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Suzy Martin v. Susan Haling, et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, No. 22-3108 · judgment March 1, 2024
Before the decision, about 3.8× 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 dissent in the court below (flagged in the petition).
Question presented
In Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth, this Court held that the government impinges on a government employee’s constitutional liberty interests when, in terminating the employee, the government “imposed on him a stigma or other disability that foreclosed his freedom to take advantage of other employment opportunities.” 408 U.S. 564, 573 (1972). Not long after, in Paul v. Davis, the Court held that to make out a due process claim for deprivation of a liberty interest, a plaintiff must show a stigma to his reputation plus deprivation of some additional right or interest. 424 U.S. 693, 701 (1976). In the decades since, courts have widely interpreted Roth and Paul as creating a “stigma-plus” test for establishing a constitutional liberty deprivation. The Question Presented is: Whether debarment from government work implicates a government contractor’s liberty interest for purposes of the stigma-plus test, as the D.C., Second, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Federal Circuits have held, or whether a government contractor must instead meet some higher standard, as the Seventh, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits have held.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Lisa Schiavo Blatt
Williams & Connolly LLP
For respondent
Thomas Arthur Doyle
Bd of Educ of the City of Chicago (Law Dept)
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences
Proceedings
- Nov 25 2024Petition DENIED.
- Nov 06 2024DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/22/2024.
- Nov 06 2024Reply of petitioner Suzy Martin filed. (Distributed)
- Oct 18 2024Brief of respondents Susan Haling, et al. in opposition filed.
- Sep 10 2024Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including October 18, 2024.
- Sep 09 2024Motion to extend the time to file a response from September 18, 2024 to October 18, 2024, submitted to The Clerk.
- Aug 12 2024Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including September 18, 2024, for all respondents.
- Aug 09 2024Motion to extend the time to file a response from August 19, 2024 to September 18, 2024, submitted to The Clerk.
- Jul 19 2024Response Requested. (Due August 19, 2024)
- Jul 17 2024DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/30/2024.
- Jul 03 2024Waiver of right of respondent Michelle Casey to respond filed.
- Jul 01 2024Waiver of right of respondent Susan Haling to respond filed.
- Jul 01 2024Waiver of right of respondents Chicago Housing Authority, Mark Lischka and Michael Moran to respond filed.
- Jun 06 2024Waiver of right of respondent Board of Education of the City of Chicago; Jonathan Maples to respond filed.
- May 30 2024Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due July 5, 2024)