intentional-tort
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-651 | Stanley Kappell Watson v. Shenekka Bradsher, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-04 | Pending | Response Requested | bankruptcy-code debt-discharge intentional-tort legal-injury subjective-intent willful-injury | Whether the term 'injury' in 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(6) requires intent to invade a legally protected interest or merely denotes harm, and whether a debt f… |
| 24A200 | United States Postal Service, et al. v. Lebene Konan | Fifth Circuit | 2024-08-23 | Presumed Complete | discrimination federal-tort-claims-act intentional-tort mail-delivery postal-matter-exception sovereign-immunity | Whether the postal-matter exception to the Federal Tort Claims Act's waiver of sovereign immunity applies to intentional, discriminatory acts of mail … | |
| 23-774 | Melissa Groo v. Amy Eddy, Judge, Montana Eleventh Judicial District Court | Montana | 2024-01-17 | Denied | Response Waived | due-process forum-state intentional-tort non-resident-defendant personal-jurisdiction purposeful-direction social-media walden-v-fiore | Whether the Due Process Clause permits a state court to exercise specific personal jurisdiction over a non-resident defendant in an intentional tort c… |
| 23-442 | Anthony Prescott v. K. Johnson, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-27 | Denied | 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment conspiracy cruel-and-unusual-punishment food-contamination food-service fourth-amendment intentional-tort official-capacity-claim prisoner-rights public-entity use-of-force | Does involuntary exposure to non-medical substances constitute unreasonable force? | |
| 22-411 | Keo Ratha, et al. v. Phatthana Seafood Co., Ltd., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-11-01 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | calder-effects-test civil-rights forced-labor forum-injury forum-injury-requirement human-trafficking intentional-tort ninth-circuit-ruling personal-jurisdiction purposeful-availment | Whether purposeful availment suffices to establish specific personal jurisdiction, or whether purposeful direction is necessary |
| 22-5648 | Shannon V. Campbell v. Anthony J. Annucci, Acting Commissioner, New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-09-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | action-tolling administrative-remedies administrative-reversal fraud-inducement intentional-tort negligence negligence-claim new-evidence new-hearing state-officer | Whether the administrative reversal was based off new evidence that was determined through a new hearing or a new hearing based on new evidence? |
| 21-7447 | Peter Liounis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-03-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process emotional-distress false-arrest false-imprisonment favorable-termination heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey intentional-tort preponderance-of-evidence reasonable-doubt | Whether the favorable termination requirement of Heck v. Humphrey must be satisfied in plaintiff's criminal case prior to filing a federal torts claim… |
| 19-1364 | Heather Henry, et vir v. CMBB, LLC | Sixth Circuit | 2020-06-12 | Denied | Response Waived | certification civil-procedure common-law district-court intentional-injury intentional-tort preemption sixth-circuit standing statutory-interpretation tennessee-law workers-compensation | Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in affirming the decision that Petitioners' claim is barred by Tennessee Code Annotated § 50-6-108(a) and the common l… |
| 19-6803 | Carmieshra Gorman v. Regina Cole | California | 2019-12-03 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-authority due-process insurance-law insurance-regulation intentional-tort judicial-discretion standing state-regulation takings | Does the Court Exceed Constitutional Authority in Defending the State's Regulation of Insurance vis a vis the Court's Predatory Treatment of Personal … |
| 19-6499 | John Berman v. David Modell | California | 2019-11-05 | Denied | IFP | benefit-analysis civil-procedure due-process forum-state intentional-tort long-arm-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction | Does a court err by requiring a plaintiff to show what 'benefit' the defendant derived from intentional and allegedly tortuous actions aimed at the pl… |