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Lawrence T. Newman v. Robert W. York, as Personal Representative, et al.

Paid petition · Court of Appeals of Indiana, No. 18A-ES-1721 · judgment December 31, 2018


Certiorari denied · November 18, 2019
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate: the model weighted this down for a self-represented petitioner.

Questions presented

  1. Whether the refusal of the trial court to hear Newman’s administrative expense motions violates the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause and other Constitutional provisions.

  2. Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals’ and Indiana Supreme Court’s decisions, which denied Newman a genuine bona fide Appeal on the merits, violate the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause and other Constitutional provisions.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Lawrence T. Newman

For respondent
Robert W. York
Robert W. York & Associates

Case

Subject area
Due Process (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Order
Order list, November 18, 2019 · Certiorari denied

Proceedings

  1. Nov 18 2019
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Oct 30 2019
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/15/2019.
  3. Sep 27 2019
    Waiver of right of respondent Robert W. York to respond filed.
  4. Sep 13 2019
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 21, 2019)