| 25-6851 |
Jose David Payba Lacayo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-02-18 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
exclusive-economic-zone extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-nationals high-seas international-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act |
Petitioner, a foreign national found on a boat within 200 miles of Colombia, was prosecuted for two marijuana offenses under the Maritime Drug Law Enf… |
| 25A905 |
Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A., et al. v. Helmerich & Payne International Drilling Co. |
District of Columbia |
2026-02-10 |
Application |
|
act-of-state-doctrine foreign-sovereign hickenlooper-amendment international-law property-expropriation territorial-jurisdiction |
Question not identified.
The document provided is an "Unopposed Application for an Extension of Time in Which to File a Petition for a Writ of Certio… |
| 25-6644 |
James Daniel Arbaugh v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-01-22 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-limits criminal-prosecution foreign-commerce-clause international-law territorial-jurisdiction treaty-power |
Has America become so great that it need not consider due process, comity among nations, follow international law, or fulfill its treaty obligations? … |
| 25-778 |
Natalia Mikhaylovna Bardakova v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2026-01-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure due-process foreign-national fugitive-disentitlement international-law motion-to-dismiss |
Whether a court may refuse to consider a foreign national defendant's motion to dismiss an indictment based on the fugitive disentitlement doctrine wh… |
| 25-6314 |
Jose Fernando Lopez-Anchundia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-power criminal-prosecution drug-enforcement extraterritorial-jurisdiction international-law maritime-law |
1. Does Congress's power "[t]o define and punish . . . Felonies committed on the high Seas," authorize the United States to impose its laws upon forei… |
| 25-549 |
Russian Federation v. Hulley Enterprises Ltd., et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-11-05 |
Denied |
|
arbitration-agreement court-procedure foreign-state-immunity international-law jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
"A foreign state shall not be immune from the jurisdiction" of a United States court where "the action is brought ... to confirm an award made pursuan… |
| 25-5906 |
Alfredo Ramon Cerda v. W. Z. Jenkins, II, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights extradition-treaty international-law mexico-us-relations speedy-trial treaty-interpretation |
Whether the government is prohibited from extraditing a person to Mexico under Article 7 of the U.S. Mexico Extradition Treaty, when the prosecution f… |
| 25A430 |
Juliana Sloto v. Christian Karvelid |
First Circuit |
2025-10-15 |
Denied |
|
child-custody habitual-residence hague-convention international-law irreparable-harm parental-intent |
Question not identified. |
| 25A376 |
Samantha Estefania Francisco Castro v. Jose Leonardo Brito Guevara |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-02 |
Denied |
|
child-custody circuit-split hague-convention international-law parental-abduction supreme-court-review |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5584 |
Virgilio Valencia-Gamboa v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
congressional-power criminal-jurisdiction define-and-punish-clause extraterritorial-jurisdiction international-law maritime-drug-law |
Article I, Section 8, Clause 10 of the United States Constitution empowers Congress "[t]o define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the hig… |
| 25-5506 |
Carlos Daniel Canario-Vilomar v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
congressional-power define-and-punish-clause extraterritorial-jurisdiction high-seas-enforcement international-law maritime-drug-law |
1. Are Congress's powers under the Define and Punish Clause inherently limited by international law?
2. Does 46 U.S.C. § 70502(d)(1)(C) of the Mariti… |
| 25A50 |
Alfonso E. Chavez Ayub v. Alfonso Chavez Pacheco |
Texas |
2025-07-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
due-process fourteenth-amendment international-law probate-law property-rights treaty-obligations |
Question not identified. |
| 24-7482 |
Raphael Stein, Acting on Behalf of His Minor Children J. S., Z. N., and A. Z. v. Adeena Kohn |
Second Circuit |
2025-06-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-abduction custody-rights habitual-residence hague-convention international-law one-year-exception |
1. Whether an actual breach of custody rights must occur to establish wrongful retention, or if mere notice of an intended future breach suffices to s… |
| 24-7353 |
Jose Trinidad Martinez Santoyo v. Lasha Boyden, former United States Marshal for the Eastern District of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure extradition international-law sixth-amendment speedy-trial treaty-interpretation |
Under the terms of the United States-Mexico extradition treaty, is the Sixth Amendment Speedy Trial Clause a law of the United States that can bar a c… |
| 24-1205 |
Maria Elena Swett Urquieta v. John Francis Bowe |
Second Circuit |
2025-05-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-abduction hague-convention international-law mature-child-defense parental-consent undue-influence |
1. Whether, under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, a parent's continued consent to a child's temporary stay… |
| 24-1135 |
Sara González Flavell v. Jim Young Kim, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-05-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process functional-immunity international-law judicial-discretion subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Courts are required to respect the Constitutional rights of
all persons. In November 2020 Petitioner filed complaint
in D.C. Superior Court alleging c… |
| 24-1130 |
Kingdom of Spain v. Blasket Renewable Investments LLC, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-05-05 |
Pending |
CVSGAmici (5) |
arbitration-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act forum-non-conveniens international-law jurisdiction sovereign-consent |
Whether §1605(a)(6) allows United States courts to assert jurisdiction over a foreign sovereign without determining whether the sovereign consented to… |
| 24-1119 |
Andrew Charles Nisbet v. Spirit Rose Bridger |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-29 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
child-abduction custody-determination family-law habitual-residence hague-convention international-law |
Whether the Convention authorizes a determination that children who have lived for several years in the same residence in the same country have no hab… |
| 24-6691 |
Jose Miguel Rosario-Rojas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-03-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-power criminal-jurisdiction exclusive-economic-zone high-seas international-law maritime-law |
