Opinion ID: 1948649
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: order staying mandate

Text: [¶1] Pending before the Court [1] is Herbert Hoffman's motion for stay of the mandate in the above-captioned matter. Hoffman seeks the stay in order to obtain a review of our opinion by the United States Supreme Court. We have received Hoffman's motion; the opposition of John Knutson; an affidavit from Julie L. Flynn, Deputy Secretary of State; and Hoffman's supplemental statement in support of his motion for a stay. [¶2] By rule, the Court's mandate would have issued fourteen days following the certification of the opinion, in this case, on August 11, 2008. M.R.App. P. 14(a)(2). We have held the mandate pending receipt of each party's position on Hoffman's motion. Id. Hoffman indicates that he has filed a simultaneous motion for stay with a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, see 28 U.S.C.S. § 2101(f) (Law Co-op. 1992), [2] and that he intends to file an expedited petition for certiorari. [¶3] We would ordinarily deny the motion for stay because, as briefly addressed below, Hoffman has not established a reasonable likelihood of success in obtaining review and prevailing in his appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. In order, however, to allow Hoffman to press his requests in the U.S. Supreme Court, we will accommodate Hoffman's request, in part.