James L. Lewis v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• emphasizing that “a complaint[‘s] . . . asserted basis of jurisdiction . . . [can]not [be merely] pretextual”
• treating a dismissal of a complaint for want of jurisdiction under the Tucker Act as a dismissal on the merits
• acknowledging line of Supreme Court cases that \countenance[s] the dismissal of frivolous claims on jurisdictional grounds\ where frivolity of claims is \very plain\
• criticizing the line of cases supporting the dismissal of frivolous claims on jurisdictional grounds, but upholding the lower court’s decision to this end on the basis that the court is bound by Supreme Court precedent
• recognizing this as the “general rule”
• recognizing this as the “general rule”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).