Federal Court Jurisdiction
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Department of Education v. California
decided April 4, 2025 In this case, the Court halted the operation of a federal “District” court’s preliminary injunction that implicitly ordered the federal government to resume certain payments under certain federal grants to the plaintiffs that the government had abruptly stopped paying. The Court explained that the federal “District Court” in which the lawsuit Continue reading
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FIRST AMENDMENT LAWSUIT AGAINST FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DISMISSED
Article III, Section 2 of the United States Constitution extends federal court jurisdiction to, inter alia, “all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution . . . .” In Murthy v. Missouri, decided on June 26, 2024, the Court decided that it and the lower federal courts that first heard the case, lacked Continue reading
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FEDERAL JUDGES MAY EXCUSE FEDERAL EMPLOYEES WHO MISS FEDERAL DEADLINES FOR FILING APPEALS
A federal statute sets a sixty (60) day deadline for federal employees to appeal certain adverse employment actions taken against them. See 5 U.S.C. § 7703(b)(1)(A). In Harrow v. Dept. of Defense, decided on May 16, 2024, the Court unanimously ruled that that deadline is subject to “equitable” exceptions for late-filers that may be created Continue reading
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VOLUNTARY SATISFACTION OF PLAINTIFF’S CLAIM DOES NOT MOOT FEDERAL COURT CASE WITHOUT MORE
Federal courts lack power to decide cases that have become, in legal parlance, “moot.”[1] A court case becomes “moot” when its ultimate judgment ceases to have any practical significance.[2] Sometimes a defendant can make a case “moot” by voluntarily giving the plaintiff everything the plaintiff has asked for in the case. In Federal Bureau of Continue reading
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