forum-selection

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-393 Patricia Raad, et al. v. Bank Audi S.A.L. Second Circuit 2025-10-02 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure contract-performance forum-selection judicial-venue personal-jurisdiction state-jurisdiction Whether the defendant's failure to perform within the State is determinative to defeat personal jurisdiction?
25-344 Robert Cromwell, et al. v. William Tacon, as Administrator of Caribbean Commercial Investment Bank Ltd. Second Circuit 2025-09-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure dismissal forum-selection limitations-period rule-41 time-bar-defense Whether a district court may dismiss a plaintiff's case without prejudice under Rule 41 when the defendant has a time-bar defense and a without-prejud…
25-92 Isaac Mulamba v. Board of Education of Baltimore County Maryland 2025-07-23 Denied civil-rights federal-rules forum-selection pleading-standards supremacy-clause title-vii Whether a state court's application of heightened pleading standards to federal Title VII claims, beyond those required under Federal Rule of Civil Pr…
23A943 Brian E. Conway v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2024-04-22 Presumed Complete extraordinary-writ forum-selection habeas-corpus state-law successive-petition writ-of-relief Whether a successive habeas corpus petition can be summarily denied under state law when the petitioner seeks relief in multiple courts
23-775 Erica Davis, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Andrew Dale Davis, Deceased, and Minor Children, JC, Minor Child, SD, Minor Child, et al. v. Cranfield Aerospace Solutions, Limited Ninth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure continuing-relationship contract-relationship due-process forum-selection fourteenth-amendment in-forum-company personal-jurisdiction product-development purposeful-availment Whether an out-of-forum defendant purposefully avails itself of the forum for personal-jurisdiction
23-352 Christopher A. Rogalski v. Laureate Education, Inc. Third Circuit 2023-10-03 Denied Relisted (3) 12(b)(6) appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-amendment forum-non-conveniens forum-selection forum-selection-clause standing Must the result of a motion to dismiss based upon a claimed forum selection clause under F.R.C.P. 12(b)(6) be considered the same as a dismissal for f…
22-286 Frieda Mae Rogers, fka Frieda Rogers Roen, et al. v. Wilmington Trust Company, et al. Third Circuit 2022-09-27 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure erie-doctrine factual-stipulations federalism forum-selection judicial-admissions state-law statutes-of-limitations statutory-interpretation May-the-court-of-appeals-override-the-parties'-factual-stipulation
21-1508 David Dotson v. Atlantic Specialty Insurance Company Fifth Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied Response Waived choice-of-forum day-in-court erie-doctrine federalism forum-selection insurance-litigation res-judicata substantive-law Did the court of appeals violate the federalism principle of Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938) when it refused to apply Louisiana's substant…
21-745 Robert L. Alexander, et al. v. PSFS 3 Corporation Iowa 2021-11-19 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction forum-selection full-faith-and-credit judicial-procedure res-judicata state-court Was it a violation of the Full Faith and Credit Clause and Statute for the Supreme Court of Iowa to refuse to give effect to the ruling of the federal…
21-4 C. Al Buis v. DLI Assets Bravo, LLC Virginia 2021-07-06 Denied Response Waived borrower-agreement consent consent-clause due-process forum-selection forum-selection-clause guaranty-agreement loan-guaranty personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Whether a state court can exercise specific personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state guarantor based solely on a co-defendant's consent to a forum-s…
20-1564 James M. Perna v. Health One Credit Union, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts arbitration civil-rights due-process first-amendment forum-selection jurisdiction petition-clause sixth-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether a grant of a writ of certiorari is warranted
20-747 Peter F. Gary, et al. v. JTC Holdings, LLC Colorado 2020-11-30 Denied Response Waived choice-of-law civil-procedure corporate-governance due-process forum-selection long-arm-statute minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction tortious-conduct Does discussing business with Plaintiff's owner—a Colorado Resident—without more, allow Colorado to exercise personal jurisdiction over Defendants?
20-515 Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Company v. Gateway Hospitality Group Inc., et al. Montana 2020-10-20 Denied arbitration-clause civil-procedure due-process fair-play-and-substantial-justice forum-selection fourteenth-amendment insurance insurance-contract personal-jurisdiction Whether the nationwide territory of coverage clause in the insurance policy obligated the insurer to submit to personal jurisdiction in a Montana cour…
19-1250 Victor Allan Clark v. Celebrity Cruises, Inc., et al. Florida 2020-04-27 Denied 45-usc-55 45-usc-56 forum-selection forum-selection-clause jones-act maritime-law negligence personal-injury seaman-employment seaman-employment-contract third-party-beneficiary Does the Jones Act render void a foreign forum selection clause in a Seaman's employment contract?
19-989 Kathleen K. Johnson, Individually and as Trustee of the Annabell M. Palmer Family Trust, et al. v. UBS AG Second Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied Response Waived commercial-disputes corporate-presence forum-selection general-jurisdiction long-arm-statute long-arm-statutes non-domiciliaries non-domiciliary nonresident-corporation personal-jurisdiction tortious-conduct Should this Court address and resolve the conflicts and inconsistencies among the Federal Circuits and the State Courts on the issue of general jurisd…
19-347 AER Advisors, Inc., et al. v. Fidelity Brokerage Services, LLC First Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) annunzio-wylie-anti-money-laundering-act anti-money-laundering bank-secrecy-act choice-of-law civil-immunity criminal-disclosure diversity-jurisdiction federal-transfer financial-institutions forum-selection good-faith-reporting immunity immunity-defense Whether Section 5318 of the Bank Secrecy Act confers absolute immunity or only immunity for good-faith, truthful disclosures about possible criminal v…
18-1484 Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc., et al. v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied atlantic-marine convenience-of-parties district-court-discretion federal-courts federal-policy forum-selection forum-selection-clause judicial-precedent mandamus mandamus-relief public-policy state-policy transfer-of-venue Whether a district court's disregard of Atlantic Marine is sufficient grounds for mandamus relief
18-1341 Jeffrey A. Robertson v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied Amici (1) civil-rights employee-benefit-plan employee-benefit-plans erisa erisa-venue-provision fiduciary-duty forum-selection forum-selection-clause participant-rights public-policy statutory-interpretation venue venue-provision Whether a private employee benefit plan's unilateral adoption of a forum selection clause that circumvents the venue choices that Congress granted pla…
18-998 Sandra Waite, as Personal Representative of the Estate of John Waite, Jr. v. Union Carbide Corporation, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied Response Waived asbestos asbestos-liability asbestos-litigation civil-procedure corporate-registration due-process forum-selection in-state-causation mesothelioma personal-jurisdiction product-liability products-liability specific-jurisdiction three-prong-test Whether the circuit court erred when it ignored the three-prong analysis the Court has repeatedly set forth for analyzing specific jurisdiction and, i…