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Gregory Shawn Mercer v. E. A. Vega

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, No. 19-1584 · judgment November 21, 2019


Certiorari denied · November 9, 2020
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

SCOTUS Rule 10(a) - Whether or not a Circuit Split has arisen between the Fourth Circuit and other Circuits over the interpretation of whether crimes allegedly “committed on occasions different from one another” [See 18 U.S.C. §924(e)(l)] become simultaneous crimes if the directly-associated arrest warrants for those sequential alleged crimes were sworn out and/or served simultaneously. SCOTUS Rule 10(a) - Whether or not a Circuit Split has arisen between the Fourth Circuit and both this SCOTUS and the Fourth Circuit itself over the Federal Court Practice (FRCP Rule 56; U.S. Amendment VII Right to Trial by Jury) of viewing all facts in a Summary Judgment Proceeding and drawing any justifiable inferences from those facts in the light most favorable to the non-moving party when deciding if there exists genuine issues as to any material fact requiring a Trial by Jury. SCOTUS Rule 10(c) - [Petitioner] moves this [SCOTUS] as he did the [VAED & Fourth Circuit] for a Declaratory Judgment that Virginia is in violation of the U.S. Guarantee Clause so [the U.S.] Congress might act by applying the U.S. Guarantee Clause against Virginia’s 1971 Constitution of Virginia, Article VI which establishes an Unrepublican Form of Government because Sections 1 & 2 are in violation of the U.S. Supremacy Clause and Section 7 is in violation of Duncan v. McCall. 139 U.S. 449, 461, 11 S.Ct. 573, 577 (1891).

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Gregory Shawn Mercer

For respondent
Toby Jay Heytens
Office of the Attorney General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences

Proceedings

  1. Jan 11 2021
    Rehearing DENIED.
  2. Dec 16 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/8/2021.
  3. Dec 01 2020
    Petition for Rehearing filed.
  4. Nov 09 2020
    Petition DENIED.
  5. Oct 21 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/6/2020.
  6. Sep 28 2020
    Waiver of right of respondents E. A. Vega; The Honorable Mark Herring to respond filed.
  7. Jul 02 2020
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 15, 2020)