diversity-jurisdiction

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25-993 Vincenzo Oppedisano v. Lynda Zur Second Circuit 2026-02-19 Pending choice-of-law diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts partnership-formation state-law summary-judgment Whether a federal court sitting in diversity may treat a single factor as dispositive in assessing partnership formation, contrary to this Court's pre…
25-934 Gore and Associates Management Company, Inc. v. SLSCO Ltd., et al. First Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending 28-usc-1359 assignor-citizenship diversity-jurisdiction federal-court-procedure jurisdictional-dismissal subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a federal court may dismiss a diversity action, years after filing, for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction based solely on the plaintiff's in…
25-839 Nicholas Fugedi, in His Official Capacity as Trustee of Carb Pura Vida Trust v. Initram, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-01-15 Pending Response Waived diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction fraudulent-joinder jurisdictional-standard misjoinder statutory-interpretation Whether the proper standard to be applied by a court determining if diversity jurisdiction has been improperly manufactured is the motive test applied…
25-740 Susan I. Heath, Proposed Representative of the Estate of Henry A. Hurst, III, Deceased v. EcoHealth Alliance, Inc. Second Circuit 2025-12-22 Pending Amici (1) diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine negligence public-health research-liability strict-liability When Petitioner's husband died of COVID-19 in Colorado, she brought a wrongful death action into federal court, alleging novel tort claims against the…
25-724 Unified Life Insurance Company v. United States Fire Insurance Company Fifth Circuit 2025-12-19 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-common-law insurance-law reinsurance state-law Whether a federal court exercising diversity jurisdiction exceeds its authority under Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938) by creating a new st…
25-556 William Loginov v. Sheridan Memorial Hospital, aka Memorial Hospital of Sheridan County, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-11-06 Denied article-iii diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-courts rules-of-decision-act state-law-interpretation Whether Article III, the Rules of Decision Act, and the Erie doctrine mandate that federal courts sitting in diversity must certify novel state law qu…
25-5666 William P. DeBoskey v. Goshen Mortgage, as Separate Trustee for GDBT 1 Trust 2011-1, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP citizenship diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts jurisdictional-discovery llc-status removal 1. Whether a federal court may remand a case for lack of diversity jurisdiction based on speculation about an LLC 's citizenship without allowing ju…
25-310 J.A. Masters Investments, et al. v. Eduardo Beltramini Fifth Circuit 2025-09-17 Denied diversity-jurisdiction due-process erie-doctrine force-majeure impossibility-defense jury-instructions 1. Whether a federal court sitting in diversity may deny a party the right to present the equitable defense of impossibility to the jury—despite unc…
25-245 Fire-Dex, LLC v. Admiral Insurance Company Sixth Circuit 2025-09-03 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) abstention-doctrine coercive-relief declaratory-judgment diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts state-law When a complaint joins claims for declaratory relief on a novel state-law issue with claims for damages, does a district court retain its discretion t…
25-83 Adrian Jules v. Andre Balazs Properties, et al. Second Circuit 2025-07-22 Granted Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) arbitration-award diversity-jurisdiction federal-arbitration-act federal-question jurisdiction post-arbitration-application Under Sections 9 and 10 of the Federal Arbitration Act, a party may apply to confirm or vacate an arbitration award. But federal courts have limited j…
25-4 Preston L. Marshall, Individually and as Co-Trustee of the Peroxisome Trust v. Stephen D. Cook, as Co-Trustee of The Marshall Heritage Foundation and Marshall Legacy Foundation Fifth Circuit 2025-07-01 Denied citizenship-requirement diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts real-party-controversy subject-matter-jurisdiction trustees Whether diversity jurisdiction may be created by having one diverse co-trustee bring the lawsuit, strategically excluding all nondiverse co-trustees a…
24-1294 Alan Grayson v. No Labels, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-20 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) attorney-fees diversity-jurisdiction federal-rule offer-of-judgment procedural-rule state-law This is a diversity jurisdiction case, where award of attorney's fees was made under the Florida State "offer of judgment" procedure rule, in derogati…
24-6986 Michele Blakely v. CarMax Auto Superstores, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-04-14 Denied IFP citizenship-determination diversity-jurisdiction federal-arbitration-act jurisdictional-amount removal-action subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. In removal actions involving multiple defendants, does a District Court have federal subject matter jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a) wh…
24-876 NVWS Properties, LLC v. Casun Invest, A.G., a Swiss Corporation Ninth Circuit 2025-02-14 Denied choice-of-law conflict-of-laws diversity-jurisdiction forum-state restatement-of-conflict-of-laws statute-of-limitations In assessing under a conflict of laws which jurisdiction's statute of limitations applies, does it apply to the jurisdiction where all the parties res…
