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Scuderia Development, LLC, et al. v. United States

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 22-50080, 22-50081, 22-50082, 22-50103 · judgment July 31, 2024


Certiorari denied · January 13, 2025
Pre-decision estimate: 4% cert probability

Before the decision, roughly the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a Ninth Circuit decision below, a business petitioner, and counsel who has filed here before.

Question presented

Whether the district court’s refusal to ask defense-requested voir dire questions intended to identify existing anti-Asian and Chinese political, ethnic, and racial bias of members of the jury venire panel, and the Ninth Circuit’s affirmance of that refusal, denied Petitioners a fair trial.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Robert F. Ruyak
Larson LLP

For respondent
Elizabeth B. Prelogar
Solicitor General

Case

Subject area
Criminal Procedure (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Order
Order list, January 13, 2025 · Certiorari denied

Proceedings

  1. Jan 13 2025
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Dec 18 2024
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/10/2025.
  3. Dec 13 2024
    Waiver of right of respondent United States of America to respond filed.
  4. Dec 05 2024
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 8, 2025)