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25A905 Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A., et al. v. Helmerich & Payne International Drilling Co. District of Columbia 2026-02-10 Application act-of-state-doctrine foreign-sovereign hickenlooper-amendment international-law property-expropriation territorial-jurisdiction Whether the Second Hickenlooper Amendment applies to property expropriation claims involving foreign state assets that have not been brought within th…
25-6644 James Daniel Arbaugh v. United States Fourth Circuit 2026-01-22 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-limits criminal-prosecution foreign-commerce-clause international-law territorial-jurisdiction treaty-power Whether Congress exceeded the Foreign Commerce Clause's limits when criminalizing non-commercial sexual conduct in foreign territories, whether treaty…
25-778 Natalia Mikhaylovna Bardakova v. United States Second Circuit 2026-01-05 Pending Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process foreign-national fugitive-disentitlement international-law motion-to-dismiss Whether a court may refuse to consider a foreign national defendant's motion to dismiss an indictment based on the fugitive disentitlement doctrine wh…
25-6314 Jose Fernando Lopez-Anchundia v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-power criminal-prosecution drug-enforcement extraterritorial-jurisdiction international-law maritime-law Does Congress's power to define and punish felonies on the high Seas authorize extraterritorial prosecution of foreign nationals for crimes committed …
25-549 Russian Federation v. Hulley Enterprises Ltd., et al. District of Columbia 2025-11-05 Denied arbitration-agreement court-procedure foreign-state-immunity international-law jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether 28 U.S.C. §1605(a)(6) allows a United States court to exercise jurisdiction without first determining whether the foreign-state defendant agre…
25-5906 Alfredo Ramon Cerda v. W. Z. Jenkins, II, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights extradition-treaty international-law mexico-us-relations speedy-trial treaty-interpretation Whether the government is prohibited from extraditing a person to Mexico under Article 7 of the U.S. Mexico Extradition Treaty, when the prosecution f…
25A430 Juliana Sloto v. Christian Karvelid First Circuit 2025-10-15 Presumed Complete child-custody habitual-residence hague-convention international-law irreparable-harm parental-intent Whether a child's habitual residence under the Hague Convention can be modified by parental actions demonstrating shared intent to change jurisdiction…
25A376 Samantha Estefania Francisco Castro v. Jose Leonardo Brito Guevara Fifth Circuit 2025-10-02 Application child-custody circuit-split hague-convention international-law parental-abduction supreme-court-review Whether the Supreme Court should recognize a circuit split regarding the interpretation of the Hague Convention's provisions on child custody and inte…
25-5584 Virgilio Valencia-Gamboa v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP congressional-power criminal-jurisdiction define-and-punish-clause extraterritorial-jurisdiction international-law maritime-drug-law Are Congress's powers under the Define and Punish Clause inherently limited by international law, and does the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act excee…
25-5506 Carlos Daniel Canario-Vilomar v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP congressional-power define-and-punish-clause extraterritorial-jurisdiction high-seas-enforcement international-law maritime-drug-law Are Congress's powers under the Define and Punish Clause inherently limited by international law, and does the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act excee…
25A50 Alfonso E. Chavez Ayub v. Alfonso Chavez Pacheco Texas 2025-07-11 Presumed Complete due-process fourteenth-amendment international-law probate-law property-rights treaty-obligations Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause prohibits a state court from rejecting a foreign will that was validly executed and probated in …
24-7482 Raphael Stein, Acting on Behalf of His Minor Children J. S., Z. N., and A. Z. v. Adeena Kohn Second Circuit 2025-06-24 Denied IFP child-abduction custody-rights habitual-residence hague-convention international-law one-year-exception Whether an actual breach of custody rights must occur to establish wrongful retention under the Hague Convention, or if mere notice of an intended fut…
24-7353 Jose Trinidad Martinez Santoyo v. Lasha Boyden, former United States Marshal for the Eastern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure extradition international-law sixth-amendment speedy-trial treaty-interpretation Whether the Sixth Amendment Speedy Trial Clause constitutes a law that can bar extradition under the United States-Mexico Extradition Treaty due to la…
24-1205 Maria Elena Swett Urquieta v. John Francis Bowe Second Circuit 2025-05-27 Denied Response Waived child-abduction hague-convention international-law mature-child-defense parental-consent undue-influence Whether a parent's continued consent to a child's temporary stay abroad resets the date of wrongful retention under the Hague Convention, and whether …
24-1130 Kingdom of Spain v. Blasket Renewable Investments LLC, et al. District of Columbia 2025-05-05 Pending CVSGAmici (5) arbitration-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act forum-non-conveniens international-law jurisdiction sovereign-consent Whether §1605(a)(6) allows United States courts to assert jurisdiction over a foreign sovereign without determining whether the sovereign consented to…
24-1135 Sara González Flavell v. Jim Young Kim, et al. District of Columbia 2025-05-05 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process functional-immunity international-law judicial-discretion subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the District of Columbia Court of Appeals erred in determining subject-matter jurisdiction and creating a new absolute immunity for IBRD offic…
24-1119 Andrew Charles Nisbet v. Spirit Rose Bridger Ninth Circuit 2025-04-29 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) child-abduction custody-determination family-law habitual-residence hague-convention international-law Whether the Hague Convention authorizes a determination that children with no habitual residence are unprotected against international child abduction
