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William Gerard Sangervasi, II v. City of San Jose, California

Paid petition · Court of Appeal of California, Sixth Appellate District, No. H051833 · judgment September 2, 2025


Certiorari denied · October 5, 2026
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate: the model weighted this down for a self-represented petitioner.

Question presented

Petitioner was illegally fired as a Police Officer for dutifully criticizing the anti-American and unconstitutional actions of the Respondent's police chief. In a perverted attack on American History and Tradition, and in violation of The United States Constitution, the governmental Respondent's police chief raised a “Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender, and Queer pride” flag against our American Flag at an American police department (App. 119a), and the chief desecrated and perverted the sacrosanct neutral and impartial visual appearance of The American Uniform with an official “Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender, and Queer pride” police uniform shoulder patch (App. 122a), thereby allowing individual police officers to publicly display and visually communicate their own personal opinions about sexual activity and sex-acts relating to “Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender, and Queer pride”, on The Uniform of America's Police Officers. This is a treasonous, capital offense. Never in American History has The Uniform of America's Police Officers ever been officially desecrated with visible bias, and the last time that uniformed executive officers in America raised a flag against our American Flag, it resulted in the American Civil War. In accordance with this history and tradition, the question presented is: Whether a Police Officer's Oath of Office that is taken in accordance with Article VI of The United States Constitution, further protects the Officer's

Counsel of record

For petitioner
William Gerard Sangervasi II

For respondent
Thomas J. Gray
Office of the City Attorney

Case

Subject area
First Amendment (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Linked docket
25A904

Order
Order list, October 5, 2026 · Certiorari denied

Proceedings

  1. Oct 05 2026
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jul 22 2026
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2026.
  3. Jul 15 2026
    Waiver of right of respondent City of San Jose to respond filed.
  4. May 09 2026
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due July 22, 2026)
  5. Feb 10 2026
    Application (25A904) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until May 9, 2026.
  6. Feb 06 2026
    Application (25A904) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from March 10, 2026 to May 9, 2026, submitted to Justice Kagan.