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Supreme Court· 3/25/1974

Hagans v. Lavine

Citations

  • 415 U.S. 528
  • 94 S. Ct. 1372
  • 39 L. Ed. 2d 577
  • 1974 U.S. LEXIS 33

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that district court properly dismissed the case sua sponte for lack of subject matter jurisdiction where the Plaintiff’s Complaint lacked an arguable basis in law
  • holding that “the federal courts are without power to entertain claims otherwise within their jurisdiction if they are so attenuated and unsubstantial as to be absolutely devoid of merit”
  • holding that there is no private right of action under 18 U.S.C. § 241
  • noting that federal courts lack power to entertain claims at are “so attenuated and unsubstantial as to be absolutely devoid of merit”
  • holding that “Section 1343(3) . . . conferred jurisdiction upon the District Court” to entertain a substantial constitutional claim, allowing “the District Court [to then] hear as a matter of pendent jurisdiction the claim of conflict between federal and state law”
  • commenting that federal courts lack power to hear cases otherwise within their jurisdiction but that are “so attenuated and unsubstantial” as to be clearly devoid of merit

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: White, Douglas, Brennan, Stewart, Marshall, Blacicmun, Powell, Burger, Rehnquist

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Cites

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