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Samantha Ashhadi Soliman v. Kingdom of Sweden
Paid petition · Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, No. B339545 · judgment December 1, 2025
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate: the model weighted this down for a self-represented petitioner.
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
W. Ernest Mooney
Law Office of Ernest Mooney
Case
Subject area
Due Process (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Linked docket
25A1267
Order
Order list, October 13, 2026 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Oct 13 2026Petition DENIED.
- Sep 16 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/9/2026.
- Aug 31 2026Waiver of right of respondent Kingdom of Sweden to respond filed.
- Jul 27 2026Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 17, 2026)
- May 18 2026Application (25A1267) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until July 25, 2026.
- May 07 2026Application (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.