Supreme Court Report

Supreme Court of the United States · Official docket →

Meghan Belaski, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, No. 19-1266 · judgment March 5, 2021


Certiorari denied · October 4, 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

Do the statutory rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission, in order to qualify for whistleblower award, violate the Double Jeopardy Clause in the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution by requiring a whistleblower to first qualify for a covered-action before they are eligible for a related-action in which the same materials are required to be used in both instances before a whistleblower is eligible for a related-action award, and when confidential, non-public, personal whistleblower information considered private intellectual property borne out of independent analysis, is submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission (Office of the Whistleblower), and is given to another federal entity by the Securities and Exchange Commission (Office of the Whistleblower), and used to garnish a massive civil settlement for the public good, but fails to provide just compensation to the whistleblower in a related-action award because they didn’t first qualify for a covered-action award, do the statutory requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission violate the Double Jeopardy and Takings Clause in the Fifth Aunendment of the U.S. Constitution?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Meghan Belaski

For respondent
Brian H. Fletcher
Acting Solicitor General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 04 2021
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jun 25 2021
    Supplemental brief of petitioners Meghan Belaski, et al. filed. (Distributed)
  3. Jun 23 2021
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/27/2021.
  4. Jun 21 2021
    Waiver of right of respondent SEC to respond filed.
  5. Jun 10 2021
    Blanket Consent filed by Petitioners, Meghan Belaski, et al.
  6. May 20 2021
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 25, 2021)