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Isaacs v. Michelle Anne-Marie Sharpe
In brief
- Where it stands
- Petition Pending
Awaiting an order on the petition
- What it’s about
- Andrew Isaacs has filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to review a Florida court dispute with Michelle Anne-Marie Sharpe.
- What's at stake
- For Isaacs, the unresolved dispute concerns a substantial attorney-fee judgment and whether he had a meaningful chance to seek appellate review.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
He alleges that an order denying his timely posttrial motion was not communicated to him before the time to appeal expired, and challenges the related attorney-fee judgment under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause.
Isaacs's petition asks whether the Fourteenth Amendment requires notice and a chance to seek review before a posttrial order cuts off an appeal and a related fee judgment proceeds.
Question presented
1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause permits a state court to impose a substantial attorney-fee judgment and allow the time for appellate review to expire when the litigant alleges that the court’s order denying a timely posttrial motion was not served or otherwise communicated to him, leaving him unaware that the order had been entered? 2. Whether, before treating a posttrial order as operative to foreclose appellate review and proceeding to enter a related fee judgment, due process requires notice reasonably calculated to inform the litigant of the ruling and a meaningful opportunity to seek review—or whether the issue is governed entirely by state procedural rules without a federal constitutional remedy?
What happens next
The Supreme Court must decide whether to hear the petition. No argument or decision date is set.
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Sources
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