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Daniel Delacruz, Sr. v. State Bar of California, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 17-17340 · judgment April 15, 2019


Certiorari denied · October 7, 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

A disturbing trend in anti-Latino sentiment has emboldened the lower courts to eviscerate and extirpate the equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment and 42 U.S.C. § 1981. Such disparate application of the law runs "the risk of undermining the public's confidence in the judicial process." Buck v. Davis, 137 S. Ct. 759, 778 (2017). The question presented is: 1. Does a dismissal of claims based on the Rooker-Feldman doctrine and First Amendment rights under the Noerr-Pennington doctrine violate the equal protection clauses under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 and the Fourteenth Amendment where; a state court had ruled that a settlement contract involving racial discrimination against Latinos lawfully restrains First Amendment rights; where a state court ordered that Petitioner must pay a related debt that was lawfully discharged in bankruptcy court; where discovery documents were withheld and destroyed; and, where there was a felony conviction for conspiracy to commit bank fraud that targeted Latinos?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Daniel Delacruz Sr.

For respondent
Rick William Jarvis
Jarvis, Fay & Gibson, LLP

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 07 2019
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Sep 11 2019
    Waiver of right of respondent Sue M. Antle as the personal representative for the Estate of Robert V. Antle to respond filed.
  3. Sep 03 2019
    Waiver of right of respondent Richard Harray to respond filed.
  4. Aug 28 2019
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
  5. Aug 27 2019
    Waiver of right of respondents Judicial Council of California and Judge Julie R. Culver to respond filed.
  6. Aug 20 2019
    Waiver of right of respondents Sayler Legal Service, Inc. and Stephanie Sayler to respond filed.
  7. Aug 15 2019
    Waiver of right of respondents The State Bar of California, et al. to respond filed.
  8. Aug 12 2019
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 13, 2019)