Supreme Court of the United States · Official docket →
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, modestly above the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a circuit split argued in the petition and a Ninth Circuit decision below.
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
Subject area
Civil Rights (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Order
Order list, February 20, 2024 · Certiorari denied
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)