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Stepup Funny, L.L.C., dba Stepup Funny, dba AA7 Days v. Newsweek Digital, L.L.C.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 23-50890 · judgment April 18, 2025
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Questions presented
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Whether the district court docket should be sealed because the lower court failed to properly weigh Newsweek CEO Dev Pragad’s “spite” and “improper purposes” in favor of defendants under Supreme Court precedent set in Nixon v. Warner Communications, 435 U.S. 589 (1978), after he vowed to strike them with a media “nuclear bomb.”
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Whether the district court docket should be sealed because the private defendants, engaged in private business, with an agreed upon private dispute resolution mechanism, had a “realistic expectation of privacy” under Supreme Court precedent set in Nixon v. Warner Communications, 435 U.S. 589 (1978).
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Whether Newsweek’s intervention should be denied on procedural grounds under Supreme Court precedent related to the Federal Arbitration Act for a case predicated on binding arbitration clauses where the lower court’s subject matter jurisdiction was questioned.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Yen-Yi Anderson
Anderson and Associates, LLP
For respondent
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Proceedings
- Nov 24 2025Petition DENIED.
- Nov 05 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/21/2025.
- Sep 15 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 23, 2025)
- Jul 21 2025Application (25A76) granted by Justice Alito extending the time to file until September 15, 2025.
- Jul 17 2025Application (25A76) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from July 17, 2025 to September 15, 2025, submitted to Justice Alito.