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Tatana Spicakova Romero, et vir v. Li-Chuan Shih, et al.

Paid petition · Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, No. B310069 · judgment May 5, 2022


Certiorari denied · January 17, 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.

Questions presented

  1. Whether a court order that excludes land owners from their real property and allows other private parties to physically invade and occupy the owners’ land either effects a taking in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and/or violates the land owners’ due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?

  2. Whether a judicially created “equitable” doctrine that gives Landowner A the exclusive use of Landowner B’s property under the guise of an “easement” either effects a taking in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and/or violates Landowner B’s due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
D. Kent Safriet
Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak

For respondent

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Jan 17 2023
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Dec 28 2022
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/13/2023.
  3. Dec 01 2022
    Motion to defer consideration of the petition for a writ of certiorari filed by petitioners.
  4. Nov 08 2022
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 12, 2022)