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· 8/2/2005

Kenneth A. McCready v. Jesse White, Secretary of State of Illinois

Citations

  • 417 F.3d 700
  • 2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 15833
  • 2005 WL 1804789

How courts have described this case

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

  • explaining that the Court's \first duty in every lawsuit\ is to \[e]nsur[e] the existence of subject-matter jurisdiction\
  • stating that the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure command courts to dismiss any suit over which they lack subject-matter jurisdiction
  • stating that “Te|nsuring the existence of subject matter jurisdiction is the court's first duty in every lawsuit.”
  • \Ensuring the existence of subject matter jurisdiction is the court's first duty in every lawsuit.\
  • “Ensuring the existence of subject matter jurisdiction is the court's first duty in every lawsuit.”
  • “Ensuring the existence of subject-matter jurisdiction is the court’s first duty in every lawsuit.” (citing Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Env’t, 523 U.S. 83 (1998)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Easterbrook, Ripple, Williams

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