No. 22-1228

Josephine Tripodi, et al. v. North Coventry Township, Pennsylvania

Lower Court: Pennsylvania
Docketed: 2023-06-21
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Experienced Counsel
Tags: 14th-amendment civil-contempt compelled-sale due-process fourteenth-amendment property-rights real-property state-court
Key Terms:
DueProcess JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2023-09-26
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment limit the power of a state court to order the compelled sale of a private person's real property as a penalty for civil contempt despite the person's repeated attempts to satisfy the alleged contempt?

Question Presented (from Petition)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment limit the power of a state court, to order the compelled sale of a private person’s real property as a penalty for civil contempt despite the person’s repeated attempts to satisfy the alleged contempt? to impose obligations and liabilities upon an intervening party who, in this case, neither owns nor has legal obligations for the real property in question?

Docket Entries

2023-10-02
Petition DENIED.
2023-08-09
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/26/2023.
2023-07-21
Brief of respondent North Coventry Township, Pennsylvania in opposition filed.
2023-06-16

Attorneys

Josephine M. Tripodi, et al.
Michael James ConfusioneHegge & Confusione, Petitioner
Michael James ConfusioneHegge & Confusione, Petitioner
North Coventry Township
Eric M. BrownSiana Law, LLP, Respondent
Eric M. BrownSiana Law, LLP, Respondent