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RLR Investments, LLC v. City of Pigeon Forge, Tennessee

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, No. 20-6375 · judgment July 13, 2021


Certiorari denied · January 18, 2022
Pre-decision estimate: 7% cert probability (95% interval 4%–11%)

Before the decision, about 1.6× the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a circuit split argued in the petition, a dissent in the court below (flagged in the petition), and a Sixth Circuit decision below, and down for a state or local-government respondent.

Question presented

After Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Saudi Basic Industries Corp., 544 U.S. 280 (2005), is it improper for a United States District Court to dismiss claims brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution for the unlawful taking of property due to an interlocutory state court order on the basis of the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, which this Court held in Exxon is applicable only to final state-court judgments?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Anthony C. White
Thompson Hine LLP

For respondent
Nathan D. Rowell
Ogle, Rowell & Penland, P.C.

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Jan 18 2022
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Dec 29 2021
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/14/2022.
  3. Dec 15 2021
    Brief of respondent City of Pigeon Forge, Tennessee in opposition filed.
  4. Nov 10 2021
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 15, 2021)