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Xanadu Corp., et al. v. Meor Adlin, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 23-15118 · judgment February 27, 2024


Certiorari denied · October 7, 2024
Pre-decision estimate: 3% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Questions presented

  1. Whether Class Counsel and the claims administrator must turn over undelivered or uncashed checks payable to approved claimants in federal class action cases to state unclaimed property agencies or if Class Counsel can instead convert the money to additional attorney fees with the remaining amounts redistributed to other class members?

  2. Whether due process allows Class Counsel, who were concurrently seeking to convert undelivered checks into attorney fees, to cause a class action claimant’s approved claim to be reopened and audited over a year after its approval, subjected to a heightened and different standard of review than other claimants, but not provide any meaningful judicial review mechanism for the new decision?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
John Allen Roth

For respondent

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Linked docket
23A1010

Proceedings

  1. Oct 07 2024
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Sep 11 2024
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/30/2024.
  3. Jul 25 2024
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 29, 2024)
  4. May 14 2024
    Application (23A1010) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until July 26, 2024.
  5. May 10 2024
    Application (23A1010) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from May 27, 2024 to July 26, 2024, submitted to Justice Kagan.