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Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s London v. Brighton Collectibles, LLC

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 18-56403 · judgment March 16, 2020


Certiorari denied · December 7, 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.

Questions presented

This Court’s supervisory power is called upon as to:

  1. Whether the Ninth Circuit violated federalism, abstention, and comity by creating new law when it refused to follow California’s precedence establishing there can be no actionable claim with recoverable civil damages for invasion of privacy under the Song-Beverly Credit Card Act (Civil Code §1747.08)?

  2. Whether the Ninth Circuit violated insurers/Petitioners’ substantive due process rights when it refused to follow its own intra-circuit precedence--and California’s--in finding the SongBeverly Credit Card Act (Civil Code §1747.08) can provide for actionable invasion of privacy when it reversed the lower court’s order regarding no duty to defend by insurers/Petitioners?

  3. Whether the Ninth Circuit’s refusal to certify questions to determine if California’s Song-Beverly Credit Card Act proscribes against “publication” of customer data and provides for “civil damages” violated Petitioners’ substantive due process rights in light of suggestion in footnote of its memorandum answers could have impacted its decision in reversing the lower court’s order establishing Petitioners have no duty to defend under their insurance policy?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Tami Kay Lee
P.K. Schrieffer LLP

For respondent
Eric Marc George
Browne George Ross O'Brien Annaguey & Ellis LLP

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Dec 07 2020
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Nov 10 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/4/2020.
  3. Oct 26 2020
    Brief of respondent Brighton Collectibles, LLC in opposition filed.
  4. Sep 21 2020
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 26, 2020)