No. 19-335

Jaideep S. Chawla v. Appeals Court of Massachusetts

Lower Court: Massachusetts
Docketed: 2019-09-12
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: appellate-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-panel notice panel-composition property-rights recusal
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2019-11-15
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a state appeals court violates the Fourteenth Amendment by changing the composition of an appellate panel during the rehearing phase without notice or opportunity to be heard

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether a state appeals court violates the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution by changing the composition of an appellate panel during the rehearing phase contrary to its own : written rules and without notice or an opportunity to be heard. 2. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution requires recusal of a judge who was a . participant in the executive action under review and was also a witness to disputed facts. ii PARTIES All parties are identified in the caption of this petition. Petitioner was the petitioner in the Supreme Judicial Court for the County of Suffolk and was the appellant in the Supreme Judicial Court for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Petitioner is a natural person. ; RELATED CASES , Chawla v. Court of Appeals of Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Case No. SJC-12488 Decision Date: April 11, 2019 Chawla v. Court of Appeals of Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court for the County of Suffolk Case No. SJ-2017-0095 Decision Date: February 15, 2018 Commonwealth ex rel. Chawla v. Gonzalez, et al. ; Court of Appeals of Massachusetts : Case No. 2015-P-0483 Decision Date: August 22, 2016 Commonwealth ex rel. Chawla v. Gonzalez, et al. Suffolk Superior Court ; Case No. 1484CV2090D : Decision Date: December 10, 2014

Docket Entries

2019-11-18
Petition DENIED.
2019-10-30
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/15/2019.
2019-09-09
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 15, 2019)
2019-07-02
Application (18A1369) granted by Justice Breyer extending the time to file until September 9, 2019.
2019-06-24
Application (18A1369) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from July 10, 2019 to September 8, 2019, submitted to Justice Breyer.

Attorneys

Jaideep S. Chawla
Jaideep S. Chawla — Petitioner
Jaideep S. Chawla — Petitioner
Mass. Court of Appeals
Jeff WalkerMass. Attorney General, Respondent
Jeff WalkerMass. Attorney General, Respondent