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LabMD, Inc. v. Tiversa, Inc.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, No. 17-11274 · judgment December 7, 2017


Certiorari denied · November 13, 2018
Pre-decision estimate: 3% cert probability

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

Question presented

Whether a judgment obtained by fraud on a court must be set aside pursuant to Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co., 322 U.S. 238 (1944) and Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(d)(3) where the party who obtained the judgment perpetrated related frauds on a federal agency and Congress. Whether an attorney must be implicated in his client’s fraud on the court in order for a judgment to be set aside pursuant to Hazel-Atlas and Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(d)(3). Whether an attorney who helps his client obtain a judgment by perpetrating a fraud on a court must be counsel of record in that court in order for the judgment to be set aside pursuant to Hazel-Atlas and Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(d)(3). Whether an attorney who helps his client obtain a judgment by perpetrating a fraud on a court, who is not counsel of record in that court, must actively participate in the litigation in order for the judgment to be set aside pursuant to Hazel-Atlas and Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(d)(3). Whether a fraud on the court must be intentionally false in order to set aside a judgment pursuant to Hazel-Atlas and Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(d)(3) or will conduct that is wilfully blind to the truth or is in reckless disregard for the truth suffice.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
James W. Hawkins
James W. Hawkins, LLC

For respondent
Jarrod D. Shaw
McGuireWoods, LLP

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Linked docket
18A2

Proceedings

  1. Nov 13 2018
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Oct 24 2018
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/9/2018.
  3. Oct 09 2018
    Waiver of right of respondent Tiversa, Inc. to respond filed.
  4. Sep 07 2018
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 5, 2018)
  5. Jun 28 2018
    Application (18A2) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until September 7, 2018.
  6. Jun 25 2018
    Application (18A2) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from July 9, 2018 to September 7, 2018, submitted to Justice Thomas.