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25A927 Lowery Wilkinson Lowery, LLC, et al. v. Illinois, et al. Tenth Circuit 2026-02-19 Denied americans-with-disabilities-act federal-rule-civil-procedure-41 personal-jurisdiction sanctions ultra-vires void-ab-initio Question not identified.
25-983 Société Générale De Banque Au Liban, S.A.L. v. Ester Lelchook, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of David Martin Lelchook, et al. Second Circuit 2026-02-19 Pending asset-acquisition due-process-clause forum-contacts general-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Whether the Due Process Clause allows courts to exercise personal jurisdiction by imputing an unaffiliated nonparty's forum contacts to a defendant wi…
25-912 InComm Financial Services, Inc. v. Superior Court of California, City and County of San Francisco, et al. California 2026-02-03 Pending civil-procedure defendant-conduct forum-directed-conduct personal-jurisdiction product-defect specific-jurisdiction Whether a plaintiff's claim "relates to" a defendant's forum-directed conduct merely by alleging defects in a product the defendant sold in the forum,…
25-909 Meta Platforms, Inc., et al. v. Vermont Vermont 2026-02-03 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived due-process internet-business minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction purposeful-availment specific-jurisdiction The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prevents a state court from exercising personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state defendant unless …
25-6603 David Martin v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2026-01-16 Pending Response WaivedIFP abstention-doctrine constitutional-rights due-process personal-jurisdiction section-1983 state-court 1. Whether federal abstention doctrines bar § 1983 claims challenging a state court default judgment entered without constitutionally adequate notice …
25A782 Société Générale De Banque Au Liban, S.A.L. v. Ester Lelchook, as Personal Representative of the Estate of David Martin Lelchook, et al. Second Circuit 2026-01-06 Application asset-purchase due-process fourteenth-amendment personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction successor-liability Whether the Fourteenth Amendment permits the exercise of personal jurisdiction over: (i) a foreign-based non-culpable asset-and-liability purchaser wh…
25-775 Westforth Sports, Inc. v. City of Chicago, Illinois Illinois 2026-01-02 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived due-process fourteenth-amendment non-resident-seller personal-jurisdiction product-transportation specific-jurisdiction Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution allow a state to exercise specific personal jurisdiction ove…
25A740 BNSF Railway Company v. Tanner Lynn Minnesota 2025-12-23 Application dormant-commerce-clause due-process interstate-commerce personal-jurisdiction service-of-process state-registration This application does not contain a "Question(s) Presented" section in the traditional sense. The document is an Application for an Extension of Time …
25A612 Alison Maynard v. William R. Lucero, et al. Texas 2025-11-24 Application internet-communications minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction preemption supremacy-clause wiretap-act Whether the Texas court may decline jurisdiction over nonresident defendants who committed wrongs by virtual means against a Texas resident in violati…
25A599 Meta Platforms, Inc., et al. v. Vermont Vermont 2025-11-20 Application forum-state internet-contacts personal-jurisdiction purposeful-availment social-media specific-jurisdiction Question not identified.
25-534 Andrew Harrington, et al. v. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2025-11-03 Denied collective-action fair-labor-standards-act forum-state nonresident-defendant opt-in-plaintiffs personal-jurisdiction Whether a federal district court that has taken personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant in a Fair Labor Standards Act collective action mus…
25-436 Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft v. Blanca Hernandez, et al. California 2025-10-09 Denied due-process foreign-manufacturer independent-distributor personal-jurisdiction product-liability specific-jurisdiction Whether a state court violates due process by exercising specific personal jurisdiction over a product-liability claim against a foreign manufacturer …
25-410 Sondra J. Schneider v. Shapiro Sher Guinot & Sandler, P.A. District of Columbia 2025-10-06 Denied civil-procedure defendant-contacts due-process forum-contacts personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Whether the "arise out of or relate to" requirement is met when none of the defendant's forum contacts caused the plaintiff's claims, such that the pl…
25-393 Patricia Raad, et al. v. Bank Audi S.A.L. Second Circuit 2025-10-02 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure contract-performance forum-selection judicial-venue personal-jurisdiction state-jurisdiction When the contract provides for performance in a State, whether the defendant's failure to perform within the State is determinative to defeat personal…
25-349 Audi AG v. L. W., a Minor, By and Through His Guardian Ad Litem Jared Furze, et al. California 2025-09-24 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (2) due-process foreign-manufacturer personal-jurisdiction product-liability specific-jurisdiction stream-of-commerce Whether a state court violates due process by exercising specific personal jurisdiction over a product-liability claim against a foreign manufacturer …
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…
25A194 EMVLP, LLC, et al. v. Thuy Martinez, et al. Missouri 2025-08-19 Presumed Complete bristol-myers-squibb class-action due-process fourteenth-amendment nationwide-class personal-jurisdiction Question not identified.
25-5409 Stanislav Arbit v. Schneider Electric SE Ninth Circuit 2025-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split digital-age jurisdictional-standard personal-jurisdiction procedural-hearing website-targeting 1. The Court should grant review to resolve a circuit split on a vital jurisdictional question for the digital age: Does an entity that purposefully a…
25A54 Audi AG v. L.W., a Minor, By and Through His Guardian Ad Litem Jared Furze, et al. California 2025-07-14 Presumed Complete foreign-manufacturer personal-jurisdiction product-distribution purposeful-availment specific-jurisdiction stream-of-commerce 1. This Court's decisions establish that a court cannot assert specific personal jurisdiction over a defendant unless the defendant "purposefully avai…
24-1286 Jeffrey Buford v. Georgia Georgia 2025-06-17 Denied Response Waived constitutional-authority due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure original-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction The Court Lacked Original Jurisdiction, Personal and Subject Matter Jurisdiction for the reasons listed below. 1. Does the U.S. Supreme Court has Ori…
24-1212 Kenneth Burnham v. Michigan Michigan 2025-05-29 Denied Response Waived affidavit-of-service constitutional-rights due-process legal-procedure michigan-courts personal-jurisdiction 1. Whether Petitioner's constitutional right to due process was violated when the Michigan Courts relied for six (6) years on a fraudulent Affidavit o…
24-1190 Syngenta Crop Protections, LLC, et al. v. Douglas Nemeth, et al. Pennsylvania 2025-05-21 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived commerce-clause constitutional-law due-process out-of-state-business personal-jurisdiction state-registration In Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co., 600 U.S. 122 (2023), "[t]he sole question before [the Court]" was "whether the Due Process Clause of the F…
24-1154 Clearstream Banking, S.A. v. Deborah D. Peterson, et al. Second Circuit 2025-05-09 Denied Response Waived asset-execution correspondent-account due-process foreign-garnishee personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Whether due process is violated by exercising specific personal jurisdiction over a foreign garnishee to execute against an asset that has never been …
24-1128 Angelique Layton v. RBL Financial LLC, et al. Colorado 2025-05-02 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights contempt due-process governmental-immunity personal-jurisdiction rule-interpretation 1.Does Colorado 's current expansive interpretation of C.R.C.P. Rule 107 violate constitutional rights of non-parties by interpreting the Rule to ap…
24-1126 Avon Capital, LLC, a Wyoming Limited Liability Company v. Universitas Education, LLC Tenth Circuit 2025-05-01 Denied Relisted (2) district-court mootness personal-jurisdiction service-of-process subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-circuit 1. Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in assuming that the District Court reacquired subject matter jurisdiction after December 3, 2020 without the filin…
24A946 Jose Ageo Luna Vanegas v. Signet Builders, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2025-04-04 Presumed Complete bristol-myers-squibb collective-action fair-labor-standards-act federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-4 opt-in-plaintiff personal-jurisdiction This document is an Application for Extension of Time to File Petition for a Writ of Certiorari, not a petition itself. It does not contain a "Questio…
24-1037 Antoine Douglass Johnson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-03-31 Denied Response Waived confidentiality-statute coram-nobis judicial-review personal-jurisdiction records-disclosure statutory-immunity If a program or person holding the records invokes the Confidentiality or records statute (42 U.S.C. § 290dd-2), by presenting evidence under 42 C.F.R…
24-1012 Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Company v. Martin J. O’Leary, et al. Montana 2025-03-21 Denied choice-of-law legal-malpractice multi-jurisdictional-practice personal-jurisdiction professional-liability specific-jurisdiction Is a lawyer with a multi-jurisdictional law practice subject to specific personal jurisdiction for a legal malpractice claim in a state where the lawy…
24-960 CoinMarketCap OpCo, LLC, et al. v. Ryan Cox Ninth Circuit 2025-03-06 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) civil-procedure judicial-district nationwide-service personal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation venue-provision Whether defendants are subject to personal jurisdiction in every judicial district nationwide by virtue of the nationwide service provision, even wher…
24A802 Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's, London v. Jean H. Toal, in Her Capacity as Acting Circuit Court Judge, et al. South Carolina 2025-02-19 Presumed Complete dormant-commerce-clause due-process foreign-corporation minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction receivership Question not identified.
