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Alan Headman v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 25-40151 · judgment June 16, 2025


Certiorari denied · February 23, 2026
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

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

Question presented

I. CONSTITUTIONAL RIPENESS Whether the Supreme Court, in this age of equality, should consider gender-based servi- , tude ripe for correction. II. UNCONSTITUTIONAL AVOIDANCE Whether a court of first instance’s failure to assemble a jury for Thirteenth Amendment and 18 U.S.C. §1584 Sale into involuntary servitude protection, once a demand for trial by jury is made, establishes Unconstitutional Avoidance. III. ADOPTING A JUDICIAL TEST Whether the Supreme Court should require the application of a judicial test for determining when color-of-law actors have used Unconstitutional Avoidance to violate a citizen’s constitutional rights. IV. THE RIGHT TO A GRAND JURY Whether victims have the right to demand a grand jury when color-of-law actors are found to have used Unconstitutional Avoidance to violate the protection of 18 U.S.C. §1584 Sale into involuntary servitude “in any way.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Alan Headman

For respondent
Scot McDonald Graydon
Office of the Attorney General of Texas

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences

Proceedings

  1. Apr 20 2026
    Rehearing DENIED.
  2. Mar 25 2026
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/17/2026.
  3. Mar 13 2026
    Petition for Rehearing filed.
  4. Feb 23 2026
    Petition DENIED.
  5. Jan 21 2026
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/20/2026.
  6. Jan 05 2026
    Waiver of right of respondent Judge Jerald Dean Fowler, II to respond filed.
  7. Dec 29 2025
    Waiver of right of respondent Federal Parties to respond filed.
  8. Dec 17 2025
    Waiver of right of respondent Teresa Welch to respond filed.
  9. Aug 16 2025
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 7, 2026)