Briggs v. Hotel Corp. of the Pacific, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• defining the term “complete-preemption doctrine” as “[t]he rule that a federal statute’s force may be so extraordinary and all encompassing that it converts an ordinary state common-law complaint into one stating a federal claim for purposes of the well-pleaded complaint rule”
• summary judgment affirmed when “very little beyond the complaint itself was presented to the lower court”
• “We again remind litigants that a motion for reconsideration is not the time to relitigate old matters.”
• “We again remind litigants that a motion for reconsideration is not the time to relitigate old matters.”
• “[A] motion for reconsideration is not the time to relitigate old matters.”
• “A motion for reconsideration is not time to relitigate old matters.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).