No. 23-373

DeRay Mckesson v. John Doe

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2023-10-10
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8)
Tags: civil-rights first-amendment free-speech naacp-precedent naacp-v-claiborne-hardware negligence negligence-action protest-leader-liability protest-liability
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Latest Conference: 2024-04-12 (distributed 8 times)
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Do the First Amendment and NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co. foreclose a state law negligence action against a protest leader for injuries from an unidentified person's violent act?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED Do the First Amendment and this Court’s decision in NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co., 458 U.S. 886 (1982), foreclose a state law negligence action making a leader of a protest demonstration personally liable in damages for injuries inflicted by an unidentified person’s violent act, when it is undisputed that the leader neither authorized, directed, nor ratified the perpetrator’s act, nor engaged in or intended violence of any kind? i

Docket Entries

2024-04-15
Petition DENIED. Statement of Justice Sotomayor respecting the denial of certiorari. (Detached <a href = 'https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-373_8njq.pdf'>Opinion</a>)
2024-04-08
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/12/2024.
2024-03-25
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/28/2024.
2024-03-18
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/22/2024.
2024-03-11
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/15/2024.
2024-02-26
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/1/2024.
2024-02-20
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/23/2024.
2024-01-22
2024-01-17
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/16/2024.
2024-01-03
2023-12-15
2023-12-04
Response Requested. (Due January 3, 2024)
2023-11-29
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/5/2024.
2023-11-28
Waiver of right of respondent John Doe to respond filed.
2023-11-09
Brief amicus curiae of Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression filed.
2023-11-09
2023-11-09
2023-11-08
Brief amicus curiae of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People filed.
2023-11-07
2023-10-05
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 9, 2023)
2023-09-06
Application (23A209) granted by Justice Alito extending the time to file until October 5, 2023.
2023-08-30
Application (23A209) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from September 14, 2023 to October 5, 2023, submitted to Justice Alito.

Attorneys

DeRay Mckesson
David Thomas GoldbergDonahue & Goldberg, LLP, Petitioner
First Amendment Scholar John D. Inazu
Andrea Rose ButlerBryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, Amicus
Floyd Abrams, Erwin Chemerinsky, Seth Kreimer, Robert Post, Amanda Shanor, Geoffrey R. Stone, Nadine Strossen, and Kenneth P. White
Meaghan Elizabeth McLaine VerGowO'Melveny & Myers LLP, Amicus
Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
Robert Lawrence Corn-RevereFoundation for Individual Rights and Expression, Amicus
John Doe
Donna Unkel GrodnerGrodner & Associates, Respondent
NAACP
Hope R. Metcalf — Amicus
The Rutherford Institute
Erin Glenn Busby — Amicus
Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center
Justin David HansfordHoward University School of Law , Amicus