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David Frank Campeau, Jr., et ux. v. Edward Sandercock, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Wayne County, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, No. 21-2357 · judgment May 20, 2022


Certiorari denied · March 27, 2023
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

In accord with the Tenth Amendment, how is it determined whether a power is reserved to the people or to the State? Whether the Ninth and Tenth Amendments reserve the right, power, and authority to marry, to the people of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania? Whether the statutes at 23 Pa. C.S. §§1103 and 1301 are unconstitutional for violating the Ninth, Tenth, and Fourteenth Amendments? Whether a federal officer is subject to suit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 when the officer’s action is made by directly applying a State statute; and, said action deprives a citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof of rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
David Frank Campeau Jr.

For respondent
Elizabeth B. Prelogar
Solicitor General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Mar 27 2023
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Mar 08 2023
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/24/2023.
  3. Feb 01 2023
    Waiver of right of respondent Kathleen Bausman to respond filed.
  4. Nov 09 2022
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 21, 2023)