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25-912 InComm Financial Services, Inc. v. Superior Court of California, City and County of San Francisco, et al. California 2026-02-03 Pending civil-procedure defendant-conduct forum-directed-conduct personal-jurisdiction product-defect specific-jurisdiction Whether a plaintiff's claim "relates to" a defendant's forum-directed conduct merely by alleging defects in a product the defendant sold in the forum,…
25-909 Meta Platforms, Inc., et al. v. Vermont Vermont 2026-02-03 Pending Response Waived due-process internet-business minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction purposeful-availment specific-jurisdiction The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prevents a state court from exercising personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state defendant unless …
25-6603 David Martin v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2026-01-16 Pending Response WaivedIFP abstention-doctrine constitutional-rights due-process personal-jurisdiction section-1983 state-court 1. Whether federal abstention doctrines bar § 1983 claims challenging a state court default judgment entered without constitutionally adequate notice …
25A782 Société Générale De Banque Au Liban, S.A.L. v. Ester Lelchook, as Personal Representative of the Estate of David Martin Lelchook, et al. Second Circuit 2026-01-06 Application asset-purchase due-process fourteenth-amendment personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction successor-liability Whether the Fourteenth Amendment permits the exercise of personal jurisdiction over: (i) a foreign-based non-culpable asset-and-liability purchaser wh…
25-775 Westforth Sports, Inc. v. City of Chicago, Illinois Illinois 2026-01-02 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived due-process fourteenth-amendment non-resident-seller personal-jurisdiction product-transportation specific-jurisdiction Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution allow a state to exercise specific personal jurisdiction ove…
25A740 BNSF Railway Company v. Tanner Lynn Minnesota 2025-12-23 Application dormant-commerce-clause due-process interstate-commerce personal-jurisdiction service-of-process state-registration This application does not contain a "Question(s) Presented" section in the traditional sense. The document is an Application for an Extension of Time …
25A612 Alison Maynard v. William R. Lucero, et al. Texas 2025-11-24 Application internet-communications minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction preemption supremacy-clause wiretap-act Whether the Wiretap Act preempts state procedural laws and jurisdictional doctrines under the Supremacy Clause when a privacy invasion claim involves …
25A599 Meta Platforms, Inc., et al. v. Vermont Vermont 2025-11-20 Application forum-state internet-contacts personal-jurisdiction purposeful-availment social-media specific-jurisdiction Whether the exercise of specific personal jurisdiction over an internet-based company requires a direct causal connection between the defendant's foru…
25-534 Andrew Harrington, et al. v. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2025-11-03 Pending collective-action fair-labor-standards-act forum-state nonresident-defendant opt-in-plaintiffs personal-jurisdiction Whether a federal district court that has taken personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant in a Fair Labor Standards Act collective action mus…
25-436 Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft v. Blanca Hernandez, et al. California 2025-10-09 Denied due-process foreign-manufacturer independent-distributor personal-jurisdiction product-liability specific-jurisdiction Whether a state court violates due process by exercising specific personal jurisdiction over a product-liability claim against a foreign manufacturer …
25-410 Sondra J. Schneider v. Shapiro Sher Guinot & Sandler, P.A. District of Columbia 2025-10-06 Denied civil-procedure defendant-contacts due-process forum-contacts personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Whether the "arise out of or relate to" requirement is met when none of the defendant's forum contacts caused the plaintiff's claims, such that the pl…
25-393 Patricia Raad, et al. v. Bank Audi S.A.L. Second Circuit 2025-10-02 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure contract-performance forum-selection judicial-venue personal-jurisdiction state-jurisdiction When the contract provides for performance in a State, whether the defendant's failure to perform within the State is determinative to defeat personal…
25-349 Audi AG v. L. W., a Minor, By and Through His Guardian Ad Litem Jared Furze, et al. California 2025-09-24 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (2) due-process foreign-manufacturer personal-jurisdiction product-liability specific-jurisdiction stream-of-commerce Whether a state court violates due process by exercising specific personal jurisdiction over a product-liability claim against a foreign manufacturer …
25-213 Atlas Turner, Inc. v. Donna B. Welch, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Melvin G. Welch, Deceased, et al. South Carolina 2025-08-21 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-limits due-process in-rem-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction state-court territorial-boundaries The U.S. Constitution imposes due-process limits on the jurisdiction of state and federal courts. Those limits differ depending on the type of jurisdi…
25-5409 Stanislav Arbit v. Schneider Electric SE Ninth Circuit 2025-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split digital-age jurisdictional-standard personal-jurisdiction procedural-hearing website-targeting 1. The Court should grant review to resolve a circuit split on a vital jurisdictional question for the digital age: Does an entity that purposefully a…
25A194 EMVLP, LLC, et al. v. Thuy Martinez, et al. Missouri 2025-08-19 Presumed Complete bristol-myers-squibb class-action due-process fourteenth-amendment nationwide-class personal-jurisdiction Whether a state court can exercise personal jurisdiction over out-of-state defendants for a nationwide class action involving claims by predominantly …
25A54 Audi AG v. L.W., a Minor, By and Through His Guardian Ad Litem Jared Furze, et al. California 2025-07-14 Presumed Complete foreign-manufacturer personal-jurisdiction product-distribution purposeful-availment specific-jurisdiction stream-of-commerce Whether a foreign manufacturer can be subject to specific personal jurisdiction in a state court based solely on the distribution of its products thro…
24-1286 Jeffrey Buford v. Georgia Georgia 2025-06-17 Denied Response Waived constitutional-authority due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure original-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the U.S. Supreme Court has original jurisdiction when a state is a party to the case and a citizen of another state is involved
24-1212 Kenneth Burnham v. Michigan Michigan 2025-05-29 Denied Response Waived affidavit-of-service constitutional-rights due-process legal-procedure michigan-courts personal-jurisdiction Whether Petitioner's constitutional right to due process was violated when the Michigan Courts relied on a fraudulent Affidavit of Service to establis…
24-1190 Syngenta Crop Protections, LLC, et al. v. Douglas Nemeth, et al. Pennsylvania 2025-05-21 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived commerce-clause constitutional-law due-process out-of-state-business personal-jurisdiction state-registration Whether the Commerce Clause permits a State to condition an out-of-state company's right to do business on submission to personal jurisdiction, and wh…
24-1154 Clearstream Banking, S.A. v. Deborah D. Peterson, et al. Second Circuit 2025-05-09 Denied Response Waived asset-execution correspondent-account due-process foreign-garnishee personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Whether due process is violated by exercising specific personal jurisdiction over a foreign garnishee to execute against an asset that has never been …
24-1128 Angelique Layton v. RBL Financial LLC, et al. Colorado 2025-05-02 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights contempt due-process governmental-immunity personal-jurisdiction rule-interpretation Does Colorado's current expansive interpretation of C.R.C.P. Rule 107 violate constitutional rights of non-parties by interpreting the Rule to apply t…
24-1126 Avon Capital, LLC, a Wyoming Limited Liability Company v. Universitas Education, LLC Tenth Circuit 2025-05-01 Denied Relisted (2) district-court mootness personal-jurisdiction service-of-process subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-circuit Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in assuming the District Court reacquired subject matter jurisdiction after a judgment's expiration without new claims…
24A946 Jose Ageo Luna Vanegas v. Signet Builders, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2025-04-04 Presumed Complete bristol-myers-squibb collective-action fair-labor-standards-act federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-4 opt-in-plaintiff personal-jurisdiction Whether each opt-in plaintiff in a Fair Labor Standards Act collective action must independently establish personal jurisdiction in the forum where th…
24-1037 Antoine Douglass Johnson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-03-31 Denied Response Waived confidentiality-statute coram-nobis judicial-review personal-jurisdiction records-disclosure statutory-immunity Whether a program or person holding records is entitled to judicial review when invoking the Confidentiality records statute under 42 C.F.R. § 2.66(b)
24-1012 Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Company v. Martin J. O’Leary, et al. Montana 2025-03-21 Denied choice-of-law legal-malpractice multi-jurisdictional-practice personal-jurisdiction professional-liability specific-jurisdiction Is a lawyer with a multi-jurisdictional law practice subject to specific personal jurisdiction for a legal malpractice claim in a state where the lawy…
24-960 CoinMarketCap OpCo, LLC, et al. v. Ryan Cox Ninth Circuit 2025-03-06 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) civil-procedure judicial-district nationwide-service personal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation venue-provision Whether defendants are subject to personal jurisdiction in every judicial district nationwide by virtue of the nationwide service provision, even wher…
