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Lance Laber v. Milberg LLP, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 13-15812 · judgment February 1, 2018


Certiorari denied · October 9, 2018
Pre-decision estimate: 2% cert probability

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

Question presented

Whether this Court’s decision in United Airlines, Inc. v. McDonald, 432 U.S. 385 (1977), which allowed unnamed putative class members to intervene for the purpose of appealing the denial of class certification following dismissal of the named plaintiff ’s individual claims, remains good law following this Court’s decision in Microsoft Corp. v. Baker, 137 S. Ct. 1702 (2017).

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Lawrence Arthur Kasten
Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP

For respondent
Gregory P. Joseph
Joseph Hage Aaronson LLC

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Linked docket
17A1362

Proceedings

  1. Oct 09 2018
    Petition DENIED. Justice Kavanaugh took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.
  2. Sep 19 2018
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/5/2018.
  3. Sep 11 2018
    Waiver of right of respondents Gabroy, Rollman & Bosse, P.C., John Gabroy, Ronald Lehman to respond filed.
  4. Sep 05 2018
    Waiver of right of respondents Milberg LLP, Melvyn I. Weiss, Michael C. Spencer, Janine L. Pollack, Lee A. Weiss, Brian C. Kerr to respond filed.
  5. Aug 03 2018
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 6, 2018)
  6. Jun 11 2018
    Application (17A1362) granted by Justice Kennedy extending the time to file until August 6, 2018.
  7. Jun 07 2018
    Application (17A1362) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from June 20, 2018 to August 6, 2018, submitted to Justice Kennedy.