state-law-tort

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A298 The Boeing Company v. Southwest Airline Pilots Association, on Behalf of Itself and its Members Texas 2025-09-16 Presumed Complete collective-bargaining labor-union preemption railway-labor-act state-law-tort third-party-claim Whether the Railway Labor Act preempts state-law tort claims brought by a labor union against a third party that require interpretation of a collectiv…
23-724 WVSV Holdings, LLC v. 10K, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-jurisdiction chapter-11-plan judicial-estoppel new-hampshire-v-maine post-petition-claim postconfirmation-jurisdiction state-law-tort state-law-tort-claim Whether a debtor's state law tort claim that only accrues following the bankruptcy petition date is property of the bankruptcy estate
23-368 Huntington Ingalls Incorporated v. Lynn Barrosse, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-10-05 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) exclusive-remedy federal-preemption longshore-and-harbor-workers-compensation-act maritime-employee navigable-waters preemption state-law-tort state-law-tort-claim workers-compensation Whether the Fifth Circuit correctly held that an injured maritime employee who has a workers' compensation remedy under the Longshore and Harbor Worke…
22-1192 Headstream Technologies, LLC v. FedEx Express Sixth Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Response Waived airline-deregulation-act circuit-split contract-formation intentional-fraud package-delivery preemption service-preemption state-law-tort state-law-tort-claims summary-judgment Whether the Airline Deregulation Act preempts state-law tort claims alleging intentional fraud by an air carrier
19-830 Effex Capital, LLC, et al. v. National Futures Association, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-01-03 Denied Response Waived commodities-exchange-act federal-agency federal-preemption implied-conflict-preemption implied-preemption national-futures-association obstacle-preemption regulatory-obstacle self-regulatory-organization state-law-tort state-law-tort-claims Whether the Seventh Circuit wrongly expanded the doctrine of implied conflict preemption
18-950 LaTasha Freeman v. American K-9 Detection Services, LLC, et al. Texas 2019-01-22 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review legal-uncertainty political-question political-question-doctrine private-defendants private-plaintiffs split-of-authority standing state-law-tort tort Whether the political question doctrine bars ordinary state-law tort actions by private plaintiffs against private defendants
18-317 Alan Metzgar, et al. v. KBR, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) baker-v-carr civil-procedure damages-suit direct-control judicial-justiciability justiciability military-contractor military-contractors political-question-doctrine private-defendant state-law-tort Whether, and under what circumstances, a state-law tort suit for damages against a private defendant that does not satisfy any of the factors identifi…