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25-386 Vonn Capel, et al. v. Pasco County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-02 Denied Response Waived ad-valorem-taxation comity constitutional-injury federal-review property-rights tax-injunction-act Whether the Tax Injunction Act and comity foreclose federal review of the regulatory scheme, when no 'plain, speedy, efficient remedy exists' to prote…
24-6115 Hector Martinez Peralez v. Texas Texas 2024-12-11 Denied IFP comity constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-consistent-statements statutory-construction Whether Texas' application of Tome v. United States violates constitutional due process rights by improperly applying prior consistent statement rules…
24A27 Cyrus Mark Sanai v. Melanie J. Lawrence, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-10 Presumed Complete appellate-review comity constitutional-claims federal-jurisdiction state-proceedings younger-abstention Whether federal courts must apply Younger abstention based solely on the state of proceedings at the time a complaint is filed or may consider subsequ…
23-1139 John F. Gallagher v. Northampton County Revenue Appeals Board, et al. Third Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 8th-amendment comity constitutional-claims federal-jurisdiction property-tax subject-matter-jurisdiction takings-clause tax-injunction-act Whether federal subject matter jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §1331 is barred by the Tax Injunction Act or the doctrine of comity for claims challenging…
23-1126 David Streeter, et al. v. USAA General Indemnity Company Ninth Circuit 2024-04-17 Denied Response Waived certification-of-questions certification-of-state-law comity cooperative-federalism divergent-decisions diversity-jurisdiction efficient-federal-practice erie-doctrine insurance-law judicial-comity lehman-bros-v-schein state-law-interpretation Have Ninth Circuit Panels and Montana federal district courts abused their discretion by denying certification to the Montana Supreme Court of 'first …
23-973 Randy Tarum, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Robert L. Lindsay, et al. v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Ninth Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied certification-of-state-law-questions comity cooperative-federalism divergent-decisions diversity-jurisdiction efficient-federal-practice erie-doctrine federal-procedure first-impression judicial-comity lehman-bros-v-schein state-law-certification Should cooperative-federalism, comity, efficient-federal-practice, divergent-decisions, lehman-bros-v-schein, certification-of-state-law-questions
23-847 Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, et al. v. North Dakota Legislative Assembly, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-02-06 GVR Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (3) civil-discovery civil-procedure civil-rights comity due-process federal-interests legislative-privilege standing state-legislators third-party-communications Should this Court vacate the Eighth Circuit's decision under United States v. Munsingwear?
23-818 Sean Dunne v. Richard M. Coan, et al. Second Circuit 2024-01-29 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) act-of-state bankruptcy-trustee comity debtor's-estate foreign-law foreign-property fraudulent-conveyance statute-of-limitations Whether a bankruptcy trustee can recover property not in a debtor's estate when such real property, located in a foreign nation, was never owned by th…
23-6439 Jennifer Lynn Mothershead v. Deborah Jo Wofford, Superintendent, Washington Corrections Center for Women Ninth Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 appellate-review comity habeas-corpus merits-determination procedural-bar state-court-ruling Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision violates Harris v. Reed, 489 U.S. 255 (1989) and the bedrock habeas corpus principle of comity
23-458 Thomas De Cola v. Starke County Council, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-10-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 administrative-appeal administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights civil-tort comity due-process miscarriage-of-justice state-federal-review Whether the comity of state and federal court reviews of Petitioner's respective administrative appeal and concurrent 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil tort clai…
23-5652 Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP comity death-penalty due-process federal-counsel federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether the court below erroneously denied jurisdiction pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3599 based on a failure to follow fundamental rules of statutory inter…
22-686 Crosley Alexander Green v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-24 Denied Amici (4)Response Waived admissibility AEDPA brady-v-maryland brady-violation comity constitutional-exhaustion federal-appellate-review federalism habeas-corpus prosecutorial-disclosure state-court-deference state-court-factfinding Whether a federal habeas court can redefine a state court claim to conclude it was not properly exhausted
22-580 John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Kenneth Eugene Smith Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-22 Denied Relisted (9) alternative-method comity death-penalty eighth-amendment feasibility finality method-of-execution nitrogen-hypoxia Whether an alternative method of execution is feasible and readily implemented merely because the executing State has statutorily authorized the metho…
22-366 County of Sonoma, California, et al. v. Gabbi Lemos Ninth Circuit 2022-10-19 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights comity conviction excessive-force heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey judicial-preclusion section-1983 Does Heck's 'necessarily imply' standard bar a § 1983 suit only if success would 'necessarily require' plaintiff to negate the underlying conviction, …
21-8084 Frank Jarvis Atwood v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied Amici (1)IFP as-applied-challenge comity constitutional-challenge eighth-amendment execution-protocol federal-courts federalism inmate-standing method-of-execution standing Whether federal courts may direct specific alterations to a state's execution protocol in an as-applied challenge under the Eighth Amendment
