forum-shopping
18 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-7115 | Jacquelyn V. Fitzhugh v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Indenture Trustee for the Impac CMB Trust Series 2005-3 | First Circuit | 2026-03-30 | Pending | IFP | diversity-jurisdiction equal-access-to-justice federalism forum-shopping mortgage-foreclosure state-law-interpretation | Introductory Statement Forum shopping and the "new federalism " is alive and well in Massachusetts. The favored forum of choice for the big bank, fo… |
| 25-865 | Perles Law Firm, P.C. v. Qatar National Bank, et al. | District of Columbia | 2026-01-21 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split discovery-application foreign-tribunal forum-shopping protective-order section-1782 | The question presented is whether a district court may grant an application under 28 U.S.C. § 1782 when it would amount to a modification of a binding… |
| 25-675 | Lawrence Rudolph v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-12-10 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-interpretation federal-prosecution forum-shopping prosecutorial-discretion tenth-circuit venue-statute | Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in interpreting a federal venue statute enacted by the First Congress to mean the government can prosecute a federal c… |
| 24-1321 | Saul Lassoff, et al. v. MGM Resorts International | Third Circuit | 2025-06-27 | Denied | civil-procedure district-court first-to-file forum-shopping preclusion-order venue-transfer | 1. Whether the New Jersey District Court (Camden) or Third Circuit Appellate Court erred by denying FIRST TO FILE handicap Petitioners a PRECLUSION OR… | |
| 24-658 | In Re Securus Technologies, et al. | 2024-12-18 | Denied | appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court federal-communications-commission forum-shopping statutory-interpretation venue-transfer | Whether the First Circuit violated 28 U.S.C. § 2112(a) by refusing to transfer to the Fifth Circuit consolidated challenges to a Federal Communication… | ||
| 23-5819 | Jason Green v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2023-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | clearly-established-federal-law clearly-established-law due-process forum-shopping habeas-corpus judicial-fairness lockyer-v-andrade ninth-circuit-review panetti-v-quarterman prosecutorial-misconduct | When the prosecutor got an adverse evidentiary ruling, he dismissed and refiled the same day in a different courthouse, ensuring that a different judg… |
| 23-393 | Shichinin, LLC v. Sprint Corporation | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-13 | Denied | Response Waived | arbitration-agreement arbitration-venue contract-interpretation federal-arbitration-act forum-shopping hawaii-arbitration-statute post-arbitration-proceedings venue volt-v-stanford | Where Respondent Sprint Corporation filed a motion for arbitration in Hawaii state court pursuant to the Hawaii arbitration statute, and the Hawaii St… |
| 22-987 | Polaris Industries Inc., et al. v. Jeremy Albright | Ninth Circuit | 2023-04-11 | Denied | abstention-doctrine cafa civil-procedure class-action-fairness-act equitable-jurisdiction federal-courts forum-shopping subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether CAFA's mandatory grant of subject matter jurisdiction and enumeration of limited equitable bases authorizing abstention require district court… | |
| 22-870 | Eliezer Taveras v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-03-10 | Denied | civil-procedure claim-splitting district-court due-process federal-courts forum-shopping improper-claim-splitting mandamus removal removal-jurisdiction | Whether a district court's decision to dismiss with prejudice an action improperly removed from state court is clear and manifest error that should be… | |
| 22-554 | Anna St. John v. Lisa Jones, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2022-12-16 | Denied | Amici (3)Relisted (4) | class-action cy-pres fairness fairness-doctrine first-amendment forum-shopping property-interest rule-23 settlement-approval | Whether, or in what circumstances, a court may approve a settlement as "fair, reasonable, and adequate" under Rule 23(e)(2) when it pays a substantial… |
| 21-1045 | I. M. v. Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services, et al. | Maryland | 2022-01-26 | Denied | Response Waived | child-custody due-process forum-shopping international-law jurisdiction minimum-contacts parental-rights uccjea | Whether the UCCJEA comports with the Due Process Clause, where it subjects an international parent to termination of parental rights, where the parent… |
| 21-142 | Robert J. Frey v. Anthony Binford Minter, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-08-03 | Denied | choice-of-law defamation diversity-jurisdiction forum-shopping internet-communication internet-publication personal-jurisdiction reputation-injury reputational-injury | Whether Petitioner, a natural person, domiciled in Florida, who suffered injury to his internet communication published in Florida, while Petitioner w… | |
| 20-1179 | William W. Cole, Jr. v. PRN Real Estate & Investments, Ltd., et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-02-25 | Denied | Response Waived | comity court-procedure federal-appellate-split federalism forum-shopping judicial-comity state-constitution state-courts state-law-certification state-sovereignty | Whether This Court Should Grant the Petition in Order to Resolve a Long-Standing and Decisive Split Among the Federal Appellate Courts Regarding the S… |
| 20-347 | Charles Malcolm Spivey, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-15 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process forum-shopping interstate-commerce registration-requirement sorna venue | Whether venue for a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 2250(a) for failing to update a registration under SORNA after traveling in interstate commerce can … | |
| 19-257 | California Trout, et al. v. Hoopa Valley Tribe, et al. | District of Columbia | 2019-08-28 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | certification certification-request circuit-conflict clean-water-act environmental-protection forum-shopping project-licensing section-401 state-authority waiver water-quality | Do states waive their authority under section 401 of the Clean Water Act if they do not approve or deny a certification request within one year, even … |
| 18-1526 | Patrick J. Tobin v. City and County of San Francisco, California | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-10 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure federal-courts federalism forum-shopping government-code-911.3(b) judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits legal-interpretation preemption rule-10(a) state-law supervisory-powers | 1. WHETHER THIS COURT HERE MUST EXERCISE ITS SUPERVISORY POWERS OVER LOWER FEDERAL COURTS UNDER RULE 10(a) TO KEEP THEM FROM ENCROACHING ON THE EXCLUS… |
| 18-572 | Dorsey Ron McCall v. Aptim Corporation | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-01 | Dismissed | abstention arbitration-waiver circuit-split civil-procedure federal-court-abstention federal-courts federal-state-jurisdiction forum-shopping litigation-conduct prejudice state-court-proceedings | 1. Must a party opposing arbitration on the ground of waiver by litigation conduct prove that it was prejudiced by the other party's waiver? 2. Shoul… | |
| 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 | In Morrison v. National Australia Bank, Ltd., 561 U.S. 247 (2010), this Court held that Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act does not apply ex… |