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Michael L. Kiser, et al. v. Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC, et al.

Paid petition · Supreme Court of North Carolina, No. 398PA21 · judgment April 28, 2023


Certiorari denied · December 11, 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.

Questions presented

  1. Is a state supreme court able to “side-step” the just compensation requirement of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments by simply removing preexisting property rights of owners to real property?

  2. Is the North Carolina Supreme Court’s decision in holding that an established right of private property no longer exists a taking in violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution?

  3. Is the North Carolina Supreme Court’s grant of title and ouster of property rights without payment of just compensation a violation of the due process clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Dennis Edward Boyle
Boyle & Jasari

For respondent
Mark Lowe Childers
Jones, Childers, Donaldson & Webb, PLLC

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences

Proceedings

  1. Dec 11 2023
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Dec 01 2023
    Rescheduled.
  3. Dec 01 2023
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/8/2023.
  4. Nov 08 2023
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/1/2023.
  5. Oct 30 2023
    Waiver of right of respondents Please see list set forth upon Exhibit A attached hereto: Jeannene H. Allen, et al. to respond filed.
  6. Oct 24 2023
    Waiver of right of respondents Thomas E. Schmitt and Karen A. Schmitt, Linda Gail Combs and Robert Donald Shepherd as Trustee. to respond filed.
  7. Oct 20 2023
    Waiver of right of respondent Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC to respond filed.
  8. Sep 18 2023
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 25, 2023)