24-849 Laura Smith, as Duly Appointed Representative and Independent Administrator of the Estate of Andrea Manfredi, Deceased, et al. v. The Boeing Company, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-02-10 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived admiralty-jurisdiction diversity-jurisdiction federal-court maritime-law subject-matter-jurisdiction wrongful-death Whether a federal court can have exclusive admiralty jurisdiction over a claim when a non-admiralty state court would have concurrent jurisdiction ove…
24-832 Renee Anna Najda, et al. v. Citibank, N.A., as Separate Trustee for PMT NPL Financing 2015-1, et al. First Circuit 2025-02-05 Denied diversity-jurisdiction investment-advisor jurisdictional-test navarro-precedent trustee-citizenship unincorporated-entity If an investment advisor controls an unincorporated entity and through the entity's trustee invokes diversity jurisdiction, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 13…
24A748 Meng Uoy Chang v. David Rout, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-01-30 Presumed Complete civil-procedure dismissal-without-prejudice diversity-jurisdiction federal-question pleading-requirements subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
24-6432 Zemirah El v. Bernard Moore, dba Administrative Clerk Third Circuit 2025-01-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-authority diversity-jurisdiction due-process judicial-immunity oath-of-office void-judgment There are two issues from the Decision of the Third Circuit Court up for review: l.) the issue of judicial immunity under conditions of a judge 's ref…
24-769 Joan Stormo, as Assignee of Peter T. Clark v. State National Insurance Company First Circuit 2025-01-17 Denied certification diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-procedure federalism state-law Federal courts sitting in diversity must apply the laws of the relevant state as rules of decision. 28 U.S. Code § 1652. Certification of questions to…
24-724 The Hain Celestial Group, Inc., et al. v. Sarah Palmquist, Individually and as Next Friend of E.P., a Minor, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-10 Granted Amici (10)Relisted (2) appellate-review circuit-split diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction judgment-vacatur removal 1. Whether a district court's final judgment as to completely diverse parties must be vacated when an appellate court later determines that it erred b…
24A519 The Hain Celestial Group, Inc., et al. v. Sarah Palmquist, Individually and as Next Friend of E.P., a Minor, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-11-26 Presumed Complete diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction final-judgment fraudulent-joinder post-removal-amendment removal Question not identified.
24-480 Kimberly K. Sisia v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-30 Denied Response Waived diversity-jurisdiction eleventh-circuit insurance-coverage medical-payments state-law substantive-law 1. Did the June 6, 2024, decision of the Eleventh Circuit fail to comply with the rule that a federal court, in a case in which jurisdiction is founde…
24-5797 Deandre Arnold v. Tyarielle Patterson Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-22 Denied IFP child-custody-order diversity-jurisdiction domestic-relations-exception emotional-distress judicial-disqualification parental-interference Whether a claim for the intentional infliction of emotional distress concerning parental interference in violation of a state child custody order unde…
24A346 Renee Anna Najda, et al. v. Citibank, N.A., Not Individually but Solely as Separate Trustee for PMT NPL Financing 2015-1, et al. First Circuit 2024-10-11 Presumed Complete diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction navarro-test subject-matter-jurisdiction trustee-citizenship unincorporated-entity Question not identified.
24-5649 Deandre Arnold v. Tyarielle Patterson Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-27 Denied IFP child-support diversity-jurisdiction emotional-distress fiduciary-duty state-court-order tort-law Whether a tort suit for the intentional infliction of emotional distress based on the alleged extortionate usage of a child support order and breach o…
24-334 Innovative Fibers LLC, et al. v. Parker O'Neil Wideman, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-09-24 Dismissed agency-jurisdiction circuit-split diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction merits-defense state-law-claim When state law vests a state agency with exclusive jurisdiction over a claim, should a federal court decide for itself at the outset whether to dismis…
24-329 Michael Ashford, et al. v. Aviation Technical Services, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2024-09-24 Denied case-controversy diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction realignment removal state-court Whether realignment can be used to create diversity jurisdiction in a removed case notwithstanding the presence of an actual case and controversy betw…
24A212 Innovative Fibers LLC, et al. v. Parker O'Neil Wideman, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-08-27 Presumed Complete diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction federalism state-law-claims subject-matter-jurisdiction workers-compensation This case concerns whether a federal court sitting in diversity may entertain state law claims that a state statutory scheme mandates be brought in st…
24A149 The Estate of Isabella "Bella" Herndon, et al. v. Netflix, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-08 Presumed Complete article-iii cafa circuit-conflict diversity-jurisdiction jurisdiction minimal-diversity Question not identified.
