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Erik Cooper v. Tennessee, et al.

Paid petition · Supreme Court of Tennessee, Middle Division, No. M2023-01000-SC-BAR-BP · judgment May 15, 2024


Certiorari denied · March 10, 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.

Questions presented

  1. Whether the public can maintain trust or confidence in a state supreme court if the court ignores its own rules and its agency’s own policies and rules governing the investigation of disciplinary complaints.

  2. Whether a state court can ignore public reports of its agency’s violations of court rules and the agency’s policies and rules during the administration of disciplinary complaints.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Erik Cooper

For respondent
Kristen A. Bell
Office of the Tennessee Attorney General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences

Linked docket
24M48

Proceedings

  1. Mar 10 2025
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Feb 19 2025
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/7/2025.
  3. Jan 17 2025
    Waiver of right of respondent State of Tennessee, et al. to respond filed.
  4. Jan 13 2025
    Motion (24M48) for leave to file a petition for a writ of certiorari with the supplemental appendix under seal Granted
  5. Dec 18 2024
    MOTION (24M48) DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/10/2025.
  6. Aug 11 2024
    Motion of petitioner for leave to file a petition for a writ of certiorari with the supplemental appendix under seal filed.
  7. Aug 11 2024
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 13, 2025)