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David Efron v. Madeleine Candelario, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, No. 23-10691 · judgment August 2, 2024


Certiorari denied · April 28, 2025
Pre-decision estimate: 4% cert probability

Before the decision, roughly the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a circuit split argued in the petition, an Eleventh Circuit decision below, and counsel who has filed here before.

Questions presented

The questions presented are:

  1. Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bar a civil-rights suit alleging judicial corruption that led to a state-court judgment when the plaintiff does not seek to relitigate, review, modify or set aside any issue decided by the statecourt judgment?

  2. Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine preclude federal jurisdiction over a civil-rights claim for damages arising from extrinsic fraud committed by private parties in collusion with corrupt state-court judges, when the injury stems from the conspiracy itself rather than the later state-court judgment?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
John Granville Crabtree
Crabtree & Auslander

For respondent
Gustavo Daniel Lage
Sanchez-Medina, Gonzalez, Quesada, Lage, et al.

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. Mar 31 2025
    Waiver of right of respondent Madeleine Candelario and Michelle Pirallo Di Cristina to respond filed.
  4. Feb 26 2025
    Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including March 31, 2025.
  5. Feb 20 2025
    Motion to extend the time to file a response from February 28, 2025 to March 31, 2025, submitted to The Clerk.
  6. Jan 28 2025
    Motion to extend the time to file a response from January 29, 2025 to February 28, 2025, submitted to The Clerk.
  7. Jan 28 2025
    Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including February 28, 2025.
  8. Dec 26 2024
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 29, 2025)