No. 20-524

Yi Tai Shao v. John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, et al.

Lower Court: District of Columbia
Docketed: 2020-10-20
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: court-jurisdiction court-records default-judgment disqualification due-process ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal
Key Terms:
DueProcess JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2020-12-11
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Did the district court and court of appeal violate due process

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

Questions Presented 1. Did the district court and court of appeal violate due process by failing to rule on requests for recusal and disqualification, and failure to provide any explanation as to the accused irregularities contained in the affidavit of disqualification as the grounds for recusal? 2. Are lower court orders void where they were issued before the courts had ruled on motions for recusal or to disqualify the judges hearing the motions? 3. Are the judges of the lower courts disqualified because of bias or appearance of bias arising from the alteration of court records and dockets, and ex parte communications? 4. Did the district court violate due process or act in excess of its jurisdiction by acting on its own motion to grant relief that was not requested and to dismiss actions summarily against defendants in default? 5. Did the district court violate due process or act in excess of its jurisdiction by dismissing actions summarily against defendants who had not made appearance? 6. Was the district court judge required to recuse himself when he was named as a defendant in the same proceeding? 7. Did the district court violate due process by dismissing the case against himself when he was in default? 8. Does the American Inns of Court, in facilitating ex parte contacts between lawyers and judges, create the appearance of bias or partiality requiring recusal and disqualification of judges who are members of the American Inns of Court? 9. Did the lower court violate due process by affirming judgments in favor of the American Inns of Court when its motion was made without notice? 10. Is the Temple Bar Scholarship funded by the American Inns of Court a payment of economic value to judges or employees of courts that constitutes an illegal gift and creates the appearance of bias and requires recusal and disqualification? i 11. Does the trial court withholding of entry of defaults violate due process where this was intended to permit the trial court to enter dismissals in favor of defendants who had already defaulted? 12. Does judicial immunity protect judges or other judicial personnel who have conflicts of interest or bias and misused judicial power to conspire with interested parties in altering court records, and disallowing the grieved party a day in the court by dismissing the cases? 13. Does federal law prohibit aiding and abetting violations of due process and violations by judges acting notwithstanding conflicts of interest and the appearance of bias? xKIV ; LIST OF 1 INTERPLEADER AND THEIR COUNSEL: INTERPLEADER°US Attorney who appeared on 11/19/2018 in response to Affidavits for Default against Judge Rudolph Contreras and his Administrator Jackie Francis (ECF136,137) without seeking an order beforehand (ECF 140) Jessie K. Liu & Daniel F. Van Horn Daniel P. Schaefer : 555 4th Street, N.W. Washington, D.C.20530 ; (202) 252-2531 ; Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice Stephen Beyer, ; Associate Justice Samuel Alito, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayer, Associate Justice Elena Kagan, Jordan Bickell, ; Jeff Atkins, U.S. Supreme Court, Judge Lucy H. Koh, Judge Rudolph Contreras, Jackie Francis ; Diane Feinstein . THE ABOVE WERE PENDING DEFAULT ENTRY SINCE 10/16/2018 : Tsan-Kuen Wang . David Sussman ; THE ABOVE WERE ENTERED DEFAULT ON ; 8/30/2018 US House Judiciary Committee, US Senate ‘ Judiciary Committee (or the Judiciary Committee of : the Senate), Representative Eric Swalwell, Judge J. Clifford Wallace, Kevin L. Warnock XV r THE ABOVE HAD NOT APPEARED American Inns of Court, the Honorable William A. Ingram American Inn of Court, San Francisco Bay ; Area American Inn of Court, THE ABOVE ARE REPRESENTED BY Michael E. Barnsback, LEAD ATTORNEY O’HAGAN MEYER, PLLC 2560 Huntington Avenue, Suite 204 : Alexandra, VA 22303 (708)775-8601; Fax: (804) 403-7110 Email: James McManis, Michael Reedy, M

Docket Entries

2021-01-15
JUDGMENT ISSUED.
2020-12-14
Because the Court lacks a quorum, 28 U. S. C. §1, and since the qualified Justices are of the opinion that the case cannot be heard and determined at the next Term of the Court, the judgment is affirmed under 28 U. S. C. §2109, which provides that under these circumstances "the court shall enter its order affirming the judgment of the court from which the case was brought for review with the same effect as upon affirmance by an equally divided court." The Chief Justice, Justice Thomas, Justice Breyer, Justice Alito, Justice Sotomayor, and Justice Kagan took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.
2020-11-24
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/11/2020.
2020-11-09
Brief amicus curiae of Mothers of Lost Children submitted.
2020-11-04
Request for recusal from petitioner received.
2020-10-22
Waiver of right of respondents Roberts, John G., et al. to respond filed.
2020-07-02
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 19, 2020)

Attorneys

Mothers of Lost Children
Christopher Wolcott KatzenbachKatzenbach, Amicus
Christopher Wolcott KatzenbachKatzenbach, Amicus
Roberts, John G., et al.
Jeffrey B. WallActing Solicitor General, Respondent
Jeffrey B. WallActing Solicitor General, Respondent
Yi Tai Shao
Linda Shao — Petitioner
Linda Shao — Petitioner