Christopher v. Stanley-Bostitch, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that the district court’s ruling on substantive issue in remanded case “impermissibly intruded into a matter properly left to the state courts”
• “When a federal court concludes that it lacks subject matter jurisdiction over a case, it is precluded from rendering any judgments on the merits of the case.”
• “When a federal court concludes that it lacks subject matter jurisdiction over a ease, it is precluded from rendering any judgments on the merits of the case.”
• “[W]hatever .incidental power the court retains cannot go to the merits of the underlying action. Rather, orders relating to the merits of the underlying action are void if issued without subject matter jurisdiction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).