No. 21-694

Bel Air Auto Auction, Inc. v. Great Northern Insurance Company

Lower Court: Fourth Circuit
Docketed: 2021-11-10
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: appellate-procedure business-interruption certification-motion civil-rights due-process federal-state-relations insurance-contract insurance-contract-law judicial-discretion standing state-court-certification supreme-court-jurisdiction
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Latest Conference: 2021-12-03
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Did the Fourth Circuit abuse its discretion in denying certification of novel questions of state insurance law to the state's highest court?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

Question Presented for Review. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit abuse its discretion and so far depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings as to call for the exercise by the Supreme Court of its supervisory power when, by orders of the Clerk acting for the Court, it denied Bel Air Auto Auction Inc.’s motion for certification and motion for reconsideration of that denial and refused to certify to the Maryland Court of Appeals the novel questions of Maryland insurance contract law as to which no controlling Maryland appellate decision, constitutional provision, or statute existed and that would have been determinative of the questions in Bel Air’s appeal as well as the same questions in at least eight other nearly identical cases pending in Maryland state and federal courts. i

Docket Entries

2021-12-06
Petition DENIED.
2021-11-16
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/3/2021.
2021-11-11
Waiver of right of respondent Great Northern Insurance Co. to respond filed.
2021-11-08
Petition for a writ of certiorari before judgment filed. (Response due December 10, 2021)

Attorneys

Bel Air Auto Auction, Inc.
Lawrence Jay GebhardtGebhardt & Smith, LLP, Petitioner
Lawrence Jay GebhardtGebhardt & Smith, LLP, Petitioner
Great Northern Insurance Co.
Jonathan D. HackerO'Melveny & Myers LLP, Respondent
Jonathan D. HackerO'Melveny & Myers LLP, Respondent