| 24-335 |
Vivendi S.E., et al. v. EPAC Technologies Ltd. |
New York |
2024-09-25 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
contract-law due-process forum-selection-clause fourteenth-amendment nonresident-defendant personal-jurisdiction |
Does the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause permit the exercise of personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant lacking any contacts with… |
| 24-135 |
James G. Robinson, et al. v. Armin Azod, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-06 |
Denied |
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arbitration-award civil-procedure contract federal-arbitration-act federal-courts forum-clause forum-selection-clause judicial-estoppel manifest-disregard venue venue-selection |
This case presents two important federal questions arising from an arbitration award confirmed by the United States District Court for the Central Dis… |
| 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… |
| 22-252 |
Howmedica Osteonics Corp. v. DePuy Synthes Sales, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-16 |
Denied |
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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… |
| 21-100 |
Panya Lerdthaisong, et al. v. Benjamin Cunningham, et al. |
Texas |
2021-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
due-process equal-protection forum-selection-clause mandamus precedents writ-of-mandamus |
1. Whether the Supreme Court of Texas' failure to follow its precedents in enforcing the forum selection clause by Writ of Mandamus is a denial of equ… |
| 21-4 |
C. Al Buis v. DLI Assets Bravo, LLC |
Virginia |
2021-07-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
borrower-agreement consent consent-clause due-process forum-selection forum-selection-clause guaranty-agreement loan-guaranty personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction |
In a suit on a loan guaranty, can specific personal jurisdiction be involuntarily created over an out-of-state guarantor based solely on a co-defendan… |
| 20-299 |
Milliman, Inc. v. James J. Donelon, Commissioner of Insurance for Louisiana, in His Capacity as Rehabilitator of Louisiana Health Cooperative, Inc. |
Louisiana |
2020-09-08 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
arbitration contract-arbitration federal-arbitration-act forum-selection-clause insurance-insolvency insurance-regulation mccarran-ferguson-act preemption state-regulation |
Whether the Federal Arbitration Act (the "FAA") preempts the state's forum selection clause and requires the commissioner to arbitrate these pre-insol… |
| 19-1250 |
Victor Allan Clark v. Celebrity Cruises, Inc., et al. |
Florida |
2020-04-27 |
Denied |
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45-usc-55 45-usc-56 forum-selection forum-selection-clause jones-act maritime-law negligence personal-injury seaman-employment seaman-employment-contract third-party-beneficiary |
I. Does the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C. §§ 30104, 30509 (adopting by reference 45 U.S.C. §§ 55, 56) render void a foreign forum selection clause in a Seaman'… |
| 19-1187 |
Matco Tools Corporation, et al. v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration-agreement civil-procedure contract-validity district-court-discretion federal-jurisdiction forum-non-conveniens forum-selection-clause ninth-circuit-rule procedural-exception subject-matter |
Courts adjudicating forum non conveniens motions seeking to enforce forum-selection clauses as a general rule do not consider whether the underlying c… |
| 18-1484 |
Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc., et al. v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
|
atlantic-marine convenience-of-parties district-court-discretion federal-courts federal-policy forum-selection forum-selection-clause judicial-precedent mandamus mandamus-relief public-policy state-policy transfer-of-venue |
1. Whether a district court's disregard of Atlantic Marine is sufficient grounds for mandamus relief.
2. Whether federal courts may refuse to enforce… |
| 18-1341 |
Jeffrey A. Robertson v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-25 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
civil-rights employee-benefit-plan employee-benefit-plans erisa erisa-venue-provision fiduciary-duty forum-selection forum-selection-clause participant-rights public-policy statutory-interpretation venue venue-provision |
Whether a private employee benefit plan's unilateral adoption of a forum selection clause that circumvents the venue choices that Congress granted pla… |