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PDVSA US Litigation Trust v. Lukoil Pan Americas, LLC, et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, No. 19-10950 · judgment March 18, 2021
Before the decision, about 1.7× the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for counsel who has won certiorari before, a circuit split argued in the petition, and an Eleventh Circuit decision below, and down for a business respondent.
Question presented
Whether a court of appeals may deem an argument to have been abandoned when it was properly raised and fully briefed in the district court, and raised in the appellate briefing to such an extent that the court addressed the argument in its decision and found it to be meritorious.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
David Boies
Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP
For respondent
Kristina Anne Bunting
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Nov 08 2021Petition DENIED.
- Oct 20 2021DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/5/2021.
- Oct 12 2021Waiver of right of respondents Lukoil Pan Americas, et al. to respond filed.
- Oct 04 2021Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 5, 2021)