Right to a fair hearing
Kerry Raheb, et ux. v. Jerome
In brief
- Where it stands
- Dismissed
Petition denied.
- What it’s about
- Kerry Patrick Raheb and Renee L. Houston challenge a Vermont judgment exceeding $320,000 against them in a case involving James Jerome Jr., arguing that they had no trial or meaningful chance to challenge the evidence.
- Who it affects
- The denial ends the Rahebs’ request for Supreme Court review; it does not decide whether Vermont courts violated their rights.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.

What it's about
They also allege judicial bias and fraud over an easement and question the judge’s role in related proceedings.
The dispute involved an easement; the Rahebs also alleged judicial bias and fraud in related proceedings.
Question presented
1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is violated when a state court enters a judgment exceeding $320,000 against individuals without a trial, without a jury, and after denying them any meaningful opportunity to present evidence or cross-examine witnesses? 2. Whether a state court ’ s denial of relief under Rule 60(b) constitutes an abuse of discretion, and a violation of due process, when the record contains clear evidence of judicial bias, retaliatory litigation, and fraud regarding the existence of an easemerit? 3. Whether a judge ’ s participation in multiple overlapping civil and criminal proceedings against the same parties — including extending stalking orders without hearings, imposing a nearly year-long curfew, and removing firearms from the victims of a shooting — creates an unconstitutional appearance of bias requiring recusal and vacatur of the resulting judgment?
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