24-867 IQVIA Inc. v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County, et al. California 2025-02-13 Dismissed Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure due-process employment-law noncompete-agreement personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction A noncompete agreement imposes limitations on an employee's ability to compete against his or her employer immediately after separating from the compa…
24-6556 Edward Farley v. Ubiratan Marinho, Jr., et al. New Hampshire 2025-02-12 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction minimum-contacts nonresident-defendant personal-jurisdiction 1- Did the New Hampshire Supreme Court misapprehend the two-part test for federal due process jurisdiction is a way to determine if a state court ca…
24-808 Coney Island Auto Parts Unlimited, Inc. v. Jeanne Ann Burton, Chapter 7 Trustee for Vista-Pro Automotive, LLC Sixth Circuit 2025-01-30 Judgment Issued Relisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure default-judgment personal-jurisdiction rule-60 void-judgment Well-settled legal principles dictate that a judgment entered in the absence of personal jurisdiction is void. Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(4…
24-653 Zembrka, et al. v. American Girl, LLC Second Circuit 2024-12-17 Denied Response Waived e-commerce interactive-website minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction virtual-presence Whether an e-commerce seller's virtual presence and conduct – operating an interactive website accessible in a forum state – constitutes "minimum cont…
24A535 Lennard Bartlett, Sr., as Administrator of the Estate of Mary Susan White Bartlett, et al. v. Estate of Jeffrey L. Burke, et al. North Carolina 2024-12-03 Presumed Complete component-part due-process jurisdiction-analysis personal-jurisdiction purposeful-availment stream-of-commerce Question not identified.
24-587 Scandinavian Airlines System, aka SAS, dba Scandinavian Airlines of North America, Incorporated v. Susan Hardy Fifth Circuit 2024-11-27 Denied due-process federal-courts fifth-amendment foreign-corporation personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution authorizes a federal court to exercise specific personal juris…
24-524 Lighting Defense Group v. SnapRays, dba SnapPower Federal Circuit 2024-11-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) calder-test forum-contacts intentional-conduct out-of-forum-conduct personal-jurisdiction walden-test In Calder v. Jones, this Court held that California courts could exercise personal jurisdiction over Florida defendants "because of their intentional …
24-499 Nita A. v. A. A. Illinois 2024-11-01 Denied domestic-violence due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment ninth-amendment personal-jurisdiction 1. Whether the Ilinois Domestic Violence Act, 750 Ill. Comp. Stat. Ann. 60/101 et seq., as applied by the Illinois Courts, violated Nita's First Amend…
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…
24-5539 Muna Malvin Whitfield v. Fredericka F. Whitfield, et al. District of Columbia 2024-09-12 Denied IFP due-process estate-litigation fiduciary-duty personal-jurisdiction statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction I. Whether the Appellate Court Overlooked or Misapprehended Critical Factual Allegations and Evidence Presented in Exhibits AI, A2, Bl, B2, 0 and L, R…
24-151 United States v. Palestine Liberation Organization, et al. Second Circuit 2024-08-12 Judgment Issued Relisted (2) due-process fifth-amendment legislative-jurisdiction palestinian-authority personal-jurisdiction terrorism-civil-suits In the Promoting Security and Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act of 2019 (PSJVTA), Pub. L. No. 116-94, Div. J, Tit. IX, § 903, 133 Stat. 3082, Congr…
24-133 Justin G. Dart v. Katrina Ahrens, as Independent Executor of the Estate of Lorne Ahrens, Deceased Texas 2024-08-06 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process equal-protection parentage-adjudication personal-jurisdiction posthumous-parentage standing subject-matter-jurisdiction texas-uniform-parentage-act uniform-parentage-act Does the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause permit a court to deny a child the right to adjudicate his rights under the Texas Uniform Pare…
24-79 James W. A. Jackson v. Kelly K. Fitzgerald Rhode Island 2024-07-25 Denied child-custody due-process evidentiary-hearing hcch-1996 international-treaty personal-jurisdiction simultaneous-proceedings subject-matter-jurisdiction uccjea Questions Pertaining to the Due Process Clause : 1. Does a defence of UCCJEA 'Simultaneous Proceedings ' become moot when one and not all pro ceedi…
24-20 Miriam Fuld, et al. v. Palestine Liberation Organization, et al. Second Circuit 2024-07-09 Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (2) anti-terrorism-act consent-to-jurisdiction due-process fifth-amendment palestinian-authority palestinian-liberation-organization personal-jurisdiction promoting-security-and-justice-for-victims-of-terr statutory-interpretation Whether the PSJVTA violates the Fifth Amendment.
24-17 Devas Multimedia Private Limited v. Antrix Corp. Ltd., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-09 Judgment Issued civil-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction service-of-process statutory-interpretation Under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, "[p]ersonal jurisdiction over a foreign state shall exist as to every claim for relief over which the dist…
23-7835 Yueseyuan Cruel v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment birth-certificate-citizenship citizenship-status civil-privileges-immunities civil-rights congress-legislation consent-governance constitution-rights-citizenship constitutional-jurisdiction legislative-power personal-jurisdiction Whether the United States and the Several States are Artificial Persons. Whether the 14th Amendment created Artificial Persons as citizens of the Uni…
23-1347 Fang Zeng v. Mingan Chen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-26 Denied burden-shifting civil-procedure civil-procedure 23-1346" default-judgment default-judgments due-process employment-discrimination foreign-defendant foreign-defendants Is the McDonnell Douglas framework applicable to m mixed-motive personal-jurisdiction pretext service-of-process substituted-service summary-judgment title-vii In these federal cases Plaintiffs could not locate Defendant in California for personal service of process, because at all times Defendant was a res…
23-1334 Centennial Resource Production, LLC v. Northern Natural Gas Company Nebraska 2024-06-21 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment based exclusively on actions taken by the non-res federal-preemption minimum-contacts over a non-resident defendant personal-jurisdiction purposeful-availment violates the constitutional due-process 14th-amendment due-process federal-regulatory-requirement non-resident-defendant personal-jurisdiction state-court Whether the exercise of personal jurisdiction by a state court, over a non-resident defendant, based exclusively on actions taken by the non-resident …
23-1320 GlaxoSmithKline, LLC, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County California 2024-06-18 Denied Amici (1) can the consumer's home state assert specific per brand-name-manufacturer due-process generic-drug generic-drugs innovator-liability personal-jurisdiction preemption product-liability specific-jurisdiction warning-label-liability When a plaintiff alleges injury from the consumption of a generic drug, can the consumer's home state assert specific personal jurisdiction over an ou…
23-1317 Jean Dufort Baptichon v. Department of Education, et al. District of Columbia 2024-06-18 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-rights federal-courts federal-jurisdiction forum-non-conveniens personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction transfer venue venue-transfer This writ certainly raises the questions of Personal jurisdiction versus forum non conveniens, venue, transfer and sovereign immunity In Piper Aircraf…
23-1201 CC/Devas (Mauritius) Limited, et al. v. Antrix Corp. Ltd., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-08 Judgment Issued civil-procedure due-process federal-courts foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether plaintiffs must prove minimum contacts before federal courts may assert personal jurisdiction over foreign states sued under the Foreign Sover…
23A966 Devas Multimedia Private Limited v. Antrix Corp. Ltd., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-29 Presumed Complete arbitral-exception circuit-split due-process foreign-sovereign-immunities-act minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction 1. This case raises an important, circuit-splitting issue under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1602 et seg. ("FSIA"): Whether the e…
23-1133 Rick Sasso, dba Indiana Spine Group v. Marc Harding, dba Harding Law Firm Iowa 2024-04-18 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure conflict-of-laws due-process interstate-commerce interstate-litigation jurisdiction-analysis legal-consultation medical-malpractice personal-jurisdiction Whether Iowa courts have specific personal jurisdiction, consistent with due process and fundamental fairness, over an Indiana doctor who got a call i…
23-1129 Richard Roche v. LARC, Inc., aka Lee Association for Remarkable Citizens, Inc., et al. New Jersey 2024-04-18 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment burger-king-v-rudzewicz due-process hanson-v-denckla intentional-torts judicial-discretion personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction (1) Did the courts of the State of New Jersey violate the plaintiff-appellant's due process rights pursuant to the 14th Amendment of the United States…
23-1061 Hawkeye Gold, LLC v. China National Materials Industry Import and Export Corporation, dba Sinoma Eighth Circuit 2024-03-28 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure default-judgment federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-to-set-aside personal-jurisdiction rule-12b waiver Whether a party waives the defense of lack of personal jurisdiction if available but omitted from its first court filing in a motion to set aside a de…
23-7044 Melanie A. Ogle v. Hocking County Common Pleas Court, et al. Ohio 2024-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-authority criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process personal-jurisdiction right-to-counsel sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction void-conviction QUESTION 1. In absence of counsel and a waiver of right to counsel during a sentencing hearing, does a state trial court possess "constitutional autho…
23A836 GlaxoSmithKline, LLC, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County California 2024-03-12 Presumed Complete due-process generic-drugs personal-jurisdiction pharmaceutical-litigation specific-jurisdiction warning-label-liability Question not identified.
