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Amos N. Jones v. Catholic University of America

Paid petition · District of Columbia Court of Appeals, No. 19-CV-480 · judgment February 23, 2023


Certiorari denied · November 13, 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.

Question presented

Did the District of Columbia Court of Appeals err in its failure to apply its very own intervening and controlling authority as per the Full Faith and Credit, Equal Protection, Procedural Due Process, and/or Substantive Due Process Clauses of the U.S. Constitution when it (1) consumed more than four years to hear argument on and to determine whether seven paragraphs of Petitioner’s 75-page Amended Complaint failed to state a claim for tortious interference with contractual relations with regard to the legal meaning of “intentionality,” (2) meanwhile decided and published different cases indicating, based on its published precedents, that Petitioner’s Complaint had fully satisfied the pleading standard, (3) nevertheless dismissed Petitioner’s case after Petitioner brought said intervening authority to the Court’s attention, as if no intervening, published, binding, and re-affirming-of-past-precedential authority had taken effect, and finally (4) opted not to publish its contrary opinion against Petitioner that stands to this day at odds with its own precedents and obligations under the doctrine of horizontal stare decisis?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Amos Nathanael Jones

For respondent

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Linked docket
22A1125

Proceedings

  1. Nov 13 2023
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Oct 24 2023
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/9/2023.
  3. Sep 01 2023
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 10, 2023)
  4. Jun 28 2023
    Application (22A1125) granted by The Chief Justice extending the time to file until September 4, 2023.
  5. Jun 26 2023
    Application (22A1125) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from July 6, 2023 to September 4, 2023, submitted to The Chief Justice.