Henok Araya v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that district courts “ha[ve] an obligation to exercise [their] discretion to remand the case to the District of Columbia courts once the federal question, like Elvis, ha[s] left the building.”
• stating “that in the usual case in which all federal-law claims are dismissed before trial, the balance of factors . . . will point toward declining to exercise jurisdiction over the remaining state- law claims”
• explaining remand appropriate where “the local claims involve novel and complex issues”
• finding the District Court abused its discretion by not explaining “whether or how it applied its discretion to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over the state-law claims in this case,” particularly when a complaint, which was removed to this Court, “raised novel issue of state law”
• “Ordinarily, the plaintiff is entitled to select the forum in which he wishes to proceed.”
• novel or unsettled questions of District of Columbia law are best left to D.C. courts

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).