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James L. Martin v. National General Assurance Company

Paid petition · Supreme Court of Delaware, No. 401, 2018 · judgment June 5, 2019


Certiorari denied · January 27, 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.

Question presented

Does the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause guarantee a civil litigant, in a state court, an appellate justice who did not oversee the same issue during his tenure as counsel to Delaware’s Governor? \

Counsel of record

For petitioner
James L. Martin

For respondent

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Linked docket
19A327

Proceedings

  1. Jan 27 2020
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jan 08 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/24/2020.
  3. Nov 21 2019
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 26, 2019)
  4. Sep 25 2019
    Application (19A327) granted by Justice Sotomayor extending the time to file until November 22, 2019.
  5. Aug 29 2019
    Application (19A327) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from September 23, 2019 to November 22, 2019, submitted to Justice Sotomayor. (Justice Alito is recused.)