| 23-1246 |
Shell Offshore Inc. v. Palfinger Marine USA, Inc. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
|
contract-law maritime-commerce maritime-law outer-continental-shelf platform-operations procedural-history statutory-history tort tort-law |
Can oil and gas exploration from a fixed platform on the Outer Continental Shelf qualify as "maritime commerce," triggering the application of maritim… |
| 23-1165 |
Raymond H. Pierson, III v. CSAA Insurance Services, Inc., et al. |
California |
2024-05-01 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process duty-to-settle fourteenth-amendment good-faith-dealing insurance insurance-law public-interest standing third-party-liability tort |
The California Legislature as evidenced in the Insurance Code 11580(b)(2) and the binding caselaw precedent (Moradi-Shalal v. Fireman's Fund Ins. Co.,… |
| 23-1147 |
Jahmir Christopher Frank v. Good Samaritan Hospital of Cincinnati, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-23 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure equitable-powers federal-civil-rule-60(b)(6) medical-malpractice medical-records public-interest rule-60 sixth-circuit tort |
Should the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit have reversed the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio for f… |
| 23-938 |
Cynthia Wheeler, et al. v. Orange County, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-28 |
Denied |
|
attorney-appearance civil-rights continuing-violation-doctrine emotional-distress intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress negligent-infliction-of-emotional-distress preemption statutory-rights tort tort-claims |
1. Whether the "pure" form of "Continuing Violation Doctrine" should apply to Civil Rights and Tort Claims of Intentional and Negligent Infliction of … |
| 22-1168 |
Center for Medical Progress, et al. v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-02 |
Denied |
Amici (5) |
civil-rights creative-pleading due-process emotional-distress first-amendment free-speech general-application-law public-speech publication standing tort tort-liability |
The circuit courts are divided over when the First Amendment protects defendants against tort claims arising out of speech or expression. In Hustler M… |
| 21-971 |
Nahed Abdulnabi v. Fatma Adel Sekik |
Tennessee |
2022-01-06 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure consolidation divorce divorce-action due-process jury-trial marital-assets procedural-rights tort tort-consolidation valuation |
1. Whether the trial court's orders as affirmed by the Tennessee Court of Appeals consolidating a tort case (claims of the divorce plaintiff against t… |
| 21-6052 |
Lawrence Eliot Mattison v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-circuit administrative-exhaustion administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default standing tort tort-claim |
Whether, and in what circumstances, the 4th circuit Appellate court may condone or ignore a tort claim that lacked Administrative exhaustion were lack… |
| 20-1508 |
Susan Pierson v. Hudson Insurance Company, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
25-usc-5321-c-8-a collateral-estoppel insurance-liability issue-preclusion privity public-policy recovery sovereign-immunity tort tort-claim |
Issue 1. Did the resolution of the tort claim against
Thorne in Pearson v. Thorne decide the same issue or
claim that plaintiff raises in the presen… |
| 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… |
| 20-6278 |
Bodhisattva Skandha v. Gloriann Moroney |
Massachusetts |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion application-of-law attorney-general civil-procedure claim court-discretion facts false-statements fraud jurisdiction legal-procedure official-document parole-board representation standing supreme-court tort tort-claim Whether making false statements in an official doc Whether the defendant is allowed to represent the Whether the respondent was required to apply the l |
Issue #1: WHETHER THE LOWER COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION BY NOT ALLOWING THE TORT CLAIM TO GO FORWARD?
Issue #2: WHETHER MAKING FALSE STATEMENTS IN AN… |
| 19-1271 |
Toni Sharretts Collins v. William Zolnier |
Texas |
2020-05-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
absolute-privilege circuit-conflict civil-procedure communication-privilege defamation defamation-privilege first-amendment free-speech judicial-privilege legal-immunity procedural-exception tort tort-law |
Whether a party has absolute judicial privilege when a defamatory communication is made that has no logical relation to the proceeding. |
| 18-9500 |
Linh Thi Minh Tran v. Tri-County Metropolitan Transit District of Oregon |
Oregon |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
bus-accident carrier-liability civil-rights due-process duty-of-care evidence medical-evidence negligence public-transportation substance-impairment summary-judgment tort |
Did the Oregon Court of Appeal's decision and trial court Multnomah County Circuit Court's decision erred in ruling the General Judgment in favor of R… |
| 18-1427 |
Marie Laventure, et al. v. United Nations, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure common-law federal-rules-of-civil-procedure immunity jurisdiction legislative-enactment liability tort tort-action tort-claims un-general-assembly un-immunity un-liability un-secretary-general |
An agreement to be liable binds a party to an enforceable obligation in law and justice. This is true under the laws of the United States and it has b… |
| 18-1090 |
Mary Kay Beckman v. Match.com, LLC |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-court-interpretation circuit-court-split civil-liability communications-decency-act immunity internet-immunity negligence publisher-liability section-230 third-party-content tort tort-liability website-immunity |
Does Section 230 of the CDA immunize web site operators for their own negligent or tortious conduct from all civil lawsuits any time a third party has… |
| 18-950 |
LaTasha Freeman v. American K-9 Detection Services, LLC, et al. |
Texas |
2019-01-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review legal-uncertainty political-question political-question-doctrine private-defendants private-plaintiffs split-of-authority standing state-law-tort tort |
The question presented is whether, and if so under what circumstances, the political question doctrine bars ordinary state-law tort actions brought by… |
| 18-5530 |
Victoria Elia Kaldawi v. State of Kuwait, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights consular-protection diplomatic-immunity due-process human-rights international-law tort torture unlawful-detention |
Why I wasn't Rescued by US Embassy in Kuwait, as on JULY 4th 1995 (USA Independence Day), while All Americans were celebrating our Independence Day, w… |
| 18-5448 |
Ellen Elizabeth Packenham Stanley v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-405(h) administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction pro-se pro-se-appellant social-security-administration standing stare-decisis tort tort-claim venue venue-jurisdiction |
Is the U.S. Federal District Court of Minnesota the appropriate venue and jurisdiction to present an Appeal for a suit Sounding in Tort against the So… |
| 18-151 |
Alfred J. Petit-Clair, et al. v. Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-procedure,standing,due-process,tort,dismissa civil-procedure,standing,tort-claims,individual-de civil-rights district-court due-process municipal-defendant settlement settlement-enforcement standing third-circuit tort tort-claims |
1. Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit erred in affirming the District Court for the District of New Jersey's judgment dismissing … |