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GPI Distributors, Inc. v. Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District

Paid petition · Court of Appeals of Ohio, Cuyahoga County, No. 106806 · judgment December 6, 2018


Certiorari denied · April 20, 2020
Pre-decision estimate: 2% cert probability

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

Question presented

Do the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses prohibit states from imposing substantial financial burdens on indigent parties seeking judicial review (as at least six states have held), or may states effectively deprive low-income litigants of access to the judicial system (as at least five states have held)—even when the court access in question represents the party’s first opportunity to obtain meaningful judicial review of an involuntary property taking?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Andrew Stuart Pollis
Milton and Charlotte Kramer Law Clinic

For respondent
Jennifer Dowdell Armstrong
McDonald Hopkins, LLC

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Linked docket
19A456

Proceedings

  1. Apr 20 2020
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Mar 25 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/17/2020.
  3. Mar 25 2020
    Reply of petitioner GPI Distributors, Inc. filed. (Distributed)
  4. Mar 11 2020
    Brief of respondent Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District in opposition filed.
  5. Jan 15 2020
    Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including March 11, 2020.
  6. Jan 13 2020
    Motion to extend the time to file a response from February 10, 2020 to March 11, 2020, submitted to The Clerk.
  7. Jan 03 2020
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 10, 2020)
  8. Oct 28 2019
    Application (19A456) granted by Justice Sotomayor extending the time to file until January 3, 2020.
  9. Oct 23 2019
    Application (19A456) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from November 4, 2019 to January 3, 2020, submitted to Justice Sotomayor.