removal-jurisdiction

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25-6552 Angeliina Lynn Lawson v. Jonathan David Lawson Tenth Circuit 2026-01-12 Pending Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant removal-jurisdiction 1 Whether 28 U.S.C. §1443(1) permits removal to federal court when a pro se litigant with disabilities alleges systemic discrimination, retaliation, a…
25-643 Onwy Uzoigwe v. Charter Communications, LLC Second Circuit 2025-12-03 Pending appellate-review civil-procedure forum-defendant-rule pro-se-pleading removal-jurisdiction service-of-process 1. Whether the Second Circuit erred in holding that a defendant's late return of a CPLR 312-a acknowledgment form does not constitute proper service u…
25A189 Mawule Tepe v. Whirlpool Corporation, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-08-15 Presumed Complete due-process federal-jurisdiction legal-practice removal-jurisdiction sixth-amendment state-court-removal Whether federal district courts may improperly remove state court cases when attorneys are not admitted to practice in that federal district court and…
24-7506 Allan Douglas Wilson v. United States District of Columbia 2025-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP defamation-claim federal-tort-claims-act official-conduct removal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction westfall-act Whether a federal district court may dismiss a defamation case for lack of subject matter jurisdiction after removal under the Westfall Act, rather th…
24-1029 Abram J. Harris v. Department of Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, et al. District of Columbia 2025-03-27 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure district-court jurisdictional-requirements removal-jurisdiction state-court statutory-interpretation Whether an action may be removed to the district court after it has been dismissed in the state court and a notice of appeal filed; Whether the remova…
24A657 Ethan Margalith, et al. v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-02 Presumed Complete civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment homestead-rights removal-jurisdiction Whether the federal district court's misapplication of removal jurisdiction statutes under 28 U.S.C. sec. 1441 violated the plaintiffs' Fifth Amendmen…
24A410 Enbridge Energy, LP, et al. v. Dana Nessel, Attorney General of Michigan Sixth Circuit 2024-10-28 Presumed Complete 28-usc-1446b circuit-split federal-question removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation timeliness Whether a federal court can review an untimely notice of removal under 28 U.S.C. § 1446(b) when there is a circuit split on the issue of reviewability
24-5579 John F. Kodenkandeth v. UPMC Health Plan, Inc., dba UPMC for Life, et al. Third Circuit 2024-09-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP collateral-order-doctrine due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion removal-jurisdiction separation-of-powers Whether the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals and District Court of Western Pennsylvania erred through arbitrary and capricious abuse of discretion in hand…
23A1031 Ryan Welter v. Medical Professional Mutual Insurance Company, dba Coverys, et al. First Circuit 2024-05-20 Presumed Complete 28-usc-1446 federal-question removal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction subsequent-paper timeliness Whether a federal district court may retain jurisdiction over a case removed beyond the 30-day statutory window when the defendants were aware of fede…
23-990 George Dunbar Prewitt, Jr. v. Yazoo County, Mississippi Fifth Circuit 2024-03-11 Denied civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction racial-equality reconstruction-acts removal removal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction three-judge-court voting-rights Whether the district court and the 5th circuit panel acted in the total absence of subject-matter-jurisdiction by illegally assuming the subject-matte…
23-894 Gregory O. Garmong v. Maupin, Cox & Legoy Ninth Circuit 2024-02-21 Denied 28-usc-1447c bankruptcy-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure federal-procedure martin-v-franklin-capital-corp remand-fees removal removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether the Ninth Circuit is employing a new and incorrect standard for remand fees under 28 U.S.C. § 1447(c)
23-677 Royal Canin U.S.A., Inc., et al. v. Anastasia Wullschleger, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-12-22 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split civil-procedure federal-question jurisdiction post-removal-amendment removal removal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction supplemental-jurisdiction Whether a post-removal amendment of the complaint defeats federal-question subject-matter jurisdiction
23A560 Exxon Mobil Corporation v. Connecticut Second Circuit 2023-12-18 Presumed Complete climate-change federal-common-law federal-courts removal-jurisdiction state-law well-pleaded-complaint Whether federal district courts have removal jurisdiction over state-law claims that necessarily arise under federal common law but are artfully plead…
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 Whether the Eleventh Circuit was required to apply Navarro's rule to the Respondent
23A205 Erie Indemnity Company v. Erie Insurance Exchange, an unincorporated association, by Troy Stephenson, Christina Stephenson, and Steven Barnett, trustees ad litem Third Circuit 2023-09-01 Presumed Complete class-action-definition class-action-fairness-act federal-jurisdiction procedural-gamesmanship removal-jurisdiction rule-41-dismissal Whether the Class Action Fairness Act permits federal courts to exercise removal jurisdiction over cases that plaintiffs attempt to restyle or refile …
23-168 American Petroleum Institute, et al. v. Minnesota Eighth Circuit 2023-08-22 Denied Amici (5)Relisted (3) civil-rights climate-change climate-change-litigation due-process federal-common-law federal-jurisdiction federal-question-jurisdiction interstate-emissions removal-jurisdiction standing state-law-claims Whether a federal district court has removal jurisdiction over putative state-law claims seeking redress for injuries allegedly caused by the effect o…
23-23 Sebhat Afework v. Velanta Monique Babbitt, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-07 Denied Response Waived attorney-general civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction immunity public-health-service removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tort-immunity Whether 42 U.S.C. § 233(c)(2) permits a deemed Public Health Service employee to remove a civil action or proceeding against him to federal district c…
22-955 Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe v. City of Seattle, Washington Ninth Circuit 2023-03-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 28-usc-1447c article-iii article-three-limits federal-courts futility-doctrine jurisdiction remand removal removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Is the court-created 'futility' doctrine repugnant to Article III?
