No. 18-246

Mary L. Doherty, et al. v. Allstate Indemnity Company

Lower Court: Third Circuit
Docketed: 2018-08-27
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: anderson-v-liberty-lobby due-process expert-witness expert-witness-reports expert-witness-testimony fifth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence insurance-contract jury-trial mend-the-hold mend-the-hold-doctrine seventh-amendment summary-judgment
Key Terms:
DueProcess FifthAmendment
Latest Conference: 2018-11-30
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the affirmed Rule 56 summary judgment decision is inconsistent with the standard set forth in Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., and violative of the 'Mend-the-Hold' Doctrine in Railway v. McCarthy, as the court relied upon inadmissible hearsay and simultaneously precluded relevant, material evidence of the insureds' Expert Witness Reports thereby depriving them of their rights to Due Process and a Jury Trial under the Fifth and Seventh Amendments

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED Whether the affirmed Rule 56 summary judgment decision is inconsistent with the standard set forth in Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. 242 (1986), and violative of the “Mend-the-Hold” Doctrine in Railway v. McCarthy, 96 U.S. 258 (1878), as the court relied upon inadmissible hearsay and simultaneously precluded relevant, material evidence of the insureds’ Expert Witness Reports thereby depriving them of their rights to Due Process and a Jury Trial under the Fifth and Seventh Amendments.

Docket Entries

2018-12-03
Petition DENIED.
2018-11-07
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/30/2018.
2018-11-05
Reply of petitioners Mary L. Doherty, et al. filed.
2018-10-24
Brief of respondent Allstate Indemnity Company in opposition filed.
2018-09-24
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including October 26, 2018.
2018-09-19
Motion to extend the time to file a response from September 26, 2018 to October 26, 2018, submitted to The Clerk.
2018-08-29
Blanket Consent filed by Petitioners, Mary L. Doherty, et al.
2018-08-23
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 26, 2018)

Attorneys

Allstate Indemnity Company
Brian James MaddenDonnelly & Associates, P.C., Respondent
Brian James MaddenDonnelly & Associates, P.C., Respondent
Mary L. Doherty, et al.
Joseph Quinto MirarchiMirarchi Legal Services, P.C., Petitioner
Joseph Quinto MirarchiMirarchi Legal Services, P.C., Petitioner