24-867 IQVIA Inc. v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County, et al. California 2025-02-13 Dismissed Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure due-process employment-law noncompete-agreement personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Whether the Due Process Clause permits a state court to exercise specific personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state defendant in a preemptive action …
24-6556 Edward Farley v. Ubiratan Marinho, Jr., et al. New Hampshire 2025-02-12 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction minimum-contacts nonresident-defendant personal-jurisdiction Did the New Hampshire Supreme Court misapprehend the two-part test for federal due process jurisdiction in determining personal jurisdiction over a no…
24-808 Coney Island Auto Parts Unlimited, Inc. v. Jeanne Ann Burton, Chapter 7 Trustee for Vista-Pro Automotive, LLC Sixth Circuit 2025-01-30 Judgment Issued Relisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure default-judgment personal-jurisdiction rule-60 void-judgment Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(c)(1) imposes any time limit to set aside a void default judgment for lack of personal jurisdiction
24-653 Zembrka, et al. v. American Girl, LLC Second Circuit 2024-12-17 Denied Response Waived e-commerce interactive-website minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction virtual-presence Whether an e-commerce seller's virtual presence and conduct operating an interactive website constitutes 'minimum contacts' sufficient to establish sp…
24A535 Lennard Bartlett, Sr., as Administrator of the Estate of Mary Susan White Bartlett, et al. v. Estate of Jeffrey L. Burke, et al. North Carolina 2024-12-03 Presumed Complete component-part due-process jurisdiction-analysis personal-jurisdiction purposeful-availment stream-of-commerce Whether a manufacturer's sale of a component part through a distributor to a state constitutes purposeful availment sufficient to establish personal j…
24-587 Scandinavian Airlines System, aka SAS, dba Scandinavian Airlines of North America, Incorporated v. Susan Hardy Fifth Circuit 2024-11-27 Denied due-process federal-courts fifth-amendment foreign-corporation personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment authorizes federal courts to exercise specific personal jurisdiction over a foreign corporation …
24-524 Lighting Defense Group v. SnapRays, dba SnapPower Federal Circuit 2024-11-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) calder-test forum-contacts intentional-conduct out-of-forum-conduct personal-jurisdiction walden-test Whether a defendant subjects itself to personal jurisdiction anywhere a plaintiff operates simply because the defendant knows its out-of-forum conduct…
24-499 Nita A. v. A. A. Illinois 2024-11-01 Denied domestic-violence due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment ninth-amendment personal-jurisdiction Whether the Illinois Domestic Violence Act violated Nita's First, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights by interfering with her parent-child relation…
24-335 Vivendi S.E., et al. v. EPAC Technologies Ltd. New York 2024-09-25 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived contract-law due-process forum-selection-clause fourteenth-amendment nonresident-defendant personal-jurisdiction Does the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause permit personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant with no forum contacts based solely on a …
24-5539 Muna Malvin Whitfield v. Fredericka F. Whitfield, et al. District of Columbia 2024-09-12 Denied IFP due-process estate-litigation fiduciary-duty personal-jurisdiction statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Appellate Court violated due process by dismissing the complaint and overlooking critical factual allegations related to the decedent's es…
24-151 United States v. Palestine Liberation Organization, et al. Second Circuit 2024-08-12 Judgment Issued Relisted (2) due-process fifth-amendment legislative-jurisdiction palestinian-authority personal-jurisdiction terrorism-civil-suits Whether the Promoting Security and Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act's method of establishing personal jurisdiction over the Palestine Liberation O…
24-133 Justin G. Dart v. Katrina Ahrens, as Independent Executor of the Estate of Lorne Ahrens, Deceased Texas 2024-08-06 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process equal-protection parentage-adjudication personal-jurisdiction posthumous-parentage standing subject-matter-jurisdiction texas-uniform-parentage-act uniform-parentage-act Does the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause permit a court to deny a child the right to adjudicate his rights under the Texas Uniform Pare…
24-79 James W. A. Jackson v. Kelly K. Fitzgerald Rhode Island 2024-07-25 Denied child-custody due-process evidentiary-hearing hcch-1996 international-treaty personal-jurisdiction simultaneous-proceedings subject-matter-jurisdiction uccjea Does a defense of UCCJEA 'Simultaneous Proceedings' become moot when one and not all proceedings is dismissed?
24-20 Miriam Fuld, et al. v. Palestine Liberation Organization, et al. Second Circuit 2024-07-09 Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (2) anti-terrorism-act consent-to-jurisdiction due-process fifth-amendment palestinian-authority palestinian-liberation-organization personal-jurisdiction promoting-security-and-justice-for-victims-of-terr statutory-interpretation Whether the PSJVTA violates the Fifth Amendment
24-17 Devas Multimedia Private Limited v. Antrix Corp. Ltd., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-09 Judgment Issued civil-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction service-of-process statutory-interpretation Whether the exercise of personal jurisdiction over a foreign state under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act requires satisfaction of the minimum-con…
23-7835 Yueseyuan Cruel v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment birth-certificate-citizenship citizenship-status civil-privileges-immunities civil-rights congress-legislation consent-governance constitution-rights-citizenship constitutional-jurisdiction legislative-power personal-jurisdiction Whether the United States and the Several States are Artificial Persons
23-1347 Fang Zeng v. Mingan Chen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-26 Denied burden-shifting civil-procedure civil-procedure 23-1346" default-judgment default-judgments due-process employment-discrimination foreign-defendant foreign-defendants Is the McDonnell Douglas framework applicable to m mixed-motive personal-jurisdiction pretext service-of-process substituted-service summary-judgment title-vii Due process-requirements-for-service-of-process-on-foreign-defendants
23-1334 Centennial Resource Production, LLC v. Northern Natural Gas Company Nebraska 2024-06-21 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment based exclusively on actions taken by the non-res federal-preemption minimum-contacts over a non-resident defendant personal-jurisdiction purposeful-availment violates the constitutional due-process 14th-amendment due-process federal-regulatory-requirement non-resident-defendant personal-jurisdiction state-court Whether the exercise of personal jurisdiction by a state court
23-1317 Jean Dufort Baptichon v. Department of Education, et al. District of Columbia 2024-06-18 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-rights federal-courts federal-jurisdiction forum-non-conveniens personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction transfer venue venue-transfer Personal-jurisdiction-versus-forum-non-conveniens
23-1320 GlaxoSmithKline, LLC, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County California 2024-06-18 Denied Amici (1) can the consumer's home state assert specific per brand-name-manufacturer due-process generic-drug generic-drugs innovator-liability personal-jurisdiction preemption product-liability specific-jurisdiction warning-label-liability When a plaintiff alleges injury from the consumption of a generic drug
23-1201 CC/Devas (Mauritius) Limited, et al. v. Antrix Corp. Ltd., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-08 Judgment Issued Relisted (2) civil-procedure due-process federal-courts foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether plaintiffs must prove minimum contacts before federal courts may assert personal jurisdiction over foreign states sued under the Foreign Sover…
23A966 Devas Multimedia Private Limited v. Antrix Corp. Ltd., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-29 Presumed Complete arbitral-exception circuit-split due-process foreign-sovereign-immunities-act minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction Whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act requires satisfaction of the minimum-contacts test for personal jurisdiction over a foreign state
23-1129 Richard Roche v. LARC, Inc., aka Lee Association for Remarkable Citizens, Inc., et al. New Jersey 2024-04-18 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment burger-king-v-rudzewicz due-process hanson-v-denckla intentional-torts judicial-discretion personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the courts of the State of New Jersey violate the due process rights pursuant to the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution and the Cons…
23-1133 Rick Sasso, dba Indiana Spine Group v. Marc Harding, dba Harding Law Firm Iowa 2024-04-18 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure conflict-of-laws due-process interstate-commerce interstate-litigation jurisdiction-analysis legal-consultation medical-malpractice personal-jurisdiction Whether Iowa courts have specific personal jurisdiction over an Indiana doctor
23-1061 Hawkeye Gold, LLC v. China National Materials Industry Import and Export Corporation, dba Sinoma Eighth Circuit 2024-03-28 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure default-judgment federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-to-set-aside personal-jurisdiction rule-12b waiver Whether a party waives the defense of lack of personal jurisdiction if available but omitted from its first court filing in a motion to set aside a de…
23-7044 Melanie A. Ogle v. Hocking County Common Pleas Court, et al. Ohio 2024-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-authority criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process personal-jurisdiction right-to-counsel sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction void-conviction Absence-of-counsel,Sixth-Amendment,Sentencing,Personal-jurisdiction,Subject-matter-jurisdiction,Void-sentence