23-874 Impossible X LLC v. Impossible Foods Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-14 Denied causation civil-procedure declaratory-judgment declaratory-relief due-process forum-contacts personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction trademark-noninfringement Under the U.S. Constitution, courts may not exercise specific personal jurisdiction unless the plaintiff's alleged injury "arise s out of or relate s …
23-775 Erica Davis, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Andrew Dale Davis, Deceased, and Minor Children, JC, Minor Child, SD, Minor Child, et al. v. Cranfield Aerospace Solutions, Limited Ninth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure continuing-relationship contract-relationship due-process forum-selection fourteenth-amendment in-forum-company personal-jurisdiction product-development purposeful-availment Whether an out-of-forum defendant that establishes a continuing relationship with an in-forum company by contracting to help the in-forum company deve…
23-774 Melissa Groo v. Amy Eddy, Judge, Montana Eleventh Judicial District Court Montana 2024-01-17 Denied Response Waived due-process forum-state intentional-tort non-resident-defendant personal-jurisdiction purposeful-direction social-media walden-v-fiore Whether the Due Process Clause permits a state court to exercise specific personal jurisdiction over a non-resident defendant in an intentional tort c…
23A651 Sunoco LP, et al. v. City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, et al. Hawaii 2024-01-16 Presumed Complete clean-air-act climate-change federal-common-law interstate-emissions personal-jurisdiction state-law-claims Whether federal law precludes state-law claims seeking redress for injuries allegedly caused by the effects of interstate greenhouse-gas emissions on …
23-746 Dmitry Nikolenko v. Luiza Nikolenko Texas 2024-01-10 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment immigration international-comity personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction 1) Whether the Texas court violated the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause and interna-tional comity when it exercised subject matter jurisdictio…
23-6290 In Re Pietro Pasquale Antonio Sgromo 2023-12-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure contract-law due-process in-personam in-personam-judgment jurisdiction license-agreement parol-evidence personal-jurisdiction service-of-process void Is a judgment rendered in personam against a defendant without jurisdiction of his person void? Is an Appeals Court record closed even if a party ple…
23-579 Shenzen Sanlida Electrical Technology Company, Limited, et al. v. Whirlpool Corporation, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-11-29 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure district-court injunctive-relief notice-requirement personal-jurisdiction preliminary-injunction rule-65 Should the district court consider personal jurisdiction when issuing a preliminary injunction order under Rule 65?
23A467 Erica Davis, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Andrew Dale Davis, Deceased, and Minor Children, JC, Minor Child, SD, Minor Child, et al. v. Cranfield Aerospace Solutions, Limited Ninth Circuit 2023-11-27 Presumed Complete contract-supervision due-process forum-state-activities minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction purposeful-availment Question not identified.
23-504 Photoplaza, Inc., et al. v. Herbal Brands, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied Amici (2) fair-play-and-substantial-justice forum-state minimum-contacts nationwide-sales non-resident-defendant personal-jurisdiction substantial-connection suit-related-conduct third-party-fulfillment Whether a seller whose products ship nationwide is subject to personal jurisdiction in every forum into which even one of its products is shipped.
23-420 UPS Supply Chain Solutions, Inc. v. EVA Airways Corporation Second Circuit 2023-10-19 Denied Response Waived air-carrier cargo-claim civil-procedure indemnity-contribution international-carriage montreal-convention personal-jurisdiction rule-12b2 third-party-complaint treaty-law A cargo interest plaintiff sought recovery against a contracting air carrier (petitioner UPS Supply Chain Solutions, Inc. ["UPS-SCS"]) for alleged dam…
23-5757 Marigdalia K. Ramirez-Fort v. Medical University of South Carolina, et al. First Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights defendant-contacts due-process forum-contacts forum-state-interests minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction state-interests 1. What objective factors should courts rely upon in order to determine when personal jurisdiction is proper in cases where claims may lack strict c…
23-5709 Guy L. Coulston v. Raúl Labrador, Attorney General of Idaho Ninth Circuit 2023-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction sovereign-individual standing subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment Did the District court through the 9th circuit court of appeals and Prosecution, and My Trial counsel err in discretion to a Void Judgment that lead i…
23-290 Marc Grano, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Jose Barron, et al. v. El Paso Healthcare System, Ltd., dba Las Palmas Medical Center New Mexico 2023-09-22 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process forum-contacts forum-state fundamental-fairness healthcare-system medical-care medical-referral personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Whether specific personal jurisdiction in a forum state over a nonresident hospital and healthcare system is permissible where: (1) the hospital syste…
23-5641 Marvin Joe Randall v. Oregon Oregon 2023-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction extraterritorial-prosecution internet-activity interstate-conduct personal-jurisdiction prostitution-regulation state-jurisdiction state-regulation website-communication No evidence indicated that the petitioner was in Oregon at the times relevant to this case. Can the State of Oregon regulate the conduct of an individ…
23A258 Tracy Nixon v. General Motors Corporation Fifth Circuit 2023-09-21 Denied due-process-clause fifth-amendment long-arm-statute personal-jurisdiction registered-agent service-of-process WHETHER MOVANT PROPERLY PROCEDURALY BY STATUTE SERVE THE DEFENDANT COMPLAINT AND SUMMONS UPON DEFENDANT WHERE THERE IS COMPLETE DIVERSITY BETWEEN PLAI…
23-232 BASF Metals Limited, et al. v. KPFF Investment, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2023-09-13 Denied Amici (3) civil-procedure co-conspirator conspiracy due-process forum-contacts jurisdictional-requirements personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Whether due process permits a court to exercise specific personal jurisdiction over a defendant based on the forum contacts of an alleged co-conspirat…
23-184 Karen M. Suber v. VVP Services, LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2023-08-28 Denied articulable-nexus civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment inconsistent-application jurisdiction long-arm-statute personal-jurisdiction standard-of-review substantial-relationship Whether the courts sitting in New York have inconsistently interpreted and applied the standard for the "arising from " prong of the New York Long Arm…
23A70 Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, et al. v. Texas Texas 2023-07-25 Presumed Complete due-process-clause foreign-manufacturer fourteenth-amendment nationwide-market nicastro personal-jurisdiction This is an application for an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari, not a petition for certiorari itself. The document does not…
23-24 Grist Mill Capital, LLC v. Universitas Education, LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2023-07-07 Denied civil-procedure due-process forum-state general-jurisdiction minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction reasonableness rule-60-motion specific-jurisdiction void-judgment "Absent an exceptional circumstance, a corporation is subject to general jurisdiction only in a State where it is incorporated or has its principal pl…
23-18 Dana Marie Bernhardt, Personally and as the Administratrix of the Estate of Jeremy Wise, et al. v. HSBC Holdings PLC, et al. District of Columbia 2023-07-06 Denied aiding-and-abetting anti-terrorism-act banking-services financial-system international-terrorism justice-against-sponsors-of-terrorism-act personal-jurisdiction terrorism-financing Under Section 2333 of the Anti-Terrorism Act, as amended by the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act ("JASTA"), U.S. nationals injured or killed …
22-1146 Tiger Mynarcik v. WV 23 Jumpstart, LLC California 2023-05-25 Denied due-process expired-judgment full-faith-and-credit judgment-debtor judgment-renewal money-judgments personal-jurisdiction registration-of-foreign-judgments sister-state-judgments sister-state-judgments-act There are three issues presented by this Petition: 1) Whether a judgment renewed through a sister state's money judgments act in a state where the ju…
22-1129 Faraz Fadavi Akhavan Bonab v. Samuel Ginn California 2023-05-19 Denied Response Waived business-relationship due-process forum-state fourteenth-amendment personal-jurisdiction purposeful-contacts specific-jurisdiction Whether this requirement is met when the defendant forms a business relationship with the plaintiff in the forum state, where both reside, the parties…
22-977 Jenny Bruns, et vir v. USAA, et al. District of Columbia 2023-04-10 Granted Response Waived all-writs-act antitrust civil-rights co-conspirators due-process longarm-statute personal-jurisdiction supremacy-clause 1. The conspiracy theory of personal jurisdiction ("CTPJ") is nebulous and has no consensus in State and Federal courts. Does the theory satisfy the…
22-937 VNG Corporation v. Lang Van, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-27 Denied civil-procedure due-process federal-rule internet-contacts minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction rule-4(k)(2) specific-jurisdiction 1. Whether traditional due process principles apply to the exercise of specific personal jurisdiction over defendants based on their universally acces…