21-7329 Von Lester Taylor v. Robert Powell, Warden Tenth Circuit 2022-03-09 Denied IFP certification comity federal-court federalism judicial-certification legal-ambiguity state-law state-law-interpretation tenth-amendment Does a federal court violate principles of federalism and comity enshrined in the Tenth Amendment by selecting one possible interpretation of an ambig…
21-1171 Cadillac of Naperville, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board District of Columbia 2022-02-24 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure comity employer-speech federalism first-amendment free-speech labor-dispute nlrb nlrb-procedure state-sovereignty Whether the Court of Appeal improperly narrowed the First Amendment protection owed employers in a labor dispute
21-1076 Sivagnanam Thamilselvan v. Vijayalakshmi Thamilselvan Michigan 2022-02-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) comity comity-doctrine divorce first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise no-fault-divorce religious-freedom subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the petitioners' First and Fourteenth Amendment rights are violated
21-862 Samuel Hartman v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2021-12-10 Denied Response Waived §2254-litigation 28-usc-2254 circuit-split comity comity-doctrine deference federal-habeas procedural-default state-court-deference state-post-conviction Whether the majority of circuits are correct that comity prevents Federal courts in proceedings under 28 U.S.C. 2254 from overturning legal conclusion…
21-5876 Under Seal v. Virginia Board of Medicine Fourth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abstention civil-rights comity constitutional-rights due-process fair-hearing federal-courts federalism state-agency younger-abstention Whether Younger and its progeny permit federal courts to abstain, on the basis of general principles of comity and federalism, from hearing Constituti…
21-474 In Re Wisconsin Legislature 2021-09-28 Denied article-iii census census-data comity federal-court-jurisdiction federalism judicial-power redistricting state-law state-legislature Does a federal court clearly and indisputably transgress its Article III judicial power by exercising jurisdiction over a redistricting dispute challe…
21-33 Máxima Acuña-Atalaya, et al. v. Newmont Mining Corporation, et al. Third Circuit 2021-07-12 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) adequate-forum comity corruption forum-non-conveniens home-forum personal-jurisdiction Does the forum non conveniens doctrine permit dismissal from a defendant's presumptively fair and convenient home forum when the adequacy of the forei…
20-1275 Vesuvius USA Corporation, et al. v. Royston Phillips Ohio 2021-03-15 Denied blocking-statutes comity comity-principles data-privacy foreign-discovery gdpr hague-convention international-discovery privacy u.s.-discovery When compliance with discovery obligations in an American court is prohibited by the General Data Privacy Regulation, whether principles of comity req…
20-1168 Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services of Nevada, Inc., et al. v. Sharath Chandra, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights comity comity-doctrine due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion legal-procedure standing Younger-abstention Whether any standard should guide the courts of appeals' discretion to raise Younger abstention sua sponte
20-1179 William W. Cole, Jr. v. PRN Real Estate & Investments, Ltd., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied Response Waived comity court-procedure federal-appellate-split federalism forum-shopping judicial-comity state-constitution state-courts state-law-certification state-sovereignty Whether this court should grant the petition to resolve a split among federal appellate courts regarding the standards for certification of state law …
20-7115 Christopher A. Carter v. Frank Lawrence, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-rights comity due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-review standing Whether the Seventh Circuit ruling which is in conflict with the United States Supreme Court, the Seventh Circuit, other circuits, is debatable and wa…
20-1084 Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Matthew Reeves Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-09 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (8) aedpa aedpa-standard comity federal-review federalism habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-deference strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Eleventh Circuit violated § 2254(d) by readily attributing error to the state court
20-6972 Mark Allen Jenkins v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Amici (2)IFP aedpa atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia circuit-court-methodology circuit-split comity federal-review habeas-corpus intellectual-disability state-court-decision Whether the Eleventh Circuit's failure to limit its review of a reasoned state-court decision under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) to the specific reasons given …
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 Whether the Minnesota courts' refusal to acknowledge the ultimate outcome of Convention proceedings by a Contracting State and declining to afford com…
20-469 Ivo Lindauer, et al. v. Elna Sefcovic, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-10-09 Denied Response Waived ancillary-jurisdiction civil-procedure comity concurrent-jurisdiction exclusive-jurisdiction federal-court-intervention judicial-comity kokkonen-v-guardian-life settlement-enforcement state-court-jurisdiction younger-abstention Whether the state court's jurisdiction is exclusive and ancillary under Kokkonen v. Guardian Life Ins. Co. of America, thereby precluding the exercise…
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…
20-379 Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s London v. Brighton Collectibles, LLC Ninth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied abstention civil-damages comity due-process federalism insurance-policy invasion-of-privacy ninth-circuit privacy-rights song-beverly-act song-beverly-credit-card-act Whether the Ninth Circuit violated federalism, abstention, and comity by creating new law when it refused to follow California's precedence establishi…
20-357 Fritz Kaegi v. A.F. Moore & Associates, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-09-18 Denied Amici (1) comity comity-doctrine equal-protection federal-courts federal-jurisdiction property-tax state-courts state-jurisdiction tax-injunction-act Does the Seventh Circuit's opinion in A.F. Moore v. Pappas continue the movement to erode the Tax Injunction Act and undermine congressional intent?
