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…