23-1359 Fucich Contracting, Incorporated, et al. v. Shread-Kuyrkendall and Associates, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-07-01 Denied Response Waived appellate-review diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts judicial-federalism legal-reasoning reasoned-opinion state-law supervisory-authority Should a federal court of appeals sitting in diversity be required to issue a reasoned opinion in disposing of a case when that case involves signific…
23-7330 Jessica Graulau v. Credit One Bank, N.A. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-29 Denied IFP arbitration-agreement arbitrator-powers counterclaim diversity-jurisdiction federal-arbitration-act jurisdiction manifest-disregard time-limitations Respectfully Mrs. Graulau is addressing the following questions over each of two issues heard and decided by lower tribunals as a single whole case f…
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…
23-983 Nicholas Harding v. Google LLC Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-08 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure article-iii civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction equal-protection federalism fourteenth-amendment standing state-citizenship 1. Does the "state wherein they reside" provision of the Fourteenth Amendment define state citizenship for purposes of Article III diversity jurisdict…
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…
23-6860 Keyron Lamonte Binns v. American General Life and Accident Insurance Company, AIG, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion amendment contract-interpretation contract-law diversity-jurisdiction extrinsic-evidence judicial-discretion jurisdictional-standing stare-decisis 1.) DID U.S. EASTERN DISTRICT COURT ERRED BY UTILIZING EXTRINSIC EVIDENCE TO DENY THE PLAINTIFF'S COMPLAINT WITH PREJUDICE. ALTHOUGH THAT COURT FAILED…
23A535 Nicholas Harding v. Google LLC Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-12 Presumed Complete arbitration-appeal article-three corporate-citizenship diversity-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
23-534 Peter Otoh v. U.S. Bank Trust National Association, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response Waived circuit-court-procedure diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction navarro-rule real-party-in-interest removal removal-jurisdiction securitized-trust traditional-trust trustee trustee-citizenship (1) Whether the Eleventh Circuit was required to apply Navarro's rule to the Respondent, before concluding that the Respondent is the real party to th…
23-453 Special Risk Insurance Services, Inc. v. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC Third Circuit 2023-10-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights commission-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process federalism insurance-broker insurance-broker-commissions property-rights state-law 1. The law of Pennsylvania gives an insurance broker the vested right to commissions for as long as the policies it procured for the insured remain in…
23-352 Christopher A. Rogalski v. Laureate Education, Inc. Third Circuit 2023-10-03 Denied Relisted (3) 12(b)(6) appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-amendment forum-non-conveniens forum-selection forum-selection-clause standing 1. Must the result of a motion to dismiss based upon a claimed forum selection clause under F.R.C.P. 12(b)(6) be considered the same as a dismissal fo…
23-5126 Farkhan Mahmood Shah v. American Airlines, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2023-07-18 Denied IFP arbitration civil-rights collective-bargaining diversity-jurisdiction due-process employment employment-discrimination first-amendment misrepresentation religious-discrimination summary-judgment 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit erred by explicitly relying on American Airlines ' misrepresentation of the terms …
22-1231 Laird J. Heal v. Wells Fargo, N.A., as Trustee for WaMu Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Services 2006-PR2 Trust, et al. First Circuit 2023-06-23 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-estoppel motions-to-strike standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether the motions to strike under Fed.R.Civ.P. 56(c)(2) were decided correctly or if the First Circuit should apply a different legal standard as co…
22-7383 Carlton Theodore Landis v. David J. Ebbert, et al. Third Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law contract-interpretation diversity-jurisdiction employment-discrimination federal-tort-claims-act judicial-relief scope-of-employment standing statutory-interpretation substitution Can the Court Oua front Substitute the Underlying under the Pertinent §§ of the Contract & Discrimination Regarding State of Employment? Can the Cour…
22-902 Sara Gonzalez Flavell v. Tracy Jane Marshall, et al. District of Columbia 2023-03-17 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts immunity international-organizations judicial-immunity judicial-power procedural-rights state-action Whether the two federal courts may in this manner and by issuing these rulings deprive a litigant of the right to pursue their state action in state c…
22-900 Ganiyu Ayinla Jaiyeola v. Robert Allen Brundage Sixth Circuit 2023-03-16 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction procedural-fairness standing sua-sponte subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a District Court can nullify an exist­ing diversity jurisdiction by doing sua sponte conversion of one of Plaintiff's two witnesses into Plain…
22-883 Rachel Evens v. David Gilbertson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-03-14 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process judicial-immunity standing state-court-proceedings subject-matter-jurisdiction younger-abstention 1: What constitutes "acts in excess of jurisdiction" versus "the clear absence of subject-matter jurisdiction", with the judges being subject to civil…
22-847 Virginia Silva-Navarro v. Roosevelt REO PR Corporation First Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction due-process executive-power federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts foreign-entity-litigation jurisdiction precedent standing supreme-court-precedent tax-collection 1. Are lower courts in the federal system to follow the case law of this Honorable Court? Or, the case law of this Honorable Court is merely persuasiv…
22-6757 In Re Louis Matthew Clements 2023-02-10 Denied IFP civil-procedure claim-preclusion diversity-jurisdiction federal-common-law full-and-fair-opportunity manifest-injustice res-judicata writ-of-mandamus 1) Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the court of appeals to comply with this Courts previous ruling in Semtek International Inc. v. L…
