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Rick Siegel v. Jude Salazar
Paid petition · Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, No. B346968 · judgment July 18, 2025
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Questions presented
Petitioner presents two queries about administrative authority, both of which resonate with the Court’s recent actions to ensure agencies act within statutory bounds. It respectfully urges the Court to address these critical, unsettled questions of federal and constitutional law:
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“Whether state procedural rules are ‘adequate’ under the Fourteenth Amendment when, in combination (limited-case misclassification, jurisdictional limits, and record-based affirmance), they foreclose any merits forum for preserved federal constitutional claims raised in the same litigation.”
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“Whether due process permits a State to retroactively void private contracts and compel disgorgement by relying on general severability statutes (Civ. Code §§ 1598—1599) as the operative ‘penalty’ where the governing licensing statute—the Talent Agencies Act—is concededly silent on remedies.”
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Rick Siegel
For respondent
Jude Salazar
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Amicus briefs
4 cert-stage
Proceedings
- Mar 23 2026Motion for leave to file amicus brief filed by Professor Kevin Jerome Greene DENIED.
- Mar 23 2026Petition DENIED.
- Mar 06 2026Supplemental brief of petitioner Rick Siegel filed. (Distributed)
- Mar 03 2026Motion of Professor Kevin Jerome Greene for leave to file amicus brief not accepted for filing. (March 12, 2026)
- Feb 25 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/20/2026.
- Feb 24 2026Amicus brief of National Conference of Personal Managers not accepted for filing. (March 12, 2026)
- Feb 05 2026Brief amicus curiae of Music Managers Forum filed.
- Feb 02 2026Brief amici curiae of Independent Attorneys and Sports Agents filed.
- Feb 02 2026Brief amici curiae of Members of the National Conference of Personal Managers Hall of Fame filed.
- Feb 02 2026Amicus brief of Professor Kevin Jerome Greene not accepted for filing. (February 18, 2026)
- Feb 02 2026Motion of Professor Kevin Jerome Greene for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae filed. (Distributed)
- Jan 30 2026Waiver of right of respondent Jude Salazar to respond filed.
- Jan 19 2026Amicus brief of National Conference of Personal Managers not accepted for filing. (February 18, 2026)
- Jan 19 2026Brief amicus curiae of National Conference of Personal Managers filed. (Distributed)
- Oct 13 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 6, 2026)