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Gary Pisner v. Marla Rubinstein, et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, No. 22-1294 · judgment August 25, 2022
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Questions presented
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Fed. R. Evid. Rule 201 and caselaw gives the parties the ability to enter documentary evidence through judicial notice; under what conditions can a party, without identifying the purpose of the documents, the material in the documents to be recognized, the grounds for taking judicial notice, with the court, ignoring the requested judicial notice process of Fed, R. Evid. 201(e), take judicial notice of documents?
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If a trial court rejects a party’s preliminary motions, such as a motion to dismiss, of that party, but both the trial court and the appellate court of that jurisdiction decides, based on the moving party’s submitted documents, that the case, to be efficiently dealt with, should be refiled in another jurisdiction and thereafter, the case is dismissed pursuant to the forum non conveniens doctrine. If, pursuant to orders from both the trial court and appellate court, the same case was refiled in the court mandated new jurisdiction, would there be Cross Jurisdictional Forum Non Conveniens Preclusion bars that prohibited the rehearing of decided preliminary motions in the new jurisdiction?
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Are out of court disparaging communications made by a defendant, at an earlier time, to a beneficiary’s trustee/administrator, who is later in litigation with his beneficiary and there are also communications between a defendant and third parties not in litigation, exempt from a defamation suit against the present defendant via litigation privilege?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Gary Steven Pisner
For respondent
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Proceedings
- Oct 02 2023Petition DENIED.
- Jul 12 2023DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/26/2023.
- Mar 17 2023Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 26, 2023)
- Dec 02 2022Application (22A484) granted by The Chief Justice extending the time to file until March 17, 2023.
- Nov 30 2022Application (22A484) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from January 16, 2023 to March 17, 2023, submitted to The Chief Justice.