Whether Congress's Article 1, Section 8, Clause 10 power "[t]o define and punish . . . Felonies committed on the high Seas" authorizes the United Stat… |
| 24-6528 |
Marlon Abraham Rosasen v. Kingdom of Norway, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights diplomatic-service due-process international-law service-of-process tort-jurisdiction |
1. Whether a substantial part of the torts took place in the
United States and/or had a direct cause and effect in the
United States, and if so; If de… |
| 24-848 |
Anne Catherine Richard v. Eric John Horacius |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-10 |
Denied |
|
child-custody circuit-split habitual-residence international-law monasky-standard well-settled-defense |
I. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's habitual-residence analysis conflicts with this Court's totality-of-thecircumstances standard under Monasky v. Tagli… |
| 24A738 |
Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. aka Halkbank v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-01-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-prosecution executive-power foreign-sovereign-instrumentality international-law separation-of-powers sovereign-immunity |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6363 |
Edwin Cortorreal v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-defendant extradition-decree international-law judicial-promise prudential-standing rule-of-specialty |
1. Whether a criminal defendant has prudential standing
to enforce an extradition decree that is issued for his own benefit
where the government conc… |
| 24-699 |
Exxon Mobil Corporation v. Corporación Cimex, S.A. (Cuba), et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-12-31 |
Granted |
CVSGAmici (13)Relisted (2) |
cuban-property-confiscation foreign-sovereign-immunity helms-burton-act international-law property-rights sovereign-immunity-exception |
Whether the Helms-Burton Act abrogates foreign sovereign immunity in cases against Cuban instrumentalities, or whether parties proceeding under that A… |
| 24-652 |
David Cassirer, et al. v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-17 |
GVR |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
choice-of-law federal-preemption holocaust-art-restitution international-law nazi-looted-art sovereign-immunity |
In 2022, the Court in this case held that in an action under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, a federal court must apply the forum state's choice… |
| 24-550 |
Tahawwur Hussain Rana v. W. Z. Jenkins, II |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-11-15 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split criminal-law double-jeopardy extradition-treaty international-law treaty-interpretation |
Whether the term "offense" in the double jeopardy provision of the United States-India extradition treaty and many other extradition treaties refers t… |
| 24-532 |
Federal Republic of Nigeria v. Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment Co. Ltd. |
District of Columbia |
2024-11-12 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
arbitration-agreement extratextual-context international-law new-york-convention sovereign-immunity treaty-interpretation |
(1) Whether, for interpreting the intentions of the treaty parties regarding a word like "person," extratextual information such as historical context… |
| 24A450 |
Cisco Systems, Inc., et al. v. Doe I, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-11-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
aiding-and-abetting alien-tort-statute corporate-liability extraterritorial-application human-rights international-law |
Question not identified. |
| 24-390 |
Anthony Patterson v. Asli Baz |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-10-08 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
child-custody hague-convention international-law party-autonomy treaty-interpretation waiver-rights |
Until the decision below, all the courts of appeals to have considered the question held, consistent with the position of the United States in litigat… |
| 24-5159 |
Luis Marin and Luis Chavez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-authority constitutional-power due-process felonies-clause high-seas international-law maritime-law statutory-interpretation vessel-status |
I. Whether Congress' authority to "define and punish...Felonies committed on the high Seas," U.S. Const. art. I § 8, cl. 10 (the "Felonies Clause"), i… |
| 24-5134 |
Diana Ingrid Reismann Sexton v. Fort Bend County, Texas, et al. |
Texas |
2024-07-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
alien-tort-statute civil-rights-violations convention-against-torture dual-citizenship due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction international-law international-treaties sovereign-immunity torture torture-prevention |
1) May a case demanding relief to a dual citizen with dominant nationality as an alien and her child, injured by US naturals who committed tortures, f… |
| 24-5003 |
In Re Alfred Lane-Bey |
|
2024-07-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process federal-courts human-rights indigenous-rights international-law judicial-review legal-petition standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
1) Should Mars Cours use ts souser bo arom: Lit RK VoleesS Compus So OANA wENOUS mdonish wer i NECAGT Mar Labo hod no cllker avovlob\e
2) Usa lonuadl… |
| 23-1261 |
Gussi S.A. de C.V. v. Voltage Pictures, LLC |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration arbitration-award circuit-split federal-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure foreign-parties international-law marshal-service nonresident-service service service-of-process statutory-interpretation |
1. Have the Marshal service requirements of 9 U.S.C. § 9 on an application to confirm an arbitration award on a nonresident foreign adverse party been… |
| 23-7598 |
Arnaud Paris v. Heidi M. Brown |
Oregon |
2024-05-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
custody-dispute due-process equal-protection family-law federal-statutes fourteenth-amendment international-custody international-law national-origin state-statutes uccjea |
Does a state court's decisions and actions violating both Federal Statutes (UCCJEA) and State Statues in a custody dispute, which appears to favor an … |
| 23-7482 |
In Re Alfred Lane-Bey |
|
2024-05-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process free-speech habeas-corpus international-law standing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1075 |
Zehava Friedman, et al. v. Republic of Hungary, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-04-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
domestic-takings-exception expropriation foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity holocaust-expropriation international-law international-law-taking property-rights stateless-persons treaty-of-trianon |