24-6691 Jose Miguel Rosario-Rojas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-power criminal-jurisdiction exclusive-economic-zone high-seas international-law maritime-law Whether Congress's Article 1, Section 8, Clause 10 power '[t]o define and punish . . . Felonies committed on the high Seas' authorizes the United Stat…
24-848 Anne Catherine Richard v. Eric John Horacius Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-10 Denied child-custody circuit-split habitual-residence international-law monasky-standard well-settled-defense Whether the Eleventh Circuit's habitual-residence analysis conflicts with the Supreme Court's standard in Monasky v. Taglieri by disregarding a child'…
24-6528 Marlon Abraham Rosasen v. Kingdom of Norway, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-02-10 Denied IFP civil-rights diplomatic-service due-process international-law service-of-process tort-jurisdiction Whether a substantial part of the torts took place in the United States and whether denying motion to execute proof of service via diplomatic channels…
24A738 Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. aka Halkbank v. United States Second Circuit 2025-01-27 Presumed Complete criminal-prosecution executive-power foreign-sovereign-instrumentality international-law separation-of-powers sovereign-immunity Whether a foreign state-owned bank can be criminally prosecuted in U.S. courts despite claims of sovereign immunity under international and common law
24-6363 Edwin Cortorreal v. United States Second Circuit 2025-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defendant extradition-decree international-law judicial-promise prudential-standing rule-of-specialty Whether a criminal defendant has prudential standing to enforce an extradition decree that is issued for his own benefit where the government concedes…
24-699 Exxon Mobil Corporation v. Corporación Cimex, S.A. (Cuba), et al. District of Columbia 2024-12-31 Granted CVSGAmici (13)Relisted (2) cuban-property-confiscation foreign-sovereign-immunity helms-burton-act international-law property-rights sovereign-immunity-exception Whether the Helms-Burton Act abrogates foreign sovereign immunity in cases against Cuban instrumentalities, or whether parties proceeding under that A…
24-652 David Cassirer, et al. v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation Ninth Circuit 2024-12-17 GVR Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) choice-of-law federal-preemption holocaust-art-restitution international-law nazi-looted-art sovereign-immunity Whether a California statutory choice-of-law requirement mandating California substantive law in Holocaust artwork recovery cases should result in a G…
24-550 Tahawwur Hussain Rana v. W. Z. Jenkins, II Ninth Circuit 2024-11-15 Denied circuit-split criminal-law double-jeopardy extradition-treaty international-law treaty-interpretation Whether the term 'offense' in the double jeopardy provision of extradition treaties refers to underlying conduct or elements of crimes
24-532 Federal Republic of Nigeria v. Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment Co. Ltd. District of Columbia 2024-11-12 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse Waived arbitration-agreement extratextual-context international-law new-york-convention sovereign-immunity treaty-interpretation Whether extratextual information such as historical context and contemporary domestic law should be used to interpret treaty language, and whether the…
24A450 Cisco Systems, Inc., et al. v. Doe I, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-05 Presumed Complete aiding-and-abetting alien-tort-statute corporate-liability extraterritorial-application human-rights international-law Whether the Alien Tort Statute permits judicial implication of a private right of action for aiding-and-abetting liability against a U.S. corporation …
24-390 Anthony Patterson v. Asli Baz Seventh Circuit 2024-10-08 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) child-custody hague-convention international-law party-autonomy treaty-interpretation waiver-rights Whether parties to a Hague Convention child custody case may waive rights to seek child return and resolve disputes exclusively in the United States
24-5159 Luis Marin and Luis Chavez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-authority constitutional-power due-process felonies-clause high-seas international-law maritime-law statutory-interpretation vessel-status Whether Congress' authority to 'define and punish...Felonies committed on the high Seas,' U.S. Const. art. I § 8, cl. 10 (the 'Felonies Clause'), is l…
24-5134 Diana Ingrid Reismann Sexton v. Fort Bend County, Texas, et al. Texas 2024-07-25 Denied IFP alien-tort-statute civil-rights-violations convention-against-torture dual-citizenship due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction international-law international-treaties sovereign-immunity torture torture-prevention May-a-case-demanding-relief-to-a-dual-citizen-with-dominant-nationality-as-an-alien-and-her-child-injured-by-US-naturals-who-committed-tortures-fraud-…
24-5003 In Re Alfred Lane-Bey 2024-07-03 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process federal-courts human-rights indigenous-rights international-law judicial-review legal-petition standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23-1261 Gussi S.A. de C.V. v. Voltage Pictures, LLC Ninth Circuit 2024-06-03 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-award circuit-split federal-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure foreign-parties international-law marshal-service nonresident-service service service-of-process statutory-interpretation Have the Marshal service requirements of 9 U.S.C. § 9 on an application to confirm an arbitration award on a nonresident foreign adverse party been im…
23-7598 Arnaud Paris v. Heidi M. Brown Oregon 2024-05-31 Denied IFP custody-dispute due-process equal-protection family-law federal-statutes fourteenth-amendment international-custody international-law national-origin state-statutes uccjea Does a state court's decisions and actions violating both Federal Statutes (UCCJEA) and State Statues in a custody dispute, which appears to favor an …
23-7482 In Re Alfred Lane-Bey 2024-05-14 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process free-speech habeas-corpus international-law standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights under the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, and 14th Amendments were violated
23-1075 Zehava Friedman, et al. v. Republic of Hungary, et al. District of Columbia 2024-04-03 Denied Relisted (2) domestic-takings-exception expropriation foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity holocaust-expropriation international-law international-law-taking property-rights stateless-persons treaty-of-trianon Whether Hungary and MAV violated the international law of expropriation by seizing stateless persons' property
