adverse-possession
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A715 | Flying T Ranch, Inc., a Washington Corporation v. Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians, a Federally Recognized Indian Tribe, et al. | Washington | 2025-12-18 | Application | adverse-possession indian-tribe nonreservation-land property-exception quiet-title tribal-sovereign-immunity | Whether a common law immovable property exception exists that would abrogate tribal sovereign immunity for quiet title actions involving nonreservatio… | |
| 24A1152 | Jennine Labuzan-Delane v. Cochran and Cochran Land Company, Inc, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-27 | Application | adverse-possession due-process federal-courts land-patent property-rights summary-judgment | Whether a federal court may extinguish property rights under a federal land patent and compel an heir to execute a deed based on disputed conveyances … | |
| 20-1566 | David Cassirer, et al. v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-11 | Judgment Issued | Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | adverse-possession choice-of-law circuit-split federal-common-law foreign-sovereign-immunities-act state-law stolen-property substantive-law | Whether a federal court hearing state law claims brought under the FSIA must apply the forum state's choice-of-law rules to determine what substantive… |
| 20-7834 | Steven Cooper v. Florida | Florida | 2021-04-22 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | adverse-possession constitutional-rights criminal-mischief criminal-procedure due-process grand-theft mandamus pro-se-representation self-representation trespass | Whether it is unconstitutional for a defendant's pro per Motion to Discharge Counsel and Waiver of Right to Counsel to be dismissed for the only reaso… |
| 20-7835 | Steven Cooper v. Florida | Florida | 2021-04-22 | Denied | IFP | adverse-possession circuit-court constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process mandamus right-to-counsel trespass | Whether a defendant has the right to waive presence at pretrial conferences |
| 20-1242 | Frances Endencia v. Mario Arce | Illinois | 2021-03-09 | Denied | adverse-possession cloud-of-title due-process illegal-evictions mortgage-securitization property-rights real-estate-taxes securitization title-insurance | Where the banks separated the mortgage and the note via securitization and sold the mortgage to numerous investors who did not pay real estate taxes, … | |
| 20-1126 | Joachim Carlo Santos Martillo, et al. v. Unknown Defendants | Massachusetts | 2021-02-17 | Denied | 35-usc-145 35-usc-261 adverse-possession federal-circuit patent-application patent-ownership property-rights quiet-title standing-doctrine try-title uspto-procedure | Does a party asserting ownership to a patent application have a right to a state (commonwealth) action like either a Massachusetts quiet action or a M… | |
| 20-6207 | Steven Cooper v. Bay County, Florida, et al. | Florida | 2020-11-03 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | adverse-possession constitutional-vagueness due-process judicial-review mandamus property-rights statutory-interpretation takings trespass vagueness | Whether the Florida Statute for Adverse Possession without Color of Title section 95.18 is unconstitutionally vague |
| 19-1107 | Clinton L. Sides, et ux. v. Central Kansas Conservancy, Inc. | Kansas | 2020-03-10 | Denied | Response Waived | adverse-easement adverse-possession federal-law national-trail-system-act prescriptive-easement property-reactivation property-rights rail-banking railroad-right-of-way servient-estate trail-use-easement | Does federal law preclude the application of state adverse possession/prescriptive easement doctrines to trail-use easements created under the Nationa… |