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25-5906 Alfredo Ramon Cerda v. W. Z. Jenkins, II, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights extradition-treaty international-law mexico-us-relations speedy-trial treaty-interpretation Whether the government is prohibited from extraditing a person to Mexico under Article 7 of the U.S. Mexico Extradition Treaty, when the prosecution f…
24-7353 Jose Trinidad Martinez Santoyo v. Lasha Boyden, former United States Marshal for the Eastern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure extradition international-law sixth-amendment speedy-trial treaty-interpretation Under the terms of the United States-Mexico extradition treaty, is the Sixth Amendment Speedy Trial Clause a law of the United States that can bar a c…
24-7333 Daniel Del Brumit v. David Rogers, Warden Tenth Circuit 2025-05-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights federal-habeas indian-law post-conviction-review state-retroactivity treaty-interpretation In 2020, this Court decided McGirt, and as a consequence, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals (OCCA hereafter) "recognized that several other India…
24-550 Tahawwur Hussain Rana v. W. Z. Jenkins, II Ninth Circuit 2024-11-15 Denied circuit-split criminal-law double-jeopardy extradition-treaty international-law treaty-interpretation Whether the term "offense" in the double jeopardy provision of the United States-India extradition treaty and many other extradition treaties refers t…
24-532 Federal Republic of Nigeria v. Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment Co. Ltd. District of Columbia 2024-11-12 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse Waived arbitration-agreement extratextual-context international-law new-york-convention sovereign-immunity treaty-interpretation (1) Whether, for interpreting the intentions of the treaty parties regarding a word like "person," extratextual information such as historical context…
24A333 The Doe Run Resources Corporation, et al. v. Kate Reid, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-10-08 Presumed Complete environmental-tort extraterritorial-litigation foreign-relations international-comity trade-promotion-agreement treaty-interpretation Question not identified.
24-390 Anthony Patterson v. Asli Baz Seventh Circuit 2024-10-08 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) child-custody hague-convention international-law party-autonomy treaty-interpretation waiver-rights Until the decision below, all the courts of appeals to have considered the question held, consistent with the position of the United States in litigat…
23-1308 Daniel Phillips, as Administrator of the Estate of Melvin L. Phillips, Sr. and as Successor Trustee of Melvin Phillips, Sr./Orchard Party Trust v. Oneida Indian Nation Second Circuit 2024-06-14 Denied Response Waived civil-rights equitable-defense federal-authority indian-law land-claim partition-agreement remand-for-discovery rule-60 state-ratification treaties treaty-interpretation tribal-sovereignty What is the effect of the ruling in this case on the hundreds of Indian and non-Indian titles conveyed by the Orchard Party to, New York State and the…
23-7203 Vladimir Blasko v. Lasha Boyden, Acting United States Marshal for the Eastern District of California Ninth Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP district-court-role extradition extradition-treaty foreign-state-law judicial-interpretation requesting-state-law statute-of-limitations treaty-interpretation treaty-obligations treaty-provisions The first question presented is when the express terms of an extradition treaty require a district court to determine whether the statute of limitatio…
23-6926 Pidy T. Tiger v. Tommy Williams, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-03-07 Denied IFP constitutional-precedent federal-indian-law federal-jurisdiction federal-law indian-law jurisdictional-dispute native-american-rights statutory-interpretation treaty-abrogation treaty-interpretation tribal-sovereignty 1. Can the Kansas Act 18 U.S.C. 3243 be read to abrogate the Creek Nation Treaty of 1856? 2. Does Oklahoma .v. McGirt,2020 represent clearly establi…
23-932 Minna-Marie Brandt v. Damian Caracciolo Fourth Circuit 2024-02-27 Denied child-abduction circuit-court-split country-of-residence custody-rights hague-convention international-child-abduction international-law judicial-procedure treaty-interpretation wrongful-retention Did the Fourth Circuit below err in concluding —in conflict with the text of the Hague Convention and the cases of this Court and six other circuits—t…
23-6728 In Re Kimberlee Pitawanakwat 2024-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction general-crimes-act indian-rights major-crimes-act stare-decisis supremacy-clause treaty-interpretation treaty-of-fort-laramie Does it violate the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) and the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution to subject Indians to stand federal trial…
23-6654 Lancey Darnell Ray v. Terry Quisenberry, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-02-02 Denied IFP civil-rights comanche-tribe due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-recognition legal-liability pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation treaty-interpretation treaty-rights tribal-sovereignty 1. Whether under Article 1 of the treaty of October 21, 1867 between the United States and the Kiowa and Comanche tribes of Indians an enrolled member…