1. Did Hungary and MÁV violate the international law of expropriation by their seizure of stateless persons' property?
2. Was Hungary's violation of … |
| 23-932 |
Minna-Marie Brandt v. Damian Caracciolo |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-27 |
Denied |
|
child-abduction circuit-court-split country-of-residence custody-rights hague-convention international-child-abduction international-law judicial-procedure treaty-interpretation wrongful-retention |
Did the Fourth Circuit below err in concluding —in conflict with the text of the Hague Convention and the cases of this Court and six other circuits—t… |
| 23-867 |
Republic of Hungary, et al. v. Rosalie Simon, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-02-12 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
asset-commingling burden-of-proof circuit-split commercial-nexus expropriation-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law pleading-stage pleading-standard |
(1) Whether historical commingling of assets
suffices to establish that proceeds of seized property have a commercial nexus with the United States
un… |
| 23A604 |
Zehava Friedman, et al. v. Republic of Hungary, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-01-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
foreign-sovereign-immunities holocaust-survivors international-law jurisdiction property-seizure world-war-two |
Question not identified. |
| 23A592 |
Republic of Hungary, et al. v. Rosalie Simon, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-12-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
burden-of-proof circuit-split expropriation-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law property-tracing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-545 |
Achashverosh Adnah Ammiyhuwd Ngola Mbandi, et al. v. Pangea Adventures LLC, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
|
alien-tort-statute civil-rights federal-question first-amendment free-speech human-rights international-law retaliation self-determination standing |
1) Whether aliens of the Hebrew Israelite Kingdom/Nation self-determination, self-governing and autonomy, expressive first amendment retaliatory tort … |
| 23-6044 |
Cristian Rodriguez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure define-and-punish-clause felonies-on-high-seas felony-on-the-high-seas international-law laws-of-nations maritime-drug-enforcement-law maritime-law piracy-principles subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether denial of a pretrial challenge to the court's subject matter jurisdiction under the Maritime Drug Enforcement Law warrants interlocutory revie… |
| 23-5924 |
Festus Okwudili Ohan v. American Medical Association, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-imprisonment federal-crime genocide human-rights international-law judicial-procedure standing whistleblower-protection |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5888 |
Howard L. Thompson v. Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law alien-tort-statute civil-rights corporate-liability due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction federalism human-rights international-law ninth-circuit standing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5407 |
Corey A. Askew v. Paul Bailey, Sheriff, Berrien County, Michigan |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
but no text was provided for analysis. Without th but no text was provided for me to analyze. Witho I cannot generate a meaningful question presented I cannot generate the question presented or ident indigenous-rights international-law self-determination supremacy-clause treaty-obligations united-nations |
1. Are the Self-determination Clauses of the United Nations treaties and customary rules of international law to which the United States is a party up… |
| 22-7442 |
Paulino Vasquez-Rijo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
drug-enforcement exclusive-economic-zone felonies-clause high-seas international-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law stateless-vessels vessel-nationality |
1. Whether MDLEA §70502(d)(1)(C) is Unconstitutional Because Its Definition of "a Vessel Without Nationality," Provides for Foreign Vessels to Be Deem… |
| 22-7017 |
In Re Ronald Williams-El |
|
2023-03-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus international-law jurisdictional-challenge legal-remedy property-rights sovereign-immunity standing |
Should this Court's power to vote writ of Habeas Corpus be a warrant American sovereign man who has no other available means to raise his concerns of … |
| 22-886 |
Blenheim Capital Holdings Ltd., et al. v. Lockheed Martin Corporation, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-03-15 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
circuit-split commercial-activity contract-law foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunity fsia international-law jurisdictional-immunity military-procurement weltover |
Is a foreign government's procurement of goods for a
military purpose, through a contract with a U.S.
