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Mark Changizi, et al. v. Department of Health and Human Services, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, No. 22-3573 · judgment September 14, 2023


Certiorari denied · July 2, 2024
Pre-decision estimate: 8% cert probability (95% interval 5%–12%)

Before the decision, about 1.9× the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for counsel who has won certiorari before, a circuit split argued in the petition, and a Sixth Circuit decision below.

Question presented

Petitioners are three individual users of a socialmedia platform who allege that federal officials violated their First Amendment rights by inducing the platform to suspend and censor them for making posts that criticize the government’s public health policies. The question presented is: 1. Whether Petitioners have Article III standing.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
John Julian Vecchione
The New Civil Liberties Alliance

For respondent
Elizabeth B. Prelogar
Solicitor General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences

Amicus briefs
1 cert-stage

Proceedings

  1. Jul 02 2024
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jun 28 2024
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 7/1/2024.
  3. May 14 2024
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/30/2024.
  4. Apr 29 2024
    Memorandum of respondents Department of Health and Human Services, et al. filed.
  5. Apr 29 2024
    Brief amicus curiae of Foundation for Moral Law filed.
  6. Mar 26 2024
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due April 29, 2024)