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Michael S. Bent v. Pamela Talkin, Marshal, Supreme Court of the United States, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, No. 18-5001 · judgment August 14, 2018


Certiorari denied · March 18, 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

Statutory authority for the Chief of Police of this Court is established under 40 U.S.C. § 6121(a). Under this unrestrained authority a Police Booth Operation was erected on the north side of the courthouse. Litigants must surrender all papers to the Police Booth Officers with no assurance papers will be presented timely and untampered to the Clerk. Does the Chief of Police via his Police Booth Operation violate Bent's right to be secure in his papers and his right to Due Process by seizing, without probable cause shown, papers intended for this Court? Does the District Court abuse its discretion to deny use of that court's Electronic Case Filing system without any reason whatsoever or otherwise to test Bent's ability to overcome that court's obstacles? Does Bent have supplemental standing under Flast given Congress has exceeded it constitutional authority to establish a Chief of Police for this Court who is not under the full supervisory authority of this Court?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Michael S. Bent

For respondent
Noel John Francisco
Jones Day

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences

Linked docket
18A498

Proceedings

  1. May 13 2019
    Rehearing DENIED.
  2. Apr 17 2019
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/9/2019.
  3. Apr 12 2019
    Petition for Rehearing filed.
  4. Mar 18 2019
    Petition DENIED.
  5. Feb 27 2019
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/15/2019.
  6. Feb 14 2019
    Waiver of right of respondent Talkin, Marshal, USSC, et al. to respond filed.
  7. Jan 10 2019
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 14, 2019)
  8. Nov 08 2018
    Application (18A498) granted by The Chief Justice extending the time to file until January 11, 2019.
  9. Nov 01 2018
    Application (18A498) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from November 12, 2018 to January 11, 2019, submitted to The Chief Justice.