23-932 Minna-Marie Brandt v. Damian Caracciolo Fourth Circuit 2024-02-27 Denied child-abduction circuit-court-split country-of-residence custody-rights hague-convention international-child-abduction international-law judicial-procedure treaty-interpretation wrongful-retention Did the Fourth Circuit below err in concluding—in conflict with the text of the Hague Convention and the cases of this Court and six other circuits'—t…
23-867 Republic of Hungary, et al. v. Rosalie Simon, et al. District of Columbia 2024-02-12 Judgment Issued Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) asset-commingling burden-of-proof circuit-split commercial-nexus expropriation-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law pleading-stage pleading-standard Whether historical commingling of assets suffices to establish that proceeds of seized property have a commercial nexus with the United States under t…
23A604 Zehava Friedman, et al. v. Republic of Hungary, et al. District of Columbia 2024-01-02 Presumed Complete foreign-sovereign-immunities holocaust-survivors international-law jurisdiction property-seizure world-war-two Whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act permits Holocaust survivors to bring claims against a foreign state for property seizures during World Wa…
23A592 Republic of Hungary, et al. v. Rosalie Simon, et al. District of Columbia 2023-12-27 Presumed Complete burden-of-proof circuit-split expropriation-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law property-tracing Whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's expropriation exception requires plaintiffs to trace property exchanged for expropriated assets to esta…
23-545 Achashverosh Adnah Ammiyhuwd Ngola Mbandi, et al. v. Pangea Adventures LLC, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied alien-tort-statute civil-rights federal-question first-amendment free-speech human-rights international-law retaliation self-determination standing Whether aliens of the Hebrew Israelite Kingdom/Nation self-determination, self-governing and autonomy, expressive-first-amendment, retaliatory-tort, 4…
23-6044 Cristian Rodriguez v. United States First Circuit 2023-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure define-and-punish-clause felonies-on-high-seas felony-on-the-high-seas international-law laws-of-nations maritime-drug-enforcement-law maritime-law piracy-principles subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether denial of a pretrial challenge to the court's subject matter jurisdiction under the Maritime Drug Enforcement Law warrants interlocutory revie…
23-5924 Festus Okwudili Ohan v. American Medical Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-11-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-imprisonment federal-crime genocide human-rights international-law judicial-procedure standing whistleblower-protection Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims for lack of standing and due process violations
23-5888 Howard L. Thompson v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-26 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law alien-tort-statute civil-rights corporate-liability due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction federalism human-rights international-law ninth-circuit standing Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing petitioner's claims challenging the constitutionality of Florida's medical marijuana…
23-5407 Corey A. Askew v. Paul Bailey, Sheriff, Berrien County, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2023-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP but no text was provided for analysis. Without th but no text was provided for me to analyze. Witho I cannot generate a meaningful question presented I cannot generate the question presented or ident indigenous-rights international-law self-determination supremacy-clause treaty-obligations united-nations Are the self-determination clauses in the United Nations treaties and customary rules of international law to which the United States are a party bind…
22-7442 Paulino Vasquez-Rijo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP drug-enforcement exclusive-economic-zone felonies-clause high-seas international-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law stateless-vessels vessel-nationality Whether MDLEA §70502(d)(1)(C) is Unconstitutional
22-7017 In Re Ronald Williams-El 2023-03-15 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus international-law jurisdictional-challenge legal-remedy property-rights sovereign-immunity standing Whether a sovereign man who has been unlawfully imprisoned by the Commonwealth of Virginia has the power to vote for a writ of habeas corpus to challe…
22-886 Blenheim Capital Holdings Ltd., et al. v. Lockheed Martin Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-03-15 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split commercial-activity contract-law foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunity fsia international-law jurisdictional-immunity military-procurement weltover Is a foreign government's procurement of goods for a military purpose, through a contract with a U.S. company, commercial-activity
22-6994 In Re Devon Banks-Bey 2023-03-10 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment brown-vs-board civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech habeas-corpus international-law sovereign-citizen subject-matter-jurisdiction Should this court use its power to grant a writ of Habeas Corpus to a Moorish American sovereign man who has no other available remedy to raise his cl…
22-667 Chen Bing v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-01-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process executive-authority free-speech genocide-determination human-rights-violations international-law judicial-review standing Whether there is sufficient evidence of genocide, crimes against humanity and forced labor in Xinjiang, China, and whether the Secretary of State has …
22-6409 Victor Gaspar Chichande v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-12-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP criminal-procedure detention-conditions drug-enforcement drug-law-enforcement due-process foreign-nationals human-rights international-law maritime-interdiction maritime-law Why do the courts sanction the forced apprehension of foreign nationals chained to Coast Guard vessels?
