| 25-582 |
Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. v. Enbridge Energy, LP, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-11-17 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
ex-parte-young federal-court real-party-in-interest sovereign-immunity sovereign-lands state-officials |
Whether a State is the real party in interest, and therefore entitled to sovereign immunity, where a private plaintiff sues state officials in federal… |
| 23-534 |
Peter Otoh v. U.S. Bank Trust National Association, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-court-procedure diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction navarro-rule real-party-in-interest removal removal-jurisdiction securitized-trust traditional-trust trustee trustee-citizenship |
(1) Whether the Eleventh Circuit was required to apply Navarro's rule to the Respondent, before concluding that the Respondent is the real party to th… |
| 22-7737 |
Stewart Hines v. Gwendolen Cleopha Nelson |
South Dakota |
2023-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure beneficiary-standing civil-procedure pro-se pro-se-litigation real-party-in-interest rule-60b-motion standing trust-beneficiary trust-representation trust-trustee trustee-rights |
1. Whether the sole beneficiary and sole trustee of a trust is the real party interest and can represent that trust pro se?
2. Whether the sole benef… |
| 21-1461 |
Nathan Vercellino v. Optum Insight, Inc., et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-05-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
equitable-lien erisa medical-expenses minor minor-rights real-party-in-interest statute-of-limitations subrogation |
The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's
grant of Summary Judgment in favor of Optum Insight, Inc., United Healthcare Services, Inc., and
Amer… |
| 18-861 |
WesternGeco LLC v. ION Geophysical Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
agency-procedure discovery due-process inter-partes-review patent-invalidation patent-litigation patent-office patent-office-procedures privy real-party-in-interest standing statutory-interpretation time-bar |
Whether the court of appeals and agency erred by holding that 'real party in interest, or privy of the petitioner' refers only to others who 'control'… |
| 18-6114 |
Linh Thi Minh Tran v. Kathy Hung Pham |
Oregon |
2018-09-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights court-dismissal damages disability due-process guardian-ad-litem legal-standing medical-damages negligence personal-injury real-party-in-interest standing vegetative-state |
Did the trial court err in granting General Judgment of Dismissal in favor of defendant Kathy Hung Pham? |
| 18-342 |
City of Maplewood, Missouri v. Cecelia Roberts Webb, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arm-of-the-state constitutional-deprivation legal-definition mcmillian-v-monroe-county monell-liability monell-v-dept-of-soc-serv municipal-corporation-liability municipal-corporations municipal-court-divisions municipal-liability policy-custom real-party-in-interest sovereign-immunity state-entity unified-court-system |
Whether sovereign immunity bars a lawsuit against a municipal corporation that is defined to include a legally-distinct state entity, such that the re… |
| 18-178 |
SGK Properties, L.L.C., et al. v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
americold-realty-trust-v-conagra-foods business-trust circuit-split citizenship comity comity-and-federalism diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine erie-r-co-v-tompkins federal-courts federalism real-party-in-interest unincorporated-business-trust unincorporated-entity |
Whether the citizenship of constituent members of an unincorporated business trust determines federal diversity jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a)… |