No. 21-693

Nina Rae Ringgold v. United States District Court for the Central District of California

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2021-11-10
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: administrative-agency civil-rights civil-rights-act discriminatory-retaliation due-process judicial-disqualification jurisdiction standing supremacy-clause voting-rights-act
Latest Conference: 2022-01-14
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. When there is undisputed evidence that a non-court state administrative agency lacks jurisdiction under federal law, whether the Ninth Circuit can disregard the lack of jurisdiction and accept the District Court's assignment of such agency with the authority of a state court of record (in direct conflict with the state's constitution). Whether the Ninth Circuit can disregard that a state agency lacking jurisdiction has been used by the federal judges to issue orders to show cause as to attorney discipline that are politically motivated?

2. Whether the lower courts' enforcement of discriminatory retaliation of a state agency against minority attorneys and enforcement of the state agency's orders that are void under federal law violates the Civil Rights Act of the 1866 and this Court's decision in Hurd v. Hodge.

3. Given the October 26, 2021 public promise made before Congress by the national policy-making body for the federal courts, the Judicial Conference of the United States, whether there should be review of the Ninth Circuit's disregard of the standards for judicial disqualification, established legal precedent of this Court, and its own decisions, as a method to punish attorneys and their clients who properly seek to implement a special judicial election in compliance with the Voting Rights Act.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a state administrative agency lacking federal jurisdiction can be assigned authority of a state court of record

Docket Entries

2022-01-18
Petition DENIED.
2021-12-29
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/14/2022.
2021-11-02
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 10, 2021)

Attorneys

Nina Ringgold
Nina R. RinggoldLaw Offices of Nina R. Ringgold, Petitioner