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Urve Maggitti v. Pennsylvania
Paid petition · Superior Court of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Office, No. 2859 EDA 2024 · judgment September 16, 2025
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
Whether, under the First and Fourteenth Amendments, a state may Constitutionally permit a State to arbitrarily criminalize the creation of an accurate audiovisual record of judicial proceedings by a party to those proceedings when those proceedings are open to the public and document inaccuracies in the official transcript?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Robert Edward Barnes
Barnes Law LLP
For respondent
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Case
Subject area
First Amendment (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Order
Order list, October 5, 2026 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Oct 05 2026Petition DENIED.
- Aug 26 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2026.
- Jul 07 2026Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 12, 2026)