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Mei Guo, et al. v. Luc A. Despins, Chapter 11 Trustee
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, No. 24-2504 · judgment April 6, 2026
2%
estimated cert probability
(petition-stage, structural)
(petition-stage, structural)
Rule 10: circuit split argued
Conference-stage estimate: 5%
Well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
Whether 11 U.S.C. § 544(a) authorizes a bankruptcy trustee to prosecute a state-law alter ego claim merely because it belongs to creditors of the bankruptcy estate generally.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Stephen Michael Kindseth
Zeisler & Zeisler, P.C.
For respondent
Benjamin W. Snyder
Paul Hastings LLP
Case
Subject area
Economic Activity (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Amicus briefs
1 cert-stage
Proceedings
- Sep 21 2026Brief amicus curiae of Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Chapter 11 Case of Vanderbilt Minerals, LLC filed.
- Sep 03 2026Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including October 21, 2026.
- Sep 01 2026Motion to extend the time to file a response from September 21, 2026 to October 21, 2026, submitted to The Clerk.
- Aug 20 2026Response Requested. (Due September 21, 2026)
- Aug 19 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2026.
- Aug 17 2026Waiver of right of respondent Luc A. Despins, Chapter 11 Trustee to respond filed.
- Aug 11 2026Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 14, 2026)