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Santiago Alejandro Diaz-Esparza v. Jefferson B. Sessions, III, Attorney General

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 16-60004 · judgment September 6, 2017

GVR'd · May 14, 2018
Pre-decision estimate: 3% cert probability

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

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Raed Gonzalez
Gonzalez Olivieri, LLC

For respondent
Noel John Francisco
Jones Day

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 4 conferences

Proceedings

  1. Jun 15 2018
    JUDGMENT ISSUED.
  2. May 14 2018
    Petition GRANTED. Judgment VACATED and case REMANDED for further consideration in light of Sessions v. Dimaya, 584 U. S. ____ (2018).
  3. May 07 2018
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/10/2018.
  4. Apr 23 2018
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/27/2018.
  5. Apr 17 2018
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/20/2018.
  6. Feb 21 2018
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/16/2018.
  7. Feb 07 2018
    Memorandum of respondent Jefferson B. Sessions, III, Attorney General filed.
  8. Jan 05 2018
    Motion to extend the time to file a response from January 8, 2018 to February 7, 2018, submitted to The Clerk.
  9. Jan 05 2018
    Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including February 7, 2018.
  10. Dec 05 2017
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 8, 2018)
  11. Dec 05 2017
    Pursuant to Rule 34.6 and Paragraph 9 of the Guidelines for the Submission of Documents to the Supreme Court’s Electronic Filing System, filings in this case should be submitted in paper form only, and should not be submitted through the Court’s electronic filing system.