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Daniel Cox v. Maryland State Board of Elections

Paid petition · Supreme Court of Maryland, No. COA-REG-00210-2022 · judgment October 7, 2022


Certiorari denied · February 21, 2023
Pre-decision estimate: 4% cert probability

Before the decision, roughly the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a circuit split argued in the petition, a dissent in the court below (flagged in the petition), and a petition filed soon after the judgment below, and down for a state or local-government respondent.

Question presented

This case presents a question nearly identical to that of Moore v. Harper, 142 S. Ct. 2901, 213 L. Ed. 2d 1114, 90 U.S.L.W. 3403, 2022 WL 2347621 (2022): Whether the Maryland Circuit Court for Montgomery County violated the Elections Clause of the United States Constitution when it suspended the laws enacted by the Maryland General Assembly as to how elections for United States Representatives are conducted, namely the opening and tabulation of mail-in ballots more than a month prior to the date allowed by statute.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
C. Edward Hartman III
Hartman, Attorneys at Law

For respondent
Daniel Michael Kobrin
Maryland Office of the Attorney General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Feb 21 2023
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jan 18 2023
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/17/2023.
  3. Jan 12 2023
    Waiver of right of respondent Maryland State Board of Elections to respond filed.
  4. Jan 04 2023
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 6, 2023)