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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
Commercial Painting Co., Inc. v. The Weitz Co., LLC No. W201301989COAR3CV, 2016 WL 3519015, at *10 (Tenn. Ct. App. June 20, 2016) 2016 2 Tennessee
Miles v. Nelson No. 03A01-9711-CH-00500, 1998 WL 670383, at *2–4 (Tenn. Ct. App. Sept. 30, 1998) 1998 2 Tennessee
Veolia Water N. Am. Operating Servs. LLC v. City of Atlanta No. CIV.A. 1:06-CV-1457T, 2007 WL 624361, at *3 (N.D. Ga. Feb. 22, 2007) 2007 2 Georgia
United States v. Lafleur 1993 U.S. App. LEXIS 38992, *6 1993 2 La.
Station #2, LLC v. Lynch 79 Va. 196 2010 2 Virginia
Adeduntan v. Hosp. Auth. of Clarke Cty. No. 3:04-CV-65 (CDL), 2006 WL 1934872, at *5 (M.D. Ga. July 11, 2006) 2006 2 Georgia
United States v. Fuentes 1994 U.S. App. LEXIS 41836, *13 1994 2 Texas
Bear Ranch, LLC v. HeartBrand Beef, Inc. No. 6:12-CV-00014, 2013 WL 6190253, at *4 (S.D. Tex. Nov. 26, 2013) 2013 2 Texas
Timber Integrated Investments 234 N.C. App. 667, 763 S.E.2d 17 (2014) 2014 2 North Carolina
In re Estate of Willich No. 12-06-00409-CV, 2007 WL 4465235, at *6 (Tex. App. Dec. 21, 2007) 2007 2 Texas
Bartee v. Vitocruz 288 Va. 106, 112, 758 S.E.2d 549, 551 (2014) 2014 2 Virginia
United States v. Surtain, No. 11-30525 No. 11-30525, 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 6038, at *25-26 (5th Cir. Mar. 26, 2013) 2013 2
United States v. Bedford No. 93-3180, 1993 U.S. App. LEXIS 39490, at *3 (5th Cir. Nov. 12, 1993) 1993 2 La.
Layne v. Adkins No. E201002189COAR3CV, 2011 WL 13164949, at *13 (Tenn. Ct. App. Aug. 22, 2011) 2011 2 Tennessee
Vang v. Barney 480 S.W.3d 473 2016 2 Missouri
Commonwealth v. Rivera 18 Va. App. 103 1994 2 Virginia
Peltier v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. 2016-12, 2016 WL 3745544, *4 (La. App. 3 Cir. 7/13/16) 2016 2 Louisiana
In re Fakiris 50 Misc. 3d 1214(A), 29 N.Y.S.3d 847, 2016 WL 381194, at *3 (N.Y. Sur. 2016) 2016 2 New York
Old Republic Nat'l Title Ins. Co. v. Hartford Fire Ins. Co. 797 S.E.2d 264, 269 (N.C.) 2017 2 North Carolina
Wilshire Villa Ass'n v. Strauss 39 F.3d 320 (5th Cir. 1994) 1994 2 5th Cir