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Rhonda Meisner v. Zymogenetics, Inc., et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, No. 20-1228 · judgment July 22, 2021

Certiorari denied · February 22, 2022
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

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

Questions presented

  1. Does diversity jurisdiction exist when the sole member of a named Limited Liability Company defendant, is its incorporated parent company?

  2. Whether attorneys that withhold articles of organization, for a limited liability company defendant, for the purpose of obtaining federal court jurisdiction, when diversity jurisdiction is lacking, are properly named defendants?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Rhonda Meisner

For respondent
Ellison Ford McCoy
Jackson Lewis PC

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Feb 22 2022
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jan 19 2022
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/18/2022.
  3. Jan 12 2022
    Waiver of right of respondent Zymogenetics Inc., et al. to respond filed.
    Main Document
  4. Dec 17 2021
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 9, 2022)
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