| 25-386 |
Vonn Capel, et al. v. Pasco County, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ad-valorem-taxation comity constitutional-injury federal-review property-rights tax-injunction-act |
Whether the Tax Injunction Act and comity foreclose federal review of the regulatory scheme, when no "plain, speedy, efficient remedy exists" to prote… |
| 24-6115 |
Hector Martinez Peralez v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-12-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
comity constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-consistent-statements statutory-construction |
QUESTION #1: Is Texas' application of Tome v.United States unconstitutional,
or wrong where (1) Texas found four-point analysis of Tome applicable to… |
| 24A27 |
Cyrus Mark Sanai v. Melanie J. Lawrence, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review comity constitutional-claims federal-jurisdiction state-proceedings younger-abstention |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1139 |
John F. Gallagher v. Northampton County Revenue Appeals Board, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-04-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 8th-amendment comity constitutional-claims federal-jurisdiction property-tax subject-matter-jurisdiction takings-clause tax-injunction-act |
Whether original federal subject matter jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §1331 is not barred by the Tax Injunction Act or the doctrine of comity with rega… |
| 23-1126 |
David Streeter, et al. v. USAA General Indemnity Company |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certification-of-questions certification-of-state-law comity cooperative-federalism divergent-decisions diversity-jurisdiction efficient-federal-practice erie-doctrine insurance-law judicial-comity lehman-bros-v-schein state-law-interpretation |
This Petition and recently filed Randy Tarum et al. v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Ins. Co., No. 23-973, both raise the identical issue: have Ninth C… |
| 23-973 |
Randy Tarum, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Robert L. Lindsay, et al. v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-06 |
Denied |
|
certification-of-state-law-questions comity cooperative-federalism divergent-decisions diversity-jurisdiction efficient-federal-practice erie-doctrine federal-procedure first-impression judicial-comity lehman-bros-v-schein state-law-certification |
1. Should cooperative federalism, comity, efficient federal practice, and the divergent decisions in the Circuits prompt the Court in the wake of Lehm… |
| 23-847 |
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, et al. v. North Dakota Legislative Assembly, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-06 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
civil-discovery civil-procedure civil-rights comity due-process federal-interests legislative-privilege standing state-legislators third-party-communications |
1. Should this Court vacate the Eighth Circuit's decision under United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950)?
2. Are state legislators abso… |
| 23-818 |
Sean Dunne v. Richard M. Coan, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-01-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
act-of-state bankruptcy-trustee comity debtor's-estate foreign-law foreign-property fraudulent-conveyance statute-of-limitations |
1. It is an issue of profound national importance that
a Bankruptcy Trustee seeks to recover property not in
a Debtor's estate when such real proper… |
| 23-6439 |
Jennifer Lynn Mothershead v. Deborah Jo Wofford, Superintendent, Washington Corrections Center for Women |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 appellate-review comity habeas-corpus merits-determination procedural-bar state-court-ruling |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision violates Harris v. Reed, 489 U.S. 255 (1989) and the bedrock habeas corpus principle of comity by … |
| 23-458 |
Thomas De Cola v. Starke County Council, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 administrative-appeal administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights civil-tort comity due-process miscarriage-of-justice state-federal-review |
Whether the comity of state and federal court reviews of Petitioner, Tom A. DeCola's respective administrative appeal and concurrent 42 U.S.C. § 1983 … |
| 23-5652 |
Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
comity death-penalty due-process federal-counsel federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the court below erroneously denied jurisdiction pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3599 based on a failure to follow fundamental rules of statutory inter… |
| 22-686 |
Crosley Alexander Green v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-01-24 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response Waived |
admissibility AEDPA brady-v-maryland brady-violation comity constitutional-exhaustion federal-appellate-review federalism habeas-corpus prosecutorial-disclosure state-court-deference state-court-factfinding |
Principles of federalism and comity embodied in the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA), 28 U.S.C. § 2254, require deference to stat… |
| 22-580 |