23-5690 Azhar Lal v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-uscs-1331 28-uscs-1350 federal-jurisdiction foreign-national law-of-nations standing subject-matter-jurisdiction treaties treaty-interpretation 1) Does a Foreign National have standing in the U.S* District Court to bring challenges for violations of the law of nations or treaties of the United…
23-5287 In Re William G. Haake 2023-08-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP doctrine-of-speciality dual-criminality due-process extradition extradition-law habeas-corpus jurisdiction perjury prosecutorial-misconduct treaty-interpretation treaty-obligations WHETHER THE UNITED STATES TREATY 22 (1971) DEPRIVED FLORIDA OF JURISDICTION WHEN THEY KNOWINGLY USED PERJURED INFORMATION TO COMPEL SPAIN THROUGH TREA…
22-6607 Billy Joe Wolfe, Jr. v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa congress-power congressional-power constitutional-law due-process federal-courts indian-affairs subject-matter-jurisdiction treaty-interpretation treaty-rights (1) Whether the time of filing limitations of Antiterrorism Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) were intended by Congress to prevent consideration of …
22-453 Hyuk Kee Yoo, aka Keith Yoo v. United States Second Circuit 2022-11-15 Denied Response Waived extradition-proceedings extradition-treaty individual-liberty judicial-discretion judiciary-role limitations-provisions statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent treaty-interpretation Article 6 of the United States -South Korea Extradition Trea ty ("Treaty") provides that "[e]xtradition may be denied under this Treaty when the pr…
22-5479 Derek N. Jarvis v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-08-31 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 1866-treaties cherokee-freedmen civil-rights federal-jurisdiction indian-treaties native-rights treaty-interpretation treaty-provisions tucker-act 1-Can a trial court dismiss 1866 complaint based upon the number of provisions that Petitioner has provided under 1866 treaties, when it was establish…
22-5324 Daniel Del Brumit v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-08-09 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-jurisdiction due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-protection indian-law native-american-rights res-judicata reservation-boundaries state-court state-law treaty-interpretation 1. Under the provisions of the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, how does the Government and its Citizens have an obligation to protect the Red People a…
22-117 Oussama El Omari v. The International Criminal Police Organization, aka INTERPOL Second Circuit 2022-08-08 Denied Response Waived arbitration immunity international-organization ioia jam-v-intl-fin-corp public-international-organization statutory-construction treaty-interpretation treaty-ratification I. Whether INTERPOL is entitled to immunity as a "public" international organization under 22 U.S.C. § 288 of the IOIA as interpreted by Jam v. Int'l …
22-51 Department of the Interior, et al. v. Navajo Nation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-19 Judgment Issued Relisted (2) federal-fiduciary-duty federal-government-duty fiduciary-duty judicial-enforcement native-american-law native-american-rights navajo-nation sovereign-obligations treaty-interpretation treaty-rights water-rights Whether the federal government owes the Navajo Nation an affirmative, judicially enforceable fiduciary duty to assess and address the Navajo Nation's …
21-1574 Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Europe v. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela District of Columbia 2022-06-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) central-authority civil-procedure default-judgment foreign-sovereign-immunities-act hague-service-convention service-of-process treaty-interpretation Whether a District Court deciding a motion for default judgment may find service upon a foreign State pursuant to Article 15 of the Hague Service Conv…
21-7558 Vitaly Kolosha v. Luke Pettigrew, Warden Tenth Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-act due-process federal-law free-speech jurisdictional-conflict retroactive-application retroactivity standing state-jurisdiction treaty-interpretation /. oJtf-efit TtA¥ C&cs/LT M APBS A /2//fTk/<? v ?/+£>*-& ■ A IOO V&ArQs <s>U> 7F-EATy / LAU?,PfaG(l Pt/UdG, OH, A-CLT of CettG&Mss / /£ 7T ActpOma-t/…
21-7209 Juan Alfonso Nuno-Velasco v. Steve Sisolak, Governor of Nevada Nevada 2022-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights consular-agreement discretionary-decision due-process foreign-national-rights foreign-nationals immigration-law jurisdictional-challenge standing treaty-interpretation s 77? ere a /epa/ pm mat /mmum me/i To d/$rppara /ersfsde fyree/nea/c/i 0edpneyd/d<ds/zr/ts Treaty of dnSa/ak. acccss io fori-eyn nad/ond u/Km axepl…
21-7098 Thomas G. Landreth v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights indian-law land-use navigable-waters property-rights redress-of-grievances sovereign-immunity treaty-interpretation treaty-rights tribal-sovereignty 1. Whether 25 U.S.C. @ 1302 preserves the sovereign immunity claimed by the Quinault Indian Tribe/Nation when citizens have or seek redress for grieva…
