Bush v. Butler

How courts have described this case

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

• dismissing civil conspiracy claim because “plaintiff merely concludes that there was an agreement among the defendants to deprive him of access to the courts”
• dismissing conspiracy claim because the complaint “provid[ed] no description of the persons involved in the agreement, the nature of the agreement, [or] what particular acts were taken to form the conspiracy”
• dismissing conspiracy claim where plaintiff’s allegation of an agreement “provide[d] no description of the [specific] persons involved in the agreement, the nature of the agreement, [or] what particular acts were taken to form the conspiracy”
• “A federal district court does not have federal question jurisdiction over state law torts.”
• “For jurisdiction to exist under 28 U.S.C. § 1332, there must be complete diversity between the parties, which is to say that the plaintiff may not be a citizen of the same state as any defendant.”
• “For jurisdiction to exist under 28 U.S.C. § 1332, there must be complete diversity between the parties, which is to say that the plaintiff may not be a citizen of the same state as any defendant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).