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Stephen Lynch Murray v. Phil Archer, et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, No. 22-13155 · judgment October 2, 2023
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
When there is speech infringement with arrest, must there be a venue for confrontation and evidence the state did not provide as due, before a federal court can rule on fact? When there is any stated opportunity to file an amended complaint no matter how futile or misconceived, does this give a court of appeal discretion to not review the actual issues appealed, which are that the district dismissed all the plaintiffs claims with prejudice and intended to? Can a state penalize political speech based on an imagined crime witnessed by nobody, where a federal court accepts facts provided by nobody contrary to the sworn statements of the political speaker as firsthand witness? The Constitution did not seek to answer the question "What are our natural rights?", assuming the process to protect them is not a big problem. It sought to answer the question "What institutions and processes are necessary to impede violations of our rights by a king or the majority?" History can be examined to clarify what natural
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Stephen Lynch Murray
For respondent
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Case
Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences
Proceedings
- Nov 12 2024Rehearing DENIED.
- Oct 23 2024DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/8/2024.
- Oct 11 2024Petition for Rehearing filed.
- Oct 07 2024Petition DENIED.
- Sep 04 2024DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/30/2024.
- Jul 15 2024Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 19, 2024)