No. 18-1225

Vladimir Matsiborchuk v. Fougere Holcombe

Lower Court: Second Circuit
Docketed: 2019-03-20
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: attorney-client attorney-compensation attorney-fees civil-rights discharge-hearing due-process judicial-bias judicial-delay judicial-misconduct legal-fees quantum-meruit retaliation settlement-agreement
Key Terms:
DueProcess EmploymentDiscrimina
Latest Conference: 2019-05-23
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether deprivation of legal fees earned by an attorney during 7 years of work for former client violates due-process, whether attorney was deprived of legal fees with violation of due-process standards, whether abuse of discretion standard of review is incorrect for denial of quantum meruit award

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether a deprivation of legal fees earned by an attorney during 7 years of work for the former client violates said attorney's due process rights where the District Court prejudged its decision on the pending discharge hearing and legal fee dispute between the attorney and his former client by secretly approving settlement between said client and the Defendants in the underlying litigation without considering the former attorney’s fees in the settlement agreement, by excluding said attorney’s renewed motion to withdraw and request for compensation from the scope of the hearing, by completely precluding the attorney from testifying at the end of the discharge hearing, by precluding the attorney from presenting his case, and by completely terminating the discharge hearing on the presiding Judge’s “perception” that the attorney was “laughing” during the former client’s cross examination? 2. Whether an attorney was deprived of his legal fees for his seven (7) years of services with violation of due-process standards of fairness and justice for said attorneys uncovering and _ reporting multiple violations in the underlying matter by the presiding judges in the underlying matter in the District Court and by the Judges of the Second Circuit Peter W. Hall and Raymond J. Lohier, who were directly involved in the unlawful and unconstitutional ten (10) ear delaying scheme to kill the underlying litigation in Title VII matter and, following the discharge, delayed during two and a half years the determination the discharge for cause and related ii legal fee issues, which directly resulted from the aforesaid delaying scheme? 3. Whether the Second Circuit’s abuse of discretion standard of review is incorrect, where the appeal among others was brought from a denial of attorney’s request for a quantum meruit award by the District Court?

Docket Entries

2019-05-28
Petition DENIED.
2019-05-07
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/23/2019.
2019-01-15
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due April 19, 2019)

Attorneys

Vladimir Matsiborchuk
Vladimir MatsiborchukVladimir Matsiborchuk, Petitioner
Vladimir MatsiborchukVladimir Matsiborchuk, Petitioner