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Carol M. Kam v. Dallas County, Texas, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 20-11199 · judgment January 6, 2022


Certiorari denied · October 3, 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.

Question presented

Can the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine apply to two incom­ plete, non final, non court approved proposed State Court Rulings produced by a former Associate Judge who failed to obtain a sign-off of his rulings from the Judge of Record as required by State Law? Per four Texas Statutes, written at the level a fifth grader can comprehend, the Court is required to have signed off on the Orders. Two of these Statutes require the sign off within 30 days. After 7 years of “fumbling”, in 2020, Texas State Court System admitted their earlier error and formally ruled that the unsigned proposed Peyton Jr. Orders were never final state rulings, are not now final State rulings, and confirmed that they can never be made final State Orders. The Rooker Feldman Doctrine is crystal clear that it can only be applied when FINAL State Orders are pre­ sent. In fact the 7 year burden of illegal incomplete State Orders placed on me by Peyton Jr., an employee of Dallas County and former non elected Associate Judge in a state created Probate Court actually repre­ sents a violation of my Civil Rights. The sole issue for this court to consider is “Can the Rooker Feldman Doctrine” be applied when there are FINAL State Orders. For the record Associate Judge Peyton Jr. never had approval from the court to preside over either hearing AND he was removed a few years after he presided over my hearings as the State of Texas Commission on Judicial conduct has deemed him to be incompetent.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Carol M. Kam

For respondent
Jason G. Schuette
Dallas County District Attorney's Office

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 03 2022
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Sep 16 2022
    Supplemental brief of petitioner Carol Kam filed. (Distributed)
  3. Jun 22 2022
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2022.
  4. Jun 01 2022
    Waiver of right of respondent Dallas County, Texas to respond filed.
  5. May 10 2022
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 13, 2022)