John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Kenneth Eugene Smith |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-12-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (9) |
alternative-method comity death-penalty eighth-amendment feasibility finality method-of-execution nitrogen-hypoxia |
In an Eighth Amendment method-of-execution case, is an alternative method of execution feasible and readily implemented merely because the executing S… |
| 22-366 |
County of Sonoma, California, et al. v. Gabbi Lemos |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights comity conviction excessive-force heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey judicial-preclusion section-1983 |
Does Heck's "necessarily imply" standard bar a § 1983 suit only if, as some circuit courts have held, success would "necessarily require" plaintiff to… |
| 21-8084 |
Frank Jarvis Atwood v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-07 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
as-applied-challenge comity constitutional-challenge eighth-amendment execution-protocol federal-courts federalism inmate-standing method-of-execution standing |
1. Ifa state's established method of execution would violate the Eighth Amendment as applied to that inmate, may federal courts direct specific altera… |
| 21-7329 |
Von Lester Taylor v. Robert Powell, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-03-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
certification comity federal-court federalism judicial-certification legal-ambiguity state-law state-law-interpretation tenth-amendment |
Does a federal court violate principles of federalism and comity enshrined in the Tenth Amendment by selecting one possible interpretation of an ambig… |
| 21-1171 |
Cadillac of Naperville, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board |
District of Columbia |
2022-02-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure comity employer-speech federalism first-amendment free-speech labor-dispute nlrb nlrb-procedure state-sovereignty |
(1) Whether the Court of Appeal improperly narrowed the First Amendment protection owed employers in a labor dispute by requiring objective factual su… |
| 21-1076 |
Sivagnanam Thamilselvan v. Vijayalakshmi Thamilselvan |
Michigan |
2022-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
comity comity-doctrine divorce first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise no-fault-divorce religious-freedom subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Whether the petitioners ' First and Fourteenth Amendment rights are violated, when Michigan Supreme Court, Michigan Court of Appeals and Trial Cour… |
| 21-862 |
Samuel Hartman v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
§2254-litigation 28-usc-2254 circuit-split comity comity-doctrine deference federal-habeas procedural-default state-court-deference state-post-conviction |
1. Whether the majority of circuits are correct that comity prevents Federal courts in proceedings under 28 U.S.C. 2254 from overturning legal conclus… |
| 21-5876 |
Under Seal v. Virginia Board of Medicine |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
abstention civil-rights comity constitutional-rights due-process fair-hearing federal-courts federalism state-agency younger-abstention |
Whether Younger and its progeny permit federal courts to abstain on the basis of general principles of comity and federalism, from hearing Constitutio… |
| 21-474 |
In Re Wisconsin Legislature |
|
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
|
article-iii census census-data comity federal-court-jurisdiction federalism judicial-power redistricting state-law state-legislature |
(1) Does a federal court clearly and indisputably transgress its Article III judicial power by exercising jurisdiction over a redistricting dispute ch… |
| 21-33 |
Máxima Acuña-Atalaya, et al. v. Newmont Mining Corporation, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-07-12 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
adequate-forum comity corruption forum-non-conveniens home-forum personal-jurisdiction |
The forum non conveniens ("FNC") doctrine only allows a court to dismiss a case to a more convenient forum if that forum is fair and adequate. Piper A… |
| 20-1275 |
Vesuvius USA Corporation, et al. v. Royston Phillips |
Ohio |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
|
blocking-statutes comity comity-principles data-privacy foreign-discovery gdpr hague-convention international-discovery privacy u.s.-discovery |
When compliance with discovery obligations in an American court is prohibited by the General Data Privacy Regulation, whether principles of comity req… |
| 20-1168 |
Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services of Nevada, Inc., et al. v. Sharath Chandra, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
|
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights comity comity-doctrine due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion legal-procedure standing Younger-abstention |
Sua sponte decision-making marks a departure from the normal adversarial process. For that reason, this Court has limited the federal courts' discreti… |
| 20-1179 |
William W. Cole, Jr. v. PRN Real Estate & Investments, Ltd., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
