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John DeRaffele v. United States

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, No. 17-2135 · judgment January 18, 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

Does a Pro Se litigant under Supreme Court Rule 10 have the right to request a Writ of Certiorari when the United States Court of Appeals has upheld a lower Court ruling on an important Federal question in a way that conflicts or has so far departed from the accepted and usual course of Judicial proceedings, or sanctioned such a departure by a lower Court as to call for an exercise of this Court’s Supervisory Power; when a jury verdict and Judgment was ordered against me by a lower Court knowing the Plaintiffs case was based on the erroneous use of the Fair Housing Act since the Complainants were not bonfide tenants which is a requirement in order to use the Fair Housing Act in discrimination cases. My complainants who are not bonfide tenants as defined in the Fair Housing Act, nevertheless received and obtained relief under this act. The Federal District Court should have dismissed the case because the complainants lacked standings under the act and a jury errored in awarding compensation to the complainants. The Plaintiff and the lower courts awards should have been reversed since the jury found the complainants not to be bonfide tenants under the Fair Housing Act and did so in replying to question 1 of the jury verdict form as to that fact. The presiding Judge errored in refusing my request to reverse the compensation and legal fees to the Plaintiff and the complainants.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
John Deraffele

For respondent
Noel John Francisco
Jones Day

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 07 2019
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jul 24 2019
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
  3. Jul 17 2019
    Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
  4. Jun 05 2019
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 8, 2019)