CMB Monaco v. Smagin

Consolidated with:

Yegiazaryan v. Smagin

Docket No.	Op. Below	Argument	Opinion	Vote	Author	Term
22-383	9th Cir.	Apr 25, 2023	TBD	TBD	TBD	OT 2022

Issue: Whether a foreign plaintiff with no alleged connection to the United States may nevertheless allege a "domestic" injury under RJR Nabisco, Inc. v. European Community sufficient to maintain a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act action based only on injury to intangible property.

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Date	Proceedings and Orders (key to color coding)
10/20/2022	Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 23, 2022)
11/23/2022	Brief of respondent Vitaly Smagin in opposition filed. VIDED.
12/06/2022	Reply of petitioner CMB Monaco filed. VIDED. (Distributed)
12/07/2022	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/6/2023.
01/09/2023	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/13/2023.
01/13/2023	Petition GRANTED. The petition for a writ of certiorari in No. 22-381 is GRANTED. The cases are consolidated, and a total of one hour is allotted for oral argument.
01/13/2023	Because the Court has consolidated these cases for briefing and oral argument, future filings and activity in the cases will now be reflected on the docket of No. 22-381. Subsequent filings in these cases must therefore be submitted through the electronic filing system in No. 22-381. Each document submitted in connection with one or more 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 fewer than all of the cases, the docket entry will reflect the case number(s) in which the filing is submitted; a document filed in all of the consolidated cases will be noted as “VIDED.”
01/31/2023	SET FOR ARGUMENT on Tuesday, April 25, 2023. VIDED.
02/08/2023	Record requested from the U.S.C.A.-9th Circuit. VIDED.
02/08/2023	All records from the USCA-9th Circuit and USDC-Central Disrict of California are available on PACER. VIDED.
03/24/2023	CIRCULATED
04/25/2023	Argued. For petitioners: Vincent Levy, New York, N. Y. For Vitaly Ivanovich Smagin: Nicholas O. Kennedy, Dallas, Tex. VIDED.
06/22/2023	Judgment is AFFIRMED and case REMANDED. Sotomayor, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Roberts, C. J., and Kagan, Kavanaugh, Barrett, and Jackson, JJ., joined. Alito, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Thomas, J., joined, and in which Gorsuch, J., joined as to Part I. VIDED.
07/24/2023	Judgment issued.