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Anthony Italo Provitola, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, No. 20-12615 · judgment June 11, 2021


Certiorari denied · October 12, 2021
Pre-decision estimate: 4% cert probability

Before the decision, roughly the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for an Eleventh Circuit decision below, counsel who has filed here before, and a petition filed soon after the judgment below.

Question presented

Whether the United States Circuit Courts of Appeal have the power to override federal statutory appellate rules with their decision to render unappealable a lower court’s erroneous denial of a motion for summary judgment in an appeal from final judgment?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Anthony Italo Provitola

For respondent
Brian H. Fletcher
Acting Solicitor General

Case

Subject area
Judicial Power (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Order
Order list, October 12, 2021 · Certiorari denied

Proceedings

  1. Oct 12 2021
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Sep 22 2021
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/8/2021.
  3. Sep 20 2021
    Waiver of right of respondent CIR to respond filed.
  4. Sep 08 2021
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 15, 2021)