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Reginald L. Gundy v. City of Jacksonville, Florida, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, No. 21-11298 · judgment September 30, 2022


Certiorari denied · February 21, 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

  1. Whether Petitioner’s invited invocation before the City Council, without any instructions or limitations, was private speech as the district court held, or did the Court of Appeals err by finding that the invocation was government speech.

  2. Whether Petitioner’s rights under the First Amendment’s Free Exercise of Religion clause were violated and he was retaliated against when his invocation before the City Council was silenced by the presiding official due to political reasons.

  3. Whether Petitioner’s rights under the First Amendment’s Free Speech clause were violated and he was retaliated against when his invocation before the City Council was silenced by the presiding official due to political reasons

  4. Whether the City Council President Aaron L. Bowman was entitled to qualified immunity for silencing the Petitioner’s invocation to the City Council. PARTIES TO THE PROCEEDING Petitioners Pastor Reginal L. Gundy is a natural person and citizen of the State of Florida, City of Jacksonville. Respondents are the City of Jacksonville, Florida and Aaron L. Bowman, individually, a former City Council President for the City of Jacksonville. CORPORATE DISCLOSURE STATEMENT Petitioner Pastor Reginal L. Gundy is a natural person, so no corporate disclosure is required for him under Rule 29.6.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Neil L. Henrichsen
Henrichsen Law Group

For respondent
Craig D. Feiser
Office of the General Counsel City of Jacksonville

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Feb 21 2023
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Feb 01 2023
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/17/2023.
  3. Jan 30 2023
    Waiver of right of respondent City of Jacksonville, Florida, et al. to respond filed.
  4. Dec 29 2022
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 27, 2023)