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Anthony Fox v. John Powell, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, No. 17-1707 · judgment March 2, 2018


Certiorari denied · October 29, 2018
Pre-decision estimate: 5% cert probability

Before the decision, modestly above the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a Third Circuit decision below, a circuit split argued in the petition, and counsel who has filed here before.

Question presented

Is this Court not required to protect the Constitution as envisioned by our founding fathers in the Eleventh Amendment of the Constitution and does not this case therefore present an important question of federal law that should be settled by this Court where a Motion to Dismiss pursuant to Rule of Civil Procedure 12 (b)(6) of the Rules of Civil Procedure was granted under the Eleventh Amendment in favor of the private defendants without the matter being evaluated to consider whether plaintiff should be permitted by Court Rule to conduct discovery and therefore has so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings and plaintiff had set forth in the complaint more than twenty specific acts against these defendants of violation of supervisory responsibility and does not this not result in the judicial abrogation of its duty to protect citizens at a time where the checks and balances mandated by the Constitution are under attack? (Suggested answer in the affirmative)

Counsel of record

For petitioner
James R. Radmore

For respondent
Matthew J. Lynch

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 29 2018
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Oct 03 2018
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/26/2018.
  3. Sep 17 2018
    Waiver of right of respondents Bayside State Prison, et al. to respond filed.
  4. Jul 26 2018
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 24, 2018)