company, commercial activity within the meaning … |
| 22-6994 |
In Re Devon Banks-Bey |
|
2023-03-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment brown-vs-board civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech habeas-corpus international-law sovereign-citizen subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Question not identified. |
| 22-667 |
Chen Bing v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-01-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process executive-authority free-speech genocide-determination human-rights-violations international-law judicial-review standing |
(1) . were there genocide, crimes against humanity and forced labor in Xinjiang ? Is there sufficient evidence to support it? Does the Secretary of St… |
| 22-6409 |
Victor Gaspar Chichande v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
criminal-procedure detention-conditions drug-enforcement drug-law-enforcement due-process foreign-nationals human-rights international-law maritime-interdiction maritime-law |
Why do the courts of this country sanction the forced apprehension of foreign nationals who are chained to the steel decks of United States Coast Guar… |
| 22-466 |
Herederos de Roberto Gomez Cabrera, LLC v. Teck Resources Limited |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process extraterritorial-statute federal-court federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment foreign-defendant fourteenth-amendment international-law personal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fifth Amendment imposes the same restrictions as the Fourteenth Amendment on the exercise of personal jurisdiction by a federal court unde… |
| 22-5705 |
Lateef Alagbada v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-order criminal-defendant criminal-procedure extradition final-judgment-rule habeas-corpus international-law pretrial-order repatriation |
Whether a pretrial order denying a motion for repatriation of an incarcerated criminal defendant falls within the exception to the final judgment rule… |
| 22-5277 |
Leila Nasser Asr v. Karen Eady-Williams, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aliens aliens-rights civil-rights constitutional-precedent courts due-process human-rights international-law judicial-conduct jurisdiction |
1. Do the United States courts have jurisdiction to hear aliens ' cases or aliens must file thenlawsuits against United States citizens in courts of t… |
| 22-19 |
Ukraine v. PAO Tatneft |
District of Columbia |
2022-07-06 |
Denied |
|
arbitral-award arbitration civil-procedure foreign-arbitral-award foreign-proceedings forum-non-conveniens international-arbitration international-law judicial-confirmation jurisdiction jurisdictional-doctrine |
Whether the doctrine of forum non conveniens is available in proceedings to confirm a foreign arbitral award in the United States. |
| 21-1607 |
Oleg Deripaska v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-procedure due-process executive-orders foreign-assets-control international-emergency-economic-powers-act international-law national-emergency national-security sanctions treasury-department |
In 2018, the United States Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control designated Oleg Deripaska under Executive Orders 13661 and 13… |
| 21-7140 |
Taquan Rashe Gullett-El v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-court federal-jurisdiction international-law jurisdiction-challenge pro-se-petition sovereign-immunity standing |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7141 |
In Re Taquan Rashe Gullett-El |
|
2022-02-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
alien-status civil-rights constitutional-violations dred-scott due-process habeas-corpus international-law pro-se-petition sovereign-citizenship standing unlawful-detention |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7107 |
Nina Lynn Nowlan v. Bruce Gerald Randall Nowlan |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-custody civil-procedure fourth-circuit habitual-residence hague-convention international-law parental-rights wrongful-removal |
WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERRED AS A MATTER OF LAW BY AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S RULING THAT CANADA HAD BE… |
| 21-1108 |
Enron Nigeria Power Holding, Limited v. United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration burden-of-proof civil-procedure commercial-activity foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law legal-immunity yacht-sale |
1. Whether a foreign state that makes a legal claim to a yacht, participates extensively in the sale of the yacht, and stands to benefit financially f… |
| 21-1060 |
Heath Richard Douglas v. Nancy Summers Douglas |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-01-31 |
Denied |
|
child-abduction family-law habitual-residence hague-convention international-child-abduction international-law settled-purpose wrongful-retention |
In cases of wrongful retention, must a district court find a settled purpose to abandon a former habitual residence before concluding that a new habit… |
| 21-1045 |
I. M. v. Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Maryland |
2022-01-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-custody due-process forum-shopping international-law jurisdiction minimum-contacts parental-rights uccjea |
Whether the UCCJEA comports with the Due Process Clause, where it subjects an international parent to termination of parental rights, where the parent… |
| 21-825 |
Persephone Johnson Shon v. Bogdan Radu |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-03 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
ameliorative-measures article-13b burden-of-proof child-abduction custody-dispute grave-risk hague-convention international-child-abduction international-law |
The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of
International Child Abduction generally requires that
children wrongfully removed or retained from their
… |
| 21-797 |
Serge Matthew Aluker v. Simin Yan, aka Simin Aluker |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
child-abduction custody-agreement custody-rights fourth-circuit habitual-residence hague-child-abduction-convention hague-convention international-law parental-agreement parental-rights treaty-interpretation |
Article 3 of the Hague Child Abduction Convention requires that a parental agreement have legal effect under the substantive law of the country of the… |
| 21-6306 |
Jason T. Shortes v. Google, LLC |
Florida |
2021-11-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
commerce commerce-clause digital-rights first-amendment freedom-of-expression freedom-of-press international-law network-enforcement-law trade |
(1). Whether, First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Freedom of the Press; survives, GOOGLE, LLC enforcing the Federal Republic of Germany… |
