No. 21-939

Peter Beasley v. Society of Information Management, Dallas Area Chapter, et al.

Lower Court: Texas
Docketed: 2021-12-27
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment race-discrimination racial-discrimination standing vexatious-litigant
Key Terms:
AdministrativeLaw DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2022-02-25
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether Texas courts may discriminate against Black people in violation of Due Process and Equal Protection guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment through an unconstitutional, specious use of the Vexatious Litigant Statute

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED Beasley, the first Black director of the prestigious, historically, predominately White male Dallas, Texas ; nonprofit, “The Society for Information Management” (“SIM”), sued including federal Due Process claims to be reinstated from his public expulsion from its board of : . directors. SIM indicated it did not want to be in a lawsuit with a director, but a White SIM member who happened to be an attorney along with insurance-backed lawyers counter-sued Beasley in SIM’s name, without the board authorizing them to do so, to orchestrate a dismissal of Beasley’s lawsuit. . THE QUESTION PRESENTED Is: Whether Texas courts may discriminate against Black people in violation of Due Process and Equal Protection guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment through an unconstitutional, specious use of the Vexatious Litigant Statute, where prima facie evidence shows Black people are declared vexatious and their lawsuits were dismissed at a 73% rate more frequent than White people who are found to be vexatious and : their lawsuits dismissed over the same 53 month review period. ; ii ;

Docket Entries

2022-02-28
Petition DENIED.
2022-02-09
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/25/2022.
2022-01-11
Waiver of right of respondents Society of Information Management, Dallas Area Chapter to respond filed.
2021-10-18
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 26, 2022)

Attorneys

Peter Beasley
Peter Beasley — Petitioner
Peter Beasley — Petitioner
Society of Information Management, Dallas Area Chapter
Stacy R. ObenhausFoley & Lardner LLP, Respondent
Stacy R. ObenhausFoley & Lardner LLP, Respondent