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Jack Pidgeon, et al. v. Sylvester Turner, Mayor of the City of Houston, Texas, et al.

Paid petition · Court of Appeals of Texas, Fourteenth District, No. 14-19-00214-CV · judgment April 29, 2021

Certiorari denied · January 23, 2023

Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability

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

Questions presented

Whether Texas Constitution article I, § 32 prohibiting the state or political subdivision of the state from creating or recognizing any legal status identical or similar to marriage violates the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Whether Texas Family Code § 6.204 prohibiting a state agency or political subdivision of a state from giving effect to a public act, record, or judicial proceeding that creates, recognizes, or validates a marriage between persons of the same sex or a civil union violates the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

For petitioner
Jared Ryker Woodfill
Woodfill Law Firm, PC

For respondent
Collyn A. Peddie
City of Houston Legal Department

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Jan 23 2023
Petition DENIED.
Jan 04 2023
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/20/2023.
Dec 28 2022
Waiver of right of respondents Sylvester Turner, et al. to respond filed.
Main Document
Dec 01 2022
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 4, 2023)
Petition Appendix Certificate of Word Count Proof of Service