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Antero Ramos v. Firestone Building Products Company, LLC

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, No. 17-13070 · judgment September 6, 2018

Certiorari denied · April 15, 2019

Pre-decision estimate: 3% cert probability

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

Questions presented

This case presents two questions:

If a client is blameless, is a lawyer’s gross neglect of the client’s case a basis for relief under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(6)? (7-2 circuit split)
Should the district court’s summary judgment order be vacated?

For petitioner
John Granville Crabtree
Crabtree & Auslander

For respondent
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Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Linked docket
18A552

Apr 15 2019
Petition DENIED.
Mar 27 2019
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/12/2019.
Feb 04 2019
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 11, 2019)
Nov 27 2018
Application (18A552) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until February 3, 2019.
Nov 21 2018
Application (18A552) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from December 5, 2018 to February 3, 2019, submitted to Justice Thomas.
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