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Chester Noel Abing, et al. v. James F. Evers, et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 22-15097 · judgment May 12, 2023
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
FIRST QUESTION Does the Fourteenth Amendment (1868) amend the Eleventh Amendment (1798)? (If so, then the Eleventh Amendment cannot provide “sovereign immunity” from civil-rights lawsuits under the Fourteenth Amendment or the Civil Rights Laws enacted pursuant to it.) SECOND QUESTION May State laws nullify the Fourteenth Amend ment and the Civil Rights Laws enacted under it? THIRD QUESTION Do the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Civil Rights Laws enacted to enforce it, prohibit malicious discrimination by State officers in the form of theft of property using forged documents, threats, and harassment?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Chester Noel Abing
For respondent
James C. Paige
State of Hawaii Attorney General
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Feb 20 2024Petition DENIED.
- Jan 17 2024DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/16/2024.
- Dec 07 2023Waiver of right of respondents James F. Evers, et al. to respond filed.
- Aug 09 2023Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 4, 2024)