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No. 19-7937October Term 2019Decided May 18, 2020

Docket 19-7937October Term 2019 (2019–2020)

Yaney v. Mason

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari and a motion to proceed as a pauper filed with the Supreme Court, seeking review of a decision by the California Court of Appeal.

Case status

Current stage
Decided
Latest event
Decision released May 18, 2020
Case Accepted
Arguments
Decision ReleasedMay 18, 2020
What it's about

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari and a motion to proceed as a pauper filed with the Supreme Court, seeking review of a decision by the California Court of Appeal.

Question presented

1. Did the California Supreme Court have a duty to protect petitioners’ individual constitutional rights for a claim of discrimination on how the association, by definition, affected the actions of others given that the court knew the association affected petitioners as individuals differently by definition? 2. Petitioners, both of whom are insular and discrete minorities, ask under this court’s proclaimed duty to oversee its lower courts under uniformity, did the California Supreme Court violate petitioners’ Fourteenth Amendment Right of Equal Protection and Due Process when they summarily denied and rejected review of the dismissal of petitioners’ appeal and discoveries that they had rejected petitioners’ association while knowing their claim of discrimination had merit and had been denied filing and adjudication in the trial court?

Case path

Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division Two / Decision released May 18, 2020

Area

Civil Rights

Grounding

Grounding
Primary-source trail available.
Note
Plain-English explainer. Official filings and opinions remain authoritative.
Checked
Apr 1, 2026
Primary materials5