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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-7177 In Re Terrance McCauley 2024-04-10 Denied IFP act-of-state-doctrine color-of-law constitutional-rights foreign-state foreign-state-citizenship free-exercise-of-religion peaceable-assembly sovereign-immunity Whether the judgment of conviction against Terrance A. McCauley, which imposed burdens of the State of Wisconsin upon a citizen of the Moorish America…
22-596 Lamon Sandel Dewayne Donnell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-28 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process foreign-state judicial-procedure jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunities sovereign-immunities-act subject-matter-jurisdiction title-28 1) Is this Court, and all public offices, a FOREIGN STATE as defined under FRCP Rule 4(j) and under Title 28 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE? The S…
22-5604 John Gregory Lambros v. Federative Republic of Brazil, et al. District of Columbia 2022-09-19 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure federal-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure foreign-state foreign-state-defendant jurisdictional-defect motion-to-remand remand removal removal-procedure service-of-process timeliness QUESTION ONE (1): Whether an untimely "Motion for Removal" by a foreign state, 28 U.S.C. 1441(d) - 652 days to late - suffices when the non-jurisdicti…
21-200 Willie Frank Walker v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-11 Denied 14th-amendment accardi-doctrine civil-procedure due-process foreign-state jurisdictional-challenge personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunities sovereign-immunities-act subject-matter-jurisdiction transient-foreigner The Court lacks subject matter and personal jurisdiction for the reasons below. This Court, and all public offices, is defined under FRCP Rule 4(j) as…
20-640 The Welsh Government v. Pablo Star Ltd., et al. Second Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception copyright-infringement foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-state international-law jurisdictional-exception political-subdivision tourism-promotion Is a political subdivision of a foreign state immune from copyright infringement claims under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's commercial activi…
20-462 Jesse Louis Kaiser v. Anthony R. Morfitt, Assistant United States Attorney Eighth Circuit 2020-10-13 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process foreign-state personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunities sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction The Court lacks subject matter and personal jurisdiction for the reasons below. 1. This Court, and all public offices, is defined under FRCP Rule 40)…
18-1412 Lewis-Jay Porter v. Texas Fifth Circuit 2019-05-10 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-state personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction The Court lacks subject matter and personal jurisdiction for the reasons below. This Court, and all public offices, is defined under FRCP Rule 46) as…
18-620 Jamahl Harim Simmons v. Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied 14th-amendment civil-rights collateral-attack constitutional-challenge due-process foreign-state jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunities sovereign-immunities-act subject-matter-jurisdiction The State Trial Court lacks subject matter and personal jurisdiction for the reasons below. 1. This Court, and all public offices, is defined under F…
18-544 Teresita A. Canuto v. Department of Defense, et al. District of Columbia 2018-10-25 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1604 28-usc-1605 acting-official foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity foreign-state government-liability individual-capacity individual-liability official-capacity service-of-process sovereign-immunity state-immunity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a foreign state's immunity from suit under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1604 extends to an individual for acts taken in t…
18-295 Alexander Alimanestianu, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied due-process eminent-domain espousal fifth-amendment foreign-affairs foreign-state international-law just-compensation property-rights takings Horne v. Dep't of Agriculture, 135 S. Ct. 2419 (2015), holds that the Fifth Amendment imposes a categorical duty upon the government to pay just compe…