state-tort-law
6 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24A690 | Uber Technologies, Inc., et al. v. Amie Drammeh, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-01-14 | Presumed Complete | certification erie-doctrine federal-diversity judicial-prediction ninth-circuit state-tort-law | Whether federal courts of appeals may predict novel state law tort theories in diversity cases when the state supreme court has declined to certify or… | |
| 23A948 | Christine M. Mire v. University Hospital & Clinics, Incorporated, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-23 | Presumed Complete | employment-scope liability-standard medical-malpractice medical-staff public-university state-tort-law | Whether a public university's medical staff can be held liable for alleged medical malpractice under state tort law when acting within the scope of th… | |
| 23A607 | Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. Texas | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-02 | Presumed Complete | Amici (1) | border-patrol federal-preemption immigration-enforcement sovereign-immunity state-tort-law supremacy-clause | Whether the Supremacy Clause precludes a state from using tort law to restrain federal Border Patrol agents from carrying out their federally authoriz… |
| 21-1544 | Cynthia Lopez v. Eric Quaempts, et al. | California | 2022-06-09 | Denied | civil-rights employee-ratification lewis-v-clarke ratification sovereign-immunity state-court-remedies state-tort-law tort-claims tribal-sovereign-immunity tribal-sovereignty vicarious-liability | Whether the Court should clarify tribal sovereign immunity law to allow tort victims to sue a tribe based on vicarious liability when a tribe ratifies… | |
| 20-1069 | Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. v. A. Y., et al. | Pennsylvania | 2021-02-05 | Denied | Amici (4) | civil-liability drug-labeling fda-regulation federal-preemption impossibility-preemption off-label-use preemption state-tort-law | Whether federal law preempts state-law claims that a manufacturer failed to provide adequate warnings relating to the off-label use of their products,… |
| 19-546 | Douglas Brownback, et al. v. James King | Sixth Circuit | 2019-10-28 | Judgment Issued | Amici (6)Relisted (2) | bivens-claim bivens-claims civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-tort-claims-act government-liability judgment-bar sovereign-immunity state-tort-law | Whether a final judgment in favor of the United States in an action brought under Section 1346(b)(1) bars a claim under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Ag… |