state-tort-law

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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…