21-6927 Rickey Ray Wallgren, Jr. v. Rick Whitten, Warden Tenth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP allotment general-allotment-act indian-law indian-treaty jurisdiction jurisdictional-boundaries native-american-rights reservation reservation-status treaty-interpretation treaty-rights tribal-sovereignty Does text and meaning of Article (3) Treaty of February 27 1867 15 Stat. 531 between United States and Potawatomi Tribe of Indians stating inter alia;…
21-995 Budha Jam, et al. v. International Finance Corporation District of Columbia 2022-01-13 Denied Amici (3) civil-procedure commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-organization international-organizations jurisdictional-exception sovereign-immunity standing treaty-interpretation waiver-of-immunity 1. Whether the commercial activity exception to immunity allows suit where the alleged acts of the defendant that give rise to its liability constitut…
21-913 Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe, et al. v. Lummi Nation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-21 Denied Response Waived federal-indian-law fishing-rights geographic-boundaries maritime-boundaries native-american-law ninth-circuit treaty-interpretation treaty-precedent treaty-rights tribal-rights In 1855, the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe, Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe, Lower Elwha Indian Tribe, and Lummi Nation all entered treaties with the United S…
21-906 Klickitat County, Washington, et al. v. Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation Ninth Circuit 2021-12-20 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) boundary-dispute congressional-act congressional-authority indian-reservation land-disposition ninth-circuit-error statutory-interpretation treaty-interpretation 1. Whether, or in what circumstances, a court may override an Act of Congress adopting a boundary for an Indian reservation, and set its own boundary.…
21-797 Serge Matthew Aluker v. Simin Yan, aka Simin Aluker Fourth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) child-abduction custody-agreement custody-rights fourth-circuit habitual-residence hague-child-abduction-convention hague-convention international-law parental-agreement parental-rights treaty-interpretation Article 3 of the Hague Child Abduction Convention requires that a parental agreement have legal effect under the substantive law of the country of the…
21-769 Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied Amici (1) allotment congressional-intent federal-reservation indian-land-rights indian-law sixth-circuit-ruling statutory-interpretation superintendence treaty-interpretation treaty-of-detroit treaty-rights Whether the 1855 Treaty of Detroit established a federal reservation for the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians?
21-5119 Billy Wolfe v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Arkansas 2021-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP cherokee-nation criminal-jurisdiction extradition extradition-law federal-jurisdiction indian-law state-criminal-law state-jurisdiction treaty-interpretation treaty-rights 1) Whether the provisions of treaties between the Cherokee Nation and the United States reserve jurisdiction for crimes committed by a Cherokee Natio…
20-1485 JoEllen Mary Crossett v. Emmet County, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-04-22 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction immunity-defense indian-law indian-reservation malicious-prosecution treaty-interpretation treaty-rights tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty 1.)Is Ms. Crossett on Indian land, a reservation established in the 1836 and 1855 treaties, not disestablished with intent by congress, and does Littl…
20-1388 Alice Perkins, et vir v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Second Circuit 2021-04-06 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 1842-treaty canandaigua-treaty federal-income-tax federal-tax-law income-taxation internal-revenue-code native-american-rights seneca-nation treaty-interpretation treaty-obligations This Court is presented with a question of first impression, as to the taxability of income derived from the sale of sand and gravel, mined from treat…
20-1300 Emilio Torres Luque, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied Response Waived cross-border-residency double-taxation international-tax-law ninth-circuit reciprocity residency revenue-procedure supremacy-clause tax-treaty treaty-interpretation This is a case of first impression. There are no similar cases that either party or the Court's own research could find. The Supremacy Clause of Artic…
20-6908 In Re Michael Ingram El 2021-01-15 Denied IFP 14th-amendment citizenship-status civil-rights consular-court consular-jurisdiction diversity-jurisdiction extraterritoriality international-agreement self-executing-treaty treaty treaty-interpretation 1. Will the International Court of Justices Translation and Interpretation be enough to Construe that the Treaty of 1787/1836 is "Self- Executing, " g…
