No. 23-6805

Bharani Padmanabhan v. Cambridge Health Commission

Lower Court: Massachusetts
Docketed: 2024-02-22
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Relisted (2)IFP
Tags: active-concealment civil-procedure constitutional-rights fidelity-vs-united-states grounds-of-defense seventh-amendment summary-judgment trial-by-jury
Key Terms:
ERISA
Latest Conference: 2024-06-20 (distributed 2 times)
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the grant of summary judgment violated the Seventh Amendment right to a trial by jury when the movant's 'grounds of defence' were obviously untrue

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED In Fidelity & Deposit Co. v. United States, 187 U.S. 315 (1902) the Court explained that granting summary judgment would not violate the right to trial by jury if the movant submitted in “precise and distinct terms the grounds of defence, "which must be such as would, if true, be sufficient to defeat the plaintiffs claim in whole or in part."” If the movant’s “grounds of defence” are obviously untrue, as in this case, was the grant of summary judgment repugnant to the United States Constitution’s Seventh Amendment right to a trial by jury?

Docket Entries

2024-06-24
Rehearing DENIED.
2024-06-04
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/20/2024.
2024-05-23
Petition for Rehearing filed.
2024-04-29
Petition DENIED.
2024-04-11
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/26/2024.
2024-03-30
Reply of petitioner Bharani Padmanabhan filed.
2024-03-25
Brief of respondent Cambridge Health Commission in opposition filed.
2024-02-12
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 25, 2024)
2023-12-15
Application (23A552) granted by Justice Jackson extending the time to file until February 15, 2024.
2023-11-16
Application (23A552) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from December 17, 2023 to February 15, 2024, submitted to Justice Jackson.

Attorneys

Bharani Padmanabhan
Bharanidharan Padmanabhan — Petitioner
Cambridge Health Commission
Michael Joseph MaxeySloane and Walsh, LLP, Respondent