comity court-procedure federal-appellate-split federalism forum-shopping judicial-comity state-constitution state-courts state-law-certification state-sovereignty |
Whether This Court Should Grant the Petition in Order to Resolve a Long-Standing and Decisive Split Among the Federal Appellate Courts Regarding the S… |
| 20-7115 |
Christopher A. Carter v. Frank Lawrence, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-rights comity due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-review standing |
1. Whether the Seventh Circuit ruling which is in conflict with the United States Supreme Court, the Seventh Circuit, other circuits, is debatable and… |
| 20-1084 |
Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Matthew Reeves |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-09 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Relisted (8) |
aedpa aedpa-standard comity federal-review federalism habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-deference strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
The question presented is whether the Eleventh Circuit violated § 2254(d) by readily attributing error to the state court. |
| 20-6972 |
Mark Allen Jenkins v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Amici (2)IFP |
aedpa atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia circuit-court-methodology circuit-split comity federal-review habeas-corpus intellectual-disability state-court-decision |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's failure to limit its review of a reasoned state-court decision under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) to the specific reasons given … |
| 20-864 |
Hitomi Arimitsu v. James Edward Cook, II |
Minnesota |
2020-12-30 |
Denied |
|
child-abduction child-custody comity hague-convention international-child-abduction international-custody judicial-comity jurisdiction-conflict treaty-interpretation uniform-child-custody-jurisdiction-and-enforcement |
The 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction ("Convention") requires that a Contracting State stay any child custod… |
| 20-469 |
Ivo Lindauer, et al. v. Elna Sefcovic, LLC, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-10-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ancillary-jurisdiction civil-procedure comity concurrent-jurisdiction exclusive-jurisdiction federal-court-intervention judicial-comity kokkonen-v-guardian-life settlement-enforcement state-court-jurisdiction younger-abstention |
1. Is the state court's jurisdiction exclusive and ancillary under this Court's decision in Kokkonen v. Guardian Life Ins. Co. of America, 511 U.S. 37… |
| 20-5901 |
Laura Marie Scott v. City of Hamtramck, Michigan, Treasurer, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
choice-of-law comity equity federal-contracts property-rights quasi-in-rem quasi-in-rem-action tax-foreclosure title |
Does a violation of "choice of law" [retrocession, in 2013] create a quasi in rem action; which ultimately reverses itself [retrocession, in 2019] to … |
| 20-379 |
Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s London v. Brighton Collectibles, LLC |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
|
abstention civil-damages comity due-process federalism insurance-policy invasion-of-privacy ninth-circuit privacy-rights song-beverly-act song-beverly-credit-card-act |
This Court's supervisory power is called upon as to:
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit violated federalism, abstention, and comity by creating new law whe… |
| 20-357 |
Fritz Kaegi v. A.F. Moore & Associates, Inc., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-09-18 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
comity comity-doctrine equal-protection federal-courts federal-jurisdiction property-tax state-courts state-jurisdiction tax-injunction-act |
This Court previously examined Illinois' property tax objection system and declared it a plain, speedy, and efficient process for taxpayers to obtain … |
| 20-24 |
Great Lakes Minerals, LLC v. Ohio, et al. |
Kentucky |
2020-07-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure comity declaratory-relief individual-capacity injunctive-relief minimum-contacts sovereign-immunity state-jurisdiction state-sovereign-immunity |
I. Whether the Court's decision in Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt, 139 S.Ct. 1485 (2019) extends a state's sovereign immunity to declarato… |
| 19-1302 |
David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections v. George Russell Kayer |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-20 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Relisted (9) |
aedpa aedpa-standard comity de-novo-review federalism habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit rule-of-law sixth-amendment standard-of-review |
Did the Ninth Circuit violate 28 U.S.C. § 2254's deferential standard, and employ a flawed methodology this Court has repeatedly condemned, when it gr… |
| 19-7628 |
Glen Gary Guyn v. Jason Kent, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment cause-and-prejudice comity due-process finality fourth-amendment fundamental-injustice incarceration search-and-seizure unreasonable-search unreasonable-search-and-seizure |
1.) Whether Mr. Guyn 's Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable searches and
seizures was violated.
