international-comity

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-307 Alfonso E. Chavez Ayub v. Alfonso Chavez Pacheco Texas 2025-09-16 Denied 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…