Supreme Court of the United States · Official docket →

Kebreab Zere v. District of Columbia

Paid petition · District of Columbia Court of Appeals, No. 17-CV-829 · judgment June 6, 2019

Certiorari denied · February 24, 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

Whether the due process law of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was violated when the District invoked D.C. Code § 47-1382(a)3 for its claim of public prescriptive easement on the total area of the lots?
Whether petitioner, Zere, deserved the right to compensation as per the taking clause of the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution?
Whether the District of Columbia violated the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution by filing a lawsuit of public prescriptive easement while eminent domain Bill 21-218 was still pending?
Whether the District of Columbia violated the due process law of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution with regard to: a. To the tax sale of the lots in 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2007? b. To the declarations of the affiants and “The Dead Man’s Statue” (D.C. Code § 14-302)? c. Giving constructive notice of the public prescriptive easement to the predecessor owners? d. The filing of public prescriptive easement for the first time? e. The testimony of Alice Kelly, Manager of Policy and Governmental Affairs at the Dis trict Department of Transportation (DDOT) on eminent domain Bill 21-218?

For petitioner
Kebreab Zere

For respondent
James Creighton McKay Jr.
Office of the Attorney General for the District of

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Feb 24 2020
Petition DENIED.
Feb 05 2020
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/21/2020.
Jan 28 2020
Waiver of right of respondent District of Columbia to respond filed.
Jan 22 2020
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 24, 2020)