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Jenny Jing, et al. v. Joseph Womack, et al.

Paid petition · Supreme Court of Montana, No. DA 23-0031 · judgment December 19, 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 Bill Johnson’s Restaurants, Inc. v. NLRB, 461 US (1983), this Court ruled that the Appellate Court’s affirmation of disallowing the claims pending in another court’s jurisdiction violated the First Amendment s right to petition. In NAACP v. Button, 371 US (1963), this Court held that a State cannot disregard constitutional rights under the guise of professional regulation. The Montana Supreme Court did not review our requested constitutional violations and precluded the issues it previously declined to review, regarding a court-appointed attorney administrator’s withholding of information. The district court deemed the decedent’s domestic partner, by expressing her opinions from online research in their home, provided ‘legal advice’ to her domestic partner. The court disqualified her from serving as decedent designated PR to retain an attorney, thereby preventing her from pursuing the decedent’s actions against the administrator and a former fiduciary pending in federal court and other state courts (including allowing the decedent’s appeal reply deadline to expire). The administrator now refuses to provide bank statements and itemized bills for his claimed $1 million “expenses”, claiming beneficiaries lack standing. Despite determining it did not have jurisdiction over contract fraud, the district court granted a motion to dismiss the decedent’s pending actions against the administrator and the former fiduciary with prejudice pending in other courts. The questions presented are: 1. Did the Montana Supreme Court overlook a violation of First and

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Jenny Jing

For respondent

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 07 2024
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Aug 14 2024
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/30/2024.
  3. May 06 2024
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 1, 2024)