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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, modestly above 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 dissent in the court below (flagged in the petition).
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
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
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)