commercial-contract

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6465 Leslie Robert Burk v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-04 Denied IFP 18-USC-1343 18-USC-1349 commercial-contract contract-law specific-intent wire-fraud Whether the wire-fraud statutes criminalize a deceptive statement that induces an ordinary commercial contract that the party who made the statement i…
24-6170 Robert E. Carter v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split commercial-contract federal-statute fraud-inducement property-deprivation wire-fraud Whether fraudulent inducement of a commercial contract violates federal wire fraud statutes when no property loss occurs and whether property deprivat…
21-1583 Jerry Bird v. Oregon Commission for the Blind, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment administrative-procedures-act arbitration-process blind-vendor-rights commercial-contract eleventh-amendment federal-arbitration federal-statute sovereign-immunity vending-services Does a State waive its sovereign immunity from money damages when it voluntarily enters into a commercial vending services contract with a private ind…
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…
18-5017 Glenn Lee Selden v. Elizabeth A. Kovachevich, Judge, United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-06-28 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights commercial-contract constitutional-provisions criminal-forfeiture due-process false-name-registration government-authority legal-counsel military-appeal national-security standing takings Whether the court will enforce a commercial contract when the United States is under nuclear assault and the public is in grave danger