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James A. Widtfeldt v. United States

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, No. 19-3372 · judgment October 8, 2020


Certiorari denied · February 22, 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

QUESTION 1* Whether the failure to include testing and treatment of Lyme spirochete Bb as a pre-trial requirement of all criminal and most civil cases under the 42 USC 1983 Federal Civil Rights Act, particularly in the West annotations, section 2766 Medical care, pretrial detainees, generally, section 2767Serious medical need\ medical care, pretrial detainees, section 1603Medical malpractice. deprivation ofconstitutional or statutory rights, and section 1604. Medical service. deprivation ofconstitutional or statutory rishts. because of a number of sometimes conflicting developments in the science of medicine, l) efforts to conceal Lyme as a germ warfare agent since about 1993 in the early stages of the Bill Clinton presidency, and 2) the uncanny ability of the Lyme spirochete, hereinafter Bb, to almost instantaneously sense danger from antibiotics and curl up into a ball and exude a wax protective shield or protective film or biofilm and thereafter remam inside the biofilm and inactive even for years until danger passes after Bb senses danger in the form of antibiotics or even soap and antiseptics, greatly reducing the intended effect antibiotics and pre-surgical cleaning, had until 2013 discovery of stevia as an ajuvant, resulted in widely held beliefs that lyme was a fictitious disease. QUESTION 2- Whether the 2016 election of Donald Trump has led to the acceptance of the 300 world wide Lyme species as no longer being a fictional disease. In 19992000 one ILADS founder, Dr Joe Burrascano, MD of the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society, hereinafter ILADS, was sued and brought into a civil trial in Manhattan, New York City on charges brought by the New York State Medical Boards in a deprivation of license trial, for about a one year trial in 19992000, on 33 charges basically alleging Burrascano was wrongly practicing medicine to treat a nonexistent or fictional disease, prosecuted for his discoveries regarding Lyme disease then thought to be a fictional disease and use of more powerful antibiotics than others had previously used to fight Lyme. Burrascano won on 30 charges and had to do minor remedial work on the other three charges, thanks, it is reported, to a judge who had personal knowledge that Lyme was not fictional. QUESTION 3- Will this court now order testing and treating of Lyme as a necessary pretrial test and treatment in all criminal and hopefully most civil cases. In many criminal cases, there is an appearance of criminal activity where in fact the behavior was largely or solely caused by a brain infection with Lyme and/or the Questions Presented for Discussion in this Petition for Certiorari Page i

Counsel of record

For petitioner
James Widtfeldt

For respondent
Brian H. Fletcher
Acting Solicitor General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Feb 22 2021
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jan 20 2021
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/19/2021.
  3. Jan 12 2021
    Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
  4. Dec 04 2020
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 20, 2021)