| 21-728 |
Pedro Dino Cedado Nuñez, et al. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split criminal-procedure customary-international-law drug-enforcement international-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-test maritime-drug-law maritime-law statutory-interpretation vessel-nationality |
The Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act authorizes the United States to prosecute certain drug crimes committed aboard a "covered vessel." 46 U.S.C. § 7… |
| 21-5740 |
Tiffany Becker v. John Minkiewicz |
California |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-abduction child-acclimation custody-dispute habitual-residence hague-convention international-child-abduction international-law parental-agreement parental-intent wrongful-removal |
1. Where a child is too young to acclimate to his surroundings, whether a subjective agreement between the infant's parents is necessary to establish … |
| 21-5663 |
Justin Michael Rossi v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
2021-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation declaration-of-independence declaratory-relief due-process executive-power government-formation international-law pro-se-petition revolution sovereign-immunity sovereignty |
1. The declaration of Independence says that United States Citizens have the right, the duty, and the privilidge to alter, and abolish laws 'and to fo… |
| 21-5627 |
William Brinson Ball v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-exploitation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritorial-jurisdiction federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction international-law interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) extends to conduct occurring outside the United States. |
| 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… |
| 21-180 |
Michael Patrick Lathigee v. British Columbia Securities Commission |
Nevada |
2021-08-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-enforcement civil-procedure civil-rights disgorgement-order due-process foreign-judgment-enforcement foreign-judgments international-law international-legal-comity penalties penalty-characterization supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Supreme Court of Nevada's opinion enforcing the BCSC's $21.7 million (CAD) Canadian "Disgorgement Order" against Lathigee as a judgment in… |
| 20-8474 |
Glen Plourde v. Maine, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-07-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts geneva-conventions international-law judicial-discretion pro-se-litigation standing torture |
Does the continual refusal of the Federal Court System (District and Circuit Court of Appeals) to address the judicially noticeable fact that the Peti… |
| 20-8113 |
Samuel Coleson, Jr. v. Anita Parker, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-05-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus international-law standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 20-1557 |
Davendra Anand v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Second Circuit |
2021-05-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure federal-courts international-law jurisdiction lower-courts treaties |
Since both lower Courts ruled NO JURISDICTION over Treaties
[Appendices A & C] - Will the Justices be bold to grant review, examine
the wider implicat… |
| 20-1547 |
Broidy Capital Management, LLC, et al. v. State of Qatar |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights civil-rights-violations criminal-law criminal-violations discretionary-act-exclusion foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law jurisdiction |
Whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's discretionary act exclusion bars the exercise of jurisdiction over claims by a U.S. citizen against a f… |
| 20-7924 |
Edward Shane West-El v. Armando Vasquez |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process human-rights international-law tax treaty |
In Earle v McVeigh, 91 US 503,23 L Ed 398, it says " Every person is entitled to an
opportunity to be heard in a court of law upon every question inv… |
| 20-7910 |
Johvanny Aybar-Ulloa v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
article-i-section-8-clause-10 congress-authority congressional-authority constitutional-interpretation felony-jurisdiction high-seas international-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law statelessness universal-jurisdiction vessel-status |
I. Whether Congress's authority to define and punish felonies committed on the high seas is unconstrained by Article I, § 8, cl. 10 to the United Stat… |
| 20-7842 |
Eliu Elixander Lorenzana-Cordon v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2021-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion district-court-procedure due-process extradition extradition-notice international-law judicial-discretion jurisdiction motion-for-new-trial notice treaties treaty-violation |
Did the District Court abuse it's discretion by denying the motion for a new trial without taking into consideration that the document of extradition … |
| 20-1454 |
Vekuii Rukoro, et al. v. Federal Republic of Germany |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act gravamen international-law property-rights second-circuit sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation takings-exception |
Question not identified. |
| 20-1054 |
Vipula D. Valambhia, et al. v. United Republic of Tanzania, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-02-03 |
Denied |
|
bank-account commercial-activities commercial-activities-exception direct-effects foreign-judgments foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunity international-law judgment-recognition jurisdiction payments u.s.-banking |
1. Whether clause 3 of the commercial activities exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), 28 U.S.C. § 1605(a)(2), provides for jurisd… |
| 20-1034 |
Narkis Aliza Golan v. Isacco Jacky Saada |
Second Circuit |
2021-01-29 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (16)Relisted (3) |
ameliorative-measures child-abduction district-court grave-risk habitual-residence hague-convention international-child-abduction international-law |
Whether, upon finding that return to the country of habitual residence places a child at grave risk, a district court is required to consider ameliora… |
| 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… |
| 19-8513 |
Edward Javier Catano Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
drug-trafficking due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction international-law maritime-drug-law maritime-law pinkerton-doctrine subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. For purposes of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act ("MDLEA"),
