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Noel West Lane, III v. Matthew Curtis Witt, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, No. 23-1035 · judgment December 8, 2023


Certiorari denied · October 7, 2024
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

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

Question presented

In Summary, should the Supreme Court issue guidance to state courts on unaddressed, mandatory accommodation to judicial discretion to provide fair hearing to all litigants and clarify its decisions in Bronson v. Schulten,104 U. S. 410, (1881) versus Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v Hartford-Empire Co., 322 U.S. 238 (1944) so that the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is not violated when judicial discretion is used in error and a state court does not void a pro se litigant’s or any litigant’s procedural errors when the litigant has clearly presented the facts in evidence of manifest fraud on the court? Specifically, I. Did the Bankruptcy Court; The Bankruptcy Appellate Panel; and the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals error in not using their judicial discretion to void two procedural errors made by Petitioner? II. Were the Bankruptcy Court; The Bankruptcy

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Noel West Lane III

For respondent
K. Jamie Buechler
Buechler Law Office, LLC

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Linked docket
23A735

Proceedings

  1. Oct 07 2024
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Aug 13 2024
    Waiver of right of respondent Matthew Witt and Nicole Witt to respond filed. VIDED.
  3. Aug 07 2024
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/30/2024.
  4. Jul 19 2024
    Waiver of right of respondents Torrey Livenick, Livenick Law, LLC to respond filed.
  5. Jun 20 2024
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due July 25, 2024)
  6. Feb 08 2024
    Application (23A735) granted by Justice Gorsuch extending the time to file until June 29, 2024.
  7. Feb 01 2024
    Application (23A735) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from April 30, 2024 to June 29, 2024, submitted to Justice Gorsuch.