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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


Certiorari denied · February 24, 2025
Pre-decision estimate: 12% cert probability (95% interval 8%–17%)

Before the decision, about 2.9× the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a Fifth Circuit decision below, counsel with five or more prior petitions here, and a circuit split argued in the petition.

Questions presented

  1. Whether the First Amendment can countenance an arrest based on a husband’s advice to his wife to take a clearly non-criminal action.

  2. 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.

  3. 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

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Linked docket
24A480

Proceedings

  1. Feb 24 2025
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Feb 05 2025
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/21/2025.
  3. Dec 18 2024
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 21, 2025)
  4. Nov 14 2024
    Application (24A480) granted by Justice Alito extending the time to file until December 18, 2024.
  5. Nov 08 2024
    Application (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.