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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

  1. Whether the Eighth Amendment’s Excessive Fines clause was violated in the forfeiture of Petitioner’s vested retirement benefits.

  2. 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

  1. Mar 04 2024
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Feb 14 2024
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/1/2024.
  3. Feb 09 2024
    Waiver of right of respondent The Halifax County Board of Supervisors to respond filed.
  4. Jan 25 2024
    Waiver of right of respondent Virginia Retirement System to respond filed.
  5. Nov 15 2023
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 22, 2024)