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· 9/15/2008

District of Columbia v. Group Hospitalization & Medical Services, Inc.

Citations

  • 576 F. Supp. 2d 51
  • 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 69794
  • 2008 WL 4194862

How courts have described this case

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

  • explaining that the plaintiff had asked “the [c]ourt to declare that Defendants have violated [the] charter and to enjoin Defendants from further violations of [the] charter” (cleaned up)
  • finding federal question jurisdiction under Grable where state-law claim centered on allegations that defendants had violated the Group Hospitalization and Medical Services' corporate charter, a federal law
  • finding federal question jurisdiction under Grable where state-law claim centered on allegations that defendants had violated the Group Hospitalization and Medical Services’ corporate charter, a federal law
  • finding federal question jurisdiction under Grable where state-law 8 claim centered on allegations that defendants had violated the Group Hospitalization and Medical Services’ corporate charter, a federal law
  • “Because [the] plaintiff cannot obtain relief on its state law claims without this Court interpreting [a] federal charter, [the] plaintiff’s complaint ‘necessarily raise[s] a stated federal issue.’” (quoting Grable, 545 U.S. at 314)
  • state-law claims required de- termination whether defendants violated their congressional charter

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Ellen Segal Huvelle

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