sovereign-interest

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-909 Stamatios Kousisis and Alpha Painting and Construction Co., Inc. v. United States Third Circuit 2024-02-22 Judgment Issued Amici (4)Relisted (3) civil-rights commercial-exchange contract contract-law due-process mail-fraud property property-rights sovereign-interest wire-fraud Whether deception to induce a commercial exchange can constitute mail or wire fraud, even if inflicting economic harm on the alleged victim was not th…
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…
18-1057 Marei von Saher v. Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Amici (3) act-of-state-doctrine art-restitution civil-rights due-process foreign-policy holocaust-assets looted-art nazi-looted-art property-rights sovereign-immunity sovereign-interest Where artworks were forcibly confiscated from their Jewish owner by Nazi Reichsmarschall Hermann Goring, then recovered by the Dutch government after …