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Emory D. Christian v. Rancho Grande Manufactured Home Community, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 22-16821 · judgment July 11, 2024


Certiorari denied · January 13, 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

Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544 (2007), Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662 (2009), and Comcast v. National Association of African AmericanOwned Media, 139 S. Ct. 2693 (2019) operate to provide lower district courts with unconstrained discretion to: “Throw the baby out with the bathwater,” i.e., dismiss meritorious civil rights complaints at the Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6) stage under the pretext that a complaint fails to plead sufficient facts giving rise to the inference of “but for” causation, pursuant to Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544 (2007), Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662 (2009), and Comcast v. National Association of African American-Owned Media, 139 S. Ct. 2693 (2019), when subject dismissal is, in fact, based upon lower district courts’ flawed orders evidencing infidelity to the Constitution, Congressional intent and this Court’s procedural and substantive rule of law which are destructive to American democracy and societal order. The questions presented are:

  1. Whether a lower court of appeals sanctioned a lower district court’s decision that departed so far from the accepted and usual course of judicial pro­ ceedings, . . . that it calls for the Supreme Court to invoke its supervisory power;

  2. Upon the allegation that members of a 42 U.S.C.S. § 1985(3) civil conspiracy, engaged in joint actions to deprive an individual of her fundamental constitutional freedoms, on the basis of race, whether Comcast v. National Association of African AmericanOwned Media, 139 S. Ct. 2693 (2020) provides a suffi­ ciently detailed, process-oriented, method of analysis

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Emory D. Christian

For respondent
Andrew J. Ditlevsen
Lathrop GPM, LLP

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Jan 13 2025
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Dec 18 2024
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/10/2025.
  3. Nov 19 2024
    Waiver of right of respondents Rancho Grande Manufactured Home Community, L.P., Burt Hamernick; Lisa Hamernick to respond filed.
  4. Nov 18 2024
    Waiver of right of respondents Stacy Stephenson, an individual, Bart Hotchkiss, and individual to respond filed.
  5. Nov 11 2024
    Waiver of right of respondent Susan Roberts to respond filed.
  6. Oct 31 2024
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 9, 2024)