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Randal M. Hall v. Travis Trochessett, et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 23-40362 · judgment June 20, 2024
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 Fifth Circuit decision below, and a petition citing one or two dissents.
Questions presented
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Whether the First Amendment can countenance an arrest based on a husband’s advice to his wife to take a clearly non-criminal action.
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Whether this Court should correct the Fifth Circuit’s departure from the other Circuit Courts of Appeals’ and with the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals’ application of the First Amendment to similar interference cases, and to Texas’s own interference statute and built-in speech exception.
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Whether this Court should revisit the propriety and scope of the qualified immunity defense.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Randall Lee Kallinen
Kallinen Law PLLC
For respondent
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Case
Subject area
First Amendment (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Linked docket
24A480
Order
Order list, February 24, 2025 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Feb 24 2025Petition DENIED.
- Feb 05 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/21/2025.
- Dec 18 2024Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 21, 2025)
- Nov 14 2024Application (24A480) granted by Justice Alito extending the time to file until December 18, 2024.
- Nov 08 2024Application (24A480) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from November 18, 2024 to January 17, 2025, submitted to Justice Alito.