| 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… |