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Sohilbhai Shaukatali Momin v. Todd Blanche, Attorney General
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 25-60471 · judgment April 9, 2026
11%
estimated cert probability
(petition-stage, structural)
(petition-stage, structural)
95% interval 7%–15%
At the Nov 6 conference: granted 1.7% · GVR 0.47% · relisted 23% · denied 75%
Granted ever, conference-stage estimate: 7.3%
About 2.6× the 4.1% base rate. The model weights this up for counsel who has won certiorari before, a Fifth Circuit decision below, and a petition filed soon after the judgment below.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Raed Gonzalez
Gonzalez Olivieri, LLC
For respondent
D. John Sauer
Solicitor General
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Oct 14 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/6/2026.
- Oct 07 2026Reply of petitioner Sohilbhai S. Momin filed.
- Sep 25 2026Brief of respondent Todd Blanche, Attorney General in opposition filed.
- Sep 08 2026Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including September 25, 2026.
- Sep 04 2026Motion to extend the time to file a response from September 11, 2026 to September 25, 2026, submitted to The Clerk.
- Aug 11 2026Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including September 11, 2026.
- Aug 07 2026Motion to extend the time to file a response from August 12, 2026 to September 11, 2026, submitted to The Clerk.
- Jul 07 2026Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 12, 2026)
- Jul 07 2026Pursuant to Rule 34.6 and Paragraph 9 of the Guidelines for the Submission of Documents to the Supreme Court's Electronic Filing System, filings in this case should be submitted in paper form only, and should not be submitted through the Court's electronic filing system.