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King Vanga v. Priscilla N. Juarez, et al.

Paid petition · Court of Appeal of California, First Appellate District, No. A169427, A169948, A169976 · judgment February 28, 2025


Certiorari denied · November 10, 2025
Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability

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

Question presented

Whether the First Amendment protects a verifiably false factual statement as an opinion based on disclosed facts simply because the statement republished information from a third party and attributed the falsehood to that third party?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Jeffrey Michael Rosenfeld
Kronenberger Rosenfeld, LLP

For respondent

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Nov 10 2025
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Oct 15 2025
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/7/2025.
  3. Aug 25 2025
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 29, 2025)