23A836 GlaxoSmithKline, LLC, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County California 2024-03-12 Presumed Complete due-process generic-drugs personal-jurisdiction pharmaceutical-litigation specific-jurisdiction warning-label-liability Whether a brand-name pharmaceutical company can be subject to specific personal jurisdiction in a state for warning-label liability claims involving g…
23-874 Impossible X LLC v. Impossible Foods Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-14 Denied causation civil-procedure declaratory-judgment declaratory-relief due-process forum-contacts personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction trademark-noninfringement Does Ford create a categorical rule that specific jurisdiction does not require any link between the defendant's forum contacts and the plaintiff's in…
23-774 Melissa Groo v. Amy Eddy, Judge, Montana Eleventh Judicial District Court Montana 2024-01-17 Denied Response Waived due-process forum-state intentional-tort non-resident-defendant personal-jurisdiction purposeful-direction social-media walden-v-fiore Whether the Due Process Clause permits a state court to exercise specific personal jurisdiction over a non-resident defendant in an intentional tort c…
23-775 Erica Davis, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Andrew Dale Davis, Deceased, and Minor Children, JC, Minor Child, SD, Minor Child, et al. v. Cranfield Aerospace Solutions, Limited Ninth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure continuing-relationship contract-relationship due-process forum-selection fourteenth-amendment in-forum-company personal-jurisdiction product-development purposeful-availment Whether an out-of-forum defendant purposefully avails itself of the forum for personal-jurisdiction
23A651 Sunoco LP, et al. v. City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, et al. Hawaii 2024-01-16 Presumed Complete clean-air-act climate-change federal-common-law interstate-emissions personal-jurisdiction state-law-claims Whether federal common law or state law governs climate-change tort claims seeking redress for interstate greenhouse gas emissions after the Clean Air…
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
23-6290 In Re Pietro Pasquale Antonio Sgromo 2023-12-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure contract-law due-process in-personam in-personam-judgment jurisdiction license-agreement parol-evidence personal-jurisdiction service-of-process void Is a judgment rendered in personam against a defendant without jurisdiction of his person void?
23-579 Shenzen Sanlida Electrical Technology Company, Limited, et al. v. Whirlpool Corporation, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-11-29 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure district-court injunctive-relief notice-requirement personal-jurisdiction preliminary-injunction rule-65 Should the district court consider personal jurisdiction when issuing a preliminary injunction order under Rule 65?
23A467 Erica Davis, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Andrew Dale Davis, Deceased, and Minor Children, JC, Minor Child, SD, Minor Child, et al. v. Cranfield Aerospace Solutions, Limited Ninth Circuit 2023-11-27 Presumed Complete contract-supervision due-process forum-state-activities minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction purposeful-availment Whether continuous supervision and management of a forum-state business's activities through a multi-year contract constitutes purposeful availment su…
23-504 Photoplaza, Inc., et al. v. Herbal Brands, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied Amici (2) fair-play-and-substantial-justice forum-state minimum-contacts nationwide-sales non-resident-defendant personal-jurisdiction substantial-connection suit-related-conduct third-party-fulfillment Whether a seller whose products ship nationwide is subject to personal jurisdiction in every forum into which even one of its products is shipped
23-420 UPS Supply Chain Solutions, Inc. v. EVA Airways Corporation Second Circuit 2023-10-19 Denied Response Waived air-carrier cargo-claim civil-procedure indemnity-contribution international-carriage montreal-convention personal-jurisdiction rule-12b2 third-party-complaint treaty-law Should the Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(2) motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction have been granted?
23-5757 Marigdalia K. Ramirez-Fort v. Medical University of South Carolina, et al. First Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights defendant-contacts due-process forum-contacts forum-state-interests minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction state-interests What objective factors should courts rely upon to determine personal jurisdiction?
23-5709 Guy L. Coulston v. Raúl Labrador, Attorney General of Idaho Ninth Circuit 2023-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction sovereign-individual standing subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment Did the District court through the 9th circuit court of appeals and Prosecution, and My Trial counsel err in discretion to a Void Judgment that lead i…
23-5641 Marvin Joe Randall v. Oregon Oregon 2023-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction extraterritorial-prosecution internet-activity interstate-conduct personal-jurisdiction prostitution-regulation state-jurisdiction state-regulation website-communication Can the State of Oregon regulate the conduct of an individual who is not a resident of that state and at all times relevant to the case, was never pre…
23-290 Marc Grano, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Jose Barron, et al. v. El Paso Healthcare System, Ltd., dba Las Palmas Medical Center New Mexico 2023-09-22 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process forum-contacts forum-state fundamental-fairness healthcare-system medical-care medical-referral personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Whether specific personal jurisdiction in a forum state over a nonresident hospital and healthcare system is permissible
23A258 Tracy Nixon v. General Motors Corporation Fifth Circuit 2023-09-21 Presumed Complete due-process-clause fifth-amendment long-arm-statute personal-jurisdiction registered-agent service-of-process Whether a federal district court properly exercised personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state defendant corporation where service of process was atte…
23-232 BASF Metals Limited, et al. v. KPFF Investment, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2023-09-13 Denied Amici (3) civil-procedure co-conspirator conspiracy due-process forum-contacts jurisdictional-requirements personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Whether due process permits a court to exercise specific personal jurisdiction over a defendant based on the forum contacts of an alleged co-conspirat…
23-184 Karen M. Suber v. VVP Services, LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2023-08-28 Denied articulable-nexus civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment inconsistent-application jurisdiction long-arm-statute personal-jurisdiction standard-of-review substantial-relationship Whether the courts sitting in New York have inconsistently interpreted and applied the standard for the 'arising from' prong of the New York Long-Arm …
23A70 Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, et al. v. Texas Texas 2023-07-25 Presumed Complete due-process-clause foreign-manufacturer fourteenth-amendment nationwide-market nicastro personal-jurisdiction Whether a foreign manufacturer's conduct directed to the United States market as a whole, rather than to a particular state, provides a sufficient bas…
23-24 Grist Mill Capital, LLC v. Universitas Education, LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2023-07-07 Denied civil-procedure due-process forum-state general-jurisdiction minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction reasonableness rule-60-motion specific-jurisdiction void-judgment Whether the Panel was correct in not following major decisions of both this Court including Daimler v. Baumann and International Shoe and its progeny …
23-18 Dana Marie Bernhardt, Personally and as the Administratrix of the Estate of Jeremy Wise, et al. v. HSBC Holdings PLC, et al. District of Columbia 2023-07-06 Denied aiding-and-abetting anti-terrorism-act banking-services financial-system international-terrorism justice-against-sponsors-of-terrorism-act personal-jurisdiction terrorism-financing Whether a foreign defendant who knowingly, willfully, and illegally moved or permitted billions of dollars to be moved through the U.S. financial syst…
22-1146 Tiger Mynarcik v. WV 23 Jumpstart, LLC California 2023-05-25 Denied due-process expired-judgment full-faith-and-credit judgment-debtor judgment-renewal money-judgments personal-jurisdiction registration-of-foreign-judgments sister-state-judgments sister-state-judgments-act Whether a judgment renewed through a sister state's money judgments act in a state where the judgment debtor has no contacts whatsoever, should be giv…
22-1129 Faraz Fadavi Akhavan Bonab v. Samuel Ginn California 2023-05-19 Denied Response Waived business-relationship due-process forum-state fourteenth-amendment personal-jurisdiction purposeful-contacts specific-jurisdiction Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state court to exercise specific jurisdiction over a defendant when the plaintiff…
22-977 Jenny Bruns, et vir v. USAA, et al. District of Columbia 2023-04-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (4) all-writs-act antitrust civil-rights co-conspirators due-process longarm-statute personal-jurisdiction supremacy-clause Question not identified
22-937 VNG Corporation v. Lang Van, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-27 Denied civil-procedure due-process federal-rule internet-contacts minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction rule-4(k)(2) specific-jurisdiction Whether traditional due process principles apply to the exercise of specific personal jurisdiction over defendants based on their universally accessib…
22-7091 David Lee Hering v. Iowa Iowa 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-authority personal-jurisdiction speedy-trial void-judgement Whether a criminal prosecution and judgement therefrom is void where the trial court lost personal jurisdiction over the defendant prior to the start …
22-825 James K. Collins v. D.R. Horton-Texas Limited Fifth Circuit 2023-03-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) due-process federal-courts federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment personal-jurisdiction res-judicata rule-60 supremacy-clause takings Can a judgment of a court that lacked personal jurisdiction be the basis for taking property?
