Fair process in trustee removal
Mansueto v. Brown
In brief
- Where it stands
- Petition Pending
Awaiting an order on the petition
- What it’s about
- Robert F. Mansueto asks the Supreme Court to review a California state court’s decision to remove him as trustee after he missed a later deadline to object.
- What's at stake
- Mansueto’s removal as trustee and his challenge to the state court’s decision to treat his objections as waived remain unresolved.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
He argues the court wrongly treated his objections as waived despite an earlier filing opposing removal, which the judge said she had not received; his petition is pending, and the Court has not agreed to hear it.
Mansueto says he filed opposition to an earlier request to remove him, but missed a later deadline to object to the removal petition. The judge acknowledged she had not received the earlier filing and did not have it.
Mansueto’s petition asks whether the Fourteenth Amendment allows a state court to treat objections as waived in these circumstances.
Question presented
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state court to remove a trustee by treating his objections as waived when he filed substantive opposition to an ex parte application, did not meet a later deadline to object to the removal petition, and the deciding judge acknowledged that she had not received and did not have the earlier filing.
What happens next
The Court must decide whether to hear the case; the petition was distributed for its Nov. 13, 2026 conference. That distribution does not guarantee a grant or an order date.
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