2.) Whether the principles of comity and fin… |
| 19-6599 |
Walter D. Fairley v. Jason Kent, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights comity comity-and-finality due-process finality fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus incarceration standing statute-of-limitations time-barred |
1.) Whether the Magistrate for the U.S. Eastern District Court of Louisiana erred when they issued a Report and Recommendation recommending that the p… |
| 19-6340 |
Jonathon William-Durand Neuhard v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
comity criminal-procedure due-process evidence federalism integrity-of-state-proceedings statutory-construction statutory-construction-federal-question-due-proces statutory-interpretation |
Whether the federal court of appeals below correctly found that the determination of whether a state adjudication qualifies as a prior conviction unde… |
| 19-463 |
Wilbur-Ellis Company LLC v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-08 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review comity comity-federalism comity-federalism-state-judicial-functions federal-court federal-court-override federalism interlocutory-orders judicial-function sealing-order state-court state-court-sealing state-court-sealing-order state-law-interpretation |
Whether a district court may override the order of a state court sealing a court filing necessary to resolve a motion in the state court, by compellin… |
| 19-351 |
Federal Republic of Germany, et al. v. Alan Philipp, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-09-18 |
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… |
| 18-1203 |
Courthouse News Service v. Dorothy Brown, Clerk, Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
from hearing First-Amendment-access on the basis of general principles of comity and access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights comity comity-doctrine court-access federal-courts federalism first-amendment younger-abstention |
Whether Younger and its progeny permit federal courts to abstain, on the basis of general principles of comity and federalism, from hearing First Amen… |
| 18-8094 |
Eric Gros v. Jason Kent, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights comity comity-principle due-process exhaustion-of-remedies exhaustion-of-state-remedies fifth-circuit finality habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition judicial-review magistrate-judge report-and-recommendation state-remedies |
Whether the Magistrate Judge for the U.S. Eastern District Court of Louisiana erred when he issued a Report and Recommendation recommending that the p… |
| 18-7823 |
Edward Nolan Norwood v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights comity due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection federalism sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation |
A. Resolving the issue explicitly left open by this Court in McNeil v. United States, 563 U.S. 816 (2011): Whether it violates the United States Const… |
| 18-905 |
Mastrogiovanni Schorsch & Mersky, P.C., et al. v. Edward Mandel |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-11 |
Denied |
|
bankruptcy comity comity-federalism due-process federalism receivership state-court-jurisdiction state-property-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction |
The Fifth Circuit has ignored long standing rules of comity mandated by Federalism by invading the exclusive subject matter jurisdiction of a Texas st… |
| 18-6638 |
Israel C. Isbell v. Steven Merlak, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure comity custody-transfer due-process inmate-rights inmate-transfer jurisdictional-comity presumption-of-intent primary-custody primary-jurisdiction sentencing-rights sovereign-intent sovereign-jurisdiction transfer-of-custody waiver-intent |
QUESTION ONE: At what point is a sovereign's intent to waive primary jurisdiction assessed, and how is that intent assessed?
QUESTION TWO: Is there a… |
| 18-181 |
Larry Elliot Klayman v. Stephanie Ann Luck |
Ohio |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure comity constitutional-hierarchy due-process federal-court-judgment federal-judgment federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption judicial-enforcement state-court-intervention state-court-jurisdiction state-court-order supremacy-clause writ-of-execution |
Does the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution, Article VI, Clause 2, preclude a state court from issuing an order preventing the enforcement of a judg… |
| 18-178 |
SGK Properties, L.L.C., et al. v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
americold-realty-trust-v-conagra-foods business-trust circuit-split citizenship comity comity-and-federalism diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine erie-r-co-v-tompkins federal-courts federalism real-party-in-interest unincorporated-business-trust unincorporated-entity |
1. Should the Court resolve the split of authority among the Circuits about whether and when the citizenship of constituent members of an unincorporat… |
| 18-5458 |
Kevin Taylor v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cause-and-prejudice comity compulsory-process confrontation-clause due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether Mr. Taylor's Sixth Amendment right to confront and cross-examine his accusers was violated when he was denied Compulsory Process.
Whether Mr.… |