No. 25-142

William Gerard Sangervasi, II v. City of San Jose, California, et al.

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2025-08-06
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: equal-protection first-amendment government-speech police-uniform sexual-orientation viewpoint-discrimination
Key Terms:
SocialSecurity FirstAmendment DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2025-10-10
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether government can misappropriate police uniforms for ideological sexual speech in violation of equal protection and First Amendment rights

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

Our American Flag and The Uniform of America's Police Officers are neutral and impartial visual symbols of blind-justice and equal protection under the law for all people in The United States of America. Never in American History has The Uniform of America's Police Officers ever been officially desecrated with visible bias, and the last time that uniformed executive officers in America raised a flag against our American Flag, it resulted in the American Civil War. 1. In consideration of the Respondents' recent and unprecedented desecration of The Uniform of America's Police Officers with visible “Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender, and Queer pride ” speech and visible bias, preference, favoritism, prejudice, and segregationist intent; and the related implementation of segregated policing in America; specifically and only for and in favor of those who identify as “Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender, and Queer ” with the explicit exclusion of at least “hetero-sexuals ” in particular; can the government deny the plain-text right to “the equal protection of the laws ”, as is carried out and executed by the police at all times, seemingly in direct violation of the Fourteenth Amendment of The Constitution of The United States of America? 2. Can The Uniform of America's Police Officers be misappropriated and used as a personal billboard and interactive “forum ” for biased ideological and ii intimately personal sexual speech, and in favor of certain individuals, in direct violation of the history and traditions of the neutral and impartial visual appearance of The American Uniform, and seemingly in direct violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's plain-text right to “the equal protection of the laws ”, as is carried out and executed by the police at all times? 3. Can the intimately personal sexual speech of an individual be misappropriated as “government speech ” so that the government can then deny the personal free speech rights of others under the guise of “government speech ”, seemingly in direct violation of the First Amendment of The Constitution of The United States of America? 4. Can the government allow certain individuals to actively engage in intimately personal sexual speech and freedom of association with others in a “forum ” on the topic of “Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender, and Queer pride ” and sexualorientation, but then deny that same free speech and freedom of association to others in an interactive “forum ” based on the “hetero-sexual ” content and viewpoint of the speech, seemingly in direct violation of both the First and Fourteenth Amendments of The Constitution of The United States of America? 5. Can the government allow certain individuals to actively engage in intimately personal sexual iii speech in a “forum ” thereby allowing secular speech on the topic of sexual-orientation, but then deny and censor religious speech on the topic of sexualorientation, thereby infringing on the free exercise of religion within that interactive “forum ”, seemingly in direct violation of both the First and Fourteenth Amendments of The Constitution of The United States of America?

Docket Entries

2025-10-14
Petition DENIED.
2025-09-17
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/10/2025.
2025-08-06
Waiver of City of San Jose of right to respond submitted.
2025-08-06
Waiver of right of respondent City of San Jose to respond filed.
2025-07-19
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 5, 2025)
2025-04-17
Application (24A995) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until July 20, 2025.
2025-04-14
Application (24A995) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from May 21, 2025 to July 20, 2025, submitted to Justice Kagan.

Attorneys

City of San Jose
Malgorzata LaskowskaOffice of City Attorney, City of San Jose, Respondent
Malgorzata LaskowskaOffice of City Attorney, City of San Jose, Respondent
William Gerard Sangervasi
William Gerard Sangervasi II — Petitioner
William Gerard Sangervasi II — Petitioner