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Len Boogaard, et ux., as Personal Representatives of the Estate of Derek Boogaard, Deceased v. National Hockey League, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, No. 17-2355 · judgment May 25, 2018


Certiorari denied · December 3, 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 federal courts abused their discretion in usurping a states’ power to adjudicate common law tort claims originally filed in state court, where the district court denied remand and dismissed Plaintiffs’ state law claims based on interpretation of another state’s pleading requirements and found forfeiture of Plaintiffs’ claims even though the Court had previously found them viable.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
William T Gibbs
Corboy & Demetrio, P.C.

For respondent
Joseph Baumgarten
Proskauer Rose, LLP

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Dec 03 2018
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Nov 07 2018
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/30/2018.
  3. Oct 31 2018
    Waiver of right of respondents National Hockey League, et al. to respond filed.
  4. Sep 21 2018
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 2, 2018)