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Wanda Albritten v. California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, et al.

Paid petition · Court of Appeal of California, Third Appellate District, No. C086408 · judgment December 19, 2019

Certiorari denied · October 5, 2020
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

Is the time ripe for the Seventh Amendment right to a civil jury trial to be incorporated by the Fourteen Amendment to the states? Should government civil defense lawyers have a duty to do justice?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
John Arthur Shepardson
Law Office of John A. Shepardson

For respondent
Joshua A. Klein
California Department of Justice

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 05 2020
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Sep 02 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2020.
  3. Aug 25 2020
    Waiver of right of respondent Cal Fire, et al. to respond filed.
  4. Aug 17 2020
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 21, 2020)