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Alfred Procopio, Jr. v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, No. 2017-1821 · judgment September 25, 2019

Certiorari denied · May 4, 2020
Pre-decision estimate: 10% cert probability (95% interval 6%–16%)

Before the decision, about 2.4× the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a petition citing three to ten dissents, a dissent in the court below, and a Federal Circuit decision below.

Question presented

ii PARTIES TO THE PROCEEDING All parties to the proceeding are listed on the cover. STATEMENT OF RELATED CASES None.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
John Bennett Wells

For respondent
Noel John Francisco
Jones Day

Case

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

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Order
Order list, May 4, 2020 · Certiorari denied

Proceedings

  1. May 04 2020
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Apr 15 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/1/2020.
  3. Apr 15 2020
    Reply of petitioner Alfred Procopio, Jr. filed. (Distributed)
  4. Apr 01 2020
    Brief of respondent Wilkie, Sec. of Veterans Affairs in opposition filed.
  5. Feb 05 2020
    Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including April 1, 2020.
  6. Feb 04 2020
    Motion to extend the time to file a response from March 2, 2020 to April 1, 2020, submitted to The Clerk.
  7. Jan 22 2020
    Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including March 2, 2020.
  8. Jan 21 2020
    Motion to extend the time to file a response from January 30, 2020 to March 2, 2020, submitted to The Clerk.
  9. Dec 24 2019
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 30, 2020)