No. 21-230

William Herman Viehweg v. Sirius XM Radio, Inc.

Lower Court: Seventh Circuit
Docketed: 2021-08-17
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: attorney-conduct bordenkircher-v-hayes civil-rights constitutional-rights contempt-of-court disqualification due-process equal-protection judicial-impartiality legal-privilege pro-se-representation
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Latest Conference: 2021-10-29
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether separate attorneys' representing a defendant corporation and attorneys' representing a non-party key witness, mutual claim of a protective legal privilege, in a pro se civil action, filed in federal court, based on the legal premise that a pro se's previous exercise of his right to self-representation is evidence both of personal bad character and that all of his prior court cases, including petitions for writ of certiorari, were meritless and for improper purpose, is prohibited by 28 U. S. Code §1654, and is in such clear and convincing contempt of the federal judiciary's duty of impartiality, including this Supreme Court of the United States, that the court of first instance, on its own initiative, should sanction the offending attorneys with disqualification, as all subsequent proceedings would be inherently prejudicially tainted, and failure to so sanction, constitutes punishment contrary to Bordenkirker v Hayes, 434 U.S. 357, 363 (1978), and denial of the Constitution of the United States Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of equal protection of the law

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED FOR REVIEW Whether separate attorneys’ representing a defendant corporation and attorneys’ representing a , non-party key witness, mutual claim of a protective legal privilege, in a pro se civil action, filed in federal court, based on the legal premise that a pro se’s previous exercise of his right to self-representation is evidence both of personal bad character and that all of his prior court cases, including petitions for writ of : certiorari, were meritless and for improper purpose, is prohibited by 28 U. S. Code §1654, and is in such clear and convincing contempt of the federal judiciary’s duty of impartiality, including this : Supreme Court of the United States, that the court of first instance, on its own initiative, should sanction the offending attorneys with disqualification, as all subsequent proceedings would ' be inherently prejudicially tainted, and failure to so sanction, constitutes punishment contrary to Bordenkirker v Hayes, 434 U.S. 357, 363 (1978), and ; denial of the Constitution of the United States Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of equal a protection of the law. i

Docket Entries

2021-11-01
Petition DENIED. The Chief Justice took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.
2021-10-06
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/29/2021.
2021-09-24
Reply of petitioner William Herman Viehweg filed.
2021-09-16
Brief of respondent Sirius XM Radio in opposition filed.
2021-08-11
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 16, 2021)

Attorneys

Sirius XM Radio
Helen Marie Mac MurrayMac Murray & Shuster, LLP, Respondent
Helen Marie Mac MurrayMac Murray & Shuster, LLP, Respondent
William Herman Viehweg
William Herman Viehweg — Petitioner
William Herman Viehweg — Petitioner