third-party-beneficiary

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A790 United States v. Cotter Corp., N.S.L. Federal Circuit 2026-01-08 Application government-indemnification nuclear-liability price-anderson-act radioactive-materials third-party-beneficiary tucker-act Question not identified.
24-633 Matthew McCurley v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-10 Denied Response Waived bid-rigging contract-law fair-housing-act housing-discrimination privity third-party-beneficiary Whether the signing of Form HUD-9548 establishes privity and constitutes a violation of the Fair Housing Act (FHA)
23-1166 VSHPHH Trust v. United States, et al. Third Circuit 2024-04-29 Denied Response Waived asset-transfer bankruptcy civil-procedure debtor debtor-obligations nominee nominee-theory third-circuit-ruling third-party-beneficiary trustee-liability trusts Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err in concluding that a trustee of a trust established for the benefit of third parties …
23-767 Shirley Crain v. Lisa Crain, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure divorce-decree domestic-relations domestic-relations-exception federal-jurisdiction property-settlement-agreement state-court-decree state-court-interpretation third-party-beneficiary Whether federal courts may exercise jurisdiction to interpret and modify a state-court-issued divorce decree, or whether the domestic-relations-except…
23-661 Tug Hill Operating, LLC v. Lastephen Rogers Fourth Circuit 2023-12-19 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived arbitrability arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreements circuit-split contract-interpretation delegation-doctrine delegation-of-arbitrability gateway-questions nonsignatories nonsignatory third-party-beneficiary Whether a court may interpret a nonsignatory's contractual rights despite a delegation of questions of arbitrability to the arbitrator
23A318 Shirley Crain v. Lisa Crain, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-10-12 Presumed Complete breach-of-contract circuit-split divorce-settlement domestic-relations-exception federal-question-jurisdiction third-party-beneficiary Whether the domestic relations exception to federal question jurisdiction bars federal courts from adjudicating breach of contract claims arising from…
22-566 William Yeatman v. Kathryn Hyland, et al. Second Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Amici (2) class-action class-certification class-counsel cy-pres due-process first-amendment rule-23 settlement-approval student-loan third-party-beneficiary Whether, or in what circumstances, a court may approve a settlement as 'fair, reasonable, and adequate' under Rule 23(e) or certify a class under Rule…
21-1188 Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC v. Iris Pounds, et al. North Carolina 2022-02-28 Denied arbitration-rights assignee-rights assignees contract-law discrimination-against-arbitration evidentiary-burden federal-arbitration-act preemption third-party-beneficiary Whether the FAA preempts a state rule of contract law that requires assignees seeking to enforce arbitration rights to meet a higher evidentiary burde…
19-1250 Victor Allan Clark v. Celebrity Cruises, Inc., et al. Florida 2020-04-27 Denied 45-usc-55 45-usc-56 forum-selection forum-selection-clause jones-act maritime-law negligence personal-injury seaman-employment seaman-employment-contract third-party-beneficiary Does the Jones Act render void a foreign forum selection clause in a Seaman's employment contract?
18A1235 Kelly Dutton v. American Bankers Insurance Company Pennsylvania 2019-05-29 Presumed Complete bad-faith-claim breach-of-contract insurance-contract municipal-court statute-of-limitations third-party-beneficiary Whether Pennsylvania's statute of limitations for insurance bad faith claims under 42 Pa. C.S. § 8371 was improperly applied to bar a third-party plai…
18-6647 Kiran Sharma v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing forfeiture forfeiture-restitution ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-victim-restitution-act plea-agreement restitution statutory-interpretation third-party-beneficiary trust-corpus Does the language in the Mandatory Victim Act (MVRA) allow the courts to forfeit the third party beneficiary's 'Trust Corpus' without an 'Evidentiary …