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Ann L. Martin, et vir v. Adrienne L. Bailey, et al.

Paid petition · Superior Court of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg Office, No. 2049 MDA 2015 · judgment October 13, 2016


Certiorari denied · March 26, 2018
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

Does the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause guarantee a civil litigant, in a state court, a trial judge who was not previously a paid attorney retained to advance the same case when it was before the trial court in view of the interim decision in Williams v. Pennsylvania, 579 U.S. (2016)?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Ann L. Martin

For respondent

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Linked docket
17A513

Proceedings

  1. Mar 26 2018
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Mar 07 2018
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/23/2018.
  3. Jan 19 2018
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 23, 2018)
  4. Nov 20 2017
    Application (17A513) granted by Justice Sotomayor extending the time to file until January 19, 2018.
  5. Nov 03 2017
    Application (17A513) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from November 21, 2017 to January 20, 2018, submitted to Justice Sotomayor. (Justice Alito is recused.)