22-6858 In Re Zumar H. Dubose 2023-02-24 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury indictment jury-selection personal-jurisdiction sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-rights Whether the U.S. District Court has personal or subject-matter jurisdiction over an indictment that was not filed in open court or voted on by 10 or m…
22-802 Murco Wall Products, Inc. v. Michael D. Galier Oklahoma 2023-02-24 Denied Response Waived due-process fair-play-and-substantial-justice forum-contacts fourteenth-amendment minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Whether the 'minimum contacts' requirement for specific jurisdiction is satisfied whenever a defendant has made limited sales of products to customers…
22-6770 In Re Alphonza Thomas Bey 2023-02-14 Dismissed IFP 13th-amendment 14th-amendment 15th-amendment administrative-remedies constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-questions human-rights personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction unlawful-imprisonment Whether the United States Constitution, the United States Congress, and/or the Constitution of the State of North Carolina have government jurisdictio…
22-744 Joseph C. Sheehan v. Breccia Unlimited Company, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-02-08 Denied automatic-stay bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-jurisdiction circuit-split debtor-property in-rem-jurisdiction international-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction property-estate Whether the United States Bankruptcy Code's grant of world-wide jurisdiction over a debtor's property permits a federal court to exercise in rem juris…
22-641 Daimler Trucks North America LLC v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2023-01-11 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) due-process forum-activities forum-contacts non-resident-defendant personal-jurisdiction product-liability residency specific-jurisdiction territorial-limits Whether specific personal jurisdiction is limited to circumstances where a nonresident serves a market for a product in the forum and the product caus…
22-596 Lamon Sandel Dewayne Donnell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-28 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process foreign-state judicial-procedure jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunities sovereign-immunities-act subject-matter-jurisdiction title-28 Is this Court, and all public offices, a FOREIGN STATE as defined under FRCP Rule 4(j) and under Title 28— JUDICIARY | AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE?
22-562 Stephen Douglass, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Shingo Alexander Douglass, et al. v. Nippon Yusen Kabushki Kaisha Fifth Circuit 2022-12-19 Denied Amici (3) admiralty-jurisdiction admiralty-law due-process federal-courts federal-rule-civil-procedure fifth-amendment high-seas law-of-nations personal-jurisdiction state-courts Whether the Fifth Amendment imposes the same restrictions on personal jurisdiction by federal courts as the Fourteenth Amendment imposes on state cour…
22-6172 Terry L. Benson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-identity-theft civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process frcp identity-theft jury-of-peers personal-jurisdiction rule-60b writ-of-mandamus Whether the lower courts erred in affirming the conviction for aggravated identity theft, in violation of the petitioner's civil-rights, due-process, …
22-477 Lezlie J. Gunn v. Hans-Peter Wild Sixth Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied arise-from civil-procedure foreign-defendant foreign-defendants minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction relate-to sixth-circuit specific-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent Should the requirement that a plaintiff's cause of action arise from or relate to the defendant's minimum contacts with a state apply to foreign natio…
22-467 HANWJH v. NBA Properties, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-11-17 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process fair-play-and-substantial-justice interactive-website international-shoe-standard minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction single-sale specific-jurisdiction Whether the 'minimum contacts' requirement is met to establish specific personal jurisdiction over a non-resident defendant
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…
22-411 Keo Ratha, et al. v. Phatthana Seafood Co., Ltd., et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-11-01 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived calder-effects-test civil-rights forced-labor forum-injury forum-injury-requirement human-trafficking intentional-tort ninth-circuit-ruling personal-jurisdiction purposeful-availment Whether purposeful availment suffices to establish specific personal jurisdiction, or whether purposeful direction is necessary
22-396 Christa Fischer, et al. v. Federal Express Corp., et al. Third Circuit 2022-10-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bristol-myers bristol-myers-squibb collective-action due-process due-process-clause fair-labor-standards-act opt-in-plaintiffs personal-jurisdiction service-of-process Whether a federal court has the authority, absent general personal jurisdiction over the defendant or the defendant's consent, to maintain a Fair Labo…
22-5921 Antwoyn Terrell Spencer v. United States District Court for the District of Minnesota Eighth Circuit 2022-10-26 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding due-process grand-jury indictment mandamus personal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the district court lacked subject-matter and personal jurisdiction in the petitioner's criminal proceedings
22-332 Terraform Labs Pte Ltd., et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission Second Circuit 2022-10-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-procedure corporate-tag corporate-tag-jurisdiction due-process personal-jurisdiction sec-rules service-of-process Did the SEC properly exercise personal jurisdiction over a foreign company?
22-280 Rashid A. Buttar v. Rachan Damidi Reddy Fourth Circuit 2022-09-26 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-agreement civil-procedure district-court due-process new-york-convention personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the District Court had personal jurisdiction over Petitioner
22-5649 Graylin Gray v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Corrections, et al. Nebraska 2022-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP arraignment court-filing criminal-procedure due-process personal-jurisdiction service-of-process subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver-of-rights Whether the district court had subject matter jurisdiction when the amended information was not filed until after the petitioner appeared in court and…
22-5600 Quincetta Y. Cargill v. Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit-of-bias appellate-review civil-rights counsel-ineffectiveness due-process judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct motion-denial personal-jurisdiction recusal standing Whether the district court judge's failure to disclose and respond to the petitioner's affidavit of personal bias and prejudice under 28 U.S.C. §§ 144…
22-82 Charles Johnson v. TheHuffingtonPost.com, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2022-07-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure data-harvesting Did the Supreme Court of Virginia err in determini educational-evaluations forum-selection 22-829" jurisdictional-error libel personal-jurisdiction pretrial-motions procedural-error revenue-generation sovereign-immunity specific-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-review targeted-marketing website-data-collection website-liability Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia erred in det Whether the panel majority of the Fifth Circuit correctly held that a national news organization's website that harvests visitor location data to shar…
21-8167 Xue Jie He, et al. v. United States, et al. Third Circuit 2022-06-17 Denied IFP 28-usc-1251 article-three civil-procedure constitution federal-jurisdiction original-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction state-sovereignty supreme-court Whether this Court has original jurisdiction over this action and personal jurisdiction over the parties pursuant to Article II Section 2. of the Cons…
21-1503 Lloyds Banking Group plc, et al. v. The Berkshire Bank, et al. Second Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure co-conspirator conspiracy defendant-actions due-process forum jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction Whether a court may exercise personal jurisdiction over a defendant merely because the defendant's alleged co-conspirator took foreseeable actions in …
21-7968 Thurman Jerome Brown v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2022-05-24 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 13th-amendment binding-precedent civil-procedure civil-rights due-process extrajudicial-proceedings judicial-discretion personal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment What is the full legal effect of the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal to grant certiorari?
