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Cutberto Viramontes, et al. v. Cook County, Illinois, et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, No. 24-1437 · judgment June 2, 2025
Certiorari granted · June 30, 2026
Pre-decision estimate: 4% cert probability
Before the decision, roughly the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for counsel who has won certiorari before, a petition filed soon after the judgment below, and a Seventh Circuit decision below.
Question presented
Consolidated with 25-566. Whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to possess AR-15 platform and similar semiautomatic rifles.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
David H. Thompson
Cooper & Kirk, PLLC
For respondent
Jessica Megan Scheller
Office of the Cook County State's Attorney
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 22 conferences
Amicus briefs
1 cert-stage · 10 merits
(10 supporting pet./neither)
Related
Vide, 25-566
Proceedings
- Sep 03 2026Amicus brief of Michigan Coalition for Responsible Gun Owners submitted.
- Sep 03 2026Amicus brief of National Association For Gun Rights, Inc. And Texas Gun Rights, Inc. submitted.
- Sep 03 2026Amicus brief of Knox Williams, Senior Fellow for Second Amendment Policy at the America First Policy Institute submitted.
- Sep 03 2026Amicus brief of Second Amendment Institute, et al. submitted.
- Sep 03 2026Amicus brief of Hawaii Firearms Coalition submitted.
- Sep 02 2026Amicus brief of Professor Akhil Reed Amar, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University and Yale University School of Law submitted.
- Sep 02 2026Amicus brief of Second Amendment Law Center submitted.
- Aug 31 2026Brief amicus curiae of Hawaii Rifle Association filed. VIDED.
- Aug 31 2026Brief amicus curiae of National Sheriffs’ Association, et al. filed. VIDED.
- Aug 28 2026Brief of petitioners Cutberto Viramontes, et al. filed. VIDED.
- Aug 28 2026Joint appendix filed. VIDED.
- Aug 27 2026Brief amicus curiae of G. Antaeus B. Edelsohn filed. VIDED.
- Jul 15 2026Motion to extend the time to file the briefs on the merits granted. The time to file the joint appendix and petitioners' brief on the merits is extended to and including August 28, 2026. The time to file respondents' briefs on the merits is extended to and including October 21, 2026. VIDED.
- Jul 14 2026Motion for an extension of time to file the briefs on the merits filed. VIDED.
- Jun 30 2026Petition GRANTED. The petition for a writ of certiorari in No. 25-566 is granted as to the question presented by the petition in No. 25-238. The cases are consolidated, and a total of one hour is allotted for oral argument. VIDED.
- Jun 30 2026Because the Court has consolidated these cases for briefing and oral argument, future filings and activity in the cases will now be reflected on the docket of No. 25-238. Subsequent filings in these cases must therefore be submitted through the electronic filing system in No. 25-238. Each document submitted in connection with one or more of these cases must include on its cover the case number and caption for each case in which the filing is intended to be submitted. Where a filing is submitted in fewer than all of the cases, the docket entry will reflect the case number(s) in which the filing is submitted; a document filed in all of the consolidated cases will be noted as “VIDED.”
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- Nov 12 2025Reply of petitioners Cutberto Viramontes, et al. filed. (Distributed)
- Oct 29 2025Brief of respondents Cook County, Illinois, et al. in opposition filed.
- Sep 29 2025Brief amicus curiae of Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs, Inc. filed.
- Sep 22 2025Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including October 29, 2025.
- Sep 19 2025Motion to extend the time to file a response from September 29, 2025 to October 29, 2025, submitted to The Clerk.
- Aug 27 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 29, 2025)