You may access the Court’s 5-4 ruling against including a citizenship question in the 2020 census here: Department of Commerce v. New York (U.S. June 27, 2019).
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D.C. Circuit Tries to Save Big Verdict from Jurisdictional Oblivion
By Barry Barnett on
Remember Capron v. Van Noordan, 6 U.S. (2 Cranch) 126 (1804)?
How about Strawbridge v. Curtiss, 7 U.S. (3 Cranch) 267 (1806)?
From your civil procedure class? In law school? Nothin'?
Well, even if you don't, we may all take comfort in the fact that the D.C. Circuit does. Indeed, the holdings in…
Valley of the Nesting Dolls
By Barry Barnett on
The Sixth Circuit today booted a case because it couldn't tell if it belonged in federal court or not.
The lawsuit pitted a Keystone State corporation (with a Pennsylvania principal place of business, which as Blawgletter knows from yesterday coincides with the firm's "nerve center") against a limited partnership. The complaint alleged diversity of…