In PNC Bank v. 2013 Travis Oak, No. 24-50101 (5th Cir. May 5, 2025), the Fifth Circuit remands the appeal of actions to enforce a settlement agreement, holding that claims severed from the original action require a separate, independent basis for diversity jurisdiction, and that the jurisdictional allegations in the complaint “on information and belief”Continue reading “Diversity Allegations on “Information and Belief” Are Insufficient to Establish Subject-Matter Jurisdiction Beyond the Pleadings Stage and Judicial Notice Under Fed. R. Evid. 201 Cannot Bridge the Gap, Holds Fifth Circuit”
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En Banc Ninth Circuit Panelists Clash Over Validity of a Video Dissent
In Duncan v. Bonta, No. 23-55805 (9th Cir. Mar. 30, 2025) (en banc) – a Second Amendment challenge to California’s ban on large-capacity magazines – the en banc Ninth Circuit debates whether a judge could validly file a video dissent that displays handguns and describing their operation. Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit brokeContinue reading “En Banc Ninth Circuit Panelists Clash Over Validity of a Video Dissent”
Court Could Judicially Notice That a Federal Prison Hospital Was Within the “Special Maritime and Territorial Jurisdiction” of the United States, Holds Eighth Circuit
Upholding the conviction of a federal prisoner for assaulting a fellow inmate, the Eighth Circuit holds in United States v. Love, No. 20-3386 (8th Cir. Dec. 14, 2021) that it did not violate the defendant’s Sixth Amendment rights for the court rather than the jury to find that the place of the assault was withinContinue reading “Court Could Judicially Notice That a Federal Prison Hospital Was Within the “Special Maritime and Territorial Jurisdiction” of the United States, Holds Eighth Circuit”
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