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Zachary C. Crouch v. Braden Goddard, et al.
IFP petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, No. 24-1803 · judgment February 18, 2025
Question presented
The questions presented for review include whether state sovereign immunity can be and should be applied to unofficial acts and federal laws of copyright infringement and fraud. This is a question of law, de novo, because when the Constitution of the United States or laws of the United States directly contradict a law or statute of the State of Virginia, a decision must be made to make clear boundaries of what details of the civil proceedings will agree with the Constitution of the United States and laws or statutes of the State of Virginia. Specifically, in this proceeding the law or statute of the State of Virginia is sovereign immunity. On the other hand, the Constitution of the United States has copyright protection laws, federal fraud laws, and denounces itself as the Supreme Law of the Land. Also, federal copyright infringement laws contradict state sovereign immunity laws as well because you cannot simply enforce both at the same time unless new laws are created. LIST OF PARTIES [ ] All parties appear in the caption of the case on the cover page. [ X ] All parties do not appear in the caption of the case on the cover page. A list of all parties to the proceedings in the court whose judgment is the subject of this petition is as follows: Braden Goddard Zeyun Wu RELATED CASES There were no related cases found to this case.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Zachary Crouch
For respondent
Kevin Michael Gallagher
Virginia Office of the Attorney General
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Oct 06 2025Petition DENIED.
- Jun 18 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2025.
- Jun 12 2025Waiver of right of respondent Braden Goddard, et al. to respond filed.
- May 19 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due June 27, 2025)