No. 23A268

Patrick Lockhart v. Karen Lockhart

Lower Court: West Virginia
Docketed: 2023-09-27
Status: Denied
Type: A
Tags: due-process equal-protection equitable-distribution extrinsic-fraud judicial-recusal void-ab-initio
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (from Petition)

Question not identified.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a state trial court's refusal to recuse itself after a party files a federal civil rights lawsuit against the judge, combined with the issuance of orders allegedly containing false factual findings and the destruction of case records, violates the Due Process Clause and Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and constitutes grounds for declaring those orders void ab initio

Docket Entries

2023-09-28
Application (23A268) denied by The Chief Justice.
2023-09-08
Application (23A268) for a stay, submitted to The Chief Justice.

Attorneys

Patrick Lockhart
Patrick Lockhart — Petitioner