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Mike Fitzhugh, Sheriff, Rutherford County, Tennessee, et al. v. Bradley Patton
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, No. 24-5639 · judgment March 13, 2025
Before the decision, roughly the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a state or local-government petitioner, counsel who has filed here before, and a Sixth Circuit decision below.
Question presented
Whether Article III permits a plaintiff with moot claims to continue a putative class action based on the possibility that a future class-certification motion might later confer standing on some undefined class.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
James Matthew Rice
Office of Tennessee Attorney General
For respondent
Elizabeth Rachel Cruikshank
lnstitute for Constitutional Advocacy & Protection
Case
Subject area
Judicial Power (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences
Amicus briefs
1 cert-stage
Linked docket
24A1146
Order
Order list, November 24, 2025 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Nov 24 2025Petition DENIED.
- Nov 05 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/21/2025.
- Oct 29 2025Reply of petitioners Mike Fitzhugh, et al. filed.
- Oct 20 2025Brief of respondent Bradley Patton in opposition filed.
- Aug 21 2025Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including October 20, 2025.
- Aug 20 2025Motion to extend the time to file a response from September 18, 2025 to October 20, 2025, submitted to The Clerk.
- Aug 19 2025Response Requested. (Due September 18, 2025)
- Aug 11 2025Brief amici curiae of Alabama, et al. filed.
- Aug 06 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2025.
- Aug 05 2025Waiver of right of respondent Bradley Patton to respond filed.
- Jul 11 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 14, 2025)
- May 28 2025Application (24A1146) granted by Justice Kavanaugh extending the time to file until July 11, 2025.
- May 22 2025Application (24A1146) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from June 11, 2025 to July 11, 2025, submitted to Justice Kavanaugh.