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Yoel Weisshaus v. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, No. 19-161 · judgment May 28, 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.

Questions presented

i QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW

  1. When Congress exercises authority under the Commerce Clause, whether a negative impact to that act of Congress is actionable within the parameters of the dormant Commerce Clause?

  2. Whether a State agency may impose a sur­ charge or penalty for the use of cash as legal tender?

  3. Whether the dormant Commerce Clause allows using the Cost-Of-Living-Adjustment and the regional Consumer Price Index as the ground for price fixing in establishing a toll rate, based on what a local authority deems is the user’s maximum adorability, rather than a fair approximation of the use or privilege?

  4. Whether a complaint is required to plead extra facts to exclude any alternative theory, as held by the Ninth Circuit and applied by the Second Circuit, or that a complaint does not need to exclude alternative theo­ ries, as held by the Fourth Circuit?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Yoel Weisshaus

For respondent

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Jan 11 2021
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Dec 16 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/8/2021.
  3. Oct 26 2020
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 30, 2020)