No. 19-1455

Leigh Ann Youngblood-West v. Aflac Incorporated, et al.

Lower Court: Eleventh Circuit
Docketed: 2020-07-02
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech hush-agreement judicial-recusal prior-restraint rumery standing
Latest Conference: 2020-09-29
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Whether the injunction enforcing the hush agreements and sealing the evidence of Aflac's and Dan Amos' cover-up of Dr. Amos' serial assaults upon women, upheld by the Eleventh Circuit without the balancing test required by Rumery, violates the First Amendment?

2. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's affirmation of the District Judge's refusal to recuse himself despite his familial and social ties to each of the five defendants and his spouse's interests in the subject matter has violated the Due Process Clause's guarantee of "an impartial and disinterested tribunal," Marshall v. Jerrico, Inc., 446 U.S. 238, 242 (1980), and/or "so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings . . . as to call for an exercise of this Court's supervisory power" within the meaning of Rule 10(a) of the Court's Rules?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the injunction enforcing the hush agreements and sealing the evidence of Aflac's and Dan Amos' cover-up of Dr. Amos' serial assaults upon women, upheld by the Eleventh Circuit without the balancing test required by Rumery, violates the First Amendment?

Docket Entries

2020-10-05
Petition DENIED.
2020-08-20
Waiver of right of respondent Samuel W. Oates to respond filed.
2020-08-12
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2020.
2020-07-16
Waiver of right of respondent Dr. William L. Amos, Jr. to respond filed.
2020-07-16
Waiver of right of respondents Aflac Incorporated and Daniel P. Amos to respond filed.
2020-06-19
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 3, 2020)

Attorneys

Aflac Incorporated and Daniel P. Amos
James C. GrantAlston & Bird, LLP, Respondent
Dr. William L. Amos, Jr.
James F. Bogan IIIKilpatrick Stockton LLP, Respondent
Leigh Ann Youngblood-West
Dimitry JoffeJoffe Law P.C., Petitioner
Samuel W. Oates
David R. HelmickWaldrep, Muilin & Callahan, LLC, Respondent