No. 19-6158

William A. White v. Todd Sloop, et al.

Lower Court: Seventh Circuit
Docketed: 2019-10-03
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: 1st-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process first-amendment free-speech hate-speech judicial-circuit-split judicial-interpretation prison prison-regulations religion
Latest Conference: 2019-12-06
Question Presented (from Petition)

1) In ruling that the statement that Judaism is a "doctrine of hate", with to "violence and murder" nothing more, is so equivalent that literature making such a statement may be banned from a federal prison pursuant to US ConstAmend I, did the Seventh Circuit err in siding with the Fifth and Sixth Circuits against the Second, Third, Eighth, and, Ninth, and, did the Seventh Circuit so far depart from the accept ed and usual course of judicial proceedings in its interpretation of of US Const Amend I to call for an exercise of this Court ...visory power?s super-i

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in ruling that the statement that Judaism is a 'doctrine of hate' is equivalent to 'violence and murder' such that literature making such a statement may be banned from a federal prison pursuant to the First Amendment, in conflict with other circuits

Docket Entries

2019-12-09
The motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis is denied, and the petition for a writ of certiorari is dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
2019-11-14
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/6/2019.
2019-10-21
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2019-09-27
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due November 4, 2019)

Attorneys

United States
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent
William A. White
William White — Petitioner