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Patrick Kent Lindsey Jones v. Allen Jones

Paid petition · Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit, No. 18-CA-589 · judgment January 30, 2019

Certiorari denied · November 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

Under the 14th Amendment, Section 1, how can a state court deny the right to appeal, by deeming a judgment which distributes contested funds to be a non-appealable “interlocutory” judgment that is somehow preliminary to a separate judgment, issued more than five years earlier?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Patrick Kent Lindsey Jones

For respondent
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Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Nov 18 2019
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Oct 30 2019
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/15/2019.
  3. Aug 14 2019
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 18, 2019)