No. 25-340

Stepup Funny, L.L.C., dba Stepup Funny, dba AA7 Days v. Newsweek Digital, L.L.C.

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2025-09-23
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: arbitration-clause docket-sealing media-intervention precedent-interpretation privacy-expectation subject-matter-jurisdiction
Key Terms:
Arbitration Privacy JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2025-11-21
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the district court docket should be sealed due to improper purposes and privacy expectations under Nixon v. Warner Communications precedent

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

1. Whether the district court docket should be sealed because the lower court failed to properly weigh Newsweek CEO Dev Pragad’s “spite” and “improper purposes” in favor of defendants under Supreme Court precedent set in Nixon v. Warner Communications, 435 U.S. 589 (1978), after he vowed to strike them with a media “nuclear bomb.” 2. Whether the district court docket should be sealed because the private defendants, engaged in private business, with an agreed upon private dispute resolution mechanism, had a “realistic expectation of privacy” under Supreme Court precedent set in Nixon v. Warner Communications, 435 U.S. 589 (1978). 3. Whether Newsweek’s intervention should be denied on procedural grounds under Supreme Court precedent related to the Federal Arbitration Act for a case predicated on binding arbitration clauses where the lower court’s subject matter jurisdiction was questioned.

Docket Entries

2025-11-24
Petition DENIED.
2025-11-05
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/21/2025.
2025-09-15
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 23, 2025)
2025-07-21
Application (25A76) granted by Justice Alito extending the time to file until September 15, 2025.
2025-07-17
Application (25A76) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from July 17, 2025 to September 15, 2025, submitted to Justice Alito.

Attorneys

Stepup Funny, L.L.C.
Yen-Yi AndersonAnderson and Associates, LLP, Petitioner
Yen-Yi AndersonAnderson and Associates, LLP, Petitioner