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Maurice McGinnis, By His Conservator Derrick K. Jones v. Sonny Perdue, Secretary of Agriculture, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, No. 19-5023 · judgment February 21, 2020

Certiorari denied · October 5, 2020
Pre-decision estimate: 2% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

Whether strict application of procedural deadlines by an Arbitrator under the guidelines of the Consent Order in Pigford v. Glickman, 185 F.R.D. 82 (D.D.C. 1999) to an obviously incompetent Claimant resulted in a fundamental miscarriage of justice and required an exercise of the district court’s equitable jurisdiction where no provision was made in the Consent Order authorizing an arbitrator to appoint a guardian ad litem or allowing an enforcement action to the District Court prior to a final arbitration award?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Mario Bernard Williams
HDR, LLC

For respondent
Jeffrey B. Wall
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 05 2020
    Petition DENIED. Justice Kavanaugh took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.
  2. Sep 02 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2020.
  3. Aug 21 2020
    Waiver of right of respondent Perdue, Sec. of Agric., et al. to respond filed.
  4. Jul 20 2020
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 24, 2020)