent
Frank Henry Bieszczat
Office of the Illinois Attorney General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Jan 17 2023
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Dec 28 2022
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/13/2023.
  3. Nov 30 2022
    Waiver of right of respondent Illinois Governor Jay Robert Pritzker to respond filed.
    Main Document
  4. Nov 08 2022
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 16, 2022)
    Petition