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Sammie Todd Moser v. Halifax County Board of Supervisors, et al.
Paid petition · Supreme Court of Virginia, No. 230308 · judgment August 17, 2023
Certiorari denied · March 4, 2024
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
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Whether the Eighth Amendment’s Excessive Fines clause was violated in the forfeiture of Petitioner’s vested retirement benefits.
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Whether the Virginia statute limiting appeals of Petitioner’s case to a Virginia Circuit Court deprived Petitioner of Due Process of law under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
John Everett Greenbacker Jr.
J. E. Greenbacker & Son, PLLC
For respondent
Jeremy E. Carroll
Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Mar 04 2024Petition DENIED.
- Feb 14 2024DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/1/2024.
- Feb 09 2024Waiver of right of respondent The Halifax County Board of Supervisors to respond filed.
- Jan 25 2024Waiver of right of respondent Virginia Retirement System to respond filed.
- Nov 15 2023Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 22, 2024)