22-7091 David Lee Hering v. Iowa Iowa 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-authority personal-jurisdiction speedy-trial void-judgement 1. Whether a criminal prosecution and judgement therefrom is void where the trial court lost personal jurisdiction over the defendant prior to the sta…
22-825 James K. Collins v. D.R. Horton-Texas Limited Fifth Circuit 2023-03-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) due-process federal-courts federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment personal-jurisdiction res-judicata rule-60 supremacy-clause takings The Fourteenth Amendment protects citizens against takings of property without due process. Due process includes, at a minimum, personal jurisdiction,…
22-802 Murco Wall Products, Inc. v. Michael D. Galier Oklahoma 2023-02-24 Denied Response Waived due-process fair-play-and-substantial-justice forum-contacts fourteenth-amendment minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction 1. Whether the "minimum contacts" requirement for specific jurisdiction is satisfied whenever a defendant has made limited sales of products to custom…
22-6858 In Re Zumar H. Dubose 2023-02-24 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury indictment jury-selection personal-jurisdiction sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-rights Question not identified.
22-6770 In Re Alphonza Thomas Bey 2023-02-14 Denied IFP 13th-amendment 14th-amendment 15th-amendment administrative-remedies constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-questions human-rights personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction unlawful-imprisonment Do the United States Constitution, the United States Congress and/or the Constitution of the State of North Carolina have Government of Jurisdiction o…
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…
22-641 Daimler Trucks North America LLC v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2023-01-11 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) due-process forum-activities forum-contacts non-resident-defendant personal-jurisdiction product-liability residency specific-jurisdiction territorial-limits The Due Process Clause permits a state court to exercise specific personal jurisdiction over a non-resident defendant only when the plaintiff's claims…
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…
22-562 Stephen Douglass, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Shingo Alexander Douglass, et al. v. Nippon Yusen Kabushki Kaisha Fifth Circuit 2022-12-19 Denied Amici (3) admiralty-jurisdiction admiralty-law due-process federal-courts federal-rule-civil-procedure fifth-amendment high-seas law-of-nations personal-jurisdiction state-courts This Court has specifically left open the question of whether the Fifth Amendment imposes the same restrictions on the exercise of personal jurisdicti…
22-6172 Terry L. Benson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-identity-theft civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process frcp identity-theft jury-of-peers personal-jurisdiction rule-60b writ-of-mandamus 1. Appeal from originating case from the case No. 2:19-cr-20065-lmsn Appealed to the case No. 21-6064 Affirming Aggrivated Identity theft ason record …
22-477 Lezlie J. Gunn v. Hans-Peter Wild Sixth Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied arise-from civil-procedure foreign-defendant foreign-defendants minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction relate-to sixth-circuit specific-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent 1. Should the requirement that a plaintiffs cause of action arise from or relate to the defendant's minimum contacts with a state apply to foreign nat…
22-467 HANWJH v. NBA Properties, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-11-17 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process fair-play-and-substantial-justice interactive-website international-shoe-standard minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction single-sale specific-jurisdiction Whether the "minimum contacts" requirement is met to establish specific personal jurisdiction over a non-resident defendant where the non-resident def…
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…
22-411 Keo Ratha, et al. v. Phatthana Seafood Co., Ltd., et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-11-01 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived calder-effects-test civil-rights forced-labor forum-injury forum-injury-requirement human-trafficking intentional-tort ninth-circuit-ruling personal-jurisdiction purposeful-availment For purposes of establishing specific personal jurisdiction, this Court has consistently held that defendants can be present in a forum so long as the…
22-396 Christa Fischer, et al. v. Federal Express Corp., et al. Third Circuit 2022-10-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bristol-myers bristol-myers-squibb collective-action due-process due-process-clause fair-labor-standards-act opt-in-plaintiffs personal-jurisdiction service-of-process Whether a federal court has the authority, absent general personal jurisdiction over the defendant or the defendant's consent, to maintain a Fair Labo…
22-5921 Antwoyn Terrell Spencer v. United States District Court for the District of Minnesota Eighth Circuit 2022-10-26 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding due-process grand-jury indictment mandamus personal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
22-332 Terraform Labs Pte Ltd., et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission Second Circuit 2022-10-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-procedure corporate-tag corporate-tag-jurisdiction due-process personal-jurisdiction sec-rules service-of-process 1. Did the United States Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") properly exercise personal jurisdiction over a foreign company when its only purpo…
22-280 Rashid A. Buttar v. Rachan Damidi Reddy Fourth Circuit 2022-09-26 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-agreement civil-procedure district-court due-process new-york-convention personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the District Court of North Carolina had personal jurisdiction over Petitioner after Petitioner moved to another country and the contacts whic…
22-5649 Graylin Gray v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Corrections, et al. Nebraska 2022-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP arraignment court-filing criminal-procedure due-process personal-jurisdiction service-of-process subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver-of-rights The amended information was not filed when petitioner appeared in court for arraignment and waived reading of the 12 count amended information and a…
22-5600 Quincetta Y. Cargill v. Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit-of-bias appellate-review civil-rights counsel-ineffectiveness due-process judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct motion-denial personal-jurisdiction recusal standing 1. Where the petitioner-appellont had filed a timely aud sufficient before 455 Agpinst the U.S. District Court Judge be certifed that appeal was not t…
22-82 Charles Johnson v. TheHuffingtonPost.com, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2022-07-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure data-harvesting Did the Supreme Court of Virginia err in determini educational-evaluations forum-selection 22-829" jurisdictional-error libel personal-jurisdiction pretrial-motions procedural-error revenue-generation sovereign-immunity specific-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-review targeted-marketing website-data-collection website-liability Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia erred in det Whether the panel majority of the Fifth Circuit correctly held that a national news organization's website that harvests visitor location data to shar…
21-8167 Xue Jie He, et al. v. United States, et al. Third Circuit 2022-06-17 Denied IFP 28-usc-1251 article-three civil-procedure constitution federal-jurisdiction original-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction state-sovereignty supreme-court This case was between two New Jersey states and New York states, and Petitioners are Foreigner. New York courts have no jurisdiction over New Jersey g…
21-1503 Lloyds Banking Group plc, et al. v. The Berkshire Bank, et al. Second Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure co-conspirator conspiracy defendant-actions due-process forum jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction Whether a court may exercise personal jurisdiction over a defendant merely because the defendant's alleged co-conspirator took foreseeable actions in …
21-7968 Thurman Jerome Brown v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 13th-amendment binding-precedent civil-procedure civil-rights due-process extrajudicial-proceedings judicial-discretion personal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment The full legal effect of the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal to grant certiorari is often debated, it is thought not to creates no binding legal preceden…
21-7868 Lee Michael Pederson v. Phillip Frost, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP calder-v-jones civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction intentional-interference personal-jurisdiction venue-transfer witness-tampering Does Minnesota have the power to exercise specific personal jurisdiction over Respondents/Defendants Phillip Frost and CoCrystal Pharma, Inc. under Co…
21-7615 Randolph Codner, aka Jah Rastafari Malchizdek v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process facebook habeas-corpus personal-jurisdiction social-media /\sdr Mpov4wl<A/ nfx, 1\\mMTk KMeii/l wj om- sflwf/iW •ov/eK' Jxsje\y\A'^ Hal wiw <a/~1 0iA,-tStl®Vl 16 op a 4AhT -/Alt (cMJtv' cj6 op ityiSii/lP …
21-1277 David Allen O'Neal v. Crawford County, Georgia Georgia 2022-03-23 Denied attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-court civil-procedure county-employee county-liability personal-jurisdiction third-party-release third-party-releases void-judgment 1. Without personal jurisdiction over the attorney, where the judgment against the County paid attorney is really a judgment against the County, isn't…
21-1237 Lloyds Banking Group PLC, et al. v. Schwab Short-Term Bond Market Fund, et al. Second Circuit 2022-03-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (6) civil-procedure co-conspirator conspiracy defendant due-process forum forum-contacts jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction Whether a court may exercise personal jurisdiction over a defendant merely because the defendant's alleged co-conspirator took foreseeable actions in …
21-1200 Sherif A. Philips v. Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-03 Denied civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection federal-question-jurisdiction fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud-upon-the-court personal-jurisdiction Unrecognized Transfer The Case From Guam Superior Court To Guam District Court , even with lack of Jurisdiction lead To Default Judgement And Levi on …
21-1192 Day & Zimmermann NPS, Inc. v. John Waters, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated First Circuit 2022-03-01 Denied Amici (1) bristol-myers-squibb circuit-split civil-procedure due-process fair-labor-standards-act federal-civil-procedure personal-jurisdiction rule-4(k)(1)(a) service-of-summons standing Whether out-of-state plaintiffs seeking to opt into an FLSA collective action pending in federal court must demonstrate that the forum state's courts …
21-7210 James Thomas Webb v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP double-jeopardy due-process fair-play federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction settlement-agreement sovereign-immunity takings Did the relitigation of the CLOSED Florida Federal District Court case United States Securities and Exchange Commission v. James Thomas Webb (Case 07-…
21-1168 Robert Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co. Pennsylvania 2022-02-23 Judgment Issued Amici (21)Relisted (2) civil-procedure corporate-consent due-process fourteenth-amendment international-shoe personal-jurisdiction registration-statute Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a state from requiring a corporation to consent to personal jurisdiction to do bu…
21-1137 Byron Wendell Phillips v. The Life Property Management Services, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-16 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-process civil-procedure civil-rights claim-dismissal conspiracy-allegations court-procedure due-process fraud-and-corruption fraud-claims legal-exclusion personal-jurisdiction standing 1. Whether the courts below erred by excluding and/or failing to constitutionally dispute all essential elements of an argument(s). 2. Whether the …
21-1098 Laura Canaday, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. The Anthem Companies, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2022-02-08 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure collective-action due-process fair-labor-standards-act federal-court opt-in-plaintiffs personal-jurisdiction wage-and-hour Whether a federal court has the authority, absent general personal jurisdiction over the defendant or the defendant's consent, to maintain a Fair Labo…
21-926 Cooper Tire & Rubber Company v. Tyrance McCall Georgia 2021-12-22 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (4) consent corporate-registration due-process forum-contacts fourteenth-amendment general-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction state-sovereignty Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state to assert personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state corporation, for claim…
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 …
21-565 Olga Pavlovna Blakley v. Milling, Benson, Woodward, L.L.P. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied contract-location contractual-obligations damages damages-jurisdiction judicial-bias legal-malpractice out-of-state-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction representation-agreement In a suit alleging an ongoing scheme, affecting multiple clients, over a period of more than ten years, of legal malpractice, and judicial bias based …
21-494 Ralph Lewis v. Power Research, Inc., et al. Nevada 2021-10-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) calder-effects-test conflict-of-laws corporate-officer due-process forum-activities nonresident-defendant personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction walden-v-fiore Whether the Nevada Supreme Court, in conflict with this Court's decision in Walden v. Fiore , 571 U.S. 277 (2014), and with decisions of the Texas Sup…
21-493 Susan Chen v. Darren Migita, et al. Washington 2021-10-04 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure court-dismissal due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-challenge legal-representation notice personal-jurisdiction procedural-ambiguity standing unrepresented-minor 1. Whether a state court's dismissal order, absent clear languages about the legal effects; and its further refusal to clarify - which has led to four…
21-478 Ee Hoong Liang v. Panircelvan Kaliannan, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-09-30 Denied due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure forum-non-conveniens minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction summary-judgment Personal Jurisdiction and Forum Non Conveniens 1) All the parties are citizens and residents of the Republic of Singapore, where they live, work, and…
21-473 Daniel G. Szmania v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee for Bear Stearns Arm Trust 2007-3 Washington 2021-09-28 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction removal-to-federal-court res-judicata service-of-process 1) Did THE SUPREME COURT OF WASHING TON error and fail in its duty when not enforcing, not recognizing and ignoring the civil court case Removal to Fe…
21-446 Justin Pannell v. Roger Abshire, et al. Texas 2021-09-22 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process jurisdictional-waiver non-resident-company personal-jurisdiction special-appearance texas-civil-procedure texas-rules-of-civil-procedure waiver 1. When does a court in a resident's state have jurisdiction over a non-resident company who harms a resident in that resident's state? How does the r…
21-5646 Peter Klah v. Andrew J. Bruck, Acting Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2021-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights digital-contacts due-process ineffective-counsel jurisdiction-analysis online-interactions personal-jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel standing Trial Court Erred in Denyng motion to Suppress hear case Prosecutor's comments During his opening statement nAhmeony he Co Deat Hoe Asserted his Seven…
21-5564 Russell Jay Reger v. Texas Texas 2021-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure due-process jurisdictional-challenge legal-nullity personal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment (a) IS an UNCONTESTED VOID JUDGNENT STILL VIENED BY THIS COURT as BEINg "MrRE WAsTE PAPER*? (B) WHEN An UNCONTRSTED VOID JUDGNENT NULLIPIBS SUBJECTMA…
21-207 Behrman Capital IV, L.P., et al. v. Thomas E. Reynolds, Trustee Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied derivative-jurisdiction federal-courts lambert-run-coal-co-v-baltimore-o-r-co personal-jurisdiction removal state-courts subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the derivative jurisdiction doctrine precludes federal courts from exercising personal jurisdiction following removal from state courts that l…
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…
21-142 Robert J. Frey v. Anthony Binford Minter, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-03 Denied choice-of-law defamation diversity-jurisdiction forum-shopping internet-communication internet-publication personal-jurisdiction reputation-injury reputational-injury Whether Petitioner, a natural person, domiciled in Florida, who suffered injury to his internet communication published in Florida, while Petitioner w…
21-5203 Ibrahim Akasha Abdalla, aka Ibrahim Akasha v. United States Second Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction fifth-amendment foreign-national personal-jurisdiction What level of contact with the United States must a foreign national who never entered this country and committed the offense conduct solely outside o…
21-33 Máxima Acuña-Atalaya, et al. v. Newmont Mining Corporation, et al. Third Circuit 2021-07-12 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) adequate-forum comity corruption forum-non-conveniens home-forum personal-jurisdiction The forum non conveniens ("FNC") doctrine only allows a court to dismiss a case to a more convenient forum if that forum is fair and adequate. Piper A…
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…
20-1821 Anton Shifchik, et al. v. Wyndham Worldwide Corporation, et al. New Jersey 2021-06-30 Denied Response Waived corporate-contacts due-process ford-motor-co-v-montana fourteenth-amendment general-jurisdiction international-shoe internet-commerce personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction 1. Whether it is consistent with the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment for a state to exercise personal jurisdiction over a foreign corpo…
20-1756 Ethan Fullerton, et al. v. LG Chem, Ltd. Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response Waived corporate-defendant domestic-corporations due-process fifth-amendment foreign-corporations fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-limits longarm-statute personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Should international corporate defendants with worldwide reach be granted jurisdictional protection not afforded domestic corporations? 2. Does a …
20-8157 In Re Blake Joseph Sandlain 2021-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-circuit mandamus personal-jurisdiction Question not identified.
20-1555 Ruth McLean v. 800 DC, LLC, et al. Third Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied due-process fraud fraudulent-measures jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgment void void-ab-initio Under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, federal district courts lack jurisdiction to hear cases seeking review of judgments issued by state courts. In this…
20-1506 Jeffrey G. Thomas v. State Bar of California California 2021-04-28 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment attorney-discipline due-process personal-jurisdiction state-bar-court subject-matter-jurisdiction I. Whether discipline of an attorney by a hearing board of a state bar "court" is void because of failure to acquire personal jurisdiction of the atto…
20-1430 AMA Multimedia, LLC v. Marcin Wanat Ninth Circuit 2021-04-13 Denied Response Waived calder-effects-test circuit-split civil-procedure due-process express-aiming federal-civil-procedure foreign-defendant geotargeted-advertising personal-jurisdiction tort Whether a foreign defendant, whose largest business market originates from the United States through website visitors with geotargeted advertising, wh…
20-1141 Doe Company v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process perlman-doctrine personal-jurisdiction standing subpoena subpoena-enforcement third-party-disclosure 1. Whether an appealing party's substantial interest in a disclosure order directing a disinterested third party to produce documents provides appella…
20-1097 Karen C. Han v. Yangrai Cho Ninth Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied civil-procedure domicile due-process foreign-citizenship foreign-defendant forum-state general-jurisdiction minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction Whether a defendant who is a citizen of foreign country but is domiciled in a forum state is subject to the forum's exercise of general personal juris…
20-1033 Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua S.A.B. de C.V., et al. v. Compañía de Inversiones Mercantiles, S.A. Tenth Circuit 2021-01-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arising-out-of-test civil-procedure email-service federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-4(f)(3) foreign-defendants hague-service-convention narrative personal-jurisdiction service-of-process u.s.-contacts 1. Does service by email on the U.S. counsel of a foreign party pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 4(f)(3) violate the Hague Service Conventi…
20-984 Gurbir S. Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey v. Defense Distributed, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-01-25 Denied Amici (1) cease-and-desist due-process forum-state jurisdictional-challenge minimum-contacts nonresident-defendant personal-jurisdiction purposeful-availment specific-jurisdiction Whether a nonresident state official subjects itself to personal jurisdiction in another forum State when it sends a single cease-and-desist letter to…
20-747 Peter F. Gary, et al. v. JTC Holdings, LLC Colorado 2020-11-30 Denied Response Waived choice-of-law civil-procedure corporate-governance due-process forum-selection long-arm-statute minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction tortious-conduct This case requires the Court to further articulate the extent to which states may exercise personal jurisdiction over nonresidents. Defendants Pinnacl…
20-515 Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Company v. Gateway Hospitality Group Inc., et al. Montana 2020-10-20 Denied arbitration-clause civil-procedure due-process fair-play-and-substantial-justice forum-selection fourteenth-amendment insurance insurance-contract personal-jurisdiction Whether the nationwide territory of coverage clause in the insurance policy Philadelphia sold to Gateway in Ohio obligated Philadelphia to submit to p…
20-510 IQVIA Inc. v. Florence Mussat, M.D., S.C. Seventh Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Amici (4) civil-procedure class-action due-process federal-courts jurisdiction-limits personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a district court with jurisdiction coextensive with a state court in the district can exercise personal jurisdiction over absent class members…
20-503 Tofig Kurbanov v. UMG Recordings, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied due-process foreign-citizen fourth-circuit-court internet-transactions personal-jurisdiction sovereignty website-operation The Court should grant certiorari to address whether the Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution is violated when a foreign citizen is su…
20-475 Stanley V. Campbell v. Eagle Force Holdings, LLC, et al. Delaware 2020-10-13 Denied 14th-amendment civil-contempt civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process judicial-procedure personal-jurisdiction sanctions 1. Can a finding of civil contempt and the imposition of a sanction be sustained consistent with the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment to the C…
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)…
20-389 Peter J. Schaffer, et al. v. Joey Long Ninth Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied appellate-review bristol-myers-squibb civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver waiver-of-rights Does a full litigation of the merits of a personal jurisdictional challenge sufficiently preserve the issue for full review on appeal? Did the Ninth …
20-374 Continental Resources, Inc. v. Zachary Buckles, Deceased, By and Through His Personal Representative, Nicole R. Buckles, et al. Montana 2020-09-23 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) due-process federalism forum-contacts independent-contractors personal-jurisdiction sovereign-interest specific-jurisdiction tort-liability vicarious-liability Zachary Buckles worked at an oil-production site in North Dakota where he died, allegedly as the result of tortious acts or omissions of contractors a…
20-342 Kyko Global Inc., et al. v. Omkar Bhongir Third Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied Response Waived calder-effects-test calder-v-jones civil-procedure corporate-directors due-process effects-test personal-jurisdiction rule-12b2 state-law walden-v-fiore (1) Whether Walden v. Fiore, 571 U.S. 277 (2014) nullifies Pennsylvania statute 42 Pa. C.S.A. § 5322(a)(7)(iv) and similar statutes and rules from oth…
20-337 Rosemary Ann Lynn v. Andrew George Brown, III, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-09-14 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction due-process personal-jurisdiction rico-statute service-of-process subject-matter-jurisdiction venue Whether Appellees' refusal to serve Petitioner with summons and petition after passage of two years' and seven months divest the district court of per…
20-327 BBB Industries, LLC v. Cardone Industries, Inc. Texas 2020-09-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-limits due-process forum-contacts personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction state-court supplemental-jurisdiction texas Under the Due Process Clause, courts may exercise specific personal jurisdiction over out-of-state defendants only when the plaintiff's claim arises f…
20-231 Aladdin Manufacturing Corporation, et al. v. The Water Works and Sewer Board of the Town Centre, et al. Alabama 2020-08-27 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) due-process in-state-effects out-of-state-defendant personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction third-party third-party-conduct unilateral-actions Whether a State may exercise specific personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state defendant because the defendant knew (or should have known) that its …
20-177 Ally Financial Inc. v. Alberta Haskins, et al. Missouri 2020-08-18 Granted Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) class-action due-process forum-contacts fourteenth-amendment nationwide-class out-of-state-defendant personal-jurisdiction state-court Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state court to exercise specific personal jurisdiction over claims against an out…
19-1422 Nakisha Jackson v. Roy L. Brun, Judge, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-25 Denied Relisted (2) 501(3)c appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech funding internet-communication jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge legal-records-access misrepresentation personal-jurisdiction pro-se-litigation secretary-of-state small-business-administration standing 1. Is it considered "misrepresentation " when an individual is not registered with the Secretary of State (SOS), in their state, to represent an entit…
19-8801 Tichinia Jones, et al. v. Lamar Company, LLC Florida 2020-06-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment binding-judgment civil-procedure constitutional-due-process court-jurisdiction due-process legal-merits personal-jurisdiction state-courts subject-matter-jurisdiction (1) Present and laying before this court (true or false) in order for a lower court to make a binding judgment on a case, should it must have both sub…
19-1408 James Coppedge, et ux. v. Janet Z. Charlton Third Circuit 2020-06-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-complaint civil-rights-procedure collateral-order-doctrine due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction pleadings procedural-review standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether the District Court review of the facial sufficiency of 42 USC § 1983 and § 1985 complaint below, Respondent's failure to state a claim with…
19-1297 James K. Collins, et ux. v. D.R. Horton-Texas, Ltd. Texas 2020-05-19 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment due-process federal-judgment fourteenth-amendment personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity state-rights takings tenth-amendment void-judgment Whether the Fourteenth Amendment allows a state to enforce a void federal judgment obtained without personal jurisdiction over and notice to the defen…
19-1288 Alan Singer v. Mondex Corporation Arizona 2020-05-13 Denied appellate-procedure attorney-fees choice-of-law civil-procedure cross-appeal jurisdiction minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver Did the Arizona Supreme Court have subject matter to grant jurisdiction for attorney's fees on behalf of an appellee after it declined to grant review…
19-1192 Missouri, ex rel. Key Insurance Company v. Marco A. Roldan, Judge, Circuit Court of Missouri, Jackson County, et al. Missouri 2020-04-02 Denied Response Waived due-process forum-state fourteenth-amendment liability-insurer long-arm-statute motor-vehicle-accident personal-jurisdiction Whether a court's exercise of specific personal jurisdiction over a nonresident liability insurer violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Am…
19-1139 James Leonard Hines v. Regions Bank, fka Union Planters Bank, N.A. Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure default-judgment due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-to-transfer notice notice-of-complaint personal-jurisdiction service-of-process This case is predicated on the due process of law in a summons and complaint, as to whether it was properly served on the defendant. The questions pr…
19-1110 Board of Regents of the University of Texas System, et al. v. Boston Scientific Corporation Federal Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge due-process federal-court federal-patent-statute federal-statute patent-infringement patent-venue personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity sovereign-rights state-rights state-sovereign state-sovereignty Whether a state's sovereign right to try its causes within its borders when there is personal jurisdiction over the defendant renders unconstitutional…
19-1092 In Re TCT Mobile International Limited 2020-03-05 Denied Response Waived bristol-myers-squibb civil-procedure contact-attribution due-process eastern-district-of-texas federal-circuit forum-state mandamus nonresident-defendant personal-jurisdiction stream-of-commerce unilateral-activity venue 1. Whether the Federal Circuit erred in denying mandamus and failing to correct a district court ruling finding personal jurisdiction over a nonreside…
19-1016 Jeffrey Kirsch v. Redwood Recovery Services, LLC, et al. Nevada 2020-02-14 Denied business-activities business-contacts civil-procedure deposition-sanction discovery due-process evidence evidence-preclusion nationwide-contacts personal-jurisdiction sanctions 1. Did the District Court violate the Due Process Clause by barring Defendant-Petitioner from presenting any evidence in his defense at trial, a sanct…
19-985 Native Wholesale Supply Company v. California, ex rel. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General, et al. California 2020-02-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) contract-law indian-commerce-clause indian-reservation indian-tribe interstate-commerce personal-jurisdiction state-regulation tribal-corporation tribal-sovereignty 1. Whether a contract for the purchase of goods entered into, and fully performed by, an Indian Tribe outside the exterior boundaries of the state in …
19-989 Kathleen K. Johnson, Individually and as Trustee of the Annabell M. Palmer Family Trust, et al. v. UBS AG Second Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied Response Waived commercial-disputes corporate-presence forum-selection general-jurisdiction long-arm-statute long-arm-statutes non-domiciliaries non-domiciliary nonresident-corporation personal-jurisdiction tortious-conduct 1. Should this Court address and resolve the conflicts and inconsistencies among the Federal Circuits and the State Courts on the issue of general jur…
19-910 K. G. S., Individually and as Guardian and Next Friend of Baby Doe, a Minor Child v. Facebook, Inc. Alabama 2020-01-22 Denied calder-effects-test calder-v-jones due-process effects-based-test fourteenth-amendment online-activity personal-jurisdiction reputational-harm virtual-contacts walden-v-fiore Whether, under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, virtual contacts can establish specific personal …
19-6993 In Re Augustus Larry Lundy 2019-12-18 Denied IFP constructive-denial-of-counsel due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus personal-jurisdiction sixth-amendment Did the trial court divest itseld of personal jurisdiction of Lundy when it Administered the Law in an improper and unconstitutional manner? Was Lund…
19-764 Mark I. Sokolow, et al. v. Palestine Liberation Organization, et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-16 GVR Amici (3) anti-terrorism-act anti-terrorism-act-1992 anti-terrorism-clarification-act-2018 congress due-process fifth-amendment international-terrorism national-security palestinian-authority personal-jurisdiction terrorism united-states-citizen 1. Whether the PLO and PA consented to personal jurisdiction when they chose to maintain facilities within the United States after the date specified …
19-6499 John Berman v. David Modell California 2019-11-05 Denied IFP benefit-analysis civil-procedure due-process forum-state intentional-tort long-arm-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction 1. In a case of long-arm specific jurisdiction where an intentional tort is alleged to have been directed into the forum state, does a court err by re…
19-528 John Wayne Scantlebury, et al. v. United States District of Columbia 2019-10-22 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction article-iii collateral-attack criminal-procedure cross-border-tort due-process federal-officer-liability final-judgment minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction (1) Whether criminal appeals from dismissals without prejudice are "final" under 28 U.S.C. §1291. (2) Whether personal jurisdiction's minimum contact…
19-505 William Rupert v. Susan Bond, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied Response Waived antitrust circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process frcp-12b6 judicial-expediency noerr-pennington personal-jurisdiction rico rico-statute sham-litigation standing (1) Should the circuit splits over the use of FRCP 12(b)(6) motions (prior to discovery or an evidentiary hearing), to rule upon a disputed issue of f…
19-6139 Jermaine Stevenson v. Connie Horton, Warden Michigan 2019-10-02 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process juvenile-court juvenile-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction state-court-procedure transfer void-ab-initio waiver-hearing Has Due Process of law been violated, where a child within the permanent custody and jurisdiction of the state Juvenile court is charged as an adult i…
19-368 Ford Motor Company v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court, et al. Montana 2019-09-19 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (2) burger-king causation civil-procedure due-process forum-contacts minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction relatedness specific-jurisdiction Whether the "arise out of or relate to" requirement is met when none of the defendant's forum contacts caused the plaintiff's claims, such that the pl…
19-369 Ford Motor Company v. Adam Bandemer Minnesota 2019-09-19 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (2) burger-king causation civil-procedure due-process forum-contacts minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction relatedness specific-jurisdiction Whether the "arise out of or relate to" requirement is met when none of the defendant's forum contacts caused the plaintiff's claims, such that the pl…
19-363 Jim R. Nash v. Norma Nash, et al. Arkansas 2019-09-18 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction state-court state-courts substitution 1) If several states following close versions of Rule 25 (FRCP) have held that judgments without jurisdiction of the decedent are a nullity, and tho…
19-5880 Andrew Joseph Larson v. Michael Pacheco, Warden Wyoming 2019-09-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights constructive-denial-of-counsel criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction name-change personal-jurisdiction presumption-of-guilt presumption-of-innocence standing state-department subject-matter trial-jurisdiction Q1) What are the necessary components for the trial court to be complete and hold jurisdiction over a case and was Avitabile's trial court complete? …
19-305 Lisa Wilkins, et al. v. James Soler, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-05 Denied Response Waived due-process forum-state fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement personal-jurisdiction third-party-interactions Whether a court can, consistent with the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, exert personal jurisdiction over an out of state law enforcem…
19-278 Pfizer Inc., et al. v. Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, et al. California 2019-09-03 Denied Amici (1) bristol-myers-squibb civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-law forfeiture jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction This Petition concerns the California state courts' undisputed lack of personal jurisdiction over products liability claims filed against Petitioners …
19-210 Lizette Olaechea, aka Lizette Simmonds v. Grace Olaechea Florida 2019-08-20 Denied civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment inconsistent-decisions indispensable-party personal-jurisdiction void-judgment Whether the lower Courts disregarded the Four teenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and erred by not declaring a judgment void, wherein the Court …
19-175 Brad S. Francis, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eighth Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-misconduct appellate-procedure due-process jurisdiction notice-of-deficiency personal-jurisdiction reasoned-opinion statutory-notice subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-court tax-court-jurisdiction The Eighth Circuit has departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 47(a) and, in so …
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…
18-8515 E. Drake v. Murphy, Austin, Adams, Schoenfeld, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-03-21 Denied IFP choice-of-law civil-procedure civil-procedure-personal-jurisdiction civil-rights contract contract-law due-process fraud fraud-claims internet internet-commerce internet-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction websites zippo-standard Petitioner is a consumer, who was seeking reliable transportation. Even though the Petitioner have pled that he first noticed the subject vehicle, a 2…
18-8410 Marshall Ray Miller v. Joseph L. McFadden, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement-statements personal-jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err in not issuing a Certificate of Appealability where Petitioner demonstrated a substantial showing of a con…
18-1160 Teck Metals Ltd., fka Teck Cominco Metals, Ltd. v. The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Amici (3) arranger-liability cercla cercla-arranger-liability cross-border-pollution environmental-liability extraterritorial-application first-circuit-conflict first-circuit-split morrison-v-national-australia-bank personal-jurisdiction rjr-nabisco-v-european-community walden-v-fiore waste-disposal 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit, in conflict with Morrison v.National Australia Bank Ltd. , 561 U.S. 247 (2010), and RJR Nabisco, Inc. v.European Communi…
18-1076 In Re Robert K. Hudnall 2019-02-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction secret-hearing service-of-process standing subject-matter-jurisdiction May a State Supreme Court that is granted only appellate jurisdiction as a matter of law by the state constitution: Exercise personal jurisdiction wi…
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…
18-7837 Marlon Blacher v. Superior Court of California, Contra Costa County, et al. California 2019-02-07 Denied IFP civil-rights constitution due-process jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction standing state-authority statutory-provisions 1. Is it not true that "STATE OF CALIFORNIA" and all of its instruments are bound to the Matters declared via Article V, clause a, Constitution of the…
18-998 Sandra Waite, as Personal Representative of the Estate of John Waite, Jr. v. Union Carbide Corporation, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied Response Waived asbestos asbestos-liability asbestos-litigation civil-procedure corporate-registration due-process forum-selection in-state-causation mesothelioma personal-jurisdiction product-liability products-liability specific-jurisdiction three-prong-test I. Whether the circuit court erred when it ignored the three-prong analysis the Court has repeatedly set forth for analyzing specific jurisdiction and…
18-945 TLSL, Inc. v. Rankin Snead, as Administrator Ad Litem of the Estate of Juan Estrada, et al. Alabama 2019-01-18 Denied Response Waived at-home-test civil-procedure constitutional-rights corporate-domicile daimler due-process general-jurisdiction goodyear personal-jurisdiction tyrrell TLSL, Inc. ("TLSL") is a Mississippi excavation contracting company. It is incorporated in Mississippi and has its principal place of business in Miss…
18-784 Eldon Bugg v. Marc Honey, et al. Missouri 2018-12-20 Denied bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-law common-law-torts diversity-jurisdiction due-process fourteenth-amendment national-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction Under bankruptcy law, in personam jurisdiction is national. In re Federal Fountain, 165 F.3d 600,601, (8 Cir. 1999)(en bane)). ". . . physical presenc…
18-7011 John S. Myzer v. George W. Bush, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-dismissal civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure final-order personal-jurisdiction prejudice-standard service-of-process standing subject-matter-jurisdiction May a district court dismiss a case with prejudice that has not begun? Should a delay of many years between the dismissal of a case and a Fed.R.Civ.P…
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…
18-539 George T. Hawes v. Daniel P. Reilly Rhode Island 2018-10-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-laws constitutional-law court-jurisdiction due-process full-faith-and-credit full-faith-and-credit-clause interstate-litigation judicial-procedure jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction standing 1. Did the Supreme Court for the State of Rhode Island violate the full faith and credit clause of the United States Constitution (Article IV, Section…
18-545 First Advantage Background Services Corp. v. Superior Court of California, San Mateo County, et al. California 2018-10-25 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) burden-of-proof class-action due-process fair-credit-reporting-act federal-statute forum-state fourteenth-amendment harm nationwide-class-action non-resident-defendant personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Under the Fourteenth Amendment, a state court may not exercise specific personal jurisdiction over a non-resident defendant unless the conduct giving …
18-5949 Charles Litton Morris v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2254-d-1-2 appointment-of-counsel brady-strickland-constitutional-claims claims-ignored constitutional-violation district-court-failure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence judicial-bias personal-jurisdiction plea-validity subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause supremacy-clause-conflict-preemption Judicial 15-16 District Court failure to comply with 28 U.S.C.636 16-17 claims ignored by the District Court.17-18 State Probationary Split Sentence…
18-316 Brian Arthur Weese v. Maryland Fourth Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied civil-procedure-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process facial-challenge federal-jurisdiction federal-rules jurisdictional-challenge material-allegations nonmoving-party personal-jurisdiction pleading-requirements sovereign-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction sufficiency-of-pleadings The Court lacks subject matter and personal jurisdiction for the reasons below. The Complaint presents a detailed recitation of Plaintiffs' assertion…
18-311 Exxon Mobil Corporation v. Maura Healey, Attorney General of Massachussetts Massachusetts 2018-09-11 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) commerce-clause conflict-among-courts court-compulsion due-process general-jurisdiction investigatory-document-request investigatory-request jurisdiction-basis minimum-contacts nonresident-corporation personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction third-party-contacts unrelated-subject-matter Whether a court may exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident corporation to compel its compliance with an investigatory document request wher…
18-264 New World International, Inc., et al. v. Ford Global Technologies, LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2018-08-30 Denied Response Waived civil-litigation civil-procedure claim-preclusion collateral-estoppel cure dismissal first-suit issue-preclusion jurisdictional-defect legal-procedure personal-jurisdiction res-judicata second-suit suit-dismissal Whether jurisdictional defects in a first suit dismissed for lack of personal jurisdiction can be cured in a second suit by alleging facts that were k…
18-167 MCC (Xiangtan) Heavy Industrial Equipment Co., Ltd. v. Liebherr Mining & Construction Equipment, Inc., dba Liebherr Mining Equipment Newport News Co. Virginia 2018-08-07 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights co-conspirators constitutional-law due-process forum-state nonresident-defendant personal-jurisdiction Whether the Due Process Clause permits a court to exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant based on the contacts of the defendant's…
18-165 DHL Supply Chain v. DEX Systems, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied calder-effects-test civil-procedure due-process electronic-server foreign-defendant forum-state internet-jurisdiction jurisdictional-analysis long-arm-statute minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction virtual-presence After Walden v. Fiore, 571 U.S. 277 (2014), may a United States court exercise personal jurisdiction over a foreign defendant where that defendant's o…
18-128 Mohamed Abouelmagd v. Debra Newell California 2018-07-27 Denied business-transaction business-transactions civil-procedure commerce-clause commerce-clause-violation constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection interstate-commerce midwesco-precedent nonresident-tolling out-of-state-residents personal-jurisdiction procedural-defense statute-of-limitations 1) Is the California tolling statute that suspends statutes of limitations protection for out-of-state residents, unconstitutional and violative of Be…
18-119 Gotech International Technology Limited, et al. v. Nagravision SA Fifth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure defendant-jurisdiction due-process federal-civil-procedure federal-claims federal-courts federal-rules-of-civil-procedure foreign-defendants jurisdiction-pleading personal-jurisdiction pleading pleading-requirements rule-4k2 subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a plaintiff invoking jurisdiction under Rule 4(k)(2) must plead that "the defendant is not subject to jurisdiction in any state's courts of ge…
18-5370 Thomas Juresic v. Illinois Illinois 2018-07-26 Denied IFP civil-commitment custody due-process equal-protection liberty-interests null-and-void personal-jurisdiction sentencing-court statutory-provisions Does a Department of Corrections (DOC) or sentencing court retain constitutional custody and personal jurisdiction over a person until the expiration …
18-115 Kimothy Maurice Wynn v. Washington Ninth Circuit 2018-07-26 Denied civil-procedure due-process facial-challenge federal-courts federal-rules jurisdictional-challenge material-allegations personal-jurisdiction pleading-requirements pleadings sovereign-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction The Court lacks subject matter and personal jurisdiction for the reasons below. The Complaint presents a detailed recitation of Plaintiffs' assertion…
18-5185 Tamara Zivot v. Superior Court of California, Contra Costa County, et al. California 2018-07-10 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-guarantee defendant-not-served due-diligence due-process household-member personal-jurisdiction service-of-process state-court statutory-mandate substitute-service 1. Is the constitutional guarantee of due process in order to confer personal jurisdiction over a defendant denied to a person when the evidence prese…
18-51 Brad Francis, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eighth Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure due-process eighth-circuit jurisdictional-review personal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tax tax-court This is a call for the Court to exercise its supervisory power over the lower courts: Specifically, this case seeks review of the Eighth Circuit Court…
25A231 Avon Capital, LLC, a Wyoming Limited Liability Company v. Universitas Education, LLC Tenth Circuit Denied dissolution judgment-enforcement personal-jurisdiction service-of-process subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-circuit 1. Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in assuming that the District Court reacquired subject matter jurisdiction after December 3, 2020 without the filin…