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Peter R. Hall v. Michael J. Geoffrey Fulton, et al.

Paid petition · Supreme Court of Delaware, No. 4, 2023 · judgment August 21, 2023


Certiorari denied · February 20, 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

When a Delaware court has ruled that a Delaware company committed “a clear act of fraudulent concealment” on a foreign court and has also ruled there exists prima facie evidence of lawyer fraud, and the rulings result in the company’s admitting 4 misrepresentations to the foreign court and the facts of a violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) and in lawyers at Delaware’s largest law firm admitting 2 misrepresentations which concealed the company’s 4, do this Court’s rulings on Rule 56, and the U.S.’s treaties, allow a Delaware judge to rule sua sponte (with no notice, no opportunity to present evidence, no mention of an undisclosed $85,000 payment, no mention that 7 days earlier he had reviewed emails showing those lawyers’ organization of the “clear act of fraudulent concealment”, no mention that under Delaware law fraudulent concealment implies misrepresentation, and no mention of the 6 admitted misrepresentations), that “no misrepresentation occurred” and that there should be no “further investigation”, given that his rulings give U.S. lawyers impunity for, and deny foreigners remedy for, admitted U.S. fraud by preventing a trial at which documents would prove that the lawyers concealed their misrepresentations from French anti-money laundering i authorities by non-disclosure, in breach of the FCPA, of an $85,400 payment to an offshore court officer?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Peter R. Hall

For respondent
Raymond DiCamillo
Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A.

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Feb 20 2024
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jan 10 2024
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/16/2024.
  3. Jan 03 2024
    Waiver of right of respondent Michael J. Geoffrey Fulton, et al. to respond filed.
  4. Nov 15 2023
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 4, 2024)