22-6539 Israel Romero v. Allwell from Absolute Total Care, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-01-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction documentary-evidence federal-question pro-se pro-se-litigation rule-28-usc-1915 summary-judgment This is the case the United States Supreme Court has been waiting for years to give light over three crucial issues never decided by any federal court…
22-261 Estate of Najee Ali Baker, By and Through His Ancillary Administrator Jemel Ali Dixon v. Wake Forest University Fourth Circuit 2022-09-20 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process summary-judgment 1. Whether a federal court of appeals that affirms summary judgment for a defendant in a diversity jurisdiction case, without addressing all well-grou…
22-257 Lorraine Adell v. Cellco Partnership, dba Verizon Wireless Sixth Circuit 2022-09-19 Denied Response Waived arbitration-consent article-iii article-iii-adjudication civil-rights class-action-fairness-act constitutional-waiver contract-law diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-arbitration-act I. Although the waiver of the personal right to an Article III adjudication and other fundamental constitutional rights must be voluntary, the Sixth C…
22-252 Howmedica Osteonics Corp. v. DePuy Synthes Sales, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-16 Denied federal courts sitting in diversity should apply under Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins choice-of-law circuit-split civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine erie-railroad-co-v-tompkins forum-selection-clause forum-selection-clauses procedural-law state-law substantive-law Whether, under Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938), federal courts sitting in diversity should apply federal or state law to determine t…
22-209 Transamerica Retirement Solutions, LLC v. Gloria A. Addison, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied cafa circuit-split class-action-fairness-act diversity-jurisdiction federal-diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction local-single-event local-single-event-exception mass-action statutory-interpretation Whether the phrase "an event or occurrence" in CAFA's local single event exception means what it says—"a single happening"—as the Ninth Circuit holds,…
22-78 Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. v. Curtis Ulleseit, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts federal-preemption fraudulent-joinder jurisdictional-review preemption summary-inquiry Whether courts may refuse to perform more than a summary inquiry to determine if defendants are fraudulently joined due to a pure issue of federal law…
21-1561 Vickie Brooks v. Philadelphia Insurance Companies Tenth Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine stare-decisis summary-judgment tenth-circuit Did The Tenth Circuit Court fail to follow stare decisis by failing to follow its own ruling in Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938) and affirm…
21-7999 Kristine Arutyunyan v. Cindy Fields, et al. Second Circuit 2022-05-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction diversity-of-citizenship federal-question pro-se public-importance standing supreme-court-rule 1. I petition the Supreme Court to review and reconsider the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit of New York decision on the legitimacy of the pro…
21-7629 C. Holmes v. Granuaile, LLC, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-04-15 Denied Relisted (3)IFP article-iii-judicial-officer civil-procedure de-novo-review diversity-jurisdiction due-process full-and-fair-review magistrate-referral report-and-recommendation standing substantial-rights summary-dismissal writ-of-certiorari I. Whether this Court should grant writ of certiorari on appealability. II. Whether the district court should provide complete record on appeal (ROA)…
21-1325 Estate of Samuel I. Roig, By and Through Its Personal Representative Gail Olivera, et al. v. United Parcel Service, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-review civil-procedure consent-judgment diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver Whether a Panel of the Circuit Court erred when it dismissed an appeal holding that there is no appellate jurisdiction to consider on the merits wheth…
21-1278 Judy Wright v. May 27, 2011 Order, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-03-22 Denied civil-procedure coram-non-judice diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question in-rem-complaint judicial-bias judicial-neutrality standing standing-doctrine state-court-judgment 1. For Petitioner to have standing to be heard on her claim that a "judgment" by a judge with an undenied appearance of undermined neutrality, must Pe…
21-1222 Joel David Joseph v. American General Life Insurance Company Ninth Circuit 2022-03-09 Denied california-constitution diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine judicial-procedure ninth-circuit oral-argument res-judicata ripeness 1. Does this court's decision in Erie Railroad v Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938), require the United states Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to con…
21-1200 Sherif A. Philips v. Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-03 Denied civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection federal-question-jurisdiction fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud-upon-the-court personal-jurisdiction Unrecognized Transfer The Case From Guam Superior Court To Guam District Court , even with lack of Jurisdiction lead To Default Judgement And Levi on …
21-7042 Craig Nelsen v. Southern Poverty Law Center Eighth Circuit 2022-02-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-malice constitutional-protection defamation diversity-jurisdiction first-amendment free-speech public-figure summary-judgment I. Whether the US Court for the 8th Circuit 1] wrongly allowed the District Court's improper statement of a Missouri Supreme Court ruling, which held—…
21-983 Rhonda Meisner v. Zymogenetics, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure corporate-membership diversity-jurisdiction federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction incorporated-parent-company legal-ethics limited-liability-company procedural-standing standing 1. Does diversity jurisdiction exist when the sole member of a named Limited Liability Company defendant, is its incorporated parent company? 2. Whet…
