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Vladimir Matsiborchuk v. Fougere Holcombe

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, No. 17-2758 · judgment August 29, 2018


Certiorari denied · May 28, 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.

Questions presented

  1. Whether a deprivation of legal fees earned by an attorney during 7 years of work for the former client violates said attorney’s due process rights where the District Court prejudged its decision on the pending discharge hearing and legal fee dispute between the attorney and his former client by secretly approving settlement between said client and the Defendants in the underlying litigation without considering the former attorney’s fees in the settlement agreement, by excluding said attorney’s renewed motion to withdraw and request for compensation from the scope of the hearing, by completely precluding the attorney from testifying at the end of the discharge hearing, by precluding the attorney from presenting his case, and by completely terminating the discharge hearing on the presiding Judge’s “perception” that the attorney was “laughing” during the former client’s cross examination?

  2. Whether an attorney was deprived of his legal fees for his seven (7) years of services with violation of due-process standards of fairness and justice for said attorney’s uncovering and reporting multiple violations in the underlying matter by the presiding judges in the underlying matter in the District Court and by the Judges of the Second Circuit Peter W. Hall and Raymond J. Lohier, who were directly involved in the unlawful and unconstitutional ten

  3. ear delaying scheme to kill the underlying litigation in Title VII matter and, following the discharge, delayed during two and a half years the determination the discharge for cause and related

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Vladimir Matsiborchuk
Vladimir Matsiborchuk

For respondent

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. May 28 2019
    Petition DENIED.
  2. May 07 2019
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/23/2019.
  3. Jan 15 2019
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due April 19, 2019)