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Margo Roman v. Massachusetts Board of Registration in Veterinary Medicine
Paid petition · Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, No. SJC-13653 · judgment May 6, 2025
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
In its coming Term, this Court will address occupational speech issues in the pending matter of Chiles v. Salazar (No. 24-539), cert. granted, 145 S. Ct. 1328 (2025). Meanwhile, at least three other certiorari petitions in cases involving occupational speech are being held pending the decision in Chiles (including Crownholm v. Moore (No. 24-276), 360 Virtual Drone Servs. LLC v. Ritter (No. 24-279), and Hines v. Pardue (No. 24- 920)). In this case raising similar legal issues as Chiles, the question presented is: whether a state occupational licensing board is entitled to apply a lower standard of constitutional scrutiny to speech that is neither commercial nor incidental to conduct simply because the speaker was subject to professional licensure.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Thaddeus Alan Heuer
Foley Hoag, LLP
For respondent
Grace Gohlke
Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences
Amicus briefs
1 cert-stage
Proceedings
- Jan 12 2026Petition DENIED.
- Dec 16 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/9/2026.
- Dec 08 2025Reply of petitioner Margo Roman filed.
- Dec 02 2025Brief of respondent Massachusetts Board of Registration in Veterinary Medicine in opposition filed.
- Sep 26 2025Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including December 2, 2025.
- Sep 18 2025Motion to extend the time to file a response from October 3, 2025 to December 2, 2025, submitted to The Clerk.
- Sep 04 2025Brief amici curiae of Veterinarians, et al. filed.
- Sep 03 2025Response Requested. (Due October 3, 2025)
- Aug 20 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2025.
- Aug 06 2025Waiver of right of respondent Massachusetts Board of Registration in Veterinary Medicine to respond filed.
- Aug 04 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 4, 2025)