civil-law

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-149 Sabine River Authority, Louisiana v. Perry Bonin, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment civil-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment federal-court louisiana-civil-law sovereign-immunity state-agency subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Louisiana's conditional waiver of sovereign immunity to allow suits against it to proceed only in Louisiana courts deprives federal courts of …
20-1647 Valerie Haney v. Church of Scientology International, et al. California 2021-05-26 Denied Amici (1) arbitration arbitration-procedure civil-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-religion religious-arbitration religious-freedom Whether a court may subject a person to religious arbitration under the First Amendment
19-613 W&T Offshore, Incorporated v. Apache Deepwater, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response Waived choice-of-law civil-procedure conflict-of-laws federal-courts precedent state-courts civil-law court-procedure federal-court highest-court judicial-methodology jurisdiction jurisdictional-interpretation legal-precedent methodology precedent Whether a federal court applying the law of a civil-law jurisdiction should follow the methodology that the jurisdiction's highest court would apply o…