contract-formation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-1192 Headstream Technologies, LLC v. FedEx Express Sixth Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Response Waived airline-deregulation-act circuit-split contract-formation intentional-fraud package-delivery preemption service-preemption state-law-tort state-law-tort-claims summary-judgment To foster economic competition among airlines, Congress in the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 prohibits States from enacting or enforcing any law re…
20-1016 Michael Kosterlitz v. The S/V Knotta Klu, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied civil-procedure contract-formation contract-law false-arrest federal-rules-of-civil-procedure florida-law title-transfer uniform-commercial-code Under Florida law the tort of false arrest occurs when a person procuring an arrest provides false information to the arresting officer and the tort i…
20-621 Hua Cai v. Huntsman Corporation Tenth Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied Relisted (2) code-of-conduct contract-elements contract-formation contractual-obligations employee-handbook employment-contract employment-contract-terms judicial-interpretation non-retaliation-policy policy-documents 1: Usually employer and employee will sign a set of policy documents on top of employment contract, such as Employee Handbook, Code of Conduct, Code o…
20-75 Jeffrey G. Heston v. G. B. Capital Holdings, LLC Ninth Circuit 2020-07-27 Denied civil-procedure contract-formation federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce maritime-contract police-authority standing takings vessel-berthing I. Does such a contract obtained in this manner sustain a determination of a "free and fair" formation on grounds equitable to both parties under the …
19-1410 Rosetta Bulluck v. Newtek Small Business Finance, Inc., dba Newtek Business Services, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-24 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights common-law-doctrine contract-formation contract-implementation deference-to-district-court due-process foreclosure-sale private-right-of-action standing summary-judgment Whether granting summary judgment in favor of Respondents and dismissing Petitioner's case was improper when the District Court deemed that, among oth…
19-1165 Chuck Willis v. Tower Loan of Mississippi, LLC Fifth Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied arbitration arbitration-agreement arbitrator-selection baseline-intent-to-arbitrate circuit-split contract-formation contract-interpretation definite-agreement gorsuch-dissent intent-to-arbitrate meeting-of-minds meeting-of-the-minds standard-of-review In Ragab v. Howard, 841 F.3d 1134 (10th Cir. 2016), the Tenth Circuit determined that two parties did not have a meeting of the minds with respect to …
19-1154 Robinson Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, LLC, et al. v. Andrew Phillips, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Dorothy Phillips, et al. Arkansas 2020-03-20 Denied contract-formation contract-interpretation contract-law federal-arbitration-act mutuality-of-assent mutuality-of-obligation preemption state-law-rules third-party-beneficiaries 1. Whether the FAA preempts a state-law contract rule that singles out arbitration agreements for invalidation because they were signed by family memb…
19-6568 Kenisha S. Boyd v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice Fifth Circuit 2019-11-08 Denied IFP acceptance attorney-authority bona-fide-settlement conflict-of-interest contingent-contract contract-formation contract-rejection judicial-discretion mediation mediation-procedure rejection settlement-agreement 1. Whether a bona fide settlement between the parties exists when the agreement is contingent in nature, and one party has the right to reject the off…
19-582 Sara Ann Edmondson v. Lilliston Ford Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2019-11-04 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights contract contract-formation due-process federal-procedure fraud fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-admission judicial-admissions oscanyan-v-arms-co standing summary-judgment Whether the Third Circuit and District Court are acting in opposition to long standing, controlling law and in splitting from other Circuits by refusi…
19-22 Rickey Newsome v. RSL Funding, LLC, et al. Texas 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration arbitration-clause bill-of-review civil-rights contract-defenses contract-formation court-approval court-jurisdiction structured-settlement structured-settlement-protection-act texas-sspa texas-supreme-court The Texas Structured Settlement Protection Act, TEX. CIV. PRAC. & REM. CODE §§ 141.001 et. seq. (the "Texas SSPA"), specifically Section 141.004, mand…
18-1565 Matt A. Rogers v. SWEPI LP, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-06-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitrability arbitration-provision arbitration-validity contract-formation contract-validity delegation-of-arbitrability federal-law federal-preemption first-options-standard prima-paint-doctrine severability severability-doctrine state-law 1. Whether the severability doctrine first announced in Prima Paint Corp. v. Flood & Conklin Mfg. Co., 388 U.S. 395, 402-05 (1967), applies in determi…
18-1308 KPMG, LLP v. Singing River Health System, aka Singing River Hospital System Mississippi 2019-04-16 Denied arbitrability arbitrability-question arbitrability-questions arbitration-agreement contract-enforceability contract-formation delegation-clause federal-arbitration-act preemption state-law-challenge state-law-contract-challenge 1. Whether the Federal Arbitration Act prohibits courts from relabeling a state law contract challenge as relating to contract formation, as opposed t…
18-7551 Joel Gomez v. Mary Berghuis, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure contract-formation contract-interpretation contract-law contract-validity due-process equal-protection legal-standards standing state-law statutory-interpretation DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERR IN DENYING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY?
18-737 Gregory Aime, et al. v. JTH Tax, Inc., dba Liberty Tax Service, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-12-10 Denied Response Waived certification common-law contract-formation diversity-jurisdiction federal-appellate-procedure federal-court lehman-bros-precedent lehman-bros-v-schein state-law state-law-certification virginia-common-law 1. Whether a federal court of appeals in a case based on diversity jurisdiction should certify an issue of state law to the highest court of that stat…