Harvey v. Raleigh Police Dept.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that, if a trial court lacked subject matter jurisdiction over a criminal charge, “its trial of the charge was a vain thing and the judgment pronounced was a nullity”
• In Virginia, “where ... jurisdiction is lacking in a particular case, it is a settled rule that any judgment ... rendered therein is coram non judice, and void for all purposes”
• court’s subject matter jurisdiction cannot be waived
• court's subject matter jurisdiction cannot be waived

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).