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Joe Blessett v. Office of the Attorney General of Texas
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 20-40135
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Questions presented
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Did U.S. Congress intend for Title IV-D Cooperative-Federalism 42 U.S.C 654(3) contactors escape private law liabilities for violating their 10th amendment protections under their contract with the U.S. government?
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Did the Respondent forfeit its 11th amendment privilege by in failure to clearly make its intentions known upon a direct challenged by the PetitionerAppellant ("Blessett") in the trial court in 2017 and failure to protect its 11th amendment privilege before a judicial determination on March 6, 2019, in the 5th Circuit Court by its legal conduct?
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Does the Texas Title IV-D program violate the "Separation of Powers" with state employees acting as contracted federal agents for the program and Texas state actors cloaked in state sovereignty at the same time?
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Is it an overreach of "Public Law into Private Law Domain" by Title IV-D of the Social Security Act?
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Does the Title IV-D program provide any benefits to the noncustodial parent?
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Who is the primary lender on the interstate contracts in question under federal law?
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Blessett challenges U.S. Constitutionality of the 42 U.S.C.658a incentives for performance as monetary inducement to coerce the 42 U.S.C. 654(3) contractors to increase performance revenues like any income-generating business and criminalize noncustodial parents?
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Does federal statute 42 U.S.C. 658a of the Title IV-D of Social Security Act of the program help
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Joe Blessett
For respondent
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Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Oct 19 2020Petition DENIED.
- Sep 30 2020DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/16/2020.
- Aug 03 2020Petition for a writ of certiorari before judgment filed. (Response due September 14, 2020)