Arkansas v. Delaware
Case dismissed pursuant to Rule 46 on December 2, 2024
Consolidated with:
Issue: Whether the plaintiff states are entitled to the sums payable on unclaimed and abandoned MoneyGram official checks purchased in the plaintiff states and unlawfully remitted to the State of Delaware.
| Date | Proceedings and Orders |
|---|---|
| 06/08/2016 | Documents filed with the Special Master may be found on the Special Master's website at http://ww2.ca2.uscourts.gov/specialmaster/special_145.html |
| 06/09/2016 | Motion for leave to file a bill of complaint filed. |
| 07/15/2016 | Brief amicus curiae of MoneyGram Payment Systems, Inc. filed. |
| 08/05/2016 | Brief in Response to motion for leave to file a bill of complaint, and Motion for leave to file Counterclaim filed by Delaware. |
| 08/24/2016 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of September 26, 2016. |
| 09/19/2016 | Letter received from Plaintiff |
| 10/03/2016 | The Motion to file a Bill of Complaint and the Motion for leave to file a Counterclaim are granted. This case is consolidated with Original 145 and the parties are allowed thirty days in which to file answers to the Complaints and the Counterclaims. |
| 10/10/2016 | Motion for leave to amend Bill of Complaint filed by Arkansas, et al., Plaintiffs. |
| 10/28/2016 | Pennsylvania's Answer and Counterclaims to Delaware's Bill of Complaint filed. |
| 11/01/2016 | Answer to Counterclaim filed by Arkansas, et al, Plaintiffs |
| 11/01/2016 | Answer to Arkansas, et al.'s Bill of Complaint filed by Delaware. |
| 11/07/2016 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of November 22, 2016. |
| 11/11/2016 | Motion for leave to file bill of third party complaint filed by defendant Pennsylvania Plaintiff. |
| 11/28/2016 | Motion of Arkansas, et al., for leave to amend Bill of Complaint GRANTED. |
| 12/06/2016 | It has been suggested that the parties are in agreement on the facts relevant to a decision in this action. If this is the case, the parties are invited to file a stipulation of facts in this Court on or before 60 days from the date of this order. If such a stipulation is filed, the Court will set a schedule for briefing the legal issues. If such a stipulation is not timely filed, a Special Master will be appointed to conduct any necessary discovery and to make proposed findings of fact, and the case will proceed in the usual manner. |
| 12/28/2016 | Brief of MoneyGram Payment Systems, Inc. in opposition to Motion for Leave to File Bill of Third Party Complaint filed.VIDED. |
| 01/09/2017 | Motion for leave to amend counterclaim filed by defendant Delaware. |
| 01/11/2017 | Reply of respondent Pennsylvania in further support of motion for leave to file Bill of Third Party Complaint filed. VIDED. |
| 01/18/2017 | Response to Delaware's Motion for Leave to Amend Bill of Complaint from Pennsylvania filed. |
| 01/24/2017 | Response in opposition to Delaware's motion for leave to amend bill of complaint from Wisconsin filed. |
| 01/26/2017 | Response in opposition to Delaware's motion for leave to amend counterclaim from Arkansas, et al., filed. |
| 02/01/2017 | Letter from the Parties in Response to Court's order of December 6, 2016. |
| 02/15/2017 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of March 3, 2017. |
| 03/29/2017 | It is ordered that the Honorable Pierre N. Leval, of New York, New York, is appointed Special Master in this case with authority to fix the time and conditions for the filing of additional pleadings, to direct subsequent proceedings, to summon witnesses, to issue subpoenas, and to take such evidence as may be introduced and such as he may deem it necessary to call for. The Special Master is directed to submit Reports as he may deem appropriate. The cost of printing his Reports, and all other proper expenses, including travel expenses, shall be submitted to the Court. |
| 03/31/2017 | Oath of Special Master filed |
| 07/27/2021 | Because the Court has consolidated this case with No. 145, Original, future filings and activity in the cases will now be reflected on the docket of No. 145, Original. Subsequent filings in these cases must therefore be submitted through the electronic filing system in No. 145. Each document submitted in connection with one or both of these cases must include on its cover the case number and caption for each case in which the filing is intended to be submitted. Where a filing is submitted in only one of the cases, the docket entry will reflect the case number in which the filing is submitted; a document filed in all of the consolidated cases will be noted as “VIDED.” |
| 01/26/2022 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/18/2022.. |
| 02/22/2022 | The Exceptions to the Special Master Report are set for oral argument in due course. VIDED. |
| 06/14/2022 | ARGUMENT SET FOR Monday, October, 3, 2022. VIDED. |
| 07/21/2022 | CIRCULATED |
| 10/03/2022 | Argued. For Delaware: Neal K. Katyal, Washington, D. C. For Arkansas, et al.: Nicholas J. Bronni, Solicitor General, Little Rock, Ark. VIDED. |
| 02/28/2023 | Exceptions to Special Master’s First Interim Report overruled; First Interim Report and order adopted to the extent consistent with this opinion; and cases remanded. Jackson, J., delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court with respect to Parts I, II, III, and IV–A, and the opinion of the Court with respect to Part IV–B, in which Roberts, C. J., and Sotomayor, Kagan, and Kavanaugh, JJ., joined. VIDED. |
| 12/02/2024 | Petition Dismissed - Rule 46. |
| 12/02/2024 | The Honorable Pierre N. Leval, of New York, New York, the Special Master in this case, is hereby discharged with the thanks of the Court. |