22-466 Herederos de Roberto Gomez Cabrera, LLC v. Teck Resources Limited Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied civil-rights due-process extraterritorial-statute federal-court federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment foreign-defendant fourteenth-amendment international-law personal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether the Fifth Amendment imposes the same restrictions as the Fourteenth Amendment on the exercise of personal jurisdiction by a federal court unde…
22-5705 Lateef Alagbada v. United States Third Circuit 2022-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-order criminal-defendant criminal-procedure extradition final-judgment-rule habeas-corpus international-law pretrial-order repatriation Whether a pretrial order denying a motion for repatriation of an incarcerated criminal defendant falls within the exception to the final judgment rule
22-5277 Leila Nasser Asr v. Karen Eady-Williams, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP aliens aliens-rights civil-rights constitutional-precedent courts due-process human-rights international-law judicial-conduct jurisdiction Do the United States courts have jurisdiction to hear aliens' cases or aliens must file their lawsuits against United States citizens in courts of the…
22-19 Ukraine v. PAO Tatneft District of Columbia 2022-07-06 Denied arbitral-award arbitration civil-procedure foreign-arbitral-award foreign-proceedings forum-non-conveniens international-arbitration international-law judicial-confirmation jurisdiction jurisdictional-doctrine Whether the doctrine of forum non conveniens is available in proceedings to confirm a foreign arbitral award in the United States
21-1607 Oleg Deripaska v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. District of Columbia 2022-06-29 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure due-process executive-orders foreign-assets-control international-emergency-economic-powers-act international-law national-emergency national-security sanctions treasury-department Whether the United States Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control acted beyond the scope of its statutory authority under the In…
21-7140 Taquan Rashe Gullett-El v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-02-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-court federal-jurisdiction international-law jurisdiction-challenge pro-se-petition sovereign-immunity standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the government's actions
21-7141 In Re Taquan Rashe Gullett-El 2022-02-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP alien-status civil-rights constitutional-violations dred-scott due-process habeas-corpus international-law pro-se-petition sovereign-citizenship standing unlawful-detention Whether the Petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the unlawful detention and denial of habeas corpus relief
21-7107 Nina Lynn Nowlan v. Bruce Gerald Randall Nowlan Fourth Circuit 2022-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-custody civil-procedure fourth-circuit habitual-residence hague-convention international-law parental-rights wrongful-removal Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred as a matter of law by affirming the district court's ruling that Canada had be…
21-1108 Enron Nigeria Power Holding, Limited v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied Response Waived arbitration burden-of-proof civil-procedure commercial-activity foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law legal-immunity yacht-sale Whether a foreign state has engaged in commercial activity under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act
21-1060 Heath Richard Douglas v. Nancy Summers Douglas Sixth Circuit 2022-01-31 Denied child-abduction family-law habitual-residence hague-convention international-child-abduction international-law settled-purpose wrongful-retention In cases of wrongful retention, must a district court find a settled purpose to abandon a former habitual residence before concluding that a new habit…
21-1045 I. M. v. Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Maryland 2022-01-26 Denied Response Waived child-custody due-process forum-shopping international-law jurisdiction minimum-contacts parental-rights uccjea Whether the UCCJEA comports with the Due Process Clause, where it subjects an international parent to termination of parental rights, where the parent…
21-825 Persephone Johnson Shon v. Bogdan Radu Ninth Circuit 2021-12-03 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) ameliorative-measures article-13b burden-of-proof child-abduction custody-dispute grave-risk hague-convention international-child-abduction international-law Whether a district court is required to consider ameliorative measures after finding that a return would expose the child to grave risk
21-797 Serge Matthew Aluker v. Simin Yan, aka Simin Aluker Fourth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) child-abduction custody-agreement custody-rights fourth-circuit habitual-residence hague-child-abduction-convention hague-convention international-law parental-agreement parental-rights treaty-interpretation Whether the Fourth Circuit's decision improperly wrote out the Article 3 requirement of the Hague Child Abduction Convention that a parental agreement…
21-6306 Jason T. Shortes v. Google, LLC Florida 2021-11-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP commerce commerce-clause digital-rights first-amendment freedom-of-expression freedom-of-press international-law network-enforcement-law trade Whether the First Amendment's protections for freedom of the press and freedom of expression survive Google's enforcement of Germany's Network Enforce…