21-7868 Lee Michael Pederson v. Phillip Frost, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP calder-v-jones civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction intentional-interference personal-jurisdiction venue-transfer witness-tampering Does Minnesota have the power to exercise specific personal jurisdiction over Phillip Frost and CoCrystal Pharma, Inc. under Calder v Jones, where the…
21-7615 Randolph Codner, aka Jah Rastafari Malchizdek v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process facebook habeas-corpus personal-jurisdiction social-media Whether the court erred in exercising personal jurisdiction over the defendant who is not 'at home' in the forum state
21-1277 David Allen O'Neal v. Crawford County, Georgia Georgia 2022-03-23 Denied attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-court civil-procedure county-employee county-liability personal-jurisdiction third-party-release third-party-releases void-judgment Whether a judgment against a county employee in his official capacity is unenforceable without personal jurisdiction over the attorney
21-1237 Lloyds Banking Group PLC, et al. v. Schwab Short-Term Bond Market Fund, et al. Second Circuit 2022-03-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (6) civil-procedure co-conspirator conspiracy defendant due-process forum forum-contacts jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction Whether a court may exercise personal jurisdiction over a defendant merely because the defendant's alleged co-conspirator took foreseeable actions in …
21-1200 Sherif A. Philips v. Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-03 Denied civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection federal-question-jurisdiction fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud-upon-the-court personal-jurisdiction Whether the unrecognized transfer of a case from the Guam Superior Court to the Guam District Court, despite a lack of jurisdiction, led to a default …
21-1192 Day & Zimmermann NPS, Inc. v. John Waters, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated First Circuit 2022-03-01 Denied Amici (1) bristol-myers-squibb circuit-split civil-procedure due-process fair-labor-standards-act federal-civil-procedure personal-jurisdiction rule-4(k)(1)(a) service-of-summons standing Whether out-of-state plaintiffs seeking to opt into an FLSA collective action pending in federal court must demonstrate that the forum state's courts …
21-7210 James Thomas Webb v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP double-jeopardy due-process fair-play federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction settlement-agreement sovereign-immunity takings Did the relitigation of the CLOSED Florida 2 Federal District Court case United States Securities and Exchange Commission v. James Thomas Webb (Case S…
21-1168 Robert Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co. Pennsylvania 2022-02-23 Judgment Issued Amici (21)Relisted (2) civil-procedure corporate-consent due-process fourteenth-amendment international-shoe personal-jurisdiction registration-statute Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a state from requiring a corporation to consent to personal jurisdiction to do bu…
21-1137 Byron Wendell Phillips v. The Life Property Management Services, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-16 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-process civil-procedure civil-rights claim-dismissal conspiracy-allegations court-procedure due-process fraud-and-corruption fraud-claims legal-exclusion personal-jurisdiction standing Whether the courts below erred by excluding and/or failing to constitutionally dispute all essential elements of an argument(s)
21-1098 Laura Canaday, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. The Anthem Companies, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2022-02-08 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure collective-action due-process fair-labor-standards-act federal-court opt-in-plaintiffs personal-jurisdiction wage-and-hour Whether a federal court has the authority, absent general personal jurisdiction over the defendant or the defendant's consent, to maintain a Fair Labo…
21-926 Cooper Tire & Rubber Company v. Tyrance McCall Georgia 2021-12-22 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (4) consent corporate-registration due-process forum-contacts fourteenth-amendment general-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction state-sovereignty Whether the Due Process Clause permits a state to assert personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state corporation for claims not arising from the forum …
21-595 Bruce Alexander v. Anheuser-Busch, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-25 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process employee-contacts federal-rules in-rem-jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss personal-jurisdiction sales subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the Western District Court err in its rulings on personal-jurisdiction, in-rem-jurisdiction, due-process, civil-procedure, sales, and employee-con…
21-565 Olga Pavlovna Blakley v. Milling, Benson, Woodward, L.L.P. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied contract-location contractual-obligations damages damages-jurisdiction judicial-bias legal-malpractice out-of-state-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction representation-agreement Whether an out-of-state law firm is subject to specific in-personam jurisdiction in the client's home state, where the client signed the representatio…
21-493 Susan Chen v. Darren Migita, et al. Washington 2021-10-04 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure court-dismissal due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-challenge legal-representation notice personal-jurisdiction procedural-ambiguity standing unrepresented-minor Whether a state court's dismissal order, absent clear languages about the legal effects, and its further refusal to clarify — which has led to four ye…
21-494 Ralph Lewis v. Power Research, Inc., et al. Nevada 2021-10-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) calder-effects-test conflict-of-laws corporate-officer due-process forum-activities nonresident-defendant personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction walden-v-fiore Whether the Nevada Supreme Court correctly held that a State may exercise specific personal jurisdiction over a defendant where the defendant does not…
21-478 Ee Hoong Liang v. Panircelvan Kaliannan, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-09-30 Denied due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure forum-non-conveniens minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction summary-judgment Questions Presented
21-473 Daniel G. Szmania v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee for Bear Stearns Arm Trust 2007-3 Washington 2021-09-28 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction removal-to-federal-court res-judicata service-of-process Did the Supreme Court of Washington err in not enforcing the civil court case removal to federal court under 28 U.S.C. § 1446(d)?
21-446 Justin Pannell v. Roger Abshire, et al. Texas 2021-09-22 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process jurisdictional-waiver non-resident-company personal-jurisdiction special-appearance texas-civil-procedure texas-rules-of-civil-procedure waiver When does a court in a resident's state have jurisdiction over a non-resident company who harms a resident in that resident's state?
21-5646 Peter Klah v. Andrew J. Bruck, Acting Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2021-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights digital-contacts due-process ineffective-counsel jurisdiction-analysis online-interactions personal-jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel standing Whether the trial court erred in denying the motion to suppress evidence
21-5564 Russell Jay Reger v. Texas Texas 2021-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure due-process jurisdictional-challenge legal-nullity personal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment Is an uncontested void judgment still viewed by this court as being 'mere waste paper'?
21-207 Behrman Capital IV, L.P., et al. v. Thomas E. Reynolds, Trustee Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied derivative-jurisdiction federal-courts lambert-run-coal-co-v-baltimore-o-r-co personal-jurisdiction removal state-courts subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the derivative jurisdiction doctrine precludes federal courts from exercising personal jurisdiction following removal from state courts that l…
21-200 Willie Frank Walker v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-11 Denied 14th-amendment accardi-doctrine civil-procedure due-process foreign-state jurisdictional-challenge personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunities sovereign-immunities-act subject-matter-jurisdiction transient-foreigner Lack of subject-matter and personal jurisdiction
21-142 Robert J. Frey v. Anthony Binford Minter, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-03 Denied choice-of-law defamation diversity-jurisdiction forum-shopping internet-communication internet-publication personal-jurisdiction reputation-injury reputational-injury Whether Petitioner, a natural person, domiciled in Florida, who suffered injury to his reputation in Florida from a defamatory multistate internet com…
21-5203 Ibrahim Akasha Abdalla, aka Ibrahim Akasha v. United States Second Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction fifth-amendment foreign-national personal-jurisdiction What level of contact with the United States must a foreign national who never entered this country and committed the offense conduct solely outside o…
21-33 Máxima Acuña-Atalaya, et al. v. Newmont Mining Corporation, et al. Third Circuit 2021-07-12 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) adequate-forum comity corruption forum-non-conveniens home-forum personal-jurisdiction Does the forum non conveniens doctrine permit dismissal from a defendant's presumptively fair and convenient home forum when the adequacy of the forei…
21-4 C. Al Buis v. DLI Assets Bravo, LLC Virginia 2021-07-06 Denied Response Waived borrower-agreement consent consent-clause due-process forum-selection forum-selection-clause guaranty-agreement loan-guaranty personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Whether a state court can exercise specific personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state guarantor based solely on a co-defendant's consent to a forum-s…
20-1821 Anton Shifchik, et al. v. Wyndham Worldwide Corporation, et al. New Jersey 2021-06-30 Denied Response Waived corporate-contacts due-process ford-motor-co-v-montana fourteenth-amendment general-jurisdiction international-shoe internet-commerce personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Whether internet commerce determines personal jurisdiction of foreign corporations
20-1756 Ethan Fullerton, et al. v. LG Chem, Ltd. Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response Waived corporate-defendant domestic-corporations due-process fifth-amendment foreign-corporations fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-limits longarm-statute personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Should international corporate defendants with worldwide reach be granted jurisdictional protection not afforded domestic corporations?
