No. 24-1320

Centerline Logistics Corporation, et al. v. Inlandboatmen’s Union of the Pacific, et al.

Lower Court: California
Docketed: 2025-06-27
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: actual-malice anti-SLAPP defamation due-process first-amendment jury-trial
Latest Conference: 2025-09-29
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Whether this Court should overturn Sullivan's actual malice standard.

2. Whether the Seventh Amendment's right to a jury trial is incorporated against the States, and, if yes, whether the application of the clear and convincing actual malice standard at the early anti-SLAPP stage of litigation violates a plaintiff's right to a civil jury trial.

3. Does an interpretation of the anti-SLAPP statute that allows for the dismissal of a defamation claim without evaluating whether the plaintiff has met the actual malice standard violate the plaintiff's First Amendment right to petition the government through access to the courts?

4. Whether a state court violates a party's Fourteenth Amendment right to due process under the United States Constitution when the state court summarily extinguishes that party's lawsuit without considering that party's evidence.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Supreme Court should overturn the actual malice standard from New York Times v. Sullivan and whether anti-SLAPP statutes violate the Seventh Amendment right to a civil jury trial

Docket Entries

2025-10-06
Petition DENIED.
2025-07-30
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2025.
2025-07-28
Waiver of Chris Sogliuzzo of right to respond submitted.
2025-07-28
Waiver of right of respondent Chris Sogliuzzo to respond filed.
2025-07-23
Waiver of Inlandboatmen’s Union of the Pacific, et al. of right to respond submitted.
2025-07-23
Waiver of right of respondent Inlandboatmen’s Union of the Pacific to respond filed.
2025-06-24
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due July 28, 2025)

Attorneys

Centerline Logistics Corporation, et al.
Christopher Leroy HilgenfeldDavis Grimm Payne and Marra, Petitioner
Chris Sogliuzzo
Marc Allen ColemanLaw Offices of Marc Coleman, Respondent
Inlandboatmen’s Union of the Pacific, et al.
Dmitri Louis IglitzinBarnard Iglitzin & Lavitt LLP, Respondent