waiver-of-immunity

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-1117 Petroquímica de Venezuela, S.A. v. Isaac Industries, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-28 Denied Response Waived affirmative-defense foreign-sovereign-immunities-act responsive-pleading sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver-of-immunity Whether a plaintiff suing a foreign state bears the burden of proving an exception to sovereign immunity or if the foreign-state defendant must dispro…
22-787 Troy University, et al. v. Sharell Farmer North Carolina 2023-02-21 Denied Amici (1) 11th-amendment constitutional-precedent corporate-registration sovereign-immunity state-courts state-sovereign-immunity sue-and-be-sued sue-and-be-sued-clause waiver-of-immunity Whether a State waives its sovereign immunity from private suit in the courts of another State by operating in the State under a corporate registratio…
21-995 Budha Jam, et al. v. International Finance Corporation District of Columbia 2022-01-13 Denied Amici (3) civil-procedure commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-organization international-organizations jurisdictional-exception sovereign-immunity standing treaty-interpretation waiver-of-immunity Whether the commercial activity exception to immunity allows suit where the alleged acts of the defendant that give rise to its liability constitute c…
21-19 Christopher Sullivan v. Texas A&M University System Fifth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response Waived eleventh-amendment federal-funding federal-funds fifth-circuit human-rights-act sovereign-immunity state-entity state-immunity texas-commission-on-human-rights-act texas-labor-code-chapter-21 waiver-of-immunity Whether the Fifth Circuit correctly interpreted that a State Entity who receives Federal funds waives its Eleventh Amendment Immunity from the Texas C…