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John Jones v. Lyudmyla Pyankovska

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 20-16294 · judgment April 18, 2023


Certiorari denied · October 30, 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.

Question presented

Does the First Amendment to the United States Constitution’s protection of the right to petition the government extend to insulate an attorney, presenting to a court in a custody proceeding recordings made by one parent of private conversations of the other parent with their minor child, from liability under Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, as amended, 18 U.S.C. 2510, et seq., when the attorney did not have any involvement in the unlawful recording and the recordings are directly relevant to the determination of the child’s best interest in the custody proceeding?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
John Mathew Naylor
Naylor & Braster

For respondent
Brian Wolfman
Georgetown Law Appellate Courts Immersion Clinic

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 30 2023
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Oct 11 2023
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/27/2023.
  3. Oct 04 2023
    Waiver of right of respondent Lyudmyla Pyankovska to respond filed.
  4. Sep 29 2023
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 2, 2023)