judicial-comity

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5316 Feifei Gu v. Michael Sher, New York City Police Officer, et al. Second Circuit 2025-08-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abstention-doctrine civil-procedure constitutional-rights federal-intervention judicial-comity state-interests In a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 setting, when a federal court is asked to stay the enforcement of a State Court's Order in a civil case initiated by private par…
23-1126 David Streeter, et al. v. USAA General Indemnity Company Ninth Circuit 2024-04-17 Denied Response Waived certification-of-questions certification-of-state-law comity cooperative-federalism divergent-decisions diversity-jurisdiction efficient-federal-practice erie-doctrine insurance-law judicial-comity lehman-bros-v-schein state-law-interpretation This Petition and recently filed Randy Tarum et al. v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Ins. Co., No. 23-973, both raise the identical issue: have Ninth C…
23-973 Randy Tarum, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Robert L. Lindsay, et al. v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Ninth Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied certification-of-state-law-questions comity cooperative-federalism divergent-decisions diversity-jurisdiction efficient-federal-practice erie-doctrine federal-procedure first-impression judicial-comity lehman-bros-v-schein state-law-certification 1. Should cooperative federalism, comity, efficient federal practice, and the divergent decisions in the Circuits prompt the Court in the wake of Lehm…
23A448 Dmitry Nikolenko v. Luiza Nikolenko Texas 2023-11-17 Presumed Complete due-process equal-protection foreign-marriage fourteenth-amendment judicial-comity subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
20-1179 William W. Cole, Jr. v. PRN Real Estate & Investments, Ltd., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied Response Waived comity court-procedure federal-appellate-split federalism forum-shopping judicial-comity state-constitution state-courts state-law-certification state-sovereignty Whether This Court Should Grant the Petition in Order to Resolve a Long-Standing and Decisive Split Among the Federal Appellate Courts Regarding the S…
20-864 Hitomi Arimitsu v. James Edward Cook, II Minnesota 2020-12-30 Denied child-abduction child-custody comity hague-convention international-child-abduction international-custody judicial-comity jurisdiction-conflict treaty-interpretation uniform-child-custody-jurisdiction-and-enforcement The 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction ("Convention") requires that a Contracting State stay any child custod…
20-469 Ivo Lindauer, et al. v. Elna Sefcovic, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-10-09 Denied Response Waived ancillary-jurisdiction civil-procedure comity concurrent-jurisdiction exclusive-jurisdiction federal-court-intervention judicial-comity kokkonen-v-guardian-life settlement-enforcement state-court-jurisdiction younger-abstention 1. Is the state court's jurisdiction exclusive and ancillary under this Court's decision in Kokkonen v. Guardian Life Ins. Co. of America, 511 U.S. 37…