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Angela James, et al. v. JW Gaming Development, LLC, a California Limited Liability Company
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 18-17008 · judgment October 2, 2019
Before the decision, roughly the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a circuit split argued in the petition and a Ninth Circuit decision below, and down for a business respondent.
Question presented
Whether an Indian tribe’s governing body can be stripped of its sovereign immunity from suit for actions taken by its members in their official capacities, as long as a plaintiff merely names the members individually and those officials will be bound by any judgment entered.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Rudolph Edward Verner
Berg Hill Greenleaf & Ruscitti LLP
For respondent
Gregory M. Narvaez
Fredericks Peebles & Patterson, LLP
Case
Subject area
Civil Rights (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Linked docket
19A714
Order
Order list, March 9, 2020 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Mar 09 2020Petition DENIED.
- Feb 19 2020DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/6/2020.
- Feb 03 2020Waiver of right of respondent JW Gaming Development, LLC to respond filed.
- Jan 30 2020Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 4, 2020)
- Dec 27 2019Application (19A714) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until January 30, 2020.
- Dec 20 2019Application (19A714) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from December 31, 2019 to January 30, 2020, submitted to Justice Kagan.