| 24-313 |
Christine A. Arakelian v. City of Falls Church, Virginia, et al. |
Virginia |
2024-09-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment comity-doctrine due-process jurisdictional-challenge section-1983 tax-injunction-act |
1. Did the Supreme Court of Virginia err as a matter of federal, constitutional law by dismissing Petitioner's appeal for failure "to timely file the … |
| 22-1076 |
Online Merchants Guild v. Nicolas Maduros, Director, California Department of Tax and Free Administration |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cic-services-llc-v-internal-revenue-service comity-doctrine direct-marketing-association-v-brohl federal-jurisdiction information-demands online-merchants putative-taxpayer state-tax-demands tax-injunction-act third-party |
1. The text of the Tax Injunction Act only prevents federal courts from hearing claims that would enjoin the "assessment, levy, or collection" of stat… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 20-357 |
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 … |
| 20-316 |
Maria Pappas, Cook County Treasurer, et al. v. A.F. Moore & Associates, Inc., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
civil-rights comity-doctrine due-process equal-protection real-estate real-estate-assessment tax-assessment tax-injunction-act tax-refund |
1. Whether the Equal Protection Clause mandates that a real estate taxpayer seeking a refund based on an over assessment of real property be able to c… |
| 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… |
| 18-903 |
Robbie Perry, et al. v. Coles County, Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
28-usc-2201 comity-doctrine declaratory-relief equal-protection equal-protection-clause equitable-jurisdiction property-tax property-tax-assessment state-court-remedies |
Did the Seventh Circuit err under the exception to the comity doctrine by holding Illinois state court remedies "adequate" and "complete" even though … |