21-728 Pedro Dino Cedado Nuñez, et al. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied circuit-split criminal-procedure customary-international-law drug-enforcement international-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-test maritime-drug-law maritime-law statutory-interpretation vessel-nationality Whether the three ways to identify nationless vessels enumerated in 46 U.S.C. § 70502(d)(1) are exhaustive
21-5740 Tiffany Becker v. John Minkiewicz California 2021-09-21 Denied IFP child-abduction child-acclimation custody-dispute habitual-residence hague-convention international-child-abduction international-law parental-agreement parental-intent wrongful-removal Where a child is too young to acclimate to his surroundings, whether a subjective agreement between the infant's parents is necessary to establish his…
21-5663 Justin Michael Rossi v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2021-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation declaration-of-independence declaratory-relief due-process executive-power government-formation international-law pro-se-petition revolution sovereign-immunity sovereignty Whether United States citizens have the right, duty, and privilege to alter, abolish, and form a new government
21-5627 William Brinson Ball v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-exploitation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritorial-jurisdiction federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction international-law interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) extends to conduct occurring outside the United States
21-358 Melvin Keakaku Amina, et ux. v. U.S. Bank National Association Ninth Circuit 2021-09-07 Denied annexation-legality armed-invasion citizenship-status diversity-jurisdiction executive-agreement hawaii-statehood hawaiian-independence international-law queen-liliuokalani self-determination sovereignty-dispute statehood-process Does the State of Hawai'i lack legal existence?
21-180 Michael Patrick Lathigee v. British Columbia Securities Commission Nevada 2021-08-09 Denied Response Waived civil-enforcement civil-procedure civil-rights disgorgement-order due-process foreign-judgment-enforcement foreign-judgments international-law international-legal-comity penalties penalty-characterization supreme-court-precedent Whether the Supreme Court of Nevada's opinion enforcing the BCSC's $21.7 million (CAD) Canadian 'Disgorgement Order' against Lathigee as a judgment in…
20-8474 Glen Plourde v. Maine, et al. First Circuit 2021-07-01 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts geneva-conventions international-law judicial-discretion pro-se-litigation standing torture Does the continual refusal of the Federal Court System to address the judicially noticeable fact that the Petitioner has been Tortured and has suffere…
20-8113 Samuel Coleson, Jr. v. Anita Parker, et al. Second Circuit 2021-05-24 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus international-law standing takings Whether the government's refusal to allow the Chagossians to return to their homeland violates their constitutional and human rights
20-1557 Davendra Anand v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Second Circuit 2021-05-10 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure federal-courts international-law jurisdiction lower-courts treaties Whether the lower courts erred in ruling they lacked jurisdiction over claims arising under treaties
20-1547 Broidy Capital Management, LLC, et al. v. State of Qatar Ninth Circuit 2021-05-06 Denied Response Waived civil-rights civil-rights-violations criminal-law criminal-violations discretionary-act-exclusion foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law jurisdiction Whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's discretionary act exclusion bars the exercise of jurisdiction over claims by a U.S. citizen against a f…
20-7924 Edward Shane West-El v. Armando Vasquez Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-04 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process human-rights international-law tax treaty Whether the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Treaty of Peace and Friendship Between the United States and Morocco establish enforceable r…
20-7910 Johvanny Aybar-Ulloa v. United States First Circuit 2021-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-i-section-8-clause-10 congress-authority congressional-authority constitutional-interpretation felony-jurisdiction high-seas international-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law statelessness universal-jurisdiction vessel-status Whether Congress's authority to define and punish felonies committed on the high seas is unconstrained by Article I, § 8, cl. 10 to the United States …
20-7842 Eliu Elixander Lorenzana-Cordon v. United States District of Columbia 2021-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion district-court-procedure due-process extradition extradition-notice international-law judicial-discretion jurisdiction motion-for-new-trial notice treaties treaty-violation Did the District Court abuse its discretion by denying the motion for a new trial without taking into consideration that the document of extradition t…
20-1454 Vekuii Rukoro, et al. v. Federal Republic of Germany Second Circuit 2021-04-16 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act gravamen international-law property-rights second-circuit sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation takings-exception Does the Second Circuit's opinion conflict with the D.C. Circuit and this Court's FSIA jurisprudence?
