No. 25-676

In Re John A. Shepardson

Lower Court: N/A
Docketed: 2025-12-10
Status: Pending
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: attorney-disqualification due-process ex-post-facto free-speech petitioning-rights racial-discrimination
Key Terms:
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Latest Conference: 2026-02-20
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Should this Court grant certiorari to address California State Courts violating constitutional due process, free speech, and petitioning rights of a solo trial attorney with over 3,200 hours in the case, advanced over $380,000, by disqualifying him with arbitrary ex post facto rules and repeatedly violating an automatic stay to deny his right to represent the Plaintiff on 8/28/23 in his racial and sexual discrimination jury trial after 4.5 years of litigation and the sixth jury trial setting?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

Should this Court grant certiorari to address California State Courts violating constitutional due process, free speech, and petitioning rights of a solo trial attorney with over 3,200 hours in the case, advanced over $380,000, by disqualifying him with arbitrary ex post facto rules and repeatedly violating an automatic stay to deny his right to represent the Plaintiff on 8/28/23 in his racial and sexual discrimi nation jury trial after 4.5 years of litigation and the sixth jury trial setting? ii <

Docket Entries

2026-01-21
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/20/2026.
2025-12-24
Waiver of right of respondent Real Party in Interest California Department of Transportation to respond filed.
2025-12-05
Petition for a writ of mandamus filed. (Response due January 9, 2026)

Attorneys

Real Party in Interest California Department of Transportation
Alan Matthew SteinbergCalifornia Department of Transportation, Respondent
Alan Matthew SteinbergCalifornia Department of Transportation, Respondent
Shepardson, In Re John A.
John Arthur Shepardson — Petitioner
John Arthur Shepardson — Petitioner