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Michelle Manor, et vir v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 20-35720 · judgment October 13, 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 Ninth Circuit erred in finding that the Manors waived the issue that the trial court erred in relying upon unreliable statements made during a coercive interrogation and by giving too much weight to beliefs about what a marriage looks like to support its finding of marriage fraud? Whether the Ninth Circuit correctly applied the Matthews factors in rendering its decision? Whether the Ninth Circuit’s opinion affirming the District Court’s judgment is unconstitutionally vague violating the Petitioners’ due process rights?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Robert L. Sirianni Jr.
Brownstone, P.A.

For respondent
Elizabeth B. Prelogar
Solicitor General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Linked docket
21A195

Proceedings

  1. Apr 18 2022
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Mar 29 2022
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/14/2022.
  3. Mar 21 2022
    Waiver of right of respondent Mayorkas, Alejandro N., et al. to respond filed.
  4. Feb 24 2022
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 30, 2022)
  5. Dec 02 2021
    Application (21A195) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until February 28, 2022.
  6. Nov 18 2021
    Application (21A195) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from January 11, 2022 to February 28, 2022, submitted to Justice Kagan.