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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


Certiorari denied · December 8, 2025
Pre-decision estimate: 3% cert probability

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

  1. Feb 23 2026
    Rehearing DENIED.
  2. Jan 14 2026
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/20/2026.
  3. Jan 14 2026
    Supplemental brief of petitioner Lawyers for Fair Reciprocal Admission filed. (Distributed)
  4. Jan 02 2026
  5. Dec 08 2025
    Petition DENIED.
  6. Nov 12 2025
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/5/2025.
  7. Nov 07 2025
    Waiver of right of respondent Federal Respondents to respond filed.
  8. Oct 20 2025
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 21, 2025)