| 24-983 |
Havana Docks Corporation v. Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-03-13 |
Granted |
CVSGAmici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
cuban-regime foreign-policy libertad-act private-right-of-action property-confiscation trafficking |
Whether a plaintiff must prove that the defendant trafficked in property confiscated by the Cuban government as to which the plaintiff owns a claim, o… |
| 23-208 |
Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael, et al. v. Education for a Just Peace in the Middle East |
District of Columbia |
2023-09-06 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
aiding-and-abetting civil-rights due-process facial-plausibility foreign-policy foreign-terrorist-organizations jurisdiction pro-palestinian-organizations standing statutory-interpretation terrorism terrorism-liability |
Whether 'facial plausibility' of a complaint filed by a victim of international terrorism committed in Israel may be judged by a different standard th… |
| 22-243 |
Museum of Fine Arts, et al. v. David L. de Csepel, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-09-14 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights exhaustion federal-rules foreign-policy foreign-sovereign-immunity international-comity republic-of-philippines-v-pimentel rule-19 sovereign-defense |
Whether non-immune foreign sovereign entities may raise a defense of international comity (exhaustion) |
| 22-5478 |
Lesester Duva McDaughtery v. Tammy Foss, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process false-evidence federal-courts foreign-policy habeas-corpus inherent-authority judicial-proceedings post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-proceedings |
Whether the Judiciary Act of 1789 and the inherent authority of federal courts to control their own proceedings sanctions a federal court's dismissal … |
| 19-1031 |
Erin Capron, et al. v. Office of the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
cultural-exchange federal-preemption federal-regulations foreign-policy immigration labor-laws state-regulation |
Whether federal law preempts the application of state and local labor laws to the terms and conditions of participation in the federal au pair program |
| 19-6886 |
Sean M. Donahue v. Superior Court of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-09 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-infirmity coram-nobis equal-rights federal-preemption foreign-policy immigration-law post-conviction-relief |
Does Commonwealth v. Descardes, 136 A.3d 493 (Pa. 2016) violate federal preemption in foreign policy and immigration law? |
| 19-6011 |
John Robert Demos v. United States, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-09-20 |
Closed |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process foreign-nationals foreign-policy immigration jurisdiction protected-persons standing statutory-provisions |
Whether the Supreme Court has 'original jurisdiction' over cases involving aliens, foreigners, nationals, and subjects |
| 19-177 |
Agency for International Development, et al. v. Alliance for Open Society International, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6) |
civil-rights federal-funding first-amendment foreign-policy free-speech funding-conditions hiv-aids overseas-affiliates prostitution speech-restriction standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the First Amendment bars enforcement of Congress's directive that respondents 'have a policy explicitly opposing prostitution and sex traffick… |
| 18-1057 |
Marei von Saher v. Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
act-of-state-doctrine art-restitution civil-rights due-process foreign-policy holocaust-assets looted-art nazi-looted-art property-rights sovereign-immunity sovereign-interest |
Where artworks were forcibly confiscated from their Jewish owner by Nazi Reichsmarschall Hermann Goring, then recovered by the Dutch government after … |
| 18-581 |
Argentine Republic v. Petersen Energia Inversora S.A.U., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-02 |
Denied |
CVSGRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception expropriation foreign-policy foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law legal-exception sovereign-act sovereign-immunity |
Whether the 'commercial activity' exception to sovereign immunity in the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1605(a)(2), is inapplicable to … |
| 18-6502 |
Chris Jonathon Epperson v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process executive-power foreign-affairs foreign-policy national-security political-question separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Whether the President has the authority to unilaterally revoke a prior President's executive order regarding foreign policy and national security matt… |