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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
Before the decision, roughly the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a Third Circuit decision below, a dissent in the court below, and a petition citing one or two dissents.
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
Subject area
Civil Rights (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Order
Order list, May 24, 2021 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- May 24 2021Petition DENIED.
- May 04 2021DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/20/2021.
- Apr 15 2021Brief of respondent Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts in opposition filed.
- Mar 12 2021Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due April 15, 2021)