noerr-pennington-doctrine

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-754 Van Sant & Co. v. Town of Calhan, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-01-12 Denied antitrust-immunity circuit-split civil-rights due-process government-petitioning-activity local-government local-government-antitrust-act noerr-pennington noerr-pennington-doctrine summary-judgment Does the LGAA entitle local government officials to immunity from antitrust damages when they act unlawfully?
22-296 Willow Grande, LLC v. Cherokee Triangle Association, et al. Kentucky 2022-09-28 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-process antitrust-immunity antitrust-liability civil-procedure noerr-pennington-doctrine noncompetitors sham-litigation standing wrongful-use-of-civil-proceedings Does the sham exception to the Noerr-Pennington Doctrine also apply to common law torts between noncompetitors, such as state law claims for abuse of …
22-83 B&G Foods North America, Inc. v. Kim Embry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-28 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-enforcement declaratory-relief injunctive-relief legal-immunity noerr-pennington noerr-pennington-doctrine standing state-actors unconstitutional-laws Whether the Noerr-Pennington doctrine immunizes state actors
21-1591 Bardstown Capital Corporation, et al. v. Seiller Waterman, LLC, et al. Kentucky 2022-06-27 Denied Relisted (2) antitrust-laws civil-proceedings first-amendment noerr-pennington-doctrine petition-clause sham-lawsuit sham-lawsuits standing wrongful-use-of-process Does this same precedent exempt all but sham lawsuits from the reach of state common-law torts, like wrongful use of civil proceedings?
20-952 Construction Cost Data, L.L.C., et al. v. The Gordian Group, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied business-disparagement defamation false-statements first-amendment jury-findings noerr-pennington noerr-pennington-doctrine reckless-disregard state-law-liability Whether the Noerr-Pennington doctrine has been improperly expanded beyond its First-Amendment-protections to insulate knowingly-false-statements
19-8243 Jonathan Melvin LeDeux v. Jeannette Louise Anthony, as an Individual and in her Official Capacity as Trustee of The Emmett and Aralee Charlton Trust, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-04-11 Denied IFP civil-procedure due-process fraud fraud-vitiation judicial-error noerr-pennington-doctrine probate probate-clause separation-of-powers Can Juridically created rules such as, The Probate Clause and the Noerr Pennington Doctrine, ect. Interfere with due process without also violating th…
19-548 Joseph R. Mullins v. Joseph E. Corcoran, et al. Massachusetts 2019-10-29 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights commercial-dispute first-amendment minority-shareholder-rights noerr-pennington noerr-pennington-doctrine petition right-to-petition sham-litigation Whether, under the First Amendment, a court may award damages against a party for the act of filing suit in a commercial dispute without finding that …
19-194 Daniel Delacruz, Sr. v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-14 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment noerr-pennington noerr-pennington-doctrine racial-discrimination rooker-feldman-doctrine Does a dismissal of claims based on the Rooker-Feldman doctrine and First Amendment rights under the Noerr-Pennington doctrine violate the equal prote…
18-55 Digital Ally, Inc. v. Taser International, Inc. Federal Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied Response Waived antitrust antitrust-law commercial-bribery government-procurement governmental-purchases noerr-pennington-doctrine robinson-patman-act sherman-act Whether the Noerr-Pennington doctrine immunizes commercial bribery from liability under the Robinson-Patman Act