political-subdivision

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A12 City of Huntington Beach, California, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-07-02 Presumed Complete arm-of-the-state federal-circuit-split municipal-standing political-subdivision sovereign-immunity state-law-analysis 1. This case presents a question on which the Ninth Circuit has split with at least five other federal appellate courts. That question is whether a po…
24-7004 Gerald Nelson v. New York City Transit Authority, et al. Second Circuit 2025-04-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP duty-of-fair-representation federal-jurisdiction immunity labor-management political-subdivision wrongful-discharge 1. Whether a political subdivision has immunity under 301 labor management (duty of fair representation/public employees) ? 2. Whether 301 labor mana…
21-1265 Clarence Lowe v. Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District Indiana 2022-03-17 Denied Response Waived federal-employers-liability-act indiana-tort-claims-act municipal-corporation notice-of-claim-statute political-subdivision sovereign-immunity state-procedural-law tort-claims-act Did the Indiana Supreme Court err in holding that the State of Indiana's sovereign immunity extends to the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation Di…
20-640 The Welsh Government v. Pablo Star Ltd., et al. Second Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception copyright-infringement foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-state international-law jurisdictional-exception political-subdivision tourism-promotion Is a political subdivision of a foreign state immune from copyright infringement claims under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's commercial activi…
19-735 William Tong, Attorney General of Connecticut v. Tweed-New Haven Airport Authority, et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) federal-aviation-act federal-preemption political-subdivision preemption runway-length standing standing-to-sue state-regulation state-sovereignty supremacy-clause Does a political subdivision of a State have standing to sue its creator State under the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution?
18-1070 Village of Lincolnshire, Illinois, et al. v. International Union of Operating Engineers Local 399, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-02-15 GVR employment-law federalism labor-relations labor-unions local-government municipal-ordinance national-labor-relations-act political-subdivision preemption right-to-work state-law statutory-interpretation union-membership Does a law enacted by a political subdivision of a state constitute 'State ... law' under section 14(b) of the National Labor Relations Act?