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Owolabi Salis v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, No. 21-590 · judgment October 21, 2021


Certiorari denied · March 7, 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. Whether facts brought by a witness before a jury and tried by that jury can be reexamined by the same witness before another body who was also a witness before the jury.

  2. Whether the facts that have been tried by the jury in a criminal prosecution can be re-examined by another body who was a witness in the same criminal prosecution.

  3. Whether the Federal Court has subject matter jurisdiction over violation of Constitutionally Protected Rights

  4. Whether certain officers of the Respondent proceeded without or in excess of jurisdiction

  5. Whether certain officers of the Respondent violated lawful procedure, acted arbitrary and abuse discretion

  6. Whether the actions of certain officers of the Respondent implicated the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S Constitution.

  7. Whether any rule or regulations can override the provisions of the US Constitution. The Appellant believes that the Respondent officers actions and the collaborators are guided by certain internal rules unknown to the Appellant, whether such rules allow the breach of the Constitutional Guarantees or Constitutionally Protected Rights of the Appellant.

  8. Whether the actions of certain officers of the Respondent and the collaborators violated the Civil Rights of the Appellant.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Owolabi Salis

For respondent
Elizabeth B. Prelogar
Solicitor General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Mar 07 2022
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Feb 16 2022
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/4/2022.
  3. Feb 09 2022
    Waiver of right of respondent Mayorkas, Alejandro to respond filed.
  4. Jan 06 2022
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 10, 2022)