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Raul A. Pelaez, as Limited Guardian of the Person and Property of John Poul Pelaez, Ward v. Government Employees Insurance Company

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, No. 20-12053 · judgment September 20, 2021

Certiorari denied · April 18, 2022

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 the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and more particularly, Circuit Judge Edward Carnes, who prepared the opinion for the court, exhibited pervasive bias and prejudice such that a reasonable person would question the court’s impartiality, violating the Petitioner’s Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Rights?

For petitioner
Jeffrey Gordon
Maney & Gordon, P.A.

For respondent
Jordan Marshall Thompson
Young, Bill, Boles, Palmer, Duke & Thompson, P.A.

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Apr 18 2022
Petition DENIED.
Mar 29 2022
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/14/2022.
Mar 11 2022
Brief of respondent Government Employees Insurance Company in opposition filed.
Main Document Proof of Service Certificate of Word Count
Dec 20 2021
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 14, 2022)
Petition Appendix Proof of Service