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Raja Mittal v. County of Clark, Nevada, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 17-16081 · judgment March 23, 2018


Certiorari denied · April 22, 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

Whether removal of a child from parent's custody without a judicial order or a warrant, and in the absence of exigent circumstances, violate Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights guaranteed by the constitution? Whether the Rooker Feldman doctrine was improperly applied to due process claims when the petitioner alleges fraud by the defendans, leading to violations of constitutional magnitude that affected liberty rights of the Petitioner. When the issues raised in the federal court were claims independent of the state court order and none of the claims involved a challenge to the state court order.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Raja Mittal

For respondent
Thomas D. Dillard Jr.
Olson, Cannon, Gormley & Stoberski

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Apr 22 2019
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Apr 02 2019
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/18/2019.
  3. Mar 29 2019
    Reply of petitioner Raja Mittal filed.
  4. Mar 15 2019
    Brief of respondents County of Clark, Nevada, et al. in opposition filed.
  5. Dec 11 2018
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 18, 2019)