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Geoffrey M. Young v. Adam Edelen, et al.

Paid petition · Court of Appeals of Kentucky, No. 2019-CA-001443-MR


Certiorari denied · March 21, 2022
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 filed a lawsuit in 2019 against 33 defendants for conspiracy to rig several primary elections.

  1. May any trial court in Kentucky dismiss all allegations against most of the defendants, before discovery, for failure to state a claim, without ever construing the complaint in the light most favorable to the plaintiff and without ever making any goodfaith findings of fact?

  2. Under those circumstances, may Kentucky's trial and appellate courts impose sanctions against the plaintiff?

  3. If a trial court dismisses a lawsuit without ever making any good-faith findings of fact, are Kentucky's two appellate courts under an affirmative duty to reverse the trial court's orders and require the trial court to make good-faith findings of fact?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Geoffrey M. Young

For respondent
Benjamin Druien Allen
Gess Mattingly & Atchison, P.S.C.

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Mar 21 2022
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Mar 02 2022
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/18/2022.
  3. Feb 07 2022
    Waiver of right of respondents Matt Jones and Mike Kerber to respond filed.
  4. Feb 07 2022
    Waiver of Matt Jones and Mike Kerber of right to respond not accepted for filing. (February 07, 2022)
  5. Feb 02 2022
    Waiver of right of respondent Andy Beshear to respond filed.
  6. Jan 28 2022
    Waiver of right of respondents Ben Self, et al. to respond filed.
  7. Jan 27 2022
    Waiver of right of respondent Amy McGrath to respond filed.
  8. Jan 25 2022
    Waiver of right of respondents Kentucky Authority for Educational Television, Donna Moore Campbell, Todd Piccirilli to respond filed.
  9. Jan 03 2022
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 22, 2022)