jurisdictional-exception

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-7720 Patsy N. Sakuma v. Association of Apartment Owners of the Tropics of Waikele, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights cross-appeal cross-appeal-rules due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-exception rico-merits rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine summary-judgment Whether 42 U.S.C. Sections 1985(2),(3) and a new Rooker-Feldman exception that exists also under Lance v. Dennis are jurisdictional exceptions to the …
22-463 Aenergy, S.A., et al. v. Republic of Angola, et al. Second Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure federal-courts foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity forum-non-conveniens jurisdiction jurisdictional-exception sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation Whether courts may dismiss FSIA suits against foreign sovereign defendants on forum non conveniens grounds
21-995 Budha Jam, et al. v. International Finance Corporation District of Columbia 2022-01-13 Denied Amici (3) civil-procedure commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-organization international-organizations jurisdictional-exception sovereign-immunity standing treaty-interpretation waiver-of-immunity Whether the commercial activity exception to immunity allows suit where the alleged acts of the defendant that give rise to its liability constitute c…
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…
20-5663 Anthony Thomas Buonaiuto, III v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-09-11 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto jurisdictional-exception post-conviction-relief retroactive-applicability retroactivity sexual-offender-registration state-collateral-review substantive-rules Whether federal law renders the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in legal error, where the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania committed legal error by failing…