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Melynda Vincent v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, No. 21-4121 · judgment February 11, 2025
Before the decision, modestly above the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for counsel with five or more prior petitions here, a petition filed soon after the judgment below, and a Tenth Circuit decision below.
Question presented
Whether the Second Amendment allows the federal government to permanently disarm Petitioner Melynda Vincent, who has one seventeen-year-old nonviolent felony conviction for trying to pass a bad check. (i)
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Jeffrey T. Green
Green Lauerman Chartered P.L.L.C.
For respondent
D. John Sauer
Solicitor General
Case
Subject area
Criminal Procedure (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 8 conferences
Amicus briefs
2 cert-stage
Order
Order list, March 2, 2026 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Mar 02 2026Petition DENIED.
- Feb 23 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/27/2026.
- Feb 13 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/20/2026.
- Jan 20 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/23/2026.
- Jan 12 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/16/2026.
- Jan 05 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/9/2026.
- Dec 08 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/12/2025.
- Dec 01 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/5/2025.
- Nov 05 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/21/2025.
- Aug 19 2025Reply of petitioner Melynda Vincent filed.
- Aug 11 2025Brief of respondent Pamela Bondi, Attorney General in opposition filed.
- Jun 26 2025Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including August 11, 2025.
- Jun 25 2025Motion to extend the time to file a response from July 11, 2025 to August 11, 2025, submitted to The Clerk.
- Jun 11 2025Brief amici curiae of National Rifle Association of America, et al. filed.
- Jun 09 2025Brief amicus curiae of Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Northern District of Oklahoma filed.
- Jun 04 2025Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including July 11, 2025.
- Jun 03 2025Motion to extend the time to file a response from June 11, 2025 to July 11, 2025, submitted to The Clerk.
- May 08 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 11, 2025)