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Brian M. Burmaster v. United States

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, No. 18-1868 · judgment August 7, 2018

Certiorari denied · January 14, 2019
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 primary federal question which has never been asked nor answered in American judicial history: Are U.S. Federal Court Judges (U.S. District, Appellate Court and U.S. Supreme Court Justices) and former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch immune from the proceedings of the International Criminal Court at The Hague, the Netherlands?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Brian Mark Burmaster

For respondent
Noel John Francisco
Jones Day

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Jan 14 2019
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Dec 26 2018
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/11/2019.
  3. Dec 17 2018
    Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
  4. Oct 24 2018
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 17, 2018)