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Roberto Enrique Mauricio-Benitez, aka Roberto Sanchez-Farjardo v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 19-60546 · judgment December 8, 2020
GVR'd · June 14, 2021
Pre-decision estimate: 4% cert probability
Before the decision, roughly the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a Fifth Circuit decision below, counsel with five or more prior petitions here, and a petition filed soon after the judgment below.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Raed Gonzalez
Gonzalez Olivieri, LLC
For respondent
Brian H. Fletcher
Acting Solicitor General
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Jul 16 2021JUDGMENT ISSUED.
- Jun 14 2021Petition GRANTED. Judgment VACATED and case REMANDED for further consideration in light of Niz-Chavez v. Garland, 593 U. S. ___ (2021).
- May 25 2021DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/10/2021.
- May 10 2021Memorandum of respondent Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General filed.
- Apr 05 2021Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including May 10, 2021.
- Apr 02 2021Motion to extend the time to file a response from April 8, 2021 to May 10, 2021, submitted to The Clerk.
- Mar 04 2021Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due April 8, 2021)
- Mar 04 2021Pursuant to Rule 34.6 and Paragraph 9 of the Guidelines for the Submission of Documents to the Supreme Court's Electronic Filing System, filings in this case should be submitted in paper form only, and should not be submitted through the Court's electronic filing system.