No. 24-6819

Kenneth Daywitt, et al. v. Jodi Harpstead, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Human Services, in her Individual and Official Capacity, et al.

Lower Court: Eighth Circuit
Docketed: 2025-03-20
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: constitutional-rights court-standards first-amendment free-speech judicial-duty legal-standards
Key Terms:
SocialSecurity FirstAmendment JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2025-04-25
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Do federal courts have a duty to citizens of the United States of America to apply established legal standards related to First Amendment claims?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

Should Court Specifically Address Whether Access to Internet and Technology-Based Speech Must Extend First Amendment Protection? Do federal courts have a duty to citizens of the United States of America to apply established legal standards, to freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom to vote intelligently, and related First Amendment claims? Can the courts of the United States, through bias, undermine justice and circumvent well established Supreme Court standards of legal doctrine, the doctrinal standards established in the circuit courts as a whole, based upon tyrannical and predisposed prejudicial political ideals that operate outside the United States Constitution? Did Court err, disposing the case per curiam, without memorandum, where disposition opposes this Court ’s Ruling in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharms., Inc., 509 U.S. 579 (1993)? Does ruling create paper-tiger application of Court Rules? Are Petitioners harmed where they have a right to free exercise, to vote intelligently, to participate in society; which is reduced to paper-tiger rights with no enforcement? -11 —

Docket Entries

2025-04-28
Petition DENIED.
2025-04-10
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/25/2025.
2025-04-03
Waiver of Harpstead, Comm'r, Human Serv., et al. of right to respond submitted.
2025-04-03
Waiver of right of respondent Harpstead, Comm'r, Human Serv., et al. to respond filed.
2025-01-15
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 21, 2025)

Attorneys

Harpstead, Comm'r, Human Serv., et al.
Aaron E. WinterOffice of the Minnesota Attorney General, Respondent
Kenneth Daywitt, et al.
Peter Lonergan — Petitioner