common-law-immunity

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24A311 Donna Chisesi, Administratrix of the Estate of Jonathon Victor, Deceased v. Matthew Hunady, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied common-law-immunity excessive-force failure-to-train qualified-immunity reconstruction-era-law section-1983 1. This § 1983 case raises two serious questions related to the doctrine of qualified immunity. The case arises from the shooting death of Jonathan Vi…
23-93 Kevion Rogers v. Jeffrey Jarrett, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-01 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-rights codification common-law-immunity congressional-intent due-process qualified-immunity section-1983 statutory-interpretation traditional-common-law This Court's qualified-immunity precedent derives from the premise that there is "no evidence that Congress intended to abrogate the traditional commo…
22-669 NexPoint Advisors, L.P., et al. v. Highland Capital Management, L.P., et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-01-20 Denied CVSGResponse RequestedRelisted (5) bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-reorganization bankruptcy-trustees business-liabilities common-law-immunity gross-negligence post-bankruptcy-liabilities reorganization-plan third-party-exculpation third-party-liability Section 524(e) of the Bankruptcy Code provides that the "discharge of a debt of the debtor does not affect the liability of any other entity on, or th…
21-1338 NSO Group Technologies Limited, et al. v. WhatsApp Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-08 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) agent-entities agents-for-foreign-governments common-law-immunity foreign-sovereign-immunities-act government-contractors judicial-immunity legal-precedent private-entities samantar solicitor-general Whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act entirely displaces common-law immunity for entities, such that private entities that act as agents for fo…
20-307 Shahrokh Mireskandari v. Barrington Mayne, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived common-law-immunity foreign-agents foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity governmental-organ jurisdictional-immunity sovereign-immunity state-department tort-liability tortious-conduct uk-government 1. Whether the LSE and SRA are entitled to sovereign immunity as "organs" of a foreign government under the FSIA and the relevant test for such determ…
19-185 Kalev Mutond, et al. v. Darryl Lewis District of Columbia 2019-08-12 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) civil-procedure common-law-immunity conduct-based-immunity diplomatic-immunity executive-branch executive-branch-position executive-branch-views foreign-official-immunity foreign-officials personal-capacity personal-capacity-suit personal-capacity-suits samantar-v-yousuf torture-victim-protection-act Respondent Darryl Lewis, an American citizen and security contractor, was arrested and detained in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on groun…