oral-agreement

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24A677 NexPoint Asset Management, L.P., fka Highland Capital Management Fund Advisors, L.P., et al. v. Highland Capital Management, L.P. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-10 Presumed Complete bankruptcy-litigation burden-of-proof credibility-determination oral-agreement summary-judgment testimonial-evidence Whether a federal appellate court may improperly weigh testimonial evidence and draw adverse credibility inferences when reviewing a summary judgment …
23-1169 Michael H. Ponder v. Hans-Peter Wild Sixth Circuit 2024-04-30 Denied appellate-review circuit-precedent contract-law contract-specificity legal-interpretation oral-agreement precedent sixth-circuit specificity standard-of-review Whether this Court should grant certiorari review where the Sixth Circuit departed from established precedent regarding the required specificity of te…
19-526 Dexter Edwards, dba Edwards Land and Cattle v. Genex Cooperative, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied cattle-reproduction choice-of-law civil-procedure contract contract-law diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federalism oral-agreement state-law Did the court of appeals violate Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938) and the pragmatic federalism it represents by refusing to apply establish…