tort-action
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21-7075 | Ian T. Cooke v. John R. Williams, et al. | Connecticut | 2022-02-08 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights criminal-plaintiffs favorable-termination heck-bar heck-v-humphrey justiciability legal-malpractice tort-action tort-actions | Does the justiciability bar articulated by Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994) requiring criminal plaintiffs to favorably terminate their conviction… |
| 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… |
| 18-981 | Theresa Jones, et al. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-29 | Denied | Relisted (2) | civil-procedure federal-tort-claims-act feres-doctrine government-liability legislative-intent military-negligence military-service-members negligence servicemember-rights standing tort-action | Should the Feres doctrine be revisited and limited to the legislative purpose underlining the Federal Tort Claims Act, such that a negligence action f… |
| 18-646 | Marquette Transportation Company, L.L.C., et al. v. Entergy Mississippi, Incorporated | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-19 | Denied | admiralty admiralty-law comparative-fault maritime-law navigable-waters permit-compliance prejudgment-interest property-interest rivers-and-harbors-act takings tort-action | Land-based decisions in the takings context mandate permit compliance as a threshold for a plaintiff to have a compensable property interest. For the … |