| 23-149 |
Sabine River Authority, Louisiana v. Perry Bonin, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11th-amendment civil-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment federal-court louisiana-civil-law sovereign-immunity state-agency subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Subject matter jurisdiction, a threshold issue, cannot exist in federal court where Louisiana has conditionally waived its sovereign immunity to al… |
| 20-1647 |
Valerie Haney v. Church of Scientology International, et al. |
California |
2021-05-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
arbitration arbitration-procedure civil-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-religion religious-arbitration religious-freedom |
Whether, under the First Amendment, a court may subject a person who has rejected the faith to participate in a religious "arbitration" where arbiters… |
| 19-613 |
W&T Offshore, Incorporated v. Apache Deepwater, L.L.C. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
choice-of-law civil-procedure conflict-of-laws federal-courts precedent state-courts civil-law court-procedure federal-court highest-court judicial-methodology jurisdiction jurisdictional-interpretation legal-precedent methodology precedent |
Whether a federal court applying the law of a civil-law jurisdiction should follow the methodology that the jurisdiction's highest court would apply—a… |