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LeRoy George Siddell v. City of San Diego, California

Paid petition · Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division One, No. D084679 · judgment December 24, 2025


Certiorari denied · October 5, 2026
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate: the model weighted this down for a self-represented petitioner.

Questions presented

  1. Whether a state-court judgment rests on an adequate and independent state-law standing ground barring review under 28 U.S.C. § 1257 when the court denies relief on that ground yet proceeds to adjudicate and reject a federal Takings Clause claim on the merits.

  2. Whether a government order that bars a landlord from recovering possession after the landlord’s legal right to exclude has accrued effects a per se physical taking under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.

  3. Whether, consistent with the Just Compensation Clause, a government may, by invoking a publichealth emergency, impose uncompensated public burdens on a discrete class of property owners that, in fairness and justice, should be borne by the public as a whole.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
LeRoy George Siddell

For respondent
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Case

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

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Order
Order list, October 5, 2026 · Certiorari denied

Proceedings

  1. Oct 05 2026
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jul 29 2026
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2026.
  3. Jun 09 2026
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due July 13, 2026)