21-755 Carter Page, et al. v. Democratic National Committee, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-11-22 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 28-usc-1332 carden-v-arkoma citizenship complete-diversity diversity diversity-jurisdiction domicile newman-green partnership partnership-defendant stateless-citizen Whether a U.S. Citizen domiciled abroad who is a member of a partnership defendant destroys the complete diversity required by 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a), wh…
21-666 Parker Waichman, LLP, et al. v. Arnold Levin, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-04 Denied Alyeska-Pipeline-Serv.-Co.-v.-Wilderness-Soc'y attorney-fees Boeing-Co.-v.-Van-Gemert Common-benefit-doctrine common-fund-doctrine diversity-jurisdiction Equitable-common-fund-doctrine erie-doctrine Erie-R.-Co.-v.-Tompkins federal-equity-power Hensley-v.-Eckerhart multi-district-litigation The questions concern three subjects : (1) the authority of a court sitting in diversity jurisdiction to allocate contractual attorney fees from indiv…
21-5994 Choo Washburn v. John Nunez, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied IFP civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation diversity-jurisdiction divorce-proceedings due-process erie-doctrine personal-property property-rights real-property takings 1. Does the meaning of the word, "PROPERTY" that is in the "Due Process Clause" and "Taking Clause", in the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of th…
21-548 David J. Zawistowski v. Michael D. Kramer, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1331 28-usc-1332 ankenbrandt-v-richards diversity-jurisdiction domestic-relations domestic-relations-exception federal-question-jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the domestic relations exception apply to federal question jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1331 or is the exception limited to diversity jurisdict…
21-358 Melvin Keakaku Amina, et ux. v. U.S. Bank National Association Ninth Circuit 2021-09-07 Denied annexation-legality armed-invasion citizenship-status diversity-jurisdiction executive-agreement hawaii-statehood hawaiian-independence international-law queen-liliuokalani self-determination sovereignty-dispute statehood-process 1. Does the State of Hawaii lack legal existence because of illegalities in Hawaii 's statehood process? (including the removal of Queen Lili 'uokala…
21-191 Sergei Vinkov v. United States District Court for the Central District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-11 Denied case-or-controversy civil-rights constitutional-claims declaratory-judgment diversity-jurisdiction establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech insurance-coverage standing subject-matter-jurisdiction (1) Whether the District Court abused its discretion retaining jurisdiction over the Declaratory Judgment Act (28 USC § 2201(a)) in the insurance disp…
21-142 Robert J. Frey v. Anthony Binford Minter, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-03 Denied choice-of-law defamation diversity-jurisdiction forum-shopping internet-communication internet-publication personal-jurisdiction reputation-injury reputational-injury Whether Petitioner, a natural person, domiciled in Florida, who suffered injury to his internet communication published in Florida, while Petitioner w…
20-1317 Holly MacIntyre v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. Tenth Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied Response Waived attorneys-fees civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction fraud fraud-damages monetary-relief rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgment Whether a plaintiff in a diversity case who seeks monetary relief — for damages emanating from the defendant's fraud in procuring a state-court judgme…
20-7302 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. Rentgrow, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-03-02 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP amendment civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-court jurisdiction legal-claim procedural-rules standing WHETHER THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS AFFIRMED THE DISTRICT COURT JUDGE THOMAS D. SCHROEDER'S DISMISSAL OF ALL CLAIM(S) BROUGHT AGAINST RENTGROW AND DISMI…
20-6908 In Re Michael Ingram El 2021-01-15 Denied IFP 14th-amendment citizenship-status civil-rights consular-court consular-jurisdiction diversity-jurisdiction extraterritoriality international-agreement self-executing-treaty treaty treaty-interpretation 1. Will the International Court of Justices Translation and Interpretation be enough to Construe that the Treaty of 1787/1836 is "Self- Executing, " g…
20-6853 Dora L. Adkins v. Dulles Hotel Corporation Fourth Circuit 2021-01-13 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1332 civil-procedure corporate-citizenship dismissal-with-prejudice diversity-jurisdiction headquarters nerve-center principal-place-of-business standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether, for purposes of determining principal place of business for diversity jurisdiction citizenship under 28 U.S.C. § 1332, a court can disregard …
20-857 Dale L. Miesen v. John D. Munding, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-29 Denied circuit-split corporate-governance demand-letter derivative-action derivative-actions diversity-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pleading-requirements rule-23.1 standard-of-review 1. Whether the plaintiff in a derivative action, brought under diversity jurisdiction, must plead and prove the adequacy of its derivative demand lett…
20-754 Albert Von Weingarten v. Lonnie Chester Second Circuit 2020-12-01 Denied Response Waived certification-to-state-court civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction estate-administration federal-court independent-cause-of-action legal-certification maladministration state-law statutory-interpretation 1. Does Title 14 Vermont Statutes Annotated Section 1208 provide for an independent cause of action for maladministration of an estate, which can be b…
20-6344 Phyllis Marie Knight v. John C. Chatelain, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law bill-of-rights civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction diversity-of-citizenship due-process interstate-commerce jury-trial seventh-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction For The questions is a matter of jurisdiction undisputed mix law and mix fact "state v. federal. " The legal right to trial by jury as declared in U.S…
20-684 Benjamin Tagger v. Strauss Group Ltd. Second Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction fcn-treaties federal-courts friendship-commerce-navigation-treaties international-commercial-relations national-treatment permanent-resident standing treaty-interpretation Does the National Treatment clause in Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation Treaties provide permanent resident aliens from treaty nations access to fe…
