( November 12, 2026, 12:07 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a pro se petitioner’s bid for a writ of certiorari in which he argued that a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel wrongly applied judicial estoppel when it affirmed a California federal judge’s grant of summary judgment to defendant entities the man claimed distributed a film he directed without his permission....