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William A. Salzwedel v. California, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 18-55574 · judgment March 19, 2019


Certiorari denied · January 13, 2020
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. Does an attorney in the practice of representing proposed adult conservatees/wards have direct standing, associational standing, or traditional thirdparty standing under Title II of the Americans With Disabilities Act, §504 of the Rehabilitation Act, or 42 U.S.C. §§1983, 1985 to challenge a state’s adult conservatorship/ guardianship practices, laws, facially, or as applied, as being in violation of these statutes, or the due process or equal protection clauses of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution, when the attorney alleges an independent injury causally related to the alleged denial of federally required services to the attorney’s client under these statutes?

  2. Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine prevent litigants from seeking a federal remedy for alleged violations of their constitutional rights where the violator is alleged to have so far succeeded in corrupting the state judicial process as to obtain a favorable state judgment against that federal litigant?

  3. Does the Rooker-Feldman jurisdictional bar not apply to a claim, it would otherwise apply to, when the federal claimant had no reasonable opportunity to raise the claim in relevant state court proceedings?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
William A. Salzwedel
William A. Salzwedel, Attorney at Law

For respondent
Marty J. Wolter
Ventura County Counsel's Office

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences

Proceedings

  1. Mar 23 2020
    Rehearing DENIED.
  2. Mar 04 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/20/2020.
  3. Feb 07 2020
    Petition for Rehearing filed.
  4. Jan 13 2020
    Petition DENIED.
  5. Dec 11 2019
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/10/2020.
  6. Nov 21 2019
    Waiver of right of respondent County of Ventura, California to respond filed.
  7. Aug 22 2019
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 27, 2019)