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Fares Jeries Rabadi v. Drug Enforcement Administration, et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 22-70114 · judgment November 27, 2024
Certiorari denied · June 30, 2025
Pre-decision estimate: 2% cert probability
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
Whether the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”)’s Administrative Law Judges (“ALJs”) are unconstitutionally insulated from removal in violation of the Take Care Clause of Article II of the United States Constitution, thus rendering the DEA’s action in this case invalid?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Bingzi Hu
Lowther Walker LLC
For respondent
D. John Sauer
Solicitor General
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Jun 30 2025Petition DENIED.
- Jun 10 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/26/2025.
- May 23 2025Brief of respondents Drug Enforcement Administration, et al. in opposition filed.
- May 13 2025Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including May 23, 2025.
- May 12 2025Motion to extend the time to file a response from May 16, 2025 to May 23, 2025, submitted to The Clerk.
- Apr 25 2025Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including May 16, 2025.
- Apr 24 2025Motion to extend the time to file a response from May 2, 2025 to May 16, 2025, submitted to The Clerk.
- Mar 27 2025Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including May 2, 2025.
- Mar 26 2025Motion to extend the time to file a response from April 2, 2025 to May 2, 2025, submitted to The Clerk.
- Feb 24 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due April 2, 2025)