No. 22-903

Jay Goodley v. Charles M. Greene

Lower Court: Eleventh Circuit
Docketed: 2023-03-17
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: civil-rights court-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-capacity judicial-conduct judicial-disqualification judicial-recusal recusal separation-of-powers
Key Terms:
AdministrativeLaw SocialSecurity Securities Immigration
Latest Conference: 2023-04-21
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Whether a person can be treated equally under the law when a judge is changing the law?

2. Whether it is a normal judicial function for a judge who is automatically disqualified by law, via a court order and with that case having been reassigned to another judge by the clerk of the court, to then be changing laws, holding hearings, entering orders and conferring with other judges in the very case he/she was recused from?

3. Whether a judge is still operating in a "judicial capacity" when presiding in a case after he/she has been disqualified from that case and with that case having been reassigned to a new presiding judge?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a judge can change the law while presiding over a case they were recused from

Docket Entries

2023-04-24
Petition DENIED.
2023-04-05
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/21/2023.
2023-03-21
Waiver of right of respondent Charles M. Greene to respond filed.
2023-02-11

Attorneys

Charles M. Greene
Christopher SutterFlorida Office of the Attorney General, Respondent
Jay Goodley
Jay Goodley — Petitioner