No. 25-37

Theresa England v. Steven R. Siebe, et al.

Lower Court: Indiana
Docketed: 2025-07-10
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: common-law-tort equal-protection fourteenth-amendment joint-employer seventh-amendment third-party-tortfeasor
Key Terms:
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Latest Conference: 2025-09-29
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether Indiana courts violated Petitioner's Fourteenth and Seventh Amendment rights by barring a common law cause of action against third-party tortfeasors, and whether the Equal Protection Clause prohibits creating 'joint employer' status based on corporate ownership

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

1. Whether the Indiana courts below violated Petitioner ’s Fourteenth and Seventh Amendment rights by barring her from pursuing a common law cause of action against third -party tortfeasors, where the tortfeasor s are a separate and independent corporation and its employee. 2. Whether the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution prohibits the lower courts from rely-ing upon a judicial fiction in creating “joint employer ” status simply because separate and distinct sibling subsidiar y entities are owned by the same corporate parent .

Docket Entries

2025-10-06
Petition DENIED.
2025-08-28
Brief of Steven R. Siebe, et al. in opposition submitted.
2025-08-27
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2025.
2025-08-11
Brief of Steven R. Siebe, et al. in opposition submitted.
2025-08-11
Brief of respondents Steven R. Siebe, et al. in opposition filed.
2025-08-11
Brief of respondents Steven R. Siebe, et al. in opposition filed. (Distributed)
2025-07-06
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 11, 2025)

Attorneys

Steven R. Siebe, et al.
Daniel S. LibowitzCruser & Mitchell, LLP, Respondent
Daniel S. LibowitzCruser & Mitchell, LLP, Respondent
Daniel S. LiebowitzCruser & Mitchell, LLP, Respondent
Bruce David JonesCruser Mitchell Novitz Sanchez Gaston & Zimet, Respondent
Bruce David JonesCruser Mitchell Novitz Sanchez Gaston & Zimet, Respondent
Theresa England
William T GibbsCorboy & Demetrio, P.C., Petitioner
William T GibbsCorboy & Demetrio, P.C., Petitioner