20-8157 In Re Blake Joseph Sandlain 2021-05-27 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-circuit mandamus personal-jurisdiction Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit erred in denying the petitioner's request for a writ of mandamus to compel the district cour…
20-1555 Ruth McLean v. 800 DC, LLC, et al. Third Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied due-process fraud fraudulent-measures jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgment void void-ab-initio Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine applies when the underlying state-court judgment is void ab initio
20-1506 Jeffrey G. Thomas v. State Bar of California California 2021-04-28 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment attorney-discipline due-process personal-jurisdiction state-bar-court subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether discipline of an attorney by a state bar court is void due to lack of personal jurisdiction
20-1430 AMA Multimedia, LLC v. Marcin Wanat Ninth Circuit 2021-04-13 Denied Response Waived calder-effects-test circuit-split civil-procedure due-process express-aiming federal-civil-procedure foreign-defendant geotargeted-advertising personal-jurisdiction tort Whether a foreign defendant has engaged in 'express aiming' at the United States for purposes of a U.S. court asserting personal jurisdiction
20-1141 Doe Company v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process perlman-doctrine personal-jurisdiction standing subpoena subpoena-enforcement third-party-disclosure Whether an appealing party's substantial interest in a disclosure order directing a disinterested third party to produce documents provides appellate …
20-1097 Karen C. Han v. Yangrai Cho Ninth Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied civil-procedure domicile due-process foreign-citizenship foreign-defendant forum-state general-jurisdiction minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction Whether a defendant who is a citizen of foreign country but is domiciled in a forum state is subject to the forum's exercise of general personal juris…
20-1033 Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua S.A.B. de C.V., et al. v. Compañía de Inversiones Mercantiles, S.A. Tenth Circuit 2021-01-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arising-out-of-test civil-procedure email-service federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-4(f)(3) foreign-defendants hague-service-convention narrative personal-jurisdiction service-of-process u.s.-contacts Does service by email on the U.S. counsel of a foreign party pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 4(f)(3) violate the Hague-Service-Convention?
20-984 Gurbir S. Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey v. Defense Distributed, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-01-25 Denied Amici (1) cease-and-desist due-process forum-state jurisdictional-challenge minimum-contacts nonresident-defendant personal-jurisdiction purposeful-availment specific-jurisdiction Whether a nonresident state official subjects itself to personal-jurisdiction in another forum-state when it sends a single cease-and-desist-letter to…
20-747 Peter F. Gary, et al. v. JTC Holdings, LLC Colorado 2020-11-30 Denied Response Waived choice-of-law civil-procedure corporate-governance due-process forum-selection long-arm-statute minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction tortious-conduct Does discussing business with Plaintiff's owner—a Colorado Resident—without more, allow Colorado to exercise personal jurisdiction over Defendants?
20-515 Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Company v. Gateway Hospitality Group Inc., et al. Montana 2020-10-20 Denied arbitration-clause civil-procedure due-process fair-play-and-substantial-justice forum-selection fourteenth-amendment insurance insurance-contract personal-jurisdiction Whether the nationwide territory of coverage clause in the insurance policy obligated the insurer to submit to personal jurisdiction in a Montana cour…
20-503 Tofig Kurbanov v. UMG Recordings, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied due-process foreign-citizen fourth-circuit-court internet-transactions personal-jurisdiction sovereignty website-operation Whether the Due Process Clause is violated when a foreign citizen is subjected to personal jurisdiction based on operation of a website and minor inte…
20-510 IQVIA Inc. v. Florence Mussat, M.D., S.C. Seventh Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Amici (4) civil-procedure class-action due-process federal-courts jurisdiction-limits personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a district court with jurisdiction coextensive with a state court in the district can exercise personal jurisdiction over absent class members…
20-462 Jesse Louis Kaiser v. Anthony R. Morfitt, Assistant United States Attorney Eighth Circuit 2020-10-13 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process foreign-state personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunities sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction Jurisdiction-challenge
20-475 Stanley V. Campbell v. Eagle Force Holdings, LLC, et al. Delaware 2020-10-13 Denied 14th-amendment civil-contempt civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process judicial-procedure personal-jurisdiction sanctions Can a finding of civil contempt and the imposition of a sanction be sustained consistent with the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment to the Cons…
20-389 Peter J. Schaffer, et al. v. Joey Long Ninth Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied appellate-review bristol-myers-squibb civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver waiver-of-rights Does a full litigation of the merits of a personal jurisdictional challenge sufficiently preserve the issue for full review on appeal?
20-374 Continental Resources, Inc. v. Zachary Buckles, Deceased, By and Through His Personal Representative, Nicole R. Buckles, et al. Montana 2020-09-23 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) due-process federalism forum-contacts independent-contractors personal-jurisdiction sovereign-interest specific-jurisdiction tort-liability vicarious-liability Whether the 'arise out of or relate to' requirement of the personal-jurisdiction test is met when none of the defendant's forum contacts caused the pl…
20-342 Kyko Global Inc., et al. v. Omkar Bhongir Third Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied Response Waived calder-effects-test calder-v-jones civil-procedure corporate-directors due-process effects-test personal-jurisdiction rule-12b2 state-law walden-v-fiore Whether Walden v. Fiore nullifies state personal-jurisdiction-statutes
20-337 Rosemary Ann Lynn v. Andrew George Brown, III, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-09-14 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction due-process personal-jurisdiction rico-statute service-of-process subject-matter-jurisdiction venue Whether Appellees' refusal to serve Petitioner with summons and petition after passage of two years' and seven months divest the district court of per…
20-327 BBB Industries, LLC v. Cardone Industries, Inc. Texas 2020-09-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-limits due-process forum-contacts personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction state-court supplemental-jurisdiction texas Whether the Texas courts' supplemental specific personal jurisdiction doctrine is inconsistent with the Due Process Clause
20-231 Aladdin Manufacturing Corporation, et al. v. The Water Works and Sewer Board of the Town Centre, et al. Alabama 2020-08-27 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) due-process in-state-effects out-of-state-defendant personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction third-party third-party-conduct unilateral-actions Whether a State may exercise specific personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state defendant because the defendant knew (or should have known) that its …
20-177 Ally Financial Inc. v. Alberta Haskins, et al. Missouri 2020-08-18 Granted Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) class-action due-process forum-contacts fourteenth-amendment nationwide-class out-of-state-defendant personal-jurisdiction state-court Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state court to exercise specific personal jurisdiction over claims against an out…
19-1422 Nakisha Jackson v. Roy L. Brun, Judge, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-25 Denied Relisted (2) 501(3)c appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech funding internet-communication jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge legal-records-access misrepresentation personal-jurisdiction pro-se-litigation secretary-of-state small-business-administration standing Is it considered 'misrepresentation' when an individual is not registered with the Secretary of State (SOS), in their state, to represent an entity, b…
19-8801 Tichinia Jones, et al. v. Lamar Company, LLC Florida 2020-06-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment binding-judgment civil-procedure constitutional-due-process court-jurisdiction due-process legal-merits personal-jurisdiction state-courts subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