does due process require a nexus between the defendant and the United
States where… |
| 19-1049 |
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, et al. v. Crystallex International Corporation |
Third Circuit |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
|
alter-ego alter-ego-doctrine attachment exceptional-importance foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity fsia instrumentality international-law judgment-enforcement pdvsa sovereign-immunity third-circuit |
1. Whether a judgment-enforcement action against a foreign sovereign and its instrumentality must be predicated on applicable exceptions to the immuni… |
| 19-6546 |
Elmer Misael Garcia Ramirez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-authority define-and-punish-clause due-process high-seas international-law international-waters jurisdiction maritime-law nexus |
Whether the trial court lacked jurisdiction because neither the U.S. Constitution nor any theory of international law permits jurisdiction to be asser… |
| 19-520 |
Alan Philipp, et al. v. Federal Republic of Germany, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
CVSGRelisted (3) |
commercial-activity expropriation-exception foreign-state international-law property-rights commercial-activity expropriation expropriation-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunity instrumentality international-law jurisdiction property-claims property-rights |
Is the Federal Republic of Germany ("Germany"),
a foreign state, subject to jurisdiction under the expropriation exception of the Foreign Sovereign Im… |
| 19-453 |
Cargill, Inc. v. John Doe I, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-04 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGResponse RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
aiding-and-abetting alien-tort-statute corporate-liability extraterritorial-application extraterritoriality forced-labor foreign-operations human-rights international-law |
1. Whether the presumption against extraterritorial application of the Alien Tort Statute is displaced by allegations that a U.S. company generally co… |
| 19-448 |
Glen Plourde v. Jane Doe |
Maine |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
|
assassination-attempts civil-rights constitutional-law due-process government-surveillance harassment international-law standing surveillance torture |
The case under review may superficially appear to be a simple protection from harassment case, although petitioner assures The Honorable United States… |
| 19-416 |
Nestlé USA, Inc. v. John Doe I, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-27 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
aiding-and-abetting alien-tort-statute civil-procedure corporate-activity corporate-liability domestic-corporation extraterritoriality foreign-actors foreign-investment international-law jurisdiction |
1. Whether an aiding and abetting claim against a domestic corporation brought under the Alien Tort Statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1350, may overcome the extrat… |
| 19-6058 |
Guy Philippe v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
case-analysis civil-procedure-standing constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process extradition international-law judicial-interpretation legal-precedent res-judicata standing |
1. Whether This Court's Conclusions in United States v. Rauscher, 119 U.S. 407 (1886), in Conjunction with W.S. Kirkpatrick & Co., Inc. v. Environment… |
| 19-394 |
Sergio Mejia-Duarte v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure due-process extradition-treaty fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence fre-403 fre-404(b) hearsay-evidence international-extradition international-law treaty unrelated-murder |
I. WHETHER A CRUCIAL MANDATE OF THE INTERNATIONAL EXTRADITION TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND HONDURAS WAS VIOLATED WHEN THE PROSECUTION AT TRIAL… |
| 19-6039 |
Camilo Andres Landazuri Vargas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
congress-powers-limits congressional-power criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment foreign-national international-law international-waters jurisdiction jurisdictional-element maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution |
WHETHER THE PROSECUTION OF MR. VARGAS - AN
ECUADORIAN NATIONAL WITH NO TIES TO THE UNITED
STATES — FOR TRAFFICKING CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES IN
INTERNATIO… |
| 19-6009 |
John Robert Demos v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-09-20 |
Closed |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation corporate-liability diplomacy diplomatic-immunity extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-nationals foreign-sovereigns human-rights international-diplomacy international-law original-jurisdiction self-executing standing treaty |
APPeRTAiNiNG To
Atiens,
FoReiGNERS,
NATIONAIS,
SubJECIS OF A FOREIGN COUNIRY,
PRoTecTed PeRSONS,
2.
Is Demos A BRiistiCiTizeN, oRAU.s. CTizeN? As DeM… |
| 19-351 |
Federal Republic of Germany, et al. v. Alan Philipp, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-09-18 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (9)Relisted (3) |
circuit-split comity diplomatic-issues expropriation-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunity human-rights-law international-comity international-human-rights international-law property-taking property-takings takings |
1. Whether the "expropriation exception" of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1605(a)(3),
which abrogates foreign sovereign immunity w… |
| 19-313 |
Neringa Venckiene v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
atrocious-procedures-or-punishments constitutional-limitations due-process extradition extradition-law extradition-law-political-offense-exception international-law judicial-review political-offense political-offense-exception state-department terrorism war-like-insurrection |
A. In Ornelas v. Ruiz, 161 U.S. 502 (1896), the
Court addressed the so-called "political offense"
exception to extradition, relating the phrase to act… |
| 19-299 |
G. D. P. v. N. G. P. |
Maine |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-due-process domestic-violence due-process federal-jurisdiction government-surveillance international-law protection-from-abuse standing takings torture torture-allegations torture. |
The case under review may superficially appear to be a simple protection from abuse case, although the Petitioner assures The Honorable United States … |
| 19-275 |
Frederic C. Schultz v. John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process electoral-college equal-protection equal-suffrage international-law international-treaties presidential-election treaty-law voting-rights |
