Board of Commissioners of the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority – East v. Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company, LLC
Petition for certiorari denied on October 30, 2017
Issue: (1) Whether the "substantial[ity]" and "federal-state balance" requirements of Grable & Sons Metal Products, Inc. v. Darue Engineering & Manufacturing are satisfied whenever a federal law standard is referenced to inform the standard of care in a state-law cause of action, so long as the parties dispute whether federal law embodies the asserted standard; and (2) whether a federal court applying Grable to a case removed from state court must accept a colorable, purely state-law claim as sufficient to establish that the case does not "necessarily raise" a federal issue, even if the court believes the state court would ultimately reject the purely state-law basis for the claim on its merits.
SCOTUSblog Coverage
- Petition of the day (Aurora Barnes, August 18, 2017)
Date | Proceedings and Orders |
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07/11/2017 | Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 18, 2017) |
07/28/2017 | Waiver of right of respondents Hilliard Oil and Gas, Inc. to respond filed. |
08/10/2017 | Order extending time to file response to petition to and including September 18, 2017, for all respondents. |
08/18/2017 | Motion for leave to file amici brief filed by Law Professors. |
08/22/2017 | Brief of respondents Chevron U.S.A., Inc., et al. in opposition filed. |
09/29/2017 | Reply of petitioners Board of Commissioners of the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East, et al. filed. |
10/04/2017 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/27/2017. |
10/30/2017 | Motion for leave to file amici brief filed by Law Professors GRANTED. Justice Alito took no part in the consideration or decision of this motion. |
10/30/2017 | Petition DENIED. Justice Alito took no part in the consideration or decision of this motion and this petition. |