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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, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Questions presented

  1. 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?

  2. 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?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Geoffrey M. Young

For respondent
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Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

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