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William F. Kaetz v. United States, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, No. 26-1085 · judgment March 10, 2026


0%
estimated cert probability
(petition-stage, structural)
GVR risk 0%

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

Questions presented

  1. Whether a court of appeals may deny mandamus relief when a district court in a § 2255 proceeding refuses to decide on the merits a properly raised, served on the Attorney General, and Rule 5.1-certified facial challenge under Article I, § 8 and the Tenth Amendment to Congress’s authority to enact the Higher Education Act of 1965 and render student loans nondischarge able under 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(8).

  2. Whether the lower courts’ repeated reliance on a prior dismissal that never performed an Article I enumerated-powers analysis constitutes a misapprehension of the record warranting relief under Rule 60(d)(3) and mandamus.

  3. Whether this case presents a question of exceptional importance concerning the judicial duty to decide properly certified structural constitutional claims going to the validity of a criminal conviction.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
William F. Kaetz

For respondent
D. John Sauer
Solicitor General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Jul 08 2026
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2026.
  2. Jun 30 2026
    Waiver of right of respondent United States, et al. to respond filed.
  3. Jun 15 2026
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due July 24, 2026)