| 25-307 |
Alfonso E. Chavez Ayub v. Alfonso Chavez Pacheco |
Texas |
2025-09-16 |
Denied |
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due-process foreign-will international-comity judicial-jurisdiction supremacy-clause testamentary-rights |
"Comity " entails "the recognition which one nation
allows within its territory to the ... judicial acts of another
nation, having due regard both t… |
| 24-601 |
The Doe Run Resources Corporation, et al. v. Kate Reid, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-12-03 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
environmental-regulation foreign-tort-claims international-comity judicial-jurisdiction sovereignty trade-promotion-agreement |
Did the Eighth Circuit err in denying dismissal based on international comity and in interpreting the U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement as requiring… |
| 24A333 |
The Doe Run Resources Corporation, et al. v. Kate Reid, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-10-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
environmental-tort extraterritorial-litigation foreign-relations international-comity trade-promotion-agreement treaty-interpretation |
Whether the United States-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement permits foreign plaintiffs to bring extraterritorial environmental tort claims in U.S. federa… |
| 23-792 |
Jehan Agrama v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-search due-process international-comity investigative-procedure irs-summons powell-vs-united-states treaty-disclosure united-states-vs-clarke |
Whether the IRS summons should be quashed due to tainted investigation |
| 23-746 |
Dmitry Nikolenko v. Luiza Nikolenko |
Texas |
2024-01-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment immigration international-comity personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Texas court violated the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause and international comity |
| 23-131 |
Falkbuilt Ltd., et al. v. DIRTT Environmental Solutions, Inc., et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-08-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
alternative-forum circuit-split civil-procedure forum-non-conveniens gulf-oil-corp-v-gilbert international-comity international-litigation jurisdictional-dismissal multi-defendant-case piper-aircraft-co-v-reyno |
Whether, in a multi-defendant case, district courts are legally prohibited from dismissing any defendant under the doctrine of forum non conveniens un… |
| 22-243 |
Museum of Fine Arts, et al. v. David L. de Csepel, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-09-14 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights exhaustion federal-rules foreign-policy foreign-sovereign-immunity international-comity republic-of-philippines-v-pimentel rule-19 sovereign-defense |
Whether non-immune foreign sovereign entities may raise a defense of international comity (exhaustion) |
| 20-730 |
Lindsay R. Cooper, et al. v. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc., aka TEPCO, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
choice-of-law diplomatic-mission foreign-corporation foreign-corporations humanitarian-assistance international-comity jurisdiction military-personnel u.s.-court-jurisdiction |
Whether U.S. military personnel can rely on U.S. court jurisdiction for harms by foreign corporations on foreign soil |
| 19-761 |
KT Corporation, et al. v. ABS Holdings, Ltd., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
|
arbitration arbitration-award arbitration-awards contract contract-disputes due-process due-process-standards enforcement-actions foreign-government foreign-law-enforcement international-comity satellite-dispute tribunal-mandate |
Does the doctrine of international comity bar our courts from enforcing arbitration awards that are based on a tribunal's conclusion — in excess of it… |
| 19-351 |
Federal Republic of Germany, et al. v. Alan Philipp, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-09-18 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (9)Relisted (3) |
circuit-split comity diplomatic-issues expropriation-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunity human-rights-law international-comity international-human-rights international-law property-taking property-takings takings |
Whether the 'expropriation exception' of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act provides jurisdiction over claims that a foreign sovereign has violated … |
| 19-277 |
HSBC Holdings PLC, et al. v. Irving H. Picard, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (6)Relisted (2) |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-550 extraterritoriality foreign-transaction foreign-transactions initial-transferee initial-transferees international-comity subsequent-transferee subsequent-transferees trustee-recovery |
Whether applying Bankruptcy Code Section 550(a)(2) to permit recovery of the proceeds of a foreign transaction that occurred abroad between two foreig… |
| 18A1241 |
HSBC Holdings PLC, et al. v. Irving H. Picard |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
bankruptcy-code extraterritoriality foreign-transfers international-comity madoff-ponzi-scheme subsequent-transfers |
Whether the U.S. Bankruptcy Code Section 550(a) applies extraterritorially to allow recovery of subsequent transfers received abroad by foreign transf… |
| 18-1447 |
Republic of Hungary, et al. v. Rosalie Simon, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-05-20 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (7)Relisted (4) |
choice-of-forum comity-interest exhaustion-of-local-remedies exhaustion-of-remedies foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity forum-non-conveniens international-comity naturalized-citizens world-war-ii-property-claims |
Whether the district court must abstain from exercising jurisdiction under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act for reasons of international comity wh… |