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Estes Express Lines v. United States

Citations

  • 739 F.3d 689
  • 2014 WL 26244
  • 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 65

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that plaintiff in the Court of Federal Claims bears the burden of establishing subject matter jurisdiction by a preponderance of the evidence
  • The “government consents to be sued only by those with whom it has privity of contract.”
  • itself citing Cedars-Sinai Med. Ctr. v. Watkins, 11 F.3d 1573, 1583–84 (Fed. Cir. 1993)
  • “In deciding a motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, the - 10 - court . . . construes [uncontroverted factual allegations] in the light most favorable to the plaintiff.”
  • “In deciding a motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, the court accepts as true all uncontroverted factual allegations in the complaint, and construes them in the light most favorable to the plaintiff.”
  • “In deciding a motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, the court accepts as true all uncontroverted factual allegations in the complaint, and construes them in the light most favorable to the plaintiff.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Prost, Reyna, Taranto

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114 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

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