20-602 Stephanie Clifford, aka Stormy Daniels v. Donald J. Trump Ninth Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) anti-slapp anti-slapp-statute circuit-split civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-rules-of-civil-procedure procedural-law shady-grove In Shady Grove Ortho pedic Assocs., P.A. v. Allstate Ins. Co., 559 U.S. 393 (2010), this Court held that a valid Federal Rule of Civil Proce dure gove…
20-474 CMT Hospital HIMA San Pablo Caguas v. Jose Suero-Algarin First Circuit 2020-10-13 Denied civil-procedure damages-review diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine excessiveness federal-standard gasperini-standard gasperini-v-center-for-humanities remittitur state-law 1. Whether the decision below contravenes Erie Railroad v. Tompkins by granting respondent a recovery that is ten times larger than the recovery respo…
20-337 Rosemary Ann Lynn v. Andrew George Brown, III, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-09-14 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction due-process personal-jurisdiction rico-statute service-of-process subject-matter-jurisdiction venue Whether Appellees' refusal to serve Petitioner with summons and petition after passage of two years' and seven months divest the district court of per…
20-5442 Condra L. Smith v. Department of Education, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law amount-in-controversy civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts federal-jurisdiction interstate-litigation standing student-loan-fraud subject-matter-jurisdiction wage-garnishment I. Weather the courts can suit between the four states, the petitioner is in Indiana and one of the respondents(General Recovery) is located in Ohio, …
20-169 Lawrence Richard Metsch v. Timothy Hajdasz Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied Response Waived civil-litigation civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction federal-procedure removal removal-jurisdiction rule-11-sanctions sanctions stonewalling subject-matter-jurisdiction time-limit Did the Eleventh Circuit err when it affirmed the District Court's imposition of sanctions pursuant to Rule 11, for the removal by Petitioners Lawrenc…
20-170 Karen Chongah Han v. Hankook Tire Co., Ltd. Sixth Circuit 2020-08-17 Denied civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction federal-court-discretion federal-courts judicial-estoppel legal-standing procedural-dismissal standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the doctrine of judicial estoppel can be applied to defeat subject matter jurisdiction that otherwise exists—while it cannot be used to create…
19-1272 Thomas Christopher Retzlaff v. Jason Lee Van Dyke Fifth Circuit 2020-05-08 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) anti-slapp civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-courts federal-procedure free-speech litigation-strategy Whether under the doctrine of Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938), state anti-SLAPP statutes apply in federal diversity cases, as the Fi…
19-1157 Patsy Weatherly, et al. v. Pershing, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2020-03-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) american-pipe civil-procedure class-action diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts federal-procedure statute-of-limitations tolling The plaintiffs in these lawsuits are individuals who were swindled out of large sums of money in one of the largest "Ponzi" schemes in American histor…
19-8012 Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva v. Alameda Health System, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP amended-complaint diversity-jurisdiction diversity-of-citizenship fair-labor-standards-act government-agency governmental-agency governmental-investigation labor-code retaliation retaliation-claim statute-of-limitations unlawful-termination 1) Plaintiff worked as a Monitor Technician observing cardiac monitors at Alameda Health System in 2013. Plaintiff was fired from Alameda Health Syste…
19-7829 Dale E. Phillips v. South Coast Plaza, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights civil-rights-discrimination class-action constitutional-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis jurisdiction pro-se-litigation standing state-actor vexatious-litigant Whether California's Vexatious Litigant Laws (CCP § 391(b)) violate the 1st, 8th and 14th Amendments of the US Constitution, particularly when a gover…
19-887 Aryeh Simon, et ux. v. Marriott International, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) cafa civil-procedure class-action class-action-fairness-act constitution constitutional-requirement diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction minimal-diversity statutory-interpretation The United States Constitution requires that parties have at least minimally diverse citizenship for a federal court to exercise diversity jurisdictio…
19-802 David Ehrman v. Cox Communications, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-23 Denied citizenship-pleading civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction domicile federal-jurisdiction notice-of-removal pleading pleading-standards procedural-requirements removal removal-procedure standing To plead diversity of citizenship, is an allegation of an individual's state citizenship made solely on "information and belief" sufficient, or must a…
19-7002 Robert C. Denham, Jr. v. James Dzurenda, Director, Nevada Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied IFP 28-usc-1332 42-usc-1983 amended-complaint amount-in-controversy civil-procedure civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction in-forma-pauperis jurisdictional-amount screening-order standing subject-matter-jurisdiction I. (a) Is whether or not Plaintiff s Reply, Motions 7 Affidavit to Screening Order dated 01-09-19 was timely, and satisfied the $75, 000 amount-in-con…
19-778 Edward A. Weinhaus v. Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied Response Waived circuit-split custody-decrees diversity-jurisdiction domestic-relations-exception federal-question-jurisdiction frivolous-appeal fundamental-rights redress rule-38-sanctions Is There a Domestic-Relations Exception to Federal Question Jurisdiction? Are Rule 38 Sanctions for "frivolous appeal" warranted when the appeal earn…
19-526 Dexter Edwards, dba Edwards Land and Cattle v. Genex Cooperative, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied cattle-reproduction choice-of-law civil-procedure contract contract-law diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federalism oral-agreement state-law Did the court of appeals violate Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938) and the pragmatic federalism it represents by refusing to apply establish…
