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Lisa Penunuri, et al. v. Robert Redford, et al.

Paid petition · Supreme Court of Utah, No. 20160683 · judgment August 25, 2017

Certiorari denied · March 19, 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. Were Lisa Penunuri’s and Barry Seigwart’s Fourteenth Amendment of United States Constitution’s due process rights violated when through judicial activism, the Supreme Court of Utah abolished the common law cause of action of gross negligence?

  2. Were Lisa Penunuri’s and Barry Seigwart’s Fourteenth Amendment of United States Constitution’s due process rights violated when the Supreme Court of Utah reversed forty years of precedent and then retroactively applied its new standard to their case, abrogating their and everyone else’s cause of action for gross negligence in Utah, and then in addition to abrogating gross negligence penalized them further by awarding costs of the suit against them to the defendants?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Robert Dwight Strieper
Strieper Law Firm

For respondent
A. Joseph Sano
Strong & Hanni

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Mar 19 2018
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Feb 21 2018
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/16/2018.
  3. Feb 01 2018
    Brief of respondents Robert Redford, et al. in opposition filed.
  4. Dec 21 2017
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 1, 2018)