Alliance San Diego v. City of San Diego

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• differentiating between dismissal for failure to state a claim, and dismissal for failure to present a substantial claim within a federal court’s jurisdiction
• a case may be patently without merit so as to justify dismissal for want of jurisdiction
• subject‐matter jurisdiction is lacking “where . . . a claim is wholly insubstantial and frivolous”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).