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Geoffrey M. Young v. Adam Edelen, et al.

Paid petition · Supreme Court of Kentucky, No. 2019-SC-0625-I · judgment April 30, 2020

Certiorari denied · April 5, 2021

Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate: the model weighted this down for a self-represented petitioner.

Questions presented

If a trial court never construes the allegations in a civil complaint favorably to the plaintiff or never construes them at all, are all of its Civil Rule (CR) 12.02(f) dismissal orders and CR 11 sanctioning orders against the plaintiff nullities?
May the Supreme Court of Kentucky order an appellant to file a brief, decide the appeal before the brief is filed, call the appellant's timely-filed brief a “miscellaneous correspondence styled as a brief,” ignore the appellant's timely-filed response to the Court's show cause order, and sanction the appellant on the grounds that he never showed cause why he should not be sanctioned?

For petitioner
Geoffrey M. Young

For respondent
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Subject area
Judicial Power (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Order
Order list, April 5, 2021 · Certiorari denied

Apr 05 2021
Petition DENIED.
Mar 16 2021
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/1/2021.
Dec 01 2020
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 1, 2021)