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Louis Farrakhan, et al. v. Anti-Defamation League, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, No. 24-1237 · judgment January 3, 2025


Certiorari denied · October 6, 2025
Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Questions presented

  1. Whether the Second Circuit failed to follow this Court’s precedent when it held that representational standing does not exist in claims alleging a violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1983?

  2. Whether a First Amendment claim is actionable against a quasi-governmental actor whose policies and active partnership with a government entity and actor led to the issuance of a threat of arrest and prosecution a imed at suppressing Fi rst Amendment protections that are disfavored as being anti-Semitic?

  3. Whether a public threat of arrest and prosecution by a government official against an unnamed yet identifiable group of people constitutes a concrete and particularized injury for purposes of establishing A rticle III standing and whether the lack of knowledge of which statute the government official intends to use to effectuate said threat prevents the ability to establish an injury sufficient for purposes of Article III standing?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Abdul Arif Muhammad

For respondent
Fred D. Heather
Glaser Weil Fink Howard Jordan & Shapiro LLP

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Linked docket
24A894

Proceedings

  1. Oct 06 2025
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jun 17 2025
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2025.
  3. Jun 13 2025
    Waiver of right of respondents Simon Wiesenthal Center and Abraham Cooper to respond filed.
  4. Jun 09 2025
    Waiver of right of respondent Anti-Defamation League, et al. to respond filed.
  5. Jun 02 2025
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due July 7, 2025)
  6. Mar 18 2025
    Application (24A894) granted by Justice Sotomayor extending the time to file until June 2, 2025.
  7. Mar 13 2025
    Application (24A894) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from April 3, 2025 to June 2, 2025, submitted to Justice Sotomayor.