19-1408 James Coppedge, et ux. v. Janet Z. Charlton Third Circuit 2020-06-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-complaint civil-rights-procedure collateral-order-doctrine due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction pleadings procedural-review standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the District Court review of the facial sufficiency of 42 USC § 1983 and § 1985 complaint below ignored the requirements of FRCP Rule 12(c)
19-1297 James K. Collins, et ux. v. D.R. Horton-Texas, Ltd. Texas 2020-05-19 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment due-process federal-judgment fourteenth-amendment personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity state-rights takings tenth-amendment void-judgment Whether the Fourteenth Amendment allows a state to enforce a void federal judgment obtained without personal jurisdiction over and notice to the defen…
19-1288 Alan Singer v. Mondex Corporation Arizona 2020-05-13 Denied appellate-procedure attorney-fees choice-of-law civil-procedure cross-appeal jurisdiction minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver Did the Arizona Supreme Court have subject matter jurisdiction to grant attorney's fees on behalf of an appellee after it declined to grant review; al…
19-1192 Missouri, ex rel. Key Insurance Company v. Marco A. Roldan, Judge, Circuit Court of Missouri, Jackson County, et al. Missouri 2020-04-02 Denied Response Waived due-process forum-state fourteenth-amendment liability-insurer long-arm-statute motor-vehicle-accident personal-jurisdiction Whether a court's exercise of specific personal jurisdiction over a nonresident liability insurer violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Am…
19-1139 James Leonard Hines v. Regions Bank, fka Union Planters Bank, N.A. Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure default-judgment due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-to-transfer notice notice-of-complaint personal-jurisdiction service-of-process Was the precedent established by the U. S. Supreme Court in summons-and-complaint followed in the lower courts' decisions
19-1110 Board of Regents of the University of Texas System, et al. v. Boston Scientific Corporation Federal Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge due-process federal-court federal-patent-statute federal-statute patent-infringement patent-venue personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity sovereign-rights state-rights state-sovereign state-sovereignty Whether a state's sovereign right to try its causes within its borders when there is personal jurisdiction over the defendant renders unconstitutional…
19-1092 In Re TCT Mobile International Limited 2020-03-05 Denied Response Waived bristol-myers-squibb civil-procedure contact-attribution due-process eastern-district-of-texas federal-circuit forum-state mandamus nonresident-defendant personal-jurisdiction stream-of-commerce unilateral-activity venue Whether the Federal Circuit erred in denying mandamus and failing to correct a district court ruling finding personal jurisdiction over a nonresident …
19-1016 Jeffrey Kirsch v. Redwood Recovery Services, LLC, et al. Nevada 2020-02-14 Denied business-activities business-contacts civil-procedure deposition-sanction discovery due-process evidence evidence-preclusion nationwide-contacts personal-jurisdiction sanctions Did the District Court violate the Due Process Clause by barring Defendant-Petitioner from presenting any evidence in his defense at trial
19-985 Native Wholesale Supply Company v. California, ex rel. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General, et al. California 2020-02-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) contract-law indian-commerce-clause indian-reservation indian-tribe interstate-commerce personal-jurisdiction state-regulation tribal-corporation tribal-sovereignty Whether a contract for the purchase of goods entered into, and fully performed by, an Indian Tribe outside the exterior boundaries of the state in whi…
19-989 Kathleen K. Johnson, Individually and as Trustee of the Annabell M. Palmer Family Trust, et al. v. UBS AG Second Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied Response Waived commercial-disputes corporate-presence forum-selection general-jurisdiction long-arm-statute long-arm-statutes non-domiciliaries non-domiciliary nonresident-corporation personal-jurisdiction tortious-conduct Should this Court address and resolve the conflicts and inconsistencies among the Federal Circuits and the State Courts on the issue of general jurisd…
19-910 K. G. S., Individually and as Guardian and Next Friend of Baby Doe, a Minor Child v. Facebook, Inc. Alabama 2020-01-22 Denied calder-effects-test calder-v-jones due-process effects-based-test fourteenth-amendment online-activity personal-jurisdiction reputational-harm virtual-contacts walden-v-fiore Whether virtual contacts can establish specific personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant under the effects-based test of Calder v. Jones
19-6993 In Re Augustus Larry Lundy 2019-12-18 Denied IFP constructive-denial-of-counsel due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus personal-jurisdiction sixth-amendment Did the trial court divest itself of personal jurisdiction of Lundy when it administered the law in an improper and unconstitutional manner?
19-764 Mark I. Sokolow, et al. v. Palestine Liberation Organization, et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-16 GVR Amici (3) anti-terrorism-act anti-terrorism-act-1992 anti-terrorism-clarification-act-2018 congress due-process fifth-amendment international-terrorism national-security palestinian-authority personal-jurisdiction terrorism united-states-citizen Whether the PLO and PA consented to personal jurisdiction when they chose to maintain facilities within the United States after the date specified in …
19-6499 John Berman v. David Modell California 2019-11-05 Denied IFP benefit-analysis civil-procedure due-process forum-state intentional-tort long-arm-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Does a court err by requiring a plaintiff to show what 'benefit' the defendant derived from intentional and allegedly tortuous actions aimed at the pl…
19-528 John Wayne Scantlebury, et al. v. United States District of Columbia 2019-10-22 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction article-iii collateral-attack criminal-procedure cross-border-tort due-process federal-officer-liability final-judgment minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction Whether criminal appeals from dismissals without prejudice are 'final' under 28 U.S.C. §1291
19-505 William Rupert v. Susan Bond, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied Response Waived antitrust circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process frcp-12b6 judicial-expediency noerr-pennington personal-jurisdiction rico rico-statute sham-litigation standing Should the circuit splits over the use of FRCP-12(b)(6)-motions,to-rule-upon-a-disputed-issue-of-fact-(the-sham-litigation-or-fraud-exception-to-claim…
19-6139 Jermaine Stevenson v. Connie Horton, Warden Michigan 2019-10-02 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process juvenile-court juvenile-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction state-court-procedure transfer void-ab-initio waiver-hearing Has due process of law been violated where a child within the permanent custody and jurisdiction of the state juvenile court is charged as an adult in…
19-368 Ford Motor Company v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court, et al. Montana 2019-09-19 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (2) burger-king causation civil-procedure due-process forum-contacts minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction relatedness specific-jurisdiction Whether the 'arise out of or relate to' requirement is met when none of the defendant's forum contacts caused the plaintiff's claims, such that the pl…
19-369 Ford Motor Company v. Adam Bandemer Minnesota 2019-09-19 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (2) burger-king causation civil-procedure due-process forum-contacts minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction relatedness specific-jurisdiction Whether the 'arise out of or relate to' requirement is met when none of the defendant's forum contacts caused the plaintiff's claims, such that the pl…
19-363 Jim R. Nash v. Norma Nash, et al. Arkansas 2019-09-18 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction state-court state-courts substitution Whether a judgment without jurisdiction of the decedent violates the petitioner's right to due process under the Fourteenth Amendment
19-5880 Andrew Joseph Larson v. Michael Pacheco, Warden Wyoming 2019-09-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights constructive-denial-of-counsel criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction name-change personal-jurisdiction presumption-of-guilt presumption-of-innocence standing state-department subject-matter trial-jurisdiction What are the necessary components for the trial court to be complete and hold jurisdiction over a case and was Avitabile's trial court complete?
