| 25-376 |
Dustin Thomas House Darden v. Crowd Management Service |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 constitutional-accountability first-amendment government-contractors police-powers state-action |
Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, private actors constitute state actors when they exercise governmental authority or act jointly with state officials. Courts h… |
| 22-379 |
Arkansas Times LP v. Mark Waldrip, as Trustee of the University of Arkansas Board of Trustees, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-10-24 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
boycott boycott-speech civil-rights constitutional-law content-discrimination first-amendment free-speech government-contractors viewpoint-discrimination |
Is a state law requiring government contractors to certify that they are not participating in, and will not participate in, boycotts of Israel or Isra… |
| 21-1338 |
NSO Group Technologies Limited, et al. v. WhatsApp Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-08 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) |
agent-entities agents-for-foreign-governments common-law-immunity foreign-sovereign-immunities-act government-contractors judicial-immunity legal-precedent private-entities samantar solicitor-general |
Whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act entirely displaces common-law immunity for entities, such that private entities that act as agents for fo… |
| 19-648 |
CACI Premier Technology, Inc. v. Suhail Najim Abdulla Al Shimari, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (3) |
alien-tort-statute appellate-jurisdiction civil-immunity civil-rights collateral-order collateral-order-doctrine derivative-sovereign-immunity due-process federal-contractor government-contractors jus-cogens military-operations sovereign-immunity |
Whether an order denying a federal contractor's claim of derivative sovereign immunity is an immediately appealable final order under the collateral-o… |
| 18-699 |
Brookdale Senior Living Communities, Inc., et al. v. United States, ex rel. Marjorie Prather |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act government-contractors government-payment materiality pleading-requirements regulatory-violation scienter |
Whether the failure to plead facts relating to past government practices in an FCA action can weigh against a finding of materiality |