No. 22-1137

Conference of Presidents of Major Italian American Organizations, Inc., et al. v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al.

Lower Court: Third Circuit
Docketed: 2023-05-23
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: cancel-culture civil-rights discrimination discriminatory-action due-process equal-protection ethnic-holiday executive-order injury-in-fact redressability standing
Key Terms:
DueProcess FirstAmendment JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2023-09-26
Question Presented (from Petition)

Whether the Court of Appeals erred in deviating from the test for standing employed by the Eleventh Circuit in Gardner v. Mutz, 857 F. App'x 633, 634 (11th Cir. 2021) and holding that Plaintiffs—individuals and groups with vested interests in celebrating a previously recognized ethnic holiday—lack standing to bring this lawsuit, despite suffering an injury in fact from a purposely discriminatory executive order by a City Mayor, motivated by the modern day "cancel culture," which cancelled the ethnic holiday in favor of another ethnicity's holiday causing redressable harm to Petitioners that flowed directly from the actions of the Mayor and the City.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Court of Appeals erred in deviating from the test for standing employed by the Eleventh Circuit

Docket Entries

2023-10-02
Petition DENIED.
2023-06-28
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/26/2023.
2023-06-09
Waiver of right of respondent Mayor James F. Kenney, City of Philadelphia to respond filed.
2023-05-18
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 22, 2023)

Attorneys

Conference of Presidents of Major Italian American Organizations, Inc., et al.
G. Alexander BochettoBochetto & Lentz, P.C., Petitioner
Mayor James F. Kenney, City of Philadelphia
Jane Lovitch IstvanCity of Philadelphia Law Department, Respondent