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Luke T. West v. United States

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, No. 2019-2415 · judgment May 10, 2021


Certiorari denied · November 8, 2021
Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Questions presented

  1. As a matter of statutory construction and application, is petitioner entitled to the exercise of the authority of the United States Federal Court of Claims under 28 U.S.C. §1491(a)(2) to a remand of the review of petitioner’s general court martial conviction to OJAG USN with further order to OJAG USN to exercise its authority under 28 U.S.C. §869(d)(1) to refer petitioner’s general court martial conviction to the NMCCA for further judicial appellate review?

  2. Under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution, is petitioner entitled to have his general court martial conviction vacated in the case of United States v. West?

  3. Can the Court of Federal Claims issue a protective order placing the record under a partial seal preventing the disclosure of the names of petitioner’s sexual assault/sexual harassment accusers in his general court martial, whereby the validity of the conviction in said general court martial is the subject of the dispute in the proceedings before the Court of Federal Claims?

  4. Does the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552a, impose upon the petitioner (and by extension his counsel) the duty to protect information regarding the identity of petitioner’s sexual assault/sexual harassment accusers at petitioner’s public court martial?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Claiborne Wood Brown
Claiborne W. Brown, LLC

For respondent
Elizabeth B. Prelogar
Solicitor General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Nov 08 2021
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Oct 20 2021
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/5/2021.
  3. Oct 12 2021
    Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
  4. Aug 27 2021
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 21, 2021)