20-1054 Vipula D. Valambhia, et al. v. United Republic of Tanzania, et al. District of Columbia 2021-02-03 Denied bank-account commercial-activities commercial-activities-exception direct-effects foreign-judgments foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunity international-law judgment-recognition jurisdiction payments u.s.-banking Whether clause 3 of the commercial activities exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), 28 U.S.C. § 1605(a)(2), provides for jurisdict…
20-1034 Narkis Aliza Golan v. Isacco Jacky Saada Second Circuit 2021-01-29 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (16)Relisted (3) ameliorative-measures child-abduction district-court grave-risk habitual-residence hague-convention international-child-abduction international-law Whether, upon finding that return to the country of habitual residence places a child at grave risk, a district court is required to consider ameliora…
20-640 The Welsh Government v. Pablo Star Ltd., et al. Second Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception copyright-infringement foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-state international-law jurisdictional-exception political-subdivision tourism-promotion Is a political subdivision of a foreign state immune from copyright infringement claims under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's commercial activi…
19-8513 Edward Javier Catano Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP drug-trafficking due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction international-law maritime-drug-law maritime-law pinkerton-doctrine subject-matter-jurisdiction Does due process require a nexus between the defendant and the United States under the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act?
19-1049 Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, et al. v. Crystallex International Corporation Third Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied alter-ego alter-ego-doctrine attachment exceptional-importance foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity fsia instrumentality international-law judgment-enforcement pdvsa sovereign-immunity third-circuit Whether a judgment-enforcement action against a foreign sovereign and its instrumentality must be predicated on applicable exceptions to the immunity …
19-6546 Elmer Misael Garcia Ramirez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-authority define-and-punish-clause due-process high-seas international-law international-waters jurisdiction maritime-law nexus Whether the trial court lacked jurisdiction because neither the U.S. Constitution nor any theory of international law permits jurisdiction to be asser…
19-520 Alan Philipp, et al. v. Federal Republic of Germany, et al. District of Columbia 2019-10-22 Denied CVSGRelisted (3) commercial-activity expropriation-exception foreign-state international-law property-rights commercial-activity expropriation expropriation-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunity instrumentality international-law jurisdiction property-claims property-rights Is the Federal Republic of Germany subject to jurisdiction under the expropriation exception of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act for claims to pro…
19-453 Cargill, Inc. v. John Doe I, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-04 Judgment Issued CVSGResponse RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) aiding-and-abetting alien-tort-statute corporate-liability extraterritorial-application extraterritoriality forced-labor foreign-operations human-rights international-law Whether the presumption against extraterritorial application of the Alien Tort Statute is displaced
19-448 Glen Plourde v. Jane Doe Maine 2019-10-03 Denied assassination-attempts civil-rights constitutional-law due-process government-surveillance harassment international-law standing surveillance torture Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated due to harassment, surveillance, and alleged torture by government agents
19-416 Nestlé USA, Inc. v. John Doe I, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-27 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) aiding-and-abetting alien-tort-statute civil-procedure corporate-activity corporate-liability domestic-corporation extraterritoriality foreign-actors foreign-investment international-law jurisdiction Whether an aiding and abetting claim against a domestic corporation brought under the Alien Tort Statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1350, may overcome the extraterr…
19-6058 Guy Philippe v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP case-analysis civil-procedure-standing constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process extradition international-law judicial-interpretation legal-precedent res-judicata standing Whether the Court's conclusions in United States v. Rauscher, 119 U.S. 407 (1886) in conjunction with Kirkpatrick & Co., Inc. v. Environmental Tectoni…
19-394 Sergio Mejia-Duarte v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process extradition-treaty fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence fre-403 fre-404(b) hearsay-evidence international-extradition international-law treaty unrelated-murder Whether a crucial mandate of the international extradition treaty was violated
19-6039 Camilo Andres Landazuri Vargas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied IFP congress-powers-limits congressional-power criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment foreign-national international-law international-waters jurisdiction jurisdictional-element maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution Whether the prosecution of Mr. Vargas - an Ecuadorian national with no ties to the United States - for trafficking controlled substances in internatio…
19-6009 John Robert Demos v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-09-20 Closed IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation corporate-liability diplomacy diplomatic-immunity extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-nationals foreign-sovereigns human-rights international-diplomacy international-law original-jurisdiction self-executing standing treaty Does the U.S. Supreme Court have original jurisdiction in cases pertaining to foreign-sovereigns, foreign-nationals, protected-persons, and disputes b…
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 …
19-313 Neringa Venckiene v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied Response Waived atrocious-procedures-or-punishments constitutional-limitations due-process extradition extradition-law extradition-law-political-offense-exception international-law judicial-review political-offense political-offense-exception state-department terrorism war-like-insurrection Whether the Seventh Circuit has correctly construed the 'political offense' exception to extradition by limiting the term only to offenses committed i…
19-299 G. D. P. v. N. G. P. Maine 2019-09-05 Denied civil-rights constitutional-due-process domestic-violence due-process federal-jurisdiction government-surveillance international-law protection-from-abuse standing takings torture torture-allegations torture. Whether the Petitioner's constitutional rights were violated due to alleged torture, surveillance, and lack of government protection
19-275 Frederic C. Schultz v. John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process electoral-college equal-protection equal-suffrage international-law international-treaties presidential-election treaty-law voting-rights Do citizens of the United States of America have the right to 'equal and universal suffrage'?
