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Steven Robert Johnson, et al. v. Ann L. Aiken, Senior Judge, United States District Court for the District of Oregon, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 25-725 · judgment October 24, 2025


0%
estimated cert probability
(petition-stage, structural)
GVR risk 1%

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

Questions presented

  1. Can judicial immunity protect judges from violating the Supremacy Clause? *

  2. Can any federal court judge ignore,the, ,, Supremacy .Clause? , ; > a

  3. If an affidavit is in an exhibit, can it be sealed without. motion? .

  4. Can a federal judge ignore Statutes at Large? 7v

  5. Can a chief judge unilaterally grant judicial O'IT v immunity to a lower federal judge after it has 1 been lost? <-• -

  6. Can a judge use judicial immunity to cover for a & lower court judge that ignored the supremacy clause and acted in favor of the defendant that £** ignored the Attorney General? tpf i 4 7) Can a federal judge act as the defendant in a case I<- they are presiding over? ’x f*

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Steven Robert Johnson

For respondent
D. John Sauer
Solicitor General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Aug 05 2026
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2026.
  2. Jan 15 2026
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due July 24, 2026)