19-305 Lisa Wilkins, et al. v. James Soler, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-05 Denied Response Waived due-process forum-state fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement personal-jurisdiction third-party-interactions Whether a court can, consistent with the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, exert personal jurisdiction over an out of state law enforcem…
19-278 Pfizer Inc., et al. v. Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, et al. California 2019-09-03 Denied Amici (1) bristol-myers-squibb civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-law forfeiture jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a defendant's efforts to establish federal subject matter jurisdiction can result in forfeiture of an otherwise fully preserved challenge to p…
19-210 Lizette Olaechea, aka Lizette Simmonds v. Grace Olaechea Florida 2019-08-20 Denied civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment inconsistent-decisions indispensable-party personal-jurisdiction void-judgment Whether the lower Courts disregarded the Fourteenth Amendment and erred by not declaring a judgment void, wherein the Court lacked personal jurisdicti…
19-175 Brad S. Francis, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eighth Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-misconduct appellate-procedure due-process jurisdiction notice-of-deficiency personal-jurisdiction reasoned-opinion statutory-notice subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-court tax-court-jurisdiction Does the Eighth Circuit's judgement and PER CURIAM AFFIRMANCE using Local Rule 47B AFFIRMANCE OR ENFORCEMENT WITHOUT OPINION of Case No. 18-2447 satis…
18-1412 Lewis-Jay Porter v. Texas Fifth Circuit 2019-05-10 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-state personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the court lacks subject matter and personal jurisdiction due to the court being defined as a 'foreign state' under FRCP Rule 4(j) and the Sove…
18-8515 E. Drake v. Murphy, Austin, Adams, Schoenfeld, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-03-21 Denied IFP choice-of-law civil-procedure civil-procedure-personal-jurisdiction civil-rights contract contract-law due-process fraud fraud-claims internet internet-commerce internet-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction websites zippo-standard Whether the district court and Fifth Circuit erred in dismissing the case for lack of personal jurisdiction over the defendants, Niello and the Murphy…
18-8410 Marshall Ray Miller v. Joseph L. McFadden, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement-statements personal-jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err in not issuing a Certificate of Appealability where Petitioner demonstrated a substantial showing of a con…
18-1160 Teck Metals Ltd., fka Teck Cominco Metals, Ltd. v. The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Amici (3) arranger-liability cercla cercla-arranger-liability cross-border-pollution environmental-liability extraterritorial-application first-circuit-conflict first-circuit-split morrison-v-national-australia-bank personal-jurisdiction rjr-nabisco-v-european-community walden-v-fiore waste-disposal Whether the Ninth Circuit correctly concluded that holding Teck liable for its discharges in Canada was not an impermissible extraterritorial applicat…
18-1076 In Re Robert K. Hudnall 2019-02-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction secret-hearing service-of-process standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a State Supreme Court with only appellate jurisdiction can exercise personal jurisdiction without proper service of process, take subject matt…
18-1067 Ambac Assurance Corporation v. U.S. Bank National Association Minnesota 2019-02-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-limits due-process forum-state in-rem-jurisdiction minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction trust trust-law trustee trustee-presence Whether a court may exercise in rem jurisdiction over a trust where the trust's primary assets are located outside the forum state
18-7837 Marlon Blacher v. Superior Court of California, Contra Costa County, et al. California 2019-02-07 Denied IFP civil-rights constitution due-process jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction standing state-authority statutory-provisions Is the writ true that the Constitution and all of its instruments are bound to the matters declared via Article IV, clause 3, Constitution of the Unit…
18-998 Sandra Waite, as Personal Representative of the Estate of John Waite, Jr. v. Union Carbide Corporation, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied Response Waived asbestos asbestos-liability asbestos-litigation civil-procedure corporate-registration due-process forum-selection in-state-causation mesothelioma personal-jurisdiction product-liability products-liability specific-jurisdiction three-prong-test Whether the circuit court erred when it ignored the three-prong analysis the Court has repeatedly set forth for analyzing specific jurisdiction and, i…
18-945 TLSL, Inc. v. Rankin Snead, as Administrator Ad Litem of the Estate of Juan Estrada, et al. Alabama 2019-01-18 Denied Response Waived at-home-test civil-procedure constitutional-rights corporate-domicile daimler due-process general-jurisdiction goodyear personal-jurisdiction tyrrell Whether the 'at-home' test for general personal jurisdiction should apply equally to more modest enterprises that only have connections with a minimal…
18-784 Eldon Bugg v. Marc Honey, et al. Missouri 2018-12-20 Denied bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-law common-law-torts diversity-jurisdiction due-process fourteenth-amendment national-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction Whether respondents' appearance in Missouri state court while the bankruptcy case was still open constituted presence in Missouri for purposes of pers…
18-7011 John S. Myzer v. George W. Bush, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-dismissal civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure final-order personal-jurisdiction prejudice-standard service-of-process standing subject-matter-jurisdiction May a district court dismiss a case with prejudice that has not begun?
18-620 Jamahl Harim Simmons v. Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied 14th-amendment civil-rights collateral-attack constitutional-challenge due-process foreign-state jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunities sovereign-immunities-act subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the state trial court lacks subject matter and personal jurisdiction
18-539 George T. Hawes v. Daniel P. Reilly Rhode Island 2018-10-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-laws constitutional-law court-jurisdiction due-process full-faith-and-credit full-faith-and-credit-clause interstate-litigation judicial-procedure jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction standing Did the Supreme Court for the State of Rhode Island violate the full-faith-and-credit-clause by failing to uphold and enforce a Utah court's order fin…
18-545 First Advantage Background Services Corp. v. Superior Court of California, San Mateo County, et al. California 2018-10-25 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) burden-of-proof class-action due-process fair-credit-reporting-act federal-statute forum-state fourteenth-amendment harm nationwide-class-action non-resident-defendant personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Whether a state court may exercise specific personal jurisdiction over a non-resident defendant in a nationwide class action when the alleged conduct …
18-5949 Charles Litton Morris v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2254-d-1-2 appointment-of-counsel brady-strickland-constitutional-claims claims-ignored constitutional-violation district-court-failure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence judicial-bias personal-jurisdiction plea-validity subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause supremacy-clause-conflict-preemption issues being raised
18-311 Exxon Mobil Corporation v. Maura Healey, Attorney General of Massachussetts Massachusetts 2018-09-11 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) commerce-clause conflict-among-courts court-compulsion due-process general-jurisdiction investigatory-document-request investigatory-request jurisdiction-basis minimum-contacts nonresident-corporation personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction third-party-contacts unrelated-subject-matter Whether a court may exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident corporation to compel its compliance with an investigatory document request wher…
18-316 Brian Arthur Weese v. Maryland Fourth Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied civil-procedure-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process facial-challenge federal-jurisdiction federal-rules jurisdictional-challenge material-allegations nonmoving-party personal-jurisdiction pleading-requirements sovereign-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction sufficiency-of-pleadings Whether the court lacks subject matter and personal jurisdiction over the case
18-264 New World International, Inc., et al. v. Ford Global Technologies, LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2018-08-30 Denied Response Waived civil-litigation civil-procedure claim-preclusion collateral-estoppel cure dismissal first-suit issue-preclusion jurisdictional-defect legal-procedure personal-jurisdiction res-judicata second-suit suit-dismissal Whether jurisdictional defects in a first suit dismissed for lack of personal jurisdiction can be cured in a second suit by alleging facts that were k…
18-165 DHL Supply Chain v. DEX Systems, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied calder-effects-test civil-procedure due-process electronic-server foreign-defendant forum-state internet-jurisdiction jurisdictional-analysis long-arm-statute minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction virtual-presence Whether a U.S. court can exercise personal jurisdiction over a foreign defendant based solely on the defendant's 'virtual presence' through electronic…
18-167 MCC (Xiangtan) Heavy Industrial Equipment Co., Ltd. v. Liebherr Mining & Construction Equipment, Inc., dba Liebherr Mining Equipment Newport News Co. Virginia 2018-08-07 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights co-conspirators constitutional-law due-process forum-state nonresident-defendant personal-jurisdiction Whether the Due Process Clause permits a court to exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant based on the contacts of the defendant's…
18-119 Gotech International Technology Limited, et al. v. Nagravision SA Fifth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure defendant-jurisdiction due-process federal-civil-procedure federal-claims federal-courts federal-rules-of-civil-procedure foreign-defendants jurisdiction-pleading personal-jurisdiction pleading pleading-requirements rule-4k2 subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a plaintiff invoking jurisdiction under Rule 4(k)(2) must plead that the defendant is not subject to jurisdiction in any state's courts of gen…
18-128 Mohamed Abouelmagd v. Debra Newell California 2018-07-27 Denied business-transaction business-transactions civil-procedure commerce-clause commerce-clause-violation constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection interstate-commerce midwesco-precedent nonresident-tolling out-of-state-residents personal-jurisdiction procedural-defense statute-of-limitations Is the California tolling statute that suspends statutes of limitations protection for out-of-state residents unconstitutional and violative of Bendix…
18-115 Kimothy Maurice Wynn v. Washington Ninth Circuit 2018-07-26 Denied civil-procedure due-process facial-challenge federal-courts federal-rules jurisdictional-challenge material-allegations personal-jurisdiction pleading-requirements pleadings sovereign-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Lack of subject matter and personal jurisdiction
18-5370 Thomas Juresic v. Illinois Illinois 2018-07-26 Denied IFP civil-commitment custody due-process equal-protection liberty-interests null-and-void personal-jurisdiction sentencing-court statutory-provisions Does a civil commitment court have the constitutional authority to usurp custody and personal jurisdiction over a person prior to the expiration of th…
18-51 Brad Francis, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eighth Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure due-process eighth-circuit jurisdictional-review personal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tax tax-court Did the Eighth Circuit have jurisdiction to adjudicate Case No. 17-3679?
18-5185 Tamara Zivot v. Superior Court of California, Contra Costa County, et al. California 2018-07-10 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-guarantee defendant-not-served due-diligence due-process household-member personal-jurisdiction service-of-process state-court statutory-mandate substitute-service Is the constitutional guarantee of due process in order to confer personal jurisdiction over a defendant denied when the evidence presented unequivoca…
25A231 Avon Capital, LLC, a Wyoming Limited Liability Company v. Universitas Education, LLC Tenth Circuit Presumed Complete dissolution judgment-enforcement personal-jurisdiction service-of-process subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-circuit Whether a federal district court can reacquire subject matter jurisdiction and personal jurisdiction over a dissolved entity without new claims or pro…