foreign-law
5 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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… |
| 21-1283 | Animal Science Products, Inc., et al. v. Hebei Welcome Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-03-23 | Denied | Amici (2) | antitrust antitrust-law federal-rule-44.1 foreign-conduct foreign-law judicial-interpretation prescriptive-comity sherman-act statutory-interpretation | Whether U.S. courts may reinterpret the Sherman Act using a discretionary ten-factor balancing test under the doctrine of prescriptive comity |
| 20-1746 | Temor S. Sharifi v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2021-06-16 | Denied | Response Waived | 5th-amendment citizenship due-process fifth-amendment foreign-law just-compensation property-rights takings | Whether a United States citizen can be denied his Fifth Amendment rights to just compensation for property taken by the United States based upon forei… |
| 20-117 | Jairo Sequeira v. Republic of Nicaragua, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-08-05 | Denied | Response Waived | contract-validity direct-effect direct-effect-doctrine explicit-waiver foreign-law foreign-sovereign-immunities-act jurisdiction jurisdiction-waiver property-rights | Whether 1605(a)(1) of the FSIA waiver exception requires courts to determine jurisdiction based on whether or not a contract contains an explicit waiv… |
| 18-5642 | Miroslav Fejfar v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | animal-sci-prod-v-hebei-welcome-pharm asylum civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process extradition foreign-criminal-procedure foreign-law immigration statutory-interpretation withholding-of-removal | Whether due process and the plain meaning of the statute on withholding of removal require that pending asylum issues be heard and resolved before ext… |