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Sullivan Equity Partners, LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company v. City of Los Angeles, California

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 24-2893 · judgment March 10, 2025


Certiorari denied · October 6, 2025
Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability

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

Question presented

This Petition raises several questions of federal law: Where a property owner has its building permits revoked by a government agency on false pretenses and in violation of state Due Process law, is that property owner entitled to have its 42 USC §1983 claim for relief and its claim for relief that its property was an illegal taking in violation of the United States Constitution heard in federal court? Where a federal district court judge abstains from hearing the matter under the Pullman abstention doctrine, and sends the matter to state court is the plaintiff forever barred from returning to federal court even though it was denied a full and fair hearing in state court judicial proceedings? Where the state court judge denies a federal plaintiff the right to perform discovery, to admit highly relevant evidence of the government’s wrongful revocation of its building permits does federal law still hold that the plaintiff had a full and fair hearing to deny its right to have its case tried in federal court? Where very high powered national and local politicians contact the administrative board behind the scenes to revoke the building permits sufficient to prove that the property owner was denied its right to build the property it had earlier been approved to build? Is the England reservation made by Plaintiff in state court the permissible manner to protect its rights to return to federal court contrary to the Ninth Circuit opinion?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Bruce Edward Altschuld
Law Offices of Bruce Altschuld

For respondent
Charles D. Sewell

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 06 2025
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Aug 06 2025
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2025.
  3. Jul 30 2025
    Waiver of right of respondent City of Los Angeles to respond filed.
  4. Jul 17 2025
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 21, 2025)