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Janice Smets v. Heather Wilson, Secretary of the Air Force

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 16-56551 · judgment March 23, 2018


Certiorari denied · April 15, 2019
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

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

Question presented

When a civil servant changes a claim to a 'mixed case' during the District Court's non-hearing proceedings and she files to remand based on non-jurisdiction, does the U.S. Federal Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit have jurisdiction to affirm and adjudicate by Summary Judgment the Title VII claim without remedy for the nondiscrimination claim that departs from the accepted course ofjudicial proceedings as sanctioned by the U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit, in Kerr v. Merit Systems Protection Board, 2017- 2538, November 15, 2018? When the U.S. Federal Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rules by Summary Judgment solely on the Title VII discrimination claim on a civil servant's filed mixed-case claim and the Appeals Court does not provide a remedy to administratively exhaust the mixed case as a whole, does this ruling conflict with the U.S. Supreme Court of the United States opinion regarding the civil servant's rights to file or appeal a mixed case to the Merit Service Protection Board (MSPB) (Perry v. Merit Systems Protection Board, 16-399, June 23, 2017)?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Janice R. Smets

For respondent
Noel John Francisco
Jones Day

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Linked docket
18A563

Proceedings

  1. Apr 15 2019
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Mar 20 2019
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/12/2019.
  3. Mar 14 2019
    Waiver of right of respondent Heather Wilson, Secretary of the Air Force to respond filed.
  4. Feb 08 2019
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 14, 2019)
  5. Nov 28 2018
    Application (18A563) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until February 11, 2019.
  6. Nov 21 2018
    Application (18A563) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from December 13, 2018 to February 11, 2019, submitted to Justice Kagan.