Conference: 2020-07-01

20 cases — 0 granted, 20 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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Case Title Lower Court Status Flags Tags Question Presented Score
18-1447 Republic of Hungary, et al. v. Rosalie Simon, et al. District of Columbia Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (7)Relisted (4) choice-of-forum comity-interest exhaustion-of-local-remedies exhaustion-of-remedies foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity forum-non-conveniens international-comity naturalized-citizens world-war-ii-property-claims 1. May the district court abstain from exercising jurisdiction under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act for reasons of international comity, where f… 39.0
19-416 Nestlé USA, Inc. v. John Doe I, et al. Ninth Circuit Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) aiding-and-abetting alien-tort-statute civil-procedure corporate-activity corporate-liability domestic-corporation extraterritoriality foreign-actors foreign-investment international-law jurisdiction 1. Whether an aiding and abetting claim against a domestic corporation brought under the Alien Tort Statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1350, may overcome the extrat… 38.0
19-351 Federal Republic of Germany, et al. v. Alan Philipp, et al. District of Columbia Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (9)Relisted (3) circuit-split comity diplomatic-issues expropriation-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunity human-rights-law international-comity international-human-rights international-law property-taking property-takings takings 1. Whether the "expropriation exception" of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1605(a)(3), which abrogates foreign sovereign immunity w… 35.5
19-453 Cargill, Inc. v. John Doe I, et al. Ninth Circuit Judgment Issued CVSGResponse RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) aiding-and-abetting alien-tort-statute corporate-liability extraterritorial-application extraterritoriality forced-labor foreign-operations human-rights international-law 1. Whether the presumption against extraterritorial application of the Alien Tort Statute is displaced by allegations that a U.S. company generally co… 35.0
19-520 Alan Philipp, et al. v. Federal Republic of Germany, et al. District of Columbia Denied CVSGRelisted (3) commercial-activity expropriation-exception foreign-state international-law property-rights commercial-activity expropriation expropriation-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunity instrumentality international-law jurisdiction property-claims property-rights Is the Federal Republic of Germany ("Germany"), a foreign state, subject to jurisdiction under the expropriation exception of the Foreign Sovereign Im… 31.5
18-1019 Kristina Box, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Health, et al. v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, Inc. Seventh Circuit GVR Amici (9)Relisted (7) abortion-regulation abortion-rights circuit-conflict due-process fetal-life fourteenth-amendment informed-consent maternal-health pre-enforcement-challenge ultrasound ultrasound-requirement May a State, consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment, require an ultrasound as part of informed consent at least eighteen hours before an abortion? 22.5
18-1516 Veronica Price, et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Amici (8)Relisted (2) abortion abortion-clinic buffer-zone civil-rights content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech narrow-tailoring precedent speech-restriction Chicago has made it a crime for a speaker to approach within eight feet of another person "for the purpose of passing a leaflet or handbill, displayin… 19.0
18-1309 Booking.com B.V. v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. Fourth Circuit GVR Amici (4)Relisted (3) administrative-law american-rule attorneys-fees civil-procedure civil-procedure-costs first-amendment government-fees government-litigation patent statutory-interpretation trademark trademark-registration Applicants for trademark registration dissatisfied with a decision of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board can commence a civil action seeking de novo… 15.5
19-743 Curtis T. Hill, Jr., Attorney General of Indiana, et al. v. Whole Woman's Health Alliance, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 14th-amendment abortion abortion-clinic-licensing civil-rights due-process federal-injunction fourteenth-amendment hypothetical-patient-rights licensing rooker-feldman sovereign-immunity standing state-agency-review third-party-standing undue-burden When Respondent Whole Woman's Health applied for a license to open a new abortion clinic in South Bend but refused to supply documentation of past com… 15.5
