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Adolfo Sandor Montero v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 24-60190 · judgment October 15, 2024


Certiorari denied · April 28, 2025
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Questions presented

1 QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW

  1. Under Supreme Court Rule 10(a), whether this court should exercise its “supervisory power” to resolve the conflict among the circuit courts of appeal and other lower courts regarding the proper interpretation and application of the Brushaber1 doctrine, particularly in light of the Court’s recent reaffirmation of that doctrine in Moore2.

  2. Under Rule 10(a), whether this court should establish a definitive precedent to halt the continued misrepresentation of the Brushaber and Stanton3 doctrine by multiple circuit courts of appeals and other lower courts.

  3. Under Rule 10(a), whether this Court should intervene, through its supervisory power, to prevent future abuses of discretion by the circuit courts of appeals and other lower courts in mischaracterizing a litigant’s reliance on the correct interpretation of the Moore precedent, reaffirming the Brushaber doctrine, as being “frivolous 1 Frank Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad Company, 240 U.S. 1, 36 S.Ct. 236. 60 L.Ed. 493 ri916'l 2 Moore v. United States. 22-800 (Jun 20, 2024) 3 John Stanton v. Baltic Mining Company, 240 U.S. 103. 36 S.Ct. 278. 60 L.Ed. 546 (19161

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Adolfo S. Montero

For respondent
D. John Sauer
Solicitor General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Apr 28 2025
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Apr 09 2025
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/25/2025.
  3. Apr 03 2025
    Waiver of right of respondent CIR to respond filed.
  4. Mar 17 2025
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due May 1, 2025)