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Lawyers for Fair Reciprocal Admission v. United States, et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 24-2213 · judgment June 20, 2025
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
Whether federal district and bankruptcy court professional speech local (sic) rules—that create a nationwide patchwork of conflicting licensing standards, effectively imposing nationwide injunctions on the practice rights of qualified attorneys in violation of the Rules Enabling Act’s uniformity requirements and Trump v. Casa’s prohibition on lower court nationwide injunctions and the First Amendment freedoms to speech, association, and to petition the government for the redress of grievances—are subject to rational basis review?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Joseph Robert Giannini
Law Office Joseph R. Giannini
For respondent
D. John Sauer
Solicitor General
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences
Proceedings
- Feb 23 2026Rehearing DENIED.
- Jan 14 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/20/2026.
- Jan 14 2026Supplemental brief of petitioner Lawyers for Fair Reciprocal Admission filed. (Distributed)
- Jan 02 2026Petition for Rehearing filed.
- Dec 08 2025Petition DENIED.
- Nov 12 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/5/2025.
- Nov 07 2025Waiver of right of respondent Federal Respondents to respond filed.
- Oct 20 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 21, 2025)