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Sangeeta Bhargava v. Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.

Paid petition · Court of Appeal of California, Sixth Appellate District, No. H044982 · judgment March 20, 2020


Certiorari denied · January 11, 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.

Questions presented

  1. Are forgery and robo-signing one and the same?

  2. Is it a violation of due process and equal protection of the law to forbid a victim of forgery to use the judicial process in order to prevent his loss?

  3. Is it a violation of due process and equal protection of law to require that a victim must wait until unlawful and fraudulent foreclosure, dispossession, and eviction are complete to seek redress in the Courts, particularly when this occurs under the auspices of and with the procedure of state law?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Thomas John Spielbauer
The Spielbauer Law Office

For respondent

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Jan 11 2021
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Dec 02 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/8/2021.
  3. Nov 13 2020
    Supplemental brief of petitioner Sangeeta Bhargava filed.
  4. Oct 09 2020
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 16, 2020)