professional-speech

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-575 Will McLemore, et al. v. Roxanna Gumucio, in Her Official Capacity as Executive Director of the Tennessee Auctioneer Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-11-13 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived circuit-split first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny licensing-law professional-speech speech-conduct 1. Whether a burden on speech must be incidental merely because it is imposed by an occupational licensing law. 2. Whether a law that imposes inciden…
25-496 Lawyers for Fair Reciprocal Admission v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-10-22 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-review first-amendment licensing-standards nationwide-injunction professional-speech rules-enabling-act Whether federal district and bankruptcy court professional speech local (sic) rules—that create a nationwide patchwork of conflicting licensing standa…
24-276 Ryan Crownholm, et al. v. Richard B. Moore, in His Official Capacity as Executive Officer of the California Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-11 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) conduct-distinction constitutional-scrutiny first-amendment occupational-licensing professional-speech speech-regulation What standard applies to determine whether an occupational licensing law's restriction on speech is a regulation of speech or conduct that incidentall…
23-244 Lawyers for Fair Reciprocal Admission v. United States Third Circuit 2023-09-14 Denied Response Waived civil-rights conflicts-of-interest due-process free-speech judicial-admission local-rules nonuniform-standards professional-speech standing third-circuit writ-of-certiorari Has the Petitioner established good cause for this Court to issue a writ of certiorari before judgment because the nonuniform local rules directly con…
22-942 Brian Tingley v. Robert W. Ferguson, Attorney General of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-28 Denied Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (10) counseling counseling-regulation employment-division-v-smith first-amendment free-speech gender-identity professional-speech religious-freedom religious-liberty Whether a law that censors conversations between counselors and clients as 'unprofessional conduct' violates the Free Speech Clause
22-135 Heather Kokesch Del Castillo v. Joseph A. Ladapo, Secretary, Florida Department of Health Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-15 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech government-regulation occupational-licensing occupational-regulation professional-speech speech-restriction Whether a government prohibition on communicating a message is exempt from First Amendment scrutiny simply because that prohibition flows from a statu…
20-130 Hung Dang v. Washington Department of Health, Medical Quality Assurance Commission Washington 2020-08-07 Denied Response Waived duty-of-care first-amendment free-speech medical-licensing medical-quality-assurance physician-patient-relationship professional-speech statutory-interpretation Whether RCW 18.130.180(1) and (4), as construed and applied by the Washington Court of Appeals in the absence of a formal physician-patient relationsh…
18-516 Charles G. Kinney v. Philip Gutierrez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-19 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process federal-procedure free-speech judicial-discretion professional-speech retaliation section-1983 vexatious-litigant Whether the 3-judge panel abused its discretion in dismissing 8 of Kinney's pending appeals, which allegedly covered up acts by Justice Gutierrez and …
18-517 Charles G. Kinney v. Philip Gutierrez Ninth Circuit 2018-10-19 Denied abuse-of-discretion bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process free-speech judicial-discretion professional-speech section-1983 vexatious-litigant issues-being-raised
18-518 Charles G. Kinney v. Clerk, Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division Three, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-19 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights clean-water-act color-of-law due-process federal-clean-water-act free-speech hobbs-act honest-services judicial-discretion professional-speech state-nuisance-law Whether the Ninth Circuit abused its discretion in dismissing Kinney's appeals, violating his First Amendment rights and depriving him of due process,…
18-504 Charles G. Kinney v. Roger W. Boren, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment Hobbs-Act Janus judicial-misconduct NIFLA professional-speech section-1983 vexatious-litigant Issue being raised
18-508 Charles G. Kinney v. Tyson Takeuchi, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process false-statements federal-procedure free-speech judicial-discretion professional-speech Issue being raised
18-509 Charles G. Kinney v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response Waived anti-trust civil-rights civil-rights-violations color-of-authority due-process first-amendment free-speech interstate-commerce judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct professional-speech standing state-bar-regulation vexatious-litigant Whether the Ninth Circuit abused its discretion in dismissing multiple appeals by the petitioner and using 'vexatious litigant' and 'puppet' labels to…
18-510 Charles G. Kinney v. Michele R. Clark, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process federal-law free-speech hobbs-act judicial-discretion professional-speech state-court-proceedings vexatious-litigant Whether the dismissal of multiple appeals was an abuse of discretion to cover up violations of federal law and civil rights
18-515 Charles G. Kinney v. Michele R. Clark, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied abuse-of-discretion bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process federal-procedure free-speech judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct professional-speech Dismissal of pro se litigant's appeals for alleged professional speech violations, cover-up of bankruptcy law violations, and abuse of discretion by a…