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Hoai Thanh v. Hien T. Ngo

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, No. 17-1110 · judgment August 4, 2017

Certiorari denied · May 14, 2018
Pre-decision estimate: 2% cert probability

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

Questions presented

  1. Did the court of appeals sanction a lower court’s decision in conflict with a decision of a state’s court of last resort so as to call for this Court’s supervisory power, in particular with a decision of the Maryland Court of Appeals regarding application of the statute tolling statutes of limitations during bankruptcy, Maryland Code, Courts and Judicial Proceedings, §5-202?

  2. In so doing did the court of appeals decide an important federal question in a way that conflicts with important decisions of this Court?

  3. Has the court of appeals so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings so as to call for an exercise of this Court’s supervisory power?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Laurence A. Elgin
Law Office of Laurence A. Elgin

For respondent
Joseph Daniel Gallagher
Gill Sippel & Gallagher

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. May 14 2018
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Apr 18 2018
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/10/2018.
  3. Apr 09 2018
    Waiver of right of respondent Hien Ngo to respond filed.
  4. Jan 09 2018
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due April 11, 2018)
  5. Jan 09 2018
    Appendix to petition for a writ of certiorari filed.