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Nikolai Belov v. East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 23-16032 · judgment June 24, 2024


Certiorari denied · January 27, 2025
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

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

Question presented

This case is a continuation of the federal government’s illegal practice of exerting pressure on the U.S. judiciary, which is an independent branch of powers (I think this court felt the same pressure for itself when happened offensive against its justices under the pretext of judicial ethics reform). I filed the same motion to intervene in this case as the states, citing the same articles of law and court precedents (they are the same for everyone), but with my own reasons and arguments, which are completely different from the arguments of the states. Ninth Circuit denied my motion like previously the states’ motion. But if the court considered the states’ motion for almost three months, obliging the parties to submit their responses to this motion and giving the opportunity to another 17 republican states to file their amicus brief in support of this motion, then the court considered my motion at cosmic speed in 2 business days without analyzing it in any way in detail my arguments from the motion, but only by writing on 1 piece of paper a couple of words, while the text of the refusal to the states consists of more than 10 pages, where the court examines in detail all the arguments of the states and all the counterarguments of the parties. June 26, 2024 states filed their petition for a writ of certiorari to this court, which was placed on the docket June 28, 2024 as No. 23-1353 Kansas, et al. v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Nikolai Belov

For respondent
Lee Gelernt
American Civil Liberties Union

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Jan 27 2025
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jan 08 2025
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/24/2025.
  3. Dec 23 2024
    Waiver of right of respondents East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, et al. to respond filed.
  4. Dec 13 2024
    Waiver of right of respondent Federal Respondents to respond filed.
  5. Sep 20 2024
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 26, 2024)