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TitleMax of South Carolina, Inc. v. Wendy Spicher, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Banking and Securities
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, No. 25-2027 · judgment August 5, 2026
(petition-stage, structural)
About 6.7× the 4.1% base rate. The model weights this up for a petition filed soon after the judgment below, counsel who has won certiorari before, 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
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Proceedings
- Sep 08 2026Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including November 2, 2026.
- Sep 04 2026Motion to extend the time to file a response from October 1, 2026 to November 2, 2026, submitted to The Clerk.
- Aug 27 2026Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 1, 2026)