No. 23-781

Sammie Todd Moser v. Halifax County Board of Supervisors, et al.

Lower Court: Virginia
Docketed: 2024-01-23
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: appeals-limitation due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fifth-amendment forfeiture retirement-benefits
Latest Conference: 2024-03-01
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Whether the Eighth Amendment's Excessive Fines clause was violated in the forfeiture of Petitioner's vested retirement benefits.

2. Whether the Virginia statute limiting appeals of Petitioner's case to a Virginia Circuit Court deprived Petitioner of Due Process of law under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Eighth Amendment's Excessive Fines clause was violated in the forfeiture of Petitioner's vested retirement benefits

Docket Entries

2024-03-04
Petition DENIED.
2024-02-14
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/1/2024.
2024-02-09
Waiver of right of respondent The Halifax County Board of Supervisors to respond filed.
2024-01-25
Waiver of right of respondent Virginia Retirement System to respond filed.
2023-11-15
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 22, 2024)

Attorneys

Sammie Todd Moser
John Everett Greenbacker Jr.J. E. Greenbacker & Son, PLLC, Petitioner
The Halifax County Board of Supervisors
Jeremy E. CarrollSpilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC, Respondent
Virginia Retirement System
Andrew Nathan FergusonOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent