state-court-litigation

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24-369 Hassell Construction Company, Inc., et al. v. Harris County Improvement District No. 18, et al. Texas 2024-10-02 Denied Response Waived automatic-stay bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-stay equitable-tolling state-court-litigation statutory-interpretation Whether state courts may retroactively refuse to apply 11 U.S.C. §362(a)(3) as plainly worded, as well as attendant equitable tolling principles, afte…
24-150 John R. Stensrud, et ux. v. Rochester Genesee Regional Transportation Authority Second Circuit 2024-08-12 Denied condemnation federal-forum just-compensation knick-exception res-judicata state-court-litigation 28 U.S.C. §1738, the "Full Faith and Credit" statute, can result in res judicata . This Court, among others, has recognized exceptions to claim preclu…
24-77 GeLab Cosmetics LLC v. Zhuhai Aobo Cosmetics Co., Ltd., et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) abstention circuit-split civil-procedure colorado-river-doctrine federal-abstention federal-courts judicial-proceedings parallel-proceedings procedural-stay state-court-litigation Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's stay of federal proceedings under the Colorado River doctrine when substantial dou…
23-308 Paul Steelman, Individually and as Trustee of the Steelman Asset Protection Trust, et al. v. Ernest Bock LLC Ninth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure colorado-river colorado-river-doctrine federal-abstention federal-proceedings judicial-proceedings parallel-state-proceedings procedural-stay state-court-litigation stay water-rights Whether a stay of federal proceedings under Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States, 424 U.S. 800 (1976), is permissible only when…
22-1087 Douglas Bruce v. City and County of Denver, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-05-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure due-process federal-court judicial-review procedural-due-process rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-litigation subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine preclude the District Court from recognizing subject matter jurisdiction over the claims filed by Mr. Bruce in federa…
22-910 Javitch Block, LLC v. Jerome Redman Fourth Circuit 2023-03-17 Denied civil-procedure district-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction federal-question-jurisdiction procedural-remand remand removal state-court-litigation waiver The questions presented are whether waiver by participation in state court litigation is a permissible basis for District Courts to decline to exercis…
21-442 Rodney Reed v. Bryan Goertz Fifth Circuit 2021-09-22 Judgment Issued Amici (13)Relisted (8) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights dna-testing due-process postconviction-claim section-1983 state-court-litigation statute-of-limitations In Skinner v. Switzer, 562 U.S. 521, 524-25 (2011), this Court held that state prisoners may pursue postconviction claims for DNA testing of crime-sce…
19-919 Joseph Becker, et al. v. Ralph S. Janvey, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response Waived anti-injunction-act equitable-receivership in-aid-of-jurisdiction in-rem-claims ponzi-scheme securities-claim securities-litigation settlement-bar-order state-court-litigation state-court-proceedings 1. Whether the Anti-Injunction Act ("AIA"), 28 U.S.C. §2283, allows for the issuance of bar order by the equitable receiver appointed by the SEC that …
18-7053 Kevin Scott Varner v. John Christiansen, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment habeas-corpus state-court state-court-litigation state-court-review stone-v-powell What constitutes "an opportunity for full and fair litigation of a Fourth Amendment claim" in state court? Does Stone v. Powell apply when a case is …