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Harry Barnett v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, No. 19-3505 · judgment April 21, 2021
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
Whether a District Court’s striking of a timely-filed Motion to Reconsider, at two days after its filing date, violates the due process rights of a litigant, especially a Pro se individual, simply due to the fact that a notice of motion was not filed immediately after the Motion to Reconsider, and the courtroom’s clerk made no time to respond to requests for a clarification of the clear error on the presiding judge’s ILND homepage as to available dates for the presentment of the Motion, but the Court did have time to strike the filing of the motion, causing the litigant to lose his right to appeal the underlying issues by which the Court dismissed the suit and effectively denying access to the court?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Harry Barnett
For respondent
Frank Henry Bieszczat
Office of the Illinois Attorney General
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Jan 10 2022Petition DENIED. Justice Barrett took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.
- Dec 15 2021DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/7/2022.
- Nov 19 2021Waiver of right of respondents Kwame Raoul, Timothy C. Evans, JB Pritzker to respond filed.
- Oct 25 2021Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 29, 2021)