No. 20-871
Response Waived
Tags: 28-usc-1651 appellate-review default-judgment extraordinary-writ fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court hazel-atlas-glass-co-v-hartford-empire-co judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation summary-judgment
Latest Conference:
2021-02-26
Question Presented (from Petition)
Whether this Court should use its discretion through 28 U.S.C. § 1651(a) and governing law of Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co., 322 U.S. 238 (1944) to provide relief, including default judgment, vacating lower court decisions (including legal fees and costs), which both affirmed summary judgment and concluded that defendants did not commit fraud on the court?
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether this Court should use its discretion through 28 U.S.C. §1651(a) and governing law of Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co., 322 U.S. 238 (1944) to provide relief, including default judgment, vacating lower court decisions (including legal fees and costs), which both affirmed summary judgment and concluded that defendants did not commit fraud on the court?
Docket Entries
2021-03-01
Petition DENIED.
2021-02-10
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/26/2021.
2021-01-22
Waiver of right of respondents Real Parties-in-Interest Lightstorm Entertainment, Inc., James Cameron, and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation to respond filed.
2020-12-22
Petition for a writ of mandamus and/or prohibition filed. (Response due February 1, 2021)
Attorneys
In Re Bryant Moore
Bryant Moore — Petitioner
Real Parties-in-Interest Lightstorm Entertainment, Inc., James Cameron, and and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Robert H. Rotstein — Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP, Respondent