Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 263: Listen and Learn -- Subject Matter Jurisdiction
In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s ruling on June 27 invalidating universal injunctions as the remedy imposed by three federal district courts that had determined that President Trump’s Executive Order limiting...more
Jurisdiction always matters. Of course, litigants and the courts tend to focus on the merits. After all, the merits, not rote jurisdictional analyses, are what a lawsuit is all about. But parties cannot ignore basic...more
On December 1, 2022 an amended version of Local Civil Rule 7.1 went into effect in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, adding a disclosure requirement for citizenship information in...more
A proposed amendment to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 7.1, which had previously required information so judges could determine if they had a conflict of interest, would require a party in a diversity action to name and...more
The Southern District of New York has confirmed that when the trustee of a non-citizen aircraft trust brings suit in its own name, the citizenship of that trustee may be used to establish diversity jurisdiction in federal...more