trafficking

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-983 Havana Docks Corporation v. Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-13 Granted CVSGAmici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) cuban-regime foreign-policy libertad-act private-right-of-action property-confiscation trafficking Whether a plaintiff must prove that the defendant trafficked in property confiscated by the Cuban government as to which the plaintiff owns a claim, o…
24A330 Exxon Mobil Corporation v. Corporación Cimex, S.A. (Cuba), et al. District of Columbia 2024-10-07 Presumed Complete cause-of-action foreign-sovereign-immunities-act helms-burton-act property-expropriation sovereign-immunity trafficking Whether Title II of the Helms-Burton Act directly abrogates sovereign immunity for foreign state agencies and instrumentalities when creating a privat…
23-1141 Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc., et al. v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos First Circuit 2024-04-22 Judgment Issued Amici (45) aiding-and-abetting drug-cartel-violence drug-cartels firearms-industry firearms-trafficking international-tort legal-causation plcaa proximate-cause trafficking Whether the production and sale of firearms in the United States is the proximate cause of alleged injuries to the Mexican government
22-572 Robert M. Glen v. Trip Advisor LLC, et al. Third Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights confiscated-property cuban-property helms-burton-act inheritance-rights private-right-of-action property-confiscation standing statutory-interpretation trafficking trafficking-claims Whether the single word 'acquires' in Section 6082(a)(4)(B) of the Helms-Burton Act bars trafficking actions by U.S. heirs who passively inherited cla…
22-5861 Brent Evan Webster v. Oregon Division of Child Support Ninth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-closure bankruptcy bankruptcy-dismissal child-support civil-procedure civil-rights covid-19-impact due-process standing trafficking trafficking-allegations Did the United States Bankruptcy Court error in dismissing the bankruptcy case of Brent Evan Webster?
21-8129 Radu Miclaus v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review application-note-2 circuit-split criminal-law identification-trafficking means-of-identification sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation trafficking transferring Did the Sixth Circuit err in holding that 'trafficking' a means of identification does not also constitute 'transferring' such identification under Se…
21-903 Robert M. Glen v. American Airlines, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2021-12-20 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-procedure confiscated-property cuban-property helms-burton-act inheritance-rights private-right-of-action property-confiscation standing statutory-interpretation trafficking trafficking-claims Whether the single word 'acquires' in Section 6082(a)(4)(B) of the Helms-Burton Act bars trafficking actions by U.S. heirs who passively inherited cla…