19-5710 Chidi Ezeobi v. Jamal Jamison, Warden Third Circuit 2019-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP credit criminal-procedure due-process extradition foreign-incarceration incarceration international-law sentence-credit sentencing sentencing-court sentencing-credit statutory-interpretation Is Mr. Ezeobi entitled to seven months of credit toward his sentence for the time he was incarcerated in England awaiting extradition to the United St…
19-5166 Henry Vazquez Valois v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause congressional-power congressional-powers criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process enumerated-powers extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-national international-law international-waters maritime-law Whether the prosecution of Mr. Vazquez Valois — a Colombian national with no ties to the United States — for trafficking cocaine in international wate…
18-9621 David Onafeko v. Great Britain, et al. District of Columbia 2019-06-12 Denied IFP civil-rights discrimination discrimination-prohibition due-process human-rights human-rights-declaration international-body international-law non-citizen-rights treaty-compliance treaty-obligations united-nations Does the United States still accept the United Nations as an international body?
18-9263 Luis Felipe Valencia v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process international-law jurisdiction maritime-drug-law maritime-law minimum-contacts stateless-vessel vagueness void-for-vagueness Whether the MDLEA is unconstitutional due to lack of minimum-contacts requirement
18-1376 Fernando Gabriel Irazu v. Margarita O. Connecticut 2019-05-02 Denied abuse-of-process constitutional-law contempt-of-court divorce-judgment due-process enforcement-of-us-judgments equal-protection exequatur-proceedings international-law international-private-law jurisdictional-dispute parental-rights unequal-treatment-under-law Parental rights and due process violations in international child custody dispute
18-9055 Ronald Ray Horner v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-protections constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process extra-territorial-jurisdiction extraterritorial-jurisdiction fifth-amendment international-law sovereign-territory supreme-court-precedent Does the fact that the Appellant was arrested and questioned in Canada immunize the United States Attorney from following the Constitution of the Unit…
18-8671 Glynndeavin Von Fox v. South Carolina South Carolina 2019-04-02 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation federal-consent federal-preemption federal-questions international-law judicial-access judicial-review medical-access senate-ratification separation-of-powers sovereign-immunity sovereign-immunity-doctrine state-court-jurisdiction treaty-power us-constitution Can a State Court answer federal questions of an International Country in Japan, regarding judicial access to documents, or medical access to document…
18-1253 Brian Mark Burmaster v. Switzerland Third Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied 18-usc-229 asset-seizure chemical-weapon chemical-weapons civil-rights diplomatic-immunity due-process embassy-contact extradition federal-statute international-law international-terrorism standing swiss-assets terrorism uncontested-proceedings writ-of-certiorari Whether the Supreme Court should punish Switzerland for an alleged chemical weapon attack on a U.S. citizen by enforcing a lien on Swiss assets, despi…
18-1071 Brandi K. Stokes v. Timothy Martin Sulak Fifth Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process geneva-conventions international-law legal-notice prisoner-of-war procedural-waiver standing treaty-interpretation waiver war-crimes Whether rights secured by the Geneva Conventions can be waived by inadequate briefing or late notice
18-997 Oliver Williams, et al. v. The National Gallery, London, et al. Second Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied Response Waived expropriation-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law jurisdiction property-rights sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction takings wrongful-possession Is a sovereign's, or its instrumentality's, refusal to return property wrongfully held a taking of rights in property in violation of international la…
18-7548 David Abiodun K. G. B. Onafeko v. Great Britain, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied IFP appellant-rights civil-rights district-court due-process human-rights international-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge legal-venue standing treaty united-nations Whether the Appellant is entitled to rights afforded him under the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights whilst he is residing in the United Stat…
18-7485 Marcus Noel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction hostage-taking international-law jurisdictional-elements mens-rea nationality necessary-and-proper-clause treaty-power Whether the federal Hostage Taking statute requires proof that the defendant knew the victim was a U.S. national
18-833 Brandi K. Stokes v. Commission for Lawyer Discipline Fifth Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure geneva-conventions international-law judicial-review jurisdiction procedural-review subject-matter subject-matter-characterization subject-matter-jurisdiction treaty-obligations united-states-courts Whether a United States Court of Appeals may rely upon the subject matter characterizations of a lower court to avoid jurisdiction to review a claim f…
18-797 Brian M. Burmaster v. Stephen J. Herman, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-12-21 Denied Response Waived civil-rights detention detention-without-trial due-process enforced-disappearance habeas-corpus international-law rome-statute rome-statutes seventh-circuit Is being detained without a trial for two years a frivolous case or an international case of enforced disappearance?
