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Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, No. 24-5087 · judgment December 10, 2025


Certiorari denied · April 20, 2026
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

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

Question presented

Can the Federal Government’s get away with at­ tempted murder, modern-day lynching in a hospital and Human Rights violations again on an American Citizen and use the Federal Government’s power to influence the Courts’ decision to protect the Federal Bureau of Investigation from liability for committing a terrorist act?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Harold Jean-Baptiste

For respondent
D. John Sauer
Solicitor General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Apr 20 2026
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Mar 25 2026
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/17/2026.
  3. Mar 19 2026
    Waiver of right of respondent Federal Respondents to respond filed.
  4. Jan 27 2026
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 26, 2026)