Mealey's (December 10, 2020, 1:21 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Vermont man filed a petition for writ of certiorari on Nov. 24 in the U.S. Supreme Court asking the justices to rule on whether a Vermont statute provides an independent cause of action of maladministration of an estate that may be brought in a federal court and, if there is any question on whether it did, if a question should have been certified to the Vermont Supreme Court (Albert Von Weingarten v. Lonnie Chester, No. 20-754, U.S. Sup., 2020 U.S. S. CT. BRIEFS LEXIS 7420)....