19-6010 John Robert Demos v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. First Circuit 2019-09-20 Closed IFP citizenship civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process foreign-nationals jurisdiction residency standing state-treaties subject-of-foreign-nation 1. DoEs THE UnFEd SIAEsSuREME CAE "ORigiNAl JuRiSdICTiON"IN 30u.5.1, 2. CAN ONE beASIATE CTiZN ANd NOT AU.S. CiTiZEN? 83U.S.36,
19-347 AER Advisors, Inc., et al. v. Fidelity Brokerage Services, LLC First Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) annunzio-wylie-anti-money-laundering-act anti-money-laundering bank-secrecy-act choice-of-law civil-immunity criminal-disclosure diversity-jurisdiction federal-transfer financial-institutions forum-selection good-faith-reporting immunity immunity-defense To encourage banks, other financial institutions, and their employees to report actual or suspected criminal activity, Congress enacted the Bank Secre…
19-306 Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. v. Yury Rinsky First Circuit 2019-09-05 Denied civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-courts legal-standards punitive-damages standard-of-proof state-courts state-law state-law-certification subject-matter-jurisdiction This diversity case involves state-law claims of age discrimination in employment. Petitioner disputed the applicability of the New York City Human Ri…
19-238 In Re Hotze Health Wellness Center International One, LLC, et al. 2019-08-23 Denied appellate-review article-iii-standing civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction en-banc-review proposition-65 remand-order removal standing subject-matter-jurisdiction supplemental-jurisdiction (1) Whether the remand order constitutes an appealable abuse of discretion for failing to reach or resolve the jurisdictional issues raised below. (2…
19-219 Joan Demarest v. HSBC Bank USA, N.A., as Trustee for the Registered Holders of Nomura Home Equity Loan, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied Response Waived citizenship citizenship-determination court-jurisdiction diversity diversity-jurisdiction federal-court federal-removal mortgage-investment-trust real-estate-investment-trust real-estate-trust removal trustee In Americold Realty Trust v. ConAgra Foods, 136 S.Ct. 1012 (2016), this Court ruled that, for diversity, a real estate investment trust was a citizen …
19-13 Tennessee v. Tamarin Lindenburg, Individually and as Natural Guardian of Her Minor Children ZTL and SML Sixth Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) abstention certification diversity-jurisdiction federal-court first-impression judicial-procedure state-constitution state-constitutional-issue state-law state-statute Whether a federal court exercising its diversity jurisdiction should certify an important state constitutional issue of first impression to the State'…
18-1578 Pfizer Inc. v. Alida Adamyan, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Amici (2) cafa-removal civil-procedure class-action-fairness-act diversity-jurisdiction federal-court joint-trial mass-action products-liability removal state-court state-court-proposal This Petition presents an important, unsettled, and recurring question concerning the "mass action" provisions of the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA)…
18-1456 William Mauldin, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Pauline Gibson, Deceased v. Allstate Insurance Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure consent-to-removal deception diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction removal rule-interpretation standing subject-matter-jurisdiction FIRST: Does Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(h)(3)1 require every federal court, including this Court, to "dismiss" this case because the federal co…
18-1352 Commerce Bank v. Beverly Williamson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure class-action class-action-fairness-act counterclaim diversity-jurisdiction federal-court jurisdictional-requirements original-defendant removal removal-statute standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a counterclaim defendant in a state court class action is "any defendant" entitled to remove a class action which satisfies the jurisdictional…
18-1314 Kimberly Meador, et al. v. Apple, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1332 access-to-courts certification-to-state-supreme-court civil-rights collision court-access distracted-driving diversity-jurisdiction diversity-jurisdiction-28-usc-1332 driver-distraction due-process erie-doctrine negligence product-liability smartphone-manufacturer-liability statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction texas-law 1. Has the court of appeals failed to exercise its mandatory diversity jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1332 by refusing to make an "Erie guess" whether…
18-1281 Hayes B. Milliman v. Timothy L. Randall California 2019-04-08 Denied Relisted (2) bankruptcy bankruptcy-law congressional-intent constitutional-interpretation diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction federal-question markham-v-allen probate-exception state-probate-court trust trusts wills What is the scope of the probate exception to federal jurisdiction? Did Congress intend the probate exception to apply where a federal court is not a…
18-8523 Tynisha Latrice Reinerio, nka Akosua Tanisha Aaebo v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 15-usc-7003 account-debtor collateral-estoppel diversity-jurisdiction eighth-circuit mortgage-law mortgage-loan negotiable-instrument note-negotiation res-judicata security-interest standing statutory-trust ucc ucc-3-103(a)(12) ucc-3-110(b) ucc-9-102(a)(3) ucc-9-312(e)-(g) uniform-commercial-code Was the issue of res judicata and collateral estoppel improperly decided by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals? Did the Eight Circuit improperly ado…
18-8305 Nausheen Zainulabeddin v. University of South Florida Board of Trustees Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied IFP commerce-clause disability-discrimination diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-preemption fourteenth-amendment property-rights regulatory-taking sovereign-immunity Did the lower court violate Commerce Clause of the constitution of Article 1, section 8, Clause 3; when it denied principal's interest to maintain uni…
18-8272 Juliette Fairley v. Don Ford, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-circuit civil-procedure civil-rights disgorgement district-court diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Did the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals violate the 14th Amendment when it upheld Petitioner Juliette's dismissal which was based on the District Cour…
