professional-speech
15 cases — ← All topics
| 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 | Denied | 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 | 1. What standard applies to determine whether an occupational licensing law's restriction on a person's use, creation, and dissemination of informatio… |
| 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 | Brian Tingley is a licensed marriage and family counselor who helps clients with various issues, including sexuality and gender identity. A practicing… |
| 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 | While on-call as a private otolaryngologist, I verbally declined to accept into my care two persons from outlying hospitals, where I was neither on st… |
| 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 | By simultaneously dismissing 8 of Kinney's pending appeals, did this 3 Judge panel abuse its discretion to cover-up acts by Justice Gutierrez and othe… |
| 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 | By simultaneously dismissing 8 of Kinney's pending appeals, did this 3 Judge panel abuse its discretion to cover-up acts by federal Judge Gutierrez wh… | |
| 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 | By simultaneously dismissing 8 of Kinney's pending appeals, did this 3 Judge panel abuse its discretion by violating Janus and NIFLA to cover-up acts … | |
| 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 | By simultaneously dismissing 8 of Kinney's pending appeals, did this 3 Judge Ninth Circuit panel abuse its discretion to cover-up acts by Justice Roge… | |
| 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 | By simultaneously dismissing 8 of Kinney's pending appeals, did this 3 Judge panel abuse its discretion by violating Janus and NIFLA to cover-up acts … |
| 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 | By simultaneously dismissing 8 of Kinney's pending appeals, did these same 3 Judges on a Ninth Circuit panel abuse their discretion by covering-up act… |
| 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 | By simultaneously dismissing 8 of Kinney's pending appeals, did this 3 Judge panel abuse its discretion to cover-up acts by Justice Gutierrez, debtor … | |
| 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 | By simultaneously dismissing 8 of Kinney's pending appeals, did this 3 Judge panel abuse its discretion by violating Janus and NIFLA to cover-up acts … |