extraterritoriality

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-336 Binance, et al. v. JD Anderson, et al. Second Circuit 2024-09-25 Denied Amici (1) comity-concerns extraterritoriality international-transactions judicial-test presumption-against-extraterritoriality securities-law Whether the Second Circuit's multifactor test for determining the domestic nature of securities transactions is consistent with the Supreme Court's ru…
23-80 Jeffrey Laydon, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Cooperatieve Rabobank U.A., et al. Second Circuit 2023-07-27 Denied Amici (3) circuit-split civil-procedure domestic-application extraterritorial-application extraterritoriality federal-commodities federal-securities judicial-interpretation legal-precedent precedent statutory-focus statutory-interpretation Whether courts may consider factors other than the statute's focus to decide if a claim involves a domestic application
22-1055 Lee Elbaz, aka Lena Green v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied circuit-split criminal-prosecution domestic-application domestic-transmission extraterritoriality foreign-conduct interstate-commerce wire-fraud Whether the wire-fraud statute applies extraterritorially or is limited to domestic applications
21-1043 Abitron Austria GmbH, et al. v. Hetronic International, Inc. Tenth Circuit 2022-01-26 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (14)Relisted (3) civil-procedure extraterritorial-application extraterritoriality foreign-sales lanham-act territorial-rights trademark trademark-infringement u.s.-commerce us-commerce Whether the court of appeals erred in applying the Lanham Act extraterritorially to petitioners' foreign sales, including purely foreign sales that ne…
21-468 National Pork Producers Council, et al. v. Karen Ross, in Her Official Capacity as Secretary of the California Department of Food & Agriculture, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-29 Judgment Issued Amici (54)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) animal-welfare dormant-commerce-clause economic-effects extraterritoriality federalism interstate-commerce pike-balancing pork-production state-regulation Whether a state law with dramatic economic effects largely outside the state and requiring pervasive changes to a nationwide industry violates the dor…
20-6908 In Re Michael Ingram El 2021-01-15 Denied IFP 14th-amendment citizenship-status civil-rights consular-court consular-jurisdiction diversity-jurisdiction extraterritoriality international-agreement self-executing-treaty treaty treaty-interpretation Whether the Treaty of 1787/1836 is self-executing and grants rights of extraterritoriality and consular court jurisdiction
19-8195 Alens Charles v. Ric L. Bradshaw, Sheriff, Palm Beach County, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-06 Denied IFP assault civil-rights-act-of-1991 criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritoriality federal-government federal-officers general-intent specific-intent statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §111 the dismissal was a specific-intent
19-6293 Dwight Knowles v. United States District of Columbia 2019-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-jurisprudence congressional-intent conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritorial-conspiracy extraterritorial-jurisdiction extraterritorial-offenses extraterritoriality federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation territorial-application Whether federal conspiracy statutes apply extraterritorially when the object of the conspiracy is an extraterritorial offense but there is no clear in…
19-453 Cargill, Inc. v. John Doe I, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-04 Judgment Issued CVSGResponse RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) aiding-and-abetting alien-tort-statute corporate-liability extraterritorial-application extraterritoriality forced-labor foreign-operations human-rights international-law Whether the presumption against extraterritorial application of the Alien Tort Statute is displaced
19-416 Nestlé USA, Inc. v. John Doe I, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-27 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) aiding-and-abetting alien-tort-statute civil-procedure corporate-activity corporate-liability domestic-corporation extraterritoriality foreign-actors foreign-investment international-law jurisdiction Whether an aiding and abetting claim against a domestic corporation brought under the Alien Tort Statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1350, may overcome the extraterr…
19-5946 Anthony Carl Spence v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritorial-jurisdiction extraterritoriality federal-sentencing foreign-conduct guidelines offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether a federal sentencing court can enhance a defendant's offense level based on conduct occurring entirely in a foreign country and not a crime ag…
19-277 HSBC Holdings PLC, et al. v. Irving H. Picard, et al. Second Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied CVSGAmici (6)Relisted (2) bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-550 extraterritoriality foreign-transaction foreign-transactions initial-transferee initial-transferees international-comity subsequent-transferee subsequent-transferees trustee-recovery Whether applying Bankruptcy Code Section 550(a)(2) to permit recovery of the proceeds of a foreign transaction that occurred abroad between two foreig…
18-1566 Charles D. Scoville v. Securities and Exchange Commission Tenth Circuit 2019-06-21 Denied Amici (1) civil-procedure criminal-prosecution dodd-frank-act due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction extraterritorial-reach extraterritoriality federal-jurisdiction sec-enforcement securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-of-1934 securities-law securities-regulation statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Section 929P(b)'s jurisdictional amendments conferred substantive extraterritorial reach upon Sections 10(b) and 17(a) in SEC enforcement acti…
18-1530 Enplas Display Device Corporation v. Seoul Semiconductor Company, Ltd. Federal Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 35-usc-271(b) extraterritoriality global-tech global-tech-appliances induced-infringement inducement microsoft-v-att patent-infringement presumption-against presumption-against-extraterritoriality rjr-nabisco statutory-interpretation Whether, in view of the presumption against extraterritoriality, a foreign defendant's foreign sales of components to a foreign company qualifies as i…
18A1241 HSBC Holdings PLC, et al. v. Irving H. Picard Second Circuit 2019-05-30 Presumed Complete bankruptcy-code extraterritoriality foreign-transfers international-comity madoff-ponzi-scheme subsequent-transfers Whether the U.S. Bankruptcy Code Section 550(a) applies extraterritorially to allow recovery of subsequent transfers received abroad by foreign transf…
18-600 Texas Advanced Optoelectronic Solutions, Inc. v. Renesas Electronics America, Inc., fka Intersil Corporation Federal Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (2) 35-usc-271 commercial-transactions extraterritoriality federal-circuit infringement international-relations offer-to-sell patent patent-infringement patent-law statutory-interpretation united-states-code venue Whether an 'offer to sell' under 35 U.S.C. § 271(a) occurs where the offer is made or where the proposed sale will take place
18-546 Brian E. Frosh, Attorney General of Maryland, et al. v. Association for Accessible Medicines Fourth Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) commerce-clause consumer-protection dormant-commerce-clause drug-pricing extraterritoriality federalism generic-drugs prescription-drugs price-control price-gouging state-police-powers state-regulation Does the Commerce Clause prohibit a state from protecting consumer access to essential off-patent and generic prescription drugs by requiring manufact…
18-486 Toshiba Corporation v. Automotive Industries Pension Trust Fund, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied CVSGAmici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split domestic-transaction domestic-transactions extraterritoriality forum-shopping legal-interpretation morrison-v-national-australia-bank ninth-circuit second-circuit securities-exchange-act securities-fraud securities-regulation Whether the Exchange Act applies without exception whenever a claim is based on a domestic transaction, or whether in certain circumstances the Exchan…
18-5508 Gerald Andrew Darby v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment anticipatory-warrant computer-privacy exclusionary-rule extraterritoriality fourth-amendment good-faith-exception particularity remote-search search-and-seizure warrant-particularity Whether an FBI agent can reasonably rely on the validity of a single warrant that authorizes a million searches of 100,000 different computers without…