1. Do citizens of the United States of America have the right to "equal and universal suffrage"?
2. Do we have the right to be governed by whom we el… |
| 19-5710 |
Chidi Ezeobi v. Jamal Jamison, Warden |
Third Circuit |
2019-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
credit criminal-procedure due-process extradition foreign-incarceration incarceration international-law sentence-credit sentencing sentencing-court sentencing-credit statutory-interpretation |
1. Is Mr. Ezeobi entitled to seven months of credit toward his sentence for the time he was incarcerated in England awaiting extradition to the United… |
| 19-5166 |
Henry Vazquez Valois v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause congressional-power congressional-powers criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process enumerated-powers extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-national international-law international-waters maritime-law |
Whether the prosecution of Mr. Vazquez Valois — a Colombian
national with no ties to the United States — for trafficking cocaine in
international wate… |
| 18-9621 |
David Onafeko v. Great Britain, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights discrimination discrimination-prohibition due-process human-rights human-rights-declaration international-body international-law non-citizen-rights treaty-compliance treaty-obligations united-nations |
1. Does The United States still accept United Nations as an International Body.
2. Does The United States still wish to comply with the Treaty or tre… |
| 18-9263 |
Luis Felipe Valencia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process international-law jurisdiction maritime-drug-law maritime-law minimum-contacts stateless-vessel vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Petitioner was onboard a boat in international waters in the Eastern Pacific Ocean when the United States Coast Guard ("USCG") detained him for cocain… |
| 18-1376 |
Fernando Gabriel Irazu v. Margarita O. |
Connecticut |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
|
abuse-of-process constitutional-law contempt-of-court divorce-judgment due-process enforcement-of-us-judgments equal-protection exequatur-proceedings international-law international-private-law jurisdictional-dispute parental-rights unequal-treatment-under-law |
Did the lower court infringe the Petitioner's parental rights and due process by ignoring the Court's unanimous precedent, in re, Chafin v. Chafin, as… |
| 18-9055 |
Ronald Ray Horner v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-protections constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process extra-territorial-jurisdiction extraterritorial-jurisdiction fifth-amendment international-law sovereign-territory supreme-court-precedent |
Does the fact that the Appellant was arrested and questioned in Canada immunize the United States Attorney from following the Constitution of the Unit… |
| 18-8671 |
Glynndeavin Von Fox v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2019-04-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-interpretation federal-consent federal-preemption federal-questions international-law judicial-access judicial-review medical-access senate-ratification separation-of-powers sovereign-immunity sovereign-immunity-doctrine state-court-jurisdiction treaty-power us-constitution |
Can a State Court answer federal questions of an International Country in Japan, regarding judicial access to documents, or medical access to document… |
| 18-1253 |
Brian Mark Burmaster v. Switzerland |
Third Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-229 asset-seizure chemical-weapon chemical-weapons civil-rights diplomatic-immunity due-process embassy-contact extradition federal-statute international-law international-terrorism standing swiss-assets terrorism uncontested-proceedings writ-of-certiorari |
Since the inception of the United States Supreme Court led by Chief Justice John Jay, there has never been a Writ of Certiorari where the respondent f… |
| 18-1071 |
Brandi K. Stokes v. Timothy Martin Sulak |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process geneva-conventions international-law legal-notice prisoner-of-war procedural-waiver standing treaty-interpretation waiver war-crimes |
Whether rights secured by the Geneva Conventions can be waived by inadequate briefing or late notice. |
| 18-997 |
Oliver Williams, et al. v. The National Gallery, London, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
expropriation-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law jurisdiction property-rights sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction takings wrongful-possession |
Is a sovereign's, or its instrumentality's, refusal to return property wrongfully held a taking of rights in property in violation of international la… |
| 18-7548 |
David Abiodun K. G. B. Onafeko v. Great Britain, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellant-rights civil-rights district-court due-process human-rights international-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge legal-venue standing treaty united-nations |
1. Whether the Appellant is entitled to rights aforded him under the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights whilst he is residing in the United St… |
| 18-7485 |
Marcus Noel v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction hostage-taking international-law jurisdictional-elements mens-rea nationality necessary-and-proper-clause treaty-power |
1. When the United States prosecutes a foreign national for kidnapping a United States citizen in a foreign country, must the government prove that th… |
| 18-833 |
Brandi K. Stokes v. Commission for Lawyer Discipline |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure geneva-conventions international-law judicial-review jurisdiction procedural-review subject-matter subject-matter-characterization subject-matter-jurisdiction treaty-obligations united-states-courts |
Whether a United States Court of Appeals may rely upon the subject matter characterizations of a lower court to avoid jurisdiction to review a claim f… |
| 18-797 |
Brian M. Burmaster v. Stephen J. Herman, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-12-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights detention detention-without-trial due-process enforced-disappearance habeas-corpus international-law rome-statute rome-statutes seventh-circuit |
Is being detained without a trial for two years as frivolous, per , the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals or is it an international case of enforced disapp… |
| 18-7125 |
Refaat F. Abul Hosn v. Department of State, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
admitted-mistakes authority authority-regulation breach-of-contract civil-rights contract diplomatic-immunity foreign-sovereign-immunities fsia immunity international-law iraq-invasion legal-authority political-doctrine regulatory-compliance |
The Decision of Siege and Invasion of Iraq created changes in Laws Authority, Immunity FSIA ,Political Doctrine This is a Fact .The respondents Admitt… |
| 18-6987 |
Javon Sanders v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
13th-amendment civil-rights compensation constitutional-challenge due-process evidence-standard forced-labor-slavery interaction-log international-covenant international-law involuntary-servitude labor-conditions law-enforcement police-contact prison-labor prison-reform procedural-review |
I. Does The Failure OfThe Arlansas Department. Of Correction To Pay Equitale Remuneration To Its Inmate Population Equate To Mader Day Slavery?
