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Craig Geness v. Pennsylvania, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, No. 19-2253 · judgment September 8, 2020


Certiorari denied · May 24, 2021
Pre-decision estimate: 3% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

Whether the Third Circuit erred in granting the collateral appeal of Defendant, Administrative Offices of Pennsylvania Courts (hereinafter “AOPC”), where the record facts support a valid cause of action against AOPC, and where the Circuit’s ruling grants sovereign immunity to AOPC, an agency of the Commonwealth, where the record evidence demonstrates that the statutory and constitutional violations suffered by the Petitioner were the direct result of the failure of AOPC to perform its duty to protect the Petitioner from those violations, which obligations were placed upon the Commonwealth, and therefore AOPC, by the United States Congress with the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (hereinafter “ADA”)?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Joel Stephen Sansone
Law Offices of Joel Sansone

For respondent
William Pietragallo II
Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti, LLP

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. May 24 2021
    Petition DENIED.
  2. May 04 2021
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/20/2021.
  3. Apr 15 2021
    Brief of respondent Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts in opposition filed.
  4. Mar 12 2021
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due April 15, 2021)