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25-5455 Jesus Torres v. Cheniere Energy, Inc., et al. Texas 2025-08-22 Denied IFP choice-of-law discovery-process jurisdictional-deficiency service-agreement statutory-employer summary-judgment 1. Choice of Law: Did the lower court err in applying Louisiana law to the plaintiffs claims despite the explicit choice-of-law provision in the Servi…
25A168 Karl Tobien v. Nationwide General Insurance Company Sixth Circuit 2025-08-07 Presumed Complete choice-of-law circuit-split federal-procedure prima-facie-showing rule-12-b-3 venue-burden Whether federal courts should apply a uniform standard for determining which party bears the burden of proving venue in a motion to dismiss under Rule…
24-1012 Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Company v. Martin J. O’Leary, et al. Montana 2025-03-21 Denied choice-of-law legal-malpractice multi-jurisdictional-practice personal-jurisdiction professional-liability specific-jurisdiction Is a lawyer with a multi-jurisdictional law practice subject to specific personal jurisdiction for a legal malpractice claim in a state where the lawy…
24-876 NVWS Properties, LLC v. Casun Invest, A.G., a Swiss Corporation Ninth Circuit 2025-02-14 Denied choice-of-law conflict-of-laws diversity-jurisdiction forum-state restatement-of-conflict-of-laws statute-of-limitations Whether a federal district court sitting in diversity jurisdiction should apply the statute of limitations based on the jurisdiction where all parties…
24A663 NVWS Properties, LLC v. Casun Invest, A.G., a Swiss Corporation Ninth Circuit 2025-01-03 Presumed Complete borrowing-statute choice-of-law conflict-of-laws injury-location statute-of-limitations unjust-enrichment Whether federal courts must determine the precise location of an injury-in-fact when applying a state's borrowing statute for statute of limitations p…
24-652 David Cassirer, et al. v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation Ninth Circuit 2024-12-17 GVR Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) choice-of-law federal-preemption holocaust-art-restitution international-law nazi-looted-art sovereign-immunity Whether a California statutory choice-of-law requirement mandating California substantive law in Holocaust artwork recovery cases should result in a G…
24A293 David Cassirer, et al. v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation Ninth Circuit 2024-09-25 Presumed Complete art-restitution california-law choice-of-law foreign-sovereign-immunities-act nazi-looted-art spanish-law Whether a federal court should apply the choice-of-law rules of the forum state to determine the substantive law governing a claim involving a Nazi-lo…
24-104 Commerzbank AG v. U.S. Bank, N.A. Second Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied Response Waived choice-of-law conflict-of-laws contract-dispute contract-law fiduciary-obligation restatement-analysis restatement-second securities-industry securities-trade third-party-activities trustee-liability Whether the Restatement's choice-of-law analysis for contract claims is properly determined by the actions and expectations of the contract parties, n…
23-448 Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Howell Management Services, LLC Utah 2023-10-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure choice-of-law civil-procedure final-judgment interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction mootness rule-37 voluntary-dismissal Whether an exception to the final judgment rule is valid under U.R.A.P. 5
23-70 Traffic Tech, Inc., et al. v. C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied anti-waiver-statute choice-of-law constitutional-interpretation due-process employment-rights full-faith-and-credit interstate-commerce state-sovereignty Whether the Full Faith and Credit Clause and the Due Process Clause require a State, which has its own Anti-Waiver Statute, to uphold a sister State's…
22-500 Great Lakes Insurance SE v. Raiders Retreat Realty Co., LLC Third Circuit 2022-11-30 Judgment Issued Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) admiralty-law choice-of-law civil-procedure contract-enforcement federal-law maritime-contract public-policy What is the standard for enforcing a choice of law clause in a maritime contract?
