Supreme Court Report

Supreme Court of the United States · Official docket →

Samantha Ashhadi Soliman v. Kingdom of Sweden

Paid petition · Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, No. B339545 · judgment December 1, 2025


0%
estimated cert probability
(petition-stage, structural)

Well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

Whether the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause permits a state court, through choiceof-law analysis, to apply a foreign sovereign’s laterenacted and retroactively applicable statute of limitations to allow a civil collection action against a forum resident that the forum State’s own law would bar, without expressly addressing whether application of that foreign law is supported by constitutionally sufficient contacts with the parties and transaction and is neither arbitrary nor fundamentally unfair.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Samantha Ashhadi Soliman

For respondent

Case

Conference history

Linked docket
25A1267

Proceedings

  1. Jul 27 2026
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 17, 2026)
  2. May 18 2026
    Application (25A1267) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until July 25, 2026.
  3. May 07 2026
    Application (25A1267) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from May 26, 2026 to July 25, 2026, submitted to Justice Kagan.