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Acquanitta L. Harris-Patterson v. Armco Steel, aka AK Steel Corporation, et al.

Paid petition · Court of Appeals of Missouri, Western District, No. WD85617 · judgment August 16, 2022


Certiorari denied · March 27, 2023
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

There are a number of tentative questions presented by the Petitioner as following:

  1. What cancel checks have been paid? And if so who were they paid too? And where is all the payments that was made on account?

  2. If benefits were paid, to whom where benefits paid too? And why were they paid to whomever?

  3. Is there a benefits book and statement of account that should be presented? Also is there a policy with information presenting procedure of benefits?

  4. Where in the policy that it reads (presents) that his (decedent) benefits were terminated?

  5. How much interest has been accrued on unpaid benefits since the time of his (decedent) death?

  6. The information about “Benefits” should be defined by the Company? And what is all in the “benefits” package when purchase by a company employee?

  7. What happened to all of the timesheets? How was the Social Security Office notified of the pay wage deduction for (decedent) employee? And if decedent last day worked was September 10, 1982, then why was, (or if wages) were paid to decedent up until June 17, 1984?

  8. Did the company intensively misrepresent the fact that decedent walk off job in June 17, 1984? If paid from September 10, 1982 until June 17,1984, how much was he (decedent) paid and were there tax withholdings records for that period of time?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Acquanitta L. Harris-Patterson

For respondent
Michael N. Chesney
Frantz Ward LLP

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences

Proceedings

  1. May 15 2023
    Rehearing DENIED.
  2. Apr 19 2023
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/11/2023.
  3. Apr 12 2023
  4. Mar 27 2023
    Petition DENIED.
  5. Mar 08 2023
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/24/2023.
  6. Feb 02 2023
    Waiver of right of respondent Armco Steel, et al. to respond filed.
  7. Oct 31 2022
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 24, 2023)