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Warren Dailey v. United States

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 16-20517 · judgment August 17, 2017


Certiorari denied · January 8, 2018
Pre-decision estimate: 4% cert probability

Before the decision, roughly the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a Fifth Circuit decision below and a circuit split argued in the petition.

Questions presented

  1. Whether the Fifth Circuit has so departed from the guidelines mandated by the Supreme Court as they relate to the Ex Post Facto Clause of the United States Constitution concerning punishment of an act which was not a crime when committed as to be in conflict with the law espoused in Calder v. Bull, 3 U.S. 386 (1798); Collins v. Youngblood, 497 U.S. 37 (1990) and Samuels v. McCurdy, 267 U.S. 188 (1925), which is a question of first impression in this Court concerning Medicare fraud.

  2. Whether the Fifth Circuit departed from the mandates of the Supreme Court in Barsky v. Board of Regents, 74 S. Ct. 650 (1954), and Texas law, as held in Looper v. Andrews, 404 S.W.2d 300 (Tex.

  3. and The Methodist Hospital v. German, 369 S.W.3d 333 (Tex. App.--Houston [1st Dist.] 2011, pet. denied), when defining “practicing medicine” and/or providing “care” to a patient.

  4. Whether adopting the Seventh Circuit’s reasoning in United States v. Patel, 778 F.3d 607 (7th Cir. 2015), concerning the elements to be proved in an Anti-Kickback Act prosecution, the Fifth Circuit’s opinion is in direct conflict with Fifth Circuit binding precedent concerning the elements that must be proven in an Anti-Kickback Act prosecution, as so held by the Fifth Circuit in United States v. Davis, 132 F.2d 1092 (5th Cir. 1998), and its progeny.

  5. Whether the Fifth Circuit has so departed from the guidelines mandated by the Supreme Court as they relate to reversible error by refusing to submit jury

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Joseph Rutherford Willie II
WILLIE & ASSOCIATES, P.C.

For respondent
Noel John Francisco
Jones Day

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences

Proceedings

  1. Feb 20 2018
    Rehearing DENIED.
  2. Feb 02 2018
    Letter of February 1, 2018, from counsel for petitioner received. (Distributed)
  3. Jan 31 2018
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/16/2018.
  4. Jan 22 2018
    Petition for Rehearing filed.
  5. Jan 08 2018
    Petition DENIED.
  6. Dec 20 2017
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/5/2018.
  7. Dec 13 2017
    Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
  8. Dec 05 2017
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 8, 2018)