II. D… |
| 18-748 |
Richard McKinley Wilson, Jr. v. Office of the Commissioner of the Revenue of Stafford County, et al. |
Virginia |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process international-law jurisdiction legal-recognition nation-state property-law sovereignty standing taxation |
In this case the Petitioner officially proclaimed his true nationality by repatriating back to his newly reestablished nation state. Provisions of the… |
| 18-661 |
Jason Michael Zank v. Liz Lorena Lopez Moreno |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
child-abduction habitual-residence hague-convention icara international-child-abduction international-law parental-removal passage-of-time retention unilateral-removal |
Whether a child's habitual residence can be changed based on one parent's unilateral removal of a child to or retention of the child in another countr… |
| 18-635 |
Brian M. Burmaster v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2018-11-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-general criminal-conspiracy federal-court-judges federal-judges immunity international-criminal-court international-law judicial-immunity jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction u.s.-attorney-general |
The primary federal question which has never been asked nor answered in American judicial history: Are U.S. Federal Court Judges (U.S. District, Appel… |
| 18-581 |
Argentine Republic v. Petersen Energia Inversora S.A.U., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-02 |
Denied |
CVSGRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception expropriation foreign-policy foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law legal-exception sovereign-act sovereign-immunity |
Whether the "commercial activity" exception to sovereign immunity in the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1605(a)(2), is inapplicable to … |
| 18-550 |
Brandi K. Stokes v. Christopher Lance Corsbie, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1447d civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction geneva-conventions grave-breaches international-law preemption removal removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction war-crimes |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1447(d) is preempted by international law for claims involving grave breaches of the Geneva conventions. |
| 18-542 |
John E. Hamilton v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
charging criminal-procedure defendant-standing due-process extradition extradition-treaty international-law punishment rule-of-specialty sentencing standing treaty treaty-interpretation |
Under our extradition treaty with Poland, Agreement between the United States of America and the Republic of Poland on the Application of the Extradit… |
| 18-470 |
Brandi K. Stokes v. Christopher Lance Corsbie, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights geneva-conventions international-law jurisdiction sovereign-immunity treaty-interpretation war-crimes |
Whether the United States has sovereign immunity for claims involving grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions.
Whether the United States has jurisdi… |
| 18-6011 |
Irek Ilgiz Hamidullin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-conflict article-iii-court battlefield-conduct combatant-detention common-law-defense criminal-prosecution foreign-soldiers international-law military-law war-crimes |
(1) Whether Army Regulation 190-8 requires, as a necessary prerequisite to criminal prosecution of combatants under domestic law based on determinatio… |
| 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… |
| 18-5530 |
Victoria Elia Kaldawi v. State of Kuwait, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights consular-protection diplomatic-immunity due-process human-rights international-law tort torture unlawful-detention |
Why I wasn't Rescued by US Embassy in Kuwait, as on JULY 4th 1995 (USA Independence Day), while All Americans were celebrating our Independence Day, w… |
| 18-5197 |
Akash Dixit v. Tanya Singh Dixit |
Georgia |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
child-abduction divorce-jurisdiction federal-law federal-preemption foreign-nationals hague-convention hague-convention-on-child-abduction immigration immigration-status international-child-abduction international-law jurisdictional-limits state-court-jurisdiction treaty-interpretation |
1. Did the state court of last resort err in ignoring/condoning illegal retention of a foreign-citizen-child by the Respondent in the US, putting the … |
| 18-5046 |
Giezi Magno Zamora v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process eleventh-circuit evidence habeas-corpus international-law judicial-review maritime-law sentencing sentencing-reasonableness writ-of-certiorari |
In United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005), United States v. Rita, 551 U.S. 338 (2007) and United States v. Gall, 552 U.S. 38 (2007), this Court … |