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Dongmei Li v. Richard Peck, et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, No. 24-1659 · judgment November 15, 2024
Certiorari denied · June 30, 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
- Under 28 U.S.C. § 455(a), federal judges are statutorily disqualified from hearing cases whenever their "impartiality might reasonably be questioned." The Supreme Court held that disqualification was required as a matter of constitutional due process in multiple precedents. Why could Connecticut federal district judge Victor A. Bolden illegally and unconstitutionally deny recusal in violation of Supreme Court precedent? 2. Whether the circuit court should recognize the interlocutory appeal as a “substantial legal control issue” that prevents a statutorily and constitutionally unqualified judge from continuing to hear the case, and exercise jurisdiction to grant an immediate interim review, when an aggrieved party challenges a judge’s refusal to disqualify? or Whether an appeal by an aggrieved party challenges a judge's refusal to disqualify should be automatically defined as a complaint alleging a federal judge has committed misconduct or has a disability that interferes with the performance of their judicial duties, and processed under The Judicial Conduct and Disability Act of 1980(“Act’), 28 U.S.C. § 351-364, and the Rules for Judicial- Conduct and Judicial- Disability Proceedings(“Rule”), as amended on March 12,2019. l U-
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Dongmei Li
For respondent
Kimberly A. Bosse
Kimberly & Tallberg, LLC
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Jun 30 2025Petition DENIED.
- Jun 10 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/26/2025.
- May 22 2025Waiver of right of respondent St. Vincent's Medical Center to respond filed.
- May 15 2025Waiver of right of respondent Town of Fairfield & Richard Peck to respond filed.
- Apr 07 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due May 29, 2025)