| 21-685 |
Alexander Khochinsky v. Republic of Poland |
District of Columbia |
2021-11-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bad-faith bad-faith-litigation civil-rights diplomatic-immunity extradition foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity personal-property religion-ethnicity sovereign-immunity |
Whether a foreign state that seeks to resolve title to moveable personal property because it is owned by an individual of a particular religion or eth… |
| 21-489 |
Ahmed Ali Muthana v. Antony Blinken, Secretary of State, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
citizenship citizenship-status diplomatic-immunity due-process legal-inconsistency passport passport-revocation revocation state-department state-department-certification |
Is the U.S. State Department's certification of an individual's diplomatic status reasonably considered conclusive and unreviewable evidence, even whe… |
| 19-6009 |
John Robert Demos v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-09-20 |
Closed |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation corporate-liability diplomacy diplomatic-immunity extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-nationals foreign-sovereigns human-rights international-diplomacy international-law original-jurisdiction self-executing standing treaty |
Does the U.S. Supreme Court have original jurisdiction in cases pertaining to foreign-sovereigns, foreign-nationals, protected-persons, and disputes b… |
| 19-185 |
Kalev Mutond, et al. v. Darryl Lewis |
District of Columbia |
2019-08-12 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
civil-procedure common-law-immunity conduct-based-immunity diplomatic-immunity executive-branch executive-branch-position executive-branch-views foreign-official-immunity foreign-officials personal-capacity personal-capacity-suit personal-capacity-suits samantar-v-yousuf torture-victim-protection-act |
Whether conduct-based immunity applies when foreign officials are sued in their personal capacities |
| 18A1228 |
Kalev Mutond, et al. v. Darryl Lewis |
District of Columbia |
2019-05-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
diplomatic-immunity foreign-official-immunity human-rights individual-capacity official-capacity torture-victim-protection-act |
Whether the Torture Victim Protection Act abrogates common-law foreign-official immunity for high-ranking government officials sued for alleged human … |
| 18-1253 |
Brian Mark Burmaster v. Switzerland |
Third Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
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18-usc-229 asset-seizure chemical-weapon chemical-weapons civil-rights diplomatic-immunity due-process embassy-contact extradition federal-statute international-law international-terrorism standing swiss-assets terrorism uncontested-proceedings writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Supreme Court should punish Switzerland for an alleged chemical weapon attack on a U.S. citizen by enforcing a lien on Swiss assets, despi… |
| 18-7125 |
Refaat F. Abul Hosn v. Department of State, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
admitted-mistakes authority authority-regulation breach-of-contract civil-rights contract diplomatic-immunity foreign-sovereign-immunities fsia immunity international-law iraq-invasion legal-authority political-doctrine regulatory-compliance |
Was the immunity under the FSIA affected when the invasion of Iraq occurred? |
| 18-681 |
Chinyere U. Nwoke v. Consulate of Nigeria |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-23 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-1603 28-usc-1605 commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception diplomatic-immunity foreign-service fsia fsia-28-usc-1603 fsia-28-usc-1605(a)(2) missing-passports passport-issuance proper-service-28-usc-1608 service-of-process sovereign-immunity |
Whether the practice of Respondent, CONSULATE OF NIGERIA, NY, that requires consulate officials to leave the New York Consulate office to advertise an… |
| 18-5530 |
Victoria Elia Kaldawi v. State of Kuwait, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights consular-protection diplomatic-immunity due-process human-rights international-law tort torture unlawful-detention |
Whether the U.S. government failed to protect a U.S. citizen from human rights violations and torture committed by foreign government agents |