18-7125 Refaat F. Abul Hosn v. Department of State, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP admitted-mistakes authority authority-regulation breach-of-contract civil-rights contract diplomatic-immunity foreign-sovereign-immunities fsia immunity international-law iraq-invasion legal-authority political-doctrine regulatory-compliance Was the immunity under the FSIA affected when the invasion of Iraq occurred?
18-6987 Javon Sanders v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied IFP 13th-amendment civil-rights compensation constitutional-challenge due-process evidence-standard forced-labor-slavery interaction-log international-covenant international-law involuntary-servitude labor-conditions law-enforcement police-contact prison-labor prison-reform procedural-review Whether the failure of the Arkansas Department of Correction to pay equitable remuneration to its inmate population violates the Thirteenth Amendment'…
18-748 Richard McKinley Wilson, Jr. v. Office of the Commissioner of the Revenue of Stafford County, et al. Virginia 2018-12-11 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process international-law jurisdiction legal-recognition nation-state property-law sovereignty standing taxation Do the courts of the Commonwealth of Virginia have the jurisdiction to recognize the authority of the Petitioner's re-established nation state?
18-661 Jason Michael Zank v. Liz Lorena Lopez Moreno Sixth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) child-abduction habitual-residence hague-convention icara international-child-abduction international-law parental-removal passage-of-time retention unilateral-removal Whether a child's habitual residence can be changed based on one parent's unilateral removal of a child to or retention of the child in another countr…
18-635 Brian M. Burmaster v. United States Federal Circuit 2018-11-15 Denied Response Waived attorney-general criminal-conspiracy federal-court-judges federal-judges immunity international-criminal-court international-law judicial-immunity jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction u.s.-attorney-general Are US Federal Court Judges and former U.S. Attorney General immune from the International Criminal Court?
18-581 Argentine Republic v. Petersen Energia Inversora S.A.U., et al. Second Circuit 2018-11-02 Denied CVSGRelisted (2) civil-procedure commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception expropriation foreign-policy foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law legal-exception sovereign-act sovereign-immunity Whether the 'commercial activity' exception to sovereign immunity in the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1605(a)(2), is inapplicable to …
18-550 Brandi K. Stokes v. Christopher Lance Corsbie, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1447d civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction geneva-conventions grave-breaches international-law preemption removal removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction war-crimes Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1447(d) is preempted by international law for claims involving grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions
18-542 John E. Hamilton v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied Response Waived charging criminal-procedure defendant-standing due-process extradition extradition-treaty international-law punishment rule-of-specialty sentencing standing treaty treaty-interpretation Whether an individual defendant has standing to assert a rule of specialty violation
18-470 Brandi K. Stokes v. Christopher Lance Corsbie, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-12 Denied Response Waived civil-rights geneva-conventions international-law jurisdiction sovereign-immunity treaty-interpretation war-crimes Whether the United States has sovereign immunity for claims involving grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions
18-6011 Irek Ilgiz Hamidullin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-conflict article-iii-court battlefield-conduct combatant-detention common-law-defense criminal-prosecution foreign-soldiers international-law military-law war-crimes Whether Army Regulation 190-8 requires an individual determination of legal status as a prerequisite to criminal prosecution of combatants for battlef…
18-295 Alexander Alimanestianu, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied due-process eminent-domain espousal fifth-amendment foreign-affairs foreign-state international-law just-compensation property-rights takings Can the United States seize, use, and compromise the claims and judgments of its citizens against a foreign state—a practice in international law know…
18-5530 Victoria Elia Kaldawi v. State of Kuwait, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights consular-protection diplomatic-immunity due-process human-rights international-law tort torture unlawful-detention Whether the U.S. government failed to protect a U.S. citizen from human rights violations and torture committed by foreign government agents
18-5197 Akash Dixit v. Tanya Singh Dixit Georgia 2018-07-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP child-abduction divorce-jurisdiction federal-law federal-preemption foreign-nationals hague-convention hague-convention-on-child-abduction immigration immigration-status international-child-abduction international-law jurisdictional-limits state-court-jurisdiction treaty-interpretation Did the state court err in ignoring/condoning illegal retention of a foreign-citizen-child by the respondent, violating the Hague Convention?
18-5046 Giezi Magno Zamora v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process eleventh-circuit evidence habeas-corpus international-law judicial-review maritime-law sentencing sentencing-reasonableness writ-of-certiorari Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously denied a motion where the petitioner showed new evidence to warrant an immediate release due…