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Muriel Fiedler, et vir v. U.S. Bank Trust National Association
Paid petition · District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District, No. 5D2025-2961 · judgment December 3, 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 Fourteenth Amendment permits a State to extinguish a non-titled spouse’s homestead interest through foreclosure without notice or a meaningful opportunity to be heard.
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Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars bankruptcy adjudication of a claimed homestead exemption and lien-avoidance motion when the state court did not decide those issues and the litigant lacked a meaningful opportunity to raise them there.
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Whether state courts may bar a litigant from filing pleadings in a manner that prevents adjudication of properly presented federal claims. /I ■I
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Muriel Fiedler
For respondent
Gennifer L. Bridges
Burr & Forman, LLP
Case
Subject area
Due Process (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Linked docket
25A956
Order
Order list, October 19, 2026 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Oct 19 2026Petition DENIED.
- Sep 30 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/16/2026.
- Sep 23 2026Reply of petitioners Murial Fiedler, et vir filed.
- Sep 18 2026Brief of respondent U.S. Bank Trust National Association in opposition filed.
- Sep 09 2026Motion to defer consideration of the petition for a writ of certiorari filed by petitioners.
- Sep 01 2026Supplemental brief of petitioner Murial Fiedler, et vir, filed.
- May 21 2026Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 18, 2026)
- Feb 27 2026Application (25A956) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until May 29, 2026.
- Feb 24 2026Application (25A956) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from April 29, 2026 to May 29, 2026, submitted to Justice Thomas.