foreign-law

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-818 Sean Dunne v. Richard M. Coan, et al. Second Circuit 2024-01-29 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) act-of-state bankruptcy-trustee comity debtor's-estate foreign-law foreign-property fraudulent-conveyance statute-of-limitations 1. It is an issue of profound national importance that a Bankruptcy Trustee seeks to recover property not in a Debtor's estate when such real proper…
21-1283 Animal Science Products, Inc., et al. v. Hebei Welcome Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., et al. Second Circuit 2022-03-23 Denied Amici (2) antitrust antitrust-law federal-rule-44.1 foreign-conduct foreign-law judicial-interpretation prescriptive-comity sherman-act statutory-interpretation Whether, despite this Court's "well established" interpretation of the Sherman Act, U.S. courts may reinterpret the same text of that Act case by case…
20-1746 Temor S. Sharifi v. United States Federal Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment citizenship due-process fifth-amendment foreign-law just-compensation property-rights takings Petitioner was born in Afghanistan. He immigrated to the United States and became a United States citizen. His siblings and other relatives remained i…
20-117 Jairo Sequeira v. Republic of Nicaragua, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-05 Denied Response Waived contract-validity direct-effect direct-effect-doctrine explicit-waiver foreign-law foreign-sovereign-immunities-act jurisdiction jurisdiction-waiver property-rights 1. Whether 1605(a)(1) of the FSIA waiver exception requires courts to determine jurisdiction based on whether or not a contract contains an explicit w…
18-5642 Miroslav Fejfar v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP animal-sci-prod-v-hebei-welcome-pharm asylum civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process extradition foreign-criminal-procedure foreign-law immigration statutory-interpretation withholding-of-removal Whether the plain language of the relevant statutes and the Due Process Clause prohibit extradition of an alien who has claimed in immigration court …