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Susan R. Gokool v. Oklahoma City University

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, No. 18-6093 · judgment April 30, 2019


Certiorari denied · November 12, 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.

Questions presented

  1. Due Process is a course of legal proceeding for the enforcement and protection of private rights guaranteed by the Constitution that requires a notice, opportunity to be heard, and to defend. The question presented is whether the circuit court's failure to notify Petitioner to be heard and object to its sanction under Fed. R. Appl. P. 38 for costs under Fed. Appl. P. 39(a)(2) deprived Petitioner of due process of law, thereby making its judgment void?

  2. This court decided in Scheuer v. Rhodes, 416 U.S. 232, (1974) that whether on jurisdiction or failure to state a claim, “(w]hen a judge does not follow the law, the Judge loses subject-matter jurisdiction and the judges' orders are...VOID....” The question presented is whether the district and circuit court acted prematurely and hence erroneously by their failure to follow precedent law of Pacheco for discovery before deciding that Petitioner failed to state a claim and was frivolous, thus losing subject- * matter jurisdiction, therefore their judgments are void?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Susan Gokool

For respondent

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Nov 12 2019
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Oct 23 2019
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/8/2019.
  3. Jul 29 2019
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 7, 2019)