in-rem-jurisdiction

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25-744 Jose Duran, Individually and as Representative of a Class of Judgment Creditors of the Estate of Ferdinand E. Marcos v. United States Second Circuit 2025-12-22 Pending Response Waived civil-procedure due-process foreign-judgment forfeiture in-rem-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity This proceeding was brought by the United States on behalf of the Republic of the Philippines, seeking recognition and enforcement of a Philippine for…
25-213 Atlas Turner, Inc. v. Donna B. Welch, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Melvin G. Welch, Deceased, et al. South Carolina 2025-08-21 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-limits due-process in-rem-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction state-court territorial-boundaries The U.S. Constitution imposes due-process limits on the jurisdiction of state and federal courts. Those limits differ depending on the type of jurisdi…
24-283 Oxana N. Parikh v. Anthony G. Brown, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied Response Waived civil-rights-violations in-rem-jurisdiction orphans-court preclusive-effect res-judicata standing This Petition presents three separate but related questions: 1. Whether it was error to give preclusive effect to an earlier in rem orphans' court Es…
23-988 Justin Holder v. Jeffrey Young, et al. Maryland 2024-03-11 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment fifth-amendment in-rem-jurisdiction judicial-jurisdiction land-transfer merger-doctrine municipal-power police-power property-rights subdivision-ordinance taking takings The Town of Keedysville, Maryland's (the "Town') Subdivision Ordinance defines a "subdivision," wherein that definition, in its pertinent part, exclud…
23-216 Klamath Irrigation District v. United States Bureau of Reclamation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-07 Denied Response Waived comprehensive-adjudication federal-obligations federal-removal in-rem-jurisdiction judicial-review mccarran-amendment prior-exclusive-jurisdiction state-adjudication water-rights Whether the federal government can avoid the doctrine of prior exclusive jurisdiction in an ongoing, comprehensive water adjudication under the McCarr…
22-801 Ameen Salaam v. Illinois, ex. rel. Kimberly Foxx Illinois 2023-02-23 Denied Response Waived civil-forfeiture civil-judicial-forfeiture due-process in-rem-jurisdiction judicial-procedure notice notice-requirement passage-of-time void-judgment 1. When a court has in rem jurisdiction can it enter a final judgment without the notice required by the due process clause. 2. Whether a judgment th…
22-744 Joseph C. Sheehan v. Breccia Unlimited Company, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-02-08 Denied automatic-stay bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-jurisdiction circuit-split debtor-property in-rem-jurisdiction international-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction property-estate Whether the United States Bankruptcy Code's grant of world-wide jurisdiction over a debtor's property permits a federal court to exercise in rem juris…
22-522 Applied Underwriters, Inc., et al. v. Ricardo Lara, Commissioner, California Department of Insurance, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-05 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 abstention abstention-doctrine civil-rights constitutional-violations in-personam in-rem in-rem-jurisdiction prior-exclusive-jurisdiction section-1983 state-executive-officers "[W]hen one court is exercising in rem jurisdiction over a res, a second court will not assume in rem jurisdiction over the same res." Marshall v. Mar…
21-595 Bruce Alexander v. Anheuser-Busch, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-25 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process employee-contacts federal-rules in-rem-jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss personal-jurisdiction sales subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Did the Western District Court erred by not allowing the Declaration by Kristin M. Byrne, an employee of Anheuser-Busch, LLC, et.al. be considered …
20-1385 Tarek Obaid v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-04-02 Denied 28-usc-1355 civil-forfeiture due-process in-rem in-rem-jurisdiction minimum-contacts pennoyer-v-neff property-situs shaffer-v-heitner statutory-interpretation Does the Due Process Clause, as construed by Shaffer v. Heitner, require application of the "minimum contacts" test to true in rem proceedings?; and …
20-46 Port of Corpus Christi Authority of Nueces County, Texas v. Sherwin Alumina Company, LLC, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-07-20 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-jurisdiction debtor-rights due-process in-rem-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity state-property state-property-rights takings whether a bankruptcy court's in rem jurisdiction over a debtor's property allows it to exercise in rem jurisdiction over the separate property of an a…
19-540 Andre Jenkins v. City of Cleveland, Ohio Ohio 2019-10-24 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights concurrent-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture forfeiture-procedure in-rem-jurisdiction property-rights seizure standing warrantless-seizure I. The questions presented here centralize issues related to whether the warrantless seizure here of money for forfeiture (by local police) can be jus…
18-1384 Joseph D. Bradley v. Alco Oil & Gas Company, LLC, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-959(b) diversion-of-funds exclusive-in-rem-jurisdiction federal-equity-receiver federal-freeze-order federal-receivership fund-diversion in-rem-jurisdiction in-rem-jurisdiction-28-usc-754 midlantic midlantic-decision notice-to-parties state-agency state-agency-regulation statutory-interpretation summary-proceedings 1. Whether a State agency, with notice that certain defrauded investor funds on account at a bank are subject to 28 U.S.C. § 754's exclusive in rem ju…
18-8139 Louis A. Hardison v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP asset-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-procedure-forfeiture due-process federal-adoption federal-jurisdiction forfeiture in-rem-jurisdiction ineffective-counsel missouri-forfeiture-laws missouri-statute state-federal-jurisdiction state-law turnover-order 1. UNDER MISSOURI STATUTE RSMO 513.647 WHICH REQUIRES A TURNOVER ORDER OF SEIZED PROPERTY TO FEDERAL CONTROL EVEN BY STATE ACTOR'S WHO ARE DEPUTIZE AS…
18-1067 Ambac Assurance Corporation v. U.S. Bank National Association Minnesota 2019-02-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-limits due-process forum-state in-rem-jurisdiction minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction trust trust-law trustee trustee-presence Whether a court may exercise in rem jurisdiction over a trust where the trust's primary, tangible assets are located outside of the forum State; the t…