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Kent Knox Johnson v. Superior Court of California, El Dorado County, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 23-4328 · judgment April 24, 2024


Certiorari denied · November 12, 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

In 2014 California implemented the Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act, or RULLCA, no longer permitting professional LLCs in California. During California Superior Court litigation, the Petitioner discovered the opposing Nevada LLC law firm member attorneys were engaged in racketeering. Member attorneys and their co-conspirators were using the Nevada LLC enterprise to embezzle trust funds, fraudulently appear, extort a settlement, and launder the proceeds, failing to report California income. Nevada has no income tax and California has the highest in the Nation. When the interstate predicate acts were raised in the Superior Court, Judges disregarded a lack of jurisdiction, deprivation of rights and their oath to uphold the Law, and continued to enable racketeering and extortion in the courtroom. The California Judges, conspiring with the LLC members, destroyed the Petitioner’s high-tech business by leveraging a DoD procurement of the ‘highest national defense urgency’, for extortion, harming the Nation and the Petitioner. The Petitioner appealed, to State exhaustion, exposing additional California corruption. The Petitioner then filed a Federal civil (RICO) Complaint, which the District Court promptly dismissed, under the Younger and Rooker-Feldman doctrines, disregarding the fraud and harassment claims, which are settled exceptions to the doctrines. The Petitioner then sought review, only to again be summarily dismissed by the Circuit Court’s affirmation, misciassifying material fraud as “insubstantial”, denying the right to be heard.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Kent Knox Johnson

For respondent
Ronald D. Alling
Alling & Jillson, Ltd.

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences

Proceedings

  1. Jan 27 2025
    Rehearing DENIED.
  2. Jan 08 2025
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/24/2025.
  3. Nov 25 2024
  4. Nov 12 2024
    Petition DENIED.
  5. Oct 23 2024
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/8/2024.
  6. Oct 10 2024
    Waiver of right of respondents Alling & Jillson, Ltd., Ronald Alling, Jamie Walker, Scott Souers, Richard J. McGuffin, Kenneth R. Jillson, Kara M. Hayes, individually as members of Alling & Jillson, Ltd. and as Officers of El Dorado County Superior Court to respond filed.
  7. Oct 10 2024
    Waiver of right of respondents Ross Van Dyke Johnson and Curtis William Johnson to respond filed.
  8. Oct 03 2024
    Waiver of right of respondent State Bar of California to respond filed.
  9. Oct 02 2024
    Waiver of right of respondent Rob Bonta, the Attorney General of the State of California to respond filed.
  10. Sep 05 2024
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 17, 2024)