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TMX Finance Corporate Services, Incorporated v. Wendy S. Spicher, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Banking and Securities
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 24-11087 · judgment January 9, 2026
(petition-stage, structural)
About 3.1× the 4.1% base rate. The model weights this up for counsel who has won certiorari before, a Fifth Circuit decision below, and a circuit split argued in the petition, and down for a state or local-government respondent.
Question presented
Whether a State’s “generic,” New Orleans Pub. Serv., Inc. v. Council of City of New Orleans, 491 U.S. 350, 365 (1989), interest in regulating the transactions that out-of-state companies enter into with the State’s residents within other States’ borders is sufficiently important to permit the State to evade federal court under Younger v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37 (1971).
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Misha Tseytlin
Troutman Pepper Locke LLP
For respondent
Michael John Scarinci
Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General
Case
Subject area
Judicial Power (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Linked docket
25A1183
Proceedings
- Sep 08 2026Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including November 2, 2026.
- Sep 08 2026Amended corporate disclosure filed by petitioners.
- Sep 04 2026Motion to extend the time to file a response from September 28, 2026 to November 2, 2026, submitted to The Clerk.
- Aug 19 2026Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including September 28, 2026.
- Aug 18 2026Motion to extend the time to file a response from September 11, 2026 to September 28, 2026, submitted to The Clerk.
- Aug 12 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2026.
- Aug 12 2026Response Requested. (Due September 11, 2026)
- Aug 06 2026Waiver of right of respondent Wendy S. Spicher to respond filed.
- Jul 02 2026Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 6, 2026)
- Apr 28 2026Application (25A1183) granted by Justice Alito extending the time to file until July 3, 2026.
- Apr 23 2026Application (25A1183) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from June 3, 2026 to July 31, 2026, submitted to Justice Alito.