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In re Doe

Citations

  • 444 S.W.3d 603
  • 57 Tex. Sup. Ct. J. 1440
  • 42 Media L. Rep. (BNA) 2477
  • 2014 Tex. LEXIS 762
  • 2014 WL 4783574

How courts have described this case

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  • state district court cannot order discovery for copyright claim, as such matters fall exclusively within federal jurisdiction
  • rule 202 petitioner sought to discover identity of anonymous blogger and also anticipated filing suit asserting claims for libel and business disparagement against blogger
  • state district court cannot order discovery for copyright claim, as such matters fall exclusively within federal jurisdiction
  • “While Rule 202 is silent on the subject, we think it implicit, as it has always been, that the court must have subject-matter jurisdiction over the anticipated action.”
  • “[A] court cannot grant relief when it lacks jurisdiction of the subject matter.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Boyd, Brown, Devine, Green, Guzman, Hecht, Johnson, Lehrmann, Willett

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