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Richard E. Warner, as Co-Personal Representative of the Estate of Joseph Ardolino, II, et al. v. City of Marathon, Florida

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, No. 24-10901 · judgment May 27, 2025


Certiorari denied · June 15, 2026
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

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

Question presented

In this Taking by Regulation case, under the Fifth Amendment and Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon, 260 US 393, 413 (1922) (“Mahon”) et al., Petitioners (the “Estate”) ask this Court to clarify the Federal Common Law on the following questions: A. Who Decides? Did San Remo’s and this case’s using the Full Faith and Credit Statute/28 USC §1738, mistakenly delegate this Court’s final interpretation of the US Constitution’s Fifth Amendment, to State Courts? Do the Supremacy Clause, Marbury v. Madison, Trump v. Anderson, Exxon-Mobil v. Saudi Basic Industries, 42 USC 1983 et al., prevent State Courts from definitively interpreting the Fifth Amendment in Partial Taking-By-Regulation claims? B. Is “Reverse Spot Zoning” of an existing, legal business, a categorical, per se regulatory taking, under Penn Central? Are Florida Courts and this case mistakenly only using the multi-factor/development/residual value Penn Central formula, for this partial taking? Are reverse spot zoning and destroying an existing legal business by a secret zoning amendment and “abandonment” (the “Zoning Amendment”) both presumed to be per se Fifth Amendment takings? C. Who decides, “Was there a ‘Taking’?” Should the Fifth Amendment and Due Process,

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Richard Erich Warner
Richard E. Warner PA

For respondent
Hudson Carter Gill
Johnson Anselmo et al

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Linked docket
25A193

Proceedings

  1. Aug 17 2026
    Rehearing DENIED.
  2. Jul 23 2026
    DISTRIBUTED.
  3. Jul 10 2026
    Petition for Rehearing filed.
  4. Jun 15 2026
    Petition DENIED.
  5. May 26 2026
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/11/2026.
  6. May 19 2026
    Waiver of right of respondent City of Marathon, FL to respond filed.
  7. Sep 24 2025
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 11, 2026)
  8. Aug 19 2025
    Application (25A193) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until September 24, 2025.
  9. Aug 14 2025
    Application (25A193) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from August 25, 2025 to October 10, 2025, submitted to Justice Thomas.