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Antwaun Bush v. City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, No. 19-1009 · judgment June 11, 2020

Certiorari denied · January 19, 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.

Question presented

  1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the court below, erred in determining that the failure of defendants to contest, challenge or otherwise avail themselves of state procedural mechanisms to attack a writ of summons constitutes waiver of the statute of limitations defense in a subsequent federal action where the parties and the claims are the same.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Steven Matthew Toprani
Attorney at Law

For respondent
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Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Jan 19 2021
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Dec 30 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/15/2021.
  3. Nov 09 2020
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 16, 2020)