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Eastern Pacific Shipping PTE, Limited, dba EPS v. Kholkar Vishveshwar Ganpat
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 22-30168 · judgment April 28, 2023
Before the decision, about 2.2× the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a Fifth Circuit decision below, a circuit split argued in the petition, and a petition citing more than ten dissents.
Question presented
Whether a federal court may properly issue an injunction requiring the termination of litigation in a foreign court based solely on a conclusion that the foreign litigation will cause hardship to the movant and will frustrate related U.S. litigation.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Jonathan Charles Bond
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
For respondent
Richard Massie Martin Jr.
Lamothe Law Firm, LLC
Case
Subject area
Judicial Power (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Order
Order list, December 11, 2023 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Dec 11 2023Petition DENIED.
- Nov 21 2023DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/8/2023.
- Nov 20 2023Reply of petitioner Eastern Pacific Shipping PTE, Limited, d/b/a EPS filed. (Distributed)
- Nov 06 2023Brief of respondent Kholkar Vishveshwar Ganpat in opposition filed.
- Oct 26 2023Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including November 6, 2023.
- Oct 24 2023Motion to extend the time to file a response from November 3, 2023 to November 6, 2023, submitted to The Clerk.
- Sep 07 2023Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including November 3, 2023.
- Sep 05 2023Motion to extend the time to file a response from September 27, 2023 to November 3, 2023, submitted to The Clerk.
- Aug 24 2023Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 27, 2023)