22-7042 Rosa Serrano v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-20 Denied IFP actual-innocence federal-habeas procedural-default removal-jurisdiction state-court-proceeding void-conviction whistleblower-act Whether removal of state court proceeding divested state court of jurisdiction to enter a judgment of conviction
22-870 Eliezer Taveras v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-10 Denied civil-procedure claim-splitting district-court due-process federal-courts forum-shopping improper-claim-splitting mandamus removal removal-jurisdiction Whether a district court's decision to dismiss with prejudice an action improperly removed from state court is clear and manifest error that should be…
22-6685 Warren Havens v. Arnold Leong, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review district-court-remand federal-law-supremacy federal-officer-removal federal-question federal-question-jurisdiction gorilla-rule maritime-communications removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tax-exemption Can a District Court remand a State Court action timely removed under 28 U.S. Code § 1442 without allowing the removing party rights to defend the rem…
22-5526 William Paul Burch v. Homeward Residential Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-iii-judge bankruptcy civil-procedure constitutional-procedure due-process federal-court judicial-discretion jurisdiction removal removal-jurisdiction standing state-court Is it a violation of the United States Constitution for a federal court to accept removal of a case from state court after thirty days or can it be ex…
22-5482 William Paul Burch v. Homeward Residential Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2022-09-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bankruptcy-court due-process in-forma-pauperis non-article-iii-judge removal-court removal-jurisdiction removal-time-limit rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-appeals thirty-day-window vexatious-litigant Question not identified
22-73 Usha Jain, et vir v. David Barker, et al. Florida 2022-07-26 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-removal federal-statute jurisdiction remand-order removal-jurisdiction standing state-court state-court-proceedings Whether state court proceedings and orders are void during the removal period
21-344 Quest International Monitor Service, Inc. v. Rockwell Collins, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-02 Denied Response Waived arbitration-award federal-arbitration-act limitation-period procedural-rules removal removal-jurisdiction state-court state-court-procedure uniformity vacatur Whether the FAA's three-month limitation period for vacatur of an arbitration award is a substantive provision that must be applied to petitions to va…
20-1452 Rick C. Sasso v. Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2021-04-16 Denied 28-usc-1295(a)(1) 28-usc-1338(a) breach-of-contract declaratory-judgment federal-circuit federal-patent-laws jurisdiction patent-jurisdiction removal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether this is a case 'arising under' federal patent laws under 28 U.S.C. § 1338(a) within the Federal Circuit's jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1295(…
20-7067 Wilma Pennington-Thurman v. Sansone Group DDR LLC Missouri 2021-02-05 Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-courts federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction removal-jurisdiction state-courts state-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether federal courts should gain jurisdiction when a state supreme court refuses to recognize 28 U.S.C. 1446(d)
20-313 Acer America Corporation, et al. v. Intellisoft, Ltd., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1451 claim-construction federal-jurisdiction gunn-v-minton inventorship patent-law removal removal-jurisdiction trade-secret Where Plaintiffs' theories of trade secret ownership, misappropriation, and damages depend on deciding the patent law issues of inventorship, claim co…
20-169 Lawrence Richard Metsch v. Timothy Hajdasz Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied Response Waived civil-litigation civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction federal-procedure removal removal-jurisdiction rule-11-sanctions sanctions stonewalling subject-matter-jurisdiction time-limit Did the Eleventh Circuit err in imposing sanctions on the defendant's lawyer for removing the case to federal court?
19-8638 Walter Brzowski v. Executive Committee of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Seventh Circuit 2020-06-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-statute judicial-review procedural-due-process remand removal removal-jurisdiction statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction Can the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit review and discredit a previously entered Certified Copy of Order of Remand
19-1158 Airbus Helicopters, Inc. v. Mary Riggs, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Amici (1) 28-usc-1442 administrative-delegation aviation-law civil-procedure delegation faa federal-aviation-administration federal-officer federal-officer-removal jurisdictional-removal removal removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether a private party is 'acting under' a federal officer and may remove under 28 U.S.C. § 1442(a)(1)
18-1118 Kim Kerrigan v. Qualstar Credit Union, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure federal-appellate-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction presumption-against-jurisdiction procedural-presumption removal removal-jurisdiction standing standing-challenge state-law subject-matter-jurisdiction washington-law Whether the presumption against federal court subject matter jurisdiction is rebutted by state procedural law
18-7870 Jeremiah W. Balik v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment armed-forces-status civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process interlocutory-appeal judicial-bias judicial-review removal removal-jurisdiction sixth-amendment Whether harmful legal error occurred in the lower court proceedings
18-550 Brandi K. Stokes v. Christopher Lance Corsbie, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1447d civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction geneva-conventions grave-breaches international-law preemption removal removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction war-crimes Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1447(d) is preempted by international law for claims involving grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions
18-5382 Muriel Fiedler v. Mace Brindley, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1441 civil-procedure civil-procedure-removal diversity-jurisdiction due-process forum-defendant-rule judicial-bias remand remand-procedures removal removal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the district court had subject matter jurisdiction over the petitioner's case