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No. 25-6849October Term 2025Before Arguments

Docket 25-6849October Term 2025 (2025–2026)

Vincent Terry, Petitioner v. McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC, et al.

This petition asks the Supreme Court to review a Georgia case in which Vincent Terry claims the state trial court process was undermined by improper staff interference with motion handling and information flow, and that the Georgia appellate courts then affirmed without explanation.

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What it's about

This petition asks the Supreme Court to review a Georgia case in which Vincent Terry claims the state trial court process was undermined by improper staff interference with motion handling and information flow, and that the Georgia appellate courts then affirmed without explanation. He argues that this denied him due process and made meaningful federal review of his constitutional claims impossible.

Question presented

1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is violated when a state trial court’s adjudicative process is alleged to be structurally compromised by undisclosed staff level interference affecting motion scheduling, information filtering, and record development, where sworn post-judgment testimony raises those concerns, yet no state court ever conducts a hearing, makes findings, or adjudicates the resulting federal constitutional claim. 2. Whether federal review under 28 U.S.C. § 1257(a) is effectively frustrated, contrary to this Court’s precedents, when a state intermediate appellate court affirms a final judgment through an unexplained summary disposition, and the state supreme court subsequently denies discretionary review without explanation, leaving it impossible to determine whether the judgment rests on adequate and independent state grounds, thereby insulating preserved federal due-process claims from meaningful appellate scrutiny and necessitating this Court’s guidance.

Case path

Court of Appeals of Georgia / Accepted by the Court

Area

Supreme Court case awaiting argument

Timing

Expected by late June 2026, if argued this term

The Court granted review but has not yet scheduled oral argument. Once argued, the median case reaches a decision in 94 days. Nearly all cases are decided by the end of the term in which they are argued.

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Grounding

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Note
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Sep 1, 2026
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