20-24 Great Lakes Minerals, LLC v. Ohio, et al. Kentucky 2020-07-15 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure comity declaratory-relief individual-capacity injunctive-relief minimum-contacts sovereign-immunity state-jurisdiction state-sovereign-immunity Whether the Court's decision in Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt extends a state's sovereign-immunity to declaratory-and-injunctive-relief a…
19-1302 David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections v. George Russell Kayer Ninth Circuit 2020-05-20 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (9) aedpa aedpa-standard comity de-novo-review federalism habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit rule-of-law sixth-amendment standard-of-review Did the Ninth Circuit violate 28 U.S.C. § 2254's deferential standard, and employ a flawed methodology this Court has repeatedly condemned, when it gr…
19-7628 Glen Gary Guyn v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cause-and-prejudice comity due-process finality fourth-amendment fundamental-injustice incarceration search-and-seizure unreasonable-search unreasonable-search-and-seizure Whether Mr. Guyn's Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable searches and seizures was violated
19-6599 Walter D. Fairley v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights comity comity-and-finality due-process finality fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus incarceration standing statute-of-limitations time-barred Whether the Magistrate for the U.S. Eastern District Court of Louisiana erred when they issued a Report and Recommendation recommending that the petit…
19-6340 Jonathon William-Durand Neuhard v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP comity criminal-procedure due-process evidence federalism integrity-of-state-proceedings statutory-construction statutory-construction-federal-question-due-proces statutory-interpretation Whether the federal court of appeals correctly found that the determination of whether a state adjudication qualifies as a prior conviction under 18 U…
19-463 Wilbur-Ellis Company LLC v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-10-08 Denied appellate-review comity comity-federalism comity-federalism-state-judicial-functions federal-court federal-court-override federalism interlocutory-orders judicial-function sealing-order state-court state-court-sealing state-court-sealing-order state-law-interpretation Whether a district court may override the order of a state court sealing a court filing necessary to resolve a motion in the state court, by compellin…
19-351 Federal Republic of Germany, et al. v. Alan Philipp, et al. District of Columbia 2019-09-18 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (9)Relisted (3) circuit-split comity diplomatic-issues expropriation-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunity human-rights-law international-comity international-human-rights international-law property-taking property-takings takings Whether the 'expropriation exception' of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act provides jurisdiction over claims that a foreign sovereign has violated …
18-1203 Courthouse News Service v. Dorothy Brown, Clerk, Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County Seventh Circuit 2019-03-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) from hearing First-Amendment-access on the basis of general principles of comity and access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights comity comity-doctrine court-access federal-courts federalism first-amendment younger-abstention Whether Younger and its progeny permit federal courts to abstain from hearing First Amendment challenges seeking access to state court filings
18-8094 Eric Gros v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights comity comity-principle due-process exhaustion-of-remedies exhaustion-of-state-remedies fifth-circuit finality habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition judicial-review magistrate-judge report-and-recommendation state-remedies Whether the Magistrate Judge for the U.S. Eastern District Court of Louisiana erred when he issued a Report and Recommendation recommending that the p…
18-7823 Edward Nolan Norwood v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights comity due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection federalism sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation Whether it violates the United States Constitution as well as the principles of comity and federalism to treat a prior state drug conviction that is e…
18-905 Mastrogiovanni Schorsch & Mersky, P.C., et al. v. Edward Mandel Fifth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied bankruptcy comity comity-federalism due-process federalism receivership state-court-jurisdiction state-property-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction Is a federal court authorized to invade a state court's exclusive province to appoint, instruct and control its own appointed receivers, by reinterpre…
18-6638 Israel C. Isbell v. Steven Merlak, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure comity custody-transfer due-process inmate-rights inmate-transfer jurisdictional-comity presumption-of-intent primary-custody primary-jurisdiction sentencing-rights sovereign-intent sovereign-jurisdiction transfer-of-custody waiver-intent At what point is a sovereign's intent to waive primary jurisdiction assessed, and how is that intent assessed?
18-181 Larry Elliot Klayman v. Stephanie Ann Luck Ohio 2018-08-09 Denied civil-procedure comity constitutional-hierarchy due-process federal-court-judgment federal-judgment federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption judicial-enforcement state-court-intervention state-court-jurisdiction state-court-order supremacy-clause writ-of-execution Whether the Supremacy Clause precludes a state court from enjoining the enforcement of a federal court judgment
18-178 SGK Properties, L.L.C., et al. v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response Waived americold-realty-trust-v-conagra-foods business-trust circuit-split citizenship comity comity-and-federalism diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine erie-r-co-v-tompkins federal-courts federalism real-party-in-interest unincorporated-business-trust unincorporated-entity Whether the citizenship of constituent members of an unincorporated business trust determines federal diversity jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a)…
18-5458 Kevin Taylor v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-and-prejudice comity compulsory-process confrontation-clause due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether Mr. Taylor's Sixth Amendment right to confront and cross-examine his accusers was violated when he was denied Compulsory Process