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Josephine Tripodi, et al. v. North Coventry Township, Pennsylvania

Paid petition · Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, No. 1023 C.D. 2020 · judgment September 7, 2022


Certiorari denied · October 2, 2023
Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability

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

Question presented

Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment limit the power of a state court, to order the compelled sale of a private person’s real property as a penalty for civil contempt despite the person’s repeated attempts to satisfy the alleged contempt? to impose obligations and liabilities upon an intervening party who, in this case, neither owns nor has legal obligations for the real property in question?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Michael James Confusione
Hegge & Confusione

For respondent
Eric M. Brown
Siana Law, LLP

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 02 2023
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Aug 09 2023
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/26/2023.
  3. Jul 21 2023
    Brief of respondent North Coventry Township, Pennsylvania in opposition filed.
  4. Jun 16 2023
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due July 21, 2023)