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Huimin Song, et al. v. County of Santa Clara, California, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 15-15299 · judgment June 28, 2017


Certiorari denied · February 20, 2018
Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability

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

Questions presented

  1. Should certiorari be granted to review an issue of national importance regarding the extent of procedural due process under the Fourteenth Amendment due to employees whose employer exercises self-help to recoup mistakenly overpayment directly from the employee’s paycheck?

  2. Do prior decisions of this Court which require procedural due process under the Fourteenth Amendment to be appropriate and meaningful, require an employee from whom an employer takes by an act of self-help an excessive amount of payroll overpayment have at least a non-adversarial hearing before a third party?

  3. Do perfunctory elements of notice and the right or opportunity to be heard satisfy procedural due process under the Fourteenth Amendment regarding pre-deprivation and post-deprivation taking of private property, i.e, the earned wages of an employee?

  4. Did the Ninth Circuit correctly decide Respondent provided adequate due process in this case by disregarding the detailed factual findings of the district court to the contrary?

  5. Did the Ninth Circuit improperly overrule the district court’s denial of Respondent’s renewed motion for judgment as a matter by ignoring the district court’s detailed factual finding Respondent had a written policy regarding the matters in issue concerning municipal liability under §1983?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Howard Moore Jr.
Moore & Moore

For respondent
Melissa Renee Kiniyalocts
County of Santa Clara, Office of the County Counse

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Linked docket
17A465

Proceedings

  1. Feb 20 2018
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jan 17 2018
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/16/2018.
  3. Jan 03 2018
    Waiver of right of respondent County of Santa Clara to respond filed.
  4. Dec 04 2017
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 4, 2018)
  5. Oct 25 2017
    Application (17A465) granted by Justice Kennedy extending the time to file until December 2, 2017.
  6. Oct 22 2017
    Application (17A465) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from November 2, 2017 to December 2, 2017, submitted to Justice Kennedy.