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· 4/14/2010

Halmekangas v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.

Citations

  • 603 F.3d 290
  • 2010 WL 1407683

How courts have described this case

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

  • concluding 10 that supplemental jurisdiction is not a source of original subject-matter jurisdiction
  • agreeing with the Sixth Circuit that “[t]he supplemental-jurisdiction statute is not a source of original subject-matter jurisdiction” (quoting Ahearn v. Charter Twp. of Bloomfield, 100 F.3d 451, 456 (6th Cir. 1996)
  • “Original jurisdiction, lies where the conditions of 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331 [federal question] or 1332 [diversity] are satisfied.”
  • “Section 1367 grants ‘supplemental jurisdiction’ 22 over state claims, not original jurisdiction,” and “[w]ithout original jurisdiction, [a party] has no jurisdictional hook for removal.”

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Judges: Higginbotham, Clement and Southwick, Circuit Judges

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