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Stephen J. Simoni v. Jersey Shore University Medical Center, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, No. 20-1024 · judgment November 5, 2020


Certiorari denied · June 14, 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.

Question presented

United States Supreme Court precedent requires that union members be awarded attorneys’ fees where the employer wrongfully blocked access to quick and inexpensive mandated arbitration and thereby forced the union members to seek a remedy in the judiciary. But are arbitrators in federal labor cases free to disregard this United States Supreme Court precedent simply because the subject Circuit Court of Appeals has not yet itself addressed the issue?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Stephen J. Simoni
Simoni Law Offices

For respondent
William M. Honan
Fox Rothschild LLP

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Jun 14 2021
    Petition DENIED.
  2. May 25 2021
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/10/2021.
  3. May 10 2021
    Brief of respondents Jersey Shore University Medical Center, et al. in opposition filed.
  4. Apr 05 2021
    Motion to extend the time to file a response from April 9, 2021 to May 10, 2021, submitted to The Clerk.
  5. Apr 05 2021
    Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including May 10, 2021, for all respondents.
  6. Mar 08 2021
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due April 9, 2021)