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Clarence Matthew Otworth v. PNC Bank

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, No. 19-2188 · judgment July 27, 2020


Certiorari denied · January 11, 2021
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

For a person to be known as a customer of a bank there must be either a current account or any sort of deposit account like a saving, team deposit, recurring deposit, loan account or similar relation. Banks are entitled to charge noncustomers a check cashing fee, but they should not be allowed to charge noncustomers a check cashing fee if the noncustomers are aides of disabled customers because disabled customers must pay the noncustomer check cashing fee to get their deposits out of the bank. FIRST QUESTION IF A DISABLED CUSTOMER WRITES A CHECK PAYABLE TO HIMSELF, AND THE NONCUSTOMER AGENT OF THE DISABLED CUSTOMER DELIVERS THE CHECK TO THE BANK, IS THE BANK OBLIGATED TO CASH THE CHECK AND GIVE THE MONEY TO THE AGENT OF THE DISABLED CUSTOMER? Clarence Otworth asserts that a bank is obligated to give the money of a customer to the agent of the customer if the customer is the payee. r\l DO

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Clarence Otworth

For respondent
Jeremy S. Rogers
Dinsmore and Shohl LLP

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Jan 11 2021
    Petition DENIED. Justice Alito took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.
  2. Dec 09 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/8/2021.
  3. Nov 19 2020
    Brief of respondent PNC Bank, N.A. in opposition filed.
  4. Sep 23 2020
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 19, 2020)