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Joseph C. Sheehan v. Breccia Unlimited Company, et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, No. 21-2946, 21-2954 · judgment September 7, 2022
Certiorari denied · April 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.
Question presented
Whether the United States Bankruptcy Code’s grant of world-wide jurisdiction over a debtor’s property permits a federal court to exercise in rem jurisdiction over property of a bankruptcy estate and enforce the automatic stay with respect to a party interfering with a debtor’s property outside of the United States, even where in personam jurisdiction over such party may not otherwise exist?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Peter M. Friedman
O'Melveny and Myers LLP
For respondent
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Proceedings
- Apr 17 2023Petition DENIED.
- Mar 22 2023DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/14/2023.
- Feb 06 2023Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 10, 2023)
- Nov 23 2022Application (22A456) granted by Justice Barrett extending the time to file until February 4, 2023.
- Nov 18 2022Application (22A456) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from December 6, 2022 to February 4, 2023, submitted to Justice Barrett.