commercial-contract
5 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-6465 | Leslie Robert Burk v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-02-04 | Denied | IFP | 18-USC-1343 18-USC-1349 commercial-contract contract-law specific-intent wire-fraud | 1. Whether the wire-fraud statutes criminalize a deceptive statement that induces an ordinary commercial contract that the party who made the statemen… |
| 24-6170 | Robert E. Carter v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split commercial-contract federal-statute fraud-inducement property-deprivation wire-fraud | The Federal Appeals Courts are split on whether fraudulent inducement of a commercial contract violates the federal fraud statutes and whether depriva… |
| 21-1583 | Jerry Bird v. Oregon Commission for the Blind, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-23 | Denied | Response Waived | 11th-amendment administrative-procedures-act arbitration-process blind-vendor-rights commercial-contract eleventh-amendment federal-arbitration federal-statute sovereign-immunity vending-services | 1. Does a State by necessity waive its sovereign immunity from money damages in federal court when it voluntarily enters into a commercial vending ser… |
| 20-428 | Horacio Sequeira v. Republic of Nicaragua, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-10-05 | Denied | arbitration-clause breach-of-contract choice-of-forum choice-of-law commercial-arbitration commercial-contract contract-validity foreign-sovereign-immunities-act jurisdiction jurisdiction-waiver motion-to-dismiss | Section 1605(a)(1) of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act ("FSIA ") provides that a foreign state shall not be immune from the jurisdiction of U.S. C… | |
| 18-5017 | Glenn Lee Selden v. Elizabeth A. Kovachevich, Judge, United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-06-28 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights commercial-contract constitutional-provisions criminal-forfeiture due-process false-name-registration government-authority legal-counsel military-appeal national-security standing takings | WILL COURT ENFORCE A COMMERCIAL CONTRACT? THE UNITED STATES IS UNDER NUCLEAR ASSULT AND THE PUBLIC IS IN GRAVE DANGER WILL COURT GRANT MILITARY APPE… |