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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


1%
estimated cert probability
(petition-stage, structural)
Rule 10: circuit split argued

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

Questions presented

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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

Case

Conference history

Linked docket
25A956

Proceedings

  1. May 21 2026
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 18, 2026)
  2. Feb 27 2026
    Application (25A956) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until May 29, 2026.
  3. Feb 24 2026
    Application (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.