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Lakhdeep Deol v. Gary W. Depreta, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, No. 17-2089 · judgment May 30, 2018


Certiorari denied · December 3, 2018
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

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

Question presented

The questions presented are ripe for the Court's guidance on at least four unresolved or underdeveloped aspects of civil litigation, namely conflict in fundamental assumptions of pleading law by lower courts, conflict in what constitutes to be sufficiency in legal proceedings, conflict in interpretation of discovery law by lower courts, and the nature and extent to which a third-party intervenor should be allowed to interfere in civil litigation between two private parties. Whether the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit conflicted with this Court's binding and governing precedent in Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544 (2007) and Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662 (2009). Whether the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit conflicted with the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals For the Ninth Circuit in Faulkner v. ADT Security Services, Inc., 706 F.M. 1017 (2013). Whether the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit conflicted with the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Sundstrand Corp. v. Standard Kollsman Industries, Inc., 488 F.2d 807, 7th Cir. (1973). To what extent should a third-party, which is not named as a party in a civil lawsuit or in any cause of action therein, should be allowed to intervene or interfere in or disrupt a civil lawsuit between two private parties.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Lakhdeep Deol

For respondent
Stephen Douglas Dellinger
Littler Mendelson, PC

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences

Proceedings

  1. Feb 19 2019
    Rehearing DENIED.
  2. Jan 09 2019
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/15/2019.
  3. Dec 26 2018
    Petition for Rehearing filed.
  4. Dec 03 2018
    Petition DENIED.
  5. Nov 07 2018
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/30/2018.
  6. Oct 30 2018
    Waiver of right of respondents Gary DePreta, Dawn Duross, David LaTour to respond filed.
  7. Oct 19 2018
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 23, 2018)