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Randall Bock v. Candace Lapidus Sloane, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, No. 23-1492 · judgment November 13, 2023


Certiorari denied · October 7, 2024
Pre-decision estimate: 2% cert probability

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

Question presented

This petition concerns the studied, repeated defiance over the past nine years by the United States Court of Appeals for First Circuit of this Court’s 2015 ruling in North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners v. FTC, 574 U.S. 494 (2015) by repeatedly upholding judicial grants of sovereign and quasi-judicial immunity to market participants on the state’s medical licensing board with no consideration for this Court’s test for state action immunity, even where, as here, the defendant market actors are sued under the Sherman Act. The question presented is, does the rule of Dental Examiners extend to physician licensing boards?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Ronald David Coleman
Dhillon Law Group, Inc.

For respondent

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Linked docket
23A610

Proceedings

  1. Oct 07 2024
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Sep 04 2024
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/30/2024.
  3. May 13 2024
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 16, 2024)
  4. Jan 03 2024
    Application (23A610) granted by Justice Jackson extending the time to file until May 12, 2024.
  5. Dec 26 2023
    Application (23A610) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from March 13, 2024 to May 12, 2024, submitted to Justice Jackson.