22-470 Oceltip Aviation 1 Pty Ltd. v. Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-provision choice-of-law contract-interpretation federal-arbitration-act federal-common-law state-law state-standards Whether courts may displace state contract interpretation principles with a federal common law rule requiring 'clear intent' to opt out of the Federal…
22-252 Howmedica Osteonics Corp. v. DePuy Synthes Sales, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-16 Denied federal courts sitting in diversity should apply under Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins choice-of-law circuit-split civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine erie-railroad-co-v-tompkins forum-selection-clause forum-selection-clauses procedural-law state-law substantive-law Whether federal or state law governs the validity of forum-selection clauses
22-18 Cuker Interactive, LLC v. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Ninth Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (2) bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure case-law choice-of-law circuit-split federal-courts federal-jurisdiction forum-state judicial-interpretation substantive-law Whether federal courts must apply forum state or federal choice-of-law rules in bankruptcy cases
21-1236 In Re Kyko Global Inc., et al. 2022-03-10 Denied Response Waived breach-of-fiduciary-duty california-law choice-of-law conflict-of-laws corporate-director corporate-law fiduciary-duty internal-affairs-doctrine panel-discretion pennsylvania-law whether the Panel abused its discretion and improperly created a new legal rule to evaluate Petitioners' breach-of-fiduciary-duty claims
21-1138 Sherry Treppa, et al. v. George Hengle, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-02-16 Dismissed arbitration-agreement arbitration-clause choice-of-law delegation-clause official-capacity sovereign-immunity state-law tribal-government tribal-officials Whether a court can invalidate an agreement to have an arbitrator resolve questions of arbitrability (a 'delegation clause) based on the court's inter…
21-1132 Scott Asner, et al. v. George Hengle, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-02-16 Dismissed arbitration-agreement choice-of-law circuit-split delegation-clause federal-arbitration-act federal-rights Can a federal court refuse to enforce the delegation clause of an arbitration agreement on the ground that a choice-of-law provision applicable to the…
21-879 Gregory Mayer v. Hartford Life and Accident Insurance Company Second Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied Response Waived benefit-determination benefit-determinations choice-of-law commerce-clause de-novo-review erisa erisa-preemption judicial-review preemption Whether state law prescribing de novo judicial review for challenged benefit determinations is preempted by ERISA, and whether enforcing such a state …
21-142 Robert J. Frey v. Anthony Binford Minter, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-03 Denied choice-of-law defamation diversity-jurisdiction forum-shopping internet-communication internet-publication personal-jurisdiction reputation-injury reputational-injury Whether Petitioner, a natural person, domiciled in Florida, who suffered injury to his reputation in Florida from a defamatory multistate internet com…
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…
20-953 Michael D. Ellis v. Liberty Life Assurance Company of Boston Tenth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied choice-of-law civil-procedure erisa federal-courts insurance-contract insurance-contracts preemption state-law What is the correct test to apply in deciding whether an otherwise applicable state law—here, a state law prohibiting provisions in insurance contract…
20-747 Peter F. Gary, et al. v. JTC Holdings, LLC Colorado 2020-11-30 Denied Response Waived choice-of-law civil-procedure corporate-governance due-process forum-selection long-arm-statute minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction tortious-conduct Does discussing business with Plaintiff's owner—a Colorado Resident—without more, allow Colorado to exercise personal jurisdiction over Defendants?
20-730 Lindsay R. Cooper, et al. v. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc., aka TEPCO, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) choice-of-law diplomatic-mission foreign-corporation foreign-corporations humanitarian-assistance international-comity jurisdiction military-personnel u.s.-court-jurisdiction Whether U.S. military personnel can rely on U.S. court jurisdiction for harms by foreign corporations on foreign soil
20-5901 Laura Marie Scott v. City of Hamtramck, Michigan, Treasurer, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied IFP choice-of-law comity equity federal-contracts property-rights quasi-in-rem quasi-in-rem-action tax-foreclosure title Does a violation of choice-of-law create a quasi-in-rem-action that reverses itself to preclude any relief as to title or equity despite mutual and ex…
20-428 Horacio Sequeira v. Republic of Nicaragua, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied arbitration-clause breach-of-contract choice-of-forum choice-of-law commercial-arbitration commercial-contract contract-validity foreign-sovereign-immunities-act jurisdiction jurisdiction-waiver motion-to-dismiss Whether the proper procedure for a district court to follow in FSIA breach of contract cases is to apply the FSIA to avoid converting a Motion to Dism…
20-5060 Justin Kirk Graves v. David Shinn, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-07-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act choice-of-law circuit-split district-of-confinement district-of-conviction habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in applying the Fifth Circuit's substantive law in considering a § 2241 petition claiming actual innocence
19-1288 Alan Singer v. Mondex Corporation Arizona 2020-05-13 Denied appellate-procedure attorney-fees choice-of-law civil-procedure cross-appeal jurisdiction minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver Did the Arizona Supreme Court have subject matter jurisdiction to grant attorney's fees on behalf of an appellee after it declined to grant review; al…
