| 25-263 |
Cheri Poe v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split erie-doctrine federalism-interests judicial-discretion state-law-certification supplemental-jurisdiction |
1. When a federal court considers whether to certify a state law issue to a state high court, what factors, including federalism interests, bear on th… |
| 24A1291 |
Cheri Poe v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-27 |
Presumed Complete |
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appellate-procedure certiorari lehman-brothers ninth-circuit state-law-certification supreme-court-rules |
Question not identified. |
| 24-1225 |
LaWanda D. Small v. Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America, a Minnesota Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review certification-standard federalism-interests judicial-procedure ninth-circuit state-law-certification |
In Lehman Brothers v. Schein, 416 U.S. 386 (1974), this Court encouraged federal courts to certify uncertain questions of state law to state high cour… |
| 23-973 |
Randy Tarum, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Robert L. Lindsay, et al. v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-06 |
Denied |
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certification-of-state-law-questions comity cooperative-federalism divergent-decisions diversity-jurisdiction efficient-federal-practice erie-doctrine federal-procedure first-impression judicial-comity lehman-bros-v-schein state-law-certification |
1. Should cooperative federalism, comity, efficient federal practice, and the divergent decisions in the Circuits prompt the Court in the wake of Lehm… |
| 22-392 |
Bel Air Auto Auction, Inc. v. Great Northern Insurance Company |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-10-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abstention appellate-procedure certification circuit-split civil-procedure deference erie-doctrine federal-courts interlocutory-appeal judicial-deference state-courts state-law-certification |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit violate the principle of Erie v. Thompkins by denying Bel Air's motion to defer its ruli… |
| 21-523 |
Damon Simon, et ux. v. Roche Diagnostics Corporation |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-discretion appellate-procedure certification civil-procedure court-of-appeals discretion judicial-procedure legal-review standard-of-review state-law state-law-certification |
1. Whether the court of appeals applied an improper standard of review in exercising its discretion when ruling on the Simons' request to certify the … |
| 20-1488 |
Sherwin A. Brook v. J. Lawrence McCormley, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-procedure de-novo-review federal-magistrates-act judicial-procedure motion-consideration standing state-law-certification |
Does 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(C) allow a district judge, on de novo review of objections to a magistrate's report, to refuse to consider a motion to cert… |
| 20-1179 |
William W. Cole, Jr. v. PRN Real Estate & Investments, Ltd., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
comity court-procedure federal-appellate-split federalism forum-shopping judicial-comity state-constitution state-courts state-law-certification state-sovereignty |
Whether This Court Should Grant the Petition in Order to Resolve a Long-Standing and Decisive Split Among the Federal Appellate Courts Regarding the S… |
| 19-306 |
Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. v. Yury Rinsky |
First Circuit |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
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civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-courts legal-standards punitive-damages standard-of-proof state-courts state-law state-law-certification subject-matter-jurisdiction |
This diversity case involves state-law claims of age discrimination in employment. Petitioner disputed the applicability of the New York City Human Ri… |
| 18-737 |
Gregory Aime, et al. v. JTH Tax, Inc., dba Liberty Tax Service, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certification common-law contract-formation diversity-jurisdiction federal-appellate-procedure federal-court lehman-bros-precedent lehman-bros-v-schein state-law state-law-certification virginia-common-law |
1. Whether a federal court of appeals in a case based on diversity jurisdiction should certify an issue of state law to the highest court of that stat… |
| 18-721 |
Norman Bloom v. Aftermath Public Adjusters, Inc., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
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certification circuit-split civil-procedure discretion diversity-jurisdiction federal-court federal-court-discretion federal-courts legal-uncertainty procedural-standards state-law state-law-certification |
Whether the language of a state's certification rule should factor into the federal court's decision to certify a dispositive state law question in a … |