20-864 Hitomi Arimitsu v. James Edward Cook, II Minnesota 2020-12-30 Denied child-abduction child-custody comity hague-convention international-child-abduction international-custody judicial-comity jurisdiction-conflict treaty-interpretation uniform-child-custody-jurisdiction-and-enforcement The 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction ("Convention") requires that a Contracting State stay any child custod…
20-719 Don Arthur Webster, Jr. v. United States District Court for the District of Alaska Ninth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process international-treaty judicial-bias marginalized-communities marginalized-populations racial-discrimination treaty-interpretation (1) Does RACIAL BIAS DISPROPORTIONALLY AFFECT THE FEDERAL COURTS TREATMENT OF MARGINALIZED PEOPLE OF COLOR, WHEN ADDRESSING THE INTERNATIONAL TREATY A…
20-684 Benjamin Tagger v. Strauss Group Ltd. Second Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction fcn-treaties federal-courts friendship-commerce-navigation-treaties international-commercial-relations national-treatment permanent-resident standing treaty-interpretation Does the National Treatment clause in Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation Treaties provide permanent resident aliens from treaty nations access to fe…
20-233 Hmong 2, et al. v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-28 Denied Response Waived breach-of-promise civil-procedure constitutional-law exception judicial-review justiciability non-justiciable political-question political-question-doctrine separation-of-powers standing treaty-interpretation 1. Whether the Court should establish a breach of promise exception to the non-justiciable political question rule? 2. Whether the Court should estab…
20-195 Muckleshoot Indian Tribe v. Tulalip Tribes, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied Response Waived d-c-circuit indian-tribes judicial-decree judicial-precedent ninth-circuit precedent treaty-fishing-rights treaty-interpretation treaty-rights Whether the Ninth Circuit, in conflict with precedent of this Court and the D.C. Circuit, impermissibly narrowed a decades-old judicial decree so as t…
18-1071 Brandi K. Stokes v. Timothy Martin Sulak Fifth Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process geneva-conventions international-law legal-notice prisoner-of-war procedural-waiver standing treaty-interpretation waiver war-crimes Whether rights secured by the Geneva Conventions can be waived by inadequate briefing or late notice.
18-1048 GE Energy Power Conversion France SAS, Corp., fka Converteam SAS v. Outokumpu Stainless USA, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-11 Judgment Issued Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) arbitration-agreement circuit-split contract-law equitable-estoppel foreign-arbitral-awards international-arbitration new-york-convention non-signatory treaty-interpretation Whether the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the "New York Convention") permits a non-signatory to an arbitra…
18-891 Sally Jim v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-interpretation due-process federal-indian-law income-taxation indian-tribes self-governance taxation treaty-interpretation tribal-lands tribal-sovereignty Whether treaties with Indian tribes must be construed consistent with that tribe's present-sense understanding of the treaty. Whether the Miccosukee …
18-542 John E. Hamilton v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied Response Waived charging criminal-procedure defendant-standing due-process extradition extradition-treaty international-law punishment rule-of-specialty sentencing standing treaty treaty-interpretation Under our extradition treaty with Poland, Agreement between the United States of America and the Republic of Poland on the Application of the Extradit…
18-470 Brandi K. Stokes v. Christopher Lance Corsbie, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-12 Denied Response Waived civil-rights geneva-conventions international-law jurisdiction sovereign-immunity treaty-interpretation war-crimes Whether the United States has sovereign immunity for claims involving grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions. Whether the United States has jurisdi…
18-297 Eric White, et al. v. Barbara D. Underwood, Attorney General of New York, et al. New York 2018-09-07 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived canons-of-construction federal-indian-law indian-law indian-rights indian-treaty-rights native-american-rights new-york-indians seneca-nation sovereign-immunity state-taxation statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tax-assessment treaty-interpretation tribal-sovereignty The decision below ruled that New York's promise to the Seneca Nation of Indians to refrain from assessing taxes "for any purpose whatever, upon any I…
18-5197 Akash Dixit v. Tanya Singh Dixit Georgia 2018-07-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP child-abduction divorce-jurisdiction federal-law federal-preemption foreign-nationals hague-convention hague-convention-on-child-abduction immigration immigration-status international-child-abduction international-law jurisdictional-limits state-court-jurisdiction treaty-interpretation 1. Did the state court of last resort err in ignoring/condoning illegal retention of a foreign-citizen-child by the Respondent in the US, putting the …