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Linda Thurman, et al. v. Judicial Correction Services, Inc., et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, No. 17-14450 · judgment January 10, 2019

Certiorari denied · May 28, 2019

Pre-decision estimate: 6% cert probability (95% interval 4%–10%)

Before the decision, about 1.5× the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a circuit split argued in the petition, a dissent in the court below (flagged in the petition), and an Eleventh Circuit decision below, and down for a business respondent.

Question presented

Under the Rooker–Feldman doctrine, federal district courts lack jurisdiction to hear cases seeking review of judgments issued by state courts. In this case, the purported state-court judgments—municipal-court probation orders—were issued by employees of a private probation-supervision contractor and were not reviewed, approved, or signed by a state-court judge. The question presented, on which the circuits are split, is: Whether Rooker–Feldman doctrine applies when the underlying state-court judgment is void ab initio. (I)

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Gregory M. Lipper
Lipper Law PLLC

For respondent
Wilson Franklin Green
Fleenor & Green LLP

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences

Proceedings

Jun 17 2019
Motion for leave to file amicus brief filed by Fane Lozman GRANTED.
Jun 10 2019
Motion for leave to file amicus brief filed by Fane Lozman DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/13/2019.
May 28 2019
Petition DENIED.
May 10 2019
Motion for leave to file amicus brief filed by Fane Lozman. (Distributed)
May 07 2019
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/23/2019.
May 01 2019
Waiver of right of respondents Judicial Correction Services, Inc., et al. to respond filed.
Apr 10 2019
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due May 13, 2019)