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Larry E. Parrish, P.C. v. Nancy Strong, et al.

Paid petition · Supreme Court of Tennessee, Middle Division, No. M2024-01141-SC-T10B-CV · judgment September 30, 2024


Certiorari denied · March 24, 2025
Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability

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

Questions presented

  1. According to Williams v. Pennsylvania, 579 U.S. 1 (2016) (“Williams”), is Rule 10B of the Rules of Tennessee Supreme Court (“Rule 10B”) a structural constitutional violation, 1 guaranteed by the United States Constitution, Fourteenth Amendment, Due Process, Clause (“Fourteenth Amendment”), because Rule 10B, imposes conditions that shift, from the State of Tennessee to litigants, the burden of providing petitioner access to a judge with a state of mind equal to the minimum Williams requires for any judge to be constitutionally qualified to adjudicate petitioner’s case?

  2. Is an inalienable characteristic of a structural constitutional right that it is impossible for a litigant (as is petitioner) to waive and for the State of Tennessee to forfeit?

  3. Per petitioner (a litigant), for a judge to be constitutionally qualified to adjudicate a litigant’s case, must the judge not appear to have a state of mind (“psychologically wedded”) described in Williams?

  4. Per Williams, is the right of a litigant to a constitutionally qualified judge a structural

  5. Structural constitutional rights. Greer v. United States, 593 U.S. 503 (2021); Weaver v. Massachusetts, 582 U.S. 286 (2017); McCoy v. Louisiana, 584 U.S. 414 (2018); Glebe v. Frost, 574 U.S. 21 (2014); United States v. Davila, 569 U.S. 597 (2013); United States v. Marcus, 560 U.S. 258 (2010); United States v. Gonzalez-Lopez, 548 U.S. 140 (2006); Washington v. Recuenco, 548 U.S. 212 (2006).

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Larry Edward Parrish
Parrish Lawyers, P.C.

For respondent
Andrew Craig Coulam
State of Tennessee Attorney General's Office

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Mar 24 2025
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Feb 26 2025
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/21/2025.
  3. Feb 21 2025
    Reply of petitioner Larry E. Parrish, P.C. filed.
  4. Feb 10 2025
    Brief of respondents Nancy Strong, et al. in opposition filed.
  5. Jan 17 2025
    Waiver of right of respondent Jonathan Skrmetti to respond filed.
  6. Dec 30 2024
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 10, 2025)