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Keith A. Simpson v. The Bank of New York Mellon

Paid petition · District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District, No. 3D16-2445 · judgment August 9, 2017


Certiorari denied · October 29, 2018
Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability

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

Question presented

Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida violated the due process protections of the 5th and 14th Amendments to the United States Constitution by ordering the equitable relief of foreclosure despite fraud on the court involving false and fictitious evidence, perjury by senior executives at the highest levels of Bank of America, defiance of court orders, and a purge of evidence in violation of a court ordered subpoena, all of which defrauded the courts, the federal regulators and the U.S. Department of Justice and violated the promise to stop using fraudulent evidence in foreclosures under the $25 Billion National Mortgage Settlement? Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida violated the due process protections of the 5th and 14th amendments to the U.S. Constitution by refusing to grant disqualification when there are objective reasons to question its impartiality in foreclosure appeals raising this same fraudulent misconduct?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Bruce Jacobs
Jacobs Legal, PLLC

For respondent
Adam Brian Leichtling
Lapin & Leichtling, LLP

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Linked docket
17A1324

Proceedings

  1. Oct 29 2018
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Oct 10 2018
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/26/2018.
  3. Sep 26 2018
    Brief of respondent The Bank of New York Mellon in opposition filed.
  4. Sep 07 2018
    Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including October 1, 2018.
  5. Sep 05 2018
    Motion to extend the time to file a response from September 10, 2018 to October 1, 2018, submitted to The Clerk.
  6. Aug 09 2018
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 10, 2018)
  7. Jun 05 2018
    Application (17A1324) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until August 9, 2018.
  8. May 25 2018
    Application (17A1324) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from June 10, 2018 to August 9, 2018, submitted to Justice Thomas.