19-7152 Allan M. Leavitt v. Cynthia A. Phillips, et al. Massachusetts 2020-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP choice-of-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation contract-enforcement contract-law declaratory-judgment due-process interstate-dispute judicial-procedure massachusetts property property-rights property-rights-deprivation standing state-interest vermont Did Massachusetts deprive a Vermont citizen the fundamental right to property without a compelling state interest by refusing to enforce its substanti…
19-526 Dexter Edwards, dba Edwards Land and Cattle v. Genex Cooperative, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied cattle-reproduction choice-of-law civil-procedure contract contract-law diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federalism oral-agreement state-law Did the court of appeals violate Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938) and the pragmatic federalism it represents by refusing to apply establish…
19-347 AER Advisors, Inc., et al. v. Fidelity Brokerage Services, LLC First Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) annunzio-wylie-anti-money-laundering-act anti-money-laundering bank-secrecy-act choice-of-law civil-immunity criminal-disclosure diversity-jurisdiction federal-transfer financial-institutions forum-selection good-faith-reporting immunity immunity-defense Whether Section 5318 of the Bank Secrecy Act confers absolute immunity or only immunity for good-faith, truthful disclosures about possible criminal v…
19-232 New Mighty U.S. Trust, et al. v. Robert Shi, as Executor of the Will of Yueh-Lan Wang, et al. District of Columbia 2019-08-21 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived burden-of-proof choice-of-forum choice-of-law circuit-split civil-procedure conflict-of-laws forum-non-conveniens jurisdiction jurisdictional-doctrine standing venue Whether a forum resident bears a heightened burden to establish that a suit brought by a foreign plaintiff should be dismissed under the doctrine of f…
19-196 Louisiana Health Service & Indemnity Company, dba Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana v. Encompass Office Solutions, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2019-08-14 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived antiassignment-provision authoritative-guidance choice-of-law civil-procedure claim-processing clear-authoritative-guidance erie-doctrine erie-railroad erie-railroad-co-v-tompkins erisa erisa-antiassignment-provision erisa-benefits erisa-waiver federal-court federal-courts liability medical-provider standing state-law statutory-interpretation waiver Whether a federal court may choose the option that expands liability under state law, absent clear, authoritative guidance from the state's courts
19-79 Dana Albrecht v. Katherine Albrecht New Hampshire 2019-07-16 Denied Response Waived choice-of-law civil-rights conflict-of-laws due-process federalism full-faith-and-credit judicial-procedure jurisdiction marital-estate property-law sister-state Does this constitute a policy of 'hostility to the public Acts' of a sister State?
18-1537 Youras Ziankovich v. Colorado Colorado 2019-06-13 Denied Response Waived choice-of-law civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceeding due-process federal-agency federal-agency-practice federal-preemption free-speech interstate-practice legal-ethics license-suspension preemption professional-conduct professional-misconduct standing state-licensing supremacy-clause Whether Colorado violated the petitioner's constitutional rights by suspending his New York law license for alleged violations of Colorado's professio…
18-1288 Jean Coulter v. ADT Security Services, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied choice-of-law civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-protection contract contract-interpretation contract-renewal contractual-limitations contractual-period due-process fraud fraud-in-inducement implied-contract public-safety statute-of-limitations Did ADT Security Services commit fraud in inducement, and is it applicable for renewals or later implied contracts?
18-8515 E. Drake v. Murphy, Austin, Adams, Schoenfeld, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-03-21 Denied IFP choice-of-law civil-procedure civil-procedure-personal-jurisdiction civil-rights contract contract-law due-process fraud fraud-claims internet internet-commerce internet-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction websites zippo-standard Whether the district court and Fifth Circuit erred in dismissing the case for lack of personal jurisdiction over the defendants, Niello and the Murphy…
18-389 Parker Drilling Management Services, Ltd. v. Brian Newton Ninth Circuit 2018-09-26 Judgment Issued Amici (8)Relisted (2) choice-of-law circuit-split fair-labor-standards-act federal-jurisdiction federal-law federal-preemption gap-filling outer-continental-shelf-lands-act reliance-interests state-law state-law-borrowing statutory-interpretation wage-and-hour-laws Whether, under OCSLA, state law is borrowed as the applicable federal law only when there is a gap in the coverage of federal law, as the Fifth Circui…
18-175 Applied Underwriters, Inc., et al. v. Citizens of Humanity, LLC, et al. California 2018-08-08 Denied arbitrability arbitration-act arbitration-agreement choice-of-law contract-interpretation delegation-clause federal-arbitration-act judicial-hostility preemption rent-a-center-v-jackson state-arbitration-principles state-substantive-law Whether a litigant can avoid enforcement of a cont Whether a general choice-of-law clause in a contract that contains an arbitration agreement should be read to import state substantive law without imp…
18-174 Applied Underwriters Captive Risk Assurance Company, Inc. v. Citizens of Humanity, LLC, et al. Nebraska 2018-08-08 Denied arbitrability-delegation arbitration arbitration-agreement choice-of-law contract-interpretation delegation-clause federal-arbitration-act judicial-hostility judicial-hostility-to-arbitration preemption state-law substantive-law Whether a general choice-of-law clause in a contract that contains an arbitration agreement should incorporate state substantive law without incorpora…