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William Herman Viehweg v. Sirius XM Radio, Inc.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, No. 20-2166 · judgment April 13, 2021


Certiorari denied · November 1, 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

Whether separate attorneys’ representing a defendant corporation and attorneys’ representing a non-party key witness, mutual claim of a protective legal privilege, in a pro se civil action, filed in federal court, based on the legal premise that a pro se’s previous exercise of his right to self-representation is evidence both of personal bad character and that all of his prior court cases, including petitions for writ of certiorari, were meritless and for improper purpose, is prohibited by 28 U. S. Code §1654, and is in such clear and convincing contempt of the federal judiciary’s duty of impartiality, including this Supreme Court of the United States, that the court of first instance, on its own initiative, should sanction the offending attorneys with disqualification, as all subsequent proceedings would be inherently prejudicially tainted, and failure to so sanction, constitutes punishment contrary to Bordenkirker v Haves. 434 U.S. 357, 363 (1978), and denial of the Constitution of the United States Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of equal protection of the law.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
William Herman Viehweg

For respondent
Helen Marie Mac Murray
Mac Murray & Shuster, LLP

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Nov 01 2021
    Petition DENIED. The Chief Justice took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.
  2. Oct 06 2021
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/29/2021.
  3. Sep 24 2021
    Reply of petitioner William Herman Viehweg filed.
  4. Sep 16 2021
    Brief of respondent Sirius XM Radio in opposition filed.
  5. Aug 11 2021
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 16, 2021)