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Bradley Christopher Stark v. United States

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, No. 17-15112 · judgment June 14, 2018

Certiorari denied · January 7, 2019
Pre-decision estimate: 2% cert probability

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

Question presented

  1. Whether, on a motion to dismiss raising a defense of sovereign immunity, a plaintiff possesses a burden to do more than allege an unequivocal waiver of sovereign immunity, pursuant to the Fifth Amendment and the simplified notice pleading standards of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Anthony Charles Lake
Gillen Withers & Lake, LLC

For respondent
Noel John Francisco
Jones Day

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences

Proceedings

  1. Feb 25 2019
    Rehearing DENIED.
  2. Feb 06 2019
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/22/2019.
  3. Jan 30 2019
    Petition for Rehearing filed.
  4. Jan 07 2019
    Petition DENIED.
  5. Dec 19 2018
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/4/2019.
  6. Dec 11 2018
    Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
  7. Nov 19 2018
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 26, 2018)