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John Paterno v. City of New York, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, No. 18-2572 · judgment July 2, 2019


Certiorari denied · November 12, 2019
Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Questions presented

  1. Whether the Second Circuit, in a “stigma-plus” case, erred in affirming the District Court’s dismissal of Petitioner’s procedural Due Process claim by applying a temporal proximity test to find, as a matter of law, no causative nexus between defamatory statements concerning petitioner and the denial of the Plaintiff’s legal entitlements?

  2. Whether the Second Circuit erred in not according the pleaded deprivations the deference they were entitled to under this Court’s precedent?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Arthur Zachary Schwartz
Advocates for Justice, Chartered Attorneys

For respondent
Jane L. Gordon
New York City Law Department

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. Oct 16 2019
    Waiver of right of respondents City of New York, et al. to respond filed.
  4. Sep 30 2019
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 1, 2019)