act-of-state-doctrine
7 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A905 | Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A., et al. v. Helmerich & Payne International Drilling Co. | District of Columbia | 2026-02-10 | Application | act-of-state-doctrine foreign-sovereign hickenlooper-amendment international-law property-expropriation territorial-jurisdiction | Question not identified. The document provided is an "Unopposed Application for an Extension of Time in Which to File a Petition for a Writ of Certio… | |
| 24-800 | Rosemary D'Augusta, et al. v. American Petroleum Institute, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-01-27 | Denied | act-of-state-doctrine antitrust-law jurisdiction oil-production price-fixing sherman-act | This is a private antitrust suit brought under Sections 4 and 16 of the Clayton Antitrust Act (15 U.S.C. §§ 15, 26) for violations of Sections 1 and 2… | |
| 24-341 | Juan Carlos Emden, et al. v. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | Fifth Circuit | 2024-09-26 | Denied | Response Waived | act-of-state-doctrine federal-civil-procedure foreign-sovereign-immunity judicial-inference nazi-art-restitution rule-12(b)(6) | 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit's application of the act of state doctrine conflicts with well-established precedent that adjudicating the effects of a f… |
| 23-7177 | In Re Terrance McCauley | 2024-04-10 | Denied | IFP | act-of-state-doctrine color-of-law constitutional-rights foreign-state foreign-state-citizenship free-exercise-of-religion peaceable-assembly sovereign-immunity | Whether the judgment of conviction against Terrance A. McCauley, which imposed burdens of the State of Wisconsin upon a citizen of the Moorish America… | |
| 20-1329 | Macarieto I. Trayvilla, et al. v. Japan Airlines, et al. | New York | 2021-03-23 | Denied | Response Waived | act-of-state-doctrine airlines federal-preemption foreign-relations judicial-review passport-entry separation-of-powers sovereign-state statute-of-limitations | 1. Whether the State Appellate Court's order that invalidates and defies the "act of state" of the Philippines (act of state of the Philippines allowi… |
| 18-1057 | Marei von Saher v. Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-12 | Denied | Amici (3) | act-of-state-doctrine art-restitution civil-rights due-process foreign-policy holocaust-assets looted-art nazi-looted-art property-rights sovereign-immunity sovereign-interest | Where artworks were forcibly confiscated from their Jewish owner by Nazi Reichsmarschall Hermann Goring, then recovered by the Dutch government after … |
| 18-233 | Indiezone, Inc., et al. v. Todd Rooke, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 28-usc-1927 act-of-state-doctrine congressional-intent due-process extraterritorial-application federal-sanctions inherent-powers rule-44.1 sanctions sovereign-immunity | Did congress intend the court's inherent powers and U.S. 28 U.S.C. § 1927 to apply extraterritorially allowing Rule 44.1 analysis to be applied to ove… |