act-of-state-doctrine

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A905 Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A., et al. v. Helmerich & Payne International Drilling Co. District of Columbia 2026-02-10 Application act-of-state-doctrine foreign-sovereign hickenlooper-amendment international-law property-expropriation territorial-jurisdiction Question not identified. The document provided is an "Unopposed Application for an Extension of Time in Which to File a Petition for a Writ of Certio…
24-800 Rosemary D'Augusta, et al. v. American Petroleum Institute, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-27 Denied act-of-state-doctrine antitrust-law jurisdiction oil-production price-fixing sherman-act Whether American oil companies can enter into price-fixing agreements with Russian and Saudi Arabian oil companies without Congressional sanction in v…
24-341 Juan Carlos Emden, et al. v. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Fifth Circuit 2024-09-26 Denied Response Waived act-of-state-doctrine federal-civil-procedure foreign-sovereign-immunity judicial-inference nazi-art-restitution rule-12(b)(6) Whether the Fifth Circuit's application of the act of state doctrine conflicts with precedent regarding adjudication of foreign sovereign acts and whe…
23-7177 In Re Terrance McCauley 2024-04-10 Denied IFP act-of-state-doctrine color-of-law constitutional-rights foreign-state foreign-state-citizenship free-exercise-of-religion peaceable-assembly sovereign-immunity Whether the judgment of conviction against Terrance A. McCauley transgresses the Court's act-of-state-doctrine, sovereign-immunity, peaceable-assembly…
20-1329 Macarieto I. Trayvilla, et al. v. Japan Airlines, et al. New York 2021-03-23 Denied Response Waived act-of-state-doctrine airlines federal-preemption foreign-relations judicial-review passport-entry separation-of-powers sovereign-state statute-of-limitations Whether the State Appellate Court's order invalidating the 'act of state' of the Philippines violates the act-of-state-doctrine and separation-of-powe…
18-1057 Marei von Saher v. Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Amici (3) act-of-state-doctrine art-restitution civil-rights due-process foreign-policy holocaust-assets looted-art nazi-looted-art property-rights sovereign-immunity sovereign-interest Where artworks were forcibly confiscated from their Jewish owner by Nazi Reichsmarschall Hermann Goring, then recovered by the Dutch government after …
18-233 Indiezone, Inc., et al. v. Todd Rooke, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 28-usc-1927 act-of-state-doctrine congressional-intent due-process extraterritorial-application federal-sanctions inherent-powers rule-44.1 sanctions sovereign-immunity Did Congress intend the court's inherent powers and 28 U.S.C. § 1927 to apply extraterritorially, allowing Rule 44.1 analysis to be applied to oversea…