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Jeanie Bisconte v. Sandia National Laboratories, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, No. 21-2133 · judgment August 31, 2022


Certiorari denied · February 21, 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

The Enclave Clause of the United States Constitution imposes limits on federal jurisdiction over federally owned land acquired from a state. See U.S. Const., art. I, § 8, cl. 17. A “federal enclave” is a building or geographical area within a state that is under the control of a branch of the federal government and over which the United States government has declared jurisdiction. The question presented here is: Whether this Court should limit the reach of federal enclave jurisdiction in an employment discrimination case in which Petitioner and the individual Respondents did not work on the federal enclave and Petitioner did not suffer injury on the federal enclave.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Erika Anderson
Law Offices of Erika E. Anderson

For respondent
Edward Robert Ricco
Rodey, Dickason, Sloan, Akin & Robb, P.A.

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Feb 21 2023
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jan 25 2023
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/17/2023.
  3. Jan 18 2023
    Waiver of right of respondent Sandia National Laboratories, John Mounho, Edward Saucier to respond filed.
  4. Dec 20 2022
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 23, 2023)