| 24A333 |
The Doe Run Resources Corporation, et al. v. Kate Reid, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-10-08 |
Presumed Complete |
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environmental-tort extraterritorial-litigation foreign-relations international-comity trade-promotion-agreement treaty-interpretation |
Whether the United States-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement permits foreign plaintiffs to bring extraterritorial environmental tort claims in U.S. federa… |
| 23-390 |
Arun Kumar Bhattacharya v. State Bank of India |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-13 |
Denied |
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circuit-split commercial-activity-exception direct-effects-clause foreign-relations foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation u.s.-jurisdictional-requirements |
Whether a 'direct effect in the United States' under 28 U.S.C. 1605(a)(2) requires a 'legally significant act' in the U.S. or 'legally significant' U.… |
| 23A165 |
Arun Kumar Bhattacharya v. State Bank of India |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-08-23 |
Presumed Complete |
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circuit-split commercial-activity-exception direct-effect foreign-relations foreign-sovereign-immunities-act sovereign-immunity |
Whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's commercial activity exception, 28 U.S.C. § 1605(a)(2), requires a foreign state to have performed a leg… |
| 23-140 |
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, et al. v. OI European Group B.V., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-08-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
alter-ego alter-ego-doctrine derecognition executive-authority executive-recognition foreign-relations foreign-sovereign-immunities-act pdvsa property-attachment state-instrumentality |
Whether a court may assess the FSIA immunity of a 'foreign state' and its instrumentalities from jurisdiction, and the immunity of their property from… |
| 20-1329 |
Macarieto I. Trayvilla, et al. v. Japan Airlines, et al. |
New York |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
act-of-state-doctrine airlines federal-preemption foreign-relations judicial-review passport-entry separation-of-powers sovereign-state statute-of-limitations |
Whether the State Appellate Court's order invalidating the 'act of state' of the Philippines violates the act-of-state-doctrine and separation-of-powe… |
| 20-238 |
Changzhou Sinotype Technology Co., Ltd. v. Rockefeller Technology Investments (Asia) VII |
California |
2020-08-28 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
arbitration arbitration-award civil-procedure foreign-relations hague-service-convention international-litigation judicial-sovereignty jurisdiction postal-service service-of-process |
Whether a private litigant can waive a foreign state's objection to service by postal channels under the Hague Service Convention |
| 20-5026 |
James Daniel Arbaugh v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-prosecution extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-conduct foreign-relations sovereignty statutory-construction |
Does the power to regulate Commerce with Foreign Nations include the prosecution of a volunteer missionary who engages in noncommercial illicit sexual… |
| 19-7978 |
Ramon Delgado, aka Ramon Delgado-Pina v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law affection-influence civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process foreign-nationals foreign-relations security-clearance sentencing uncharged-conduct vagueness |
Was the security clearance questionnaire unconstitutionally vague? |
| 18-309 |
Lonnie Swartz v. Araceli Rodriguez, Individually and as the Surviving Mother and Personal Representative of J. A. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-11 |
GVR |
CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (4) |
bivens bivens-remedy bivens-v-six-unknown-named-agents border-security cross-border-shooting extraterritorial-application foreign-relations fourth-amendment qualified-immunity separation-of-powers |
Whether the panel's decision to create an implied remedy for damages under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of the Fed. Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S… |