No. 19-6038

Clayton Paul Bateman v. Mississippi

Lower Court: Mississippi
Docketed: 2019-09-24
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: civil-rights color-of-law colorable-authority congressional-authority due-process forum-challenge forum-procedures jurisdiction jurisdictional-standing procedural-due-process standing state-authority state-sovereignty
Latest Conference: 2019-11-08
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. What standing does a person have before a forum of a non-sovereign State, with no act of the United States Congress delineating jurisdictional authority § and would such Persons, so situated be bound to the forums' procedures, processes or judgments?

2. Does the lack of State boundaries remove the transmission of authority from the States' constitution to the government created by it; over the abandoned territory and the people there-in, absent an act of the United States Congress ordaining it?

3. What procedure exists whereby a person brought before an invalid forum operating under the color of State authority may contest and examine the colorable authority of the forum whereby the forum must Answer the challenge with such proof as to dispose of the challenges' Contention and to openly establish its' authority and jurisdiction, or cease and desist in it' proceedings and relieve the person of its' Processes and judgments?

4. Provided that a court proceeded to judgment, after failing to establish the forums jurisdiction in the face of a credible challenge, can the forum later produce evidence, that would have established jurisdiction in the court had it been presented before proceeding to Judgment, that would make the Judgment

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a person has standing before a non-sovereign state forum with no act of the U.S. Congress delineating jurisdictional authority over such persons

Docket Entries

2019-11-12
Petition DENIED.
2019-10-24
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/8/2019.
2019-10-15
Waiver of right of respondent Mississippi to respond filed.
2019-09-12
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 24, 2019)
2019-07-18
Application (19A81) granted by Justice Alito extending the time to file until September 15, 2019.
2019-07-10
Application (19A81) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from July 17, 2019 to September 15, 2019, submitted to Justice Alito.

Attorneys

Clayton P. Bateman
Clayton Paul Bateman — Petitioner
Mississippi
Alicia Marie AinsworthOffice of the Attorney General, State of Mississippi, Respondent