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William Joseph Mooney, et ux. v. United States

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, No. 2020-1075 · judgment October 7, 2020


Certiorari denied · October 4, 2021
Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability

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

Question presented

Question 1. Who has Standing against the Mooneys as the Plaintiff and being the as the Real Party of Interest in the “Courts of the United States” arising under Article III Sections 1 and 2—is the “United States of America;” or, is it the “United States?” Question 2. In the “District of Minnesota” is the tribunal “United States District Court” created under Article I Section 8 Clause 9 of the Constitution of the United States as codified in 28 U.S.C. § 132 exercising the “judicial power of a district court. . . may be exercised by a single judge” (28 U.S.C. § 132(c))? Question 3. In the “District of Minnesota” is the tribunal “United States District Court” a bona fide Article III “Court of the United States” arising under Article III of the Constitution of the United States exercising the “judicial Power of the United States” in Section 1 and in Section 2 exercising “The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under the Constitution, the Laws of the United States?” Question 4. Aren’t all agencies and federal agencies required to publish in the “Federal Register” all documents, being their Rules and Regulations, having a “general applicability and legal effect” if they have any application to the Mooneys and the People of the several States?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
William Joseph Mooney

For respondent
Brian H. Fletcher
Acting Solicitor General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences

Proceedings

  1. Dec 13 2021
    Rehearing DENIED.
  2. Nov 23 2021
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/10/2021.
  3. Oct 26 2021
    Petition for Rehearing filed.
  4. Oct 04 2021
    Petition DENIED.
  5. Jun 23 2021
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/27/2021.
  6. Jun 21 2021
    Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
  7. May 29 2021
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due July 12, 2021)