19-1176 Jim Yovino, Fresno County Superintendent of Schools v. Aileen Rizo Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (3)Relisted (3) circuit-split employment-law equal-pay-act factor-other-than-sex gender-discrimination merit-system prior-salary salary-history seniority-system sex-discrimination statutory-interpretation wage-differential wage-gap The Equal Pay Act permits employers to pay men and women different wages for the same work "where such payment is made pursuant to (i) a seniority sys… 14.5
19-983 Colleen Reilly, et al. v. City of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) article-iii-court constitutional-avoidance content-based content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech hill-v-colorado less-restrictive-alternatives reed-v-gilbert speech-restriction standing 1. Whether this Court's holding in Reed v. Town of Gilbert, 135 S. Ct. 2218 (2015), that laws restricting speech on the basis of its function or purpo… 14.5
19-816 Kristina Box, et al. v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, Inc. Seventh Circuit GVR Amici (3)Relisted (2) abortion abortion-rights civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bypass minor-consent minors parental-consent parental-notification standing third-party-standing For decades Indiana has permitted a minor to have an abortion so long as she has parental consent or a bypass order from a juvenile court based on eit… 14.0
19-677 Dave Yost, et al. v. Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) 42-usc-1988 abortion-providers abortion-rights article-iii article-iii-standing attorney-fees civil-rights patient-rights preliminary-injunction prevailing-party standing statutory-interpretation 1. Do abortion providers have Article III standing to assert the rights of their patients? 2. When, if ever, does a plaintiff who wins a preliminary … 12.0
18-1151 St. Augustine School, et al. v. Carolyn Stanford Taylor, in Her Official Capacity as Superintendent of Public Instruction, et al. Seventh Circuit GVR Relisted (2) church-autonomy denominational-affiliation employment-division-v-smith faith-tradition free-exercise free-exercise-clause government-benefits religion-clauses religious-adherent religious-autonomy religious-liberty trinity-lutheran trinity-lutheran-v-comer 1. Whether the Free Exercise Clause prohibits the government from requiring a religious adherent to choose between following his or her faith traditio… 11.0
19-978 Team Resources Incorporated, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission Fifth Circuit GVR Relisted (3) disgorgement equitable-remedy federal-court penalty penalty-analysis sec sec-enforcement securities-law securities-violations Whether the Securities and Exchange Commission may obtain disgorgement from a federal court as an equitable remedy for securities violations despite t… 6.5
19-1106 Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden v. Roderick L. Smith Tenth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) adaptive-functioning atkins-v-virginia death-penalty-appeals habeas-corpus intellectual-disability moore-v-texas retroactivity teague-v-lane tenth-circuit 1. Did the Tenth Circuit err in concluding that Moore I and Moore II were mere applications of Atkins that could be applied retroactively on collatera… 6.0
19-294 Usama Jamil Hamama, et al. v. Rebecca Adducci, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) country-conditions deportation detention due-process ethnic-minorities immigration-court immigration-law removal-orders removal-proceedings suspension-clause torture torture-convention torture-protection Petitioners are Iraqis with final orders of removal who lived for years or decades in the United States under orders of supervision, because Iraq woul… 6.0
19-7369 David Keen v. Tennessee Tennessee Denied Relisted (4)IFP atkins-ruling atkins-v-virginia constitutional-mandate cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability judicial-abdication legislative-inaction standing Does the Constitution permit Tennessee to evade the mandate of Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002) by legislative inaction and judicial abdication… 2.0
19-7714 Angelique de Maison v. Securities and Exchange Commission Second Circuit GVR Relisted (3)IFP disgorgement enforcement-action equitable-relief liu-v-sec penalty securities-law standing supreme-court Whether, as this Court will be deciding in the petition now before the Court in Liu v. Securities & Exchange Commission, 754 F. App'x 505 (9th Cir. 20… -3.5
19-7745 Willie B. Smith, III v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied Relisted (3)IFP batson-challenge collateral-review death-penalty death-penalty-law hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas peremptory-strikes prosecutor-conduct prosecutorial-discretion retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rules 1. Whether Hall v. Florida , 134 S. Ct. 1986 (2014), and Moore v. Texas , 137 S. Ct. 1039 (2017), announced new substantive rules that apply retroacti… -3.5