No. 24-673

Randal M. Hall v. Travis Trochessett, et al.

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2024-12-20
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: arrest-basis circuit-split first-amendment interference-statute qualified-immunity speech-protection
Key Terms:
SocialSecurity FirstAmendment FourthAmendment DueProcess CriminalProcedure JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2025-02-21
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the First Amendment protects a husband's advice to his wife that leads to his arrest, and whether the Court should review the Fifth Circuit's interpretation of the First Amendment and qualified immunity doctrine

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether the First Amendment can countenance an arrest based on a husband’s advice to his wife to take a clearly non-criminal action. 2. Whether this Court should correct the Fifth Circuit’s departure from the other Circuit Courts of Appeals’ and with the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals’ application of the First Amendment to similar interference cases, and to Texas’s own interference statute and built-in speech exception. 3. Whether this Court should revisit the propriety and scope of the qualified immunity defense.

Docket Entries

2025-02-24
Petition DENIED.
2025-02-05
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/21/2025.
2024-12-18
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 21, 2025)
2024-11-14
Application (24A480) granted by Justice Alito extending the time to file until December 18, 2024.
2024-11-08
Application (24A480) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from November 18, 2024 to January 17, 2025, submitted to Justice Alito.

Attorneys

Randall M. Hall
Randall Lee KallinenKallinen Law PLLC, Petitioner