18-7211 Frank M. Monte v. Joe Kessling, et al. Third Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-jurisdiction diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism interstate-dispute judicial-review legal-standing original-jurisdiction standing state-sovereignty 1. Constitutionality of a State, the State of Florida, to bring an Original legal action against a citizen of another State, the State of New Jersey; …
18-784 Eldon Bugg v. Marc Honey, et al. Missouri 2018-12-20 Denied bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-law common-law-torts diversity-jurisdiction due-process fourteenth-amendment national-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction Under bankruptcy law, in personam jurisdiction is national. In re Federal Fountain, 165 F.3d 600,601, (8 Cir. 1999)(en bane)). ". . . physical presenc…
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…
18-721 Norman Bloom v. Aftermath Public Adjusters, Inc., et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied certification circuit-split civil-procedure discretion diversity-jurisdiction federal-court federal-court-discretion federal-courts legal-uncertainty procedural-standards state-law state-law-certification Whether the language of a state's certification rule should factor into the federal court's decision to certify a dispositive state law question in a …
18-6779 Guy Heffington v. Pamela Puleo, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment 7th-amendment amendment-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process judicial-conspiracy legal-representation property-rights Whether Guy Heffington, the son of Joan Farr f/k/a Joan Heffington, was denied due process of law under the Fifth Amendment, the right to an attorney …
18-6446 Juliette Fairley v. PM Management - San Antonio AL Fifth Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied IFP 5th-circuit ada americans-with-disabilities-act associational-standing civil-rights civil-rights-statute diversity-jurisdiction public-accommodation rule-19 standing 1. Did the 5th Circuit err in finding that Appellant Juliette Fairley failed to state a cause of action under 42 U.S.C. § 2000a, or 42 U.S.C § 12182, …
18-530 Congregation Jeshuat Israel v. Congregation Shearith Israel First Circuit 2018-10-24 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) charitable-trusts diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine establishment-clause evidence federalism free-exercise free-exercise-clause personal-property property property-dispute religious-liberty secular-evidence trust trust-law 1. In ordinary trust and property disputes does the Establishment Clause preclude courts from considering secular evidence that is relevant and admiss…
18-528 Elias Kifle, et al. v. Jemal Ahmed Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied civil-procedure district-court diversity diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts jurisdiction rule-19 standard-of-review standing subject-matter-jurisdiction What is the standard of review for a District Court's determination that a required party is dispensable under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 19?
18-403 Bruce A. Shear v. MAZ Partners, LP, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated First Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights disgorgement disgorgement-order district-court-power diversity-jurisdiction due-process equitable-power equitable-remedy erie-doctrine federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion jury-trial jury-verdict 1. When a jury finds in favor of defendant on the sole claim asserted against him, may a district court affirm the verdict but then use "equitable pow…
18-385 Jakks Pacific, Inc. v. Accasvek LLC District of Columbia 2018-09-25 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure court-precedent diversity diversity-jurisdiction espinosa-v-united-student-aid-funds finality-of-judgments judicial-interpretation jurisdiction procedural-dismissal public-policy standing subject-matter-jurisdiction united-student-aid-funds-v-espinosa Did the lower courts disregard this Court's judgment in United Student Aid Funds, Inc. v. Espinosa, 559 U.S. 260 (2010), and thereby defeat the public…
18-301 Chieftain Royalty Company v. Charles David Nutley, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Amici (4) attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights class-action common-fund common-fund-fees diversity diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-law inherent-power judicial-discretion state-law Whether common-fund fee awards are governed in diversity cases by state or federal law.
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…
18-168 Bill G. Nichols, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Chesapeake Operating, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) cafa cafa-jurisdiction circuit-split citizenship civil-procedure class-action diversity-jurisdiction domicile domicile-presumption federal-courts federal-jurisdiction removal residency-domicile-presumption residency-presumption standing subject-matter-jurisdiction When determining the citizenship of a class for purposes of CAFA's home-state exception, 28 U.S.C. § 1332(d)(4)(B), does this Court's long-standing re…
18-5382 Muriel Fiedler v. Mace Brindley, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1441 civil-procedure civil-procedure-removal diversity-jurisdiction due-process forum-defendant-rule judicial-bias remand remand-procedures removal removal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction The forum defendant rule, 28 U.S.C. § 1441(a), provides out of state defendants protection against biases of local courts and juries by procedurally p…
18-22 Young Sung Lee, et al. v. Katelyn Garvey Second Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied civil-procedure directed-verdict diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts judicial-discretion meniscus-injury new-york-insurance-law new-york-law permanent-injury personal-injury rule-50-dismissal rule-50(a) rule-50a serious-injury-threshold state-law-interpretation summary-judgment 1. Whether the Magistrate Judge erred as a matter of law in granting a Rule 50(a) motion for directed verdict when (a) both parties' experts agreed th…
25A439 William P. DeBoskey v. Goshen Mortgage, as Separate Trustee for GDBT 1 Trust 2011-1, et al. Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete 28-usc-1447 diversity-jurisdiction federal-rules remand removal sua-sponte Whether due process and controlling circuit precedent require a district court to permit jurisdictional discovery before remanding a removed case when…