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Kirk E. Webster v. Patrick M. Shanahan, Acting Secretary of Defense

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, No. 18-1259 · judgment July 17, 2018


Certiorari denied · February 19, 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

1 QUESTIONS CONSIDERED FOR REVIEW Should a settlement agree be rendered legally invalid if the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's Associate General Counsel Jack W Rickert, used Plaintiffs recent stroke to coerced him into a "voluntary" retirement settlement agreement that effectively removed Plaintiff from Federal Service? Is the 22 August 2017 transfer Order by Judge Christopher Cooper sufficient to establish that the Eastern District of Virginia Court is the proper . . jurisdiction for Plaintiffs Title VII, and ADEA claims? Can the lower Court dismiss a timely accepted, processed and investigated Title VII claim, NGA case No. NGAE-13-502, of retaliation, filed after the June 2012 agreement that is listed in Plaintiffs .ourt complaint, without allowing Plaintiff to engage in discovery? . . .: Can the lower Court dismiss a timely filed ADEA claim that was before the lower Court and was referenced in Judge Cooper's 22 August 2017 Opinion and Order to be processed because pro se Plaintiffs are not held to same standards as complaints drafted by lawyers? ... .. . . Shouldn't a settlement agree be rendered legally invalid if coerced by a named discriminating Responsible Management Official (NGA's Associate General Counsel, Jack W Rickert) : 1 anl effort to exonerate himself? Can an Intelligence agency be held accountable to whistleblower retaliation laws if the violation of law occurred prior to the agency converting to an intelligence agency?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Kirk E. Webster

For respondent
Noel John Francisco
Jones Day

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Feb 19 2019
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jan 16 2019
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/15/2019.
  3. Jan 10 2019
    Waiver of right of respondent Patrick M. Shanahan, Acting Secretary of Defense to respond filed.
  4. Dec 14 2018
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 25, 2019)